Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7303

Rhetoric and Eloquence [2]

I want to produce something Upanishadic. But I get no glimmering at all of the sovereignly spiritual-poetic. The poem, Yoga, which I am sending you, almost tells me what I should do to solve my difficulty; but the manner in which it tells seems to drive home the fact of my being so far from what I want – the sheer stupendous mantra.

I fear it is only eloquence – a long way from the mantra. From the point of view of a poetic eloquence there are some forceful lines and the rest is well done, but – there is too much play of the mind, not the hushed intense receptivity of the seer which is necessary for the mantra.

11 April 1933