Mrinalinee Mrinalini : Bankim Chandra’s novel set in the first Muslim invasion of Bengal.
... party and later joined the Ramakrishna Mission as a sannyasi. Girish Chandra Bose, a very intimate friend of Mrinalini's father, almost like an elder brother, used to look after Mrinalini in Calcutta. He was the Principal of a famous college there. It was he who arranged the marriage of Mrinalini with Sri Aurobindo in a most unorthodox manner. Sri Aurobindo, as you know, had returned to India and taken... of his own. Mrinalini was then in Shillong; he would try to visit her. But once in Calcutta a huge heap of work fell upon his hands and people flocked in numbers to see him. If Mrinalini was hoping that since Sri Aurobindo would be living in Calcutta she would have his company, it was a vain hope. In fact, her father wrote that he knew next to nothing about the married life of Mrinalini in Baroda... visit her now and then. After this, according to Mrinalini's cousin, her father took her away to Shillong. They used to come to Calcutta to visit Sri Aurobindo in the jail. Mrinalini always remained calm and composed. We have a reminiscent account of Mrinalini's sojourn in Shillong from Ila Devi, mother of Dr. Satyavrata Sen. Ila was Page 13 a minor at that time living with her parents ...
... name was Mrinalini Bose. Curiously enough 'Mrinalini' and 'Aurobindo' both mean 'Lotus.' Now olden Hindu traditions say that a wife is the partner in her husband's spiritual life, and helper in the execution of his chosen Dharma. They are companions who walk the same road in life. There is a fullness of sharing between them. Remarkably this couple shared even their names! Aurobindo and Mrinalini. LOTUS... LOTUS and LOTUS. They were married on 30 April 1901. Mrinalini Ghose's brother Sisir Bose and their father Bhupal Chandra Bose recorded statements concerning Mrinalini and her marriage. From Ranchi, Bihar, Sisir Bose wrote to a relation of his. That was on 25 November 1941. "1. Sri Arabindo 1 advertised in newspapers for a bride. 1. The Reader will come across at least... relationship, nor even acquaintance between the Boses and the Ghose family, except that Mrinalini's father once came in contact with Sri Aurobindo's father, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose, while he was stationed as Civil Surgeon at Khulna. It must have been about the year 1890........ "Sri Aurobindo first met Mrinalini at the house of her uncle Sj. Girish Chandra Bose in Calcutta in the course of his search ...
... Mrinalini Devi A Note on Sri Aurobindo’s “Siddhi” It is bound to be surprising to our ears that a little before December 17, 1918 when Mrinalini died Sri Aurobindo had written to her that he had attained his "Siddhi" ("Goal") and that she should come over to Pondicherry and join him in his world-work. Surprising, for two years later, On April 7,1920... that year he had told the Mother in anticipation of his own departure: "You have to fulfil our Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation." How, then, shall we come to terms with the letter to Mrinalini at the end of 1918? The mystery gets further deepened when we come across a letter Sri Aurobindo wrote in late August 1912 to Motilal Roy of Chandernagore: "My subjective sadhana may be said to... have got already - but knowledge and shakti established in the ... physical self and directed to my work in life...." And the crowning shade of the puzzling situation comes in a letter, again to Mrinalini, not from Pondicherry but from Calcutta itself. The English translation reads: "I have not written to you for a long time. I feel that a great change will soon take place in our life. If it does ...
... Sri Aurobindo A NOTE ON SRI AUROBINDO'S "SIDDHI" It is bound to be surprising to our ears that a little before December 17, 1918 when Mrinalini Devi died, Sri Aurobindo had written to her that he had attained his "Siddhi" ("Goal-Attainment") and that she should come over to Pondicherry and join him in his world-work. Surprising, for two... that year he had told the Mother in anticipation of his own departure: "You have to fulfil our Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation." How, then, shall we come to terms with the letter to Mrinalini Devi at the end of 1918? The mystery gets further deepened when we come across a letter Sri Aurobindo wrote in late August 1912 to Motilal Roy of Chandernagore: "My subjective sadhana may be... knowledge and shakti established in the... physical self and Page 90 directed to my work in life..." And the crowning shade of the puzzling situation comes in a letter, again to Mrinalini Devi, not from Pondicherry but from Calcutta itself. The English translation reads: "I have not written to you for a long time. I feel that a great change will soon take place in our life. If ...
... of the success of the Arya, Mrinalini Devi did not come to join Sri Aurobindo. In 1918, just at the end of the war, a Spectre swept over the Earth. It was the influenza which in less than two years took a toll of at least twenty-one million people. As it swept over the world, the Indian subcontinent paid a frightful price—at least ten million Indians died. Mrinalini Devi was one of its victims. ... will of course return before August,—as soon in fact as it is no longer necessary for you to stay in Bengal to get matters arranged there. I await your farther information with regard to the idea of Mrinalini coming here. At present it seems to me that that will depend very much on the success of the Review & a more settled condition in my means of life. We shall see, however, whether anything else develops... exceed And am for Time prepared." When the first sense of the irreparable abated, Sri Aurobindo wrote to his father-in-law, Bhupal Bose, that the tie of affection between him and Mrinalini subsisted for him. "Where I have once loved, I do not cease from loving." Then a longing escaped the human heart. "I should be glad if you would send me two or three of her books, especially ...
... return to Baroda today. I have asked for leave from the 12ᵗʰ, but I do not know whether it will be sanctioned so soon. In any case I shall be back by the end of the month. If you are anxious to send Mrinalini down, I have no objection whatever. I have no doubt my aunt will gladly put her up until I can return from Baroda and make my arrangements. I am afraid I shall never be good for much in the way... it, still is near though not visible to our physical vision. It is needless to say much about the matters of which you write in your letter. I approve of everything that you propose. Whatever Mrinalini would have desired, should be done, and I have no doubt this is what she would have approved of. I consent to the chudis being kept by her mother; but I should be glad if you would send me two or ...
... he would not be out of prison much longer. Mrinalini Devi wrote a letter to Sri Aurobindo on 3 December in which she said, "Abinash will not work for you when he gets married." Abinash was the revolutionary worker who looked after Sri Aurobindo's household. On the sixth Sri Aurobindo replied to Mrinalini. 6th December 1907. Dear Mrinalini, I received your letter the day before yesterday... Midnapur today. On my return I shall make the necessary arrangements here, and then proceed to Surat. That will probably be on the 15th or 16th. I shall be back on the 2nd of January. Yours Mrinalini Devi was staying at 29/3, Chhuku Khansama Lane, Calcutta. No definite arrangement was made for her expenses up to 20 December 1907. On 6 December, twelve miles from Kharagpur, near Narayangarh ...
