Darjeeling : properly Dorji-ling Tibetan for “the place of the mystic Lama Dorji” that for ages remained a heavenly sanctuary of sacred mountains thick with forests & streams & torrents & waterfalls, rising up to the peaks of Kanchenjunga, Kabru, Pandim, Narsing, Dopendikang, & others. Its primordial purity began to be violated first by European invaders who built a colony at c.7000 feet. In 1835, the Octopus seized 183 sq. miles more for its “work-weary” officials & “battle-weary” mercenaries; then under more pretexts the Octopus annexed 640 sq. miles in 1849 & 486 sq. miles in 1866. It was a full-blown English town by 1877, when Sri Aurobindo & his brothers entered Loreto Convent School there run by Irish nuns as it was meant solely for European Christian children. A path-breaking feat achieved by their father, Dr. K.D. Ghose through Annette Acroyd, a casual acquaintance of his (‘Acroyd’ stuck to Sri Aurobindo’s full name, she having been present when he was born the house of her friend Manomohan Ghose). Annette was one of the Christian emancipators that rushed to India at the call of a Christian missionary settled in Bengal who wrote in a Calcutta paper on March 11, 1822, that education was the best means to convert natives “now engaged in the degrading & polluting worship of idols…to the knowledge of the True God & Jesus Christ whom He has sent.” This was also the policy of Macaulay & David Hare. [Last sentence from History & Culture of the Indian People, 1963, R.C. Majumdar et al, Vol. IX: 36] In 1835, putting the official seal on the good missionary’s crusade, Macaulay’s Minute on Education decreed that the aim of educating the natives was to form of a class, Indian in blood & colour, but English in tastes, opinions, morals & intellect. For this God-inspired mission the Benevolent Empress of India signed on the decree granting the entire system of education in India to the Govt. of India & the proselytising Christian institutions proliferating in India [Vide Karandikar]. As Manmohan’s daughter Lotika later put it, “In the shadow of the Himalayas, in the sight of the wonderful snow-capped peaks, even in their native land the children were brought up in alien surroundings.” It was while in Darjeeling that, preparing him for what awaited him in the fourteen years of gestation in the Octopus’s womb, Sri Aurobindo had a crucial spiritual experience. He recounted it to disciples in 1926: “I was lying down one day when I saw suddenly a great Tamas rushing into me & enveloping me & the whole universe. After that I had a great darkness always hanging on to me all through my stay in England. I believe that darkness had something to do with the Tamas that came upon me. It left me only when I was coming back to India.” That cloak insulated him from the Siren charms of the West, from the time when, in 1879, Dr Ghose transplanted his sons in England hoping that at least one of them would get into the highest position a native could aspire for under British rule – become an ICS officer, & make him proud.
... one always used before by way of the North Col. (...) Like the earlier expeditions, we marched north from Darjeeling through Sikkim — first up and down, up and down, through the deep valleys and then high over the great passes into Tibet. In a straight line the distance from Darjeeling is only about a hundred miles, but we had to travel almost three hundred, going roundabout to the north and... he came down a hero. And perhaps as much as any man in history he has reaped the hero's reward — and ordeal." In 1954, James Ramsey Ullman, a well-known mountaineering writer, travelled to Darjeeling and spent several months with Tenting and his family. The result of their conversations was "Tiger of the Snows: The Autobiography of Tending of Everest". To readers used to accounts of Himalayan... in 1921, had not been an attempt to climb, but only an exploration, and it was on this that a way was found through Tibet, to the north side of the peak. To the Sherpas, who knew the route from Darjeeling to Solo Khumbu, it seemed strange to be going so far round to get to Chomolungma. But the reason was that the English had per mission to enter Tibet, while at the time — and until only a few years ...
... off to far-off Darjeeling. I was then 5 years old, just like some of you here, who live away from your parents. But then you have found the Mother here and live in bliss. Isn't that so?" "It is!" said the children in a chorus. "We had all British teachers and tutors. There were a few other Indian boys but we hardly knew them. I remember something funny about Manomohan. In Darjeeling there was a... replied, 'I can't, I am sleeping!' (Laughter) "Darjeeling town was, of course, very pretty. You have seen it, haven't you, at least in pictures?" "Yes, we have, often. And the great snow-piled Himalayas in the background. But the people there are quite strange-looking, in their appearance and clothing." "They are Tibetan, that's why. Nowadays Darjeeling has grown into a big town bustling with people;... dearly. I remember the shock my first impression of London gave me. The crowds and the noise and the traffic made it difficult almost to breathe. After the peace of Khulna, Deoghar with its hills and Darjeeling surrounded by its mountains and snows, this place with its tall houses from the top of which long spires of smoke rose into the sky was a new and not a very pleasant experience. Do you know Tagore's ...
