Sri Aurobindo was like I was, confused and bewildered, confronted with a million existential questions

The Hindu : NATIONAL : TAMIL NADU : Celebrations

Sri Aurobindo Devotees Prayer Centre will organise essay, oratory and question and answer contests for students in connection with Sri Aurobindo's 139th birthday celebrations. ... contact: A. T. Ravindran, principal organiser, 347, Alagesan Road, Saibaba Colony, Coimbatore – 641011. Mobile numbers: 9629730809.

MANOJ DAS – WINNING AUTHOR

Since 1963, he has been an ashramite at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Manoj Das is currently an English professor at the Sri Aurobindo International ...

Editor's Note

And from there to S. Murali's invocation of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, an epic poem published in 1970, which aspires to transcend the material plane and “the ... [The mantra of vision: An overview of Sri Aurobindo's aesthetics]

Anguish and After « MURALI SIVARAMAKRISHNAN

Sri Aurobindo and Ramana spoke to me. I lived through the struggles of these great minds. While Ramana sounded simple at the outset he made me pause and think. Sri Aurobindo was tough. But then I was fortunate enough to read through all that he wrote, not missing out any single line. His complexity I found was only at the outside, while deep within he was like I was, confused and bewildered, confronted with a million existential questions, relishing the great aesthetic experience of being and becoming, at one with the universe. Of course it took me only a little while to recognize his great and steadfast will that gave him the continued impetus to forge ahead in the supreme quest of the spirit. I felt I understood the reason for his overt withdrawal from the world of politics into the silence and solitude of the ashram. It was not a withdrawal at all but an all inclusive immersion into the larger being of the cosmic spirit.

What delighted me most about this amazing intellectual yogi was his continued openness to the questions of the body and the intellect. Someone had called him a radical mystic. Yes, Sri Aurobindo gave clear cut answers to many of my questions. However the greatest challenge was in unlocking these observations in the laboratory of ones own mind. Behind every Jekyll there is this Hyde. It might be one thing to follow these teachings of these noble masters as teachings but another to experientially encounter them. My questing mind was always alert and devious, mischievous. I wanted the cake and to eat it too. Yoga and spirituality demanded great disciplining of the senses and the mind. I was worried whether these might lead to an incarceration of the sensuous self. I wanted the passions of the body and the soul to be equally well balanced. It was a virtual impossibility.

New Videos & Article - Conscious Evolution, Sri Aurobindo, 2011 AUM Conference, Alan Baiss

We would like to share some exciting videos and an article related to the production of our current film Concious. You may especially enjoy the 2011 AUM Conference clips. Thank you for your support Also visit our website Our mailing address is: Integral Inspirations, 895 Academy, Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 2X8

Alan Baiss is the founder of Integral Inspirations and producer of the films Integral Consciousness, Conversations with Bina, and Conscious.  Alan graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies and pursued a good career in psychotherapy until  a series of personal challenges redirected his life and he produced Integral Consciousness. For over two years this project was his passion and focus, and the beginning of a deeply personal journey.

Now, with the completion of two films, Alan's attention is devoted to Conscious. Two trips to India and countless hours of organizing profoundly fascinating interviews have placed this important project well on its way.

Integral Inspirations is a grassroots organization that believes an evolutionary leap in human consciousness is humanity's potential and birthright, and may be our best hope if we are to continue the human adventure.  Integral Inspirations is dedicated to playing its part in this spiritual transformation. 

Integral Inspirations film projects, which have been well received in venues around the world, feature the insights and wisdom of scholarly and respected individuals. 

Sales of Integral Consciousness are helping to produce the current film, Conscious (working title). See how you can become involved.

Aster Patel: Speaking on CHANGE at the 2011 AUM Conference, 73 seconds VIEW HERE More Aster Patel at the 2011 AUM and Loretta Shartsis CLICK HERE to view on Facebook 

Matthijas Cornellison: “OUR PRESENT STATE CANNOT BE THE FINAL STATE”, interviewed forConscious, 58 seconds VIEW HERE

Brian Swimme:   "WHAT WE SEE TODAY COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED BY CHANCE", interviewed for Conscious, 67 seconds CLICK HERE to view on Facebook

ARTICLE: MAKING CONSCIOUS, film in production
An article in the Spring 2011 edition of Collaboration Journal that follows the unexpected and personal journey of the films Integral Consciousness and ConsciousTo view CLICK HERE  [from Integral Inspirations integralinspirations@yahoo.com date 22 July 2011 03:58] 

Events Friday 22 Jul

Cinema /2011-07-22 (All day) Cinema::Cause Toujours

Exhibition /2011-07-22 08:00 Exhibition: “Terres Intérieures et Extérieures”

Exhibition /2011-07-22 09:00 Exhibition - Meditations on Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-07-22 09:00 French Classes at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-07-22 17:00 The Synthesis of Yoga -Faith and Shakti Part III by Sraddhalu Ranade (Video-talk) at Savitri Bhavan

Cinema /2011-07-22 19:45 C I N E M A - Cause Toujours / Come off it! 

