Friday, June 24, 2011

34th anniversary of installation of Sri Aurobindo’s relics at Lakshmi’s House, Kolkata


Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, June 24 at Lakshmi’s House, 3 regent Park; 7 pm Calcutta Telegraph Friday, June 24 , 2011 Front Page > Calcutta > Timeout ANNIVERSARY: Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture celebrates the 34th anniversary of installation of Sri Aurobindo’s relics. Featuring collective meditation, to be followed by Rabindrasangeet recital by Lily Islam.
There are no rules in spirituality, there are no facts in spirituality. The institution of spirituality is the person himself. Spirituality is not discovery of GOD but an exploration of everything that has remained profoundly unknown . For some like Sri Aurobindo its a necessary ingredient for human evolution because humans cannot evolve any more physically.
AP govt may tap Sai trust's assets after takeover Mumbai Mirror PPavan Posted On Friday, June 24, 2011 at 03:05:18 AM
In Hyderabad In the backdrop of controversies surrounding the Sathya Sai Baba Central Trust, founded by spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba, the Andhra Pradesh government is studying Pondicherry’s Aurobindo Ashram model to control the Sai trust. 
Under the Aurobindo Ashram model, a government nominee (an IAS officer) is appointed to oversee the trusts’s affairs. Talks about the AP government taking over the Sai trust have been doing rounds for the past many months. […]
Confirming that the state government is considering replicating Aurobindo model in Sathya Sai Trust, a senior minister said, “We are under obligation to respect the sentiments of devotees, continue Trust activities and control any irregularities.”
Sri Aurobindo.The Rishi from Baroda - pinakipandit's blog
30 Oct 2010
The next topic deals with the RSS thought process, and how in a very congress way the foundation of it was destroyed pushing it to extreme right. Many say that the RSS thought process strengthened withMahatma Gandhi, but much influence can be seen coming from Sri Aurobindo’s works in Baroda. [Terrifying Vision: M. S. Golwalkar, the Rss, and India Jyotirmaya SharmaFoundations of Tilak s Nationalism: Discrimination, Education and Hindutva Parimala V. RaoEclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and His Freedom Struggle Radha, Rajan ]
Sri Aurobindo describes it thus: “Our gain in becoming more perfect mental beings is that we get to the possibility of a subtler, higher and wider existence ...
Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles. Aspiration for a Life Divine. Skip to content. The Center · The Mother · Sri Aurobindo · JyotiPriya- A Tribute ...
From now onward, my blogging will be more focused on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, possibly largely consisting of quotes from their work. ...
I was googling for “Sri Aurobindo Emily Dickinson” since being associated with Sri Aurobindo since childhood and also being an admirer of Emily Dickinson I was wondering what Sri Aurobindo said about Dickinson.
Probably the reason for her not being referred to in The Future Poetry is to do with the time the book was written in?
I do need to read more of Emily Dickinson though, I haven’t read many but loved “Success is counted sweetest” when I was very small. -Sid
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Friday 24 Jun
Cinema / 2011-06-24 (All day) C I N E M A - ROMEO & JULIET
Class / 2011-06-24 10:30 Class for children

