AMRITA- DA
(Sept. 19, 1895 - Jan. 31,1969)
Amrita's original name was Aravamudhachari Iyengar. Born in to a respected Brahmin family of village munsiff Rajagopalachari of Kazhipervembakanm, a village 15Km North west of Pondicherry, Amrita came across the name of Sri Aurobindo, as a boy; the four names much talked about in his village were those of Tilak, Bipin chandra Pal, Lajpatrai and Aurobindo, but the last one strangely caught the heart and soul of the young boy, through all the four were great leaders in India's for freedom. At that time, Amrita hardly knew that this spontaneous adoration was a mysterious presage to his great spiritual destiny - a close and life-ling association with Sri Aurobindo, beginning in 1969 when he joined Sri Aurobindo after completing his studies, to 1969 when he passed away after rendering dedicated service for half a century to the Master and the Mother.
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O Mother of Radiances, you have dawned in the narrow horizons of my mind. Out of its depthless rigidities, in the midst of its walled-up spaces you have created a heart-like something that will live its eternal life. You have revealed to me a chamber alive and warm within the mind's substanceless polar regions and there I can safely retire and find in you my refuge.
- Amrita