The body actually becomes universal, it develops a sort of cantagion with all other bodies

The Supramentalised State Kheper Home Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Home

An excellent book that summarises the whole extraordinary account of Spramentalised transformation is The Mind of the Cells, by Mirra's chief disciple and confidante, Satprem. Unfortunately this book, invaluable for bringing together under relevant headings the Mother's own accounts of her experiences, is also padded with Satprem's comments, which at time are inanely Darwinistic (or rather pseudo-Darwinistic); as if this spectacular transformation of existence were no more significant than the evolution or appearance of any of the innumerable life-forms to grace this planet - such as the first amphibian or first hominid.

Perhaps we should not judge Satprem too harshly for this reductionism; he is after all only expressing the inconceivable in terms of the current mythology of his day, just as the founders of Zoroastrianism and Christianity explained similiar phenomenon in the terms of the mythology of their day: miraculous intervention by an external supernatural deity. Both explanations are absurd, because they rely on limited human understanding to try to express or define the Infinite. But the Infinite, the Supreme, can only really be expressed or defined on its own terms.
And if we still do insist on pigeon-holing it, at least we should use the more sophisticated metaphysics of occult cosmologies, rather than those of religion or materialistic science. Here I have tried to let the experience speak for itself as much as possible, and only drawn parallels with theologies or metaphysical systems when they are obvious.

The Mother referred to this other state of being not only as "the Supermind' but also more poetically or intuitively as "the divine state", "the all-powerful state", or someties just "love" or "that" [Satprem p.32]
As understood by Satprem (here he seems to be on the ball):
"Physical laws are not as we think, physical illness and death are not as we think and feel them. All our sensations and perceptions of the physical world are false....Leaving the false perception doesn't lead to Nirvana or to heaven or to death; it leads to the true physical reality, true matter...as it is. To another life in matter."
[Satprem, The Mind of the Cells, p.104]
While as early as 1930 Mirra said:
"The real change in consciousness will be the one that changes the PHYSICAL conditions of the world and makes it an entirely new creation"
[quoted in Satprem The Mind of the Cells, p.112]
As Satprem explained, this "other" world was no longer "other", but rather it was our own, but seen and lived differently. The Mother used different terminology in struggling to describe the new state of existence; originally it was "the subtle physical", then "the true physical", "true matter", "the other state in matter". [p.164]

But perhaps the most bizarre thing of all (at least to mundane consciousness) about this new state there is no longer the dichotomy between life and death that so characterises our present existence. I confess that I am unable to make sense of this, but I present it anyway, if only because of the strange parallel with the Zoroastrian and later Judaeo-Christian idea of immortality as a sort of bodily resurrection or transcendence of death. This is in contrast to the dualistic and spiritualistic idea of the body dying and the soul or spirit continuing in some aetherial heaven or spirit-realm. As the Mother explained in 1962:
"I spent at least two hours in a world...the subtle physical, where the living and the dead are side by side without feeling the difference!...There were...what We call "living people", and what WE call "dead people": they were there together, moved together, played together. And all that was in a lovely light, quiet, very pleasant indeed..."
[The Mind of the Cells p.168]
Ponders Satprem:
"who are these "living people" strolling about and socialising with the "daed"?....We have hardly heard any living person describe his physical wanderings with "dead people". Does it mean that, without our knowledge, a part of our being already communicates with that world...,where laws are not the same, where "death" is not the same, but which is nonetheless a physical world according to Mother's experience? Could it be that our body knows better than we do?"
And indeed,
"Could there be a place in physical, material consciousness - let's say the next earthly consciousness - where life and death change in nature? That would really mean a new state on earth: not life as we know it nor death as we know it."
[Satprem, The Mind of the Cells, p.170]

