Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17572

1935

Do you not agree that at present what I feel as joy is all a vital joy?

What joy? There are vital joys that are innocent and need not be seriously put down – such as joy in art, poetry, literature. They have not to be put down but put aside only when they interfere with sadhana.