\n\nThe year was 1907. The freedom movement in India was gathering momentum. Its leader was detained by the police. The poet Rabindranath Tagore paid him a visit after his acquittal, and wrote the now famous lines: \u201cRabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee! O friend, my country\u2019s friend, O Voice incarnate, free, Of India\u2019s soul! \u2026 The fiery messenger that with the lamp of God. Hath come\u2026 Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee.\u201d In the year 1928, the leader had now left politics and had gone to Pondicherry, where he plunged himself into the practice of Yoga. The poet Tagore once again paid him a visit and declared: \u201cYou have the Word and we are waiting to accept it from you. India will speak through your voice to the world, \u2018Hearken to me!\u2019\u2026 Years ago I saw Aurobindo in the atmosphere of his earlier heroic youth and I sang to him: \u2018Aurobindo, accept the salutations from Rabindranath\u2019. Today I saw him in a deeper atmosphere of a reticent richness of wisdom and again sang to him in silence: \u2018Aurobindo, accept the salutations from Rabindranath!\u2019\u201d How does one describe or speak about such a personality? Sri Aurobindo has been called a scholar, a literary critic, a philosopher, a revolutionary, a poet, a yogi and a rishi. He was all these and much more. To have even a glimpse of the true Sri Aurobindo, we have to turn to the Mother: \u201cWhat Sri Aurobindo represents in the world’s history is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme.\u201d In fact, Sri Aurobindo declared, in no uncertain terms that nobody could write his biography and added: \u201cNeither you nor anyone else knows anything at all of my life; it has not been on the surface for men to see.\u201d But he was not altogether averse to this effort and even made corrections when some biographers made the attempt. In the process the veil that hid the divine mystery was lifted a little.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","listing-category":[384],"list-tags":[],"location":[15,521],"class_list":["post-5493","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing-category-business-associations","location-puducherry","location-white-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/5493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing-category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing-category?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"list-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/list-tags?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ipuducherry.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}