... Aurobindo found his Na-Meso, K. K. Mitra, and Bhupendranath Basu outside. The police had prevented them from entering the premises, and had also turned down the request of Sri Aurobindo's solicitor, Hirendranath Dutta, to be present during the search. To whet the Reader's appetite, let me reproduce here from Bangabasi dated July 3 rd 1909. "I and my fellow accused were kept in solitary cells... accused. In later years Sri Aurobindo, in one of his numerous anecdotes, said, "He visited me in Alipore Jail and told Charu Dutt, 'Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes?' "'Yes, what about them?' asked Charu. "'I have seen him. He has the eyes of a madman!' "Dutt replied, 'No, he has the eyes of a Karma yogi.' Charu took great pains to convince him that I was not at all mad but a Karma ...

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Karmayogin > Facts and Opinions

... infringing in the spirit its most vital condition. Perhaps these things also, no less than courage and sincerity, are considered unessential in this new "national" education. We notice that Sj. Hirendranath Dutt at Dacca seems to have openly proclaimed the abjuration of all connection with politics as part of the duty of a "National" school. We must therefore take the divorce of the National Council from ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo > January 1937

... 1937 Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo January 1937 Hirendranath Dutt, theosophist and philosopher, in one of his articles on Rāslīlā , asks why mystics and yogis use so much the imagery of passion, wine etc. in their description of experiences of Divine Love. Then he quotes Underhill to say "... it [human love] most certainly does offer... sadhana of the vital plane which then naturally expresses the vital being = love-excitement, love-quarrels, viraha , 75 revolt, despair, rupture etc., etc., frequent surrenders, unions, partings. Dutt has said that according to the Ancients, pleasure of the sex-act is something akin to the Ananda of Brahman. Why? In answer to this, Ouspenski, a famous Russian philosopher, has said: "Of all we know ...