The Veda is no more prisoned in rituals and conventions

Remembering Indian Freedom Fighter Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das Death Anniversary on Jun 16, 2011 By Tarit Mukherjee PIB Features Washington Bangla Radio

The turning point in his career came when he was called upon to appear on behalf of Aurobindo Ghose in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908). It was due to his brilliant handling of the case thatAurobindo was ultimately acquitted.This case brought Das to the ...

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Sri Aurobindo breaks new ground in interpreting the ancient Vedas. ... Sri Aurobindo was able to uncover the mystery of the double meanings, the inner ...

Stop chanting, start decoding, October 9, 2005 By Tusar N. Mohapatra "Savitri Era of those who ... (Indirapuram, India) - See all my reviews This review is from: Secret of the Veda, New U.S. Edition (Paperback)

This epoch-making work of Sri Aurobindo on Vedic mysticism is of immense import as far as hermeneutics and psychology are considerd. It is the most original contribution of Sri Aurobindo to the modern knowledge systems. To the reader of this work, Indra is no longer a mere mythological deity, but the master of his own 'indriyas', senses, with whose active help, it would be easy to win new frontiers of awareness. Varuna is not simply the lord of the sea but the highest psychological state of oceanic vastness, light and purity into which we all must aspire to surge forth. By this simple exercise of replacing the connotations, one turns with profit the Vedic text of great antiquity into an excellenct self-management treatise. The Veda is no more prisoned in rituals and conventions but becomes a handbook of self-culture. 

As a result, thematic unity between the Veda and the Upanishads has been restored. By addressing the most primordial existential issues besetting human life, the Veda is a univesal testament, and Sri Aurobindo has delivered it from the confines of a particular religion. Permalink

Hymns on Creation and Death: In the Veda and Upanishads by Dr. R. L. Kashyap

The part II deals with the Word, which is the agency from which creation actually proceeds. It has 2 suktas including the Vak Sukta. The topic of creation cannot be separated from the topic of destruction. The Brhadaranyaka mantra on creation mentions the maxim, 'Hunger that is death'. The famous phrase is from the Taittiriya Upanishad, 'Eater is eaten' (adyena atti, Tai. U. 2.3) indicates the intimate connection.

Part III deals with Death viewed in the broad sense of the word. Part III is entitled, 'Veda, Rites and Yama'. Chapter 14 gives an overview of some popular rites (samskaras) performed at various stages of life. Chapter 15 focuses only on the final rites along with the associated mantras; some relevant mantras are also in Chapter 17. Because of sheer laziness and ignorance, many Hindus ascribe several irrational beliefs on the topic of death and Yama to Veda. Chapter 14 indicates the beliefs which can be traced to Vedas and those which have no place in the Vedas. Chapter 18 gives an excellent description of the Heaven which has none of the earthly enjoyments. Chapter 19 deals with the topic of return to earth from the home of Death. [SECRETS OF RIGVEDA First 121 Suktas, Divinizing Life: The Path of Atri Rishi]

About the Author: Dr. R.L. Kashyap is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana in USA. He had his masters degree form Indian Institute of science, Bangalore and obtained Ph.D. form Harvard University. He is the recipient of many international awards. He has authored more than 350 research papers. He has guided more than 50 Ph.D. Scholars. He has written extensively on Veda. He has given the word-meaning of all the verses from the first 121 suktas of Rig Veda. He has to his credit six major books on the Veda. He is the Honorary Director of Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic culture, Bangalore.

Welcome to 'Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture'

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.

SAKSI has its own library, having available commentaries on Vedas and treatises pertaining to the Vedas, works of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, Ramana Maharshi. Sri Vasishtha Ganapati Muni, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swamy Vivekananda, Sri T. V. Kapali Sastry, Sri M. P. Pandit, etc., apart from many research papers on the philosophy and yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Provision is made for those who are interested in spirituality and culture to avail of the facility of reference, in house.

