... consultation with Champaklal, they sent for Dr. Sanyal and Pranab, and Dyuman came too. It was a little past seven. The Mother's pulse was clearly failing, and although Dr. Sanyal gave an external heart massage, it had no effect. Finally, at 7.25 p.m., he sadly announced that the Mother had left her body. 17 Pranab, Champaklal, Dyuman, Andre, Kumud, Dr. Sanyal held a quick consultation, and as the Mother... Kumud, Vasudha - were with her, or visited her from time to time. Her son, Andre, arrived from Paris, and saw her now and then. Dr. Sanyal of the Ashram and Dr. Bisht of JIPMER examined the Mother. She was given about 20 to 25 ounces of food everyday, as recommended by Dr. Sanyal, and the food consisted of "a little vegetable soup, milk with some protein compound, paste made of almonds, mushrooms, artichokes... outside work is going on as usual. One moves on in his or her best light.... What will be our life only the Divine Grace knows. Faith and Courage keep up the whole life. Physically she is O.K., Dr. Sanyal and Dr. Bisht say. So we have nothing to worry nor think anything.... And on 13 August, at the Sri Aurobindo Society Annual Conference in the Ashram auditorium (Theatre), Nirodbaran said in the ...
... a kind of Vibration. Mother - This could be due to a cold or cough. I - I had a similar pain when I was in Calcutta. I had shown Dr Sanyal then. He also said it was due to a cold and cough. Mother - Then, Why don't you show Dr Sanyal again? I - No, Mother, I don't want to show to any doctor. Now I have come to You, You cure me. Mother, You cure me. Mother - Then, don't... unable to do anything. Mother - This comes from the kidney. You need to exercise a lot. I - But, Mother, I do a lot of exercises, but the pain is still there. Mother - Then, show Dr Sanyal. I - Mother, from time to time, I go to see Hriday and I take hot water fomentation. I get a lot of relief from it, Mother - If it does you good, then continue with it. (The Mother selects... Mother's interview got over in the Playground, I got inside the room and asked if I could speak to Her for two minutes. She consented. I began in a hurry: I - Mother, I have showed my back to Dr Sanyal. He said it was rheumatism. Page 110 Mother - I had told you so. I - So I should do a lot of exercise, as you told me; Mother - Yes, my dear child. Yes, my child ...
... ion, holding my hands—perhaps he was eager for a Love that eluded him. I never spoke a word to him. He never said anything to me. The second person in Mother's entourage was her physician, Dr. Sanyal. A completely devoted, clear and uncalculating man but with a total lack of faith, except in his medicine and medical methods. He lived for some twenty years with Mother with no understanding of... the facts, as reported in English by Pranab himself in a public speech, on December 4, 1973: "I arrived at about five past seven [in Mother's room, the evening of November 17] and saw that Dr. Sanyal was already there examining Her. Dyumanbhai [the disciple who brought Mother her meals] also had come. I went and felt the Mother's pulse. It was still there, beating at long intervals. There was... left Her body. This was at 7:25 p.m. Then, being present and feeling my responsibility, I thought what I should do. At that time there were present André [Mother's son], Champaklalji [the helper], Dr. Sanyal, Dyumanbhai, Kumud [the attendant] and myself. I talked with André and told him that I wanted to wait for some time and then take the Mother's body down, place it in the Meditation Hall for people ...
... some sound coming from her throat and the head was moving in a certain way which she did not like. She consulted Champaklal-ji and then sent for Dr. Sanyal and for me. Page 317 I arrived at about five past seven and saw that Dr. Sanyal was already there examining her. Dyuman-bhai also had come. I went and felt Mother's pulse. It was still there, beating at long intervals. There... that Mother had left her body. This was at 7:25 p.m. Then, being present and feeling my responsibility, I thought about what I should do. At that time, there were present Andre-da, Champaklal-ji, Dr. Sanyal, Dyuman-bhai, Kumud and myself. I talked with Andre-da and told him that I wanted to wait for some time and then take Mother's body down, place it in the Meditation Hall for people to see. We ... there would be a big rush, and the crowd would all clamour to see her. There would be noise and shouting and tremendous confusion. So we thought of keeping the event secret for some time. Also Dr. Sanyal said that we must not disturb the body in any way for several hours. So Mother was left as she was and after 11 o'clock, when the gate of the Ashram was closed, we cleaned her body with Eau de ...
