Two Dreams of Abhay (Retold by Sujata) In 1969, Mother gave the Manakula Vinayaka temple in Pondicherry an extra space of 130 square metres. The old boundary wall was demolished, a new wall was constructed. Mother had given this job to Abhay. A few days later Abhay had a visit from Ganesha himself! "A radiating golden Ganeshji with a football in his hand..." The god looked fondly at Abhay and invited him to play football with him! Abhay was a good football player. A delighted Abhay played with Ganesha till he was tired. The kind god smiled and said, "You see, I am now able to move about freely because of the extra space. 1 am pleased with you a

Acknowledgements The most prominent among those who have contributed to prepare this memoir are Smt. Jharna Ghosh, Sri Robi Gupta, Sri Sitangshu Roy, Sri Bhupal and also Nabajyoti Press. Those who have helped from behind the scene remain unmentioned as they so preferred. We are immensely indebted to all of them. Page-12 Page-13

Abhay-the achiever by Raman Reddy Abhay Singh Nahar, who was a student in our centre of education from 1943 to 1950, made important contributions to the Ashram's development over the years. Abhay Singh Nahar passed away on 14 August 2001. He collapsed in front of the Ashram Laundry gate at around 5 p. m. Though he was rushed to the Ashram Nursing Home in an auto, he didn't survive the massive heart-attack which was the cause of his death. Strangely, the auto driver didn't take any payment; on the contrary, the auto drivers' association brought a big wreath to pay him their last respects. The CITU (CPI (M) Page-135 premises in

French Homework Come, would you like to share a part of our life? A wondrous life. With each breath we inhaled joy. We did not then know it, but we were living history in the making. So, instead of writing history's footnotes, I believe it would be better to relate it. And what better way to do it than through Abhay's activities? It was the summer of 1940. Abhay was on a visit during his summer vacation. His school was "South Suburban School Branch", Calcutta. He was in class VIII, we think. On April 30, he turned sixteen. After his interview with the Mother, he did not go back to Calcutta but stayed on. That is why our dada, eldest brother, sent Abhay hi

Letters from Sri Aurobindo Prithwi Singh, You can certainly come in February for the darshan, we shall be very glad to see you here and the two children1 can also come. You will have all to crowd in one room, but as it is only for a few days that should not matter. We are getting more and more packed in the Asram and our elbow-room has diminished since you were here. Sri Aurobindo Ma, I speak with Kakima [aunt Shanti Kumari, Uday Singh's wife], another Kakima [Kiran Kumari, Umir Chand's wife], and Pisima [Nirmal Kumari, Uday Singh's sister]. 1. Abhay Singh and Sujata, ag

SAVITRI: SOME GLIMPSES AND REFLECTIONS1 On August 15, 1954, the eighty-second birthday of Sri Aurobindo, a most splendid offering to the Master was the one-volume edition brought out by the Ashram of his greatest poetic achievement - Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol - over which he had worked for, we may say, almost his lifetime. It is on record that Virgil devoted approximately ten years to his Aeneid, Dante sixteen intermittently and six wholly to his Divina Commedia, Milton at least eight to Paradise Lost and Goethe spread the writing of his Faust, with long intervals, over nearly fifty years of crowded life. Sri Aurobindo's occupation with his

INDEX OF LINES IN SAVITRI A being no bigger than the thumb of man115 A brute half-conscious body serves as means116 A bull-throat bellowed with its brazen tongue71 A deathless body and a divine name70 A dragon power of reptile energies67 A formless void oppressed his struggling brain363 A gap was rent in the all-concealing vault304 A gate of dreams ajar on mystery's verge367 A greater darkness waited, a worse reign245 A greater force than the earthly held his limbs123 A hope stole in that hardly dared to be248 A last high world was seen where all worlds met111 A lonely freedom cannot satisfy

THE OPENING OF SAVITRI1 SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON BOOK ONE CANTO ONE 1 Would you kindly help me to understand the following points in Savitri (International University Centre Edition, with the Author's Letters on the Poem, 1954)? P. 3. "A power of fallen boundless self..." Is it the same as "The huge foreboding mind of Night"? Pp. 3, 4. The above-mentioned "power" longing "to reach its end in vacant Nought", "A mute featureless semblance of the Unknown", "Repeating for ever the unconscious act...", and the Earth wheeling "abandoned in the hollow gulfs" - are these movements successive or simultaneous? The doubt has come on

THE TRIUMPH OF DANTE These arms, stretched through ten hollow years, have brought her Back to my heart! A light, a hush immense Falls suddenly upon my voice of tears, Out of a sky whose each blue moment bears The sun-touch of a rapt omnipotence. Ineffable the secrecies supreme Pass and elude my gaze—an exquisite Failure to hold some nectarous Infinite! The uncertainties of time grow shadowless And never but with startling loveliness, A white shiver of breeze on moonlit water, Flies the chill thought of death across my dream. For, how shall earth be dark when human eyes Mirror the love whose

EPILOGUE THE OVERHEAD PLANES Sri Aurobindo ... A few have dared the last supreme ascent And break through borders of blinding light above, And feel a breath around of mightier air, Receive a vaster being's messages And bathe in its immense intuitive Ray. On summit Mind are radiant altitudes Exposed to the lustre of Infinity, Outskirts and dependencies of the house of Truth, Upraised estates of Mind and measureless ... A cosmic Thought spreads out its vastitudes; Its smallest parts are here philosophies Challenging with their detailed immensity, Each figuring an omniscient scheme