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.
THEME/S
Yesterday morning, Vithalbhai suddenly disappeared somewhere, returned at night about ten. Somebody gave the news to Sri Aurobindo.
SRI AUROBINDO: He was too disorganised and so he came back?
Sri Aurobindo asked if any of us had inquired where he had gone and why. Somebody said that perhaps he had been passing through some difficulty.
SRI AUROBINDO: He has behaved like Naik. Naik used to have such fits. I suppose it is vital restlessness and dissatisfaction.
SATYENDRA: Perhaps. Some dissatisfaction must have been growing within.
SRI AUROBINDO: He seems to have many minds. He wrote to us that he didn't want to be in any organisation. By going out he found himself disorganised, probably. Another time he wrote he wanted to see the influence of other Yogis.
Purani brought in Roosevelt in some connection.
SRI AUROBINDO: It seems this Wilkie is almost certain to be elected. Many Democrats are supporting him. All the same Willkie doesn't appear to be of Roosevelt's standard.
PURANI: No!
EVENING
Purani narrated a story of how Reynaud was persuaded by his mistress to give up resistance in the North and withdraw to the South, as a result of which the majority of the French Army was crushed in Belgium.
SRI AUROBINDO: Where was that story?
PURANI : The Sunday Times.
NIRODBARAN: The Sunday Times? We didn't see it.
SRI AUROBINDO: No! I would like to see it.
PURANI: I will get the paper tomorrow.
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