Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7496

Language-Study and Yoga [2]

What is the need for so many here to learn French? Are you preparing them for giving lectures or opening centres in France or French-knowing countries?

Are life and mind to be governed only by material utility or outward practicality? Spiritual life would then be inferior even to ordinary mental life where people learn for the sake of acquiring knowledge and culturing the mind and not only for the sake of some outward utility.

24 March 1937