Originally posted on sciy.org by Debashish Banerji on Wed 07 Dec 2005 12:22 AM PST
'The Golden Path' by Anie Nunnally
Reviewed by Mangesh Nadkarni
This is indeed a gem of a book. I have been enthusiastically recommending it to people who want an insider’s view of the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It is neither a handbook of the philosophy of integral yoga nor a guide to the practice of it. It does something special; it opens for you a whole new world which very few know exists – the world illumined by Sri Aurobindo’s light and the Mother’s love. It gives you the imaginative experience of directly bathing in the effulgence of their grace.
Anie Nunnally’s book is a set of interviews with twelve people whose lives have been transformed by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It has answered for me several questions I have always wanted to ask but would never have been able to ask. This is because my questions pertained to the inner lives of sadhaks, some of whom I have observed from a distance for many years now, but a sadhak’s inner life is always very private and personal. Most of the people whom the author has interviewed in this book are brilliant people in their own right and would have won outstanding success in the world outside. What is it that held them captive for life to this yoga and what is it they have achieved by their single-minded pursuit of a spiritual life under Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? These were my questions and I find them answered here in a large measure. You get here some idea of what treasures of inner felicity and fulfilment have been bequeathed to each one of them by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
Anie herself has been a follower of this spiritual path and has spent some years both in
Anie’s subjects are all illustrious Aurobindonians. Amal is an oustanding poet and critic, and is one of the most brilliant academic minds
Listen to Tehmiben, then eighty-four, answering the question what yoga has done for her: “To live constantly in the consciousness of the Divine, to live consciously with the Mother and in the Mother at all times, no matter what I am doing, what I am thinking, has been the goal. To know that it is all her doing and not ours and that she is molding us and shaping us and will not turn away from us. That has been my constant experience all these years and remains so. That is why I have always been reluctant to go outside the Ashram or
- Mangesh Nadkarni
This book can be purchased online at Amazon.com
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