In refreshing contrast to the biographers that have not been able to grasp the significance of Sri Aurobindo's spiritual endeavour, Sj. Jotish Chandra Ghosh shows a remarkable understanding even in the year 1927 or 1928.

He writes in the Introduction: "The old Aurobindo in the new namesake of him is dead and to-day we sing not a song of brotherly congratulations simply because he has been permitted to add another year of successes and failures to his pile of years but an epiphany glorifying the life-passage of the Divine Purusha in his body." (p. vi)

". . . When a personality retires for yoga his career automatically comes to an end. . . . For, even if he comes back he would essentially be a different man from what he was formerly. . . . The man that will come out of his seclusion someday will not be our man in the narrow sense of the term, devoting his life to the fulfilment of our immediate needs of life, the petty gains of a circumscribed outlook, but a man whose only claim on life would be the fulfilment of his God-ordained mission on Earth – to bring down a pure atmosphere of Truth on Earth from which all irrespective of caste, colour and creed who may be spiritually fit to receive the new Light will 'derive the supreme benefit."

(pp. v-vi)

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