Suresh Chandra Chakravarty Suresh Chakravarty Moni Suresh Chandra Chakravarti : (c.1885
... started flocking to the then capital town of French India in order to live near Sri Aurobindo and shape their lives under the spiritual guidance of the Seer. The first to arrive was Suresh Chandra Chakravarty (Moni) who reached Pondicherry on 31 March 1910 and made arrangements for Sri Aurobindo's stay there. A few days later Sri Aurobindo arrived at Pondicherry, accompanied by Bejoy Nag: the date... already left for Bengal; instead, four new persons figure in the group photo. The list of the inmates of Sri Aurobindo's household as given by this particular photograph is as follows: (1) Suresh (Moni), (2) Bejoy, (3) Nolini, (4) Amrita, (5) Rajangam, (6) Purani, (7) Kanai, (8) Kodandaraman, (9) Mrs. Kodandaraman, (10) Champaklal, (11) Punamchand, (12) Champaben, (13) Saiyen, (14) Kshitish, (15)... list of the twenty-four souls who were with Sri Aurobindo on that special occasion of twenty-fourth November charged with a tremendous significance for the earth's destiny. (1) Suresh (Moni), (2) Bejoy, (3) Nolini, (4) Amrita, (5) Datta, (6) Barindra, (7) Rajangam, (8) Purani, (9) Kanai, (10) Punamchand, (11) Champaben, (12) Champaklal, (13) Punjalal, (14) Pavitra, (15) Satyen, (16) Lilavati ...
... incidents here. This Chakra was actually Moni or Suresh Chakravarty. He had preceded Sri Aurobindo to Pondicherry to make arrangements for his stay here. Shankar Chettiar revered Sri Aurobindo. He asked Sri Aurobindo, Bejoy Nag and Suresh Chakravarty to come and stay in his two-storeyed house. It is difficult to imagine that under 20-year olds like Moni and Bejoy could stay in that two-storeyed... Suddenly he had a divine flash! “ Babukey liye ,” Moni exclaimed. He meant the sweets were for Sri Aurobindo. That was it! Here, the name of ‘Babu’ was enough to make Mr. Chettiar at once clear Moni’s path. Moni sprang past him and ran up the stairs like lightning. Listen to Suresh Chakravarty’s concluding words: “In human society it is customary to to use the name of a great man for ... not feel limited by petty traditions. He was quite young. He permitted Suresh Chakravarty and Bejoy Nag to cook fish in his house. They used to cook and cover their fish-preparation to take it home and eat it with full satisfaction. They used to smuggle the fish-preparation in at a time when there was nobody downstairs. One day Moni bought some fish from the market, fried it in Iyer’s house and, wrapping ...
... the French artillery, then lived in Japan and Mongolia among Buddhist monks. × Moni, pet name of Suresh Chandra Chakravarti. Sri Aurobindo sent him to Pondicherry in March 1910 to arrange for their stay here. × ... ” And that is exactly what happened. Now regarding the rooms on the ground floor of this house: the room which is at present the office of the Reception Service (where photographs are sold) was Moni's 7 . He had a humorous and happy disposition and his poems reflect this nature. When he left, that room was given to me. The present Reception Hall was Nolini's room and the present reading room was ...
... Karmayogin office [trying some automatic writing] and we knew about the search that was going to be made with the object of arresting me. There were some people there [Ramchandra Mazumdar, Suresh Chakravarty (Moni), Biren Ghose, Bijoy Nag and Nolini Kanta Gupta]. Ramchandra was there preparing to give fight to the police and many other ideas were flying about when suddenly I heard a voice from above... go to Pondicherry."² At the end of March Motilal Roy sent word to Sukumar Mitra at Calcutta about Sri Aurobindo's intended departure for Pondicherry. Towards the end of the same month Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) received a note from Chandernagore telling him to go to Pondicherry and arrange for a house. A Tamil weekly called India used to be published from Pondicherry by some Nationalists. One... known to the revolutionary group, was connected with it. Subramania Bharati ³ was working with him and Krishnamachari was his partner. The paper supported the Nationalist and revolutionary outlook. Moni started on the 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. ...
... Rajendra Mukherji of Uttarpara. Then he and Nagen took their leave. Nagen bowed and both went down the gangway. The only people who knew about Sri Aurobindo's departure were: Motilal Roy, Suresh Chakravarty or Moni, who was already at Pondicherry, Amar Chatterji, Manmathanath Biswas, Surendra Kumar Chakravarty, Sukumar Mitra, Nagendra Kumar Guha Roy, Bijoy Kumar Nag, who accompanied Sri Aurobindo, ...
... Part IV: Correspondence with Early Disciples Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Suresh Chakravarty Dear Chakravarty, I have been obliged to answer in the negative to your request by wire for contributions to the "Bengali" on the occasion of your taking it over on behalf of the Nationalist Party. I have been for a long time under a self- denying ordinance ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes On an Article by Ramchandra Majumdar In his reply to Suresh Chakravarty's article my old friend Ramchandra Majumdar congratulates himself on the strength of his memory in old age. 1 His memory is indeed so strong that he not only recollects, very inaccurately,... pity to have to trample on this fine garden of flowers but historical and biographical truth has its claim. I shall correct some of the most flagrant errors in this narrative. First of all, Suresh Chakravarty's article about the journey to Chandernagore confined itself to inaccurate statements of the facts and denied the story of a visit to Sri Sarada Devi in the course of that journey. This point... without informing or consulting anybody—even his colleagues and co-workers. Everything was done in fifteen minutes or so and in the utmost secrecy and silence. He followed Ram Majumdar to the Ghat, Suresh Chakravarty and Biren Ghose following at a little distance; a boat was hailed and the three got in and went off immediately. His stay in Chandernagore also was secret and known only to a few like his later ...
... in the practice of yoga and will not take up any political or other work. Because he is not willing to see anybody for the moment, the place of his sadhana has been kept a secret." Suresh Chakravarty (alias Moni) received a very small note from Sri Aurobindo probably in the last week of February, asking him to go to Pondicherry and arrange for Sri Aurobindo's stay there. Page 346 ...
... Bejoy Kumar Nag was one — his name became Vijayakantan in Tamil. In order to escape from the clutches of the British Government he had assumed the pseudonym Bankim Chandra Basik. Likewise, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti was known to the people of Pondicherry by one name alone: “Sakra”. Sourindranath Bose went by his own name. Nagendranath Nag and Biren Roy came later to stay in Sri Aurobindo’s house. ...
... Bejoykanta and made straight for Shankar Chetty’s house in Comoutty Street. The persons who escorted Sri Aurobindo to Shankar Chetty’s house were Srinivasachari, C. Subramania Bharati, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti and Shankar Chetty. Of them only Srinivasachari is still alive (1962). Sri Aurobindo lived incognito for six months in Shankar Chetty’s house. Later on, his stay in Pondicherry came to ...
... was not present to do so. Srini- Page 203 vasachari and Bharati, accompanied by Suresh Chakravarty, made the proper arrangements. Direct credit in the concrete sense goes to them. But inasmuch as Sri Aurobindo's memory of Parthasarathy led him to write the letter given to Suresh Chakravarty to take to Pondicherry where the addressee was supposed to be, Parthasarathy formed a link between ...
... automatic writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes: one of them was the following: "Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later years at Pondicherry there used to be a joke that Sir Edward took such a fright at the prospect of Moni's bombing him that he never came to India! After Sri Aurobindo had come to Pondicherry from C... Page 15 Names of participants in the evening talks : From 1923-1926 1. Barindra Kumar Ghose 2. Nolini Kanta Gupta 3. Bijoy Kumar Nag 4. Suresh Ghakravarty – "Moni" 5. K. Amrita . 6. B. P. Varma −"Satyen" 7. Tirupati 8. K. Rajangam 9. Khitish Ghandra Dutt 10. A. B. Purani 11. "Pavitra" – P. B. 3t. Hilaire 12. Champaklal 13 ...