The consensus between the religious (Zoroastrian-Judaeo-Christian) idea of the future Divine world as the overcoming of death, with what is presented here raises the question: did the great founders of these religions, such as Zoroaster and Jesus, glimpse or have an insight into this process, but this knowledge was then distorted by their followers, who tried to make it into a sort of physical immortality of the self-centered ego and a denial of spiritual worlds (e.g. modern fundamentalist Protestantism)?
It seems that this universal self appears as a universal body; and a universal body that has a constant restoring or healing task. Here again we look to the record of the Mother:
"I am conscious of my body, but I don't mean this (Mother touches her body): I am conscious of THE body - it could be anyone's body! I am conscious of these vibrations of disorder, which come most often in the form of suggestions of disorder: a suggestion of hemorrage for example....The battle begins to be fought...between what we can call "the will to hemorrage" and the reaction of the cells of the body....But suddenly, the body is seized with a very strong determination and proclaims an order, an immediately the effect begins to be felt and everything returns gradually to normal. All this happens in the material consciousness. My body ahas all the physical sensations except the (actual) hemorrage....A few days later, I receive a letter from someone, and in the letter is the whole story: the attack, the hemorrhage, and suddenly the being is seized with an overpowering determination and hears the words - the very words uttered HERE. In the end he is cured, saved. In the end he is cured, saved....And so I began to realise that my body is everywhere! You see, it is not just a matter of these cells: they are cells in, who knows how many, perhaps hundreds or thousands of people...It is THE body..."
[quoted in Satprem The Mind of the Cells, pp.51-2]

Thus the body actually becomes universal, it develops a sort of cantagion with all other bodies. Explains Mirra:
"I am inundated with things coming from outside! And what a mixture! From all sides, all people, and not only here: from far, far away on earth, and sometimes far back in time...in the past, things coming from the past to be set straight....It's a constant labour....As though ne were perpetually coming down with a new disease and had to find a cure for it...."
[Satprem, p.53]

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The entire form of Savitri has descended en mass from the highest region

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by RY Deshpande on Mon 20 Aug 2007 09:20 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link

But let recall here what the Mother has said about Savitri: “The entire form of Savitri has descended en mass from the highest region.” It has descended, Savitri-like, in its auspicious form, varam rūpam, and therefore to live in it is to live in its preciousness, is to constantly make progress in the possibilities of the widening spirit. If Aswapati is the Truth of God in the truth of existence, Savitri is the Truth of God in the truth of action. The double incarnation therefore means the Truth of God in the dynamism of its vast being. Nothing can stand against it. Savitri is, says the Mother:

• The daily record of the spiritual experiences of the individual who has written.

• A complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana.

• The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine.

• The experience of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated.

It is well said that in Savitri there is “a core of revealed truth that no extrinsic force has power to enlarge or diminish.” Yet there are certain aspects which need be re-looked into, aspects necessitated by the circumstances in which have appeared in the printed book. But the most important procedure for us is: Let us live in Savitri who shall give us the truth and the things of the truth. RYD

Sometimes I help to do the flowers for the important days at the center

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hi frndsis there any devotee of pondicherry aurobindo ashram mother!!
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Hello,I have been visiting ashram for 4 years now.Got initiated by sum1. Liked her teachings. Now I have moved to US. We can share rresources like websites and books. MeenLoch #3 (permalink)
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Hello.... Dear Suja.....I am a devotee of Mother......since many years. I had been once to Pondi...Whenever i see mother's photo...feel that she just looks thru you...Have you read an article in "Mangayar Malar" about Mother... Its really great and she looks cho chweet in her child wood days....rgd sshashu SHASHU #4 (permalink)
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Hello SujaI go to the AuroMira center in London. Sometimes i help to do the flowers for the important days at the center. I have started to read a couple of books by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. regards pravina

That is the faith every sadhak must have at the bottom of his heart

Like hope for the forsaken.. August 14th, 2007 mahesh

..does arrive the words of my Master,

“Anything else one may doubt but that he who desires only the Divine shall reach the Divine is a certitude and more certain than two and two make four. That is the faith every sadhak must have at the bottom of his heart, supporting him through every stumble and blow and ordeal.”

