The Quest for the Inner Man

The author, Joseph Vrinte, a citizen from The Netherlands, is a mental health worker at various mental institutions in Amsterdam. After finishing his B.A. from Lucknow University, he graduated from Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, where he chose Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy as a special subject during his M.Phil course. After studying Sanskrit in Varanasi under the guidance of Dr. B.P. Tripathi and Dr. L. Sharma, Head of the Sanskrit Department of Benares Hindu University, he registered himself in 1988 at the Rohilkhand University for research work on A. Maslow with whose work he was thoroughly familiar and also Sri Aurobindo’s. During his research work he stayed at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry where he was able to collect all the necessary information and received valuable guidance.