Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

25 December 1940

Evening

Dr. Manilal had a warm cloth wrapped around his head and was sitting leaning against the small book case. When Sri Aurobindo sat up on the edge of the bed, he looked at him.

Sri Aurobindo: You are looking like one of the pictures of Ajanta, thinking the world to be a burden and being cold and miserable. (Laughter)

Nirodbaran: Today he has put on one more vest.

Dr. Manilal: That can be easily taken off. I was not feeling cold but to prevent any draught I put it on.

Sri Aurobindo: I was speaking of your expression; you were looking like an incarnation of suffering.

Dr. Manilal: But I am supposed to be very jolly, Sir.

Sri Aurobindo: But at that moment you were not! (Laughter)

Some time later the Mother came and, soon after Sri Aurobindo’s daily walk, Dr. Manilal left.

Purani: Indra Sen wants to know if the cosmic descent could correspond to the yogic descent in any way.

Sri Aurobindo: No, the yogic descent is a process of unveiling while the cosmic descent is involutionary, a process of veiling.

Purani: Yes, I also said something like that.