This is the first birthday, August 15th, of Sri Aurobindo I have ever stayed awake and conscious and remembered. Head over here for the darshan card. del.icio.us Tags: Sri Aurobindo, birthday No Comments » Sri Aurobindo, meaning, india, philosophy Permalink Posted by mahesh

Van Vrekhem’s child-like approach to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Yoga of Self-perfection PREMA NANDAKUMAR
BEYOND MAN —Life and Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: Georges Van Vrekhem; Rupa & Co., 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110012. Rs. 395. Originally published in Dutch, an English version of Beyond Man was brought out by HarperCollins in 1997. The present edition is an exact (and perhaps photographic) reprint. Some spelling mistakes have been set right.

Ten years ago it was very refreshing to read Van Vrekhem’s child-like approach to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The same holds true today as we turn the pages steadily to learn about these two brilliances who brought back the Vedic spirit of exploration to our days with the promise that life on Earth can definitely be transformed into the life divine.

Beyond mind Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), poet, patriot, translator and journalist, dedicated his life to the yoga of Self-perfection. A Vedic scholar, his insights assured him that mankind which had evolved from matter through life to mind was now poised for another breakthrough beyond mind. What kind of new creation would be this “supramental” being? He did not elaborate but gave convincing leads referring to the intuitive and illumined flashes that raise man’s reception beyond the mental plane. The Mother (Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973), occultist and artist came to India in March 1914, met Sri Aurobindo and decided to pursue his yoga which chimed in with her own reflections on man and future man.

Most of the followers of Aurobindonian yoga simply accept them as incarnations of the Divine. A few have reservations. Should we call them a dual power? Was the Mother a disciple of Sri Aurobindo or his equal? And what is this “Supermind”? Despite Sri Aurobindo dissuading his disciples, the questions persisted. Apparently they continue to, as we can notice from the tenor of Beyond Man. Fortunately, Van Vrekham is not interested in polemics.

Laboratory of Yoga The Ashram was certainly a laboratory of Yoga. The aim was “to transform and immortalise the material body” and of course, this is not achieved in one day! And the higher the aim, the greater the impediments from “asuric” forces. The times were also confounding because of the World War and India’s own struggle to become independent. However, the yogic force of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were not used in vain, and all was fairly well with the world in general and India in particular when Sri Aurobindo attained Mahasamadhi.

But the “sadhana” continued and the Mother extended the Ashram’s aegis in terms of an International Centre of Education and Auroville. These were her ways to express to the world the Supramental Truth about man’s future. Having lived in Auroville for decades, the author has not only read a lot but “listened” to an assortment of voices. As an Aurobindonian poet wrote at that time: “A light is lit in everyone, and those/ emblazon the Living Flame.” The Aurobindonian yoga being a collective yoga, this conclusion is inevitable. Having listed the questions, Beyond Man signs off with the seal of faith: “The Great Change in evolution is happening around us and within us, whether we want it or not.” For a world caught in despair and defeatism, this is nectarean hope. The Hindu Book Review Tuesday, Aug 14, 2007

Even the physical shall reveal the dynamic reality on which it is founded

Re: 18: The Wonderful Boon RY Deshpande Sun 12 Aug 2007 07:34 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link The most auspicious form of Savitŗ, the Light of the Supreme

tat savitur varam rūpam jyotih parasya dhīmahi. yannah satyéna dīpayét.
Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitŗ, on the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth.

This is Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra. The meditation is on the auspicious form Savitŗ, of the Sun-God, on varam rūpam, on the Sun of divine Light, the Light of the Supreme, parasya jyotih. The Mantra affirms that the Light shall illumine us with the Truth. It shall illumine all the parts of our being, even the very physical. In it shall be our true progress, our authentic progress. The threefold reality of Sat-Chit-Ananda shall express itself in this creation. Even the physical shall reveal the dynamic reality on which it is founded; it shall participate in its gleaming modalities, in its modes and means and methods, lend itself to the manifesting Truth and the Right and the Vast, satyam-ŗtam-bŗhat.