... Mother’s observation that he was fully conscious within and disproved the idea that he was in an uraemic coma. Throughout the entire course of the illness he was never unconscious,’ writes Nirodbaran; Dr. Sanyal concurs with him in every respect. In the early evening the respiratory distress returned with redoubled force. He went to his bed and plunged within. ‘It was during this period that he often... flowing about her shoulders. Her look was so fierce that I could not face those eyes. With a piercing gaze she stood there. Champaklal could not bear it and sobbingly he implored, “Mother, tell me Dr. Sanyal is not right, he is alive.” The Mother looked at him and he became quiet and composed as if touched by a magic wand. She stood there for more than half an hour. My hands were still on his forehead... yogic acquirements to the Mother to allow her to continue the Work at once and in its total extent. This amazing transmission has taken place immediately after Sri Aurobindo was declared ‘dead’ by Dr. Sanyal. ‘When [Sri Aurobindo] had left, there was an entire part — the most material part of the descent into the material body down to the mental — which visibly left his body and entered into mine,’ said ...
... round of Ashram activities, and the Mother presided over the Playground events every evening. As Sri Aurobindo's illness continued to cause deep concern, on Nirod's suggestion the eminent surgeon. Dr. Sanyal, was summoned telegraphically from Calcutta, and he came on 30 November. On being told that Sanyal had arrived, Sri Aurobindo opened his eyes fully, smiled - "a smile serene and beautiful, it carried... acquired a new lustre and the radiant complexion of life! Death, where is thy sting? Whose, then, is the Victory? The Mother described the new lustre as the Supramental light, and helped Dr. Sanyal also - who at first couldn't - to see it: "a luminous mantle of bluish golden hue around him." And Sethna's portrait has almost an epiphanic quality: "Spiritually imperial - this is the only ... Presence and that henceforth everything in us be concentrated on the one Will to be more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of Thy sublime Work. At 8 a.m. the same day. Dr. Sanyal and two other physicians examined Sri Aurobindo's body 54 hours after life had become extinct, and declared that the body was still intact showing no signs of decomposition. This was certified ...
... maladies in others but as regards their own case, things were very different and very difficult indeed. As we expected, after a couple of months or so, the symptoms cleared up altogether and when Dr. Sanyal came for the next Darshan, Sri Aurobindo told him emphatically, "It is no more troubling me; I have cured it." Our faith was confirmed. The work on his epic poem Savitri went ahead with vigour... There were about ten days or so for the Darshan. A surgeon-friend Satyavrata Sen F.R.C.S. (Eng.) had arrived for the Darshan. He was consulted; he corroborated the diagnosis given at the outset by Dr. Sanyal. Sen said that the gland had enlarged. Sri Aurobindo also remarked he had also been feeling it for some time, though once it had completely disappeared. "What is the remedy?" he asked. There was... were, and visibly marked a broad thrust in the advancement of the disease. The question of passing the catheter Page 14 could no more be left aside. It was agreed; a wire was sent to Dr. Sanyal to come down at once. He had previously been warned to be ready to start, in case there was an urgent necessity. The instrument immediately relieved the obstruction and we began to feel light-hearted ...
... should there be Seer, Yogi, etc? Mother said, "No, no, no. No titles." * * * 20.5.72 I got from Nirod the copy of what Sri Aurobindo had said to Mother and she had told Dr. Sanyal. Nirod had asked her about it and she had said that it was correct. It has appeared in Dr. Sanyal's 'Call from Pondicherry'. I read out the last portion and asked Mother whether the following words... "What do you think of it?" Mother asked again. "Not good", said Champaklal. Then Mother asked me, "What do you say?" "Not first class," I replied. Then Champaklal asked Dr. Sanyal. He said, "Second class." Mother was smiling. * * * 4.6.72 Someone suffering from constipation has asked which part of the being is to be transformed. Mother replied... something, it is for the progress of all." * * * 26.7.72 As I was going to Madras, I went to Mother early. Informed her of Madanlal's illness. She advised his seeing Dr. Sanyal. * * * 27.7.72 Auroville has received Rs 50000. It will go for a part of the day to day expenses. Informed Mother of the work done yesterday at Madras. Huta has written ...
