Barindranath Chaki
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Orissa Administrative Service (Retd.) |
| Location | Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India |
| Introduction | Interested mainly in the Adventure of Consciousness, I believe in human progress and evolution and in the inner capacity of Man to outgrow and master all his imperfections and darkness, to grow into a creative, constructive and higher divine being, along with the society, conquering all inner and outer darkness, crossing all barriers and divisions. I am a retired Officer of the Orissa Administrative Service from Orissa, India. Since adolescence, I was inspired by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mira Alfassa) and sought to understand and follow Their Teaching, and make others understand and follow Them. In 1956, I read The Life Divine, and gradually, read almost all that is written by Them and about Them. I have visited the Ashram and Auroville some times. I organized some Sri Aurobindo centres in Orissa, and often met Prapatti and Ramkrishna Das. I and my wife and children had a special Darshan of The Mother on my birthday on 3rd March 1972. Mira Aditi Centre has published my Bengali translations of some books including Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem, India's Rebirth and India the Mother, collections from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. |
| Interests | Adventure of Consciousness, outer and inner adventures, philosophy, spirituality, yoga, integral yoga, meditation, mysticism, astrology, poetry, art, painting, music, games (indoor and outdoor), mainly, cricket, tennis, badminton, table-tennis, viewing TV, browsing the Internet for hours for general and specific purposes, reading and writing books, seeking Truth, seeking the meaning of life and existence, I am a person with varied interests and activities. Fundamentally, I am a seeker of Truth. |
| Favorite Movies | Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, The Terminator, and many other movies of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Among Indian films, Awara, Jagte Raho, Mughle Azam, some movies of the stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Amir Khan, movies by Satyajit Ray, Shatranj Ke Khilari, Pather Panchali, and some others. TV channels, Aaj Tak, StarPlus, Star Movies, Sony, National Geography, Discovery, Animal. |
| Favorite Music | My most favourite music is from The Mother (Mira Alfassa), and from Her disciple Sunil. |
| Favorite Books | Books by Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, Satprem, Nolini Kanta Gupta, Nirodbaran, K D Sethna, Kapali Shastriar, M P Pandit, Huta, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra, Sarat Chandra, Nehru, Gandhi, Nietzsche, J Krishnamurty, Osho, Swami Yogananda, Teilhard De Chardin, Stephen Hawking, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Agatha Christie, Stanley Gardener. |