... I have said that Sri Aurobindo came to occupy with Mrinalini a portion of the house in Grey Street. It was Page 20 here that they arrested him later. The Navashakti too did not last long. In the course of their search, the police discovered in one of the rooms occupied by Sri Aurobindo a lump of clay, which Mrinalini had brought from Dakshi-neswara as a sacred relic. But the... more or less on the pattern of the one we had later at Shyamapukur. There were two flats. The one in front was used as the Navashakti office; Sri Aurobindo occupied the other with his wife, Mrinalini. A word about Manoranjan Guhathakurta will not be out of place here. In that epoch Aswinikumar Dutt and Manoranjan Guhathakurta of Barisal were two of the mighty pillars of nationalism. But ...
... was in April 1901 that Sri Aurobindo, then 28, took an important step in his life; he married Mrinalini Bose, who was barely half his age (she was born on 6 March 1887). He had no doubt had several offers, but he seems to have also inserted an advertisement for a bride; and he finally selected Mrinalini, daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose of Jessore, who had settled down at Ranchi. The marriage ... was also feeling drawn towards Yoga. Mrinalini, on the other hand, was still no more than a girl, she had been used to the ordinary comforts and sense of security in a middle-class Bengali home, she was no diamond-edged intellectual, and no god-intoxicated bhakta either; and notwithstanding the reassuring presence of Sarojini most of the time, Mrinalini very likely found her admired and adored... persecution and incarceration, Mrinalini's unease only deepened all the more. For a girl, it is always a cross between glory and penance to marry a man of genius; and Sri Aurobindo was more than a man of genius. He was afflicted with Divine madnesses; he was verily a descended god! But a god is to be worshipped from a distance, not viewed from close quarters; and Mrinalini often felt ill at ease. Both ...
... will of course return before August,—as soon in fact as it is no longer necessary for you to stay in Bengal to get matters arranged there. I await your farther information with regard to the idea of Mrinalini coming here. At present it seems to me that that will depend very much on the success of the Review & a more settled condition in my means of life. We shall see, however, whether anything else develops ...
... beatings." I have said that Sri Aurobindo came to occupy with Mrinalini a portion of the house in Grey Street. It was here that they arrested him later. The Navashakti too did not last long. In the course of their search, the police discovered in one of the rooms occupied by Sri Aurobindo a lump of clay, which Mrinalini had brought from Dakshineswara as a sacred relic. But the suspicions of... built more or less on the pattern of the one we had later at Shyampukur. There were two flats. The one in front was used as the Navashakti office; Sri Aurobindo occupied the other with his wife, Mrinalini". A word about Manoranjan Guhathakurta will not be out Page 357 of place here. In that epoch Aswinikumar Dutt and Manoranjan Guhathakurta ...
... Ranjan Mitra) 86 Bombay's Victoria Terminus early this century (from an old postcard) 91 Manmohan with his two daughters (courtesy Smt , Lahori Chatterjee) 118 Sri Aurobindo and Mrinalini (from Abhay Singh's collection) 172 Kashmir's Dal Lake early this century (from an old postcard) 178 The temple atop Shankaracharya Hill at Srinagar (courtesy Shri Seshadri Chari) ...
... it contains a detailed comment on the only letter from Mrinalini Devi that Sri Aurobindo had preserved, which remains unpublished. I had sent Amal copies of all the letters my parents had painstakingly copied from the Alipore Bomb Case court archives. I had pointed out that though these contain a letter from Sri Aurobindo replying to Mrinalini, we do not realise this fact because somehow he had dated... Page 244 trouble. The unpublished letter from Mrinalini, full of abuse from the loving heart, is worth bringing out because we have Sri Aurobindo's response to it in the letter which is wrongly dated 17.2.1907 when the correct year should be 1908, as you suggest. This response of Sri Aurobindo's makes all the complaints of Mrinalini pointless since Sri Aurobindo is no longer himself but only... only a tool in the hands of the Divine and so he cannot be judged any longer from the human standpoint which takes into consideration the duties of a husband or even of a man in general. Mrinalini's of 20.12.1907 has been suppressed because of the fear that it might lead to a misunderstanding of Sri Aurobindo by its 'disrespectful' attitude, though a keener perception should assure us of the devotion ...
... Chairman of the College debating society. April 17 Transferred from the College to the Revenue Department, Baroda State. April 30 Marriage to Mrinalini Bose, eldest daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, in Calcutta. Afterwards goes to Nainital with Mrinalini and his sister Sarojini. 1902 April 28 On privilege leave until May 29. Sri Aurobindo uses his leaves and vacations, especially... India. December First instalment of "Is India Civilised?" (first of the series of essays that make up The Foundations of Indian Culture) published in the Arya. December 17 Death of Mrinalini Ghose in Calcutta. 1920 January 20 Letter to Joseph Baptista. April 7 Letter to Barindra Kumar Ghose. April 24 The Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan. August ...
... silver light With its aureate roof and mosaic floors In a great world bare and bright. 10 IV It was mentioned in an earlier chapter (III.vii) that, following his marriage to Mrinalini Bose in 1901, Sri Aurobindo went with her and his sister, Sarojini, to Naini Tal; and after their return to Baroda, Barin also joined them some time later. The next few years were the period of Sri... companion and a source of considerable solace. But the fact that Sri Aurobindo was far off and far above her, that the distance was but increasing with the years, must have caused acute discomfort to Mrinalini; and doubtless there were not wanting persons who specialised in dropping hints to her, and putting pressure upon her, and trying to force the issue between her and her husband. The year 1905 was... as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life - when the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it.... 11 This was in 1936, nearly eighteen years after Mrinalini's death. But in 1905, when she was at Calcutta and Sri Aurobindo was at Baroda, letters passed between them, and the world would have probably known nothing about them; but some of his letters, written ...
