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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SATYENDRA: It seems Jinnah carried many files with him to his interview with the Viceroy.
SRI AUROBINDO: Files? All the speeches he delivered at the Muslim League meetings? (Laughter) He is making most exacting demands.
PURANI: The Secretary of State has already answered Gandhi's conscientious objection to war.
SRI AUROBINDO: What did he say?
PURANI: He has said that it is Viceroy's conscientious conviction that India's interest is also involved in the war and so nothing should interfere with India's war effort.
In the recent military pact Japan has been given the right to be the leader of Asia.
SRI AUROBINDO: Asia? How? What of Italy's intentions regarding Syria and Palestine?
PURANI: I don't see what the pact means or how Japan is going to profit by it.
SRI AUROBINDO: It means nothing. It is like the anti-Comintern pact - implying a "we all hate communism" sort of thing.
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