Thursday, June 23, 2011

12,000 photos taken by Tara Jauhar


Sri Aurobindo. “Those of us who foresee that which may or ought to be are ...Sri Aurobindo amongst the moderns, known to the outside world as a Mahayogi, ...
Savitri Era Devotees: How can I find my place in the Universal Work?
This is a question which every individual puts to himself when he attains a certain ...
Savitri Era: No escape from the Divine
Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. ... The Mother & Sri Aurobindo don't permit us taking such an escapist route. ...
Aurora Mirabilis: Seeing every work as the Mother's work
Sri Aurobindo's Opposition. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. Wednesday, June 22, 2011 ...
Savitri Era Learning Forum: Churn the abstract thought of Sri ...
The University of Lucknow believes that the philosophic base provided by Sri Aurobindo, is fertile enough for the saplings of present and future Indian ...
Some ideas from Sri Aurobindo's “The Life Divine” « Sri ...
But, as Sri Aurobindo pointed out, if the naturalists were asked how life could evolve out of matter or why evolutionary processes acted this way instead of ...
Growing Beyond the World of Material Progress « Sri Aurobindo Studies
Sri Aurobindo points out the vain futility of fixating all of our effort and intelligence on achieve mastery and knowledge on the plane of Matter or within ...
The Symbol Dawn Paraphrased by Sage Sweetwater (poem) by Sage ...
Sage Sweetwater writing and paraphrasing a poem written from Sri Aurobindo's The Mother Reading Savitri - Book I: Canto I The Symbol Dawn. ...
Subsequently the philosopher and President of India, S. Radhakrishnan, called him one of "makers of Modern India," as did Sri Aurobindo...
In sum, for Scotus, a morally good act is multi-faceted, involving conscious intent, proper motive, a harmonious circumstantial context such as the proper manner, end, time, place, and so forth, and it is an act that perfects or improves the agent’s character. A morally good act, as Ingham states, “resembles not simply a whole, but a beautiful whole thanks to the developed ability of the moral expert in identifying significant data in light of principles, objects and circumstances.”[18] The moral expert not only acts “out of the appropriate moral motivation,” but she also “has a developed eye for beauty and seeks to create beauty in each act and moral judgment.”[19]
Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies, Jadavpur University Co-ordinator Of Centre: Prof. INDRANI SANYAL Ph.: 2414-6666 (O) Extn:2638 
A Greater Psychology: An Introduction to the Psychological Thought of Sri Aurobindo.
Mrinalini Devi by Nirodbaran. A talk on the wife of Sri Aurobindo on the ...
Auronet
Thursday 23 Jun
Class / 2011-06-23 10:30 Class for children
Class / 2011-06-23 11:15 Dancing Astrology
Meeting / 2011-06-23 15:00 working group regular meeting

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Life Divine traces out evolution of consciousness through the Greek and Sanskrit traditions


The Mother: Her Miraculous Touch — Photographs of the Mother and quotations from the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, Pondicherry
The Mother’s work took countless forms, visible to the outer sight and sensible to the subtlest consciousness. One of the new books introduced in this issue, the two-volume set titled The Mother: Her Miraculous Touch, uses a combination of photographs and quotations to trace the outlines of her work for earth and man. The quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother act in concert with the photographs, many of them familiar and some less frequently seen, to touch upon many aspects of the Mother’s life and evoke the far-reaching scope of her work.
Mother India at the Crossroads ChakraNews.com
India, the ancient Mother, is indeed striving to be reborn”, said Sri Aurobindo once, “striving with agony and tears, but she strives in vain. ...

Understanding the Constitutional Ignorance ... - Sri Aurobindo Studies
Sri Aurobindo describes here the fundamental character of the constitutional Ignorance, the first of seven forms of Ignorance that limit our self-expression ...
Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine traces out this evolution of consciousness as well through the greek and Sanskrit traditions as well as Darwinism and 
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Thoughts and Aphorisms 30 : barin chaki blogs on sulekha, Creative ...
Whether the child is wallowing in dirt or he is cleansed by his mother, the Seer in Sri Aurobindo trembled to see the utterness of his inner purity. ...
All life is Yoga. – Sri Aurobindo ... The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram. This is a question which every individual puts to himself when he attains a certain ...
First and foremost this includes the false assumption that nationalists, Sri Aurobindo included, who wanted a united India did not do enough to pander to or ...
Led by Sri Aurobindo's commentary, we meditate on the words and the verses to draw out their deeper spiritual, philosophical and scientific insights. ...
The theoretical physicist David Bohm uses the terms implicate and explicate for his model, possibly inspired by Sri Aurobindo's work. ...
Students of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology paid
Students of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology paid obeisance to the teachers . Dr. Bharti said- Teacher's role is to mould the earth. ...
Transformation of Consciousness in Savitri — Kalpana Bidwaikar, Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research, Pondicherry
This book explores several themes on the transformation of consciousness in Savitri. It expounds Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of the involution and evolution of consciousness and relates it specifically to the poem, citing passages from his major works and verses from the epic. It explores the different levels of human consciousness as seen in Savitri and explains the psychic and spiritual transformations experienced by Savitri and Ashwapati, leading ultimately to the supramental transformation and the creation of a new kind of being and a divinised life on earth.
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Matrimandir. ... Second level and spiral ramps. Matrimandir. Technical details ...
Auronet Wednesday 22 Jun
Class / 2011-06-22 10:30 Class for children

