Thursday, February 28, 2019

Twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother


Today is Auroville's 51st Birthday. Today, we sat around the Dawnfire & symbolically recognised that Auroville is a Univers-city. Here is a photo from today morning and a short video from yesterday's closing... https://t.co/pwERaKXmeN
https://twitter.com/divyanshichugh/status/1101002380232015872?s=19

Auroville Concludes 50th! Matrimandir – Dawn Bonfire Live Stream #auroville https://t.co/moH2P85r9l
https://twitter.com/AurovilleRadio/status/1100963292070072321?s=19

'Under the Banyan' is a book that aims to highlight & promote alternative and sustainable solutions towards a greener future. This book will take you on a journey across Auroville's many unique structures &... https://t.co/xmXQlv3k5y
https://twitter.com/AvPractice/status/1101082142669529088?s=19

THE INNER AUROVILLE
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Auroville https://t.co/0QjWaDFvQY
https://twitter.com/AuroMaa_org/status/1101019944370692097?s=19

The Great Adventure 
Auroville Video Productions, 2018 https://t.co/n8JsUJ2S61
https://twitter.com/AuroMaa_org/status/1101013421112221697?s=19

Reason for Auroville's existence - https://t.co/5uJjbf2jya #sriaurobindo https://t.co/GuAHD1t755
https://twitter.com/istmgroup/status/1100916212857417728?s=19

Prof M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders : Dr. Kiran Bedi Invited me to be a Guest Speaker at... https://t.co/GXLItjeKJZ
https://twitter.com/professormsrao/status/1101025093201813504?s=19
mlk martin_luther_king @villageaction #puducherry #auroville #dream ted tedx_official #speech #speaking #message #inspiration #instaphoto https://t.co/KoNkiJWiKJ
https://twitter.com/professormsrao/status/1100994005163216897?s=19
Soft Leadership: An Innovative Leadership Style to Resolve Conflicts Amicably... https://t.co/LCeU7t4C5H via @amazon
https://twitter.com/professormsrao/status/1100719032032911361?s=19

On 23 February at Bharat Nivas it was a day of meeting and confrontation between old and new generations of Auroville https://t.co/DQtWaQYqK3
https://twitter.com/AurovilleRadio/status/1100833422367322112?s=19
Last Friday, at the Unity Pavilion, the Matrimandir Team presented the work done for the past six months before disc https://t.co/t3RIayQX50
https://twitter.com/AurovilleRadio/status/1100833538071396352?s=19
Listen to Edwin, Garima, Subramanian & Vigneshwar expressing their feelings in running a non competitive marathon ju https://t.co/t3UkSLf1ug
https://twitter.com/AurovilleRadio/status/1100833576994582528?s=19

#Pakistan is controlled by the Asura called Lord if Falsehood as per #Mother
It must go - said #SriAurobindo  also. This Asura fate is 2 surrender der in #India before #Mither (his mother too)
Don't yield to world . They don't know/side with Asura. Stand by Mother Sri Aurobindo
https://twitter.com/redLotus1_/status/1101079092957392896?s=19

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Auroville symbolises love and peace https://t.co/ieIOHiJ3H6 Posted by @NathTusar Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF), #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh #MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Marketime: Sri Aurobindo coalesced native ideas into devastating tools of mass movements https://t.co/3khhAJRGvx @NathTusar Tusar Nath Mohapatra, SELF, #SavitriEra #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh #MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #Auroville

Aurora Mirabilis: Sri Aurobindo was an unparalleled genius and visionary https://t.co/n3xkOgAGPN @NathTusar Tusar Nath Mohapatra, SELF, #SavitriEra #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh #MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #Auroville 51st anniversary

Evergreen Essays: Hostility of physicists to a non-physical plane of after-life [Psychically, an individual that stops existing in the third dimension, continues to exist in the fourth at the same level he/she had in the third.] https://t.co/g7yEOmgZaL #SriAurobindo #MirraAlfassa

It took the genius of Aurobindo Ghosh to coalesce ideas that existed in Hindu ethos into devastating tools of mass movements- Swaraj & Swadeshi. Both were coalesced in much maligned Calcutta in the first decade of the twentieth century. Read:  https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU
Aurobindo Ghosh was an unparalleled genius and visionary. Read how top ranking British intelligence officers assessed his ingenuity. What Aurobindo Ghosh initiated, Subhas Chandra Bose finished. The Indian Freedom Movement
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1101024855862972417?s=19

[Theon was aware they were irregular. In modified version Mirra Alfassa for Sri Aurobindo ... forms central square] http://t.co/kUwbEHI12p
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/554858595364261890?s=19