... Purani said to Sri Aurobindo, "M. R. has related that when you were five years old you got a vision of a great light at Darjeeling and you became unconscious." Sri Aurobindo replied, "All that is a legend.... And if you want the truth it was not light but darkness that I saw at Darjeeling. I was lying down one day when I saw suddenly a great darkness rushing into me and enveloping me and the whole universe... Mother's Chronicles - Book Four 14 Darjeeling "Up to the age of five I was in Rangpur," Sri Aurobindo remarked, contradicting a statement by a biographer, "as my father was in Rangpur, not in Khulna. I went to Khulna long after returning from England." Sri Aurobindo reminisced. "Before the Swadeshi movement started, Debabrata Bose... said, "My uncle told me that I was very bright, but I have no recollection of those days." Page 111 When he was five years old, little Ara was sent to the Loretto Convent School at Darjeeling, 1 run by Irish nuns. His elder brothers, Beno and Mono were also students in the same school. This school was almost exclusively intended for the children of European officials. Therefore the ...
... Page 174 I was still living in Mount Girnar. As you know, after my first five years of stay with Brahmadevji, we both left Mount Girnar and migrated to Tiger Hills near Darjeeling. And it was before I went to Darjeeling that I made a detailed study of the Yoga of the Gita. It was through this study that I came to understand what Brahmadevji had told me earlier about the highest state of realisation... much do you know about him? Do you know why I had gone to meet him? " "No. I have never been to Tiger Hills, nor do I know where exactly these hills are located except that they are very near Darjeeling. About Gurudev I know very little; some times Vishuddha has spoken to me about him with deepest reverence. He calls him by his personal name, Brahmadev, and he says that Brahmadev ji does not like... proceed to Tiger Hills the very next day.' "My father felt concerned on hearing all this, but he at once made arrangements for Vijay's travel with me. "During the long travel from Bombay to Darjeeling, I noticed that Vijay had become deeply reflective and whenever he spoke to me, he seemed to indicate that a profound change had overtaken him. It was about this change that Vijay spoke to Brahmadevji ...
... old, the father packed off the three brothers to Loreto, a convent school in Darjeeling. It was a missionary institution where almost all the children were British. The little boy spent two years in this alien corner in his own country. The education he received was nominal but the magnificent natural beauty of Darjeeling, with its view of the valleys and snow-capped mountains, its abundance of trees... trees and flowers, must have left its impress on his growing mind. And it was at Darjeeling that Sri Aurobindo had the experience I have mentioned earlier. Many years later he spoke about it. 'I was lying down one day,' he said, 'when I suddenly saw a great darkness rushing into me and enveloping me and the whole universe. After that I had great tamas — darkness — hanging on to me all along my stay... but, occasionally in a reminiscent vein, he would mention an incident or two and some of the anecdotes have survived. One night the children had gone to sleep in the dormitory of their school at Darjeeling. Sri Aurobindo's elder brother, Manmohan, had his cot beside the door. A boy was late in returning and began to knock at the door. There was no response from anyone, and the knocking continued. At ...
... 'There was a gentleman who was strikingly bald. He was fond of touring Darjeeling and often went there. One day his daughter and son-in-law were transferred to Darjeeling for their work. His daughter wrote to him that since he loved Darjeeling so much he should come and spend some time with them in Darjeeling. Page 120 ...
... 1877, when Sri Aurobindo was five years old, he was sent along with his elder brothers to the Loretto Convent School at Darjeeling, run by Irish nuns. About his school life, again, little is known, but he seems to have made a profound impression on his teachers at Darjeeling by his sparkling and wide-awake intelligence and the singular sweetness of his nature. The companions of the Ghose brothers... Himalayas, in the sight of the wonderful snow-capped peaks, even in their native land they were brought up in alien surroundings." 14 In later years, Sri Aurobindo recapitulated a dream of his Darjeeling days: I was lying down one day when I saw suddenly a great Tamas rushing into me and enveloping me and the whole universe. After that I had a great darkness always hanging onto me all through... through my stay in England. I believe that darkness had something to do with the Tamas that came upon me. It left me only when I was coming back to India. 15 The impressionable Darjeeling period must nevertheless have opened the boy's psyche to the beauty and splendour of Himalayan scenery, for a passage like the following from one of his poems seems to be born of intense personal experience: ...