... accept. A. B. PURANI Names of participants in the evening talks:- From 1923 – 1926 1. Barindra Kumar Ghose 2. Nolini Kanto Gupta 3. Bijoy Kumar Nag 4. Suresh Chakravarty – "Moni" 5. K. Amrita 6. B. P. Varma – “Satyen” 7. Tirupati 8. K. Rajangam 9. Khitish Chandra Dutt 10. A. B. Purani 11. "Pavitra' – P. B. St. Hilaire 12. Champaklal ... writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes : one of them was the following : "Moni (Suresh Chakarvarty) will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later years at Pondicherry there used to be a joke that Sir Edward took such a fright at the prospect of Moni's bombing him that he never came to India! Page 8 After Sri Aurobindo had come ...
... automatic writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes: one of them was the following: "Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later years at Pondicherry there used to be a joke that Sir Edward took such a fright at the prospect of Moni's bombing him that he never came to India! After Sri Aurobindo had come to Pondicherry from ...
... Reminiscences Appendix [Extracts from Suresh Chandra Chakravarti's Reminiscences in Bengali Smriti Katha bearing on Sri Aurobindo's life.] It was about two-thirty in the morning. The date was March 30, 1910. There came a sound of the whistle from the engine. Then the train began to slow down; it became slower and slower and slower, until finally ...
... Pondicherry deserve to be mentioned by name: Bejoy Nag, one of the co-defendants in the Alipore Bomb Case and who had accompanied Sri Aurobindo on the adventurous journey to Pondicherry; Suresh Chakravarty, known as Moni, who had been sent ahead by 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... to instruct those of his companions who were eager to learn. Foremost among them were Nolini and Moni, who had had to stop their college studies because of their revolutionary activities. He taught them French, Greek, Latin and Italian, L’Avare, Medea, Antigone, Vergil and Dante. Both Nolini and Moni would gain fame as writers in Bengali. They had to eat too. ‘We did the cooking ourselves and... and each of us developed a specialty,’ narrates Nolini. ‘I did the rice, perhaps because that was the easiest. Moni took charge of dal (pulses), and Bejoy, being the expert, had the vegetables and the curry.’ Saurin looked after the visitors who came from the four corners of India and were mostly unwelcome, so much so that Sri Aurobindo had to have a letter published in a Madras newspaper confirming ...
... in 41, Rue Francois Martin for some time, Biren had his head shaved completely. Suresh Chakravarty – alias Moni – took a fancy to give himself a similar complete shave. Generally, Moni was known to be very keen on dressing well and keeping up a good apprearance. Biren tried to dissuade him from shaving himself, but Moni was insistent and carried out his resolve. Page 153 This... through the Overmind leading it towards his Ananda. " ¹ The names of those disciples who were present on 24 November 1926: (1) Bijoy Kumar Nag, (2) Nolini Kanta Gupta, (3) K. Amrita, (4) Moni (Suresh Chakravarty), (5) Pavitra (Phillippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire), (6) Barindra Kumar Ghose, (7) Datta (Miss Hodgson), (8) K. Rajangam, (9) Satyen, (10) Purani, (11) Lilavati (Purani's wife), (12) Punamchand... house, but they were not keen on it. At last, on the day of arrival, Moni asked them to arrange for a house in advance. They said they would manage to put Sri Aurobindo up – when he came. All along they suspected that Moni was a spy. But, in case Sri Aurobindo actually did come, they said they would give him a public reception. Moni argued with them and, in the end, prevailed upon them to drop such an ...
... Subramania Bharati, who was to become the famous Tamil nationalist poet, accompanied them. 1 Moni and Bejoy 2 followed behind in push-push with the luggage, and a Tamil guide. To Moni's great surprise the house to which the guide 1 Both Purani and Amrita mention Bharati's presence. Not so 2 Moni. Moni does not quite remember about Bejoy. Page 32 The old pier... know wanted to give Sri Aurobindo a very special reception. Moni dissuaded them from their project with the argument that as Sri Aurobindo was coming here in secrecy, and would be living here secretly, their planned public reception would be a big leak. What Moni said made sense, so, although disappointed, they dropped their plan. Moni, who had come by train, had reached Pondicherry in the first... man directed the newcomer to another part of the town: a house on Muthumariamman Koil Street. It was to the master of the house, Srinivasachari, that Moni handed over Sri Aurobindo's letter of introduction. Srinivasachari was a Tamil Brahmin. Moni saw in front of him a man of thirty odd years, of medium height, fair, large-eyed, with wide forehead, sharp-nosed, clean-shaven, most of the head shaved ...
... became Vijayakantan in Tamil. In order to escape from the clutches Page 20 of the British Government he had assumed the pseudonym Bankim Chandra Basik. Likewise, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti was known to the people of Pondicherry by one name alone: "Sakra". Sourindranath Bose went by his own name. Nagendranath Nag and Biren Roy came later to stay in Sri Aurobindo's house. ... Bejoykanta and made straight for Shankar Chetty's house in Comoutty Street. The persons who escorted Sri Aurobindo to Shankar Chetty's house were Srinivasachari, C. Subramania Bharati, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti and Shankar Chetty. Of them only Srinivasachari is still alive (1962). Sri Aurobindo lived incognito for six months in Shankar Chetty's house. Later on, his stay in Pondicherry came... Cantine on the East. It consisted of three courtyards. Each courtyard had four verandas around it; Sri Aurobindo's room was in the third block. The front block was occupied by Nolini, Sourin, Bejoy; Moni was in the second block. I heard it said that Sri Aurobindo would daily walk round and round the courtyard from about five in the afternoon till the other inmates returned from their playground at about ...
... the full flowering of a being. It was during those three months' virtual incarceration, with practically nothing to do, that the idea came to Moni to woo the Muse of Bengali literature. Moni and Bejoy, specially the former, did some studies. Moni, I happen to know, was well versed in Bengali and English and French. He may have learnt Tamil also. But Sri Aurobindo was not his teacher of Tamil... when they asked him, Babu said it was secluded, and there was no need to change the place for the present. The guests had no cot, no bedding. Moni and Bejoy had straw mats, and a thin mattress was' provided for Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo, Moni and Bejoy lived at N°39 Comoutty Street (now Calvé Soupprayan Chetty Street) for approximately six months. During the first three months none of the... between meals. "Let me now introduce you," murmured Moni, "to some of our eating habits during our stay at the Chettiar house. In the kitchen on the second floor, which I mentioned earlier, there were four or five ordinary wood-burning ovens in a row. Firewood was then commonly used in Pondicherry." Bejoy and Moni began preparing lunch there at around eleven. "Bejoy was the 'Chef de ...
... Sri Aurobindo was given Moni's article to read in reply to Meghnad Saha. Nolini Sen was much hurt by Moni's personal attack against Meghnad. SRI AUROBINDO: I have read Moni's article— (laughing) it is personal all through. One can't but feel the sting there and the force. But Meghnad has also made personal attacks. So neither has any reason to complain. PURANI: No. Moni's criticism can't be without ...
... evening around the middle of February 1910, probably on the 15th, Sri Aurobindo went to the office as usual. Work over, he sat down with a few young associates in an automatic writing seance. Suresh Chakravarty (Moni) was one of the young men who was present on the occasion and I will now quote a passage in translation from his Bengali book of reminiscences which tells us of subsequent events. He writes:... to work out the details of a plan. Sukumar was also advised that Bijoy Nag, a young follower of Sri Aurobindo, would accompany him to Pondicherry. At the same time Sri Aurobindo sent a note to Suresh Chakravarty asking him to be ready to go to Pondicherry in advance. Some of the persons who played a part in the exciting events that followed published their reminiscences in subsequent years. There ...