... 3 Ibid., p. 7. Page 53 present body, She would not have been able to do all the Great Work that She has done." In addition to all this, we must remember what she told Dr. Sanyal at the end of 1950—namely, that Sri Aurobindo has asked her to fulfil their Yoga of "Supramental Descent and Transformation. 1 It is not the believers in the Mother's complete transformation... As with Sri Aurobindo's departure from his body on 5 December 1950, we have to see here again a strategic sacrifice and not a surrender to a "death" which was "inevitable". In the talk 2 which Dr. Sanyal has reported, with her approval, as having taken place between her and Sri Aurobindo some months before he passed away, it is distinctly said that one of them would have to leave the body in the ...
... tennis court whenever She was playing and since then I was always there with joyous heart. And often She used to call me to play with Her. I was operated for hernia by Dr. Sanyal in the year 1956. I had a wonderful experience. Before going to the Nursing Home, I went to Mother for Her Blessings. After my pranam, She gave me a Blessings packet and asked me to keep the same... footpath six to seven times I reached my room and went straight to my bed and to sleep. During the night I felt yellow smoke coming out of my body and in the morning I felt much better. I went to Dr. Sanyal and he told me that I had jaundice and asked me to take some precaution concerning food. But what was strange was that I felt quite normal and all weakness and giddiness had disappeared completely ...
... disclose to anybody the act of Grace on November 25,1956. So I kept the secret. It appears that the Mother had told Dr. Sanyal what exactly had occurred. He wrote down something afterwards and asked Norman Dowsett to correct the English. Norman, instead of returning the report to Dr. Sanyal, seems to have sent it straight up to the Mother. Referring to what had been submitted to her, she told me some time ...
... Mother’s contact by sticking to a rigid attitude. Anyway, I had to wait pretty long before she called me and, though my attitude may have been right, I could not keep it up with equanimity. Besides, Dr. Sanyal who had settled in the Ashram at this time had the Mother’s touch every day near my own office. He used to Page 55 come in the morning and meditate in front of Sri Aurobindo’s room at... was glued together due to clotting of the blood. The oozing was stopped by pressure and nothing farther seemed to be called for. Still, I felt that since it was a head injury, I had better call in Dr. Sanyal to share with me the divine responsibility. The Mother gave her consent. I found him still in bed. He heard the story, got up and quickly dressed himself. Both of us returned together. He examined ...
... did the bleeding stop and I was getting weaker. At last I told the Mother that I would like to try local injections. "Are you sure they will cure you?" she asked. "Yes, Mother." I tried. Dr. Sanyal gave the injections and the bleeding stopped. How to explain the vagaries of our physical consciousness? At one time it responds to the Force or to a medicine; at another time it does not. That... Page 111 with you." The irony of it is that he is seen or heard only at critical times! In Champaklal Speaks there is a reference to an illness of mine that I had forgotten altogether. Dr. Sanyal had brought some instruments for me. The Mother asked in surprise, "For Nirod? He does not need them; he remains all the time here, so for him they are not necessary." This was in 1949 when I was ...
... unwell for a few days. Nirod-da too started worrying a little. One day, as I went to her at about noon as usual, I found her room full of people - Sujata, Noren Singh, Satprem, Champaklal, Dr. Sanyal, Kumud - they were all there. The tape recorder was running. Barely had I entered when someone told me: "Mother has something to say to you." I asked Mother. Then someone else... what I was to do after her physical withdrawal. So her last rites were performed according to what she had told me earlier. I consulted Nolini-da, Andre-da, Champaklal-ji, Dyuman bhai, Kumud and Dr. Sanyal before taking the decision. I consider it as Mother's supreme Grace that she did not leave any directions to me in the diary. First, Mother left me completely independent and free. She did... given you all this money." I said: "That won't be necessary. But keep this risk in mind." After that, for the last two years, she gave me my birthday present in the presence of people like Dr. Sanyal or Champaklal, et al. That my fear was not unfounded was confirmed within a few days of her leaving the body. The Ashram authorities made a detailed inspection of the accounts of my department ...