... the College debating society. April 17 Transferred from the college to the Revenue Department, Baroda State. April 30 Marriage to Mrinalini Bose, eldest daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, in Calcutta. Afterwards goes to Nainital with Mrinalini and his sister Sarojini. 1902 — Works in the office of Huzur Kamdar (aide to the Dewan, the chief administrative officer of the State)... December First instalment of "Is India Civilised?" (first of the series of essays that make up The Foundations of Indian Culture) published in the Arya. December 17 Death of Mrinalini Ghose in Calcutta. 1920 — January 20 Letter to Joseph Baptista. April 7 Letter to Barindra Kumar Ghose. April 24 The Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan. August ...
... and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To His Wife c/o K.B. Jadhav Esq Near Municipal Office Baroda 20ᵗʰ August 1902 Dearest Mrinalini, I have not written to you for a long time because I have not been in very good health and had not the energy to write. I went out of Baroda for a few days to see whether change and rest would ...
... effectually punish you. But the main question is, 'What is to be done now?' Of course I can send Rs. 40 now and so long as I am alone it does not matter very much, but it will be rather a pull when Mrinalini comes back to Baroda. However even that could be managed well enough with some self-denial and an effective household management. But there is a tale of woe behind. "Sarojini suggests that I... forbid) we shall get our full pay till December and after that live on the munificent amount of nothing a month. In any case it will be impossible to bring Page 132 mother or even Mrinalini to Baroda. And there is worse behind. The Ajwa reservoir after four years of drought is nearly exhausted. The just-drinkable-if-boiled water in it will last for about a month; the nondrinkable for... the Huzur Order had come through confirming the Rs. 90 promotion to 'Mr. Aravinda Ghose.' "c/o K. B. Jadhav Esq Near Municipal Office Baroda 20 th August 1902 "Dearest Mrinalini, "I have not written to you for a long time because 1 have not been in very good health and had not the energy to write. I went out of Baroda for a few days to see whether change and rest would ...
... or effectually punish you. But the main question is What is to be done now? Of course I can send Rs 40 now and so long as I am alone it does not matter very much, but it will be rather a pull when Mrinalini comes back to Baroda. However even that could be managed well enough with some self-denial and an effective household management. But there is a tale of woe behind. Sarojini suggests that I might... thirdly (and this may Heaven forbid) we shall get our full pay till December and after that live on the munificent amount of nothing a month. In any case it will be impossible to bring mother or even Mrinalini to Baroda. And there is worse behind. The Ajwa reservoir after four years of drought is nearly exhausted. The just-drinkable-if-boiled water in it will last for about a month; the nondrinkable for ...
... was soft as a flower. When he would refer to Mrinalini Devi, his eyes would be filled with tears. He would refer to her as Ma Mrinalini. She too looked upon him as her son. At his instance, Sri Sailendranath Bose, Mrinalini Devi’s younger brother, wrote the memoires of her life. Sudhir-da used to say, “No one really knows what a great sacrifice Ma Mrinalini made!” Another incident that I remember will ...
... especially during the college vacations. During his visit to Calcutta in 1901 he took an important step in his life. In April, he married Mrinalini, daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, a senior official in Government service. Sri Aurobindo was then 28; the bride Mrinalini, 14. She was beautiful, educated and belonged to an aristocratic family. It was an arranged marriage resulting from an advertisement inserted... by this time: yoga, revolutionary work, politics, teaching, besides his own literary activity. But we can get a glimpse of his main preoccupation from the letters he wrote in Bengali to his wife Mrinalini at this time. These letters were not meant for publication but expressed only his private thoughts and feelings and were written in order to answer some of her anxious queries. They were seized by... show how his intense aspiration for the Divine had merged with his ardent love for the motherland without any contradiction between these two urges of his being, and how deeply concerned he was that Mrinalini should understand him and follow him in his path. In the letter of August 1905, Sri Aurobindo writes: have three madnesses. The first is this. I firmly believe that the accomplishments, talent ...
... political projects, and was one among four or five with whom "I was planning to work on more extremist lines than the Congress," recounted Sri Aurobindo in 1938. In one of his letters to his wife, Mrinalini Devi, Sri Aurobindo mentions that he needed money to send Madhavrao to Europe for arms training so he was unable to send her more. The Bengali novelist was to witness many other things during ...
... members. There was a constant coming and going. His na-masi would often ask her favourite nephew Auro to accompany her to the Ganges for a bath. He went to his father-in-law's residence also to meet Mrinalini Devi. How did he manage ? Even for a normal person it is a tremendous task. But Sri Aurobindo in his condition? It simply takes my breath away. When things reached a crucial stage, God came ...
... has passed, I can bow with submission to His divine purpose. 18 Strange enough, surpassing strange, that first Mrinalini in Bengal, and a month later Mirra in Japan, one after the other they should both suffer the dangerous attentions of the Flu epidemic; but while Mrinalini succumbed, Mirra managed by sheer force of her occult resourcefulness to throw back and immobilise the adversary. As... when quite necessary with a spiritual power; and he was in communication with Mirra, though few of the letters have actually survived. There were other developments too. Sri Aurobindo's wife, Mrinalini, succumbed to the influenza epidemic in December 1918 at the very time she was making preparations to leave her parental home in Bengal for a prolonged stay at Pondicherry. Writing to his father-in-law ...
... many lectures throughout India. c. 1900 -Sri Aurobindo makes first contacts with secret societies in Maharashtra and Bengal. 1901,April 30 - Sri Aurobindo marries Mrinalini Bose. 1902,July 4 -Swami Vivekananda passes away. 1905 -Sri Aurobindo writes Bhawani Mandir, a revolutionary pamphlet. - Partition of Bengal, beginning of the Swadeshi ...
... life. He was given the work of collecting money for the maintenance of the young men of the party. On 17th February 1908 Sri Aurobindo wrote a letter to Mrinalini Devi. 23 Scott's Lane, Calcutta. 17th Feb 1908 ² Dear Mrinalini, I have not written to you for a long time. This is my eternal failing; if you do not pardon me out of your own goodness, what shall I do? What is ingrained ...
... utterances as the mark by which this Yogi could be recognised and all these were found in the letters to my wife." The 'three utterances' were the 'three mad nesses' of which Sri Aurobindo had written to Mrinalini Devi in 1905, on 30 August. The new zamindar of Kodiyalam was but a babe of two or three when Nagai Swami attained samadhi. But he was brought up in that lore. Nor did he forget to pass on the ...
