Nirodbaran

Nirodbaran Chakravarty (* November 17, 1903, † 17 July 2006 in the Pondicherry) was the personal physician and writer of Sri Aurobindo and senior member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Life

Nirodbaran studied at the University of Edinburgh with a degree in medicine. While he was in Paris, he erfuht by Dilip Kumar Roy of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa. In 1930 he first visited the Ashram in Pondicherry. Already at this time Aurobindo wrote him a long letter in reply to his questions about the compatibility of yoga and working in the world. Then he spent two or three years in Burma as a practicing physician; but this work did not satisfy him. He returned to Pondicherry Ashram in the back with the intention to immerse yourself in yoga and began work as a practicing physician. To his surprise, he realized that poetry and poetry has been practiced by some students of the Ashram. Because Aurobindo had already retired from public life in the ashram, communicated this with the students about letters. Nirodbaran began an extensive correspondence with Aurobindo ( about 4000 letters ), who encouraged his ambitions as a poet and distracted. He published a collection of his poems under the title flower of the sun and 50 poems by Nirodbaran that reviewed by Aurobindo and commented. In November 1938, Aurobindo broke his leg. As a physician Nirodbaran was one of the students who beistanden him while he recovered.