... He informed Sri Aurobindo that the Government 1.Moni says that Sri Aurobindo was known to young people under various names. 'Sejda' to Barin's friends; 'Katta' (Chief) to young workers; 'A.G.' in early Pondicherry days; Sri Aurobindo after his retirement. 2.In regard to Sri Aurobindo's sudden departure from Calcutta Moni's narrative in his Bengali book, Smriti Hatha, Page... the house. With him, and walking by his side and guiding, went Ram babu. Biren followed a little behind, keeping them in sight. Moni brought up the rear, keeping Biren in sight. That particular evening, there was "no trace of any policemen anywhere about the house," Moni noticed thankfully. In fact, when newspapers came to know of the 'mysterious disappearance of Arabindo Babu' they pointedly asked... two talked in a low voice for a few minutes. Sri Aurobindo then got into the boat. Biren and Moni followed. Ram babu took his leave. The boat sailed off. "It was a common Ganges boat rowed by two boatmen," Sri Aurobindo said, setting all doubts at rest. "As we sailed up the river and reached midstream," Moni reminisced, "it was apparent that it happened to be a night of waxing moon. The waves danced ...
... It was a rented house, let by one Sundar Chetty at Rs. 20 a month. Sri Aurobindo with Bejoy and Moni had already spent some six months—'less three and half days' to quote Moni— at Shankar Chetty's house. Then Sri Aurobindo's brother-in-law, Saurin Bose, turned up on 30 th September, the 'last day' (Moni says) at Shankar Chetty's, and passed the night with the two young men. Next day, on the forenoon... in November. The western door communicated with the kitchen. 1 Moni and Bejoy kept up their job as cooks, just as they had done at Shankar Chetty's. Now Nolini and Saurin joined them. "We did the cooking ourselves," said Nolini, "and each of us developed a specialty. I did the rice, perhaps because that was the easiest. Moni took charge of dal (pulses), and Bejoy being the expert had the vegetables... and you will have mastery." To the right of the gate was the house proper. About ten steps up and you were on a spacious verandah of the raised house. A door to the right opened to a room which Moni and Saurin shared. A similar door to the left led to the dining room. At the deep end of the verandah was yet another door. And this time we are at the threshold of the room where Sri Aurobindo lived ...
... Indian army and with it was sent to Mesopotamia. When Moni went to Page 398 Khulna in 1922, he met Biren who had a tea shop there. He received Moni very cordially and gave him a feast. He also assured him that he had given up 'Government service.' The episode was recorded by Purani, and narrated by Va. Ra., by Nolini, by Moni. Details varied in these eyewitness versions as it always... completely shaved. That took Moni's fancy. Although he liked being well turned out and present a smart appearance, he now was adamant on a clean-shaven head! Biren tried his utmost to dissuade him, but to no avail. After this Biren seemed rather depressed, as though an anxiety hung like a dark cloud at the back of his mind. When they strolled on the pier, he often asked Moni what he should do. He had... consciousness, where you explore inner worlds. Or ... Now one day before Amrita became familiar with Sri Aurobindo's house at rue Francois Martin, before Mother's arrival at the end of March, before Moni, Nolini, Saurin went away to Bengal in February 1914, something strange happened in that house. You may recall that in July 1913 Nagen Nag, a relative of Bejoy's, had come to stay with Sri Aurobindo ...
... But when he was sick? Well, then it had to be Moni! But Moni was fond of his afternoon nap. So Sri Aurobindo had to apply his will. On 10 th February 1911 he willed for Moni to wake up—"Immediate success." So far so good. But, though awake, Moni showed no inclination to get up, let alone make the tea! So Sri Aurobindo sent forth another will for Moni "to get up and give the tea. Succeeded after a... 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 he noted in his diary: "fulfilled as soon ...
... the name was like that. So I was given the right-in position. I played on the right wing, and Moni (Suresh Chakravarti) played left-out. The two of us, Moni Chakravarti, or Chakra for short, and myself soon acquired quite a name here thanks to our football. Our styles were very different, though Moni's tactics were simple. Once he got in possession of the ball – the ball had to be passed on to him... front of the goal, as though it were a corner shot. I would be there to receive it and do the needful. I played a different style. I did not lag far behind Moni in the matter of speed, but I was an extremely calm and steady player. Moni raced like a storm without caring for anything or anybody, as if it was a matter of life and death. This cost him a broken collar-bone more than once and he... uproarious hurrahs! We won by two goals in the end and the cup was ours. After the game was over, how they danced with me on their shoulders! Moni led the boys. He too, like me, had given up playing, and was on the retired list, acting only as a spectator. Moni was so pleased with this performance of mine that he took me straightway to a nearby hotel or bar. There was no Ganpatram in those days, alas ...
... That is like Moni's idea. He says that the Divine will do everything and one has nothing to do at all. Anyway, this used to be his idea. I don't know what he thinks now. NIRODBARAN: That is an extreme view. I don't go so far. I believe or I have been led to believe that the Supermind -will help me in every way possible. SRI AUROBINDO: Will it? NIRODBARAN: Won't it? As for Moni's idea, I can't... Faith and ideas are quite different. Ideas are of the mind and they are abstract. If they have no dynamic power behind them, they remain ideas till the end. SATYENDRA: I am also coming round to Moni's idea. NIRODBARAN: But yours is from a different point of view. You have tried. SATYENDRA: Unless the fellow within, as Y calls it, awakes, nothing can be achieved. One must have the hunger first ...
... them was dressed Bengali style, the other in European style, in a silk suit. As Moni and Bejoy showed no inclination to get acquainted with them, the silk-suit sort of gate-crashed, and began to show great interest in the boys. He even lent a copy of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, which Moni read. But Moni and Bejoy were quite sure that he, Silk-suit, was a spy. Things would have gone... however, the spies had dogged the footsteps of the Swadeshis from the very beginning. Here is Moni 1 with Smritikatha. Page 219 his customary vivacious tale, of which I give just the gist in English translation. After the first three months in Shankar Chetty's house, when Moni and Bejoy were allowed by Sri Aurobindo to go out, they regularly set forth towards five in ...
... the name was like that. So I was given the right-in position. I played on the right wing, and Moni (Suresh Chakravarti) played left-out. The two of us, Moni Chakravarti, or Chakra for short, and myself soon acquired quite a name here thanks to our football. Our styles were very different, though. Moni's tactics were simple. Once he got possession of the ball—the ball had to be passed on to him for... front of the goal, as though it were a corner shot. I would be there to receive it and do the needful. I played a different style. I did not lag far behind Moni in the matter of speed, but I was an extremely calm and steady player. Moni raced like a storm without caring for anything or anybody, as if it was a matter of life and death. This cost him a broken collar-bone more than once and he had... uproarious hurrahs! We won by two goals in the end and the cup was ours. After the game was over, how they danced with me on their shoulders! Moni led the boys. He too, like me, had given up playing, and was on the retired list, acting only as a spectator. Moni was so pleased with this performance of mine that he took me straightway to a nearby hotel or bar. There was no Ganpatram in those days, alas ...
... the verandah of the middle portion of the house and "sat there in a chair kept for him before a table covered with a cloth." Sri Aurobindo had fever that day. Moni read out a Bengali poem he had composed for the occasion. Sri Aurobindo gave Moni a garland to show that he liked the poem. When the guests finished taking their refreshments they went to the big jar of water kept in the courtyard along... quarters: N°59 rue de la Mission Etrangere, or Mission Street; Mata coil Street to the locals. Sri Aurobindo lived in this fourth house for six months, from April to October 1913. With him were Bejoy, Moni, Nolini, Saurin and V. Ramaswami. Two Bengalis, Nagen Nag and Biren Roy, joined them in July 1913. With no improvement in their pecuniary state in sight, Sri Aurobindo wrote to Motilal detailing... "consisted of three courtyards. Each courtyard had four Page 357 verandas around it; Sri Aurobindo's room was in the third block. 1 The front block was occupied by Nolini, Sourin, Bejoy; Moni was in the second block. I heard it said that Sri Aurobindo would daily walk round and round the courtyard from about five in the afternoon till the other inmates returned from their playground at about ...
