and
without any intelligible political method or plan of action. The practical
peoples of the West could hardly be well impressed by such a picture and it
would make them suspect that, probably, my yoga was a thing of the same type!Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes
and Other Writings of Historical Interest
Part One. Autobiographical Notes
1. Life Sketches and Other Autobiographical Notes
Appendix. Letters on “Sri Aurobindo: A Life Sketch” [3]1
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 man to see.
You have given a sort of account of my political
action, but the impression it makes on me and would make, I believe, on your
public is that of a fiery idealist rushing furiously at an impossible aim
(knocking his head against a stone wall, which is not a very sensible
proceeding) without any grasp on realities and
without any intelligible political method or plan of action. The practical
peoples of the West could hardly be well impressed by such a picture and it
would make them suspect that, probably, my yoga was a thing of the same type!
25 March 1930
1 25 March 1930. Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter after reading a “biography” (that is, a life sketch) written by Dilip for Among the Great.