Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7432

Art, Beauty and Ananda [2]

Beauty is Ananda taking form – but the form need not be a physical shape. One speaks of a beautiful thought, a beautiful act, a beautiful soul. What we speak of as beauty is Ananda in manifestation; beyond manifestation beauty loses itself in Ananda or, you may say, beauty and Ananda become indistinguishably one.

14 March 1933