Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

30 September 1940

Yesterday morning, Vithalbhai suddenly disappeared somewhere, but returned at night about ten. Somebody gave the news to Sri Aurobindo.

Sri Aurobindo: He was too disorganised and so he came back?

Sri Aurobindo asked if any of us had inquired where he had gone and why. Somebody said that perhaps he had been passing through some difficulty.

Sri Aurobindo: He has behaved like Naik. Naik used to have such fits. I suppose it is vital restlessness and dissatisfaction.

Satyendra: Perhaps. Some dissatisfaction must have been growing within.

Sri Aurobindo: He seems to have many minds. He wrote to us that he didn’t want to be in any organisation. By going out he found himself disorganised, probably. Another time he wrote he wanted to see the influence of other Yogis.

Purani brought in Roosevelt in some connection.

Sri Aurobindo: It seems this Wilkie is almost certain to be elected. Many Democrats are supporting him. All the same Wilkie doesn’t appear to be of Roosevelt’s standard.

Purani: No!

Evening

Purani narrated a story of how Reynaud was persuaded by his mistress to give up resistance in the North and withdraw to the South, as a result of which the majority of the French Army was crushed in Belgium.

Sri Aurobindo: Where was that story?

Purani: The Sunday Times.

Nirodbaran: The Sunday Times? We didn’t see it.

Sri Aurobindo: No! I would like to see it.

Purani: I will get the paper tomorrow.