... Maharashtra and Bengal. 1901 - Rabindranath Tagore founds his school at Santiniketan. January 21 - Death of Queen Victoria; accession of King Edward VII April 30 - Sri Aurobindo marries Mrinalini Bose. September 9 — US President William McKinley is assassinated; he is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. 1902 — The Trans-Siberian railroad is completed. - Powerful eruption of Mount ...
... at Baruipur, the birthplace of some of his finest work. It was the Durgesh Nandini , a name ever memorable as the first-born child of the New Prose. At Baruipur he wrote also Kopal Kundala and Mrinalini and worked at the famous Poison-Tree . At Barhampur, his next station, he began editing the Bangadarshan , a magazine which made a profound impression and gave birth to that increasing periodical ...
... drawing to a close, the sad news of Mrinalini's death at Calcutta reached Sri Aurobindo. She had fallen a victim to the virulent influenza epidemic which ravaged the world after the war and died suddenly on December 17, 1918., We heard later that a framed photograph of Mrinalini in Sri Aurobindo's room fell down during a spell of rain and storm at this time. Mrinalini had received permission from Sri... it, still is near though not visible to our physical vision. 'It is needless to say much about the matters of which you write in your letter. I approve of everything that you propose. Whatever Mrinalini would have desired, should be done, and I have no doubt that this is what she would have approved of. I consent to the chudis Ibangles] being kept by her mother; but I should be glad if you would ...
... After April 1901 he drew his salary from the Sar Subha's office. In April 1901 Sri Aurobindo was married to Mrinalini Bose, daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose. Her age was fourteen years (birthday 6 March 1888). Sri Aurobindo had had many prospective offers from which he selected Mrinalini. Principal Girish Chandra Bose, a friend of Bhupal Chandra Bose, arranged the match. The marriage took place... marriage. It was performed according to Hindu rites. The bride was given away by Girish Chandra Bose. Sri Aurobindo was twenty-nine. Sri Aurobindo went to Deoghar after his marriage. From there Mrinalini, Sarojini and himself went to Naini Tal. While there Sri Aurobindo wrote a postcard to Bhuvan Chakravarty: Dear Bhuvan Babu, I have been here at Naini Tal with my wife and sister since... pushed on as rapidly as possible or as the support and sympathy of the public allows. With the blessing of the Mother this will not fail us. ¹ On 30 August 1905 Sri Aurobindo wrote a letter to Mrinalini Devi. The letter is one of those which were found and taken away by the police during the search of the Grey Street house in connection with the Alipore bomb trial and afterwards produced in court ...
... house for more than a year. The others worked at Manicktala Garden making bombs. And they came to meet Sri Aurobindo only occasionally. But my father stayed with Him. Barin-da, Sarojini Devi, and Mrinalini Devi were living there and the five of them shared the little that Sri Aurobindo earned. During this time Sri Aurobindo was translating the Mahabharata into English verse. While typing it out, he ...
... the other. Are not these the signs and do they not tell us that the great Avatar of all arrives to establish the first Satya Yuga of the Kali?" Page 117 Sri Aurobindo and Mrinalini at Nainital ...
... Sri Aurobindo, his "first positive spiritual experience and it made possible all the rest of the sadhana." That his sadhana was progressing at a pace can be deduced from his letters to his wife, Mrinalini Devi. - The experience of the Cosmic Consciousness, or the Vasudeva experience in the Alipore jail. Now, any one of these experiences would have been fulfilment enough for any individual ...
... a pencil in hand and a paper in front of him. Sri Aurobindo was doing automatic 'speech.' It was Bejoy's room. Bejoy was there, as were Nolini, Saurin, Hem Sen, Biren and Moni. 2 Saurin Bose was Mrinalini Devi's cousin; Biren was related to Sri Aurobindo. The day had been quite normal for Sri Aurobindo. After his morning work he had taken as usual his midday meal, then worked on his articles for ...
... Bengali litterateur. 1899 Passing away of his maternal grandfather Rajnarayan Basu in 1mhose memory Sri Aurobindo wrote a poern. 1901 April: Married Srimati Mrinalini, daughter of Sri Bhupalchandra Basu, in Calcutta, according to strict Hindu rites. Had a spiritual experience in which he saw a Being of Light appearing from out of him and saving... College.Barindra went to Kaimur Hill near Rhotasgarh to select a site for Bhavani Mandir. A severe hill fever turned him back. August 30 : Sri Aurobindo's famous letter to Srimati Mrinalini, disclosing his inner life and his i~tended work for India's freedom.October 16 : Partition of Bengal. Sri Aurobindo's direction to workers to utilise the situation as a fillip to revolutionary work ...
... writer on astrology. These notes did not form a book and no book of Sri Aurobindo's on this subject appeared from the A. P. [ Arya Publishing ] House. It is not a fact that Sri Aurobindo's wife Mrinalini Devi was residing at Sj. K. K. Mitra's house in College Square; Sri Aurobindo himself lived there constantly between the Alipore trial and his departure to French India. But she lived always with ...
... kept 'self-silent'...." In both speeches he explained the position of Nationalists. We rather doubt he had time to go to Deoghar before leaving for Surat on the 21 st . According to Purani, Mrinalini Devi was then living in N°29/3 Chhaku Khansama Lane, Calcutta. So in all likelihood Sri Aurobindo at least saw his wife and could bid her good-bye. Every day counted; there were pulls from every ...
... 28th. A letter of introduction addressed to Srinivasachari was given to him. He walked to the Howrah station and took his seat in the second class. He was dressed as an Anglo-Indian. Saurin Bose, Mrinalini Devi's cousin and Sukumar Mitra, Krishna Kumar's son, were on the platform to see him off. They gave him his second class ticket and Rs. 30 in cash. He reached Pondicherry on the 31st. Some people ...
... Indian Mirror Street that most of my brothers and sisters (including me!) were born. 2.It was the prevailing custom to marry very young. Rabindranath Tagore was twenty-two years old and his wife Mrinalini was eleven when they married ; Debendranath was twelve to fourteen while his wife was six years old; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's age was eleven to his bride's five. And, it was around the age of ...
... question of his family getting Sri Aurobindo paired off with Mrinalini. In 1900 he himself chose to wed and got many offers and personally selected the daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose of Calcutta. A photograph of him and his fourteen-year old wife shows quite a poetic and romantic young man in full English dress sitting close to Mrinalini; there seems no aversion to touching her. It is also on record ...
... Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo (3d imp. 1988) Sri Aurobindo's Humour (1974) Sri Aurobindo for All Ages (1990) Memorable Moments with the Mother (2d ed. 1st imp. 1993) Mrinalini Devi (1988) Dream Cadences (1946) The Yoga of Works (1976) The Yoga of Self-Perfection (1983) Commentaries on the Mother's Ministry in 4 vols. (1983, 1983, 1985, 1988) ...
... from persons to the ideal of the motherland." In a letter to his wife, dated 6 December 1907, Sri Aurobindo gave a graphic description about his situation. He wrote from Calcutta. "Dear Mrinalini, "Here I do not have a moment to spare. I am in charge of the writing; I am in charge of the Congress work; I have to settle the Bande Mataram affair. I am finding it difficult to cope with ...
... react if I put the force in a different way." Being scientific in his methods, he studied the laws that govern a force, under what conditions would it work and give tangible results. Saurin, Mrinalini Devi's cousin, shared a room with Moni in Sundar Chetty's house. Once he suffered from acute diarrhoea. Sri Aurobindo used both his mind and heart into his will for its 'lessening.' On 9 February ...
... character." (D.K.Roy & Indira Devi, Pilgrims of the Stars) 17. Sri Aurobindo's own experience in Alipore jail. 18. Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1897 -1990), a poet and cinema actor, brother of Mrinalini Chattopadhyay and Sarojini Naidu. Husband of Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay. 19. aksaravrtta: system of versification in which the number of letters and not the sounds is taken into account. ... experience which she narrated in a booklet: Heart of a Gopi. She was a powerful singer and used to Page 400 sing Meera bhajans in love of Krishna. She passed away in 1976. 113 . Mrinalini Chattopadhyay (1883 - 1968), Harm's sister. Tripos in Philosophy from Cambridge University. An educationist. She first came to see Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry in 1919, then in May-June 1920 when ...
... Aurobindo was just then becoming eager to get married, so what's this about not enjoying much of worldly life ?" About one year after his marriage, Sri Aurobindo wrote (2 July 1902) to his wife Mrinalini Devi confirming his faith in 1. See this horoscope on the following page. Page 99 astrology. "Forgot to write one word in the letter. You said you have got a horoscope ...
... us once: 'You just become an instrument, you have no responsibility of your own. It is a state of great ease and peace.' Shortly after his return, Sri Aurobindo wrote another letter to his wife Mrinalini who was not then in Calcutta. This, perhaps his last letter to her, is a moving document in which he begins by expressing his regret for not having written to her for a long time. 'This is my eternal... that, on the strength of your ardent desire, He may in his Grace reveal the path to you also.' Note how totally he has now surrendered to the Divine Will but note, also, how concerned he is that Mrinalini should understand and follow him — Sri Aurobindo was never indifferent to her thoughts and feelings. Sri Aurobindo's preoccupation with spiritual realities and the new tone his words had acquired ...
... difficult for Aurobindo to influence the prince to his own advantage. However, such possibilities did not interest Aurobindo in the least, not even after his marriage in 1901 to the fourteen-year-old Mrinalini Bose. After five years of marriage, he wrote to his father-in-law: ‘I am afraid I shall never be good for much in the way of domestic virtues. I have tried, very ineffectively, to do some part of ...
... was always there to protect us. In the midst of endless abuses and suffering a heavenly cheerfulness wrapped us in its warm embrace, shielding us, comforting us. Mrinalini Devi In those memorable days of 1907, I have seen Mrinalini Devi take out suits used by Sri Aurobindo during his stay in England and put them on us with her own hands; in this way she would dress us up, when we had occasion to ...
... hadn't received 1. Debabrata Bose was committed for trial in the Alipore Bomb Case, but was acquitted. He later became Swami Prajnananda. His sister, Sudhira Bose, was a bosom friend of Mrinalini Devi, Sri Aurobindo's wife. Page 105 some benefit from him and none had returned from his door empty-handed. He was said to have been a great friend of the poor. Previous to Khulna ...
... Wellington Square house. The Chief had not as yet returned from his college. Bhupal Babu said to us, "Charu, Subodh, I have come to ask Aurobindo to come and dine with me this evening. My daughter, Mrinalini, has come to Calcutta to meet him, if possible. So I would like Aurobindo to stay the night in our house and return to you tomorrow morning. Do send him along." We were all tremendously excited over... "I explained things to her and she allowed me to come away." I suppose these explanations were, later on, embodied in the famous letters. There are people who often ask, what happened to Mrinalini, spiritually. I shall quote but one sentence from Sri Aurobindo's letter to me dated 5-12-1944: "I did not take my wife for initiation to Sri Saradeshwari Devi; I was given to understand that ...
... official duties. By now his financial position had become so secure that he advertised in Calcutta newspapers for a bride, and in April 1901 he married Mrinalini, eldest daughter of B.C. Bose, a State Agricultural Officer who had studied in England. Mrinalini, born on 6 March 1887, was fourteen years old. ‘She was beautiful, educated, and belonged to an aristocratic family.’ Both bridegroom and bride... of his sister Sarojini, after having spent some time in Nainital, the beautiful hill station where the Gaekwad was holidaying. ‘Despite the differences in their ages and interests, Aurobindo and Mrinalini had an affectionate relationship. But his absorption in literary and political work, and later in spiritual practice, gave him little opportunity to enjoy a conventional marriage.’ 26 Baroda in... had no trouble arresting Barin’s boys at the Maniktola Garden in a pre-dawn raid, finding there a good deal of weapons and evidence. Aurobindo, who had moved only four days earlier with his wife Mrinalini and sister Sarojini to the office of the Bengali weekly Navashakti in Grey Street, was awakened from his sleep and arrested the same morning. In all more than thirty suspected persons were arrested ...
... being near a desert, both summer and winter are severe there; but even in the cold of January, I never saw Aurobindo use a quilt Page 90 Manmohan with his two daughters: Mrinalini (standing) and Lotika (seated) — a cheap, ordinary rug did duty for it. A plain blue woolen wrapper was his winter wear. As long as I lived with him, he appeared to me as nothing but a ...
