Saturday, July 16, 2011

Great prophets and messengers are kids before Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo talked about the descent of the supermind, the divinization of matter. All the so called great prophets, messengers and spiritual teachers were incomplete. They never talked about the transformation of matter, our present physical world. All the problems of the present day humanity is due to the darkness of matter, the physical matter which is unconscious, ignorant and sleeping in tamas or inertia and unconsciousness. …
All the so called prophets and messengers were nothing but small kids before sri aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo references the famous Taittiriya Upanishad in his review of Matter as the principle upon which the universe is based. This is an important issue to determine what the significance of life may be. “The first question is whether the before and the after are purely physical and vital or in some way, and more predominantly, mental and spiritual.
MYTH AND SYMBOL IN AUROBINDO'S "SAVITRI": A REVALUATION
K. D. Verma. MYTH AND SYMBOL IN AUROBINDO'S SAVITRI: A REVALUATION. This paper was read at the Annual Meeting of the. Philological Association ...
Binu Mukherjee grew up in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics at Royal Military College of Canada(see his webpage). In the following video starting at 5 min, Binu Mukherjee describes how the Mother Mirra Alfassa guided him to marry a person with whom he shared a psychic bond.
Konkona as Aparna Calcutta Telegraph
Chintan's home is in Auroville in Pondicherry. We couldn't go there and so we had to have interiors that evoked Auroville. I will tell you where we shot it ...
Cinephilia and Beyond: special programme by Cine Darbaar in Delhi DearCinema
This programe will be organized by Cine Darbaar in association with the Japan Foundation, Iran Culture House and Sri Aurobindo Center for arts and culture. ...
Dear Friends, On this Very Auspcious Day of Gurupurnima, i am very happy to share with you the present issue of The Sunlit Path. 
Living Words provide very precise description of the fundamental aim of Integral Yoga. Integral Education offers useful guidance for developing the faculty of intuition and thereby to expand the limits of knowledge beyond those reached through conventional mental education. Integral Life draws our attention to the limitations of intellectual discussions. And finally, a good word about obstinacy! With Sincere Regards, Dr. Bhalendu Vaishnav Guru-Purnima, 15 July, 2011
The Sunlit Path  is an e-magazine published by Sri Aurobindo Chair of Integral Studies,Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, for the staff and students of the University and its affiliated  colleges with a view to provide enlightening reading material     which will be helpful to the readers in pursuing higher studies and develop an integral approach towards  education and life
... 'successor' of the Dalai Lama anymore Claude Arpi is a French-born author, journalist, historian and Tibetologist currently living in Auroville, India. ...
Knowledge and Human Liberation. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo - European Journal of Social Theory. Creative Social Research: Rethinking Theories and ...
Rebirth & Karma - U. S. Edition by Sri Aurobindo Sa Ashram Aurobindo. 
Interviews and sounds of the creative people in the international community of Auroville.
Coming Events - Auronet
Saturday 16 Jul
Class/2011-07-16 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan
Workshop/2011-07-16 17:00 Mudra-Chi - A body prayer
Exhibition/2011-07-16 17:00 The Enchanted Forest

Friday, July 15, 2011

Kaivalya Smart is a member of the Executive Committee of Sri Aurobindo Society

Before delving into the question at hand, it would be helpful to briefly summarize the general theory outlined by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. ...
Sri Aurobindo takes up the eternal questions that persistently exercise the mind of mankind: “All the known circumstances and results of birth presuppose an ...
We hope that all the Savitri drafts, particularly in Sri Aurobindo’s hand, are absolutely safe. We also hope that there is no tampering done with them. ~ RYD
Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. ... We hope that all the Savitri drafts, particularly in Sri Aurobindo's hand, are absolutely ...
Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. ... We hope that all the Savitri drafts, particularly in Sri Aurobindo's hand, are absolutely ...
Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles. Aspiration for a Life Divine. Skip to content. The Center · The Mother · Sri Aurobindo · JyotiPriya- A Tribute ...
Kaivalya Smart - Auro University of Hospitality and Management Member Executive - Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
Kaivalya Smart graduated with a degree in commerce from Bombay University and thereafter became a Chartered Accountant. He practiced as a Chartered Accountant in Surat for more than twenty years. He met The Mother at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry in 1958 and the contact grew stronger and deeper year after year. 
Deeply interested in LIFE and Life Management, in practical as well as in the spiritual ways, and under the influence of The Mother and his parents, he studied deeply The Gita, The Upanishads, The Tantra, The Occult and The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. 
In his quest in the Mystical and the Spiritual he has travelled widely in India including in The Himalayas on pilgrimage, tour, trekking – 6 to 8 days, and long distance High Altitude Trekking, 300 Km. – 35 days and 18000 Feet, on several occasions. As an avid lover of Nature he has done long distance nonstop swimming, 25 Km., in river Tapti and Narmada and also nonstop cross canal swimming, 5 hours, in the Arabian Sea. As a college student has won prizes in inter college competitions in Drama, Mono Acting, Elocution, Sanskrit Recitation and Drawing-Painting.
He gave up his profession completely when he was taken up as a Member of the Executive Committee of Sri Aurobindo Society at Pondicherry. He has visited about 75 cities in India and abroad conducting Youth Camps, Study Camps, Seminars, giving Talks and presentations at various organizations, schools, colleges and universities. Has a very wide experience in communicating with the Students, young as well as old. He is interested in learning and calls himself a Life Time Student of “LIFE DIVINE “ which integrates the Art and Science of Living.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Cultural nationalism propagated by Swami Vivekananda, Dayanand Saraswati and Sri Aurobindo

