Very much so. Writing in the form of a letter to the Divine is better than sharing within the mind through the thoughts. Firstly we ourselves become conscious as we objectivise all that is going on in our life. Being conscious in our perception facilitates the Divine working in us. Besides if done rightly and not just a sharing of daily surface activities and outer events, this journaling can actually become a means of meditation to take us deeper and deeper until we begin to communicate our deepest aspiration to Her. The Mother’s Prayers and Meditations are something of this nature and She reveals to us its purpose in Her very first prayer of 02nd November 1912.
‘Although my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, O Sublime Master, who art the life, the light and the love in all things, I still find it hard to carry out this consecration in detail. It has taken me several weeks to learn that the reason for this written meditation, its justification, lies in the very fact of addressing it daily to Thee. In this way I shall put into material shape each day a little of the conversation I have so often with Thee; I shall make my confession to Thee as well as it may be; not because I think I can tell Thee anything—for Thou art Thyself everything, but our artificial and exterior way of seeing and understanding is, if it may be so said, foreign to Thee, opposed to Thy nature. Still by turning towards Thee, by immersing myself in Thy light at the moment when I consider these things, little by little I shall see them more like what they really are,—until the day when, having made myself one in identity with Thee, I shall no more have anything to say to Thee, for then I shall be Thou. This is the goal that I would reach; towards this victory all my efforts will tend more and more. I aspire for the day when I can no longer say “I”, for I shall be Thou.’
Additionally writing passages from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s writings or mantras are another form of written communication that can rightly be called as lipi yoga. It involves creating a whole inner loop that receives and expresses something of the Divine and hence has a cleansing and purifying affect on our receiving and expressive faculties.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
