for action, not for Sannyasa and Nirvana,– but after years of spiritual effort I had failed to find the way and it was for that I had asked to meet him. His first answer was, “It should be easy for you as you are a poet.”Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 35
Fragment ID: 8578
Meeting with Vishnu Bhaskar Lele [3]
Literature and art are or can be first introductions to the inner being – the inner mind and vital; for it is from there that they come. And if one writes poems of bhakti, poems of divine seeking etc., or creates music of that kind, it means that there is a bhakta or seeker inside who is supporting himself by that self-expression. There is also the point of view behind Lele’s answer to me when I told him that I wanted to do Yoga but for work, for action, not for Sannyasa and Nirvana,– but after years of spiritual effort I had failed to find the way and it was for that I had asked to meet him. His first answer was, “It should be easy for you as you are a poet.”
18 November 1936