Discourse on the ‘Upanishad’ – by Dr. Shikha Mukherjee

Sat, July 23, 6:30pm – 7:30pm Monthly on the fourth Saturday

Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture tffs.anasua@gmail.com

Because Thou Art, Evergreen Essays, Feel Philosophy, Marketime, Musepaper, RainbOwther

Birth of the next cycle of European civilization

Her flight path The Hindu July 21, 2011 ARTS » DANCE  Well-known dancer Anita Ratnam shares the trajectory of her journey through Bharatanatyam.

I carry with me now the monograph of Sri Aurobindo's “The Mother” which I read many years ago. His description of Mahashakti Mahakali Mahasaraswati is a seminal description of the ideal woman. So as I said, little windows and doors were beginning to open. I started to focus on women in myth and legends, but I couldn't just do them the way I was taught.

I had to re-imagine them and I realised that my strength would be new ways of speaking the old, but in a very convincing way — not just changing costume and doing the same choreography, or keeping the old costume of classical dance and just doing new choreography.

Sister Nivedita's house may be acquired Deccan Herald, Sister Nivedita's house may be acquired to conserve it as heritage centre The Hindu

Born as Margaret Noble, Nivedita, who was also close to Rabindranath Tagore and Jagadish Chandra Bose and Sri Aurobindo, came to Kolkata in 1898 on a request from Swami Vivekananda to spread education among Indian women. She set up a school in 1899 ...

Ode to the ordinary The Hindu

There's one thing that greatly worries Auroville-based artist Rajkumar Sthabathy — the disappearance of the man-on-the-street and his way of life. ...

NGO offers forest trip to volunteers Hindustan Times

The speaker at the workshop, Aviram Rozin, co-founder of Sadhana Forest, built on the outskirts of Auroville, spoke about his experience of turning 70 acres ...

Auroville Radio - Sharing Auroville`s life and spirit

The Rainbow Bridge - Sri Aurobindo's Savitri as a mantra for transformation. Under this title the second Dr. M.V. Nadkarni Memorial Lecture was given by ... 

“Food for Thought” and short introduction on national and European soul (introduction at the European Pavilion Meeting in Berlin, June 10-13, 2011) European Pavilion Meeting in Berlin On Saturday morning the meeting started with an introductory speech by Georg, who gave a summary of what Sri Aurobindo has said about the relationship ...

But here we come back to the very beginning of this introduction; the question then is, whether a European Union is just a temporary formation on the way to a spiritual mankind and can thus be – on the long rung – neglected as a collective body or if there is some kind of eternal truth in the European-unit, some kind of a true individual, that does not depend on present forms or ideas, if there is not only a vital soul, a life-soul and a communal mind, but as well the genuine spark of the divine developing into a European psychic being.

Do we have to deal, in the end, in a spiritual age, with the true individual, the true nation and a true humanity or with the true individual, the true nation, the true Europe/Asia/America/Africa/Australia, and the true humanity? – Is continental grouping thus truly genuine or a temporary phenomenon? 

So much as food for reflection for a hopefully inspiring and integrating experience.
Theories of Existence That Deny an Immortal Soul or Personality ...

Sri Aurobindo Studies. Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga ... Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 2, Part 2, Chapter 20, The Philosophy of Rebirth ...

The Pioneer :: Home : >> Harness social energies through Gita July 20, 2011 C Rajashekhar

The Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to introduce Gita lessons for school children in the State. Gita symbolises Indian culture and this decision reflects the desire of the BJP to influence the collective mind of the young and use the Gita to start a cultural renaissance in the State

Following Krishna, many a nation builders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Vinoba Bhave, Vivekanand and in recent times, ...
An introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga

Sri Aurobindo Society is organising a talk on An introduction to Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. By Ashesh Joshi On 27th July 2011 (Wed.) at 6:00 to 7:00p.m. All are welcome 

Venue - Sri Aurobindo Society 11, Sahakar, Opp: Sydnehm College,
B Road, Churchgate - 400 020. Ph: 022 2204 3076

Ashesh introduction 

“Born in Gujarat, Ashesh Joshi was an imate of Sri Aurobindo ashram for 20 years and since 2007, he is in Auroville. Since last few years he has been giving regular weekly workshops introducing various approaches to the Integral Yoga, at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville. He has just returned from a visit to Russia, Germany and Switzerland where he was invited to give talks and multimedia presentation on Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga.”