... continue the publication of India, and he was himself experiencing no end of difficulties. Moni might be a decoy - a trap! On the other hand, should Moni be genuine and his letter authentic, was it not the duty of Srinivasachariar and his friends to organise a fitting reception for the great leader? Moni, however, won their confidence and also persuaded them that, since Sri Aurobindo was coming incognito... Pondicherry. On arriving there on 31 March 1910, Moni duly met Srinivasachariar with the letter. At first Srinivachariar and his friends were incredulous that Sri Aurobindo - no less a person than Sri Aurobindo - might be seeking asylum in unimportant, inaccessible Pondicherry of all places. And a doubt crossed his mind too: suppose Moni himself were a spy employed by the Calcutta police? The... down to the Cours Charbol, and were taken in ft jutka (horse-drawn carriage) by Srinivasachariar and Moni to Shankar Chettiar's two-storey house in Rue Camoutty Chetti (Komutti Chetty Street). Sri Aurobindo occupied a room on the second floor of the spacious house till the end of September, and Moni and Bejoy also stayed in the same house. Sri Aurobindo's room had an antique quality about it, he had ...
... in the afternoon. Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) had already arrived on the 31st March and put up at the house of Srinivasachari, an orthodox Tamil Brahmin, to whom he had brought a letter of introduction from Sri Aurobindo. Srinivasachari had at first taken Moni for a spy, and did not attach any importance to his request for finding a suitable house for Sri Aurobindo. But when Moni announced the date... reception. But Moni dissuaded him, saying that Sri Aurobindo's coming to Pondicherry was a closely guarded secret and that he would like to live in strict solitude in order to avoid harassment by the agents of the British Government. So, the idea of a public reception was abandoned, and only Moni and Srinivasachari went to the port to receive Sri Aurobindo.¹ Sri Aurobindo, Bejoy and Moni were lodged... that the police spies might spot him as their man from the rest of us by the shaven head. But they were nonplussed when they found Moni too with a shaven head. And Biren began to suspect that Moni, or perhaps the whole lot of us, had found out his secret and that Moni had shaved on purpose. So, partly out of fear and partly from true repentance, for the most part no doubt by the pressure of some ...
... spies might spot him out as their man from the rest of us by the sign of the shaven head. But they were nonplussed when they found Moni too with a shaven head. And Biren began to suspect that Moni, or perhaps the whole lot of us, had found out his secret and that Moni had shaved on purpose. So, partly out of fear and partly from true repentance, for the most part no doubt by the pressure of some... Raghavan House of today, except by the backdoor and under cover of darkness after nightfall. In fact, all of us on our first arrival here had to come under false names, the only exception being Moni (Suresh Chakravarti). He did not have to, for he had not been one of the marked men like the rest of us and his name had not been associated with any political trouble, as he was too young for that... of air for his illness. The other was a friend and acquaintance of his who had come with him as a companion and help; his name was Birendra Roy. One day, this Birendra suddenly shaved his head. Moni Page 52 said he too would have his head shaved, just because Birendra had done it. That very day, or it was perhaps the day after, there occurred a regular scene. We had as usual taken ...
... as Alexandra David-Neel had found out to her dismay. Letting a few days go by, Motilal went to Odeon Salai, a big open ground close to the Botanical Garden, where a game of football was in progress. Moni, Nolini, Saurin, Bejoy Page 348 Raghavan Chetty House as it was in the 1950s were among the players—quite good, it seems. But that's another story, and we need... stopped by a two-storeyed house. But all was in darkness! Motilal's heart beat faster. David descended and knocked at a door. As soon as the door opened, David got on the carriage and left. Motilal met Moni as he entered. He met others also. Then he was taken up the stairs. It had been more than one year since Motilal had seen his Guru. But he could hardly see! His eyes overflowed with tears. As he... to the kitchen. Sri Aurobindo used to bathe last and go directly to the kitchen where the other members would be waiting for him after taking their baths. The boys cooked by turns. They—at least Moni and Nolini—had lessons in Latin, Greek and French from Sri Aurobindo. V. Ramaswami (Va. Ra.) may have taken part. Va. Ra. joined Sri Aurobindo's household in 1912. An anecdote of his brings to ...
... y building was a rare sight in Pondicherry in those days. Two young Bengali boys —Bijoy and Moni — were with him. Moni gives an eye-witness account (in Bengali) of that meeting. "About five to seven days —or at the most ten to fifteen days after Sri Aurobindo settled down at Chetty's house," wrote Moni, "a Frenchman, just arrived from France, came to meet him. The French gentleman's name was Paul ...
... world (Sri Aurobindo smiled) and about Mother he felt extreme sweetness. He is also a great lover of poetry. PURANI: He met Moni. He likes Moni's poetry better than his prose. SRI AUROBINDO: I am afraid I can't agree. That is because he is a lover of poetry. Moni's prose has a force, especially his imaginative prose is remarkable. His prose Hasanter Patra (Letters of Hasanta) is good, but ...
... fire-birds, silence-stricken. —Moni, it's pretty, your island... elle est jolie, ton île . A faint smile touched her lips and she drew her sari over her bosom. There was an avenue, or what must have been an avenue once, which intercepted the hill in a great arc. A chipmunk scuttled away in front of us. Some white gravel was still visible under the leaf-mould. —Moni, it's as if... She leaned... you going? —But I don't know! Where is the secret, Moni? Who has the secret of the true life? I have been here ten months now; I have seen only temples and still more temples—here you are prisoners of the gods and of destiny. And there, they are prisoners of time and machines—they lose their lives in trying to win their living. No one lives, Moni, where is life? It is betrayed everywhere, by the gods... was glowing in the sun. Yes, Moni, yes, I like you to be ruby-red and umber; to-night we shall have a fête . Umber, oui ; women were always a return to half-light and oblivion. —I have taken out the Kashmiri carpets. We will walk on a forest of blue cedars. I have already lost myself in your forest. —Nil, my beloved, are you really going away? —Stop it, Moni, stop it. I no longer know ...
... spies might spot him out as their man from the rest of us by the sign of the shaven head. But they were nonplussed when they found Moni too with a shaven head. And Biren began to suspect that Moni, or perhaps the whole lot of us, had found out his secret and that Moni had shaved on purpose. So, partly out of fear and partly from true repentance, for the most part no doubt by the pressure of some other... Raghavan House of today, except by the back door and under cover of darkness after nightfall. In fact, all of us on our first arrival here had to come under false names, the only exception being Moni (Suresh Chakravarti). He did not have to, for he had not been one of the marked men like the rest of us and his name had not been associated with any political trouble, as he was too young for that... change of air for his illness. The other was a friend and acquaintance of his who had come with him as a companion and help; his name was Birendra Roy. One day, this Birendra suddenly shaved his head. Moni said he too would have his head shaved, just because Birendra had done it. That very day, or it was perhaps the day after, there occurred a regular scene. We had as usual taken: our seats around Sri ...
... the future, and in the early months Mirra started learning Sanskrit and Bengali from Sri Aurobindo and made fair progress. The young men who were now living with Sri Aurobindo - Nolini, Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) and Bejoy Nag - would go out at about 5 to play football, and return an hour later. On Sundays, however, Sri Aurobindo walked up at 4.30 in the evening to the Richards' place, and stayed ...
... Rajangam, Tirupati* Khitish*Nolinida* Satyen* Kanai* Bejoy* Purani* and Nagaratnam (a local devotee) Centre: Punamchand* Champaben, Mrs. Kodandaraman, Mr. kodandaraman Bottom: Champaklal, Moni* Amrita,* Manmohan. The interesting part of the story is that when I began looking at that photograph (which I had not liked earlier) subsequently, that dislike disappeared completely. ...
