Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7541

For fourteen years young Aurobindo had lived in England divorced from the culture of his own nation and was not happy with himself. He longed to begin all again from the beginning and to try to re-nationalise himself.

There was no unhappiness for that reason, nor at that time any deliberate will for re-nationalisation – which came, after reaching India, by natural attraction to Indian culture and ways of life and a temperamental feeling and preference for all that was Indian.