Thus spoke the statues that were made of wax;
And one said, “This is fundamentalism,
Enemy of Enlightenment.” The next,
“We must script biographies, fill up racks
With the lives of yogis.” And so on. But Prism
Of Mind—can it break open the sealed text?

The sonnet was prompted by four interviews related with the controversial The Lives of Sri Aurobindo; these interviews were published elsewhere and, in the context of the composition, it is not necessary to know the source.

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