... the mind in all the objects of sense. Growth of Krishna Kali bhava in the Brahma darshana 2 March 1916 In the evening telepathic trikaldrishti that N [Nolini] will come soon after 8.30, M [Moni] soon after 9.0, S [Saurin] soon after 9.30. N came at 8.35, M at 9.8, S at 9.35. The approximate time after was also correct. Page 913 3 March 1916 The telepathic trikaldrishti has now... Eg re the bath; fixed as after 11.30. Times fixed 11.35, 11.30 for unknown stages, 11.38 for being called to bathe: then 11.30 was fixed for S [Saurin] getting up from under the tap, 11.35 for M's [Moni's] finishing the actual bathing. 11.38 & 11.30 came out exactly to the second, but there was some doubt about 11.35 as the exact time was not noticed. At 11.35¾ M had left the tap and was drying himself... beginning of an internal movement. 8.20 suggested for N's [Nolini's] coming. N came at 8.20 exact (by the watch) Telepathy that N. would not come to read Greek; justified. Will for S [Saurin] & M [Moni] to come at 9: they came at 9.3. Page 918 × MS they ...
... Uttara Yogi What Moni and Bejoy must have enjoyed the most were the seances or sessions of 'automatic writings.' They could be exhilarating. Yes, for some years at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo continued the practice of automatic writing until he found out fully what was behind it. For the first three months, it seems, the seances were regularly held. Apart from Moni and Bejoy, both Bharati ...
... tiger returned with the lady sitting inside and the tiger bearing a smile on its face. (Laughter) There are good stories in his limericks. You know the story of the cow? PURANI: I have heard it. Moni's favourite, I think. SRI AUROBINDO: It can be very well applied to passive resistance. It is like this: There was a young man who said, "How Shall I melt the heart of this cow?" So he sat on ...
... commented about this aspect of my nature to Sri Aurobindo, just by observing me from far. When Sri Aurobindo lived in Library House, the present Fruit Room was his dining room. Nolini, Amrita, Bijoy and Moni, who lived in Library House, also dined with him. One day while eating, Sri Aurobindo said, “Mirra (as Mother was then called) told me that Champaklal has a steadfast and meticulous mind. It is the ...
... "... Nationalism is not a mere political programme ; nationalism is a religion that has come from God; it is a creed which you will have to live." His invitation did not go unanswered. Asserted Moni Bagchi, "It was he and he alone who gave a new orientation, a new dimension to our concept of nationalism." I dare say that the Nationalist movement aimed at restoring the spiritual greatness of the... be young I Young though he was — in his early thirties — Sri Aurobindo was already an accomplished statesman and strategist. "Sri Aurobindo was not only a profound political theorist," affirms Moni Bagchi, "but a shrewd political tactician also, a combination only too rare in history." We shall see how he brought into full play these rare qualities. Page 384 "Were you 'modest' ...
... AUROBINDO: While he was teaching in the class, the students said that what he was saying was different from the book. Amrita replied, "That is old French." (Laughter) PURANI: Yes, yes, I remember Moni and others used to taunt him. SRI AUROBINDO: It was a standing joke for a long time. ...
... Bejoy Kumar Nag was one—his name became Vijayakantan in Tamil. In order to escape from the clutches of the British Government he had assumed the pseudonym Bankim Chandra Basak. Likewise, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti was known to the people of Pondicherry by one name alone: "Sakra". Sourindranath Bose went by his own name. Nagendranath Nag and Biren Roy came later to stay in Sri Aurobindo's house. ... Bejoykanta and made straight for Shankar Chetty's house in Comoutty Street. The persons who escorted Sri Aurobindo to Shankar Chetty's house were Srinivasachari, C. Subramania Bharati, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti and Shankar Chetty. Of them only Srinivasachari is still alive (1962). Sri Aurobindo lived incognito for six months in Shankar Chetty's house. Later on, his stay in Pondicherry came... Cantine on the East. It consisted of three courtyards. Each courtyard had four verandas around it; Sri Aurobindo's room was in the third block. The front block was occupied by Nolini, Sourin, Bejoy; Moni was in the second block. I heard it said that Sri Aurobindo would daily walk round and round the courtyard from about five in the afternoon till the other inmates returned from their playground at ...
... the British to whom all non-Whites are 'coloured' people ... therefore not to be mixed with white. Just coming from British India as he did, Moni must have been struck at the difference of attitude between the two neighbouring European nations. A Frenchman, as Moni observed, never bothered a whit about the skin colour of anybody, but would put his arms around the neck of another and say, "Nous les ...
... Vijayakantan in Tamil. In order to escape from the clutches Page 20 of the British Government he had assumed the pseudonym Bankim Chandra Basik. Likewise, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti was known to the people of Pondicherry by one name alone: "Sakra". Sourindranath Bose went by his own name. Nagendranath Nag and Biren Roy came later to stay in Sri Aurobindo's house... and made straight for Shankar Chetty's house in Comoutty Street. The persons who escorted Sri Aurobindo to Shankar Chetty's house were Srinivasachari, C. Subramania Bharati, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti and Shankar Chetty. Of them only Srinivasachari is still alive (1962). Sri Aurobindo lived incognito for six months in Shankar Chetty's house. Later on, his stay in Pondicherry... on the East. It consisted of three courtyards. Each courtyard had four verandas around it; Sri Aurobindo's room was in the third block. The front block was occupied by Nolini, Sourin, Bejoy; Moni was in the second block. I heard it said that Sri Aurobindo would daily walk round and round the courtyard from about five in the afternoon till the other inmates returned from their playground ...
... Ghose'; he had turned thirty-seven but a week earlier. So, Sri Aurobindo ran two weeklies single-handedly? Well, yes, almost. A few young men —such as Nolini K. Gupta, Bejoy Nag, Suresh Chakrabarty (Moni), Ramchandra Majumdar helped with the proof-reading and news reporting, and ... But let us hear from Nolini himself. "On coming out of jail, Sri Aurobindo found shelter in the house of his maternal... with his work connected with the two papers, he would drop in on the young men, join in their talks or teach them languages, like French. Nolini began straight away with Moliere's L'Avare. Nolini and Moni and Bejoy were the permanent residents. Ganen Maharaj, of Ramakrishna Mission, was a frequent visitor. Biren Ghosh, Saurin Bose and Ramchandra Majumdar turned up almost daily. Amar Chatterji, Hem Sen ...
... Steam Navigation Company' That is why when Sri Aurobindo received the adesh (Command) to go to Pondicherry from Chandernagore, he had sent Moni with a note addressed to S. Parthasarathi Iyenger, c/o 'India' Press. Parthasarathi was away from Pondicherry, so at Moni's request Parthasarathi's elder brother Srinivasachari had opened the envelope and learned that Sri Aurobindo "was coming to Pondicherry and ...
... Cantine on the East. It consisted of three courtyards. Each courtyard had four verandas around it; Sri Aurobindo’s room was in the third block. The front block was occupied by Nolini, Sourin, Bejoy; Moni was in the second block. I heard it said that Sri Aurobindo would daily walk round and round the courtyard from about five in the afternoon till the other inmates returned from their playground at about ...
... At one time in Europe, particularly in England, such words were considered vulgar and they were not used. But now everybody is using them. The pre-Brahmo Bengal was also to a certain extent puritan. Moni said that he was not allowed by the teachers to sing in school: it was considered immoral. If music is immoral, then there can be no question about dancing, and yet in ancient India even the princesses ...
... in Nolini's batch; a Pondicherian Christian, Benjamin yet lived in the Ashram where he did a part of the tailoring work for the inmates; he died in 1963. I remember how, during the war years, he and Moni 1 used to entertain us with French patriotic songs. Mother continued, "I said, 'He is an idiot! He doesn't need to find a religion!"' She laughed again, struck by the incongruity of the situation... religion!" Then Mother wished to send a comforting word to Prahlad's grieving mother, "Be consoled, Prahlad is in a very nice place!" She remarked, "He was very well. He was very 1. Moni or Suresh Chakraborty was a revolutionary from Bengal. He came to Pondicherry in 1910 with a letter from Sri Aurobindo to arrange a residence for him. Page 160 well dressed." In life ...