... palatial house at 12 Wellington Square. There all his requirements were well looked after, but not wishing to inconvenience his host Sri Aurobindo moved to a house irt Chukku Khansama Lane, where Mrinalini, Sarojini, Barin and Abinash came to stay with him. Later when they shifted to 23, Scott's Lane, Barin went over to stay at the Murari Pukur Gardens. At first Sri Aurobindo was absorbed in work... regularly but he had no time for it now and this, according to Sri Aurobindo himself, brought on a serious illness. He was removed to his father-in-law's house where he was nursed with great devotion by Mrinalini. Later he went to Deoghar to recuperate but returned to Calcutta in time to attend the Congress session which began on December 26. From this time onwards he assumed control not only of the policy ...
... Meditations on Savitri 701ff, 712, 818 About Savitri 811ff Mother Teresa see Teresa, Mother Mother's School, New Delhi 652, 772, 797 Mountbatten, Lord Louis 450-1, 457 Mrinalini Ghose 153, 199 Mrinalini Chattopadhyaya 209 Mrityunjoy Mukherjee 270-1, 289, 349, 364, 379, 691 Muhammad (Mahomet), Prophet 180, 317, 482, 485 Mukherjee, Dr Shyamaprasad 533 Munshi, K.M. 426, 490, 536-7 ... explorations in the world-stair 391ff Arya 53, l00ff, 107ff, 127-8, 131 intellectual side of his work 101 and the War 109, 119-21, 128, 141-2 British moves against him 132 passing of Mrinalini Ghose 199 refuses presidentship of 1920 Congress Session 200 healing the cat Kiki 219 Evening Talks with disciples 220-1, 242 birthday talks 223-6, 232 what might cause his death 226 withdraws ...
... Cultural Writings "Shama'a" I was unable to greet duly the first appearance of this new magazine of art, literature and philosophy edited by Miss Mrinalini Chattopadhyay; I take the opportunity of the second number to repair the omission I had then unwillingly to make. The appearance of this quarterly is one of the signs as yet too few, but still carrying ...
... convinced that my place and my work are near him, in India." ¹ There were a number of notable visitors during 1920 and thereabouts. S. Duraiswami lyer, J. Nambiar and Mrinalini Chattopadhyaya came in 1919 or 1920. Mrinalini introduced the Mother to the sari. From that time the Mother began to wear ¹ The Mother, "How I Became Conscious of My Mission", Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International... Pondicherry and retired from politics, he had one clue for identifying him as the "Yogi from the North" – Uttar Yogi – about whom Nagai Japata had spoken. Moreover, one of the letters of Sri Aurobindo to Mrinalini Devi that were produced in the Alipore court, contained a statement of "three madnesses" that were a part of Sri Aurobindo's personality. This was understood to be the declaration of the "three things"... on Rue Suffren, in the southern part of the town. This house belonged to one Sunder Chetty. He remained here until April 1911. In late September, just before the removal, Saurin Bose, a cousin of Mrinalini Devi, came to Pondicherry. In November Nolini Kanta Gupta came. There were now four young men in all: Moni, Bijoy, Saurin and Nolini. On 7 November 1910 Sri Aurobindo wrote to The Hindu , a Madras ...
... the members of Mullick's family. Accordingly, Sri Aurobindo's resourceful factotum, Abinash Bhattacharya, found a separate place, first at Chhaku Khansama Lane, then 23 Scott's Lane, where Mrinalini and Sarojini (and for a time Barin) could also join them. What with the associate editorship of the newly started Bande Mataram and the Principalship of the Bengal National College - not to ... pretty close contact with the Revolutionary groups. It was a fivefold responsibility, an Atlas' load, that he was carrying during those disturbed and disturbing days. In a letter to his wife, Mrinalini, dated 17 February, Sri Aurobindo reveals by implication both the condition of his mind and the nature of his activities; although little is actually said, much is suggested by the disarming words:... words. I hope the Lord will show you the light of His infinite Grace which He has shown me, but it all depends upon His will.... The letter was written from the Scots Lane residence, and Mrinalini was at the time living at Deoghar with Sarojini. But what the letter really reveals is that Sri Aurobindo, already in early 1908, was a descended God, or at east a God-driven human instrument ...
... of dal (pulses), and Bejoy being the expert had the vegetables and the curry. What fell to the lot of Saurin I do not now remember—Saurin was a brother-in-law of Sri Aurobindo, a cousin of Mrinalini's. Perhaps he was not in our Home Affairs at all; his was the Foreign Ministry, that is, he had to deal with outsiders. We had our first real cook only after the Mother's arrival, by which time our ...
... with planchette, 192; Bhavani Mandir, 194-200, 209, 282, 304; breakdown of political period, 201; reaction to Bengal partition, 207-8; Hour of God, 208-9; on the boycott of 16 Oct., 210; letters to Mrinalini, 213-15,235,265; the "three frenzies", 213ff; on "Mother India", 214; his mahavrata, 214; at Benaras Congress, 216; at Barisal Conference, 217; Prof. at National College, 218; in charge of Bande Mataram... 767; 90th birthday, 770; her Dream, 773; inauguration "of Auroville, 775; on Auroville, 777; on what Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history, 781 Mother of Dreams, The, 330 Mrinalini (Sri Aurobindo's wife), 65ff, 192, 21 1ff, 219, 235, 265, 266, 291, 375; letter from Sri Aurobindo on his mahāvrata, 212ff; wife as husband's sakti, 13 Mugali, R. S., 460 Muhling ...
... August 1902 . Jogindranath Bose, the recipient ¯ ¯ of this letter, was Sri Aurobindo's eldest maternal uncle ( bada mama ). To His Wife. 20 August 1902 . Sri Aurobindo was married to Mrinalini Bose (1887 - 1918) in 1901. He generally corresponded with her in Bengali. Several letters from him to her in that language are reproduced in Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit , volume 9 of THE COMPLETE... Aurobindo wrote this letter to his father-in-law Bhupal Chandra Bose (1861 - 1937) towards the beginning of his active political career. [2] 19 February 1919. Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter after Mrinalini's death from influenza in December 1918. Letters Written as a Probationer in the Indian Civil Service, 1892 . Sri Aurobindo passed the open examination for the Indian Civil Service (I.C.S... this subsection. It was written by Sri Aurobindo to a friend or acquaintance about whom nothing is known. Sri Aurobindo went to Naini Tal, a resort in what is now Uttaranchal, after his marriage to Mrinalini Bose in April 1901. The Banerji mentioned in the last paragraph was probably Jatindranath Banerji (c. 1877 - 1930), a young Bengali who had come to Baroda to obtain military training. In 1902 Sri ...