SAKSI News Letter is bi-monthly. March - April 2011

YouTube - The Mother talks about Total Surrender

Mirra Alfassa, called ‘Mother', was born 1878 and raised in France (Paris). Later she lived in Algeria, Japan and India. She concentrated on ...

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All can be done if the god-touch is there. (Sri Aurobindo, Savitri) ... at Hall of Harmony, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India. Duration: 38 Minutes ...

YouTube - Michael Murphy - The Importance of Will

Murphy was born in Salinas, California, graduated from Stanford University, and lived for a year at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. ...

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Note the following words—“presumably”, “does not seem”, “seems to have”, “may have”, “would have”. Is this history or guesswork?

Savitri Era: Democracy has no archetype

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. ...
Savitri Era: Proportional representation system at the Centre

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. ...

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Event / 2011-06-15 19:15 Full Moon Gathering at Savitri Bhavan

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The epic's relevance to modern world The Hindu
She chanced upon a French translation of Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita. She realised that a rationalistic answer to what had happened in the global war was neither possible nor desirable. Caught in a moral dilemma, Arjuna found release “in ...

Transformation of Life Through the Spiritual Change of ... 14 Jun 2011

Sri Aurobindo indicates that the expansion, development and extension of the 3 current foundational principles of manifestation, Matter, ...
Paul Gauguin's The Seed of Areoi (1892): A Higher Bodhi Embodiment ... by artcritique
Superman: A term coined by Neitzsche but used experientially by Sri Aurobindo in his Integral Yoga. ” Supermind is superman; therefore to rise beyond mind is the condition. To be the superman is to live the divine life, to be a god; ...
Change of Nature | Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles by sriaurobindocenterla

All faults and errors are redeemed by repentance. 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) ...

Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - Talk in Tamil - Auroville

Documentary materials available include the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with search facilities, the Mother's Agenda in the original ...

Savitri Era Devotees: Founding of Auroville by aurofrance
The foundation of Auroville was laid in February 28,1968, with representatives of several nations participating in the solemn ceremony. Mother did not attend but she broadcast a message from her chamber. ...

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The Evolution of the Spiritual Man « Sri Aurobindo Studies

Sri Aurobindo points out that in order to go beyond this stage we need to see the development of the next evolutionary principle and its emergence. ...

Aurobindo 147 Savitri Book 10 by Indira Renganathan

Aurobindo 147 Savitri Book 10 - by Indira Renganathan .. An appreciation on Savitri- Book Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight Canto Three - The Debate of ...

Golconde | ArchDaily By Andrew Rosenberg

Sited on the coastal edge of the Bay of Bengal, Golconde, a dormitory for the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, was designed by architects Antonin.
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Savitri Era Devotees: Do you wish to rise?

Jitendra Sharma: Professor of French and Chairman, Sri Aurobindo Society of Calicut at St. Joseph's College, Devagiri, Calicut-673008 (Kerala), ...

Mirror of Tomorrow :: 024: The Yoga of the Cells by the Mother

Sri Aurobindo used to tell me he had never dreamed a body could have such.... Sri Aurobindo is writing to someone who said, "How lucky people are who live ...
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Sri Aurobindo Says "We say to the young who are now arising to do India's work, the world's work, God's work. You cannot cherish these ideas, still less can ...
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The Awakening Ray : The Mother

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Bhavana Dee left her body on May 11

Aurora Mirabilis: How does Heehs conclude that Sri Aurobindo was a ...

Comment on Kundalini in ancient Greek and other non-Indian cultures by Sandeep from Comments for Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother by Sandeep ...
The future evolution | Prayers of Harmony

Sri Aurobindo says that the psychic being cannot be fully disengaged from the lower nature unless a highest Force of the Supramental consciousness descends ...

