Sri Aurobindo to Dilip : Volume 1 - 1929-1933

Sri Aurobindo to Dilip : Volume 1 - 1929-1933

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Author: A Compilation
Editor(s): Sujata Nahar / Michel Danino / Shankar Bandyopadhy
Publisher: Mira Aditi
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185137749

Description

This is the first of three volumes of correspondence between Sri Aurobindo and Dilip Kumar Roy, singer, musician, poet and writer. In 1928, Dilip, whom Sri Aurobindo called a friend and a son, became the latter’s disciple. A massive correspondence ensued –countless letters from Sri Aurobindo and a few more from Mother, extending till 1951, and published unabridged here for the first time.

In these illuminating pages, Sri Aurobindo explains his Yoga, guiding Dilip in his inner life, encouraging him to overcome doubt, depression, even revolt, to develop his poetic skills, commenting upon his Bengali and English poems. We see at work the ideal guru-shishya, teacher-student relationship, the infinite patience of the loving guru on the one hand, on the other the questionings, difficulties, struggles, but also experiences, of the doting disciple, whom Sri Aurobindo invites to take up the pilgrim’s staff and start out to journey there where the Reality is for ever manifest and present.

Contents

INTRODUCTION
By Gobindo Gopal Mukhopadhyaya

PREFACE
By Shankar Bandyopadhyay

NOTE

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Correspondence 1929
Correspondence 1930
Correspondence 1931
Correspondence 1932
Correspondence 1933