Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7281

Ambition and the Desire for Fame [3]

Every artist almost (there can be rare exceptions) has got something of the public man in him in his vital-physical parts, which makes him crave for the stimulus of an audience, social applause, satisfied vanity, appreciation, fame. That must go absolutely if you want to be a yogi; your art must be a service not of your own ego, nor of anyone or anything else, but solely of the Divine.

14 September 1929