SRI AUROBINDO SAKTI CENTRE TRUST
Sarod recital with Tabla: on 14th July at Centre Hall from 6.30 p.m.
The Hindu : NATIONAL : TAMIL NADU : Lecture
Sri Aurobindo Society, Tamil State Committee, will organise a talk on ‘Relevance of Consciousness in Today's Business' by Saikat Sen, Director, Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Integral Management, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry, on July 15, between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., at Sri Aurobindo Society, 8, Race Course, Thomas Park.
Sri Aurobindo has further explained how an ideal leader should work. According to him, the Guru or the leader should use “teaching”, “example” and ...
When the Mother founded Auroville, she didn’t even mention Sri Aurobindo or herself or the Integral Yoga in the texts she wrote down for the Foundation Ceremony on February 28th 1968, introducing the central concept and overall guiding goals for the experimental township being born. The concept and the goals are in fact the highest and vastest, but she presented everything just in very simple words anyone could understand and relate to and be touched by. …
Even if one considers nevertheless the Integral Yoga taught by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as the spiritual way obviously to be followed in Auroville – which to some extent is true, because it is they who have been the inspiration and origin of Auroville, and because the Mother herself explains more deeply about that Yoga in her later messages – still that Way of Yoga also will not give the same and identical directives for everyone, as each being is unique and needs a different, individualized way of proceeding.
When I made the formal decision to enter the spirituality racket -- to dive into the deep end of the cosmos -- it was initially as a disciple of the Indian sage, Sri Aurobindo, whose theology I felt at the time to be the most .... Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Ramanamaharshi and Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba did this. Veda is the archetype. Christianity and the other majors (by numbers) are offspring (Islam via Christianity and Christianity via Buddhism, which, ...
This cultural heritage being central to all religions and languages is a civilisation identity and constitutes the cultural nationalism of Bharat propagated by Swami Vivekananda, Dayanand Saraswati and Sri Aurobindo, being the core of ...
Some of the most renowned masters of the modern era were Sri Aurobindo, Sri Chinmoy, and Swami Vivekananda. Furthermore, Rabindra Nath Tagore added to the rich culture with its excellent composition. He is a legendary poet who is the ...
[Link to written works of Thea] Because of this she speaks with the same confident authority and power as Swami Vivekananda did when he was challenged by a Madras pundit objecting to something he said that went beyond the teachings of Shankara. Vivekananda shot back, saying to the pundit, 'Shankara does not say so, but I, Vivekananda say so'. Sri Aurobindo later pointed out that, '…what to the ordinary eye may seem as the Himalaya of egotism is not what it seems. ...

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Recognition of finitude fosters a greater reverence for other humans, life, and the planet

