Sri Aurobindo : conversations
Talks with Sri Aurobindo is a thousand-page record of Sri Aurobindo's conversations with the disciples who attended to him during the last twelve years of his life. The talks are informal and open-ended, for the attendants were free to ask whatever questions came to mind. Sri Aurobindo speaks of his own life and work, of the Mother and the Ashram, of his path of Yoga and other paths, of India's social, cultural and spiritual life, of the country's struggle for political independence, of Hitler and the Second World War, of modern science, art and poetry, and of many other things that arose in the course of conversation. Serious discussion is balanced with light-hearted banter and humour. By recording these human touches, Nirodbaran has brought out the warm and intimate atmosphere of the talks.
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Dr. Manilal had a warm cloth wrapped around his head and was sitting leaning against the small book case. When Sri Aurobindo sat up on the edge of the bed, he looked at him.
SRI AUROBINDO: You are looking like one of the pictures of Ajanta, thinking the world to be a burden and being cold and miserable. (Laughter)
NIRODBARAN: Today he has put on one more vest.
DR. MANILAL: That can be easily taken off. I was not feeling cold but to prevent any draught I put it on.
SRI AUROBINDO: I was speaking of your expression; you were looking like an incarnation of suffering.
DR. MANILAL: But I am supposed to be very jolly, Sir.
SRI AUROBINDO: But at that moment you were not! (laughter)
Some time later the Mother came and, soon after Sri Aurobindo's daily walk, Dr. Manilal left.
PURANI: Indra Sen wants to know if the cosmic descent could correspond to the yogic descent in any way.
SRI AUROBINDO: No, the yogic descent is a process of unveiling while the cosmic descent is involutionary, a process of veiling.
PURANI: Yes, I also said something like that.
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