Sri Aurobindo

Autobiographical Notes

and Other Writings of Historical Interest

Part One. Autobiographical Notes

2. Sri Aurobindo’s corrections of statements in a proposed biography

Early Life in India and England. 1872–1893

At Manchester [1]¹

He was sensitive to beauty in man and nature. . . . He watched with pain the thousand and one instances of man’s cruelty to man.

The feeling was more abhorrence than pain; from early childhood there was a strong hatred and disgust for all kinds of cruelty and oppression, but the term pain would not accurately describe the reaction.

¹ The note from manuscript written around 1940. The circumstances of its writing are not known.

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