Chetti, Shanker : a respectable businessman at whose house Sri Aurobindo spent the first six months of his stay in Pondicherry (April to October 1910). The only three-storeyed house in the town at that time, it was on Comouthy (Tamil pronunciation of Gōmati, the sacred river) vidi, later 39, Calve Subraya Chettiar Street.
... from Sri Ramakrishna was received. The first message was in Baroda, the 'Arabindo, mandir karo, mandir karo,' 2 & the parable of the snake Pravriti devouring herself. The second was given in Shanker Chetti's house soon after the arrival in Pondicherry, & the words are lost, but it was a direction to form the higher being in the lower self coupled with a promise to speak once more when the sadhan was ...
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