04/04/1910 - શ્રી અરવિંદનું પોંડિચેરીમાં આગમન

૪ એપ્રિલ ૧૯૧૦- શ્રી અરવિંદનું પોંડિચેરીમાં આગમન

Early next morning, April 1, SS Dupleix steamed out of Calcutta carrying Sri Aurobindo into the safety of the open seas and, four days later, on April 4, 1910, he reached Pondicherry.

Port of Pondicherry

SS Dupleix

‘I am and will remain in Pondicherry’

I shall be obliged if you will allow me to inform every one interested in my whereabouts through your journal that I am and will remain in Pondicherry. I left British India over a month before proceedings were taken against me and, as I had purposely retired here in order to pursue my Yogic sadhana undisturbed by political action or pursuit and had already severed connection with my political work, I did not feel called upon to surrender on the warrant for sedition, as might have been incumbent on me if I had remained in the political field. I have since lived here as a religious recluse, visited only by a few friends, French and Indian, but my whereabouts have been an open secret,.. I find myself now compelled, somewhat against my will, to give my presence here a wider publicity.

An open letter to the Editor of the ‘Hindu’

42, Rue de Pavillon, Pondicherry – 7.Nov.1910