Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Wed 10 Jan 2007 06:38 PM PST
...Spiegelberg's interest encompassed all the world's traditions of religion and philosophy:
"I had contact with many Indians, but none of them has made such an impression as the reading of the books of Sri Aurobindo, which I did in Stanford University, where I started teaching in 1942. This led to my eventual visit to India on a Rockefeller grant in 1948 and '49, where I was fortunate enough to have the darshan of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry." -- Frederic Spiegelberg
Spiegelberg also discussed philosophy with Ramana Maharshi and had extensive correspondence with Sivananda.
Gainsborough's proposal intrigued Spiegelberg, and he set about the task of assembling a distinguished international faculty for the exciting and important project:
"The question was brought to Sri Aurobindo himself, who approved of Chaudhuri's coming to us with the word "Acha" (of course!)."
-- Frederic Spiegelberg
Two months later, in December of 1950, Sri Aurobindo died.
-- Letter from Spiegelberg to Haridas Chaudhuri
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