... spies might spot him out as their man from the rest of us by the sign of the shaven head. But they were nonplussed when they found Moni too with a shaven head. And Biren began to suspect that Moni, or perhaps the whole lot of us, had found out his secret and that Moni had shaved on purpose. So, partly out of fear and partly from true repentance, for the most part no doubt by the pressure of some other... air for his illness. The other was a friend and acquaintance of his who had come with him as a companion and help; his name was Birendra Roy. One day, this Birendra suddenly shaved his head. Moni said he too would have his head shaved, just because Birendra had done it. That very day, or it was perhaps the day after, there occurred a regular scene. We had as usual taken our seats around Sri ...
... for lessening of Saurin's diarrhoea, fulfilled as soon as made. 3) Aishwaryam for rapid restoration of health and strength, repeated and fulfilled on the 10ṭḥ Feb 10ṭḥ 4) Aishwaryam for M [Moni] to awake. Immediate success. Page 42 5) Aishwaryam for him to get up and give the tea. Succeeded after a slight resistance, lasting five to ten minutes. 6) Aishwaryam for the thought... 13) Sukshma shabda of the dog under the table attended with strong prakamya of its presence and motion there. An image of the past. Feb 11ṭḥ 14) Confirmation of former cognition that M. [Moni] although apparently unconcerned, had really a touch in the prana about his brother's death.—confirmed by his statement about dreams & weeping. 15) Cognition by prakamya trikaldrishti of evacuation ...
... luckily the weather was fine and the whole afternoon "I could be out driving in a kind of nameless prehistoric contraption, pushed by four blacks." The 'contraption' was the same poussepousse Moni earlier described to us. She took photos of it to send to Philippe. "In the evening," Alexandra continued, "I had a conversation with a Hindu, about whom I don't think I ever spoke to you because ...
... 496 Mao Tse-tung 459, 463, 772 Marx, Karl 762 McPheeters see Shantimayi; Vaun McPheeters Milton, John 312 Misra, Justice S.C. 282 Modern Review 157, 159 Mona Pinto 278-9 Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) 91, 131, 201, 211, 217, 496 Monica Parish 738 Monod-Herzen, Dr G. 282 Moonje, Dr B.S. 200 Moreau, Gustav 473 Morretta, Angelo 762 Morisset, Andre see Andre Morisset, Francoise see ...
... India but it should be based on spiritual lines. (Dilip Kumar Roy wrote a letter to Sri Aurobindo asking certain questions regarding marriage. These are the answers of Sri Aurobindo conveyed by Moni.) No cut and dry answer can be given to such questions as that will convey a wrong impression of this very complex and complicated subject. A solution is hardly possible in a few words. It depends ...
... dark as it was dirty and a paradise for white ants." Mother must have told them about it much later when she was more familiar with them. Besides they were then in Calcutta the three of them, Nolini, Moni and Saurin, and they returned only some five months later. However, it was also at Karikal that Mother had seen people drinking "yellowish mud in which cows had bathed and done all the rest" and ...
... Sri Aurobindo for All Ages IX: Pondicherry: Cave of Tapasya (1910-1914) SURESH Chakravarty, Sri Aurobindo's youthful emissary, stepped down at the Pondicherry railway station early in the morning of March 31, 1910. The long journey had been uneventful but he had done well in avoiding trouble on the way and the important task before him now was to establish ...
... 1923 Top: Rajangam, Timpati, Khitish, Nolinida, Satyen, Kanai, Bejoy, Purani and Nagaratnam (a local devotee) Centre: Punamchand, Champaben, Mrs. Kodandaraman, Mr. Kodandaraman Bottom: Champaklal, Moni, Amrita, Manmohan. Part V, "Talks and Interviews with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother", contains advice to sadhaks on various subjects. How can one know when he meets his psychic mate? Did Buddha ...
... twelve yards. The plan was that Prafulla would take his shelter behind the steep and abrupt side as he threw the bomb at the 1.P. Chakravarti was the elder brother of Suresh Chakravarti (Moni). 2.B. B. Sarkar (1890-1942), of Bankura in East Bengal. He had formed a secret society in a village there. He was one of the first batch of deportees taken to the Andamans. Page 281 ...
... 24 The Tamil Bard "That very first day when I was resting after lunch, a gentleman, chewing paan [betel leaf] came to Shri Achari's house" wrote Moni in his Smritikatha. "Of an average height, around the age of thirty.... Neither fair-skinned nor black—typical 'brown race.' Beard shaven, but with an impressive moustache. Trimmed hair.... He wore ...
... When he came to Pondicherry the diplomatic relations between the French and the English became somewhat strained. In the meantime A. Martineau 1 had replaced Levecque as the governor of French India. Moni remembered him vividly. "A simple unostentatious man was the Governor Monsieur Martineau. He often went about in a rickshaw. That was then the only rickshaw in Pondicherry. By chance one day I saw the ...
... translate Sri Aurobindo's Six Poems into Bengali, and offer them to him in a small printed book- let. The translators were: Anilbaran Roy ("Shiva"), Behari Barua ("Jivanmukta"), Dilip ("Trance"), Moni ("The Life Heavens"), Nolini ("The Bird of Fire") and Sahana ("In Horis Aeternum"). 26. Dilip had sent to Sri Aurobindo a, passage (in French) from The Confessions of St. Augustine. 27. Nag... figure." 116. "Silence, Light, Power, Ananda, these are the four pillars of the Jivanmukta consciousness," is how Sri Aurobindo defines the term (see p. 65). 117. "A God's Labour". 118. Moni Bagchi (1905 - 1983) was a journalist and was very skilled in writing biographies. He was awarded the honour of National Biographer by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. His best known biography is Bhagini ...
... to fall in place a few more months were needed. Finally it was in October that Sri Aurobindo moved from Matacoil Street to rue Francois Martin in the French part of the town. In February 1914 Moni, Nolini and Saurin left for Bengal. So they were not there to meet the Richards on their arrival at Pondicherry. "The two persons from France have arrived," said V. Ramaswamy Iyengar beckoning ...
... precisely fulfilled (see telegrams of 27ᵗʰ ) Approximate time of return of D [dog] who had escaped, foreseen. (although improbable) Approximate time of N. [Nolini] S. [Saurin] B. [Bijoy] & M's [Moni's] return & the order of their coming, all erroneous, but this confusion had been predicted in the lipi. Pratijna becomes more & more satyapratijna. Page 112 22 November 1912 Rupa begins ...
... paper, I cannot say that it has any very particular connection with my work; but under present conditions there is no reason why he should not take part in it. Finally about Moni whom he proposes to call, write to him that Moni has left us and is no longer "one of us". On the contrary, he has become hostile to us and is campaigning against my work so that there can be no question of inviting him there ...
... can be called dharma pagal. ' 2 Well, Sir?" Sri Aurobindo: "Well, it is better to be dharma pagal than to be a sententious ass and pronounce on what one does not understand." 1.Moni (in Smritikatha) recalls that it was nine or ten years aft er his meeting B.C. Bose at Ranchi in 1921: that the latter came to Pondicherry,and th en followed it up with more visits. 2.Mad about ...
... .had given my real name I would have been arrested at once: With due respect to Gandhi's truth, I could not be so very precise here. You can't be a revolutionary otherwise. Accompanied by Bejoy, Moni and my brother-in-law, I arrived in Pondicherry but we had to assume false names for some time. ...
... I would have been at once arrested. With due respect to Gandhi's truth I could not be exactly precise about my name, otherwise you can't be a revolutionary. Accompanied by Bijoy and preceded by Moni and followed by my brother-in-law I arrived in Pondicherry but had to assume false names for some time. ...
