Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Third Series
Fragment ID: 21082
1936.03.28If novels touch the lower vital of raise it, they ought not to be read by the sadhak. One can read them only if one can look at them from the literary point of view as a picture of human life and nature which one can observe, as the Yogi looks at life itself, without being involved in it or having any reaction.