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AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
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What were your favourite books๐Ÿ“– and authors when you were young?ย 

Too many to count. Had a whole library. But if you ask me what books touched me most before turning to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother it was the Works of Swami Vivekananda, the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, R K Narayana, K M Munshi, the Mahabharata, Srimadbhagawat, Ramcharitmanas, briefly Ayn Rand and Richard Bach, Plato’s Republic, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, poems of Shelley, Wordsworth, Whitman, Jayashankar Prasad, Dinkar, Shankaracharya Vivekchudamani, Saundarya Lahiri, Gitanjali, Bhagwati Charan, Mahadevi Verma, many many others, the list would keep growing long. But once I touched Sri Aurobindo or was touched by Him it all lost its charm and nothing interested anymore.ย 

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Alok Da

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