“But does an artist feel at all any impulse to create
once he takes up Yoga?”
Why should he
not have the impulse? He can express his relation with the Divine in the way of
his art, exactly as he would in any other. If you want art to be the true and
highest art, it must be the expression of a divine world brought down into this
material world. All true artists have some feeling of this kind, some sense
that they are intermediaries between a higher world and this physical
existence. If you consider it in this light, Art is not very different from
Yoga. But most often the artist has only an indefinite feeling, he has not the knowledge.
Still, I knew some who had it; they worked consciously at their art with the
knowledge. In their creation they did not put forward their personality as the
most important factor; they considered their work as an offering to the Divine,
they tried to express by it their relation with the Divine.
This is the
avowed function of Art in the Middle Ages. The “primitive” painters, the
builders of cathedrals in Mediaeval Europe had no other conception of art. In
India all her architecture, her sculpture, her painting have proceeded from
this source and were inspired by this ideal. The songs of Mirabai and the music
of Thyagaraja, the poetic literature built up by her devotees, saints and
Rishis rank among the world’s greatest possessions.
(Words
of The Mother, The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
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