Satprem

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Satprem

Satprem (born October 30, 1923 in Paris , † April 9, 2007 ) was a French author and an important student of Mirra Alfassa , called The Mother .

Life

Childhood, youth and years of travel

Born Bernard Enginger in Paris , he came from Brittany , off the coast of which he regularly made long sailing trips in his childhood and youth. Due to resistance activities, he was arrested by the Gestapo at the age of twenty and spent a year and a half in German concentration camps. Deeply shaken physically and mentally, he traveled to India after his liberation to take up a post in the French colonial administration in Pondicherry . There he met Sri Aurobindo and the mother.

Dissatisfied with his job and his life, he left India immediately and embarked on a series of adventure trips that took him to South America and Africa before returning to India in 1953. At the age of 30 he put himself in the service of his mother and stayed at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram . He gave some lessons in the ashram school and edited the French texts of the quarterly magazine Bulletin of the Department of Physical Education , published by his mother , which was published in English and French. But Satprem remained restless and believed that he could find his fulfillment in ever new adventures. So he set out again and made trips to the Congo , Brazil , Afghanistan , the Himalayas , through the Gobi Desert and New Zealand , until he finally returned to Pondicherry. On March 3, 1957, his mother named him Satprem, which means "who loves the truth". In 1981 a documentary film was made about Satprem - primarily an interview about religion, morality and the mother.

In 1959 he became a student of a tantric yogi who was also the high priest of the great temple of Rameswaram in the south of the state of Tamil Nadu . Then, led by another yogi, he wandered through India as a sannyasin for six months . His story, The Body of the Earth, or The Sannyasin , is based on these experiences. After those walks he returned to the ashram.

Mother's pupil

Satprem has been invited to her room by her mother from time to time to discuss certain tasks related to the publication of the bulletin. He was fascinated by her and began to ask questions, thought it was wonderful to listen to her when she talked about her experiences. Soon he realized the importance of these conversations and began to record them with a tape recorder. This is how Mother's agenda came about . It included the topics of literary work, his own development and training in yoga, and the description of the mother's physical transformation. During this time he also met his future spiritual mate Sujata Nahar .

Under his mother's guidance, he wrote the book Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness , which appeared in 1964 and became the most popular introduction to integral yoga . In the years 1972–73 he wrote another work entitled La Genèse du surhomme , which appeared in 1974.

After the mother's death, there was a serious conflict between Satprem and the leadership of the ashram. All his correspondence with his mother from 1962 to 1973 was confiscated and he himself was expelled from the ashram, whereupon he withdrew to Auroville with the tape recordings of the Agenda .

The time after the ashram

After his mother's death, he wrote the trilogy Mother , in which he first analyzed and commented on the tape material. In his next work, The Mental of the Cells , which appeared in 1980, he once again summarized important contents of the trilogy. To publish and disseminate the agenda, he founded the Institut de Recherches Evolutives (Institute for Evolutionary Research ) in Paris . In 1983, Satprem and Sujata decided to withdraw from the public entirely. Seven years later, Satprem came back with a few book titles in which he wrote about his own experiences, the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and the future development of humanity.

Satprem died on April 9, 2007, his companion Sujata Nahar died a month later at the age of 81 on May 4, 2007.

Works

Title in German

Title in French

  1. - Works that Satprem wrote during his stay in the Ashram (with the blessing of his mother):
    • L'Orpailleur (1960)
    • Le Véda ou La Destinée Humaine (1961)
    • Sri Aurobindo ou L'Aventure de la Conscience (1964)
    • Le Grand Sens (1969)
    • Sri Aurobindo et l'avenir de la Terre
    • Par le Corps de la Terre ou Le Sannyasin (1974)
    • La Genèse du Surhomme (1974)
  2. - Works that Satprem wrote after the separation from the Ashram and the death of the mother :
    • Mère - Une trilogy (1977, 1. Le Matérialisme Divin, 2. L'Espèce Nouvelle, 3. La Mutation de la Mort )
    • Introduction à l'Agenda de Mère (1977)
    • Gringo (1980)
    • Sept Jours en Inde avec Satprem - Interview by Towarnicki (1981)
    • Le Mental des Cellules (1981)
  3. - Works that trace Satprem's own experiences:
    • La Vie sans Mort (1985)
    • La Revolte de la Terre (1990)
    • Lettres d'un Insoumis - Correspondance en 2 volumes (1994) couvrant la période 1947–1973
    • La Tragédie de la Terre - de Sophocle à Sri Aurobindo (1995)
    • La Clé des Contes (1997)
    • Néanderthal Regarde (1999)
    • Une lettre récente de Satprem (1999)
    • Carnets d'une Apocalypse 1973–1978 (1999)
    • La Légende de l'Avenir (2000) précédé de “Un Coup de Phare”.
    • Carnets d'une Apocalypse (suite: 1978–1982) (October 2000)

literature

  • Elfi, Nicole (1998). Satprem, par un fil de lumière: biography. Paris: R. Laffont.

Web links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH2UZTFBTow (German)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mother's Agenda Vol. 1, p. 48 and p. 100
  2. ^ Par le corps de la terre, ou le Sannyasin
  3. ↑ L'Agenda de Mère
  4. ^ Sri Aurobindo ou l'aventure de la conscience
  5. ↑ Dt. Ed. The Sun Path to the Great Self: The Key to Conscious Evolution
  6. ↑ Mère
  7. ↑ Le mental des cellules
personal data
SURNAME Satprem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2007