... charge of dal (pulses), and Bejoy being the expert had the vegetables and the curry. What fell to the lot of Saurin I do not now remember – Saurin was a brother-in-law of Sri Aurobindo, a cousin of Mrinalini's. Perhaps he was not in our Home Affairs at all; his was the Foreign Ministry, that is, he had to deal with outsiders. We had our first real cook only after the Mother's arrival, by which time our ...
... 62·63, 64 Mo slams , see under Muslims Mother , 113 , 187, 193 , 23 8,241 , 255 the (Great) Moth e r , 21 , 41 see al so India, as th e Mother motherland. see under India, as th e Mother Mrinalini Devi , 16 Muller , F. Ma x, 87 , 95, 96,97, 116 , 117(fn) Mullick, Subodh, 27 Munje, B. S ., 155 music, 65 , 66 Muslim, culture, 168 , 179 , 222 League, 31(fn), 195(fn), 224, 241(fn) religion ...
... a Young Men's Union (Tarun Sangha) under his inspiration. In 1901, Sri Aurobindo went to Bengal and married Srimati Mrinalini Bose, daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose. Principal Girish Chandra Bose of the Bangabasi College, Calcutta, had acted as the go-between. Mrinalini Devi was fourteen years old at the time, and Sri Aurobindo twenty- nine. The marriage was celebrated according to Hindu rites... has been rain at Baroda, but as he will stop at Agra, 30 30. A town in the United Provinces, famous for the Tajmahal. Page 34 Sri Aurobindo with his wife Mrinalini Devi at Nainital, 1901 Mathura 31 and Mhow, 32 he will not reach Baroda before the beginning of July. I shall probably be going separately and may also reach on the first of July... of this when we come to study his spiritual life. We offer below an English translation of some of the most important passages from Sri Aurobindo's letters to his wife: My dearest Mrinalini, I have received your letter of the 24th August. I am distressed to learn that your parents have again been stricken with the same kind of bereavement; but you have not mentioned which of their ...
... speculations [about Mirra’s departure]. But the one speculation that I have heard about it is that he [Sri Aurobindo] was not sure at that point of time if she was to be his Shakti. Whether he expected Mrinalini to be his Shakti, we do not know, though there is a hint in his famous letters to her and also in later developments.’ If Sri Aurobindo was who he was supposed to be, and if Mirra was who she was... Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play,’ and that the Mother would say: ‘Sri Aurobindo and I, we are always one and the same consciousness, one and the same person.’ Moreover, Mrinalini’s own father would testify about her: ‘She evinced no exceptional abilities or tendencies [in her youth], indeed at no stage in her life,’ which hardly qualifies her for being instrumental in the ...
... merely a material universe. It is verily Prakriti, the Nature-Soul, the Mother herself! The passage in Savitri is not unlike the cry wrung from the agonised soul of Sri Aurobindo when he wrote to Mrinalini on his three "frenzies": ... whereas others regard the country as an inert piece of matter and know it as the plains, the fields, the forests, the mountains and the rivers, I know my country... strength without wisdom cannot build eternal things. It can only give momentary succour. Last to meet Savitri is the Mother of Joy and Peace. The description of the Madonna of Light reminds one of Mrinalini Devi: 50 Ibid., p. 508. 51 Translated by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. 52 Savitri, p. 509. Page 208 Here, living centre of that vision of peace, A Woman sat ...
... children who disregarding all logic of facts responded to her call and ran to her rescue taking, as we say, their life in their hands. The feeling has been vividly preserved in the now famous letter to Mrinalini Devi by Sri Aurobindo fortunately brought to light unintentionally by the Police in the Vande Mataram trial. He wrote : " whereas others regard the country as an inert object, and know it as consisting ...
... chosen, and had been chosen. Miss Hodgson was with her as before, and she was accepted too, and acquired from Sri Aurobindo the spiritual name of' 'Datta' 22 (meaning 'Entirely Self-given' 23 ). When Mrinalini Chattopadhyaya (sister of the well-known Sarojini Naidu) visited Pondicherry in mid-1920 to see Sri Aurobindo, she also initiated Mirra into wearing the sari; and even as the kimono in Japan had fitted ...
... moved to a rented house on rue Suffren in the southern part of the town. It was a smaller house and belonged to one Sunder Chetty. Just before he changed residence, late in September, Saurin Bose (Mrinalini's cousin) came over from Calcutta to join Sri Aurobindo and in November Nolini Kanta Gupta arrived. There were now four young men around Sri Aurobindo: Bijoy, Suresh, Saurin and Nolini. The accommodation ...
... Sri Aurobindo to prepare for his arrival and housing by the freedom fighters in Pondicherry; Saurin Bose, who had joined the small group in October 1914 and who was a cousin of Sri Aurobindo’s wife Mrinalini; and Nolini Kanta Gupta, who had arrived in November of the same year and who also had been a defendant in the Alipore case. The financial situation of the group was usually so desperate that Sri ...
... May 1916. Shortly before leaving for Japan, Mirra had arranged for some funds to be placed at the disposal of Saurin Bose for an 'Aryan Stores' to be started in Pondicherry. Saurin, a cousin of Mrinalini, Sri Aurobindo's wife, was at the time living with him along with Nolini and others. The object of the Aryan Stores was to give Saurin and his friends a taste for honest and efficient business, and ...
... Congress, "for the present we must put all such thoughts from us". 38 On 6 December 1907, just before leaving for the Midnapore Conference, Sri Aurobindo wrote another letter to his wife, Mrinalini, who was apparently still staying at Deoghar. A letter dashed off in haste, it nevertheless provides us with a slender clue to the workings of his mind during this period. After answering one or... revolutionary spirit. Yet most women thought - or were made to think - that their place was in the home where sometimes they ate their hearts out worrying about their husbands, brothers or sons. Thus Mrinalini's was a typical, not an exceptional, case. If she felt puzzled, if she instinctively held back, if she occasionally even groused, it was understandable. And that Sri Aurobindo should have ardently ...
... See Georges Van Vrekhem, Beyond Man, chapter sixteen, ‘The Lord of the Nations.’ × Mrinalini Devi, Sri Aurobindo’s wife, was one of the victims. She died on 17 December 1918. ...
