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विप्रवचन – Our Authors & Their Words |
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K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar was a distinguished scholar, educator, poet, and former Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, widely regarded as a pioneer of Indian writing in English studies. He authored acclaimed biographies of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, along with numerous works of literary criticism, translation, and poetry. A recipient of several prestigious honours, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, he was elected a Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi in 1985 for his outstanding contribution to Indian literature.
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It was decreed indeed that man should change, and his world should change, and that the Superman or the Supramentalised man of tomorrow, inhabiting a transformed world or supernature, should render earth and heaven equal, transfiguring our life mundane with its blots of “death, desire and incapacity” into the life divine with its immaculate intensities, life-movements and realisations.
The life divine was the goal and Supramental Yoga the means. And the New Man should, as it were, break out of the shell of existing humanity. Sri Aurobindo could see it all very clearly, and he had explained everything in a manner that should carry conviction.
And yet,—perhaps something more could be done. The thing decreed could be shown as happening! The drama of man’s and earth’s transcendence into the splendours and imperatives of the Life Divine could be enacted in terms of stern causality, involving the reader too in the dynamics of the transformation.
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A few excerpts from K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar's book ‘On the Mother: The Chronicle of a Manifestation and Ministry’, which speak of the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s yogic work in WW2.
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We present selections from the book titled “On The Mother” by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1994 edition published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, pp. 728-731). These summarise the key essentials of Free Progress system. For the ease of online reading, a few sub-headings are added by the editors.
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“The art of good writing consists in knowing how to be silent. The things you don’t say are far more important than the things you do.”
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The Mother’s Agenda, 2: 388)
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