Sri Aurobindo in 1916
![It took me four years [1904-1908] of inner striving to find a real Way. even though the divine help was with me all the time, and even then, it seemed to come by an accident; and it too me ten more years of intense Yoga under a supreme inner guidance to trace it out and that was because I had my past and the world's past to assimilate and overpass before I could find and found the future.](https://sa15.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SA_03.jpg)
It took me four years [1904-1908] of inner striving to find a real Way. even though the divine help was with me all the time, and even then, it seemed to come by an accident; and it too me ten more years of intense Yoga under a supreme inner guidance to trace it out and that was because I had my past and the world’s past to assimilate and overpass before I could find and found the future.