... Baroda where he arrived one morning in 1901 "with a dirty canvas bag and very dirty clothes". After a bath, he was presentable enough, and made a fourth in the family, with Sri Aurobindo, his wife Mrinalini, and his sister Sarojini already there. 23 Barin, however, had even earlier caught the revolutionary "virus", and he reached Baroda at the time when Sri Aurobindo was fast sending out his ...
... Pondicherry in advance and make some arrangements for his stay - had left Calcutta by train on 28 March. He had disguised himself as an Anglo-Indian, and was seen off by Sukumar Mitra and Saurin Bose (Mrinalini's cousin). He carried with him a letter of introduction to Mandayam Srinivasachariar, a sterling Nationalist, who was bringing out India, Vijaya, Karmayogi and Bala Bharata with the help of his ...
... got used to my being more of an absentee-husband than anything else!" "Did Mrinalini Devi know that you were a Yogi?" "I began my Yoga in 1904, three years after my marriage. In 1908 I received important help from Lele and discovered the foundations of my Sadhana. At the right time I also made it clear to Mrinalini that I had three overriding madnesses or manias that drove me. Firstly, I believed... "You are referring to 'Letters to Mrinalini', are you not?" "Yes, I am, and if you have read those letters, then all these questions are quite unnecessary. You also find several references to my domestic life in them." "They are very beautiful indeed, very touching. One of our teachers has told us that when she was a little girl she lived next door to Mrinalini. She remembers her lighting incense... refuge. Moreover the 'three sayings' were my 'three madnesses' that I had mentioned in a letter to Mrinalini." Page 192 "Yes, yes, you've spoken to us about that letter!" said two or three children. "How did he know about this letter?" enquired Rahul. "You see, some of my letters to Mrinalini had been produced in the Alipore court, and this was one of them. "lyengar gave me promise ...
... terminated, Sri Aurobindo was now without an external guide for his Yoga, and he was equally without complete rapport with either Barin who was going his own way at the Manicktolla Gardens or Mrinalini who could not quite reconcile herself to the steep and narrow path of austerity and sustained sacrifice that her husband had chosen for himself. Sri Aurobindo was thus already lone in his nude self ...
... opposite of the smooth- faced Vaishnava who came. So that was the vision of a man I had never seen but as he was to be in future a prophetic vision." 10 Saurin, Sri Aurobindo's brother-in-law (Mrinalini Devi's cousin) came from Bengal by the end of September and stayed with Sri Aurobindo. In October - probably towards the end - Sri Aurobindo moved from Shankar Chetty's house to Rue Suffren in... with Sri Aurobindo in the verandah of 41, Rue Francois Martin." Arunchandra Dutt, a disciple of Motilal Roy, came from Chandernagore and stayed at Sri Aurobindo's house for a few months. Mrinalini Chattopadhyaya and Kamala Devi Chattopadhyaya also came and met Sri Aurobindo in this year. In September, 1922, as already stated, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother moved with their disciples to ...
... because of his oceanic largeness which could receive the waters of all the rivers of the _____________________ 'Translated from one of his three famous letters written in Bengali, to his wife Mrinalini Devil. These were confiscated along with his other belongings by the C.I.D. Police of Calcutta in 1908 when he was arrested and produced in the Alipore court as evidence against him. †Quoted ...
... this, then the attraction will fail and they will separate. I believe they have met in former lives and past connections explain the swiftness of their drawing together. M ᴸᴸᵉ Chattopadhyay—(Mrinalini) This is a soul of a very high order though not of the highest. A great psychic being is there behind, whose stamp has determined the whole turn of the nature. This being has a strong spiritual ...
... Death . The handwritten manuscript of this poem is dated" June. July 1899". The poem first appeared in print in the review Shama'a in January 1921, and was reprinted the same year by Mrinalini Chattopadhyay, Aghore Mandir, Madras. A Note on Love and Death Circa 1921. This is the longest of three handwritten drafts of a note Sri Aurobindo thought of adding to Love ...
... and experience. 13 He saw that in it alone grow the values that acquire merit in every respect, worldly and otherwise. To it he now committed himself completely. In a letter written to his wife Mrinalini, in 1905, he states the following: I have three madnesses. The first is this. I firmly believe that the accomplishment, talent, education and means that God has given me, are all His. Whatever ...
... (1983), p. 576 12. From the English translation of the letter published in Sri Aurobindo Mandir Page 794 Annual (1967) pp. 117-21. "Letters to Mrinalini" are also included in Purani's Life (2nd Edition), p. 97, and Keshavmurti's Sri Aurobindo — The Hope of Man, pp. 88 ff. Cf. also Purani, The Life (1978), p. 79ff. ...
... * The population of India, which at the time included present-day Pakistan and Bangladesh. Page 15 (From a letter Sri Aurobindo wrote in Bengali to his wife, Mrinalini Devi, in which he tried to explain to her the call he felt to work for his country's freedom; this letter was seized by the police a few years later and produced as evidence in the Alipore Bomb Case ...
... suggestions and even the Plain statement of the closing couplet, actually described the ________________________________ 1- Harindranath Chattopadhyay, a poet and cinema actor, brother of Mrinalini Chattopadhyay and Sarojini Naidu. Husband of Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay. Page 57 poem as the poet's memory of a girl running past him on the seashore!! I refuse to fall into your ...
... pass to his experimental sleep. In 1901, at the age of twenty-nine, he married Mrinalini Devi and tried to share his spiritual life with her. I am experiencing all the signs and symptoms , he wrote to her in a letter found in the archives of the British police. I should like to take you with me along this path. But Mrinalini did not understand him, and Sri Aurobindo would remain alone. We could search... attracted one's attention, just as in life itself. Perhaps he had found more miracles in the ordinary than in the extraordinary: With me all is different, all is uncommon , he wrote in a letter to Mrinalini. All is deep and strange to the eyes that see. 104 And perhaps that is what he wants us to discover through his example, his work, his yoga – all those unknown riches beneath the ordinary crust ...
... in a fix. Harm came twice to me. The first time at '12.30 when I was working at my novel. He didn't knock finding my door locked. Then he came at 2.30. He said he had to run a house and this month Mrinalini 113 would be sending him less than she did last month so he wants to eke out his income by contributing some poems to the Statesman whose editor Mr. Moore I know and who had once given him some Rs ...
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