for that self-consecration, it
has to be done as an offering to her so that through the self-offering one may
come to feel her force acting and her presence.Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Poetry and Art
SABCL - Volume 27
Part 3. Literature, Art, Beauty and Yoga
Section 4. Literature, Art, Music and the Practice of Yoga
Literature and Yoga
Reading and Sadhana [4]
Reading and study though they can be useful for
preparing the mind, are not themselves the best means of entering the Yoga. It
is self-dedication from within that is the means. It is with the consciousness
of the Mother that you must unite, a sincere self-consecration in the mind and
heart and the Will is the means for it. The work given by the Mother is always
meant as field for that self-consecration, it
has to be done as an offering to her so that through the self-offering one may
come to feel her force acting and her presence.
27 February 1935