Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7536

Young Aurobindo was sensitive to beauty in man and Nature.... He watched with pain the thousand and one instances of man’s cruelty to man.

The feeling was more abhorrence than pain; from early childhood there was a strong hatred and disgust for all kinds of cruelty and oppression, but the term “pain” would not accurately describe the reaction.