Mirra Alfassa, or The Mother, was the guiding spirit behind the setting up of Auroville (City of Dawn), an idyllic township, where an ambience of universal brotherhood and peace prevails.
https://t.co/5oNphQTMV8
https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1093426644549693440?s=19

A visit to #Pondicherry means a visit to #Auroville Started 1968 by #TheMother (#MirraAlfassa) as a global habitat fostering #peace #harmony meditation & enlightenment this is a living success #Auroville’s core is #Matrimandir a futuristic golden spherical temple for #meditation https://t.co/dlIZYl9eB1
https://twitter.com/mainakde/status/1099178039139696640?s=19


Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. 
May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born, against the past that seeks to endure; 
so that the new things may manifest and we may be ready to receive them.
@mirra_alfassa . https://t.co/uEZIwd8AKd
https://twitter.com/aganesh2001/status/1087966121544822787?s=19

@chintan_connect The enigmatic 19th-century life of a woman questor (think, also, of Madame Blavatsky & Mirra Alfassa). Thank you for this.
https://twitter.com/ranjithoskote/status/447086215779450880?s=19

Some groups developed beliefs, like gods who punish wrongdoers. They say this promotes prosocial behaviors, or acts that benefit others at a personal cost. Societies with prosocial beliefs were more successful than other groups; hence, those religions spread and persisted through what anthropologists call cultural evolution. [...] A study reviewing 186 societies found that large societies more commonly have deities that punish moral transgressors, whereas the deities of small societies are generally unconcerned with mortal affairs.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/10/24/religion-persist-christianity-islam-hinduism-buddhism-judaism/?utm_source=dsctwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dsctwitter#.XHfIxuzhWf2

The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers ...
Dec 24, 2017 - The spiritual significance of the Mother's symbol in SriAurobindo's integral yoga ... The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother ...
The ashram is located in an ideal place with boundaries to the Rajaji National Park and the River Ganges. Its surroundings are wonderful for nature walks, ...

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Prenatal education and conscious parenting


Darshan Day's Photos 21st feb 2019
#SriAurobindoAshramDelhiBranch #DarshanDay #TheMother

Sri Aurobindo's biography by Rishabhchand (TEXT). 
" … Sri Aurobindo once remarked in his evening talks, “When I was arrested, my maternal grand aunt asked Vishuddhananda... https://t.co/Fv4iQwNpEn

An essay on the goals of education as The Mother and Sri Aurobindo defined them. Dr Indra Sen also reflects on the Ashram School students answers to the question ‘What does your soul look like?’ (TEXT) https://t.co/WPrbuA8J6n

On the auspicious occasion of 141st birthday of the Mother, SAFIC (https://t.co/7eNtTDySdd) humbly unveils its new venture – Renaissance, a monthly e-journal https://t.co/pf188FF04Z
On the auspicious occasion of 141st birthday of the Mother, SAFIC humbly unveils its new website - https://t.co/BkBU4B1X95 - a space dedicated to spreading awareness on Prenatal Education and conscious parenting in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. 
On the auspicious occasion of 141st birthday of the Mother, SAFIC humbly unveils its new digital platform dedicated to the study of Indian scriptures. https://t.co/rMsMu7671N Vedas in the light of Sri Aurobindo.

JOURNEY TO THE LIFE DIVINE — Part 1
A two-part documentary on Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, and their Ashram. The documentary contains quite a few video rare recordings of The Mother and early Ashramites, as well as... https://t.co/ShTFCbdI0E
Part II depicts the evolution of the Ashram in its diverse fields of activities with the goal of establishing the divine life upon earth as envisaged by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. https://t.co/1rrm88RbAi

A short video clip about Madhuban, a unit of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch, situated at Talla Ramgarh, Uttarakhand. A campsite situated on a fruit orchard ...

Jul 16, 2017 - Summer Retreat at Madhuban: A Report ... at Madhuban, a unit of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch, situated at Talla Ramgarh, Uttarakhand.

Location:Madhuban, Talla Ramgarh, Uttarakhand ... centre), Talla Ramgarh, Uttarakhand, by Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture (SAFIC), Puducherry.

