Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

His Life and Attempts to Write about It
Life in England, 1879 – 1893

Exposure to Christianity

[Lines from a poem submitted to Sri Aurobindo:]

Soul of poet, thine be quiet

Of the Virgin’s prayerful countenance ...

[Underlining “prayerful countenance”:]

Lord God! you bring me back to my childhood’s agonies in an English Nonconformist chapel.

11 September 1933