“With the same abandon with which he had struggled for India’s political freedom, he began his long patient quest for the freedom of the spirit. The two Aurobindo’s merged with each other, the political fighter and the yogi. Even then his earlier patriotism was tinged with a spiritual penumbra. He was thus a true Indian…” – Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee

(Presidential address at Sri Aurobindo Memorial Convention, Pondicherry, 25 April, 1950)