> Further the question of your identity remains. I understand. You will know in a few weeks. The eremite acts alone and has reasons you will understand later. The historian has no inner experience so he has no way of determining the Truth. He confuses everyone (including himself) by comparing all the views Sri Aurobindo expressed on Hinduism during his lifetime. His only, and I may add limited, approach to understanding anything is to compare all the documents on that topic. That is why he ends up calling Sri Aurobindo an "extraordinary complex individual". Gods exist as powers of the Universe. The personal and impersonal forms are both complementary. The Mother did not "thrive" on devotional worship, as reported in the latest biography. Mother's words : This fact is so obvious that a simple and ignorant peasant here is, in his heart, closer to the Divine than the intellectuals of Europe. [Words of The Mother, Vol 13, Relations with Local Villagers] The biography also tries to say that Sri Aurobindo's British education may have made him reticent to devotional worship, which is incorrect because memories of early life get washed out after one has powerful spiritual realizations. This is (again) something the historian does not understand. The correct thing to say in this case is that Sri Aurobindo, as a Guru, was omniscient and attended to every disciple's needs and did whatever was required for their spiritual growth.