The operative phrases in the Mantra are the auspicious form, varam rūpam, and the supreme Light, parasya jyotih, the best, excellent, beautiful, precious, choicest, finest, royal, princely form, full of nobility and elegance and charm, full of benevolence and graciousness, varam rūpam, and the supreme Light that never dims, that never casts shadow, the transcendental Light, parasya jyotih, the Light from which all lights come, the Sun in which, from which are born all the million suns. The implication of the Mantra is that of physical transformation achieved by the agency of the supreme Light.

The Vedic-Upanishadic Rishis had the knowledge of this supreme Light, Vijnan. They knew that it is the source and the support of the entire creation. But about the manifestation of the dynamic Truth in this mortal world, in mŗtyuloka, they did not have the sure definite working intuition. They did not know the way towards physical transformation. Perhaps at that time it was too early to realise it collectively, here in this death-bound world. Now Sri Aurobindo, by his unique yoga-tapasya, has prepared the required ground. He has made it a reality in the evolutionary manifestation. He has invoked the supreme Grace to incarnate here. She must come here and take up the difficult work in her own hand, take charge of things and events. She alone can bring about that transformative miracle. That creative power should bring truth and light and force and bliss to the mortal world, to this creation presently governed by death. That will be her work, its fulfilment. Savitri is the incarnate power who shall establish divinity in the terrestrial phenomenon. The coming down of that Grace is the birth of Savitri. This is what Aswapati prayed for and this is what the Boon grants.

But let us look at the auspicious form, varam rūpam, of the revelatory Gayatri Mantra significantly incorporated in the Boon, the divine Wisdom, sonnet-wise, describing it as follows, those fourteen lines:

All mights and greatnesses shall join in her; Beauty shall walk celestial on the earth, Delight shall sleep in the cloud-net of her hair And in her body as on his homing tree Immortal Love shall beat his glorious wings. A music of griefless things shall weave her charm; The harps of the Perfect shall attune her voice, The streams of Heaven shall murmur in her laugh, Her lips shall be the honeycombs of God, Her limbs his golden jars of ecstasy, Her breasts the rapture-flowers of Paradise. She shall bear Wisdom in her voiceless bosom, Strength shall be with her like a conqueror’s sword And from her eyes the Eternal’s bliss shall gaze.

Whereas the ancient Vedic Mantra was an invocation addressed to the Sun-God, full of excellent heavenly radiance, that he may inspire and urge our right intelligence, we have here in Sri Aurobindo a prayer for the physical opening to the supramental Light and Force. But the physical’s is the task which the incarnate Wisdom must carry out in this world of dark and anguished mortal world.

In the power and intensity of that Mantra, of varam rūpam, even as the Mother’s yoga-tapasya progressed in the physical, after the supramental manifestation on 29 February 1956, the body’s cells opened to the Presence and started chanting spontaneously the divine Name, with the prayer

O Supreme Lord of the universe, we implore Thee, give us the strength and the beauty, the harmonious perfection needed to be Thy divine instruments upon earth.

The Mother saw that the physical is not only capable of receiving the higher Light, but has the certitude that it can manifest the true Consciousness. How marvellous—the Boon coming from the divine Wisdom!

Sri Aurobindo explains the significance of the Mantra as follows:

Brahman in the Vedas signifies ordinarily the Vedic Word or Mantra in its profoundest aspect as the expression of the intuition arising out of the depths of the soul or being. It is a voice of the rhythm which has created the worlds and creates perpetually. All world is expression or manifestation, creation by the Word…. And the word of creative Power welling upward out of the soul is also brahman. The Vedic poets regarded their poetry as mantras; they were the vehicles of their own realisations and could become vehicles of realisations for others…. Anything that carries the Word, the Light in it, spoken or written can light this fire within, open a sky, as it were, bring the effective vision of which the Word is the body.

