Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6632

The Poet, the Yogi and the Rishi [4]

A Rishi may be a Yogi, but also he may not; a Yogi too may be a Rishi, but also he may not. Just as a philosopher may or may not be a poet and a poet may or may not be a philosopher.

Poetic intuition and illumination is not the same thing as Rishi intuition and illumination.

11 February 1936