Mother's Chronicles - Book Five

A Word With You, Please!

Hello, friends. Good morning to you. Are you well rested? Ready for the next leg of our journey? Then come along.

We shall make further acquaintance with Sri Aurobindo. For that we have to go back to days not yet beyond recall. To the dawn of the twentieth century.

Of course, he was not yet 'Sri' Aurobindo, just Arabindo Babu. This Cambridge-educated young man seemed to have gathered into himself all the qualities and more of his illustrious predecessors like Bacon, Darwin, Milton, Newton, Wordsworth, all Cambridge men.

Arabindo Babu's keen wit was more than a match for the subtle and daring policy of Curzon, who was a statesman of unusual genius. It was disturbing for the British bureaucracy to find that there were subtler wits in India which could perceive its 'subtle' goal. Let me say at once that there were very few such wits. The general run of Indian leaders suffered from a fatal inability to pass beyond superficialities and details and understand in their fullness deep truths and grand issues in politics, leaving the Indian political life miserably barren and ineffective. They also lacked backbone, that is, moral courage.

With a cool daring Arabindo Babu invaded the domain

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of the British Government. His razor-sharp pen-pricks were like sword-jabs into bureaucracy's body. Under his leadership an epoch-making movement, Nationalism or Swadeshi, was born in India. It shattered all human calculations. It advanced with vehemence and velocity like a tidal wave sweeping all before it. A time of great change was that dawn. For the first time patriotism became a national religion. Indians looked and saw their Mother. And loved Her.

After setting in motion the chariot of God for the independence of India from foreign yoke, Sri Aurobindo withdrew from active politics. He had been set another task which none but he could do. With another's help.

Sri Aurobindo and Mirra met in Pondicherry.

Together they were going to wage a war against the universal Nature. And give man independence from the law of Death.

Let us start on our adventurous journey.

Of course, I do not want to alarm anyone, but I feel it is my duty to warn you that in the pages ahead we shall plunge into whirlpools of dangers. Startling developments await us round the corner. We shall be encountering many exciting events and suspenseful situations. So if your taste runs to danger and suspense, you have come to the right place. But it certainly is not the right place for those with unsteady limbs, weak hearts and butterflies in their stomachs.

Off we

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