... by this atmosphere, for after passing his first five years with his parents in Rangpur, he was sent, together with his two elder brothers Benoybhusan and Manmohan, to a Catholic nuns’ school in Darjeeling. The only event Sri Aurobindo later remembered about his stay in that school, in the foothills of the Himalayas, was the following: ‘I was lying down one day when I saw suddenly a great darkness... 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 spiritual experiences. Two days later he joined the service of the Gaekwad in Baroda. In the Maharajah’s Service It must have been an enormous change for A... spirituality was very different from that of Mirra Alfassa. In his case there was no early awareness and there were no early experiences, except the negative one of the dark cloud penetrating into him at Darjeeling. Still, in the last months of his stay in England, when reading Max Mueller’s translation of the Upanishads, he had come upon the idea of the Atman, the Self-in-all, with the feeling that ‘this ...
... have come from there. All these experiences passed away and did not repeat themselves. Disciple : Moti Babu has related that when you were five years old you got a vision of a great light at Darjeeling and you became unconscious. Sri Aurobindo : And then, what happened further ? ( After some time ) All that is a legend. I told him something because he was constantly asking me about my childhood... such experience of light when I was a child. My uncle told me that I was very bright, but I have no recollection of those days and if you want the truth it was not light but darkness that I saw at Darjeeling. I was lying down one day when I saw suddenly a great darkness rushing into me and enveloping me and the whole of the universe. What I told Moti Babu was that after that I had a great Tamas – darkness... my life to a similar World-change and take part in it. ( After a pause ) No, I had no extraordinary spiritual experience in my early life. I remember only three experiences. One was the Darjeeling experience. And the second came upon me at the age of twelve or thirteen. I was extremely selfish and then something came upon me and I felt I ought to give up selfishness and I tried in my own way ...
... The Way - Part III It was the period of the monsoon and Darjeeling is not so pleasant then. It remains always overcast and foggy with continuous rain. One cannot go out anywhere or see anything. Nevertheless, he accepted his daughter's offer and went to Darjeeling. In the evening he was wandering about when he suddenly noticed that the diamond from his ring... heard my prayer!" Another day, he was wandering in the vicinity of that very tree. Darkness had already fallen and the streetlights were lit. The place was deserted. During the rainy season the Darjeeling streets are quite deserted in the evening. In the course of his walking he reached the tree. All at once the lights went off, probably due to load shedding. There was total darkness as ...
... School at Darjeeling, a school intended mainly for children of European officials in India. Aurobindo's age then was five. Thus very early he became accustomed to being away from family and home life. The children used to visit their parents during vacations and also visited their grandfather at Deoghar. Very little information is available about the two years Aurobindo spent at Darjeeling. Years later... screaming and beating Manmohan mercilessly. Aurobindo, who was present, became afraid and, making the excuse that he was thirsty, went out of the room. Sri Aurobindo once described a dream at Darjeeling that he remembered: "I was lying down one day when I saw suddenly a great Tamas rushing into me and enveloping me and the whole ^universe. After that I had a great darkness always hanging on to me ...
... desired results, temptation was tried as a last resort. Word came to Sri Aurobindo that the Government of India would be pleased to grant him asylum at a secluded and salubrious hill-resort like Darjeeling to pursue his Yoga in complete freedom, and Lord Carmichael himself would like to discuss philosophy with him. What an honour! Yet Sri Aurobindo knew it to be but "an ointment to catch a fly". He... man, the granite strength of the Himalayas of his mind, the sheer infinitudes of his spirit? Born in Calcutta thirty-seven years earlier, his Odyssey ad covered many places, many climes: Darjeeling, Manchester, London, Cambridge, Baroda - and with the return to Calcutta in 1906, the wheel had come full circle. Chandernagore was almost a new start, or more appropriately, the beginning of another... living cell of the Mother India who had inspired millions of her children to sing the soul-stirring anthem, "Bande Mataram!" As we saw, he wouldn't by himself budge from Pondicherry, and neither Darjeeling nor Algeria had attractions for him;** and he wouldn't be coaxed or cajoled into returning to British India even after the coming of provincial autonomy in 1937 or to independent India in 1947 ...
