My experience of Satprem

and continues to play everywhere in the world a role of introduction to Sri Aurobindo’s yoga and to the evolutionary significance of the unprecedented crisis the entire humanity finds itself thrown in, - that many of the newcomers would seek him out. He was also the author of “L’Orpailleur” and “Le Sannyasin”, two more autobiographic works which brought him intimately close to many seeking individuals. His prose had developed already a unique divining quality which could communicate a force of aspiration and of call and a movement of receptivity capable of channeling a concrete help to each (Satprem has worked at this quality, this ability to invoke and evoke, for many years and his study of Tantra under Panditji’s guidance greatly contributed). And his welcome, calm and sober, was also fraternal and generous in its support of the nascent Auroville adventure; his sympathy seemed assured towards all those rough and awkward and often uncouth characters who were nevertheless moved by a common aspiration, who were then attracted as if by a magnet to the Mother’s presence and the creation of Auroville. And each one knew to find Satprem seated on the low wall facing the ocean, late afternoons, often in the same posture of half-asana, one leg tucked in and the other folded over, at once intense and at peace, discreet, his gaze cast in the far distance – one felt there was a being who had been cleansed with the fire and the pure water of consciousness, a being gathered in the aspiration to let That embody and manifest, here itself.

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