Richard (Narad) Eggenberger Biography

Richard Eggenberger (Narad) is a highly regarded poet and author of more than 50 volumes covering a wide range of subjects, horticulture, landscape design, tropical plant specialist, more than 16 books on poetry, spirituality and more. He was an opera singer in New York City, a tropical plant specialist and his Handbook on Plumeria Culture is a classic. He received his spiritual name, Narad, 'The Heavenly Singer' from the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India. He writes, 'Even as a child around the age of two or three I was in love with the earth and recall the delight I felt when I touched her heart. Innocent and gleeful I inhaled the richness of the grass, the pure air and the sonorities of the singing brooks. One might ask how it is possible that a young child could remember such things but I would answer, 'Was this my first visit to earth? ' I have presentiments of births in ages past and lives in foreign lands no less real than today in India and the United States'. Narad now lives in Auroville, India and is building the Gardens of the Matrimandir around that great structure where it is possible to find one's soul.