... much prodding Moni was at last shown a miserable garret in a house at the end of a blind alley in a particularly dirty part of the town! Poor Moni failed to persuade Srinivasachari to arrange for something better. Then, to add to his dismay, Moni learned that they were planning to give me a rousing reception on my arrival, with garlanding and speeches - all in the best tradition! Moni pointed out that... required. "Later on I learned that when Moni contacted Srinivasachari to fix a house for me, the latter wouldn't believe that I was coming here." "Why didn't he believe Moni?" asked Archan. "Because Pondicherry being such a small, politically isolated place, what would I, a national leader, do there? (Laughter) But Srinivasachari promised all assistance. Moni explained that I would be arriving by... said, "I am so moved by your boys' concern for you." The other children warmly agreed. "As I've already told you, I had sent Moni to Pondicherry to make all the necessary arrangements. I had given him a letter of introduction for Srinivasachari, a Tamil firebrand. Moni was a bright, intelligent young man and I knew he would surely manage things. "At last on the 4th of April we reached Pondicherry ...
... "tying up his bundle ... teeming with the catch of the Infinite", awaiting the right time to open it and call into existence his Deva Sangha. He had a few ardent young men with him, Nolini, Amrita, Moni, Bejoy Nag. But the Deva Sangha, the Ashram, was yet to be born. The Arya itself was magisterially drawing towards its preordained end. The major sequences had been concluded, and one or two were well... duty for furniture; and there was but a single servant to do the shopping-- among other things, daily three or four annas worth of fish! Cooking was done on a cooperative basis: Nolini did the rice, Moni the pulses (dal), and Bejoy the curry and the vegetables. There was a Pariah cook, perhaps, for part of the time, and what he prepared was not to their taste. And in such a situation, to have to feed ...
... eagerness of his own mind into a development too rapid for the physical consciousness which should have been subjected to a long and steadying preparation. I do not know whether Krishnashashi received Moni's letter written to him at his other address, Raja Brojendra Narayan Roy's Street, which he should have got on the 14th. In this letter I suggested that he should remain in Chittagong or some other quiet... but you must help me by keeping there a firm quietness and calm concentration. This was the object of my telegram. I am of the opinion that when he recovers his balance, my original instructions (in Moni's letter) should be adhered to and he should go to some quiet place where there will not be any high pressure. He must be instructed to put away every other object except the quieting of his mind, vital... from your letter and telegram taken together that Mohini is starting for Krishnagore in order to take back Krishnashashi. Of course in that case there is no need to wait further as was suggested in Moni's letter. I have received no news about Krishnashashi for the last three days. This kind of disregard of instructions is not at all right. It puts me in considerable Page 352 difficulty in ...
... becoming a stranger to Arjava, Moni and Khirode. I never asked you or them to break or get remote from each other, I never put any pressure for that or desired it—on the contrary I greatly regretted your getting estranged with Arjava, for Arjava's sake as well as for your own; I never appreciated what good reasons there could be for the cooling down between you and Moni—as for Khirode I have still to... success of your metres but that was sure. August 26, 1933 I suppose I shall take much time to read this affair of Moni's. The simplest solution will be to stop this discussion which is degenerating into a controversy or dispute. I have not seen what Moni says, but if it is that you have narrowed or deteriorated because you no longer sing erotic songs, I do not see how that can be... is clear that I want you to be indifferent (like Nolini) to be indifferent to everyone else but the Mother and you make us responsible for your becoming a stranger Page 319 to Arjava, Moni 1 and Khirode, 2 for a feeling of rancorous aversion that has come between you and Sahana—and you express an apprehension that the same development may come on your still existing friendship with ...
... mind" - to be one with the "vasts of God". 10 There were visitors in the evening. Bharati, V.V.S. Aiyar, Srinivasachariar; there were readings in the Veda; there were the younger men, Nolini, Bejoy, Moni, Va Ra, Saurin, Amrita, who were in attendance whenever necessary; there were occasional visitors. Paul Richard, Madame Alexandera David-Neel, K.V. Rangaswami Aiyengar, Motilal Roy, Khasirao Jadhav;... sea needed. They turned their gaze towards the Light, and late or soon they made for Pondicherry. Even before the Arya had begun its career, young men like Nolini, Bejoy Nag, Saurin and Moni were already with Sri Aurobindo. "With those who accompanied me or joined me in Pondicherry," writes Sri Aurobindo, "I had at first the relation of friends and companions rather than of a Guru and ... remained, some went away - and some went away and returned to stay permanently. By 1926, there were about twenty-five sādhaks staying with Sri Aurobindo. Some from Bengal, Nolini, Barindra, Bejoy, Moni, Page 539 Upendra; some from Gujarat, Purani, Champaklal, and the Punamchands; some from the South, Amrita, Chandrasekharam, Kothandaraman, Rajangam; and there were also the sadhaks ...
... feet on 15th August, 1934 on the occasion of his birthday. Six sadhaks would translate these six poems. Nolini asked me to translate one of them. The five others were Nolini Kanta Gupta himself, Suresh Chakravarty, Anilbaran Roy, Dilip Kumar Roy and Behari Barua. The one I was to translate was “In Horis Aeternum” — a very difficult poem. I had much doubt if I could cope with it. Still, when such a great... catches the eternal out of perishable hours in these things’.” At one time I used to write a lot of poems. That was one of the brightest periods as regards writing poetry. Nolini Kanta Gupta and Suresh Chakravarty had of course started long ago, Anilbaran also, Dilip, Nishikanta were going on with great speed. Behari Barua, Jatin Das of Chittagong were also on the list. Nirod’s niece Jyotirmala (formerly ...
... on the spot and with it the bottom tier was sealed. A second tier, as ordered by the Mother, was then made and similarly sealed after filling it with clean river-sand. Over it, first Champaklal, then Moni, Nolini and the others placed potfuls of earth. There was nothing credal or sectarian about the ceremony; not a whisper could be heard - there were no audible hymns or prayers - and there were no rites ...
... him in a room with a large window which, being left open, was "filled with that greenish sky of India, a fit background indeed for a Master, a Guru of his dimension". Four young men - probably Bejoy, Moni, Nolini and Saurin - "stood near one corner of the table: they were tall, stout, immobile, with eyes fixed on the Master's face, much like four marble statues". At one stage she wished they would leave... The period of her first stay in Pondicherry - 29 March 1914 to 22 February 1915 - was thus a time of great new beginnings, and of new ties that were destined to endure. Some of the young men, Nolini, Moni and Saurin, paid a visit to Bengal early in 1914, but on the war breaking out, they returned to Pondicherry in September. When Bejoy too wished to pay a brief visit to Bengal, he was arrested at the ...
... 7.55. R. [Ramaswamy] came at 7.55. d) S will come at 8.5. Unfulfilled. S about this time was again thinking of coming e) S will come at 8.25 corrected 8.35. S came at 8.33. f) M [Moni] will come after S, last of all, but before 9. pm. fixed at 8.55 exactly. M came at 8.54 or 8.55. just after I sat down to meals at 8.52. Besides, the ideas of what will happen or is the case... especially at the beginning, but afterwards the resistance stiffens and is successful. Trikaldristi of exact time recommenced last night. There was the usual error; the return of S. M & N [Saurin, Moni & Nolini] Page 136 was seen to be due after 9.30 (very unusual & even unprecedented for a long time past), later fixed at 9.38, but again unfixed & seen to be due nearer 10. At 9.38, exactly... the vyapti of an intention) that he would come before 8.30. S came at 8.29. Subsequently, it was decided that 9.10 would be the exact moment to cease walking & have meals, & the knowledge came that M [Moni] would return at 9.10. N returned exactly at 9.10; exactly at 9.10 the meal was served (without any spoken order or mental suggestion) & the triple knowledge was fulfilled to the minute. In this way ...
