An audio recording and a transcript of a talk.
At the Feet of The Mother
Nolini da
"There is another cause of the general inability to change which at present afflicts the sadhak. It is because the sadhana, as a general fact, has now and for a long time past come down to the Inconscient..."
The second part of Nolini-da's recollections about early days in Pondicherry.
"Sri Aurobindo came to Pondicherry and took shelter here. We might say of course from another point of view that it was he who gave shelter to Pondicherry within his own consciousness. But why this city in particular?"
"There is no rule of complete forgetfulness in the return of the soul to rebirth. There are, especially in childhood, many impressions of the past life which can be strong and vivid enough, but the materialising education and influence of the environments prevent their true nature from being recognised."
A Rishi is characterised by his seer-vision. Whatever he writes or states is like something seen before the very eyes and described in toto with minute precision right to the inmost depths. Such is Nolini Kanta, our Nolinida, as he is revealed through his writings.
"In golden moments of creation, great souls descend to earth surrounding the Avatar. These forerunners of superhumanity come to help in hewing the ways of immortality as the playmates, servants, comrades and the true children of the Lord. Surely one such was our Nolini-da."
"Speaking of Maheshwari, Sri Aurobindo writes: "To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels." Nolini Kanta Gupta was perhaps the first of the few whom the Mother so admitted to her counsels."
When the love goes towards the Divine, there is still this ordinary human element in it. There is the call for a return and if the return does not seem to come, the love may sink; there is the self-interest, the demand for the Divine as a giver of all that the human being wants [...] But the true love for the Divine is in its fundamental nature not of this kind, but psychic and spiritual.