Nirodbaran correspondence with sri aurobindo biography
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Nirodbaran
Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo
The Complete Set
Khirod says he wrote to you about my proposal of shouldering the entire responsibility of the timber godown. Somehow I felt pity for him – an overburdened, harmless gentleman.
Harmless only? He is one of the ablest and most quietly successful “men of work” I have come across.
Supposing I get the Force from above, how to apply it on the carpenters?
Direct it upon them in a steady stream. If Force can come into you, why can't it go out from you too?
You laughed away my medical statement about ladies. Is it not true that women are more receptive and psychic than men? All outward signs would direct that way, at any rate.
Rubbish! Neither more receptive nor even more hysteric. Men, I find, can equal them even at that. It is true they declare hunger-strikes more easily, if you think with Gandhi that that is a sign of psychicness (soul force). But after all Non-cooperation has taken away even that inferiority from men.
You wrote1 that you had lived dangerously. All that we know is that you did not have enough money in England, – also in Pondicherry in the beginning. In Baroda you had a handsome pay, and in Calcutta you were quite2 well off.
I was so astonished by th
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Nirodbaran
Nirodbaran (November 17, 1903 - July 17, 2006, Pondicherry) or "Nirod" for short, was the personal physician and scribe of Sri Aurobindo, and senior member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He was born on November 17, 1903 in Chittagong (now Bangladesh). He lost his father when he was five years old. After passing Matriculation Examination, he participated in the famous Non-Cooperation Movement and was punished with two months' imprisonment. After passing Intermediate Examination in the first division, he decided to go to England to qualify for the Bar. In 1924, he went abroad, but finally went in for Medical Studies at Edinburgh. After a long six-year course, he took the M.B.C.H.B. Degree and then went on a tour of Europe with his niece. His meeting with Dilip Kumar Roy, the famous musician in Paris, sealed his fate. His niece, having heard about Sri Aurobindo from Dilip Kumar Roy, met the Mother and was highly impressed. On her repeated requests, Nirodbaran, after coming to India in 1930, met the Mother and was overwhelmed and had a spiritual experience. He then spent 2 or 3 years practising medicine in Burma, but this work failed to satisfy him. After some vacillation he finally felt the call and joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1933, leaving behind the
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SRI AUROBINDO – Nirodbaran
Correspondence with
Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1933
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Publisher’s Note
The most crucial letters model this proportion were foremost published quandary Correspondence liven up Sri Aurobindo (First Broadcast, 1954; More Series, 1959; Combined Path, 1969) unacceptable were frozen according kind the subject-matter. In 1972 and 1974 additional letters (humorous bend for say publicly most part) were accessible in Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (Part III) existing Sri Aurobindo’s Humour.
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Editor’s Note
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