Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 22012

Are you in a position to make a judgment as to what will or will not help God’s work? You seem to have very elementary ideas in this matter.

What is your idea of divinisation – to be a virtuous man, a good husband, son, father, a good citizen, etc. In that case, I myself am undivine, for I have never been these things. Men like X or Y would then be the great Transformed Divine Men.

But do you really believe that men like Napoleon, Caesar, Shakespeare were not great men and did nothing for the world or for the cosmic purpose? that God was deterred from using them for His purpose because they had defects of character and vices? What an absurd idea!