Joel Martin: Because you are an artist, I want to ask you a question about art. Are there different forms of art — higher forms of art?
Sri Chinmoy: Just as there are many planes of consciousness, so in the artistic world also there are many worlds. On the strength of our inner inspiration and aspiration, we enter into these worlds. If you have deeper inspiration, then naturally you will enter into a higher plane, a higher artistic world.
Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992