3) The Time of Her Birth:
The Mother was born on 21st Feb. 1878, exactly 2016 days after the birth of #SriAurobindo on 15th Aug. 1872; perhaps to double the auspiciousness (1008) of the advent!
Of course the time of Their arrival couldn't have been without a great significance: https://t.co/v2iLC2gQ1m

17) Travelling to Lonavala:
Within few months of #SriAurobindo's marriage, both Sarojini & Mrinalini went back to Calcutta, perhaps due to a plague epidemic in Baroda. He would then be called to Lonavala by the Gaekwad ~ June 1902..
He had a curious nickname for His employer: https://t.co/Yu6UColJX5


2018 Physical Demonstration at the Ashram Sports Ground - The Mother started the Ashram School on 2nd December 1943. Every year the anniversary of the school is celebrated with a cultural programme on the 1st of...

In the face of Positive thinking we always feel inadequate - Should we really put the Vedic accent marks? These came much much later, long after the Rig Veda, these are post-Panini, 500 BC afterwards. What is necess...

The secularist killjoy: A reply to Schaefer and Smith - I am grateful to Donovan Schaefer and Caleb Smith for their productive, provocative responses. Both in their different ways have written about debunking an...

Seventy Photographs of the Mother taken on 21 February 1972 - Dear Friends, 21 February 2019 marked the 141th Birth Anniversary of the Mother. As our humble homage to Her, seventy photographs of Her taken on the occas...

- Absurd Being reads Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (1/7)

With demons like these…: A Response from Adam Kotsko - I would like to begin by thanking all five contributors for their engagement with my work and Sean Capener for his labor in coordinating the event (and sel...

Event on Ethan Mills’ “Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical Indian Philosophy” -Readers who are in Singapore may be interested in an upcoming book discussion hosted by the Bras Basah Open and Yale-NUS College, on Thursday, 7 March 2019...

On the Matter of Life: Towards an Integral Economics - I’m posting a revised version of a long essay I wrote back in 2010. It draws on thinkers including Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, ...

Captive of Her Love by Janina Stroka - Longings for the Mother This book is a collection of letters, poems and paintings by Janina Stroka, a Polish disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and a...

Intellectual integrity is integral to Integral Yoga - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar: Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake on February 17, 1600. https://t.co/nVZQcsquGc Every situation...

Hampi Continues to Live – Part 1 - In this several-part series, we relive a few moments from our recent trip to Hampi and surrounding areas. The pictures and the accompanying words weave a...

The Four Fold Transformation–Sri Aurobindo - [In our march towards our evolutionary destiny we have to achieve a fourfold transformation: economic, social, cultural and spiritual. In this compilatio...

How can you be yourself if there is no self? - The rise of qualitative individualism in the West coincides relatively closely with Western interest in Buddhism. Nietzsche and Emerson, two … Continue rea...

Four Lessons from Home Renovation - During the months of December 2018 and January 2019, we spent about 5 weeks getting several long-overdue renovation and repair projects completed around th...

Monthly updates and newsletter articles - From Jan 2019 we will not be updating this blog. Please refer to our website at https://sriaurobindosociety.org.sg/ For newsletters and articles, please r...


Wednesday, May 02, 2018

How yoga should be a part of our being 24x7

Sri Aurobindo has unfortunately been reduced to a Yogi from Pondicherry. He is so much beyond that. His work on the science of Yoga and how it should be a part of our being 24x7 is so enlightening!

Awarded ‘Best Film’ at the Delhi Documentary Film Festival in 2001, this movie by Auroville Press is based on a text from “The Renaissance in India” by Sri Aurobindo.  It is not a study of ancient India (although it... https://t.co/UDaoPpH4cu

Crowdfunding for the theatre of Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/m34thVC7Ha

Savitri Era Open Forum: Vivekananda is the vital link between Bankimchandra and Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/V72YvxxCLL #SriAurobindo #MirraAlfassa #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #SavitriEraParty Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014

Aurora Mirabilis: Locating the most authentic source is a crucial task https://t.co/DLYU32jFDu #SriAurobindo #MirraAlfassa #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #SavitriEraParty @NathTusar Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (UP) India

Heute in der @suedostschweiz: mein Reisebericht über #Pondicherry
#Indien #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga https://t.co/TqVFvf9HA2

The Divine Mother, or as she is known more widely, the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram: https://t.co/DGSsHuVmeH

#Thoughts: Excerpt from Sri Aurobindo's speech at Uttarpara in 1909: https://t.co/wPWijZMcPa

Sri Aurobindo had the mettle to reduce me from a hyper-intellecualized-adwaitin-nearly-buddhist to a simple aspiring bhakta, without even meeting me.
That is the thing that makes me bow down to him.

