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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Ganapatram/English/How I come to Sri Aurobindo.htm
HOW I CAME TO SRI AUROBINDO   GANAPATRAM   How did I come to Sri Aurobindo ?     It is a long story. Very early in my boyhood, even before I was ten, I had a special inclination towards God and godly life. My father encouraged this tendency in me. Sometime later I was possessed with a strong feeling that it was not possible to live without God. I read whatever literature on the subject I could lay my hands upon and in the course of this study I picked up something about Pranayama. Natu­rally I could not practise it in front of the elders and so I started doing Pranayama secretly at night when all had gone to sleep. I must have been fifteen then. One nig