object:4.3.1.09 - The Self and Life
book class:Letters On Yoga III
author class:Sri Aurobindo
class:chapter
It is always possible to have realisations of a kind on the mentalspiritual plane even if the vital is still impure. There is a sort of
separation of the mental Purusha and Prakriti which results in
a knowledge that has no transforming effect on the life. But the
theory of these Yogis is that one has to know the Self; life and
what one does in life do not matter. Have you not read of the
Yogi who came with his concubine and Ramakrishna asked him,
"Why do you live like that?" He answered, "All is Maya, so it
does not matter what I do so long as I know the Brahman."
It is true Ramakrishna replied, "I spit on your Vedanta", but
logically the Yogi had a case. For if all life and action are Maya
and only the silent Brahman is real - well!
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