Tagore remained suspicious and ambivalent towards mass politics

A focus on landscapes Canada.com First of the summer exhibits at Comox Valley Art Gallery open tonight with artists BY ANH LE, CURATOR, SPECIAL TO COMOX VALLEY ECHO JUNE 10, 2011 12:00 AM

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 ]

Raghavendra K. R.  -  12:01 PM  -  Buzz  -  Public

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

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

Hand-woven bedspreads sold by Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Puducherry

The Pioneer :: The battle of Kaliyuga has begun June 09, 2011   9:48:34 AM Francois Gautier

Previously, the Congress was able to brazen out scandalous truth through bullying, deceit, lying and political cunning. Now it hopes that by slandering Ramdev and the RSS, it will be able to put a lid on mounting allegations of corruption against the party and the Government
The world is a battlefield. All great gurus and avatars have incarnated themselves throughout the ages to help the forces of good, which in India are called ‘dharmic’, against forces which are inimical to the Evolution of Humanity and which are called ‘adharmic’, or even asuric. …

Sri Aurobindo, in one of his aphorisms, said something like this: “Even if god were to manifest himself in front of thy very eyes, you would not recognise him.” I am not able to judge Ramdev, but I can say with confidence that what he teaches is good, because it has benefited thousands of people.

The Crackdown by san

As an atheist and a rationalist, I don't really put any faith in holy men, but Ramdev was a pretty rich guy who could have gone on living a luxurious life without any problems, and yet he decided to take on the ruling powers-that-be over the vital all-concerning issue of corruption, which is to his credit. [New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna] 

Savitri Era: Countdown for Congress

Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. 
NEWS DIGEST SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011 The Great Indian Hijack - Indian Express

"So what do we have for our new leadership now? A new pantheon consisting of a self-styled Mahatma Gandhi, a Vivekananda, a Sri Aurobindo and, well, if our society ever produced another neo-Maoist who draped himself in saffron, please remind me. Otherwise, we might just have one original here.

Meet Ramdev the marketing guru Business Standard Namrata Acharya Kolkata June 9, 2011

For example, the products sold by Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Puducherry in south India include hand-woven bedspreads, stuffed toys, snacks, cool drinks and ayurvedic products.

Eco warrior The Hindu

“I've lived on the banks of the Ganges and in a Himalayan Kumaoni village for six months before discovering Mother and the young community of Auroville. ... 
Joy Roy Choudhury

We must also understand each of us is also trying in our own capacity to change things, so instead of being too critical of people, we must first look back at ourselves in the mirror and try to evolve to be perfect at every point of time. Also we can understand that the truthful and right and the just sources of power don't come down from heaven suddenly, they grow they are planted first nurtured watered nourished on this planet. 

These seeds or what will be supramental seeds - are cultural forces which have the divine capacity to express the Sat-Chit-Ananda. Now, I will pledge all of us here in the forum to look back and see where the Culture in the world is heading towards and what is actually happening inside India. If the divine has to express, it will express through Culture.

Comment on Sri Aurobindo’s letters to his wife Mrinalini Devi by Sandeep from Comments for Overman Foundation by Sandeep

They were most probably written in the time between his release from Alipore and his retreat to Chandernagore and Pondicherry. They illustrate that he had lost initiative and was waiting for the Divine to guide his next step.

elements 114 and 116 added to periodic table from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek

HERE. They are not yet named, but like all the new elements they last for only a fraction of a second. Elements 113 and 115 are not yet accepted, so this brings the accepted total to 114.

Written by Robert E. Wilkinson

Robert E. Wilkinson – b. 1943, is a writer, teacher and astrological consultant residing near Asheville, N.C. He has spent most of his adult life in the research and synthesis of the principal forms of psycho-spiritual transformation. His major areas of interest include, Integral Yoga, Jungian & Transpersonal Psychology, Archetypal Cycles & Symbolism, and the Supramental Philosophy as set forth by Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet known to her students throughout the world as Thea. 
Over the last 30 years he has studied with Psychologists, Philosophers, and Spiritual teachers developing a comprehensive and holistic vision of the higher levels of human potential. Mr. Wilkinson's primary area of expertise is the role of applied cosmology in the areas of science, psychology and human development. He has given numerous seminars on a new experience of Time as an aid in the realization of higher states of consciousness. As a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina in Asheville – CFS, Robert has lectured extensively throughout the world on the subjects of Vedic Cosmology, Yoga, Spirituality and Science. He continues to offer Intensives on the Supramental Yoga and is one of the moderators of an Internet Study Group dedicated to the study of the Yogic teachings of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea). He is also one of the members of Aeon Group, a NY based non-profit educational organization dedicated to the promotion of the Supramental Cosmology. He is a founding member of the Movement for the Restoration of Vedic Wisdom which is involved in the reorganization of the Hindu Calendar.
Authors Log - Robert A . Johnson, He-She-We He: Understanding Masculine Psychology 006097057X