Remembering Bhavana by Miriam   Thursday, 09 June 2011

To remember dear Bhavana Auroville Village Action Group (AVAG) would like to invite you this Saturday, to join them for a little get together to remember our great friend Bhavana Dee. On 11th of June it will be one month since she left her body. They would like to meditate together and if there are people who want to speak and remember her in a group, they would be very happy to provide the space for it. They want to connect Aurovilians, villagers and everybody else, who would like to join, in an open gathering and sharing about Bhavana. Please feel free to join them between 10 am and 11.30 am at the AVAG- Campus in Irumbai. An announcement From the News desk which says that Owing to the resignation of the main News& Notes messenger, the Messenger Service will be reduced drastically in the coming weeks. As a consequence we will also be short of delivery staff from July 1st. Every community is requested to install a covered mail box on the main gate for receiving the weekly News copies. There will be no more door-to-door delivery.

Yes, there are happy ways near to God's sun; But few are they who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. Savitri B. VI, C. II, P. 448 Whatever you do, always remember the Divine. The Mother

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Sri Aurobindo: A Life Sketch 3

Sri Aurobindo's writings, which address in a comprehensive and intricate fashion the most complex problems of human existence, extend to more than 35 ...

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Discourse by Ramanarayanan in Madurai today

The Hindu : Engagements: In Chennai Today

Sri Aurobindo Society: Meeting, 5, Smith Rd., Anna Salai, 10.30 a.m..

The Hindu : Engagements: In Madurai Today

Sri Aravindar Annai Trust: Collective meditation, TVS Community College, 8 Goods Shed Street, 10 a.m.; discourse on 'The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Auroville' by Ramanarayanan, Aravindar Annai Relics Meditation Centre, 12 Aravindar Avenue, Tirunagar, 6 p.m.

The Hindu : Engagements: In Coimbatore Today

Sri Aurobindo Devotees: Pushpanjali Offerings and Prayers to Sri Annai, Sasi Balika Vidya Mandir, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m., Sri Annai Meditation Centre, ...
Letters To The Editor the statesman

The Sister is known to have assisted Sri Aurobindo and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose. She had walked down Bosepara Lane to the Beadon Street residence of Sri Aurobindo at midnight to help him leave for Chandannagar and thereby evade arrest by the police of British India. The Bose Institute owes not a little to the Sister, a contribution that the eminent scientist acknowledged in full measure.
Sister Nibedita’s 100-year-old house is now dilapidated. It should be taken over by the government or KMC and declared a heritage building, complete with a museum. If the government is short of money, the citizens can help raise the funds. Perhaps The Statesman can help by inviting donations. She was an occasional contributor to the paper. Yours, etc., Pranabananda Sen, Kolkata, 7 June.

YouTube - Session I: Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy Revisited
Centenary Celebrations of Sri Aurobindo's Arrival in Pondicherry, (April 4, 2010 ) A National Seminar Organised by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research ... 

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Sri Aurobindo as a political thinker ... - Google Books
Title, Sri Aurobindo as a political thinker: an interdisciplinary study. Authors , Som P. Ranchan, K. D. Gupta. Publisher, Konark Publishers, 1988 ...

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ...
There is as it were a deliberate “problematising” of Sri Aurobindo's life and a deliberate denial of the right perspective to create the impression of a ...

The yoga of self-perfection: based on Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of ...
The Yoga of Self-Perfection brings to completion Panditji's systematic series of talks on Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga. The Yoga of Self-Perfection recognizes a Divine purpose in life and starts from the premise that the ultimate aim of life is not simply escape, but rather, to work out the divine perfection in manifestation.

Trekking - Off the Beaten Track | Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir Nepal
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The Thinking Mind of Pure Intelligence « Sri Aurobindo Studies

The development of the powers of the mental plane can continue within humanity, and Sri Aurobindo next clarifies the type of the pure thinking man, ...
Aurora Mirabilis: Meaning of the term 'Integral'

Sri Karunamayee is a vital member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Delhi . ...Aster has taught for many years at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ...
Savitri Era Learning Forum: Sri Aurobindo's Evolutionary Ontology ...

Hindu holy men such as Sri Aurobindo, Vinoba Bhave and Mahatma Gandhi have played a powerful role in Indian politics for more than a century. ...
Savitri Era Devotees: Stories behind 1913 Nobel Award

In 1939, Sri Aurobindo was proposed by Francis Younghusband, member of the Royal Society of .... Astrology and Horoscope - Sri Aurobindo's letter t. ...

