Painting of Sri Aurobindo by Johannes Hohlenberg
Johannes Hohlenberg had important contacts with both The
Mother and Sri Aurobindo in the early years of the century, and was the first
writer to introduce the Integral Yoga to Europe. Today he is a neglected,
little-known figure. However, Anusuya Kumar’s recent discoveries may be about
to change that.
Beginnings
It all began with a bout of pneumonia. Anusuya Kumar was a
student of English Literature. She had been writing her Ph.D dissertation on
Paul Scott, the author of The Raj Quartet, when she came down with pneumonia. However,
even though she had a high fever, her deadline was close and she pushed on. “I
had been approaching the topic from a fairly conventional Marxist perspective
but suddenly, in my delirium, the novel seemed to open up and I could see
through to a subtext. There seemed to be a central mystery, an invisible
spiritual core, to these novels, and I saw that some of the English characters
in the novels...
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