SRI AUROBINDO

Sri Aurobindo on Himself

Part One

Sri Aurobindo to his Biographers

It would be only myself who could speak of things in my past giving them their true form and significance.

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I see that you have persisted in giving a biography – is it really necessary or useful? The attempt is bound to be a failure, because neither you nor anyone else knows anything at all of my life; it has not been on the surface for men to see.

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But why write my biography at all? Is it really necessary? In my view, a man's value does not depend on what he learns, or his position or fame, or what he does, but on what he is and inwardly becomes.