Mirror of Tomorrow :: The Birth of the Sun-God

NB: This composition is based on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. ... The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs—is this History or Speculation? Krish Patwardhan ...

Reflections on Education and Being Educated « Vyasa's Vedanta Blog

The dose of patriotism tends to prevail over that of religion as we approach the time of Sri. Aurobindo who also favoured Vedism and Aryan virtues, ...

Collected Works of T.V.Kapali Sastry: Volume 6 - Rig Veda Bhashya ...

Lights on the Upanishads: With Sri Aurobindo Darshana · Collected Works of T.V.Kapali Sastry: Volume 1 - The Book of Lights - 1 ...

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Invitation to Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. 02. Savitri. 03. Sri Aurobindo's Savitri-a legend and a symbol. 04. The Mother-the story of her life ...

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Class /2011-06-12 09:00 Sunday Group Meditation at Verite

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Foundation Day of Sri Aurobindo Jogashrama, Bhatlaida, Odisha

The Mother's Work In Odisha: Foundation Day of Bhatlaida Study Circle

Sri Aurobindo Jogashrama, Bhatlaida, Jharsuguda, Sat, June 11, 12 am – Sun, June 12, 12 am

Gurus guide a passage to supremacy

Hindu holy men such as Sri Aurobindo, Vinoba Bhave and Mahatma Gandhi have played a powerful role in Indian politics for more than a century. ...

Stories behind 1913 Nobel award The Daily Star

In 1939, Sri Aurobindo was proposed by Francis Younghusband, member of the Royal Society of Literature, London. But before all these nominations came the ...

YouTube - Session II: Sri Aurobindo, the Social-Political Thinker ...
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Mirror of Tomorrow :: Main Page

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs—is this History or Speculation? ... Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Spiritual Life and the New Race by Prabir Kumar ...
Why spiritual experiences do not repeat? | Integral Yoga of Sri ...

As the Mother says above, one must not cling to the memories of past experiences and the case of the Satprem, a disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, ...
Evolution of Mental Capacities Beyond the ... - Sri Aurobindo Studies

Sri Aurobindo next describes the development of what we might consider to be the true mind of thought, the “signature” state of the evolution of the ...
Let us not raise a finger

Let Sri Aurobindo and the Mother deal in their own ways with people and circumstances. None of us is a permanent dweller on this earth. ...
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Class /2011-06-11 10:00 New Facilities for Individual Study at Savitri Bhavan

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What's new this week? June 4th, 2011

Matrimandir Newsletter June 2011

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Time for Action by Miriam   Wednesday, 08 June 2011

Follow up (of General Meeting from Wednesday 1st of June, follow up from 25th of May, 18th April...) on Tuesday 7th of June at SAWCHU was a clear expression from all participants that this is the time for action, because the mandate of Working Committee and Auroville Council is about to end on 22nd of June. For that reason the election process for new members of both should start, as well the new members of Resident Assembly Service should be elected, since its function is to facilitate meetings, and held communication between Working Committee, Auroville Council and residents. Read more

Residents Assembly continues  to languish and feel disempowered. The Auroville Charter enjoins us to “be willing servitors of the Divine Consciousness”  –  can  we  discover  a  way  in which the Residents Assembly and,  indeed,  all our  other  Working  Groups,  can  function  in  a way to articulate the Divine Consciousness? Sanjeev

Tagore remained suspicious and ambivalent towards mass politics

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Born in Saskatoon, Megan spent much of her childhood in Auroville, India and eventually moved to Vancouver to attend the University of British Columbia ...

The Mother: The Story of Her Life, Hitler and His God: The Background to the Hitler Phenomenon

Dante, a poet for all seasons New Statesman - A N Wilson Published 09 June 2011 ‎Those who have yet to read the Divine Comedy are missing out on one of life's great aesthetic and intellectual experiences.

