Sri Aurobindo 1

 One day, I thought, I will not write. I will have written all that needs to be written. I will be enlightened, liberated and meditate and live daily life simply until the next transition. Life is always transitioning.
 Sri Aurobindo wrote A LOT. Not merely books and more books but also countless letters in an exchange with other seekers and kindred minds.
 Is that the enlightened way to live, Sri Aurobindo? Indeed, what a beautiful way to interact with a community in times of letters. Blessed was your life!
 Except, I believe you were crazy in love.  But suppressed the ultimate carnal bond with a woman. Why? Out of asceticism? A sacrifice? Your testicle fell ill. Did you never make love to her who you loved so much like that? There would certainly be no other. You lived together to serve a higher ideal of devotion and community. You two should have consumated your love as human men and women do, at least once. Maybe you did? Then, no more. Again, a sacrifice? An ascetic choice? 
 So you wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote, Sri Aurobindo. And what really went on in your day to day, your true inner life, nobody can know as you said. As you meditated away. And yet, here we are. You did have a lot to say.
 Your publication The Synthesis of Yoga ("All life is yoga.") is 910, nine-hundred and ten pages in volume. Why did you write so much? Out of love and passion? A love for wisdom and a passion for life in all of its sublest and grossest of manifestations (except sex)? I promise you, Sri Aurobindo, that will be the only book of yours I'm going to read. And no more than once. For you were unable to transcend the misconceptions of your time, which you possibly picked up during your European education in England. Your notions inspired by ancient Indian wisdom, such as Yoga, speak of an evolutionary dance for equilibrium divine, which you seemed to understand. But those ideas inspired by the limiting hierarchical views of colonial and imperial times are simply misguided. 
 You were of mixed languages and cultures. Maybe this led to irrational contradictions instead of rational connections. Because all life is yoga but there is no hierarchy in Nature only inter-being.

    The Nexistentialist