The Word, or Brahman the Creator of the Worlds, can thus express itself in us, embody the auspicious strength, varam balam, of the spirit to make progress in its widening manifestation. Savitri which itself is a divine Boon achieves it through the divine Boon given to Aswapati. But in terms of its reality-content, of the mantric Savitri, we might as well say that the Mother had already written it in 1911 itself, when she addressed her prayer to the Sun of Truth.

In a talk given to a women’s association, dated 15 December 1911, the Mother expresses a very remarkable wish of hers. She proposes to the members of the association to make a resolution to raise themselves

… each day, in all sincerity and goodwill, in an ardent aspiration towards the Sun of Truth, towards the Supreme Light, the source and intellectual life of the universe, so that it may pervade us entirely and illumine with its great brilliance our minds and hearts, all our thoughts and our actions.

The Mantra is striking in several respects when we also realise that the Mother received it, indeed, even before she met Sri Aurobindo in 1914. This was in Paris when she was just 33,—showing us that “the Mother had been spiritually conscious from her youth.” The ardent invocation to the Supreme Light to “pervade us entirely and illumine us with its great brilliance” is certainly the imploration, as well as the defining assertion, with which both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother started their work even before they came together in Pondicherry, the destined meeting place.

Both the Gayatris were given by the Kshatriya Seer-Rishis

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on Sat 11 Aug 2007 09:53 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link

The twenty-four lines of the boon

The speech of the divine Wisdom granting a boon to Aswapati consists of twenty-four lines, a Mantra by itself, with the transforming power to dynamise the mortal world in the truth-movement, dynamise it in every respect, to render to it the truth-rhythm, to make transcendental satyam and ŗtam its operative basis. “Savitri is a Mantra of the transformation of the world,” says the Mother; that Mantra, the revelatory Word with the force to realise what it pronounces, is quintessenced in this divine Utterance. There are about twenty-four thousand lines in Savitri, which could actually mean that each line of the Boon represents one thousand lines of this “sacred poem of delight”.

Twenty-four thousand lines of Savitri, twenty-four lines of the Boon, twenty-four syllables of the Sanskrit Gayatri Metre, the Gayatri Chhanda—each syllable expanded to one line of the Boon, and each line of the Boon to one thousand lines of Savitri, all these seem to be loaded with deep connotations, luminously occult in their character, and in their power of realisation. And just imagine! The Boon appears in the twenty-fourth canto of Savitri, Book Three Canto Four.

Here is the celebrated Gayatri Mantra given by the Vedic Rishi Vishwamitra, chanted through the long aeons of time: (Rig Veda III:62:10)
tat savitur varéņyam bhargo dévasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo nah prachodayāt
Let us meditate on the Creator-Sun, full of excellent god-radiance, that he may inspire and urge our right intelligence.

And here is Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra, given sometime during the early 1930s:
tat savitur varam rūpam jyotih parasya dhīmahi yannah satyéna dīpayét
Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitŗ, on the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth.

But it should be noted that Vishwamitra’s Gayatri has, not twenty-four as is the tradition, but only twenty-three syllables, at times permitted by the metrical rules. In contrast to that, the Gayatri of Sri Aurobindo has exactly twenty-four syllables. It is interesting to note that both the Gayatris were given by the Kshatriya Seer-Rishis. RYD

Sri Aurobindo is magnet

If you are not a regular visitor to Pondicherry, you might start wondering why you even chose to come here. But have patience. This chaos has beauty and rhythm in it and would vanish as soon as you turn into the Ashram Area, near the beach, which was our destination.

