Though everything they teach and practise (at Auroville, his followers’ model town in Pondicherry, and elsewhere) is taken from Hindu sources, and though their Guru never renounced his commitment to Hindu tradition, his disciples shy away from the word “Hindu”.54 Rather than influencing their surroundings in a pro-Hindu sense, the Aurobindoites followed the spirit of the times in its post-Independence anti-Hindu drift.