Monday, June 20, 2011

The Life Divine, in status, is a veritable Veda


The Life Divine - By Dr. Soumitra Basu
The Life Divine, the magnum opus of Sri Aurobindo is the agenda of the New Age, the log book of the trajectory of Consciousness that aims to manifest the Highest Truth in its totality of Knowledge and Power in the present world of imperfection and chaos.
The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus and His blue-print for the human race is one of the most serious world-literature to study, deduce implications in life, yoga as well as in applied research. In status, it is a veritable Veda, a consummation of the human spiritual quest impregnated with the potentiality of the future.
INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRAL YOGA PSYCHOLOGY :: Life Divine Chapters ...
MIRRAVISION TRUST is named after Mirra Alfassa, the Mother of Sri Aurobindo’s Ashram, Pondicherry who is the executrix of Sri Aurobindo’s vision as well as his spiritual collaborator in the new evolutionary world of manifesting future models of human being. Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry has graciously allowed MIRRAVISION TRUST to use as a logo for the Institute for Integral Yoga Psychology, an emblem (a modified Sri Aurobindo’s symbol) designed by the Mother Herself and given to Dr. A.S. Dalal for a new defunct center in East Africa.
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Thus Sri Aurobindo succinctly defines the consistent thread that runs through the increasing complexity and intensity of evolved beings in the manifested ...
All life is Yoga. – Sri Aurobindo ... Sri Aurobindo Link: … Astrology and Horoscope - Sri Aurobindo's letter t. ...
Savitri Era: Six years of Savitri Era Learning Forum From Joy Roy Choudhury e.aryans@gmail.com date 17 June 2011 22:32
I said that your inititative Savitri Era Learning Forum has become a very successful referral site for all Sri Aurobindo and Divine Mother followers. We pray so we may continue the good work.
We all play our part in the world, as part of our offering to the Divine.
But Sri Aurobindo must have had the experience [of cellular expansion], because he said positively that it COULD be done. The question, of course, ...
In 1913, learning that Sri Aurobindo in self imposed exile in ... Sri Aurobindo agreed to translate the poems of CR Das into English and ...
Gandhi Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita by Susmit Pani ...
Sri Aurobindo, Gandhi and Radhakrishnan have been chosen as representative ... Sri Aurobindo was associated with the extremist wing of Indian nationalists.
The Yoga Life – The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo List Price: $55.00 List Price: $55.00 Your Price: $45.10- Since his death in 1950, Sri Aurobindo Ghose has been known primarily ...
Note the following words—“presumably”, “does not seem”, “seems to have”, “may have”, “would have”. Is this history or guesswork?
Education which is based on the Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. It is situated at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram campus in New Delhi.
Auronet Monday 20 Jun
Class / 2011-06-20 10:30 Class for children
Class / 2011-06-20 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan
Class / 2011-06-20 18:00 On The Mother at Savitri Bhavan

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Mother chose Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab to preside


