"Since his death in 1950, Sri Aurobindo Ghose has been known primarily as a yogi and a philosopher of spiritual evolution who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in peace and literature. But the years Aurobindo spent in yogic retirement were preceded by nearly four decades of rich public and intellectual work. Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living." Peter Heehs has presented Aurobindo's story, and the driving ideas behind his major works, with an academic neutrality that I appreciated. It reminded me at times of Ramachandra Guha's Gandhi biographies - the hint of the Gandhian in the author is unmistakeable, yet information is presented in a straightforward manner covering all parts of the subject's life without attempt to obscure or obfuscate for ideolog...
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