... Sarojini and the youngest brother Barindra who is alive. 1872-77 With parents in Khulna where his father was Civil Surgeon. 1877-79 At Loretto Convent School, Darjeeling, where he Wad his first direct experience of a supernatural character. 1879-84 In Manchester with his father's friends, tie Drewetts. Striking proficiency in Latin acquired... February 22: Mother left Pondicherry for France. Sri Aurobindo's refusal of the then Governor of Bengal, Lord Carmichael's offer of a big bunglow for his permanent residence at Darjeeling, Bengal, with the ulterior motive of keeping him under constant Govt. surveillance. His Govt. had perhaps the delusion that Sri Aurobindo would welcome the Himalyan retreat as most suitable for his ...
... Aurobindo, while denying that there was ever any ban on his re-entry into British India, said, "On the contrary, Lord Carmichael sent somebody [in 1915] to persuade me to return and settle somewhere in Darjeeling and discuss philosophy with him. I refused the offer." Vivekananda had once taken Nivedita to Jorasanko to meet Maharshi Debendranath. She came to hear about his youngest son, Rabi. One day... Sri Aurobindo went away at the call of a greater work. She was now alone. The work she was given by her Guru was done. The Boses took an ailing Nivedita to their house in Darjeeling. On 13 October 1911, a few days away from her forty-fourth birthday, she took a last breath of India's air. An eventful, tumultuous life found its rest in the Eternal. ... For a time. ...
... great many things, a great many latent diseases are yet to come out, aren't they? Yes... Yes ( Mother nods her head several times and remains silent ). I've received a telegram from D., from Darjeeling. 4 Her request for a permit has been turned down: she wanted to go up there, but it was refused. She had written a letter that came two or three days ago, in which she said, "The talk is all about... to preserve the present human civilisation?" Mother answered: "It will be SETTLED in 1967." × Darjeeling, in the Himalayas, is near the border between Sikkim and Nepal, not far from China. ...
... a messenger, to say that if he were to return to British India, they would not mind. They would indeed be happy to provide him with a nice bungalow in the quiet surroundings of a hill station, Darjeeling, 16 where he could live in complete freedom and devote himself to his spiritual practices without let or hindrance. Needless to add, this was an ointment spread out to catch a fly and Sri Aurobindo... recall very well that scene. Sri Aurobindo was seated in his room in what was later called "Guest House", 16. "Lord Carmichael sent somebody to persuade me to return and settle somewhere in Darjeeling and discuss philosophy with him. I refused the offer." — Talks with Sri Aurobindo by Nirodbaran. 17. "Lord Minto said that he could not rest his head on his pillow until he had crushed Aurobindo ...
... us recollect that with his first step on Indian soil he had begun to get experiences. Earlier still, from his Darjeeling days. Let us recapitulate some of the main experiences. 1 1 Described in Mother's Chronicles, Books Four and Five. Page 262 -In Darjeeling: "I saw suddenly a great darkness rushing into me and enveloping me and the whole universe." -In London ...
... the Howrah Case by an approver whose evidence was declared by three High Court Judges to be utterly unreliable,—a man, I may add, of whose very name and existence I was ignorant till his arrest at Darjeeling. I think I am entitled to emphasise the flimsy grounds on which in all the cases proceedings originated, so far as I was concerned. Even in the Alipur trial, beyond an unverified information and ...
... age. Thereafter till twenty-one he spoke only English. In my father's house only English and Hindustani were spoken. I knew no Bengali. Quite early he was sent to St. Paul's School at Darjeeling, and then, when he showed unusual promise, to King's College, Cambridge.... ... His chosen medium of expression is English. Another error is worth correcting. The reviewer seems to assume ...
... Chronology 1872, Aug. 15 -Sri Aurobindo is born in Calcutta; he spends his first years at Rang pur (now in Bangladesh), and at the age of 5 is sent to Loreto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878,Feb. 21 - Mother is born in Paris. 1879,June -Sri Aurobindo leaves India for England with his parents and his two elder brothers. He spends 5 years in Manchester ...
... which they arise. The question is not whether one Bhupendranath Dutt published matter which he knew to be likely to bring the Government established by law, to wit certain mediocrities in Belvedere, Darjeeling, Shillong or Simla who collectively call themselves the Government of Bengal or of India, into contempt or hatred, or to encourage a desire to resist or subvert their lawful authority. If that were ...
... father intended to bring up his children in the perfect style and manner of the English society adopting its ways of life and thinking. Hence five-year old Auro was put in Loreto Convent School in Darjeeling which was otherwise exclusively meant for English children. In 1879, at the age of seven he, along with his brothers, was taken to England where he mostly stayed for the next fourteen years with ...