... such things in such language. Perhaps even our Dr. Sanyal and Dr. Satyabrata Sen, though they are more sur-geons than physicians, would thrill; for, Macbeth speaks of pluck-ing a rooted sorrow, razing out brain-troubles and cleansing the stuffed bosom — procedures that appear to call for deep-going operations, the surgeon's job. But possibly Dr. Sanyal and Dr. Sen would respond more to a certain ...
... Aurobindo said “I see” in a clear voice and then returned into the coma. Champaklal was massaging his feet. His breathing became slower and slower and then there was the last breath which I recognized. Dr. Sanyal asked me to turn off the oxygen tank and I went back and stood in the back of the room. I was quite calm and interested to see all that was happening. The Mother had no look of sorrow on her face... was asked about this he said, “You cannot expect to write about something you have never consciously experienced.” So he experienced death consciously and will return to complete the Book of Death. Dr. Sanyal said, “Mother, everyone is in shock except for Udar.” The Mother put me in charge of everything. She looked at me and said, “Udar, take charge of everything and come to me for instructions” and then ...
... this act nobody knew at the time. It is only afterwards that some sayings and facts could be seen as indicative of what was to happen. So for instance the following words of the Mother spoken to Dr. Sanyal on the very morning of Sri Aurobindo’s passing: “About a year ago, while I was discussing things, I remarked that I felt like leaving this body of mine. Sri Aurobindo spoke out in a very firm tone:... of that crucial scene,” writes Nirodbaran. At 1 a.m. on the 5th of December the Mother came again. Her face was calm, there was no trace of emotion. Sri Aurobindo was indrawn. The Mother asked Dr. Sanyal in a quiet tone: “What do you think? May I retire for an hour? … Call me when the time comes.” On this Nirodbaran reflects: “It may appear strange to our human mind that the Mother could leave Sri ...
... while her son André was with her, Kumud, one of the attendants together with Pranab and Champaklal, was alarmed by the unusual movements the Mother made. Dr Sanyal was called, and so was Pranab. ‘I arrived at about five past seven and saw that Dr Sanyal was already there examining her. Dyuman also had come. I went and felt Mother’s pulse. It was still there, beating at long intervals. There was still some ...
... upstairs. Inside the Salon Dr. Sanyal 7 is waiting near the cupboard. Mother greets him with a Bonjour . She glances again at the small passage near the staircase door where Kamala, Rassendran 8 , Chandana 9 , Doctor-babu's grandson Tarun and Arpita are waiting. Then Mother goes upstairs, the doctor follows. I go behind them up to the landing. Mother and Dr. Sanyal go into her room. I come down ...
... long interval and it was one of the closest and happiest, as if some old barrier had broken down. It came about in an unexpected manner. Champaklal had fallen ill during the last months of the year. Dr. Sanyal was treating him. I was one of the attendants. When after recovery he went to the Mother I accompanied him till he reached the door of her room. Then he asked me to come inside with him. Though I... up. I felt it to be a good sign, got up with a light heart and remained happy the whole morning. Pranab then told me, "Have you heard the news? Dr. Bisht Page 127 is coming. Last night Dr. Sanyal himself suggested that, if needed, another doctor could be consulted. Then your idea came to my mind and I said Dr. Bisht could be called. Mother asked, ’Is he a yogi?’ ’I don’t know about that,’ ...
