GLIMPSES OF KOBI NISHIKANTO.

When KOBI NISHIKANTO came to the Ashram for the first time, Sri Aurobindo told him, “Don’t remain here (at the Ashram). Go away. If you live outside, you will enjoy better health and acquire fame and reputation. You will become well-known as a poet. But if you stay here, you will suffer great physical pain.” “What sort of pain?” Nishikanto asked. Sri Aurobindo replied, “The sort of pain a man suffers falling from a cliff.” Nishikanto answered, “I am ready to bear this pain. But what about my spiritual progress?” Sri Aurobindo: “You will progress here in one life what would take ten lives elsewhere.” Kobi decided to stay on in the Ashram. FROM BOOK -