SRI ANIRVAN SCHOLAR SAINT: INTRODUCTION TO LIZELLE REYMOND'S "SHAKTI," WRITTEN IN ENGLISH BY SRI ANIRVAN HIMSELF

INTRODUCTION TO LIZELLE REYMOND'S "SHAKTI," WRITTEN IN ENGLISH BY SRI ANIRVAN HIMSELF

INTRODUCTION TO LIZELLE REYMOND'S "SHAKTI," WRITTEN IN ENGLISH BY SRI ANIRVAN HIMSELF

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AN APPEAL TO ALL OF THOSE WHO KNEW SRI ANIRVAN

Dear friends,

We call upon all Sri Anirvan 's disciples and followers and those who knew him. We call upon people whom Sri Anirvan taught at Allahabad. People who met Sri Anirvan at Kasardevi near Almora, where Sri Anirvan lived for some time. We call upon disciples of Brahmachari Sri SatyaDev at the Sadhan Samar Karyalaya in CCU. Sri Anirvan had amicable correspondence with Sri SatyaDev. Most important are his Buddhist contacts in Kashi. We call upon all these people to come forward and tell of their experiences of this pure and noble saint, Sri Anirvan... Our lives will be greatly enriched thereby and blessed.

Gratefully, Mrinalini

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF SR ANIRVAN, AND A LIST OF HIS BOOKS

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF SRI ANIRVAN
Anirvan or Sri Anirvan (Bengali: শ্রী অনির্বান Sri Anirvan) (July 8, 1896–May
31, 1978) born Narendra Chandra Dhar (Bengali: নরেন্দ্রচন্দ্র ধর) was an
Indian/Bengali/Hindu monk, writer, Vedic scholar and philosopher. He was widely
known as a scholar, and his principal works were a Bengali translation of Sri
Aurobindo's The Life Divine and the three volume treatise Veda
Mimamsa
Sri Anirvan was born on July 8, 1896 in the town of Mymensingh, then a part
of British India and now in Bangladesh.[1] His birth name was Narendrachandra
Dhar. He was the son of Rajchandra Dhar, a doctor, and Sushila Devi. He was a
spiritually and intellectually-inclined child, who by the tender age of 11 had
memorized the Astadhyayi of Pāṇini and the Bhagavad Gita. He was named Baroda
Brahmachari after going through the sacred thread ceremony. He also won a state
scholarship as a teen and completed university IA and BA degrees at the
University of Dhaka and an MA from the Sanskrit College of the University of
Calcutta.
At 16, he joined the Assam Bangiya Saraswata Math ashram, located in the
village of Kokilamukh near Jorhat in Assam He was a disciple of the ashram's
founder, Paramahansa Srimat Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Dev, who initiated him
into sannyas. Anirvan's new monastic name was Nirvanananda Saraswati.He taught
at the ashram school and edited its monthly magazine Aryyadarpan. In fact, the
Aryadarpan still retains the following Sanskrit epigram, in the Rathoddhata
metre, that Sri Anirvan (then Srimat Varada Brahmacari) wrote:
arya-sastra-gahanartha-dipakascetas-timiravaravarakah/ dyotayan vijayatam
vipascitam arcisa hrdayam aryadarpanah//
Some time after 1930, Nirvanananda changed his name to Anirvan and ceased to
wear the ochre swami's robes. He travelled widely in North India, eventually
returning to Assam and establishing an ashram in Kamakhya near Guwahati.
However, he continued to travel. In the 1940s, he lived in Lohaghat and Almora.
Madame Lizelle Reymond documented some of this period in My Life with a Brahmin
Family (1958) and To Live Within (1971). During this time, Sri Anirvan
translated Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine into Bengali (as Divya Jeevan
Prasanga); this book, his first, was published in two volumnes between
1948-51.
In 1953, Sri Anirvan moved to Shillong in Assam. His reputation as a Vedic
scholar grew; and he wrote both in Bengali (chiefly) and in English (he was also
fluent in French) on various aspects of Hindu philosophy (particularly Samkhya,
the Upanishads, the Gita and Vedanta) and the parallels between Rigvedic,
Puranic, Tantric and Buddhist thought.
His magnum opus, Veda Mimamsa, was published in three volumes in 1961,
1965 and 1970. This work won him the Rabindra award.
Though Sri Anirvan was a saint, he studied different subjects such as
Marxism, nuclear science and gardening; yet he called himself a simple baul.
Sri Anirvan made his final move, to Kolkata, in 1965. He died on May 31,
1978, after a six-year illness

