Apollo Bunder : pier built in an area reclaimed by the British administration around 1900 in order to build the Gateway of India designed to welcome King George V (1865-1936) who visited India in 1911. It was an important pier for embarkation & disembarkation of passengers & goods in the city of Bombay in the late 19th cent. The name, derived from the Palla fish that were sold at this spot in old times, corrupted to the Portuguese Pollem, thence to the English Apollo, is still used today instead of Wellington Pier.
... interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material... sure that there was a God at all...." ³ Once, in a letter to a disciple, 4 he referred to a pre-yogic experience in London, but he did not describe its nature. The experience he had at the Apollo Bunder can, therefore, be taken as the first authentic yogic experience that came his way - unbidden but decisive - as a gift of Grace, a bounty of Mother India. Sri Aurobindo returned alone from... by Sri Chaitanya In the second year of his stay at Baroda, i.e. in 1894, Sri Aurobindo had another spiritual experience, which came in the same unexpected way as the first one he had at Apollo Bunder. One day, while he was going in a horse carriage, he 21. Love and Death, a long poem, and the drama, Perseus the Deliverer, belong also to Baroda period. Page 29 suddenly ...
... mind cannot explain this huge universal mechanism that God has created. His workings are mysterious; of this I can give you a luminous proof. When my ship reached Bombay and I disembarked at the Apollo Bunder, and touched the Indian soil, something miraculous happened. I felt a vast silence enveloping the earth and a deep motionless calm descended into me. Behind the hurly-burly of the city and its ... has helped me write books like The Secret of the Veda and The Foundations of Indian Culture. I have already described to you my first spiritual experience which I had on disembarking at the Apollo Bunder in Bombay. Perhaps that was the first pointer I received that I ought to plunge myself into the study of our ancient Scriptures." "But Sanskrit is a very difficult language. Its grammar and syntax... field of work at the time. Besides, the experiences came with such a suddenness, without any prior notice at all - that's another reason why I did not pay them much heed. The moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, on my return to India, something marvellous happened. I think I have told you about it. Then again, one day, as I was riding in a carriage through the streets of Baroda, the horse seemed suddenly ...
... apparently in life — but Dr. Krishnadhan's strong heroic soul had already passed away. When, after an absence of fourteen years, Sri Aurobindo set foot on the soil of India, when he touched the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, "a vast calm which descended upon him... [and] this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards" . 3 It was as though the Mother had received her child back and enveloped... My own life and my yoga have always been, since my coming to India, both this-worldly and other-worldly without any exclusiveness on either side. .. .since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material... take to Yoga, Sri Aurobindo (as mentioned earlier) had declined, viewing Yoga as a mere retreat from life. Spiritual experiences like the vast calm that descended upon him when he set foot on Apollo Bunder — and on later occasions too (for example an effort of will seeming to materialise as a Being of Light and preventing a carriage accident in Baroda in 1893)45 — were a different matter, and ...
... Uttarpara Speech I was speaking of Krishna, if you please. But how can that be? Didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujarat? Yes. But this began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage. Precise enough? By the Self, I suppose,... human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space ...
... conquered. 20 Ultimately, everything in this world is a matter of proper concentration; there is nothing that will not finally yield to a well-applied concentration. When he went ashore on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, he was overtaken by a spontaneous spiritual experience, a vast calm ; but he had more immediate concerns of food and survival. Sri Aurobindo was twenty. He found a position with the... disciple. All human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space ...
... interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but, at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space ...
... could hire a trained Cambridge and ICS man, higher qualified than most, for less than a reasonable salary. Aravinda sailed for India in February 1903. He set foot ashore in his motherland on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay and entered the service of Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III (1863-1939) two days later. It must have been an enormous change for Aravinda to find himself in the princely but culturally backward ...
... anything about Yoga or even what Yoga was. For example, a vast calm descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact'with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay. This calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards. There was also a realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir, the ...
... anything about Yoga or even what Yoga was,—e.g. a vast calm which descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay; (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards,) the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-[Sulaiman] 1 in Kashmir, the living ...
... human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space ...
... of Krishna, and in the Uttarpara I was speaking of Krishna, if you please. But didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujerat? Yes. But this began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage. Precise enough? By the Self, I suppose, ...
... How do you explain this? You can't say it was the atmosphere of the place. It was in the blood or perhaps carried over from a past life. And the curious thing is that as soon as I set my foot on Apollo Bunder in Bombay the experience of the Self began in me—it was a sense of calm and vastness pervading everywhere. There is a contact with a place that gives you an experience and sometimes the experience ...
... returning home, a darkness which had entered his being when he was a small boy in India and had hung on to him alt through his stay in England, fell off him like a cloak. And when the ship touched Apollo Bunder, Bombay, and he stepped at last on Indian soil, he had a strange experience. A vast cairn and quiet descended on him and remained with him for months thereafter. This young man was Aurobindo ...
... You can't say that it was the atmosphere of the place. It was in the blood or perhaps carried from past life. Then there was the experience when I came to India : as soon as I set my foot on Apollo Bunder, I felt a vastness and a tremendous calm coming over me. I did not know, of course, that it was an experience. It was a sense of calm and vastness pervading everywhere and I had not got it in the ...
