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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Rakhal Das Bose/English/How I Came to the Ashram.htm
HOW I CAME TO THE ASHRAM   rakhal das bose   It was in 1906 during my college life (when I was 20) that I attended some of the political meetings of  Sri Aurobindo after the eventful Partition of Bengal. This Partition — a veritable act of God in disguise — had stirred the life and mind of Bengal, nay almost of the whole of India, after cen­turies of inertia and apathy. During those days there were no loudspeakers but voices of veterans like Surendranath Banerji and Bepin Chandra Pal reached the farthest ends of crowded meetings, sometimes over a lakh of people, amidst din and noise of the huge mass of humanity that had gathered. But when young Aurobindo Babu (Sri A