beyond his stock
of ideas which belonged to an earlier period. He never spoke to me of
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.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
Life in Baroda, 1893–1906
Meetings with His Grandfather at Deoghar [3]
[Sri Aurobindo owed his views on Indian Nationalism to the influence of Rajnarayan Bose. His turn towards philosophy may be attributed to the same influence.]
I don’t think my grandfather was much of a philosopher;
at any rate he never talked to me on that subject. My politics were shaped
before I came to India; he talked to me of his Nationalist activities in the
past, but I learned nothing new from them. I admired my grandfather and liked
his writings “Hindu Dharmer [Sresthata]1” and “Se
Kal ar E Kal”; but it is a mistake to think that he exercised any influence on
me. I had gone in England far beyond his stock
of ideas which belonged to an earlier period. He never spoke to me of
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.
1 MS Sreshtatwa