... and was quite popular among the elderly women. Her happiness was, however, cut short by the cruel hand of Fate. After a number of years she noticed a small innocent-looking growth on her skin. Dr. Sanyal and Dr. Satyavrata suspected it to be skin cancer. The question of sending her to Madras for an operation was discussed. When I placed it before the Mother, she said emphatically, "I don’t advise... his Group caught hold of him and gave him a sound beating which exasperated the boy tenfold. I reported it to the Mother at once. She was extremely annoyed at the conduct of the boys and sent me to Dr. Sanyal so that he might do something to make him quiet. Sanyal resorted to the same means that we use in such cases: he injected a maximum dose of morphia and asked me to keep watch over the patient. Morphia ...
... also said he knew Dr. Sanyal. From other details it appeared that he was well- connected in Calcutta. Quite impressed, I arranged for him a room in Golconde. I informed the Mother about him and even consulted him in a medical case. Some days passed; he was gaily moving about and telling many tall stories to the young people. One evening, when he was at the Playground gate, Dr. Sanyal also happened to ...
... servants did he speak in Hindi and, very seldom, in Bengali. And yet he was a Bengali gentleman. Strange, isn't it? Actually, he was a doctor with a British medical degree, somewhat like your Dr. Sanyal. But Dr. Sanyal is always dressed like a Bengali and speaks like one. My father was completely different. After having lived with the English in England, he had come to believe that they were rather wonderful ...
... went straight to bed. . . . And to sleep." He slept. "During the night I saw yellow smoke coming out of my body. In the morning I felt much better. I went to Dr Sanyal and he told me that I had jaundice." There are doctors and doctors. Dr Sanyal simply diagnosed Abhay's trouble, cautioned him about food, but didn't prescribe any medicine. "But what was strange was that I felt quite normal, and all weakness ...
... No, Dada, please, .Ashwini pleaded like a frightened child. "When back-pain doesn't go with medicines then two blows on the neck can cure it. Dr Sanyal cured someone's back-pain like that. His back-pain just wouldn't leave him. So Dr Sanyal made him lie on the ground face down and gave him a couple of blows on his neck. He howled with pain but then after this his back-pain disappeared." ...
... Aurobindo. The wide circle of sadhaks, school-children and visitors could also scent that something was amiss, but the general rhythm of Ashram life seemed to go on undisturbed. On the other hand, Dr. Sanyal was summoned from Calcutta, and when he arrived on 30 November, he found Sri Aurobindo "seemingly unconcerned, with eyes closed, like a statue of massive peace". Whatever the physical suffering,... transcendent glory." 21 The processionary homage went on hour after hour, day after day. Everybody could see the freshness and the glow on Sri Aurobindo's face, Page 494 but when Dr. Sanyal asked the question where was the "Supramental Light" the Mother had spoken of, the Mother placed her hand on his head, and now he could see too: "There He was - with a luminous mantle of bluish golden ...
... wanted to take a beehive from a tree trunk and set about to do this on my own and I was stung. One sting became septic and a stinger remained in one little finger. I had to go to the nursing home and Dr. Sanyal operated to remove the stinger. After this he went to New York for his own operation for Parkinson’s Disease and Kailas met him while there. He told her when she was ready to come to the Ashram he ...
... freely as before, but would be endlessly grateful if she could intelligently absorb herself in their marvellous books. Her prayer was granted. Her speech too returned to normal. At one stage Dr. Sanyal proposed that if improvement was not rapid enough he might be permitted to drill a small hole on one side of the skull and let out whatever obstructive blood had collected there. No need arose ...
... messages and her perpetual love and blessings. The Mother's view of photography was: Photography is an art when the photographer is an artist. Later the Mother informed her doctor, Dr. Sanyal, who was professor of Clinical Surgery, Calcutta Medical College, regarding my painting: You see, the paintings in the front Hall were of my own student, Huta. My Divine Teacher was very ...
... ambition that were to end up like this. He has a nasty face, very nasty. But still, the fact that he declares himself to be the Ashram's "envoy" is troublesome. Ah, but I immediately wrote to Dr. Sanyal, who passed on my answer to all the people he knew. But this S. [an American], C.'s friend, is quite in a beatific adoration—that's very good, it had to happen to him. The Americans have so ...
