Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Third Series

Fragment ID: 21080

Good heavens! where did you get this idea that literature can transform people? Literary people are often the most impossible on the face of the earth... .Outer human nature can only change either by an intense psychic development or a strong and all-pervading influence from above. It is the inner being that has to change first – a change which is not always visible outside. That has nothing to do with the development of the faculties which is another side of the personality. That is another question altogether. But such sadhana means a slow laborious work of self-change in most cases, so why not sing on the way?