NavoditteNavoditte (Norman Thomas) came to the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram in 1967 with his wife, Alice, and in February, 1968 attended the
inauguration of Auroville. He moved to Aspiration in 1971 where he was part of
the group that met Mother a number of times, conversations subsequently
recorded in ‘Aspiration Talks’.Later he moved to the Eco-House in Certitude
where he was the weatherman, taking daily records of sun and wind. During the
1980s he worked for some time as the librarian at Aurelec.Above all, he was a fine writer. His best work
navigates a delicate line between quicksilver humour and profundity, reflecting
both his wry, self-deprecating take on life (he once wrote that the most
marvellous phrase in the English language was “I don’t know) as well as his
deep philosophical introspection and quiet undogmatic devotion to The Mother.What he wrote about the ancient Chinese poet, Tao
Yuang-Ming, could well have been written about himself: “He was quiet, even
taciturn, had no des...
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