Yet Dante was the greatest poet of the Middle Ages. It could be argued that he was the greatest of all European poets, of any time or place. But while most non-Italian readers are prepared to take this on trust, they sidestep his work, making him one of the great unreads. In so doing, they leave unsavoured one of the greatest aesthetic, imaginative, emotional and intellectual experiences on offer.

They are like those who have never attended a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, or of Shakespeare's Lear; who have never heard a symphony by Beethoven or visited Paris. Quite simply, they are missing out. A N Wilson's "Dante In Love" is published by Atlantic Books on 1 June (£25) [Dante and Sri Aurobindo: A Comparative Study of the Divine Comedy and Savitri Prema Nandakumar PATTERNS OF THE PRESENT:From the Perspective of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother by Georges Van Vrekhem]

HINDUTV - ABOUT KEEPING UP A FAITH - By M. V. Kamath - alt ... Free Press Journal June 17, 2004 

One of the last, Sri Aurobindo could say: "These hollow worm-eaten outsides of Hinduism crumbling so sluggishly, so fatally to some sudden and astonishing ... [Philosophy of Death and Dying M. V. Kamath ]

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The discords of the worlds are God's discords and it is only by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at the greater concords of his supreme harmony. Sri Aurobindo Essays on Gita
Debunking Krishna, Demonizing Hinduism (30) S.Ghosh on Nov-12: 

On July 23, 1923, Sri Aurobindo said, "Purification can come by the transformation of the impulse of violence. In that respect the old system in India was much better: the man who had the fighting spirit became the Kshatriya and then the fighting spirit was raised above the ordinary vital influence. The attempt was to spiritualize it. It succeeded in doing what passive resistance cannot and will not achieve. The Kshatriya was the man who would not allow any oppression, who would fight it out and he was the man who would not oppress anybody. That was the ideal. Gandhi"s position is that he does not care to remove violence from others; he wants to observe non-violence himself." 

Not in the Mahatma's name Indian Express - ‎Tridip Suhrud: Thu Jun 09 2011 A day before the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Tagore warned Gandhi and through him the nation: “Power in all its forms is irrational.” …

If there was anyone in the country who was aware and alive to the deep moral significance of Gandhi’s presence, it was Tagore, and despite this he remained suspicious and ambivalent towards the practice of mass politics. He, like Gandhi, was aware that Satyagraha was not and can never be a mere technique, an instrumentality. Both regarded instrumentality in politics and public life as amoral if not inherently immoral. The writer is an Ahmedabad-based social scientist [Gandhi: A Sublime Failure S. S. Gill 2005]

Aurora Mirabilis: Anurag Banerjee awarded 2011 Nolini Kanta Gupta ...

He is one of the foremost poets of Sri Aurobindo Ashram whose works were... A linguist and the recipient of the prestigious 'Sri Aurobindo Puraskar', ...

Comment on Significance of places of worship, relics and prayer rooms from Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother by Tusar N. Mohapatra: June 9, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni’s reply to Ameeta Mehra (Gnostic Centre) regarding the impact of Relics on the larger collective atmosphere, 31 May 2007:

http://serfrat.blogspot.com/2007/06/relics-are-often-like-flame-that-is.html
Idol worship is not an idle ritual! Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, The Economic Times, Thursday, June 28, 2007:

http://evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2007/06/enlightened-masters-imbued-them-with.html

Comment  by Sandeep: Aha, your first comment on my blog. Mangesh Nadkarni’s remarks are eloquent and erudite as expected.

Tusar N Mohapatra: Tusar N. Mohapatra is blogging since 2005

Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. ... Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Routledge India, ...

Savitri Era: Continuum-discrete conundrum

Auronet Friday 10 Jun

Class /2011-06-10 10:00 New Facilities for Individual Study at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-06-10 10:30 Class for children

Class /2011-06-10 15:00 Cultivating Concentration at Savitri Bhavan

Cinema /2011-06-10 16:08 HERE AFTER

Class /2011-06-10 17:00 The Synthesis of Yoga and The Supramental Manifestation on Earth at Savitri Bhavan