power.
No rule can be made in such things; it depends on persons and circumstances how
far the manifestation of genius by Yoga will go or what shape it will take or to
what degree or height it will rise.Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Poetry and Art
SABCL - Volume 27
Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 2. The Poetry of the Spirit
Poet, Yogi, Rishi, Prophet, Genius
Genius [1]
I never heard of anyone getting genius by effort. One
can increase one’s talent by training and labour, but genius is a gift of
Nature. By sadhana it is different, one can do it; but that is not the fruit of
effort, but either of an inflow or by an opening or liberation of some
impersonal power or manifestation of unmanifested power.
No rule can be made in such things; it depends on persons and circumstances how
far the manifestation of genius by Yoga will go or what shape it will take or to
what degree or height it will rise.
28 July 1938