Esha's recollections of some episodes of her life, as narrated to Nirodbaran in Bengali, who translated it in English. This is presented here in form of a book.
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Nirodbaran on Esha's story : Esha, the late Dilip Kumar Roy's niece, was a little girl visiting the Ashram when I came to know her through my niece Jyotirmoyee with whom she had become very friendly. She wanted to settle in the Ashram, but her mother did not want it as she was still a minor. When after many years she came to the Ashram again and stayed with Sahana Devi, I became more closely acquainted with her. By that time she had already married and obtained her divorce and had decided to settle here. I came to her help and made all possible arrangements for the purpose. Since then I have come to know her well and listened to her narration of the incidents of her life. As I found them interesting I began to note them down and was thinking of publishing them in Mother India when somehow she got wind of it and strongly objected to it. As I felt I had Sri Aurobindo's sanction for it, I did not listen to her. In spite of my disregarding her objection, luckily she did not stop recounting her saga. Of course she narrated it in Bengali and later I put it down in English as faithfully as I could. When the story began to appear in Mother India, she insisted more than once that I should stop it. My answer was that I believed it could be helpful to many readers and that Sri Aurobindo seemed to support me.
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Some days later I asked him: "Nirod-da says he would like to write and publish all that you tell me. It would be good for others, he says."
"Nirod? What has he to say? It is I who am making him say it."
"Can I ever speak of your greatness?"
"What greatness of mine can you speak of? On the contrary, what you say will be good for you."
"What good?"
"Why, the more you will think of me, the better it will be for you."
"But am I not thinking of you as much as I can?"
"No, if it is to be written about, you will have to think deeply indeed."
(Editor's Note: I reproduce here the following discussion I had with Esha because there are many who doubt her experiences like Sahana did. Not that they will be convinced, but I must do my job. In fact, I discovered it accidentally as I was going through my records.)
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