According to the back cover of my copy of Perennial Library printing of Robert A. Johnson’s He Understanding Masculine Psychology, he studied at the Jung Institute in Switzerland and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India. 

Auronet Thursday 9 Jun

Class / 2011-06-09 10:00 New Facilities for Individual Study at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-09 10:30 Class for children

Class / 2011-06-09 11:15 Dancing Astrology

Class / 2011-06-09 16:00 The English of Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Workshop / 2011-06-09 16:30 Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Practice Group

Event / 2011-06-09 18:00 "Savitri" read by The Mother accompanied by Sunils Music

Reading The Life Divine at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville

Matrimandir - Newsletter June 2011
The history of the Matrimandir gardens is as long as the history of Matrimandir itself. The Mother first described in 1965 a very special garden-park she ... [Auroville, a city with a soul Ruud Lohman Matrimandir: The mother's truth and love Huta A HOUSE FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: ESSAYS ON MATRIMANDIR RUUD LOHMAN Auroville : A Dream]

The intricacies of Indian philosophy IBNLive.com - ‎Jun 6, 2011‎ The New Indian Express Updated Jun 07, 2011 at 08:03am IST

Indian philosophy is not only the most ancient of all philosophies, but also the most variegated. Though each theological school that originated in ancient India has evolved in its philosophical arguments, they cannot be termed schools of philosophy as 

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

Would you like to comment on the controversy surrounding the book, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo? [TNM] On 6 June 2011 15:52, Ian Johnstone-Bryden ianj-b@firetrench.com wrote: The great difficulty that formal religion creates is the claim by each religion to offer something that cannot be offered by any other religion.

Ian Johnstone-Bryden Tue Jun 7, 2011 10:01 am

Yes, when I am satisfied I know enough about that book to comment in an intelligent manner. It has been very interesting to follow the flow and ebb of the debate. 

Mostly I have been reading and commenting infrequently only from my perspective to comments published in the debate, dealing with the principles of some aspects claimed for the book. There are inconsistencies in some published material but my knowledge of the book is still not adequate to know which inconsistencies are most valid. The debate has also covered a wide range of tangential-related topics, played against the original stated objective of SBI in makign the forum available. 

Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Spiritual Life and the New Race by Prabir Kumar Bagchi Mirror of Tomorrow Thursday, 02 Jun 2011

We have started this essay from a position where human being as a race has reached a stage of its development and moving in a circle at some point of the evolutionary march where from it is imperative to have a leap farther. He is obviously in an evolutionary crisis. He has piled up huge comfort and externalities for the fulfilment of his desires and utilities of his mental, vital and physical propensities.  He has set up a structure of external life and a system of civilization with multifaceted social, political, administrative and cultural machineries which has become more than his present limited mental capacity to sustain and handle.

His progress has become halted at some point in the absence of a greater seeing mind, intuitive and psychic knowledge and vision which could provide him free growth, greater knowledge, power and force to uplift his present status beyond his material and economic existence. He needs discovery of his psychic being, his spiritual Person and makes itself the leader of his development and progress.

25 years of Manoj Das Gupta's tenure as Trustee

Sri Aurobindo's Ashram of Manoj Das Gupta's early years was a blissful melange of serious and self-effacing senior sadhaks on the one hand, and fresh faced ...
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Sri Aurobindo was one of her friends as well. She also took active interest in promoting Indian history, culture and science. She actively encouraged Dr. ...
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In Kalva Gurukul of Jind district in Haryana India he offered free training of Yog to villagers for some time. Then he moved to Haridwar and spent several years studying ancient Indian scriptures at Gurukul Kangari. This included a rare book of Aurobindo Ghosh- Yogik Sadhan, translated from Bangla into Hindi by Ram Prasad 'Bismil'.^[3] After reading this small booklet he went to the caves of Himalaya and practiced intense self-discipline and meditation. [Terrifying Vision: M. S. Golwalkar, the Rss, and India Jyotirmaya Sharma (Hardcover - Jan 2007)] 

How Heidegger came down from the ivory tower? Iran Book News Agency - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎

Translator of the book "Heidegger, Art and Politics” said: Heidegger considered Nazism Movement as a kind of historical possibility for uprising against the modern world's Nihilism.

