The Nobel Prize

No spiritual Master has received the Nobel Prize. Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine was sent to the Nobel Committee. Everybody was sure that Sri Aurobindo would get the Nobel Prize. Then the Committee members said that they could not understand the book.

About twenty years ago, my brother used to take some of my books to Nolini, my former boss at the Ashram. Nolini said, "I am absolutely certain that Chinmoy will one day get the Nobel Prize for Literature, but not now. This is not the right time.” This was Nolini’s prediction.

My first boss at the Ashram, when I worked as an electrician, prayed every evening for years and years for me to get the Nobel Peace Prize. He said, “You deserve it and if you get it, then the ashramites and your followers will be so proud of you.”