Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

May 29, 1937

Mother is rather inclined to think that the difficulty at present is not nervousness, but a habit caused by the insistence you have been putting on technique which keeps your mind turned in that direction and prevents you losing yourself as before. Your singing was quite good from the point of view of technique. She thinks the difficulty will disappear of itself as soon as you have full confidence and do not need to think of your technique any longer because you have fully possessed it.

You can sing at Anilbaran’s as you propose, if you think that will help you – it may.