Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Eckhart Tolle for granting me an interview that helped me towards a better understanding of his teachings. I am also grateful to him for suggesting that I make a comparison between his teaching and that of Sri Aurobindo. I would like to thank Mohan Nair, Publisher, Editions India. Without his persevering efforts and help, this book might have never seen the light of day. I am very grateful to Galadriel Nair for her invaluable help in transcribing the interview with Eckhart—a task that demanded much patience and endurance due to unexpected problems in recording the interview. I thank also Thomas Lilly who painstakingly transcribed long extracts from several of Eckhart's talks, including the questions and answers at Esalen. I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Lynn Crawford for her esteemed help in preparing the manuscript of this book and in providing valuable constructive comments and suggestions about the corners of the hook from the viewpoint of an informed and thoughtful reader. I express my grateful appreciation to the Sri Aurobindo Trust for its generous copyright permission to quote from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. My deepest gratitude goes out to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to whom I owe the inspiration and the light that have made the writing of the book possible.

A. S. Dalal

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