... of my departure I went out in the morning and had a hair-cut. I bought some new clothes too. I let it be known to everyone in the mess that I was going to my home-town Pabna in the evening by the Darjeeling Mail to attend a marriage.' I might mention here that Suresh was a very fair-complexioned young man and he purchased a suit of European clothes so as to pass off as an Anglo-Indian and not be suspected ...
... by a messenger, to say that if he were to return to British India, they would not mind. They would indeed be happy to provide him with a nice bungalow in the quiet surroundings of a hill station, Darjeeling, where he could live in complete freedom and devote himself to his spiritual practices without let or hindrance. Needless to add, this was an ointment spread out to catch a fly and Sri Aurobindo ...
... learned in Pali and the Buddhist scriptures. Without a murmur he accepted the order of the boys. While talking of Pali and the Buddhists, he told us something about the Tibetans too. "What you call Darjeeling," he said, "is not a distorted version of Durjayalinga. Actually it is a transcription of a Tibetan word." He spelt out the word on the black-board, in the Tibetan script – it looked somewhat like ...
... we had a club where I used to train young boys for physical exercises and games. One day a boy of about 15 or 16 came and told me: "Pinu-da I am leaving Berhampore. My father is taking me to Darjeeling for my studies. I want something from you to remember you always." I said: "What would you like?" He replied: "I want to box with you and get a thorough thrashing. That will remind me of ...
... revolutionary movement again, and assassinations were going on at that time. But there was no ban. On the contrary Lord Carmichael sent somebody to persuade me to return and settle somewhere in Darjeeling and discuss philosophy with him. I refused the offer. The Government was absolutely taken by surprise when our movement was launched. It never expected that Indians could start revolutionary ...
... moment. There was to be a cricket match to which Sir Andrew Fraser was to come, but he didn't turn up because he suspected something So the thing didn't come off. When Dutt met Chaki the next time at Darjeeling— SRI AUROBINDO: Charu Dutt seems to be everywhere. Yet I never knew that he was actually in the movement. Next? SATYENDRA: He must have been playing a big role, Sir. NIRODBARAN: Just to ...
... Sri Aurobindo was therefore provided not only with an English first name, Akroyd, but also with an English governess, Miss Pagett, and then sent off at the age of five to an Irish convent school in Darjeeling among the sons of British administrators. Two years later, the three Ghose boys would leave for England. Sri Aurobindo was seven. Not until the age of twenty would he learn his mother tongue, Bengali ...
... Asoka Vardhana, 7, 293 Attlee, Clement, 260fh AUROBINDO, SRI, 16ff; on Rajnarain Bose, 26, 38, 52; on his father Krishnadhan, 26-27; birth, 28; name, 28, 30, 38; at the Darjeeling School, 28; at Manchester, 30ff; time of privation, 31; Senior Classical Scholarship, 31; holidays with Manmohan, 32ff; success in ICS examinations, 33; at King's College, 33ff; Oscar Browning ...
... far as possible uncontaminated by 'native' ways and 'native' speech. He accordingly sent Sri Aurobindo, along with his elder brothers Benoy Bhushan and Manomohan, to the Loretto Convent School at Darjeeling. Thus, from the age of five, Sri Aurobindo moved mainly with English children and learned to speak English as a matter of course. In 1879, Krishnadhan took his sons to England and left them there ...
... 1920.² In an evening talk he said: "There never was any ban on my entering British India. On the contrary Lord Carmichael sent me an invitation to return to India and settle down at some place like Darjeeling and discuss philosophy with him. I rejected the offer." ¹ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 55. ² See pp. 167-70. Page 134 ...
... A brief retrospect may be timely here. When Sri Aurobindo left India for England in 1879, he was but a boy of seven and he had lived a sheltered life at home and at the boarding school at Darjeeling. During his stay of almost fourteen years in England, he first grew in general ignorance of conditions in India. But gradually, during the years at Cambridge, his eyes were opened to Indian realities ...
... out a feeler through Krishna Kumar Mitra in 1915 inquiring whether Sri Aurobindo would like the ban on him to be removed to facilitate his return to India and settling down in a quiet place like Darjeeling. 43 But he knew they were idle moves and childish baits, and in any case there was no question of his moving out of Pondicherry; and so he wrote to Mirra on 6 May 1915: The whole earth ...
... where Vishwanath, the Lord of the Universe, resides. If you die there you go straight to heaven! whatever sins you may have committed. She spent one whole week there. From there to Calcutta. A hop to Darjeeling to watch the splendour of sunrise —the play of colours on Kan-chenjunga. Back to Calcutta to take a train to Puri of Lord Jagannath on the eastern seaboard, in Orissa. That completed her tour of ...
