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
Political Life, 1893–1910
Sister Nivedita [2]
[Sri Aurobindo had talks with Nivedita about
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.]
I do not remember Nivedita speaking to me on spiritual
subjects or about Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. We spoke of politics and other
subjects. On the way from the station to the town she cried out against the
ugliness of the College [building]1 and its 
top-heavy dome and praised the Dharmashala near it. Khaserao stared at
[her] and opined that she must be at least slightly cracked to have such ideas!
I was very much enamoured at the time of her book Kali the Mother and I think we
spoke of that; she had heard, she said, that I was a worshipper of Force, by
which she meant that I belonged to the secret revolutionary party like herself
and I was present at her interview with the Maharaja whom she invited to support
the secret revolution; she told him that he could communicate with her through
me. Sayajirao was much too cunning to plunge into such a dangerous business and
never spoke to me about it. That is all I remember.