Young men going to the Front and patriots going to jail sought and secured Sri Bhagavan's blessings before proceeding to their chosen field of action. Everyone found the light to discover, and gained the strength to perform, his Svadharma. The volte face of the Communists, the fanatic fury of the communalists, the common, craven clinging to one's bread and butter, added confusion to the prevailing chaos.īut here in the Asramam, there was not only peace serene, but clarity and certitude. In those war years, Sri Aurobindo advised all out support to the Allies and the War effort. Poet Muruganar who had emptied himself and become a hollow reed through which flowed the rich music of Sri Bhagavan's manifold Being and the clear outline of His teaching. How can we know it in its vastness until we case to be our petty selves? In this sense, the only persons who knew really Sri Bhagavan and taught the truth about Him were the humble people who in silence served Him and His devotees, and the inspired Why not? We look at the firmament through our own little individual windows of perception. Her prompt, decisive reply settled the matter once for all. Some of her ideas on Sri Bhagavan and His message. Taleyarkhan and tried to persuade her to change In 1965, Devaraja Mudaliar and I met Mrs. In fact there were as many Bhagavans as there were devotees. No wonder, the devotees differed much on who He was. The Sun now came down and played with us as the light of the moon to illumine the mind, or as the fire in the home to cook our food. Would suddenly become a Person full of Sattvic power, highly human, charming, mother like, who could communicate with sharp precision of His own Awareness-Bliss to other persons according to their needs and moods. No statement was dogmatic, eristic or polemical. Every statement was tentative and therefore poetic. Thus every conversation in the Old Hall turned out to be a truly Socratic dialogue. It was natural to refer him as It, instead of You or He. People speak to one another, freely and frankly in His presence, as if the figure on the couch were a statue, not a listener. Sri Bhagavan was a perfect Impersonality, like the Sun in the sky or like unnoticed daylight in an an inner chamber.
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