... everybody keeps quiet! All right. All right, then. I don't want to hear anything from anybody. All right, then. ( Pranab goes to the other end of the room. He shouts for the benefit of Dr. Sanyal, Champaklal, Mother's attendant and Vasudha, who are all present. ) (Pranab:) I have my faith, I have my conviction, I have my purpose, and even if I am in the dark.... (Satprem to Mother:) ...
... we don't care; go ahead with the big show if you enjoy it." As for us, we know it's only a show—an ugly show, if you like, it's not pretty, but it's just a show. ( Soon afterwards, about Dr. Sanyal, who has gone to Madras for a brain operation after an unsuccessful operation in America. ) The doctor is in Madras.... When are they going to operate? I don't know. They'll telephone ...
... special blue, silver blue, scintillating, and it moves about every time I write in this notebook! ( Laughing ) That's why I have difficulty seeing: it moves about with the pen! Soon afterwards, Dr. Sanyal enters, signaling lunch time. Ah, here's the doctor, that means we're late! A day will come when I will be on time.... Maybe by moving dizzyingly I'll end up... You've been in a car at ...
... × Mother has a new attendant. × Dr. Sanyal is Mother's usual doctor. × How they mock and sneer, both devils and men! "Thy hope is Chimera's ...
... habitation and a name, it is no mere human figure there about whose anatomy, physiology and psychology you can pronounce an expert medical judgment and find at last that there is no mystery. As our Dr. Sanyal says: "Where is your psychic being? Where are all the centres you speak of: your Anahata, Nabbipadma, 262 etc.? Where are all these? I have dissected so many bodies, I've found none, and I'm ...
... that date and then relaxed all control. The end came swiftly. We know also from the Mother's revealing account that a year earlier he had taken the decision to leave the body. The Mother had said to Dr. Sanyal, "People do not know what a tremendous sacrifice he has made for the world. About a year ago, while I was discussing things, I remarked that I felt like leaving this body of mine. He spoke out in ...
... Holding Her in my arms and taking my weight on my left leg I moved the cushions with my other leg to make some place and finally laid Her down in bed. The Mother was unconscious. Immediately Dr Sanyal was called. A little later She regained consciousness. The Mother was very light. The fact that I could take my weight on one leg and move the cushions with the other and manage to lay Her down ...
... match, aren't you?" With these words she gave me such a loving smile that all my hurt evaporated. (16) T owards the end of 1958, Mother fell seriously ill. Her body became very weak. Dr. Sanyal advised her to take some chicken soup. After a lot of effort I managed to persuade Mother to take chicken soup. She drank only the soup while I ate the chicken. Almost a month and a half later ...
... Dining Room for our three meals or going to the seafront for a walk. One evening we had just come out when from the nearby mill two huge alsatians ran out. (This house was later bought by the Ashram. Dr. Sanyal-da used to live there. Today it is the building that houses the homoeopathy clinic, an allopathy section as well as the School for Perfect Eyesight for some time.) We bolted as soon as we saw these ...
... intravenously ... Oh, they ruined your veins! Yes, completely! And it has kept getting worse ever since. And now they want to operate again? One possibility is to wear a bandage, but Dr. Sanyal says the bandage won't help much; it won't stop the veins from deteriorating.... But it's quite a radical operation, you know: they open up the leg all the way from top to bottom and rip out your ...
... never allowed to live her experience. A few days after she left her body, in a speech before the assembled disciples, Pranab, Mother's "bodyguard," ingenuously declared: "According to the advice of Dr. Sanyal, we were to give Her about 20 to 25 ozs. of food every day. It consisted of a little vegetable soup, milk with some protein compound, paste made of almonds, mushrooms, artichokes or things like that ...
... gave it up. Dr. Sen joined the Ashram and opened a clinic to treat students injured in the playground. After group I would work with him helping people who had got hurt at the playground. Finally, Dr. Sanyal was given the job of training all the students interested in medicine. He took seven of us to the General Hospital to see a dead body and to view the internal organs. I think this is what ended my ...