This is the point where the contrast between the two parts of the town hits my senses. The tranquility is almost deafening. It goes so deep into the mind and heart that it starts hurting. As my breathing deepens the place fills me with energy. Not the bubbly boisterous kinds, but an energy that comes with being at peace with yourself. The harmony of the place with nature almost sings to you; only that you don’t hear the music, you feel it.

To feel this Aura one does not need to be a devotee who follows the teachings and sayings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Place Pondicherry treats everyone alike and treats everyone to its divine healing power. The place calls you and then calls you back. It talks to you. Two of my friends, first time visitors to the place, made phone calls to family and friends and told them that they must come and experience the place. That’s how Pondicherry is. Experience! Feeling! Posted by Ansh at Friday, August 10, 2007

Wise-Owl comments: on 9 Aug 07 21:23:00 PM Hello Anshie., One more >> Feather to Sri Aurobindo He is magnet. If his thoghts have mooved one more person then imagine all those who have visited him when he was alive . He still for many like me is always alive. in every nook and corner of my room where i live he is present in various form. Sri Aurobindo is the name spells determinaton, faith, that no guru in the modern universe can be compared. he is still alive. I have seen his mortal remains even after a month it was as if he is in a long sleep. a smile in his face and one can feel the inner strength he passes to us in wavy form. god bless you

The concept of evolution is rapidly becoming a new onto-theology

Re: Untold Potentialities: India and the Third World. by Richard Hartz (2)
by Rich on Sun 05 Aug 2007 12:51 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link

Evolution: The past Aum conference did inestimable good in opening the integral yoga to a wider community of like minded individuals. However the terms: evolution, evolutionary, evolved were thrown about so often in connotations which usually invoked the notion of superior, spirituality or the G word itself that it almost felt this was to be the basis of a new religion . In fact many times one could substitute the word God for the word evolution and the meaning wold be the same. After Barbara Marx Hubbard's final presentation it occurred to me that the concept of evolution was rapidly becoming a new onto-theology.

Welcome to the new UHU Forum

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Welcome to the new UHU Forum
« on: May 03, 2007, 10:17:38 am »
This is a new forum and is experimental. You can click on home to see the full list of forum topics. Please give it a try and let me know how it works for you. namaste, grace
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« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2007, 07:51:26 am »
I've never seen so many ... little faces. After being a school person and behavior analyst for years... what a revelation!
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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2007, 03:04:11 am »
rod,do tell us more about these little faces...when do you see them?do they talk to you?concerned,grace
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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2007, 03:48:40 pm »
Frannkly I thought they were lost. Or maybe I was dreaming.But then, when I came to this place to respond - there they were...are. See?I mean you do see them don't you?
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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2007, 02:45:38 am »
yes, yes! i also see them. isn't it exciting?!! now when we are at a loss for words to describe our deepest emotions we can find a tiny face to do that for us. (that's why they are called emoticons)
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2007, 06:57:57 am »
grace like really so what would happen if we http://[flash=200,200]/[/flash] pushed that button? oh well.
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Re: Welcome to the new UHU Forum
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2007, 06:11:52 am »
well rod, i pushed the button thinking that something really exciting would happen, but i only found a "server not found" message. i was greatly disappointed. Do you have something more exciting in your bag of tricks?
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« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2007, 09:07:51 am »
I thought I would try expressing this deep emotion: And nothing happened. So I thought "emoticons" may not really be it. How about putting the AUM, IONs event on the Internaitonal Calendar?
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divine organism
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2007, 02:57:09 am »
Yes, i admit these emoticons are a bit limited. But i understand there are vast libraries of emoticons out there.I can look for more and most likely there is a way that i could add them to our current collection.I will add the AUM Conference to the calendar.
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« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2007, 04:15:19 pm »
No emoticons for me. thank you..at least not when they completely overwhelm a forum..my goodness, powerful little things, aren't they?Nice to hear from you, Grace. The foruming works fine, Grace...
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Rod
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« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2007, 10:40:48 am »
Thanks to Grace, human and divine, for posting the aUM links, and to Liz for the brochre, which I would like to see, and who I would like to see, reactivated here.
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2007, 06:20:55 am »
Hello Gang,Well, I think I should get in on this this on the ground level, like any good pyramid scheme... There aren't so many emoticons here as there are in some boards. We just need to put up the "avatars" for ourselves (pretty strange term in this context)!May this be the beginning of a very fruitful enterprise!
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« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2007, 03:37:27 pm »
Well good to hear from you all. It's nice to see some activity now happening in the forum. I still have a lot of "tweaking" to do to the site and many new functions that i'd like to add, so i really appreciate the enthusiasm early in the development stages. It gives me added inspiration to keep building on the site.Welcome all!love,grace
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« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2007, 11:25:45 am »
I am still waiting for all the members of the Knowledge project to join, without any perceptible response. Would you mind sending another invitation to the list? It seems easier to connect through your links than from the browser, at least on the system I'm using. In general, welcome Charles. Is there a really live enlightened avatar emoticon on earth?
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« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2007, 01:16:43 pm »
Rod,i will send another e-mail invitation to the group through the list server, although i don't think my connections are any better than yours. The dsl here has just been terribly unreliable lately.My mail to the group may be a bit delayed as i am not on the list serve and so will have to await approval by the group moderator before my mail is sent to the group.cheers,grace

