Satprem and Malraux

Compiler’s Note

This compilation explores the brief but significant contact between Satprem and the prominent French writer, Andre Malraux. The communion between the two men consists not in always giving the same answers to the same questions, but in a certain way of posing them, a certain way of acutely feeling the grandeur and misery of the human species. 

Using quotes from the written works of both, a montage of their distinct but complementary ways of being and thinking is provided in the first chapter. It is followed by their brief epistolary contact spanning over two decades and relevant conversations in the Mother’s Agenda. The last chapter takes extracts from Satprem’s Letters to Yolande and Notebooks of an Apocalypse where we find an expression of his expectations of Malraux and his disappointments - though ending on a hopeful note.

NOTE:
In some cases, when the English translation of original text in French was not available in the form of published books, online tools like Google Translate etc. have been utilised, for the purpose of this compilation.

“For the last half century, psychology has done nothing but reinstate the demons in man; it is possible, as André Malraux believed, that the task of the next half century will be "to reinstate the gods in man," or, rather, as Sri Aurobindo put it, to reinstate the Spirit in man and in matter, and to create "the life divine on earth"

- Satprem > The Adventure of Consciousness