Auronet Wednesday 8 Jun

Class / 2011-06-08 10:00 New Facilities for Individual Study at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-08 10:30 Class for children

Class / 2011-06-08 16:00 Spoken English Practise at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-08 17:30 Reading The Life Divine at Savitri Bhavan 

Sri Aurobindo's Writings - The Mother's Collected Works

Sri Aurobindo learnt a lot about expressive skill from the Mother’s writings

Discourse on ‘The Life Divine’ – by Prof. Biswanath Roy Tue, June 7, 6pm – 7pm Monthly on the first Tuesday Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, Kolkata Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture tffs.anasua@gmail.com

Performance artists Hindustan Times Ramachandra Guha June 06, 2011

Fleeing the colonial police, Aurobindo retreated to the French enclave of Pondicherry where he pursued, more vigorously than it had been possible when he was a revolutionary, the spiritual life. He read, meditated, and wrote. As his search focused further inwards, he gave fewer discourses and met fewer and fewer disciples. … Ramana and Aurobindo did not leave their ashrams for decades on end. 8:02 PM 

SRI AUROBINDO'S THEORY OF POETRY: SEARCHING FOR A COMPLETE MANIFESTO Goutam Ghosal NEW RACE Vol. XII – II April 2011

Sri Aurobindo became a relaxed guru after 1926. Apart from that, the Mother’s influence might have been a significant force behind the clarity of his post-1926 letters. One suspects he learnt a lot about expressive skill from the Mother’s writings. There is an obvious change in his prose style in the 30s and the progressive clarity reached a supreme height in The Supramental Manifestation on Earth.

What activities of the Ashram can I participate in?

Visit to the Samadhi: You can go to the samadhi for pranam and meditation any time during the day. The Ashram gate opens at 4.30 in the morning and closes at 11.00 at night. There is also a meditation hall inside the main Ashram building where you can sit.

Collective Meditations: On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday there is a collective meditation around the samadhi from 7.25 pm to 7.50 pm. This is open to everyone. No pass is required. On Thursdays and Sundays, a collective meditation is held in the Ashram Playground between 7.45 pm and 8.15 pm. This is open only to the Ashramites and the visitors staying in the Ashram guest houses who have been given Playground passes. These must be shown at the gate.

The Force of Consciousness by Miriam   Friday, 03 June 2011

We talked with Loretta, who is going to the USA in a week.  Following her line of service to the Mother, she is invited to lecture in California.  When you serve something, its vibration becomes part of you.  Serving Mother means receiving her consciousness.  Loretta received an inner push to lecture. This started with five talks on the Supramental Transformation connected with her recent exhibition.  Eight presentations in seven weeks will include four of these talks, a talk on Savitri, a question/answer session on Auroville, and a talk to children.  She will speak at the AUM Conference in Lodi, the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Cultural Integration Fellowship in San Fransisco, the East/West Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and Meditation Mount in Ojai. Read more

Auronet Tuesday 7 Jun

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

Class / 2011-06-07 10:00 New Facilities for Individual Study at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-07 10:30 Class for children

Class / 2011-06-07 15:00 Cultivating Concentration at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-07 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-07 16:00 L' Agenda de Mère at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-07 16:30 Integral meditation

Class / 2011-06-07 17:00 Savitri Study in Tamil at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-06-07 17:30 Yoga Nidra

Class / 2011-06-07 17:45 Om Choir at Savitri Bhavan

General Information

Where is the Ashram located?   How do I travel to the Ashram?  Where can I stay in the Ashram?  Bus and train services in Pondicherry  How do I move about in Pondicherry? What passes do I need in the Ashram?  What activities can I participate in? 