BOOKS WRITTEN BY SRI ANIRVAN
1.Aditi (Bengali: অন্তর্যোগ). Kolkata: Sri Gautam Dharmapal, Haimavati
Prakashani Trust.
2.Anirvan Aloya Patanjala Yoga-Prasanga; Edited & Translated by Sudipta
Munsi; Calcutta: Prachi Publications. (Bengali). Published 2006.
3.Antaryoga (Bengali: অন্তর্যোগ). Kolkata: Haimavati Prakashani Trust, 1997
(Bengali year 1404), 3rd edition.
4.Aranyak (Bengali: অারণ্যক). Writings as Editor of Nagamananda Ashram
magazine. Halishar: Assam Bangyiya Saraswat Math.
5.Bichitra (Bengali: বিচিত্রা). Kolkata: Smt Ramaa Choudhury,
Haimavati-Anirban Trust, 1993.
6.Buddhi Yoga Of The Gita And Other essays.(Original in English.) Biblia
Impex Pvt. Ltd. 1991, Madras, Samata Books.
7.Dakshinamurti (Bengali: দক্ষিণামূর্তি). 1969. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri
Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay,.
8.Divya Jeevan (Translation Into Bengali Of “The Life Divine” by Sri
Aurobindo. দিব্য জীবন প্রসঙ্গ).Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Originally
published 1948-51).
9.Divya Jeevan Prasanga (Bengali: দিব্য জীবন প্রসঙ্গ). Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo
Pathamandir, 2000 (fourth edition). (Originally published 1958).
10.Gayatri Mandala Volumes 1-6. (Bengali). Undated.
11.Gitanuvachan (Bengali: গীতানুবচন). Vol I - 1968, Vol II - 1969, Vol III –
1970. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay.
12.Inner Yoga (English) Translated by Simanta Narayan Chatterjee from “Antar
Yoga.” New Delhi: Voice of India.
13.Kaveri (Collection Of Poems) (Bengali: কাবেরী).1976. Kolkata: Sri
Aurobindo Pathamandir
14.Lecture On the Immortality Of the Body in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga
(Bengali:).1970. Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir
15.Letters From A Baul, Life Within Life. (original in English). 1983.
Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir.
16.Pather Katha (Bengali). Published 2008.
17.Pather Sathi (Bengali: পথের সাথী). Halishar: Srimat Swami Jnananada
Saraswati, Assam Bangyiya Saraswat Math, 1980. (Three volumes). Kolkata:
Haimavati Anirvan Trust.
18.Patralekha (Bengali: পত্রলেখা). Vol I - 1968, Vol II - 1969, Sreerampore,
Hooghly: Ritambhara. Vol III – 1980, Kolkata: Haimavati Anirvan Trust.
19.Patram Pushpam. 1982. Kolkata: Haimavati Prakashani Trust.
20.Prashnottari (Bengali: প্রশ্নোত্তরী). 1973. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri
Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay. Halishar: Srimat Swami Jnananada Saraswati, Assam
Bangyiya Saraswat Math, 2001 (Bengali year 1408), 2nd edition.
21.Pravachan (Bengali: প্রবচন). Vol I - 1962, Vol II - 1963, Vol III – 1966,
Vol I - 1961, Vol IV – 1973. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri Rabindranath
Bandyopadhyay. Later - Halishar: Srimat Swami Jnananada Saraswati, Assam
Bangyiya Saraswat Math, 2002 (Bengali year 1409).
22.Pururava (Bengali). Published 1989.
23.Sahitya Prasanga (Bengali: সাহিত্য প্রসঙ্গ). 1980. Kolkata: Haimavati
Prakashani Trust
24.Shiksha (Bengali: শিক্ষা). Vol I - 1962, Vol II – 1974. Assam Bangyiya
Saraswat Math.
25.Snehashish (Bengali: স্নেহাশীষ). Vol I - 1971, Vol II - 1971, Vol III –
1972. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Ritambhara.
26.Upanishad Prasanga - Commentary on Aitareya Upanishad (Bengali: উপনিষৎ
প্রসঙ্গ : ঐতরেয় উপনিষদ্). 1969. Burdwan University.
27.Upanishad Prasanga - Commentary on Ishopanishad (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ :
ঈশোপনিষদ্). 1967. Burdwan University.
28.Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Katha Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ
প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata:
29.Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Kaushitaki Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ
প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata:
30.Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Kenopanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ
: কেনোপনিষদ্). 1969. Kolkata: Haimavati Prakashani Trust
31.Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Mandukya Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ
প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata:
32.Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Taittireya Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ
প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata:
33.Uttarayan (Bengali: উত্তরায়ন). Kolkata: Smt Ramaa Choudhury,
Haimavati-Anirban Trust, 1995.
34.Vedamimamsa (Bengali: বেদ মীমাংসা). Vol I - 1961, Vol II - 1965, Vol III -
1970. Winner of Rabindra Puraskar award. Kolkata: Government Sanskrit
College.
35.Vedanta Jijnasa (Bengali: বেদান্ত জিজ্ঞাসা). Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri
Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay, 1965 (Bengali year 1372).
36.Yogasamanvaya Prasanga (Bengali: যোগসমন্বয় প্রসঙ্গ). 1967. Kolkata: Sri
Aurobindo Pathamandir.
BIOGRAPHIES
1.Section on Sri Anirvan in "Adhyatmavada Samskritite Acarya Satyananda" by
Prof. Gita Haldar in Bengali. Undated.
2.Kathaprasange Sri Anirvan by Ayacaka in Bengali. Undated.
3.Mahajana Samvada by Prof. Govindagopal Mukherjee in Bengali. Undated.
4.Rishi Anirvan, biography of Sri Anirvan by Prof. Gita Haldar in Bengali.
Published 2008.
5. Smriticarane Mahayogi Anirvan by Dilip Kumar Roy in Bengali. Undated.
BOOKS ON SRI ANIRVAN AND HIS PHILOSOPHY
1.Akasabrahma by Ayacaka in Bengali. Undated.
2.My Life In A Brahmin Family by Lizelle Reymond. Translated from the French
by Lucy Norton. Rider and Co. London. 1958.
3.To Live Within by Sri Anirvan and Lizelle Reymond, introduction by Jacob
Needleman. Morninglight Press.