Nolini: Sri Aurobindo's unparalleled friend-son-disciple

To Sri Manoj Das Gupta Lovingly and gratefully I dedicate my Nolini: Sri Aurobindo's Unparalleled Friend-Son-Disciple to Manoj, whom Nolini-da himself chose to be his blessingful and soulful successor. May Sri Aurobindo and the Mother sempiternally continue to shower their fond affection and choice blessings upon the beautiful aspiration-heart and powerful dedication-life of Manoj.

Lotus-name

```

Beloved Nolini-da,

My heartbeat breathlessly repeats

Your lotus-name

With climbing gratitude-flames. ```

Your life

```

Your soul-life was written

By Sri Aurobindo's Vision.

Your heart-life was produced

By Sri Aurobindo's Compassion.

Your mind-life was directed

By Sri Aurobindo's Illumination. ```

Never too young and never too old

```

Your heart was never too young

To unlearn.

Your mind was never too old

To learn. ```

Diamond-enthusiasm

```

Athletics,

What was it in your life?

A sparkling diamond-enthusiasm.

```

Permanent address

```

Since the beginning of creation

Sri Aurobindo's Fondness-Soul

Has been your permanent Address.

```

The same language

```

The Divinity of Sri Aurobindo's

Compassion-Heart

And the beauty of your

Aspiration-eyes

Spoke the same language.

```

The most favourite runner

```

Along Eternity's Road,

The most favourite runner

Of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

You were and you still are. ```

Adorer and defender

```

You were at once

A sea-vast adorer

Of the Mother

And a mountain-high defender

Of the Mother.

```

Liberation-delight

```

Detachment-light is liberation-delight.

This is what your budding fellow travellers

Learned from you.

```

To a child

```

To a child, your name:

A tenderness-treasure-heart.

To a mature human being, your name:

A singleness-volcano-mind. ```

A veteran of Father-Heaven

```

Even while you were

An unmistakable child of Mother Earth,

You were a memorable veteran of Father Heaven.

```

Will adamantine

```

The roller-coaster path

Of human life

You never denied.

Again, this path

Never dared to challenge

Your will adamantine. ```

Silence-freedom

```

Every morning,

While entering into your sanctum sanctorum

To do my humble service,

My heart saluted

The unfathomable silence-freedom

Of your sea-deep eyes. ```

Divinity's secret heart

```

Those who were afraid

Of their own inner depths

Were not allowed to stand

At the open door

Of your own divinity's secret heart.

```

Vastness-mind

```

Thousands upon thousands

Who admired the world literature

In your vastness-mind

Discovered the right road

To the high happiness.

```

The mind-begotten son

```

No wonder Barin-da [Barindra Kumar Ghose],

Sri Aurobindo's younger brother,

Wrote to the late Yogesh Chandra Bishwas

Of Chittagong

Many years ago that you were

The mind-begotten son of Sri Aurobindo. ```

Tagore appreciates

```

Our history teacher,

The late Sisir Kumar Mitra,

On being asked,

Told me that Tagore himself

Had told him at Shanti Niketan:

"Nolini Kanta's contribution

To Bengali literature

Is unique." ```

A divine warrior

```

During our marathon interview,

The great French savant Paul Richard

Said to me:

"I see Nolini

More as a divine warrior

Than as a great thinker.

He is my brother's [Sri Aurobindo's]

Earthly shield and Heavenly sword.

His mind is illumined,

His life is liberated.

I admire Nolini."

```

Inspiration-smiles

```

Measured were your words.

Unmeasured were your ideas.

Unmeasurable were your heart-beauty's

Aspiration-cries,

And supremely fruitful

Were your mind-profundity's

Inspiration-smiles.

```

Nolini Kanta Gupta's introduction to Chinmoy's book

Nolini Kanta Gupta wrote the following introduction to Chinmoy's book, The Mother of the Golden All:

A child of the Mother

is always a child unto the last —

even unto the last achievement

and fulfilment. 26 July 1958

From:Sri Chinmoy,Nolini: Sri Aurobindo's unparalleled friend-son-disciple, Agni Press, 1984
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/nsa