Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7491

Novel-Reading and Sadhana [2]

If novels touch the lower vital or raise it, they ought not to be read by the sadhak. One can read them only if one can look at them from the literary point of view as a picture of human life and nature which one can observe, as the Yogi looks at life itself, without being involved in it or having any reaction.

28 March 1936