... it is the Mother’s word coming true! We could only admire him, helpless, unable to do much to alleviate his pain. Some time in 1956 or 1958 his diabetes became acute. He went into diabetic coma. Dr. Sanyal pronounced that the end was near — maybe a few days! Everyone had given him up. But some spark which did not register on the doctor’s instruments nor on his “know-how” was there. That took over where ...
... flowing about her shoulders. Her look was so fierce that I could not face those eyes. With a piercing gaze she stood there. Champaklal could not bear it and sobbingly he implored: “Mother, tell me that Dr. Sanyal is not right, [that] he is alive.” The Mother looked at him and he became quiet and composed as if touched by a magic wand. She stood there for more than half an hour. My hands were still on his ...
... 12, 1962 After a month of grave illness which had threatened her life, the Mother spoke for the first time on April 13, 1962. She lay stretched on her bed, in her room upstairs, very thin. Dr. Sanyal, Nolini, Vasudha and Pavitra were present. It was round about 10 o'clock in the morning. Suddenly in the night I woke with the full awareness of what we could call the Yoga of the World ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Medicine not Necessary 1949-08-08 Dr. Sanyal had brought some medicine for Nirod. When this was told to Mother, she asked in surprise: “For Nirod? He does not need it. He remains all the time here; so for him it is not necessary.” ...
... it was very convenient for us! That reminds me of something - again, a personal reference, and I hope that you will not mind. Before His passing, when the situation took a very bad turn, Dr. Sanyal had to be called in. We sent him a telegram. He came on leave and stayed for some days. Just before he left, he said to Sri Aurobindo, "I am going, but Dr. Nirod is here." Then Sri Aurobindo said ...
... when Mother left her body?" Actually, I was holding her when she left her body. It looked to me as if a candle was slowly extinguishing. She was very peaceful, extremely peaceful, and when Dr. Sanyal declared that she had left her body, truly speaking I did not feel any want. Since that time I have felt that my heart is never empty and I feel no want. Another thing, what relieved me much, ...
... was causing distress, Dr. Sen and we had no other alternative but to pass a catheter, much against his will. It was followed by immediate relief. We felt light and cheerful. Then a wire was sent to Dr. Sanyal to come down at once. He had been forewarned to be ready for such an emergency call. Our joy was unfortunately short-lived, for in the wake of the intervention crept in the dark shadow of the fever ...
... valuable documents on Sri Aurobindo's early life in England and for trying to get his genius recognised by the English intellectual circle. One other casual attendant whose name I should include was Dr. Sanyal. He was an eminent surgeon in Calcutta and his active service was called for when Sri Aurobindo's condition became critical in the first week of December, 1950. He was sent an urgent wire to come ...
... collective sadhana of the Ashram. But suppose - Fear and Anxiety wondered - suppose the Mother chose to return to France! Or - suppose she too decided to leave the body! But she assured Dr. Sanyal: "I have no intention of leaving my body for the present"; and she told Surendranath Jauhar, "I intend to stay with you all". As for Sri Aurobindo's passing, she said again on 29 December 1950: ...
... agonising hour, that Phoenix Hour in the Ashram's history. Some said in their anxiety and apprehension, "Well, Sri Aurobindo is no more; and the Mother too might go away, or decide to return to France!" Dr. Sanyal, for example, was worried because the Mother was putting too great a strain upon her fragile body. But she told him with a smile: Do you think I get all this energy from my frugal meals? Of course ...
... blue and he was sweating profusely. I touched him and found his body completely cold. I rushed to the Ashram and informed the Mother that father was in a very critical state. The Mother sent word to Dr. Sanyal to go at once and examine him. I stood on the second-floor staircase and waited. When I reached the house with Sanyal-da I noticed father was sitting cheerfully on the cot outside in the verandah ...
... in 1970, the Mother allowed me to take Her pictures even while She was at lunch. The Mother at lunch. Also in the photo are: (from left to right) Pranab, Champaklal, Dyuman, Vasudha and Dr. Sanyal I enjoyed taking the Mother’s pictures, and working with them became a passion with me. I would literally spend hours working in the darkroom printing the Mother’s photos for sale, on order, ...
