Letters on Yoga - I · Sri Aurobindo

Fate and Free-Will, Karma and Heredity, etc. - VIII

I am not aware that highly evolved personalities have no sense of humour or how the person can be said to be integrated when this sense is lacking. "Looseness" applies only to a frivolous levity without any substance behind it. There is no law that wisdom should be something rigidly solemn and without a smile.


Sense of humour? It is the salt of existence. Without it the world would have got utterly out of balance—it is unbalanced enough already—and rushed to blazes long ago.


People are exceedingly silly—but I suppose they can't help themselves. The more I see of humanity, the more that forces itself on me. The abysses of silliness of which its mind is capable....


My opinion is that Allah is great and great is the mystery of the universe and things are not what they seem, etc.