Quiz Time! Here are the questions for this issue. Send us your answers by email...
1. In which book would you find a portrait of Wilfy done by the Mother?
2. Where was the second edition of Prières et Méditations printed? Clue: At that time the Ashram Press did not exist.
3. Who collaborated with Mother to write the role of the Industrialist in her play "Le Grand Secret"?
4. In which year was the Mother’s electric organ offered to her?
5. What is the spiritual significance of the common jasmine?ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE PREVIOUS ISSUE :
1. Which Indian city is Sri Aurobindo referring to in the following lines of the poem "Nirvana"?
"The city, a shadow picture without tone,
Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief
Flow, a cinema’s vacant shapes; like a reef
Floundering in shoreless gulfs the world is done."
This is a reference to Bombay (Mumbai). The word "cinema" was a giveaway! This poem is quoted in A.B. Purani’s Life of Sri Aurobindo. Here is what Sri Aurobindo said during the "Evening Talks" about the experience in Bombay, which is the subject of this poem.
"When I was in Bombay, from the balcony of a friend’s house I saw the whole busy movement of Bombay as a picture in a cinema show, all unreal and shadowy. Ever since I have maintained that poise of mind – never lost it even in the midst of difficulties."
2. Arya, the monthly journal started by Sri Aurobindo was printed at the Modern Press in Pondicherry and published from 7, Dupleix Street, where the Mother was staying. If you walked into this house today what would you find there?
The Archives Department of the Ashram. "Dupleix Street"is the old name of "Nehru Street".
3. "For such a long time I thought I knew what love was, and now that I no longer see anything that cannot be called love, I also no longer see anything that may specially be called love. And how can I be that which I can no longer define, that which I can no longer distinguish?"
In which book would you find these lines written by the Mother? Clue: This was written before 1920.
This passage is taken from the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations.
4. He joined the Ashram in 1929 when he was only nine years old. He was the first child, and for a long time the only one, in the Ashram. He was a poet and a musician. He played the sitar and performed on stage quite often. But to the students of the School he will be remembered as the librarian (of the little library which was in Room no. 7 of those days) who used to suggest to us what story-books to read. Who was he?
Romen-da, of course.
5. What is the spiritual significance of the flowers of the mango tree?
"Nature’s hope for realisation". The mango fruits are called "Divine Knowledge".
THE GOLDEN CHAIN www.goldenchainfraternity.org/pdf/feb2006.pdf
1. In which book would you find a portrait of Wilfy done by the Mother?
2. Where was the second edition of Prières et Méditations printed? Clue: At that time the Ashram Press did not exist.
3. Who collaborated with Mother to write the role of the Industrialist in her play "Le Grand Secret"?
4. In which year was the Mother’s electric organ offered to her?
5. What is the spiritual significance of the common jasmine?ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE PREVIOUS ISSUE :
1. Which Indian city is Sri Aurobindo referring to in the following lines of the poem "Nirvana"?
"The city, a shadow picture without tone,
Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief
Flow, a cinema’s vacant shapes; like a reef
Floundering in shoreless gulfs the world is done."
This is a reference to Bombay (Mumbai). The word "cinema" was a giveaway! This poem is quoted in A.B. Purani’s Life of Sri Aurobindo. Here is what Sri Aurobindo said during the "Evening Talks" about the experience in Bombay, which is the subject of this poem.
"When I was in Bombay, from the balcony of a friend’s house I saw the whole busy movement of Bombay as a picture in a cinema show, all unreal and shadowy. Ever since I have maintained that poise of mind – never lost it even in the midst of difficulties."
2. Arya, the monthly journal started by Sri Aurobindo was printed at the Modern Press in Pondicherry and published from 7, Dupleix Street, where the Mother was staying. If you walked into this house today what would you find there?
The Archives Department of the Ashram. "Dupleix Street"is the old name of "Nehru Street".
3. "For such a long time I thought I knew what love was, and now that I no longer see anything that cannot be called love, I also no longer see anything that may specially be called love. And how can I be that which I can no longer define, that which I can no longer distinguish?"
In which book would you find these lines written by the Mother? Clue: This was written before 1920.
This passage is taken from the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations.
4. He joined the Ashram in 1929 when he was only nine years old. He was the first child, and for a long time the only one, in the Ashram. He was a poet and a musician. He played the sitar and performed on stage quite often. But to the students of the School he will be remembered as the librarian (of the little library which was in Room no. 7 of those days) who used to suggest to us what story-books to read. Who was he?
Romen-da, of course.
5. What is the spiritual significance of the flowers of the mango tree?
"Nature’s hope for realisation". The mango fruits are called "Divine Knowledge".
THE GOLDEN CHAIN www.goldenchainfraternity.org/pdf/feb2006.pdf
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