... movement' maintained in its covert and unceasing motion by the dynamic play of Energy that so affects our limited vision as to create the illusion of an apparent immobility. 1 Quoted by Dr. Prabhat Sanyal in "A Call from Pondicherry", p. 9. Page 299 It is no doubt true that behind all this movement, supporting all this Becoming, there is the fundamental reality of the moveless ...
... Ashtami, Dasami, Lakshmi Puja and Kali Puja days Mother used to give special blessings. I took photos of Mother on these occasions. Mother had consented to these photos being taken only because of Dr. Sanyal's enthusiasm. However, Mother told me very clearly the photos that could be printed and shown to people and those that could not. I followed Mother's directions very faithfully. Mother asked ...
... shape of a constant play with death—a sort of spiritual "brinkmanship", a coming to the verge of dissolution again and again for the purpose of giv- 1 See "A 'Call' from Pondicherry" by Dr. Prabhat Sanyal, Mother India, December 5,1953, p. 187. Page 21 ing new subtle dynamisms a chance to take over. Merely a stoppage of the old organic operations would not suffice: the cells ...
... 'The Mother once thought that She would leave Her body,' Dada told us. 'She asked me to go and call Nolini. "I would like to say something before leaving my body," She informed me. Dr Prabhat Sanyal motioned to me to indicate that the Mother's body was in good health and everything was fine with Her. There was nothing to worry or get upset about. However, I went and called Nolini-da... his body. If you take up body-building in a regular way keeping this spirit of invocation, then within a few days you will see how the body develops. The body becomes graceful and beautiful. Dr Datta remarked to me yesterday that while doing physical exercise the consciousness does not remain focussed on this all the time and we begin exercising mechanically.' * Page 50 ...
... interests of their work and he had decided that he would go and she would stay for its completion. 3 1 Ibid., p. 169. 2 Ibid., p. 172. 3 "A 'Call' from Pondicherry" by Dr. Prabhat Sanyal, Mother India, December 5,1953, p. 87. Page 137 Even apart from our faith in such direct references by Sri Aurobindo to his own mission, we may dismiss the idea of failure ...
... × Nirodbaran, I am Here, I am Here! × Dr Prabhat Sanyal, A Call from Pondicherry × Mother’s Agenda III, 1.9.1962 ...
... stood, the Mother, when the doctors had declared that Sri Aurobindo was “dead”. “She stood there, near the feet of Sri Aurobindo: her hair had been undressed and was flowing about her shoulders”, Dr Prabhat Sanyal remembered. “With a piercing gaze she stood there”, 24 for a long, long time. This was when the Mother received the Mind of Light from Sri Aurobindo into the cells of her body. “As soon as... Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, pp. 588-89. × Prabhat Sanyal: A Call from Pondicherry, p. 4. × Words of the Mother, CWM 13, pp. 63-64. ...
... Dilip 65. Ibid. 66. Ibid., September 1952, p. 2 67. Sri Aurobindo, Vol 26, p. 507 68. Ibid. 69. Ibid., p. 209 70. Reported by Dr. P. Sanyal in 'A Call from Pondicherry', Mother India, December 1953, p.187 71. Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, Published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (1954)... The British Image in India (1969) 24. S. K. Mitra, Resurgent India, p. 35 25. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 408 26. M. Sircar, Eastern Lights (1935), p. 183 27. Dr. Wingfield-Stratfbrd in The History of British Civilisation, p. 964 28. Quoted in S. K. Mitra's Resurgent India, p. 76 29. Quoted in A. Poddar's Renaissance in Bengal, p. 81. ...
... more the inner feeling increases, thinner and thinner becomes the small self.” Now Dr. Manilal of Baroda, Becharlal, Nirodbaran, Purani, Satyendra and Mulshankar were kept in attendance on Sri Aurobindo. Champaklal had already been in his personal service. So he was automatically there. Later on, Dr. Prabhat Sanyal, when he used to pay occasional visits from Calcutta, had the opportunity to see Sri ...
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