... pieces. 2 Relevant data available in these documents are presented in the text and tables on pages 1153 to 1157. 2 Primary documents consulted include: Bagchee, Moni. Letter dated 23 November 1971, listing a few articles known by him to be by his father-in-law Shyam Sunder Chakravarti. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives. Banerji, Upendranath. List of articles... and Shyam Sunder Chakravarti never identified any articles as being written by Sri Aurobindo. However, Pal did publish certain articles as his own, and Shyam Sunder told his son-in-law, the writer Moni Bagchee, that certain Bande Mataram articles were his. Page 1154 It should also be noted that none of the methods of identification was foolproof. Most of the documents date ...
... Bengali, "Habe, habe, habe" — "It will be done, it will be done, it will be done." Then, as wished by the Mother, Champaklal came first to place a potful of earth upon the slate of the vault, followed by Moni, Nolini and other sadhaks. The ceremony was quiet and solemn. The Mother watched it from the terrace above Dyuman's room. Hundreds of sadhaks stood in the courtyard in silent prayer and consecration ...
... Nivedita, requesting her in a note to take up the editorship of the Karmayogin in his absence. Preceded by Ramachandra, and followed at some discreet distance by Biren Ghose and Suresh Chakravarti (Moni), he walked to the river-side and reached the Ganga Ghat in about ten minutes' time. A boat was immediately engaged, and Sri Aurobindo boarded it, and it made for Chandernagore; Biren and Suresh were ...
... feelers for eliciting support to his scheme for training select aspirants in the Sadhana as a preparation for eventual practical work on a large scale. Actually, some of the young men - Nolini, Moni, Bejoy - had lived with Sri Aurobindo for over a decade through all weathers, and Amrita's association too had begun in his boyhood days in Pondicherry. All of them instinctively loved and revered ...
... actualised fact of event, state, tendency, intention etc correctly conceived or rather felt & seen. The old time-trikaldrishti, long discontinued, revives with its old imperfections. 1) M's [Moni's] return at about 8.55. 2) N's [Nolini's] return approaching 3) S's [Saurin's] early return and meal at about 9.15 and 9.25 but only the times came right, the two events being wrongly placed, ...
... assertion. I have never thought him to be a very intelligent man (like Moni e.g., to say nothing of Nolini) but that one could threaten like this of madness, etc. seems to me to be so utterly childish! Please.... His writing has certain qualities, very valuable in my judgment, but of a kind quite different from Nolini’s or Moni’s. P.S. I won’t write poems for a day or two as I have to ...
... It is attempting to extend itself to all trikaldrishti. Telepathic trikaldrishti of time 1) The three young men will come before nine; or at least two. vague in detail. N [Nolini] & M [Moni] came at 8.45 2) N will come before 9. Uncertain when he came, either just before 9 or just after; within 9.5 at latest. 3) Someone will come at 9.10. Sn. [Saurin] came at 9.10 4) 9.20 ...
... female roles as well. Savitri is speaking to the lord of Death, Yama: “You have to give back Satyavan to me.” I was not old enough to understand the dialogue between Savitri and Yama. But father and Moni-Mama (Subodh Niyogi) played their parts with such extraordinary skill that a deep impression was made on my young mind. When the mother gave me Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri on one of my birthdays, I suddenly ...
... Chidambaram, who would leave us his precious notes of the evening talks with Sri Aurobindo. There were, of course, also the stalwarts who had played a role in Sri Aurobindo’s political life: Nolini, Moni, Sauren, Bejoy Nag (who had rejoined the group after his internment during the First World War) and Amrita, through whom everyone now had to pass who wished to get an appointment with Sri Aurobindo ...
... ten minutes or so I was in the boat for Chandernagore. Ramachandra Majumdar guided me to the Ghat and hailed a boat and I entered into it at once along with my relative Biren Ghosh and Moni (Suresh Chandra Chakravarti) who accompanied me to Chandernagore, not turning Page 340 aside to Bagbazar or anywhere else. We reached our destination while it was still dark; they returned in the ...
... Wait a while till the present imbroglio is over. We allopaths are concerned with diagnosis. We open up even a dead man's viscera not to speak of sacrificing so many guinea-pigs which, according to Moni, is much more abominable than goat-sacrifice before Kali. I suppose the objection is to the suffering inflicted which is avoidable in the other cases. Shall we continue giving K cod-liver oil ...
... Aurobindo : I do not know whether he has got the psychic sight. I mean whether he has developed it and is able to see visions etc. However I shall try. If he can maintain his fight he can see me here. Moni Lahiri took up yoga and finds peace after he began Sadhana. He used to be very violent and angry. Sri Aurobindo : That kind of mind takes a long time to come round. I do not think he would ...
... as I remember, I said that faith was the light of the higher self penetrating the lower or some words to that effect. Casting about in my memory I do seem to recollect some vague talk with M.B. [Moni Bagchi] 118 but the remarks were no doubt ad hoc and probably were directed against the orthodox religious demand for a blind acceptance of dogmatic belief. Such belief or pseudo-belief (for it seldom... levels. That, at any rate, is what I meant by "true faith" and I should have thought your Gurudev would have more or less agreed with it. But at any rate that is my position at present; I fancy that Moni Bagchi must have garbled what I said. 119 Certainly experiences are not the goal but experience (in a way, at least) is, for by experience I mean living knowledge manifesting in one's being... you. As for the other complaints, e.g. about your quarrels with Sahana, surely it is a great exaggeration to quarrel about such perfectly indifferent matters as a disagreement about the merits of Moni Bagchi—whether in the Ashram or out- side it in ordinary life one can differ in opinion about people or things without the difference spoiling the atmosphere for them. Certainly, liking or disliking ...
... condition of the activity which is to form the substance of the record may be understood. 4 pm. Aishwaryasiddhi promised; the first result was the fulfilment of the aishwarya made at 1.30 that M [Moni] should come to make the tea about 3.10 by the time of my watch. He came at 3.11. This is a rare instance, almost the first that is entirely clear and definite, of an aishwarya of exact time being perfectly ...
... Yoga; and (5) his aim in all this was to change the world (not merely to win India's independence). During the early years at Pondicherry there was the group of young men - Nolini, Bejoy, Moni, Saurin, Va Ra - living with Sri Aurobindo, and friends like Bharati, Aiyar and Srinivasachari visited him frequently. There were language lessons, there were discussions on poetry and politics, and ...
... 1934 Very glad that the reconciliation has proceeded all right and I am glad too that your tendency is so readily towards "harmony" and away from "disharmonies" that have been too rife. As for Moni he is very stiff in a quarrel and to make him ease his backbone when he has once straightened it to1' a fight is not easy. Your strictures on Mom's present tendencies in poetry are largely correct... best seemed to me remarkable Nishikanta's poem is very d indeed. But the parallel or rather contrast between them from the Ashram residence point of view is not very much to the point. Moni comes in from a mental and vital past with Nishikanta the question is whether he has stuff enough , not poetic or artistic—for he is a good poet and clever painter—but Yogic to stand the spiritual... lovely poetry whose gorgeousness and expression is at times simply dazzling to me and others too (Saurin, Nirod, Kanai, Sahana, all are marvelling at his Poetry nowadays—though formerly they didn't—even Moni who never praises anybody sought him out and Page 179 lavished encomiums on his exquisite poems published lately in different journals!) And I was so chilling (bad— wicked, that!). ...
... activities in Dilip Kumar’s company. About Nishikanto’s arrival in Pondicherry Nirodbaran notes: “Meanwhile word went round that a ‘big’ poet had come to the Ashram.” [12] Suresh Chakravorty alias Moni went to meet Nishikanto. The Mother on her part sent Nolini Kanta Gupta to Nishikanto; what follows is a gist of their conversation: Nolini: So you want to stay in this Ashram? Nishikanto: Yes ...
... life of fame and celebrity palled on her. Then it was that Sahana turned to Mother and Sri Aurobindo. From Bangalore she took a train to Madras. There she joined a group from Bengal, in which was Moni. Strangely enough, Dilip had an experience in Lucknow on November 15, 1928, which decided him to take the plunge; he reached Madras (via Bombay) on the same day as the others. All of them reached P ...
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