Sri Aurobindo introduces the subject of rebirth with a few relevant quotations from the ancient texts of India, the Bhagavad Gita and the Swetaswatara ...
It was the ancestral home of the great nationalist and religious leader Sri Aurobindo [1] famous Indian Geographer Shashi Bhusan Chatterjee and noted ...
From devindersingh devgulati@indiatimes.com
We journey through life apparently to different destinations. Actually we share the same train. Somewhat like The Rayalaseema Express. One of the most enigmatic trains running on the Indian Railways is the Rayalaseema Express. Train number 7429 travels between Hyderabad and Tirupati and 7430 does the return. … Every day, three trains start from these stations. Each of these trains is basically in two parts… So, if you are travelling by these trains, NEVER get down at Guntakal. You never know, where you would turn up next morning!!!
I am pointing out that I see no correlation between belief in transcendent values and decreed by a divine being and recognition of the dignity of humans, the planet, and other creatures that populate the earth.
Along these lines, I’m inclined to go so far as to suggest that a recognition of finitude, that this is it, that you die and that worms will eat you, that there’s no ultimate teleology towards which history is moving, that there’s no ultimate salvation, that this planet is all we have, and so on actually fosters a greater reverence for other humans, life, and the planet. If I believe that a God is going to save me someday, that history will culminate in some final confrontation, etc., it’s easier to have no regard for the present, this world, other people, and the planet. If I believe that I am acting on behalf of a God, it’s easier to kick the shit out of a homosexual or destroy a group of people that practices a different religion. If this is all there is, however, if every life is a singularity that will never be repeated again and that utterly ceases to exist with death, if there’s no escape hatch from this planet whether through the “end of days” or interstellar travel (I’m pretty skeptical about the possibility of interstellar travel given the great distances between stars and limitations of technology), I think you tend to value life a bit more and this world a bit more. One will respond that life was cheap for the Stalinists and that they were secularists. However, that’s just it: they thought that there was the possibility of a secular salvation, a final point in history where all would be reconciled, and therefore saw anything as being justified in the present to produce that salvation. Life becomes cheap when the present is subordinated to the future in this way. Yet if we are without any ultimate future, without any final reconciliation, such a teleology becomes a little less compelling. It seems to me that without theological frameworks life is often very cheap. It’s hard, I think, to find life cheap if it is essentially rare in the universe and this is it.
To create awareness about this issue a eco rally was organised by Nidhi Mehra, a Std. VIII student of Sri Aurobindo International School recently. ...
SRI AUROBINDO SAKTI CENTRE TRUST
Besides, students eagerly participate in the bi-annual art and crafts exhibition held along with the prize distribution of Sri Aurobindo Bal Mandir where ...
Sarod recital with Tabla: on 14th July at Centre Hall from 6.30 p.m.
The occasion of Darshan Divas was celebrated with due solemnity at Sri Aurobindo Sakti Centre and Sri Aurobindo Bal Mandir on 24th April 2011 (sunday) evening.
Meditation was held at the Shrine from 6.00 to 6.30 p.m.
The programme began with an introduction on the significance of the day by Smt. Chitra Bose, the Managing Trustee. Dr. Jaganmay Bandopadhyay, Head of Sri Aurobindo Anushilan Society, Suri (Birbhum), Dr. (Prof.) Debasish Mondal, Head of the Department - Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University, Dr.(Prof.) Manoj Roy of Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, and Sri Bibhas Chattopadhyay, eminent singer, were present as guests.
We are organising an Integral Education workshop for students in the age group of 16 – 24 at Adyar, Chennai on 31st July 2011. … The entire workshop is based on the Telos model, which is based on the vision and teachings of Sri Aurobindo. We invite interested students to this workshop ... Warm Regards Arul
Note the following words—“presumably”, “does not seem”, “seems to have”, “may have”, “would have”. Is this history or guesswork?
There may still be those left in some doubt as to the stupidity, the arrogance and the naked disloyalty that is at the heart of this enterprise. 
Sri Aurobindo's Writings - The Mother's Collected Works

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Dilip Kumar Roy's questions to Sri Aurobindo regarding marriage

Mirror of Tomorrow - 02: The Radiant Daughter: All can be done if the god-touch is there - Evolution from this stage of utter Inconscience is therefore not just a possibility; it is th...
Sri Aurobindo Studies - Dissolution of the Cosmic Ignorance - Sri Aurobindo points out that the same movement of consciousness which dissolves the egoistic ignorance concurrently dissolves the cosmic ignorance. “for w...
An Interview with Amal Kiran by Anie Nunnally - Amal now calls home the Ashram Nursing Home on Goubert Boulevard where he has resided since May 1999 after his hip was broken. He does not want to return t...
Overman Foundation - An Interview with Amal Kiran by Anie Nunnally - Dear Friends, It has been decided that throughout the month of July 2011 we would publish a series of articles on Amal Kiran alias K.D. Sethna as a humble ...
Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother - How to choose the right life partner - A disciple, Dilip Kumar Roy, wrote a letter in 1924 to Sri Aurobindo asking certain questions regarding marriage. The answer depends on many factors, as Sr...
Savitri Era - Subhas’ Achilles’ heel - [Comment on Sri Aurobindo’s Hindi poem by Subhas “The Lives of Sri Aurobindo” authored by an inmate of the Ashram, one Mr. Peter Heehs which evoked mixed re...
Posthuman Destinies - Zizek: Catastropic but not Serious Lecture – & w/Julian Assange - Zizek begins by riffing on his new book on Hegel. In Chapter 7 he begin by referencing Dipesh Chakrabarty on the historical/philosophical consequences of t...
A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs - Dr Anand Kumar's Letter to the Trustees - PH is a good case study for a psychoanalyst. I am reminded of a psychopath. When he was shown a square and asked what did it remind him of? He said, “sex.”...
Sri Aurobindo Devotees: Sasi Balika Vidya Mandir, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Sri Annai Meditation Centre, Kovaipudur, 4 p.m..
Auronet Sunday 10 Jul
Meeting / 2011-07-10 00:30 regular meeting
Class / 2011-07-10 09:00 Sunday Group Meditation at Verite
Class / 2011-07-10 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan
For general information about Auroville please visit us at www.auroville.org

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
Auronet
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 
All choice: Thoughts and Aphorisms 30
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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.
Matrimandir - Second level and spiral ramps
Matrimandir. ... Second level and spiral ramps. Matrimandir. Technical details ...
Auronet Wednesday 22 Jun
Class / 2011-06-22 10:30 Class for children