SRI AUROBINDO

THE SMILING MASTER

SRI AUROBINDO

THE SMILING MASTER

Humour in Sri Aurobindo's Writings

What is the Divine? - An expansiveness smiling and luminous.

- The Mother

JUGAL KISHORE MUKHERJEE

SRI AUROBINDO INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF EDUCATION

PONDICHERRY

First published: 9 September 1995

(Typeset in 10.5/13 Palatino)

ISBN 81-7058-454-X

© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1995

Published by Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education,

Pondicherry 605 002

Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press,

Pondicherry 605 002

PRINTED IN INDIA

J350/95/IOOO

O rubbish! I am austere and grand, grim and stern! every blasted thing that I never was! I groan in un Aurobindian despair when I hear such things. What has happened to the common sense of all you people?

— Sri Aurobindo

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Sense of humour? It is the salt of existence. Without it the world would have got utterly out of balance...

— Sri Aurobindo

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Cheerfulnsss is the salt of sadhana. It is a thousand times better than gloominess.

- Sri Aurobindo