Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

2. Art and Literature

Literary Activity and Yoga

When you bring in the examples of Milton and Virgil in poetry and the number of years in Yoga, you forget that they had no Supramental Avatar as Guru to push them.

Considering that the Supramental Avatar himself is quite incapable of doing what X or Y do, i.e. producing a poem or several poems a day, why do you bring him in? In England indeed I could write  a lot every day but most of that has gone to the Waste Paper Basket.

The rule of 12 years is one announced not by me, but many Sannyasis and people who know about Yoga. Of course they are “professionals”, so to speak, while this is an Ashram of amateur yogis who expect quick results....

05.08.1936