The Sun and The Rainbow

FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION

Most of the writings collected in this book come from the pages of the monthly review of culture, published from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry: Mother India, whose editor the author has been for the last thirty-two years.

They draw, directly or obliquely, the inspiration of their various life-stances from the spiritual truth set shining amongst us by the Master of the Integral Yoga. Each of them aims to transmit, however partially, a touch of that illumination. And it is this touch that shades off their diverse moods into one another and unifies their multiple tones into a single whole.

The rainbow, which they form by issuing from a sense of the Aurobindonian sun, has been brought into public sight with the generous help of two friends — S.T. Pawar, who wanted to remain "an anonymous admirer" until requested to be otherwise, and V. Manmohan Reddy through whom the Institute of Human Study at Hyderabad headed by V. Madhusudan Reddy offered its co-operation.

The Ashram Trust is to be thanked for permission to quote from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

1^st August 1981

AMAL KIRAN (K.D. SETHNA)

PUBLISHER'S NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION

The Clear Ray Trust is happy to bring out this long-overdue second edition of The Sun and the Rainbow.