Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20313
All birds of that region are relatives1. But this is the bird of eternal Ananda, while the Hippogriff is the divinised Thought and the Bird of Fire is the Agni-bird, psychic and tapas. All that however is to mentalise too much and mentalising always takes most of the life out of spiritual things. That is why I say it can be seen but nothing said about it.
1936
1 The question was: “In the mystical region is the dragon bird any relation of your Bird of Fire with ‘gold-white wings’ our your Hippogriff with ‘face lustered, pale-blue lined? And why do you write: ‘What to say about him? One can only see’?”