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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/On Himself_Volume-26/Early Life in England.htm
I.
EARLY LIFE IN ENGLAND:
1879-1893
aurobindo
was born on August
15th, 1872,
in
Calcutta. His father, a man of great ability
and strong personality, had been among the first to go to
England for his education. He returned
entirely anglicised in habits, ideas and ideals,— so strongly that his
Aurobindo as a child spoke English and Hindustani only and learned his
mother-tongue only after his return from
England. He was determined that his children
should receive an entirely European upbringing. While in
India they were sent for the beginning of
their education to an Irish nuns' school in
Darjeeling and in 1879 he took his three sons
to
MESSAGES
ON THE WAR
¹Some forces are
working for the Divine, some are quite anti-divine in their aim and purpose.
If
the nations or the governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces
were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of action as well
as in the inspiration they receive so ignorantly they would be invincible,
because the divine forces themselves are invincible. It is the mixture in the
outward expression that gives to the Asura the right to defeat them.
To
be a successful instrument for the Asuric forces is easy, because they take all
the movements of your lower nature and make use of them, so that you have no
spiritual effort to mak
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
sri
aurobindo
on
himself and on the
mother
was first published in 1953
as Volume I of the Sri Aurobindo
International University Centre Collection. Part One of this volume consisted
of Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters
concerning his life and Yoga; Part Two contained his letters relating both to
himself and to the Mother; and Part Three was a revised and enlarged version of
the book letters of
sri
aurobindo on the
mother,
first published in 1951 by the Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay
The present Volume (No. 26)
of the sri
aurobindo
birth
centenary
library
consists of Parts One and Two of the 1953
edition, revised and cons
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Section
Two
IDENTITY
OF THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS
IDENTITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PATH
The opposition between the Mother's
consciousness and my consciousness was an invention of the old days (due mainly
to X, Y and others of that time) and
emerged in a time when the Mother was not fully recognised or accepted by some
of those who were here at the beginning. Even after they had recognised her
they persisted in this meaningless
opposition and did great harm to them and others. The Mother's consciousness
and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is
necessary for the play. Nothing can be done without her knowledge and force,
witho
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IV. CORRECTIONS OF WRONG STATEMENTS
IN THE PRESS
¹This is my answer
to the questions arising from your letter. Except on one point which calls for
some explanation, I confine myself to the plain facts.
1.
I was the writer of the series of articles on the "Passive
Resistance" published [in the Bande Mataram} in April 1907 to which
reference has been made; Bepin Pal had nothing to do with it. He ceased his
connection with the paper towards the end of 1906 and from that time onward was
not writing any editorials or articles for it. I planned several series of this
kind for the Bande Mataram and at least three were published of which
the "Pa
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Section
Six
THE POET
AND THE CRITIC
READING AND POETIC
CREATION AND YOGA
A literary man is one who loves literature
and literary activities for their own separate sake. A Yogi who writes is not a
literary man for he writes only what the inner Will and Word wants him to
express. He is a channel and instrument of something greater than his own
literary personality. Of course, the literary man and the intellectual love
reading — books are their mind's food. But writing is another matter. There are
plenty of people who never write a word in the literary way but are enormous
readers. One reads for ideas, for knowledge, for the stimulation of the mind by
all tha
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Section Three
HIS PATH AND OTHER PATHS
SRI AUROBINDO'S
TEACHING AND
METHOD OF SADHANA
The teaching of
Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India
that behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and
Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal. All beings are united in
that One Self and Spirit but divided by a certain separativity of
consciousness, an ignorance of their true Self and Reality in the mind, life
and body. It is possible by a certain psychological discipline to remove this
veil of separative consciousness and become aware of the true Self, the
Divinity within us and all.
Sri
Aurob
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Section Seven
REMINISCENCES AND OBSERVATIONS
LAST
WORD IN HUMAN NATURE
Lies? Well, a
Punjabi student at Cambridge once took our breath away by the frankness and comprehensive
profundity of his affirmation: "Liars! But we are all liars!" It
appeared that he had intended to say "lawyers", but his pronunciation
gave his remark a deep force of philosophic observation and generalisation
which he had not intended! But it seems to
me the last word in human nature. Only the lying is sometimes intentional, sometimes
vaguely half-intentional, sometimes quite unintentional, momentary and
unconscious. So there you are!...
Of
course you are right about the lies
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II. LIFE IN
BARODA: 1893-1906
APPOINTMENTS IN BARODA STATE .
He was first put in the
Land Settlement Department, for a short time in the Stamps Office, then in the
Central Revenue Office and in the Secretariat. Afterwards without joining the
College and while doing other work he was lecturer in French at the College and
finally at his own request was appointed there as Professor of English. All
through, the Maharaja used to call him whenever something had to be written
which needed careful wording; he also employed him to prepare some of his
public speeches and in other work of a literary or educational character.
Afterwards Sri Aurobindo became the Vice-Principal of the