Champaklal Speaks

Sri Krishna and Sri Aurobindo

Kamala's brother Mahesh had come with me in 1923.

Obviously we both came for the same purpose, but I found a difference in Sri Aurobindo's way of dealing with us. To me he was speaking and guiding me in his Yoga but to Mahesh he talked of bhakti and upasana [worship] of Sri Krishna. Later I found out that Mahesh was intensely drawn to Sri Krishna and his path was different from mine. One day, however, he expressed his difficulty in reconciling his adoration of Sri Krishna with his surrender to Sri Aurobindo.

Sri Aurobindo told him: “There is no difference between Krishna and me.”