Sri Aurobindo Society: Meeting, 5, Smith Rd., Anna Salai, 10.30 a.m.. 
Sri Aurobindo Society: Study circle meeting on ‘Three stages of progress in sadhana,' 3 Lajapathi Roy Road, Chinna Chokkikulam, 10.30 a.m.
Sri Annai Meditation: Pushpanjali offerings, Sasi Balika Vidya Mandir, Azad Road, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Sri Annai Meditation Centre, Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.
Five minutes to healing Bharat and Shalan Savur (The writers are authors of the book, ‘Fitness for Life’, and teachers of the Fitness for Life programme.)
Sri Aurobindo enlightens us with this insight: “Self-justification is always a sign of ego and ignorance. Insensitivity is the result or sign of an inflated ...
Slide Show: The Mother - Our Executive President from Savitri Era Devotees by aurofrance Slide Show: The Mother - Our Executive President - Presentation Transcript The Mother Our Executive President Sri Aurobindo Society GOLDEN JUBILEE 1960-2010 […]
22. The first All India Conference In December 1961, the First All-India Conference of Sri Aurobindo Society was organized at theAshramTheatre in Pondicherry.The Mother chose Dr Harekrushna Mahtab, former Chief Minister of Orissa, to preside and she personally went over the minutest details, including lodging and food arrangements. First Annual Conference. Dr. Mahtab speaking. Others ( L to R): Shri K. N. Mukherjee, Shri Arunendra Nath Tagore, Shri Surendra Mohan Ghose, Shri Navajata, Shri Laljibhai MP_pg18 […]
33. “For the sake of the Divine” The first All-Orissa State Conference took place in 1964 at Cuttack. Differences of opinion cropped up between two eminent persons, requiring the Mother’s intervention. Shri Navajata drafted a letter to the recalcitrant parties: “The Mother will appreciate if both of you can forget the past and work together for the good of your State.” The Mother made an amendment to the letter drafted by Shri Navajata: “The Mother will appreciate if both of you can forget the past and work together for the sake of the Divine.” This is how the letter was sent and both attended the conference. Letter of Shri Navajata corrected by the Mother MP_pg27
Confidence in the Mother, self-giving to the Mother, these if you increase them will bring the change in the nature. Sri Aurobindo (SABCL Vol. 25 p. 326) ...
Aurobindo 150 Savitri Book 10 by Indira Renganathan
Aurobindo 150 Savitri Book 10 - by Indira Renganathan .. Stubborn Death was mindless to mind Savitri's plea ''O priestess in Imagination's house, ...
In collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication, 9.9 School of Convergence proudly launch their brand new Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Media Communication. This course is designed to keep students ...
Erode schools fee trumps citys highest IBNLive.com
Tiruchy's most expensive option is the Aurobindo International School in Woraiyur (`16500) while Madurai's is Jayland Nursery and Primary School (`15350). ...
Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. ... Sri Aurobindo is the missing link of the Continental-Analytic disconnect. ...
The "Arya's" Fourth Year 07-1918 Sri Aurobindo. All philosophy is concerned with the relations between two things, the fundamental truth of existence and ...
Examples of this emergence include Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga (1921/1990), Jacques Maritain's Integral Humanism (1996), and Vladimir Soloviev's Integral ...
Here is what Sri Aurobindo reported: I lived in that Nirvana day and night before it ... Labels: divine reality, nirvana, sri aurobindo, supreme, truth ...
In 1983, Bhavana founded Auroville Village Action Group, pioneering the development work that, for her, was essential to manifesting the dream of Auroville. ...
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Auronet Sunday 19 Jun
Meeting / 2011-06-19 00:30 regular meeting
Class / 2011-06-19 09:00 Sunday Group Meditation at Verite
Class / 2011-06-19 10:30 Class for children
Class / 2011-06-19 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Talk by Prof. Kittu Reddy and Sandip Majumdar in Kolkata today


