Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 4

Fragment ID: 10547

Idealising is a pastime of the mind – except for the few who are passionately determined to make the ideal real. Buddha is in Nirvana and his wife and child are there too perhaps, so it is easy to praise his spiritual greatness and courage – but for living people with living relatives a similar action is monstrous. They ought to be satisfied with praising Buddha and take care not to follow his example.