Category: Reminiscences

-12_I bow to the mother

X X   I BOW TO THE MOTHER   Those of you who came to the Ashram as children recognised the Mother and called her…

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-13_I played football

XI XI   I PLAYED FOOTBALL   (1)   Some of you have asked to hear about my performance in football. I have already told…

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-14_Soviet Gymnasts

XII XII   SOVIET GYMNASTS   (1)   As you know, sometime back—quite a few years now—we had a group of Soviet Gymnasts in our…

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-15_My Athletics

XIII XIII   MY ATHLETICS   There is in the Upanishad a description of the stage in man's life when he becomes so old and…

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-16_Eternal Youth

XIV XIV   ETERNAL YOUTH   This is about the time when you, the young, the children had not arrived here. The few of us…

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-17_The World War-1939-1945

I I   THE WORLD WAR (1939-1945)*   ITS INNER BEARINGS   This is a war to which even spiritual seekers can hardly remain indifferent…

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-18_The Situation of Today-12-2-1965

II II THE SITUATION OF TODAY 11-2-1965   It is not of today, nor of yesterday, but also of the day before yesterday and the…

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-20_Appendix

APPENDIX 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…

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-21_Old_long_since

OLD LONG SINCE OLD LONG SINCE OLD LONG SINCE   (1) 1905-1910   In our village and all around, four names of four great personages…

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MURARIPUKUR— MURARIPUKUR—(1)   At last I made up my mind finally to take the plunge, that I must now join the Manicktolla Gardens in Muraripukur….

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