A DECLARATION Sri Aurobindo withdrew from politics; and, in his Ashram, a most important rule is that one must abstain from all politics ― not because Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself with the happenings of the world, but because politics, as it is practised, is a low and ugly thing, wholly dominated by falsehood, deceit, injustice, misuse of power and violence; because to succeed in politics one has to cultivate in oneself hypocrisy, duplicity and unscrupulous ambition. page 127-128 , Words Of The Mother Volume-13 , CWMCE