Buddhi Yoga of the Gita and Other Essays

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Language: English
Pages: 260

Preface

Across our own house in Keyatola was the house of Shri Gautam Dharmpal where my father had taken me a couple of times to sit in the presence of Shri Anirvanji. I was too young to understand what was being said but remember a gentle figure lying on the cot and people sitting around him in reverence. A beautiful silence pervaded. Later Shri Ramswarupji, like a father to me, sent me the 'Buddhiyoga' - of Shri Anirvanji. He wanted me to be introduced to Shri Anirvanji's writings. It was Ramswarupji's way of suggesting seed ideas without elaborating, - and of course never imposing. Shri Anirvanji's book was too profound to be understood by a very young mind - but yet it had all, that would make me go back to it again and again giving clarity to my own particular bent of mind. His writings have since been my source of illumination the one backdrop- touching which all emerging multiplicity of thoughts are transmuted into ONENESS. I pay my obeisance and debt to him in a small way by sharing his words with others through Yak Pararnpara.

To speak about Anirvanji will be ignorance. If whatever, one can understand of him - it will be through his own writings. Such a saintly scholar even in the mighty canvas of the great Indian Tradition is Rare. To read his writing is like sitting in the presence of The Upanishadic Seer who has seen it all. Reading this book presupposes a certain preparation. These books are not guides for practising Yoga, but understanding and articulating Yogic states after intense sadhana.

Introduction

Sri Anirvan was born on July 8, 1896, in a small town, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. Most houses there had thatched roofs, palm, mango and banana trees; beyond, skirting the town, were