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If you do, could you please share the list of favorites books of Sri Aurobindo (that he might have written about or mentioned in passing to other sadhaks)?✍️🪶📚📜

Indian authors:

The Rigveda, Isha Upanishad, Kena and the Brihadaranyaka, the Vishnu purana and the Bhagawat Purana, the Gita, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, Works of Kalidasa, Bankim’s Anandmath, Maharishi Dayanand, the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.

Western authors:

Homer’s Iliad, Goethe, Heraclitus, Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Francis Thomas. 

These he has certainly appreciated. There are many others he has mentioned and passingly appreciated. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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