House on Rue Francois Martin
(numeration is floating: now ¹33,formerly
¹37, else
formerly ¹41) where Sri Aurobindo lived from October 1913 till September
1922. Sole water tap at the yard, sole towel for all. Soap - one time
during four days. Sometimes Sri Aurobindo was compelled to walk without
shoes. Deficiency in clothes. Food simple and often bad-cooked. Sri
Aurobindo ate all. On complaint, for example, that it will be good to
add salt at meat, answered: "Yes, there is not salt", and continued to
eat. Diets were not interest to him. He ate meat, smoked and drank wine
that was cheap and sold throughout. Only later he become vegetarian and
gave up vine, smoking and tea. Mainly he kept his house but attended to
supporting of the body: at a brisk pace he walked at rooms till ten
hours per day and stamped a wide trail at a feet in breadth and two
inches in depth. One of his duties was feeding cats (by fish). Afterward
this house used for visitors and named as "Guest House".