He does seem that way.. do at least read the last few chapters where text shifts to first person.. have had some profound moments of aid during tricky times in my sadhana...

https://t.co/uCqFHy4YgL friends please follow this great teacher whose post i put on Twitter . HE is a great devotee of MOther and Sri aurobindo
https://twitter.com/omram1206/status/990869559002443777?s=19

Our freedom fighters and nationalism

The New Indian Express-7 hours ago
The same caveat applies to Sri Aurobindo (then known as Aurobindo Ghosh), who famously stated in his 1909 Uttarpara speech upon release from a year-long imprisonment in the Alipore Jail, “I say no longer that nationalism is a creed, a religion, a faith; I say that it is the Sanatana Dharma which for us is nationalism.

Workshop on conscious parenting to be held in Puducherry

Times of India-25-Apr-2018
In an effort to enlighten people on the vital aspects to be adopted as early as conception of babies, Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture (SAFIC) will conduct a three-day workshop -- 'Sambhuti: The secret of conscious maternity and parenting in spiritual light' -- at the Sri Aurobindo Society in Martin Street here from .

Common Prophets of the Jews, Christians, Muslims and Hindus by ...

Free Press Journal-21-Apr-2018
His book underscores Sri Aurobindo's famous lines in his poetic book, 'The Life Divine': 'One Universal soul resides in all/Whether you're big or small.' The same applies to the chequered lives of all Prophets. The stories and legends associated with their lives have an uncanny common streak and strain running through all ...

Interpreting Hegel's India

Economic and Political Weekly-19-Apr-2018
This would require some amount of rigorous substantiation through a reading of Hegel and the Gita, but rather what is to be found are references to the works of Vishwanath Prasad Varma's The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (which can hardly be considered to possess a rigorous discussion of Hegel's politico-ethical ...

Should There Be More Talk of "Soul" In Integal Theory? | Joe Perez

joe-perez.com › Writings & Art › Articles
18 hours ago - ... of Consciousness on forward, there is a soul level sandwiched between the psychic and causal states of consciousness in a sort of “stepladder to heaven”. Soul, then, is a mere way-station on the route to enlightenment (perhaps even a distraction or a dangerous “intermediate zone” as the followers of Sri Aurobindo say).

AuroInspirations — Daily Dose of Inspirations from the Words of Sri ...

https://sa15.in/
21 hours ago - Daily Dose of Inspirations from the Words of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

"MUSA SPIRITUS", a poem by Sri Aurobindo - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rflCXpa7rY0
5 hours ago - Uploaded by AuroMaa Org
A video clip with recitation of Sri Aurobindo's poem (LP16). An audio track and text can be found at http ...

The Mother's Vision - Auro e-Books

https://www.auro-ebooks.com/the-mothers-vision/
5 hours ago - The Mother's Vision. This book contains a selection of the Mother's conversations during the periods 1929-31 and 1950-58. Speaking to members of theSri Aurobindo Ashram and students of its school, she drew upon her unique occult, spiritual and practical experience to answer their questions. The topics range from the ...

The Conversion of The Vital – Kali's Brood – Medium

https://medium.com/kalis-brood/the-conversion-of-the-vital-aa3c6d3df5db?...4
14 hours ago - Murli R. Medium member since Apr 2017. Founder @goldenlatitude. Lover of Sanskrit and the English Metre. Mostly write on Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, whom I earnestly follow within and without. Follow ...

اروند گھوش - آزاد دائرۃ المعارف، ویکیپیڈیا

https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/اروند_گھوش
20 hours ago - ... (عمر 78 سال) پانڈچیری، فرانسیسی ہند (موجودہ پدوچیری). شاگردان, Champaklal، N. K. Gupta، Amal Kiran، Nirodbaran، Pavitra، M. P. Pandit، A. B. Purani، D. K. Roy، Satprem، Indra Sen. ادبی کام, The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri. متاثر شخصیات, میرا الفیسا. دستخط, Sri-Aurobindo-Signature-Transparent.png ...

Our freedom fighters and nationalism- The New Indian Express

www.newindianexpress.com/.../our-freedom-fighters-and-nationalism-1808966.html
7 hours ago - The same caveat applies to Sri Aurobindo (then known as Aurobindo Ghosh), who famously stated in his 1909 Uttarpara speech upon release from a year-long imprisonment in the Alipore Jail, “I say no longer that nationalism is a creed, a religion, a faith; I say that it is the Sanatana Dharma which for us is nationalism.

'Blood on Hands' - Organiser

www.organiser.org/Encyc/2018/5/2/Blood-on-Hands.html
9 hours ago - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal, Sri Aurobindo, Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Rabindranath Tagore and many more staunch nationalists along with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were affiliated to it. Though there were multiple other freedom fighting factions and leaders opposed ...