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

Philosophy and Writings

Perseus the Deliverer

Polydaon realises his failure – Poseidon’s failure; . . . he now supplicates to the new “brilliant god”, and falls back dead. It is left to Perseus, the new god, to sum up the career and destiny of Polydaon. . . .

[Sri Aurobindo struck through “the new god” and wrote:] The new brilliant god is the new Poseidon, Olympian and Greek, who in Polydaon’s vision replaces the terrible old-Mediterranean god of the seas. Perseus is and remains divine-human throughout.