Re: Union with our Inner Being MICHAEL MIOVIC mmiovic@... 

For those who are open, Greece is still a treasure trove of mystical experience, and one can still experience the so-called "ancient" Gods in their inner or yogic reality in many spots--Delphi, Cape Sounion, at the Parthenon,Olympia, some islands, and many other spots both natural and man-made.  The re-discovery of these Gods and Goddesses still awaits the birth of the next cycle of European civilization. 

Coming Events

Thursday 21 Jul

Workshop /2011-07-21 (All day) Flowers and their Message.

Exhibition /2011-07-21 08:00 Exhibition: “Terres Intérieures et Extérieures”

Exhibition /2011-07-21 09:00 Exhibition - Meditations on Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-07-21 09:00 French Classes at Savitri Bhavan

Event /2011-07-21 10:30 Foodlink Fresh

Class /2011-07-21 11:15 Dancing Astrology

Meeting /2011-07-21 15:00 working group regular meeting

Class /2011-07-21 16:00 The English of Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Workshop /2011-07-21 16:30 Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Practice Group

Class /2011-07-21 17:00 Yoga for Everyone - with Roque Rodriguez

Event /2011-07-21 18:00 "Savitri" read by The Mother accompanied by Sunils Music

Friday 22 Jul

Cinema /2011-07-22 (All day) Cinema::Cause Toujours

Exhibition /2011-07-22 08:00 Exhibition: “Terres Intérieures et Extérieures”

Exhibition /2011-07-22 09:00 Exhibition - Meditations on Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-07-22 09:00 French Classes at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-07-22 17:00 The Synthesis of Yoga -Faith and Shakti Part III by Sraddhalu Ranade (Video-talk) at Savitri Bhavan

Cinema /2011-07-22 19:45 C I N E M A - Cause Toujours / Come off it!

Saturday 23 Jul

Exhibition /2011-07-23 08:00 Exhibition: “Terres Intérieures et Extérieures”

Exhibition /2011-07-23 09:00 Exhibition - Meditations on Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-07-23 09:00 French Classes at Savitri Bhavan

Workshop /2011-07-23 09:30 Somatic Movement - one day workshop

Class /2011-07-23 10:00 New Facilities for Individual Study at Savitri Bhavan

Class /2011-07-23 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Workshop /2011-07-23 17:00 Mudra-Chi - A body prayer

Sri Aurobindo's mammoth contribution to modern Psychology

Why do we need Indian Psychology? | ip-blogs Posted on July 17, 2011 by Matthijs

The ancient rishis and yogis realized, like their modern counterparts, that what ordinary people know about themselves is not worth much, but they did not shy away from the problem. Instead they analysed the causes for this human incapacity and then they set to work on methods to overcome these defects. They found that the two main problems were egoism, and a too naive reliance on what the senses make us believe.

Regarding the former, they found that the egoism expressed itself through desires, preferences and the natural “vested interests” we all have in the outcome of our self-observations. All such factors lead in their own way to distortions. What is more interesting is that they found that it is actually possible to remove these obstacles, and that this not only leads to greater clarity of thought, but also to a remarkable type of unconditional inner joy and effectiveness in action. The latter may be a surprise to those who have been brought up on the virtues of “ego-strength”, but there is convincing scientific evidence that the detachment furthered by yoga and meditation actually does lead to greater social effectiveness and life-satisfaction. An anecdotal but almost certainly historical support for this comes, besides, in the form of the life of the Buddha, a living example of selflessness, and yet, one of the most influential individuals who ever lived. …

Given the obvious treasures of psychological knowledge one can find alike in ancient scriptures like the Rg Veda, the Upanishads, and the works of modern yogis like Sri Aurobindo, it would be a great loss for humanity if modern Psychology chose to ignore this contribution. For the rishis developed something which mainstream psychology did not: a rigorous and effective method to develop detailed and reliable knowledge of the subjective domain. And this might well be the one thing humanity is presently most in need of. This entry was posted in Cognition & Methodology, Society. Bookmark the permalink.

Sri Aurobindo's Letters to his wife Mrinalini Devi; epub v.1.0 ... Posted on 16/07/2011 by Vladnesh Hi folks!

