Light To Superlight

Dedication

The twenty-six letters of Sri Aurobindo were placed in my hands to be edited with an annotating commentary for the purpose of publication during the Sri Aurobindo Centenary Year.

The twenty-six letters—like the twenty-six letters of the English Alphabet—were felt to be inspired with life as the days passed in deep and silent contemplation over the mute text-scraps in the Master's own hand-writing—some in mere pencil scribbling, mostly faded, somewhat defaced and rendered almost illegible after 60 years' ravages of time. I had hard labour with singular faith and patience along with my brother co-editor, Shree Durga Shankar Mahalanobis to decipher these precious texts.

Gradually however, after a couple of months or so, the concentration proved to me at least amply self-rewarding. The twenty-six letters as it were, in the sense of the ancient varna-matrika of our Sanskrit literature—lit up into living units of supernal light. A heavenly splendour of spiritual presence and aura surrounded me and overwhelmed myself during the concentration-hour every morning. Even the words came rolling forward in a torrential flow from somewhere above the crown of my head and I was in a supreme mood of exalted elation,

This Varnamatrika—I am forced to acknowledge—has revealed to me—unsought yet spontaneous—my Guru of Gurus —Mahaguru himself merging into Ista-devata. His own story is revealed by himself in regalia of light—a resurrection of spiritual illumination and uplifted life.

This is indeed, a true and vivid life-story—an eventful as well as crisisful chapter of our spiritual and national life-history. It is to me an indispensable life-key to open our new nation's as well as new humanity's new dawn of coming future.

I offer my cordial thanks to all concerned in this inner revelation: To my lineage of spiritual Gurus, my Samgha-Guruji Shree Motilal—to our Maha Guru Sri Aurobindo .himself—to our Parama Guru Shree-Shreemat Vishnu Bhasker

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Leleji—to Paramesthi Guru and Mahayogavatara Shree-Shree-Dattatreyaji—and to all the hierarchy of guardian-angels of India's past, present and future—I tender my all-souled homage —my utter consecration.

To thank our Prabartak Publishers for undertaking to publish

I dedicate this fruit of my toil of love and devotion to the Youths of Bengal, India, Euro-Africo-Asia and the World.

Prabartak Samgha

Chandernagore (West Bengal) ARUN CHANDRA DUTT

Akshoy Tritiya 15th May 1972

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