Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21973

As for your singing, I was not speaking of any new creation from the aesthetic point of view, but of the spiritual change – what form it takes must depend on what you find within you when the deeper basis is there.

I do not see any necessity for giving up singing altogether; I only meant,– it is the logical conclusion from what I have written to you, not now only but before,– that the inner change must be the first consideration and the rest must arise out of that. If singing to an audience pulls you out of the inner condition, then you could postpone that and sing for yourself and the Divine until you are able, even in facing an audience, to forget the audience. If you are troubled by failure or excited by success, that also you must overcome.