Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7512

Music and Sadhana [8]

Yesterday suddenly I felt a great desire or impulse to sing. The music seemed to come or rather pushed out from inside me by an automatic force. Something was felt – very tangibly so – to be doing it as if I was a mere instrument in its hold. Since then I had tried again to do it, but it won’t come.

It is no use trying – it comes or it does not come. One must be open for its coming, that is all.

9 April 1933