If a tyro critic were to call this composition a “fictional creation”, as the author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo wants us to accept it, that would only expose him as one who has absolutely no sensitivity for matters spiritual or for spiritual poetry. One has to have eyes to see these things, a vision, a perception, and one should inly feel and know them, and know them not by self-trapped and reason-hedged mind of a small rationalist but by the faculty of wide and grown-up self. Or else soon he might hasten to tell us that the Vedic poetry too is of the same sort, fictional. See also Poetry Time 8 August 2009.

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