Today we are publishing a unique collection of Sri Aurobindo’s letters to his wife which gives us a rare opportunity to peek in to the past of our Master, his early years of private life which reveals us something of his own personality in making or rather revealing of it out of ordinary human stuff.
The Creation Myth « Sri Aurobindo Studies

Sri Aurobindo is careful to point out that for those who are adherents to religious traditions, they may rely on their faith in the precepts of their ...
From man to superman « Evolving Judaism

The central theme of Sri Aurobindo's vision[4] is the evolution of life into a “life divine”. In his own words: “Man is a transitional being. ...

Auronet Sunday 17 Jul

Meeting/2011-07-17 00:30 regular meeting

Class/2011-07-17 09:00 Sunday Group Meditation at Verite

Class/2011-07-17 10:30 Savitri Study Circle at Savitri Bhavan

Class/2011-07-17 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Workshop/2011-07-17 16:30 Mudra-Chi...A body prayer (at the beach)

Class/2011-07-17 17:00 The Practice of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga at Savitri Bhavan

Great prophets and messengers are kids before Sri Aurobindo

Was Sri Aurobindo the greatest personality of the last century - Topix Posted in the India Forum Hindu Thrissur

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.

Matter Does Not Explain the Universe from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

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 ...

Comment on How to choose the right life partner by Sandeep from Comments for Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother by Sandeep

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. ...

Sri Aurobindo Chair of Integral Studies - Sardar Patel University Vallabh Vidyanagar: The Sunlit Path 

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

Reviving faith in tradition Phayul

... 'successor' of the Dalai Lama anymore Claude Arpi is a French-born author, journalist, historian and Tibetologist currently living in Auroville, India. ...

Conversations and transformations ... - Google Books

Knowledge and Human Liberation. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo - European Journal of Social Theory. Creative Social Research: Rethinking Theories and ...

Science, Religion & Spirituality - Google Books

Rebirth & Karma - U. S. Edition: Sri Aurobindo, Sa ...

Rebirth & Karma - U. S. Edition by Sri Aurobindo Sa Ashram Aurobindo. 

Hinterlands and Horizons: Excursions in Search of Amity (Global Encounters) Margaret chatterjee

Revelation, Rationality Knowledge and Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad

Auroville Radio - Sharing Auroville`s life and spirit

Interviews and sounds of the creative people in the international community of Auroville.
Coming Events - Auronet Saturday 16 Jul

Class/2011-07-16 10:00 New Facilities for Individual Study at Savitri Bhavan

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

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

Why do we forget our vivid dreams? « Integral Yoga of Sri ...

Before delving into the question at hand, it would be helpful to briefly summarize the general theory outlined by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. ...

The Riddle of Birth and Death « Sri Aurobindo Studies

Sri Aurobindo takes up the eternal questions that persistently exercise the mind of mankind: “All the known circumstances and results of birth presuppose an ...

Comment posted by: RY Deshpande

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: Mistrust permeates the Ashram fraternity

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 ...

Aurora Mirabilis: Guru's action is fluid

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 ...

Idea, Thought, Intellect and Mind. Some words of the Mother. | Sri ...

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.

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

SRI AUROBINDO SAKTI CENTRE TRUST
Sarod recital with Tabla: on 14^th 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.

Mirror of Tomorrow :: Integral Leadership by Anurag Banerjee

Sri Aurobindo has further explained how an ideal leader should work. According to him, the Guru or the leader should use “teaching”, “example” and ...

Spiritual Practice in Auroville: Union with our Inner Being « Lab ... by Bhaga

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.

One Cʘsmos: Living and Loving in the Real World by Gagdad Bob

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, ...

antyoday - अन्त्योदय: Essay : Need for a Nationalist ... by Abhishek

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 ...

Discover the Essence of Hindi Poems | Poetry Article by Jennie Gandhi

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 ...

Circumsolatious: A Response to Sameer Thakkar's 'Max-Muller ... 2 Jul 2011 by Lori Tompkins

[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. ...

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

The Mystery of Birth and Death « Sri Aurobindo Studies

Sri Aurobindo introduces the subject of rebirth with a few relevant quotations from the ancient texts of India, the Bhagavad Gita and the Swetaswatara ...

Konnagar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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!!!

Nihilism from Larval Subjects

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.

The Hindu : FEATURES / YOUNG WORLD : Put away plastic

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 14^th July at Centre Hall from 6.30 p.m.

Darshan Divas - 24th April 2011)

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.

Integral Education Workshop for Youth Dear Friends,

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?

Govind's Reply to Ajit & Co ref Partition of India from A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs 

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

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...

Savitri Era Devotees

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.”...

The Hindu : NATIONAL  TAMIL NADU : CoimbatoreToday

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 10:30 Savitri Study Circle at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-07-10 16:00 Reading Savitri at Savitri Bhavan

Class / 2011-07-10 17:00 The Practice of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga at Savitri Bhavan

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