Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

His Life and Attempts to Write about It

On Writing His Biography [3]

This idea of a “Life” going into details and personalities is itself an error. I wrote the brief life given to Dilip as containing all that I wanted to be said about me for the {{0}}present.[[The “brief life” referred to here is “Sri Aurobindo: A Life Sketch”, reproduced on pages 5 – 10 of Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest, volume 36 of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. See also Sri Aurobindo’s letters to Dilip Kumar Roy about the “Life Sketch” and about biography in general on pages 11 – 13 of the same volume. — Ed.]] The general public can know about my philosophy and Yoga and general character of my work, it has no claim to know anything about the personal side of my life or of that of the Asram either.

30 October 1935