At the Feet of the Master

Publisher’s Note

Kodandarama Rao first met Sri Aurobindo in December 1920. A few months later he came to live near him in Pondicherry. He remained until 1924. After his return to Andhra Pradesh, he remained in contact with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and was present at many darshans.

More than forty years after his departure from Pondicherry, Kodandarama Rao published his reminiscences under the title At the Feet of the Master. This little book is one of the few records we have of life during the early 1920s in what became the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

The first edition of At the Feet of the Master was published in 1969. The present, second, edition follows the 1969 text. Spelling and punctuation have been normalised to some extent. Some of Kodandarama Rao’s references to people and places have been explained in editorial notes at the end of the volume.