A perfect storm Calcutta Telegraph Front Page > Calcutta >  Timeout TALK
June 18 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6pm: Prof. Kittu Reddy will speak in English on Impact of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo on Indian Freedom Movement
June 18 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 6pm: Sandip Majumdar will speak on Manab-Sampad Unnayan Prasange Sri Aurobindo
As the "integral" becomes a reality of our creative imagination and we explore this new dimension, how do we move toward realizing the integral being? What are the steps on the way? What is this quality of consciousness, of knowing, feeling, willing, and acting? Does this process create a field around us that changes the very texture of life and draws others into it? This interaction and the drawing of all into a single, complex process—is this the way of the future?
Aster Patel was raised in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, and studied at the International Center of Education there, where she now teaches. She completed her PhD in comparative philosophy at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne). The title of her dissertation was "A Comparative Study of the Philosophies of Sri Aurobindo and Henri Bergson." She was invited to hold the Sri Aurobindo Chair of Philosophy at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and she received the Sri Aurobindo Puraskar award in 2005. She has published papers on philosophy, integral psychology, education, and yoga; and she is the author of "The Presence of Time." She has been engaged in the experiment of Auroville for over three decades and is a member of the governing board of the Auroville Foundation. 
Video Conferencing facility gains ground at Gauhati HC Law et al. News 18.06.2011 | 00:58 Guwahati
A review petition of 2009 "YMCA vs. Holy Mother Aurobindo Ashram" filed in the Shillong Bench was heard on Thursday through video conferencing by the Bench of Justice BK Sharma and Justice AC Upadhya of Gauhati High Court sitting in the Principal Bench in Guwahati while the parties and their respective counsels represented by senior advocate VK Jindal, advocate S. Chakraborty and A. Thangkhiew argued the case from the Shillong Bench.
After hearing the arguments, the High Court passed its "judgment" disposing off the matter by rejecting the petition within an hour. The review petition was filed by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) against a judgment by the same bench in 2009 regarding a land dispute with Aurobindo Ashram.
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Sri Aurobindo warned the powers-that-be and the population in his broadcast ...Sri Aurobindo warned the nation on 15 August – his own birthday – in 1947: ...
I don't know what rhythm they use now, nor have I read what Sri Aurobindowrote in The Future Poetry. They tell me that Savitri's verse follows a certain ...
Sri Aurobindo has systematically followed the evolution of consciousness from the foundation in Matter, through the development of Life, and eventually the ...
Imagine for a moment that you knew the future. Doesn’t that seem a good thing? You could relax and work without getting stressed out; you could plan ahead and direct your energies only in those paths that you know would lead to success; you could avoid all those intransigent people who keep trapping you in some debilitating vortex of time. There would be no wastage of energy, no error, no agonizing in hindsight over missed opportunities. What a utopian world it would be! But counter-intuitive as it seems, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Mirra Alfassa offered some legitimate reasons as to why the future is deliberately hidden from us. Continue reading 
The phrase “Savitri Era” needs to be popularised for easy identity “for all Sri Aurobindo and Divine Mother followers” and Jitendra, through his blog, ...
If this is she of whom the world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. ...
But counter-intuitive as it seems, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Mirra ... Sri Aurobindo offered a similar non-committal response in another situation: ...
MANOJ DAS IS BORN FOR LITREATURE
Manoj Das born in Balasore in 1934 and has been in transformation from a lecturer to a great Writer and Professor of English in Sri Aurobindo International ...
S A K S I is a Spiritual movement. The aim is to spread the message of Veda and SriAurobindo, which imparts awarenessto lead a beautiful, harmonious, creative and happy life, individually and collectively.
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Auronet Saturday 18 Jun
Workshop / 2011-06-18 10:00 Making math easy
Class / 2011-06-18 10:30 Class for children
Class / 2011-06-18 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world


Is Sanyasa about making a difference? Indian Weekender Thursday, June 16, 2011 Ram Lingam
Historically it is well known that a learned Chanakya was responsible for the creation of the mighty Mauryan Empire. Swami Ramdas had Shivaji Maharaj’s patronage. Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo though they were sanyasis did not always wear orange robe and influenced great thinkers from political circles. Also many illustrious Gurus were renunciates (sanyasis) like Parahamsa Yogananda, Swami Rama, Swami Sahajanand, Swami Shivanand, Swami Niranjananand, Swami Satyanand among others who supported social upliftment.
In the not so distant past India has had larger than life social-reformer-saints like Sree Narayanguru (Kerala), Swami Keshwanand (Rajashtan), Jai Jalaram Bapa (Gujarat), Swami Dayanand Saraswati (Gujarat), Sathya Sai Baba (Andhra Pradesh) among others. In ancient times Gurus like Vashisht, Agastya and Vishwamitra advised the rulers. This heritage shows that Gurus were not just showing the society the way to God but also got involved in political and social issues. In fact people who are detached to material things are better able to do good to society. 
Important small work dealing with the action of the Divine powers in the world and practice of yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Revelatory, inspired writing ...
Developing the new spiritual standpoint for humanity which Sri Aurobindo has been describing is made somewhat more difficult and slower because of the ...
Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. ... The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, therefore, always insisted that the Supramental won't arrive ...
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Integral Consciousness is the story of a spiritual philosophy developed by one of the great sages of the 20th Century, Sri Aurobindo - and how his yoga was ...
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He made me read Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus, The Life Divine. ... Kangali Pati (who later joined the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, ...
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Auronet Friday 17 Jun
Cinema / 2011-06-17 07:45 C I N E M A - OUT OF AFRICA
Class / 2011-06-17 10:30 Class for children
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