... of a warning to the Press to behave itself and the effect will be watched before action is taken. After watching the effect for the space of twenty-four hours the Statesman issues an order from Darjeeling to prosecute any three papers out of the long list of English and vernacular publications in Bengal, the selection to be made on the principle of the loudest first. Before the Press has recovered ...
... the latter went to England on leave; and it was he again who fell ill when accompanying Page 690 Sir Lancelot Hare to Shillong. He should further note that this amiable Editor is now at Darjeeling, no doubt busy advising the Bengal Government on matters political. Page 691 ...
... Buddhist. Her biographer, Jean Chalon, points out: ‘For Alexandra Buddhism was not a religion but a philosophy.’ In 1892 she travelled to Ceylon and visited Colombo, then Madurai, Benares and Darjeeling on the subcontinent. As a member of the Theosophical Society she had no trouble finding friends and shelter. And she always saw to it that her handbag was stuffed with letters of recommendation from ...
... return from England. He was determined that his children should receive an entirely European upbringing. While in India they were sent for the beginning of their education to an Irish nuns' school in Darjeeling and in 1879 he took his three sons to England and placed them with an English clergyman and his wife with strict instructions that they should not be allowed to make the acquaintance of any Indian ...
... is not true. Up to the age of five I was in Rangpur, as my father was in Rangpur, not in Khulna. I went to Khulna long after returning from England. NIRODBARAN: From five to seven, you were in Darjeeling Loretto School, he says. SRI AUROBINDO: He may have got that right. He says, "The place where Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta has not been fix yet. Nobody has tried to fix it, and it should ...
... up by messenger, to say that if he were to return to British India, they would not mind. They would indeed be happy to provide him with a nice bungalow in the quiet surroundings of a hill station, Darjeeling, where he could live in complete freedom and devote himself to his spiritual practices without let or hindrance. Needless to add, this was an ointment spread out to catch a fly and Sri Aurobindo ...
... a messenger, to say that if he were to return to British India, they would not mind. They would indeed be happy to provide him with a nice bungalow in the quiet surroundings of a hill station, Darjeeling, where he could live in complete freedom and devote himself to his spiritual practices without let or hindrance. Needless to add, this was an ointment spread out to catch a fly and Sri Aurobindo ...
... tongue, and surrounded by servants v/ho spoke either broken English or Hindusthani. When he was five years old, he was sent, along with his two elder brothers, to the Loretto Convent School at Darjeeling, run by an Irish nun. There the three brothers had only European boys for friends and companions, for it was a school meant only for European children. Page 4 Sri ...
... article "My Political Will" – that stopped the arrest. Disciple : It seems, she traveled to India once under assumed name to evade arrest in 1910 or 1911. Sri Aurobindo : She died at Darjeeling; she did not die under assumed name. Page 208 (The topic turned to Jainism) Sri Aurobindo : We were talking about the Tapasya yesterday. Is it not to transcend nature ...
... Life of Sri Aurobindo 1872 August 15 Birth in Calcutta. 1872-1879 At first in Rangpur, East Bengal; later sent to the Loreto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878 February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris. 1879 Taken to England. 1879-1884 In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family ...
... sailor later committed suicide. At last, when the British Government in India could not succeed in kidnapping Sri Aurobindo, they sent an Envoy in a special Railway Saloon to persuade him to go to Darjeeling which, they suggested, would provide a better atmosphere for his Yoga-Ashram. Sri Aurobindo rejected the proposal. During the First World War, the British twice approached the French Government ...
... Chronology of Sri Aurobindo's Life 1872 — August 15 Birth in Calcutta. 1872-1879 At first in Rangpur, East Bengal; later sent to the Loretto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878 — February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris. 1879 — Taken to England. 1879-1884 — In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored ...
... , the great withdrawal!", they said - but hadn't Sri Aurobindo's life been a whole series of withdrawals? While yet young in years, he was withdrawn from his home to the residential school in Darjeeling, and then from India to England. Having qualified for the I.C.S. (the "heaven-born" Service), he manoeuvred to withdraw from it; having risen high in the Baroda Service and become Acting Principal ...
... he who healed the illnesses of others, was more and more a helpless spectator before this strange illness of his wife's. In 1877 (3 October), Henry Beveridge wrote to his wife Annette, who was in Darjeeling at the time to see the 'Doctor's boys,' that the Doctor "told me yesterday that his wife's eccentricity has entered a new stage and that she now is always laughing at herself." In that situation ...
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