for action, not for Sannyasa and Nirvana,—
but after years of spiritual effort I had failed to find the way and it was for
that I had asked to meet him. His first answer was, “It should be easy for you
as you are a poet.”Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Himself and the Ashram
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35
Sadhana before Coming to Pondicherry in 1910
The
Realisation of January 1908
Meeting with Vishnu Bhaskar Lele [3]
Literature and art are or can be first introductions to
the inner being — the inner mind and vital; for it is from there that they come.
And if one writes poems of bhakti, poems of divine seeking etc., or creates
music of that kind, it means that there is a bhakta or seeker inside who is
supporting himself by that self-expression. There is also the point of view
behind Lele’s answer to me when I told him that I wanted to do Yoga but for
work, for action, not for Sannyasa and Nirvana,—
but after years of spiritual effort I had failed to find the way and it was for
that I had asked to meet him. His first answer was, “It should be easy for you
as you are a poet.”
18 November 1936