Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo (book)

Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo Recorded by A.B. Purani PDF (805 pages)

Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo Recorded by A.B. Purani PDF (942 pages)

TO THE READER

The reader is requested to note that Sri Aurobindo is not responsible for these records as he had no opportunity to see them. So, it is not as if Sri Aurobindo said exactly these things but that I remember him to have said them. All I can say is that I have tried to be as faithful in recording as I was humanly capable. That does not minimise my personal responsibility which I fully accept.

A. B. Purani

(A. B. Purani:) “These sittings, in fact, furnished Sri Aurobindo with an occasion to admit and feel the outer atmosphere and that of the group living with him. It brought to him the much-needed direct contact of the mental and vital make-up of the disciples, enabling him to act on the atmosphere in general and on the individual in particular. He could thus help to remould their mental make-up by removing the limitations of their minds and opinions, and correct temperamental tendencies and formations. Thus, these sittings contributed at least partly to the creation of an atmosphere amenable to the working of the Higher Consciousness. Far more important than the actual talk and its content was the personal contact, the influence of the Master, and the divine atmosphere he emanated; for through his outer personality it was the Divine Consciousness that he allowed to act.”

Nirodbaran
Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo
Chapter 8: “Talks”

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See also

• "Sri Aurobindo at Evening Talk" by V. Chidanandam
• Talks with Sri Aurobindo (recorded by Nirodbaran)
• Books by disciples