Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Softcover

Sri Aurobindo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8170588650 ISBN 13: 9788170588658

Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, 2011

Synopsis

Evening Talks is A.B. Purani's record of informal conversations between Sri Aurobindo and his disciples during two periods: 1923-1926, when the talks were held on the verandahs of the houses in which Sri Aurobindo stayed, and 1938-1943, when they took place in Sri Aurobindo's room. The talks cover a wide range of topics-yoga, philosophy, art, poetry, psychology, science, and contemporary history, notably India's struggle for independence and the Second World War. They reveal something of the versatile nature of Sri Aurobindo's personality and his wide-ranging, profound knowledge of life as well as a glimpse of the heights of spiritual consciousness he embodied and through which he acted on both world events and on the natures of those drawn to his yoga.

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For the seekers after the Divine and the travelers of the inner world, nothing is more invaluable than sharing proximity with the Guru, the Mystic, the Prophet and the Realized Being. That is why perhaps, all great spiritual traditions of the world, invariably accord a pride of place to the account of disciples, conversation with the Master: the Circle of a Christ, Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi or Sri Aurobindo.

It is in this sense that A. B. Purani's Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo is of special interest and appeal to the disciples and admirers of Sri Aurobindo. "Guru griha vasa" is an old Indian tradition. In the hand of Purani, the talks become the Upanishadic "Aranyaka" - the ancient teachings in the forest groves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8170588650
• ISBN 13: 9788170588658
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 836