... peace. This is one of the experiences that came to him unasked. Here is what he wrote to a disciple incidentally about this experience : " . . . Since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space ...
... service of the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. 1893 January 12 Leaves England by the S.S. Carthage. Travels via Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden. February 6 Arrives in India, landing at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay. A "vast calm" descends upon him as he sets foot on Indian soil and remains for months afterwards. February 18 Officially joins the Baroda State Service; his pay is retroactive ...
... Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. 1893 — January 12 Leaves England by the S. S. Carthage. Travels via Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden. February 6 Arrives in India, landing at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay. A "vast calm" descends upon him as he sets foot on Indian soil and remains for months afterwards. February 18 Officially joins the Baroda State Service; his pay is retroactive ...
... these have been referred to already. These had begun, in fact, since the very moment he touched Indian soil on his return from England. A vast calm had descended upon him with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, his first recontact with the body and spirit of India; and this calm surrounded him and remained with him for many months afterwards. Again, while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman ...
... mantra of Indian culture. So he skipped the riding test of I.C.S. -"Avast calm descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil ... in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay" (6 February 1893). -The experience of the 'Godhead' when he "sat behind the dance of Danger's hooves" at Baroda. -The sense of the Infinite, 'Adwaita,' which he experienced ...
... Mother's Chronicles Book Five: Mirra Meets the Revolutionary Chronology 1893, February 6 — Sri Aurobindo, returning from England, lands at Apollo Bunder, Bombay. February 18 —Joins the Baroda State Service. May 31 — Swami Vivekananda sails for America to attend the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in September. ...
... some psychological stage of the process of eviction—after the wishes have been granted and the British have been driven out of India,—the Government and Mr. Sparkes are to be intercepted on the Apollo Bunder by a deputation of Bipin Pal, Tilak and Khaparde on bended knees asking them to stay back on any terms rather than deprive India of their beatific presence. This is the first spark. The second ...
... early life. There was the shock of Page 79 an inner immensity once in England. "A vast calm", writes Professor Iyengar, "descended upon him with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, his first contact with the soil and spirit of India; and this calm surrounded him and remained with him for long months afterwards. Again, while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-SuIeman ...
... anything about Yoga or even what Yoga was,— e.g., a vast calm which descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards); the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takhti-Suleman [Seat of Solomon] in Kashmir; ...
... father had expected him on the SS Roumania and died of grief after being told that this ship had perished in a storm before the coast of Portugal. Two days after his arrival on Indian soil, at the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, Aurobindo had to report for service in Baroda. × On Himself , 378 ...
... interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material ...
... ’ 17 Aravinda had not booked his passage on the ill-fated Roumania but on the Carthage. He arrived in Bombay on 6 February 1893. From the moment he set foot on Indian soil, on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, a vast calm descended upon him; the black cloud, which had been hovering over him since that day some seventeen or eighteen years before at Darjeeling, dissolved and he began to have ...
... however, a few spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London in 1892, the year of his departure from England. The next experience was when he set foot on Indian soil at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, on his return from England. A vast calm descended upon him and surrounded him and stayed with him for months afterwards. Then, in the first year of his stay in Baroda in 1893, an ...
... experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London, in 1892, the year of his departure from England. The next experience was when Sri Aurobindo set foot on the Indian soil at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, on his return from England. A vast calm descended upon him and surrounded him and stayed with him for months afterwards. Then, in the first year of his stay in Baroda in 1893, an experience ...
... member of Indian Majlis and 'Lotus & Dagger', 34,37,183,281; 'Riding Test', 36ff; rejection from ICS, 37; appointment in Baroda, 37; songs to Myrtilla, 38ff, 71; on Parnell, 42; on Goethe, 42; at Apollo Bunder, 46, 64, 281, 385; at Naini Tal, 47, 66; learning Bengali & Sanskrit, 50; as Professor, 52ff; on Oxford & Cambridge, 52,53; on the "cultured Bengali", 55; A. B. dark, on, 55; 'New Lamps for Old' ...
... Days of extreme hardships, due to failure of remittances from home as the result of father's large-hearted charities. 1893 February: Returned to India; on landing At Apollo Bunder, Bombay, had a spiritual experience of infinite calm descending upon him. This continued for weeks. 1893-1896 In Baroda State Service. First in administrative departments, ...
... increasing inner preoccupation with India's own predicament, which was indeed worse than Ireland's. His first spiritual experience of immense peace and calm and joy on touching Indian soil at Apollo Bunder in Bombay instantaneously quickened his political sensibility by giving it a mystical dimension. It did not take him long at Baroda to size up India's political life, the elegant petitioning, ...
... back to Sri Aurobindo. He was explaining about the 'atmosphere of a place.' After alluding to the experience of "a vastness and a tremendous calm coming over me," as soon as he set his foot on Apollo Bunder, he said, "That is the atmosphere of the place. Another instance is the sense of Page 179 the Infinite I had at the Shankaracharya Hill at Kashmir and at Parvati Hill near Poona ...
... it. Then, the experience of the Self came unbidden. "A thing I knew nothing about, never bargained for, didn't understand either..........This began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage." One day, Sri Aurobindo was driving from ...
... Bombay. He began to get the experience of' the Self. "A vast calm descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards)." Sri Aurobindo explained, "I did not know, of course, that it was an experience. It was a sense of calm and vastness ...
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