object:1969_09_07 - 145
book class:On Thoughts And Aphorisms
author class:The Mother
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
1969 Sun 7 September
Aphorism - 145
145O Poet, O Artist, if thou but holdest up the mirror to Nature, thinkest thou Nature will rejoice in thy work? Rather she will turn away her face. For what dost thou hold up to her there? Herself? No, but a lifeless outline and reflection, a shadowy mimicry. It is the secret soul of Nature thou hast to seize, thou hast to hunt eternally after the truth in the external symbol, and that no mirror will hold for thee, nor for her whom thou seekest.
What is this eternal symbol1 which Sri Aurobindo speaks of here?
The eternal symbol is the secret soul of Nature and it is the Truth of this soul that the poet and the artist must seek and express.
7 September 1969
The translation used was based on a text which read "eternal symbol" instead of "external symbol".
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Aphorism - 143, 144
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