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AMRITA
BIRTH CENTENARY -
1995
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Amrita
A Sketch by the Mother
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Amrita with the Mother
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Publisher's Note
This book commemorates the life and work of K. Amrita, one of the
earliest disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
Originally named Aravamudachari, Amrita was born in 1895 into a
Brahmin family in a village near Pondicherry in South India. As a boy
in his teens he heard the name of Sri Aurobindo as one of the leaders
of the freedom struggle going on in the countr
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PART TWO
AMRITA
The Creator in His dreaming has created
this immortal thing in creation,
Figuring as a common creature,
forgetful of his Self:
A mystic reason makes Him hide
His own form and nature,
Ever at labour in working out
the Impossible:
To transfigure Nature, to establish the
Transcendent here on the bosom of material Earth,
To feed the divine sacrificial Fire
with this human body,
With this bounded frame.
Lo, the timeless hero worker
with his flaming faith,
Indifferent to the rude impacts of Reality,
Dreaming of the victorious Mother's
wonder dreams,
Shaping in his heart of hearts
the golden garde
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amrita/English/Birth Centenary/He Gave Us the Feeling of Infinite.htm
PART - ONE
HE GAVE US
THE FEELING OF INFINITE
WHEN people ask me to narrate my experiences
of Sri Aurobindo, I have only one answer to give. What can be said about this Mahapurusha? And who can say that? However we might praise
him and whatever the superlatives we might employ for the purpose, all that appears
to be utterly inadequate to describe him.
So, when I am asked to
narrate my experience, I am bewildered. I will set down just o