Sri Aurobindo's Yoga  What is the basic principle underlying Sri Aurobindo's teaching? What are the main lines of practice of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga?  How is Sri Aurobindo's Yoga related to earlier systems of Yoga?

The Ashram Library: The library also has a large collection of Indian and Western classical records and tapes. Indian classical music is played at the Library every Wednesday starting at 8.30 pm and Western classical music every Tuesday and Friday at the same time.

Sri Aurobindo's Writings - The Mother's Collected Works Inputs may be mailed to tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com

The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother by Manoj Pavitran

Circumsolatious: Indians Protest Against Government Corruption

Capricorn (Makar) & the Manifest Divine · Vivekananda, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet & Sri Aurob... Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda and Voices of the Supra. ...

Re: Attitudes in Sri Aurobindo 

In July 1937, in answer to a question by K.D. Sethana on the connection between lives and work of Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci, Sri Aurobindo wrote: [...]

Service to thought is the noblest vocation, wrote Harold Lasky the British political thinker who had a profound influence on Jawaharlal Nehru as his teacher.

The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is brought out by Aurovilian Manoj Pavitran with assistance from friends and fellow-Aurovilians. Its release was organised in Auroville in February 2011. For online viewing of the

film: http://www.sopanam.org. Adjust resolution to 260p if you have difficulty viewing. Gulati

Sathya Sai Baba: the Counterfeit Avatar Sunday, June 5, 2011 By Robert E. Wilkinson

India is the only nation in the world that can lay claim to a recurring history, eternally relevant and faithful to her ethos and cosmic culture, and the Vedic tradition of the Avatar is one of the most important symbols of her periodic renewal. […]

The process of human birth follows this very same principle with all life evolving from an original seed or embryo. The gestation of the human being occurs over a period of nine (9) months culminating with the birth of that which was originally involved. We find this same pattern of correspondences described in the Vishnu Purana in the form of the ‘Nine Creations’. And if we look at the Line of Ten Avatars within this context, we can easily see that the evolution of consciousness follows the same pattern. […]

Our expectations of the 9^th Avatar are overwhelmingly realized in the person of Sri Aurobindo. 

PURANIC COSMOLOGY UPDATED: The Partition of India, its cause, its ...

Some years later, before his passing, Sri Aurobindo agreed to meet Shri K. S. ... Sri Aurobindo left this plane in December 1950; the Mother was then to ...

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

Principles of the Evolutionary Process from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

Sri Aurobindo's Writings - The Mother's Collected Works

Sri Aurobindo was the first to advocate publicly India's complete independence

The Hindu : Engagements: In Madurai Today

Sri Aurobindo Society: Study circle meeting on 'Our Present Natural Life and the True Social Life,' 3 Lajapathi Roy Road, Chinna Chokkikulam, 10.30 a.m.
The Hindu : Engagements: In Coimbatore today

Sri Aurobindo Devotees: Pushpanjali and prayers, Sasi Balika Vidya Mandir, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Sri Annai Meditation Centre, Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.

Mirror of Tomorrow :: A Conversation with Sriman Aravinda Ghosh ...

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 ...

Savitri Era Open Forum: Sri Aurobindo has not been given the ...

Other factors apart, the single biggest cause that made the shy Sri Aurobindo a legend is the fact that his was the first voice to demand unqualified ...

Anna Hazare & Baba Ramdev border on the bizarre 

We need someone of high integrity and charisma to start a movement against greedy, selfish and corrupt politicians. If you win, our country will win. We are with you. Jai Hind. Posted by Mirza Ghalib to Savitri Era at 10:21 PM, June 04, 2011 Calicut, Kerala, India Nib (national Internet Backbone) (117.204.85.192)

Human Evolution Brings Thinking Conscious Mind to Life & Body ...

Sri Aurobindo's description of the evolutionary stages from Matter to Life, from Life to Mind in the animal, continues with the exploration of the stage of ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Whitehead's revisionist take on God

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

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Documentary materials available include the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with search facilities, the Mother's Agenda in the original ...
Aryan invasion confusion - Page 7

Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo and Babasaheb Ambedkar --all opposed this theory vehemently. After the excavation at Indus Valley the ...

Where Om comes with a French accent - Telegraph Sunday 05 June 2011

In recent years, articles about Pondy, as most call it, have tended to concentrate on its celebrated Sri Aurobindo Ashram and on Auroville, the would-be ...