Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
There is no doubt about the beauty of the poems you have written. But if sometimes – not by any means always – our sweetest songs sprang from saddest feelings, there is a quite different rule both for life and for Yoga. For the life in its progress, for the soul in its ascendance, grief and suffering should be only an incident on the way and the vision look always and steadily to a joy and a glory beyond it – let the gloom pass and look beyond it towards Light.