... misunderstanding, and my closing anecdote starts from the event concerned in it. Champaklal reports on page 85 of his first book that in the presence of Amrita and himself the Mother told Satyakarma that when in 1920 she had fasted for ten days she had not taken anything, "not even a drop of water." I expressed to Champaklal my doubt about this. I said a fast of such a kind was not possible... possible. He countered by asking how I could consider anything to be impossible for the Mother. I still remain unconvinced, especially as Champaklal did not obtain a confirmation from either Satyakarma or Amrita. I hold that she must have said some- what dramatically; "nothing but a drop of water at times." Fasting/ as any dictionary will enlighten us, consists in not taking food. Water is always ...
... 1949-09-10 The Mother was speaking to Satyakarma, 1 while Amrita and I were present. She said that once she did not take anything—not even drop of water—for ten full days. Since then she suffered from acidity and it was still continuing. She looked at Amrita and asked him if he remembered in what year it was. “1920,” replied Amrita. Mother told Satyakarma: “The doctor says you must change your ...
... the first 2-3 years) in the main Ashram Building, in the room next to the stairs near the cashier’s office (Mansukh lives there now). It may interest people to know that the original cashier was Satyakarma (Pavan and Varun Reddy’s great grandfather). He lived there (in the Cashier’s Office) contendedly all his Ashram life, in one corner of that office, just an area of 20 sq. ft. or so, curtained off ...
... here with those that die, but that he should be buried. Great Rishis and other great souls are, by tradition buried and not cremated. So, he was buried at our Cazanove Cemetery, where is also buried Satyakarma, Pavitra, Nolini and Dyuman. Besides being a very good worker, he was a very learned person. He was quite a scholar in Sanskrit and in Tamil and he agreed to try and teach both these languages to ...
... Sanskrit Recitation Do you remember the period when the Sanskrit recitations of Panditji of Rameshwaram were played in the Playground during meditations? One of those days Mother said to me: “Satyakarma says that you recite the Chandi shlokas nicely. I would like to hear it. If it is nice, we will record it and play it at the meditation.” I never expected that. I started reciting as I was used ...
... representative gestures. 89. Chandulal: the Ashram engineer. 90. Dayakar: a seven-year-old Telugu boy, from Nellore, in Andhra Pradesh. His mother is Krishnamma and his father Rama Reddy, or Satyakarma, became theAshram's treasurer. 91. Manodhar: a Bengali sadhak, the Ashram's barber. Sita: ' Harm's companion. 92. Radhananda or Shuddhananda Bharati was born in 1893 in Tamil ...
... going to leave a few months later, in January 1969, followed by Pavitra in May 1969; then Mother's personal attendant, Vasudha, would fall gravely ill in August 1970, and finally Mother's cashier, Satyakarma, would leave in December 1970. Thus the few reliable disciples around Mother were going away—why this migration?... The atmosphere was going to change greatly: "I am surrounded by Falsehood.... They ...
... confines itself to itself & does not reach out beyond itself to grasp at error or grope within itself to stumble over ignorance. It is, too, perfectly effective whether for knowledge, speech or action, satyakarma, satyapratijna, satyavadi. The man who rising beyond the state of the manu, manishi or thinker which men are now, becomes the kavi or direct seer, containing what he sees,—he who draws the manomaya ...
... ordeal that lasted more than a month and a half. That will be the last turning point after those of 1962 and 1968. Satprem will see her again only on January 16. On December 31, her faithful cashier Satyakarma left his body, the last in the unhappy series that deprived Mother of her most reliable helpers. In the course of this ordeal, Mother was affected successively in the chest, the abdomen, then the ...
... Divine expect for perfection ?) 5) anti-laughter, 6) anti-vivacity, 7) and last but not least, pro-meditation. Returning from Darshan From left to right: Saraswatiben, Dayakar, Satyakarma (or Rama Reddy, Dayakar's father), (?) , Sailen, Puram, Dilip, Tajdar Page 232 What kind of meditation—fighting devils in Kalighat? This is all I know about his meditation. Of course ...
... these conditions. ____________________ 1. A young child of five-six from Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, his parents were land holders; mother Krishnamma, father Rama Reddy, renamed Satyakarma, became the treasurer of the Ashram. Page 333 May 1933 ? The crystallising of the concentration is a good sign. As a matter of fact all these things depend upon perseverance ...
... [19] Sri Aurobindo Ashram — The Story of the Main Building , Ed. Raman Reddy, 2008, p.25. [20] Later Sri Aurobindo gave him the name Satyakarma. In 1955, when Mother created the Ashram Trust Board, she made him one of the Trustees in charge of the Ashram finances. [21] Born on 11 May 1884, she passed away ...
... who wants to come here and is Ravindra's friend, wrote to Gandhi an account of the German oppression against the non-violence. She has given a report in a Telegu paper which accidentally came into Satyakarma's hands. He was very upset and spoke to the Mother. The Mother has asked Krishnayya to translate it. The Polish lady cites a few horrible instances of atrocity on men and women, young and old. ...
... was the person in charge of the Ashram's finances. Bharatidi's departure (on November 7, 1968) appears to have acted as a trigger, for it was followed by Amrita's, then Pavitra's (on May 16), then Satyakarma's (Mother's cashier).... This calls to mind Satprem's vision of Sri Aurobindo, several of whose toes had been cut off, that is to say, several people. See Agenda VIII of July 5, 1967 . ...
... (Pranab) every day. The Mother came out on the terrace at about ten o’clock (this was known as the Terrace Darshan). We would be waiting from much earlier at the Ashram in the open courtyard near Satyakarma’s room. We carried the book, Prayers and Meditations , with us. Then Chitra and I would sit and read this book together. It was from then that this desire rose strongly in us to read this book with ...
... exercises (during that period we just had one light in the Playground). Sometimes I was alone, sometimes there were some other people as well. That day everyone had left except Dayakar. Dayakar was Satyakarma's son and although he studied outside the Ashram he did his exercises with me. So we were both doing exercises. It was already quite dark. Suddenly I noticed quite close by, towards the north-east ...
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