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In the Alipore Jail
"Mr. Aravinda Ghose and a few other persons have been acquitted in the Alipore bomb case," wrote the Daily Hitavadi, a Calcutta journal, in its edition dated May 9, 1909, "and it is not unlikely that one or two more will be acquitted on appeal. Mr. Beachcroft, the Judge, has openly said that but for Aravinda's complicity in the case, it would not have taken such a long time to come to an end. This means that the case was dragged on for such a long time, because the prosecution tried to prove Aravinda guilty by stretching and twisting what was only light and flimsy evidence. The police and Counsel for the prosecution always knew that it wou
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Sri Ramakrishna
Once upon a time, there lived a Brahmin. Like his tribe elsewhere, he too was poor. Also, like most of his tribe, he was upright. He earned his living by officiating as a priest in several villages whenever the occasion arose —puja, thread-ceremony, deaths and marriages. He lived a contented life in his village Dere. But human contentment depends on so many things. Specially if one is poor. The local zamindar wanted our upright Brahmin to testify falsely in a case. The Brahmin refused.
Thus it was that Khudiram Chattopadhyay left his village Dere to go and settle at Kamarpukur, about seven kilometres away from Dere, and some twenty kilome
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April Fool
Motilal made secret arrangements for Sri Aurobindo's stay at Chandernagore. Several times the hideaway had to be changed. For had he stayed long in one place he might have been discovered. Everything was done in a cloak-and-dagger manner, so that nobody except Motilal and a few friends knew where Sri Aurobindo was. The first day Motilal hid Sri Aurobindo in his lumber-room. But he spent the night and next day in another house. Brought back to Motilal's in the night he spent a few days in an unused room ... where he was discovered by Motilal's wife I During the five to six weeks that Sri Aurobindo remained in Chandernagore, his hideouts consisted of a t
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A Unit of Force
Sri Aurobindo took part in the Barisal Provincial Conference held on 14 April 1906. He was in the front row of three in the procession, with Bepin Pal and Bejoy Chatterji. The president of the Conference, Abdul Rasul, passed with his English wife in a carriage. Other prominent leaders followed on foot in a procession. Nobody stopped them. But just as a band of young men came behind, the policemen lathi-charged the unarmed boys. Chittaranjan, the son of Monoranjan Guha Thakurta, was assaulted and pushed into a tank. Although he was severely injured the police could not stop him from shouting 'Bande Mataram.' That exemplifies the tyranny of the fi
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Mother's Chronicles
Book Five: Mirra Meets the Revolutionary
Chronology
1893, February 6
— Sri Aurobindo, returning from England, lands at
Apollo Bunder, Bombay.
February 18
—Joins the Baroda State Service.
May 31
— Swami Vivekananda sails for America to attend the
World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in
September.
August 7
— Sri Aurobindo publishes in the Induprakash the first
of nine articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old' in which
he criticizes the leaders of the Indian National Con-
gress and their 'mendicant' policy.
November 16
-Annie Besant comes to India.
1894, April 8
— Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In
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The Confounded
British Government
"And the second fact is," wrote Sri Aurobindo to Dilip on 2 October 1934, giving his reasons for declining a request from Dr. Radha krishna for a philosophical contribution. "And the second fact is that I do not care a button about having my name in any blessed place. I was never ardent about fame even in my political days; I preferred to remain behind the curtain, push people without their knowing it and getting things done. It was the confounded British Government that spoiled my game by prosecuting me and forcing me to be publicly known as a 'leader.'"
That was the Bande Mataram Sedition Case.
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They Meet
She who was to be his companion in this dangerous enterprise was on her way.
"I began my Yoga in 1904 without a Guru," wrote Sri Aurobindo ; "in 1908 I received important help from a Mahratta Yogi and discovered the foundations of my Sadhana;" then, clearly he said, "but from that time till the Mother came to India I received no spiritual help from anyone else."
When they met, they helped each other in perfecting the Sadhana. To his realisations, which otherwise would have remained 'theoretical,' she showed the way to a practical form. For Mirra had brought with her all the accumulated knowledge of her own experiences, over and above all that she
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The Most Dangerous Man
Barin reports that he called Lele to Calcutta for his own sadhana, as well as for training and giving initiation to his boys. Lele came in February 1908 and put up at Sejda's Scott's Lane house. He even went one day to Belur Math and sat in meditation with Swami Brahmananda. He also met Baba Bharati. But it seems that Lele "knew the man by the dress" only
! Lele also used to think that the appearance has some value," Sri Aurobindo
said. "Once I met X with him. He asked me , 'Why don't you bow down to him?' I
replied that I didn't believe in the man. He said, 'But you must respect the
yellow robe .' '' Sri Aurobindo was no res
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A Conscientious Scientist
"I hope," wrote Sri Aurobindo to Dilip when the latter was invited to dinner by the Maharaja of Dewas (in Madhya Pradesh) who was a refugee in Pondicherry in the early forties, "I hope your dinner at Dewas did not turn out like my first taste of Maharatta cookery —when for some reason my dinner was non est and somebody went to my neighbour, a Maharatta Professor, for food. I took one mouthful and only one. O God! Sudden fire in the mouth could not have been more surprising. Enough to bring down the whole of London in one wild agonising swoop of flame!"
Sri Aurobindo was 'a conscientious scientific person,' as he himself
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"Welcome to Aravinda"
One of the first things Sri Aurobindo did after his acquittal was to thank publicly those who had helped in his cause and acknowledge the congratulatory telegrams and letters that kept pouring in from his innumerable admirers and well-wishers. His letter was published on 18 May both in the Amrita Bazar Patrika and The Bengalee.
"Sir,
Will you kindly allow me to express through your columns my deep sense of gratitude to all who have helped me in my hour of trial? Of the innumerable friends known and unknown, who have contributed each his mite to swell my defence fund, it is impossible for me now even to learn the names, and