Puducherry, through their eyes…

Four great personalities express their feelings for Puducherry in these words:

“I needsome place of refuge in which I can complete my Yoga unassailed and build up other’s souls around me. It seems to me that Pondicherry is the place appointed by those who are Beyond…”

“Pondicherry is my place of retreat, my cave of tapasya, not of the ascetic kind, but of a brand of my own invention.”

SRI AUROBINDO

“A day will come, I hope, when we shall be able to tell freely and truly all that Sri aurobindo’s Presence has meant for the town of Pondicherry…”

“It is hoped that the State of Pondicherry will materialize this spoirtitual vision and become a meeting place of all the cultures of the world with the full consciousness of the fundamental Unity that binds the peoples of the world together.”

THE MOTHER – MIRRA ALFASA

“The ocean was apiece of jade,

Set against fire, set against the new born sun, set in the magic of dawn;

With her breakers crashing, each one right in rhythm she sang the truth of all scriptures. There was a city there, a Tamil city, which beaches and a breeze…”

POET SUBRAMANYA BHARATHI
(From ‘Kuyilpattu’/English translation by David Buck)

“Ours us a good city with affectionate people and poets who write meaningful songs.”

POET BHARATHIDASAN
(From “Engal Ooril” written in 1941)

Posted in: POET BHARATHIDASAN,POET SUBRAMANYA BHARATHI,SRI AUROBINDO,THE MOTHER – MIRRA ALFASA