Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7444

The Right Way of Appreciating Beauty [3]

Is it possible to get rid of vital impurities without getting rid of vital enjoyment?

How can that be done? The enjoyment you speak of is vital-physical, while beauty has to be enjoyed with the aesthetic sense – either human or divinised.

6 April 1933