![]() If you want to drive a nail into the wall, the hammer will give you the best service, isn’t it so? I mean, you would have to be a fool if you wanted to use your spiritual force to drive a nail. You see, the world of dharma, spirituality, has little in common with the world of politics. Richard: “Well, it’s not easy to put it all into words-but I’ll try. Gandhi is too obstinate-he can’t help it because he has a one-track mind.” ![]() I can recall how now and again I used to ask myself: ‘Is this frail, lovable man really the king and kingmaker of India?’” (After a pause) “But though he is great in strength, he is deficient in imagination. But the more I came to know him, the less sure I became of my appraisement of him. Richard: “In Ahmedabad when I was his guest I often disagreed with him violently. Vladia: “Do let us have a little more of your appraisement of Mahatma Gandhi.” That is why Rabindranath is so weak in the world of action and movement.”ĭilip: “May I know what exactly you mean by growing in strength? Or, to be more precise, who are those whom you consider ‘strong’?” For till one has an intimate knowledge of the dreadful and the diabolical one cannot grow in strength. Richard (shaking his head): “There I differ from you, Sir. But-well, he hasn’t come in contact with the unbeautiful, unlovely-I mean in close contact.” Richard: “Oh, he is a great poet all right-to his finger-tips.” And he added: “Descended from the world of beauty and harmony of the Gandharvas, the perfect angels. Marthe: “May I know what was your impression of him?” He (nodding): “I had long talks with him first in Japan and then in his country house at Shantiniketan where I was his guest.” ![]() “Did you know Rabindranath well?” I asked. Marthe served him coffee in our sitting room. But here I will give only a few samples of his brilliant conversation which are likely to interest all who believe in dreamers and idealists. Paul Richard made such a deep impression on people not merely because he was a radiant intellectual, but because he was, as he was wont to put it, “a dreamer of real dreams” as well… we kept a record of what Paul Richard said-Marthe often supplemented my notes with hers. His message will transform the world, I tell you, because he has been missioned, as a world teacher, to lead humanity to its destined fulfillment.”… He concluded his ringing prophecy with “I have looked for this race for years all over the world till I met in Sri Aurobindo their luminous herald and crowned ruler. ![]() In this lecture he had said that the future would be dominated not by Nietzsche’s superman, ruling with his titan ego, but by the divine man of India who would inaugurate a new era and create a new world. Its last chapter was an English translation of his lecture on Sri Aurobindo, delivered in Waseda University, Tokyo. ‘A celebrated author and lecturer, Monsieur Richard had written his first book-an English work-in 1920. Paul Richard’s conversations have been compiled and republished in the forum of Overman Foundation for the benefit of the reader. Dilip Kumar had kept a record of his conversations with Paul Richard in his Bengali book ‘Edeshe Odeshe’ and later reproduced the translated version in his books ‘Among the Great’ and ‘Pilgrims of the Stars’. During his stay in Nice, he was introduced to Paul Richard. Accordingly he sailed for France in March 1927. In 1927 Dilip Kumar Roy was invited by the Gramophone Company to make a few records in New York. ![]() Today we are publishing the interviews of Paul Richard conducted by Dilip Kumar Roy. ![]()
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