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Practice and Efficacy of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
as well as the great travelers of my school days. I admired the great works of Burke and soldiers. Though this was so, I did a good lot of reading in the lives of the great discoverers in the science. Proctor books and the book of knowledge I had read avidly. But the reading of the life of Vivekananda, which synchronized with the First Non-Cooperation movement, which, had deep spiritual, coloring was the beginning of my interest in Yoga. Though Karma yoga was what was put forward by the Gandhian way, yet the jnana attracted me or rather the Raja Yoga attracted me. Then after study of all the books concerned including quite a lot of books by Tolstoy and A.E(Whitehead) and other I found that the books of Swami Ramatirtha(Woods of God Realisation) and the Arya volumes of Sri Aurobindo came to me. Though the first author did stir deep spirituality, it was Sri Aurobindo's works that made me get the feeling that here indeed is the authentic voice of spirituality. I drank literally the works of Sri Aurobindo. I do not know how it was so easy for me to feel into. After the Arya, I subscribed for the
Standard Bearer (Chandranagore). I felt that weekly
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