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The seer-poet is one in whom truth and beauty are fulfilled simultaneously, whose life may be expected to be the perfect reflex of his inner illumination and whose lucid "beholding" of
 the truth has evoked a full measure of creative capacity in the form of inspired speech.

The concept of the seer-poet is not unfamiliar to Western writers also. It is implicit in Shelley's famous line: "A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth, in Wordsworth's "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge "[24] and in the following extract from Browning's essay on Shelley:

[The Poet] is rather a seer ... than a fashioner, and what he produces will be less a work than an effluence. That effluence cannot easily be considered in abstraction from his personality,--being indeed the very radiance and aroma of his personality, projected from it but not separated.[21]

For Sri Chinmoy, it is quite possible that a man can both envision the truth and grow into the truth; that he can sing abundantly and live completely, thereby becoming "the whole man." With cogent argument the Indian savant Nolini Kanta Gupta also argues this point:

If the aim of spirituality is to know the Self, then the aim of art too is the same. if the seer of the spiritual truth can see the Spirit everywhere without excluding the body or any part of it, then why should the artist not be able to manifest the glory of the Spirit through colour, sound, word and stone and thus play the role of a truly spiritual man?[26]

In obeying both his spiritual and creative impulses, it is possible for the artist to fuse his life and his art into one harmonious whole.