Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

12 August 1941

Nirodbaran: A says that the day after he had his Diksha he started meditating without any apparent effort, even without any resolve to meditate. He says he got up at about four o’clock in the morning and then after having a wash he went down to his study and started to meditate. Soon he began to have experiences. He says that the first thing he noticed was that the walls of the room were vibrant, full of life and no longer made of solid matter. Two or three days later he experienced a force which was light, a kind of consciousness. After eight days he had a concrete experience of everything in the room being made of delight. He found it was the same substance of bliss which was in him and around him. He says this experience stayed with him for a month. He felt a joy always, and even for people he was not particularly fond of, he had a spontaneous sympathy and love. He felt great love even for animals he did not particularly like.

Sri Aurobindo: He has had one of the highest experiences of Yoga.