They never intended to make a religion or saints of them

from Donald Asoka to Tusar N. Mohapatra tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com date 08-Jul-2007 13:54 subject Re: Aurora Mirabilis : The lack of respect is pathetic Hola Tusar

Thank you for your reply and indeed a whole new agenda is awaiting us, but also, one must remember to remember the past as Sri Aurobindo has said that the past is an intrigal part of our evolution and we are a product of our lifes experience. My wife and I were reading from: Mother- The Mutation of Death by Satprem, this morning and believe that he and Sujata have made a powerful contribution to the world in being a vehicle for humanity to embrace the true essence of both Sri Aurobindo and our beloved Mother, we must however remember that the knowledge and inspiration bestowed upon us by them is intended for us to evolve and digest as our level of awareness permits, they never intended to make a religion or saints of them, only to realize the potential of Saint and Goddleness within ourselves.

The cells themselves turning towards the Divine Presence and doing their best to evolve

Yoga of the cells by Bhaga Human evolution is not only of the spirit, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; it integrates all levels, including the physical. For the last two decades of her life, the Mother experimented with her own body cells to manifest a new consciousness in and through them. Groups of cells in the Mother’s body had not only awakened but were starting, independent of her, their own yoga Life Positive Apr - Jun 2004

Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s best known and most read books do not give the full measure of what their evolutive work for the earth has been. Apart from both the intellectually challenging as well as the down-to-earth modes of communicaton employed by them, there is an immensely vast and deep work both these pioneers of conscious evolution quietly accomplished for decades, secretly preparing in their own being the divine future of humanity right here upon earth.

What is truly important about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother isn’t really any ashram or future township, however great those might be. If those are to any extent successful, it is thanks to the decisive evolutive victories their founders had won for the earth, which are still mostly unknown and unspoken of. Their books by themselves are extremely helpful, but they aren’t the most important things either. They could as well not have written a single line about anything, nor spoken a word to anyone about the evolutive changes that were taking place in them, and still, their true contribution to the earth’s evolution would have happened just the same. That is the only important fact.

Supramental seed

To grasp the magnitude of what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother accomplished, one must first understand that for a true ‘Life Divine’ upon earth to become realised in its completeness, not only our thoughts and emotions have to be gradually replaced by their divine equivalent, but our body too must undergo the same kind of transformation.Only the Power (that is, the Consciousness), which is beyond the Mind, can effect such a transformation of a first body, in the way it must be effected, if it is to have the needed influence on other bodies. The transformative action must be effected by awakening the usually obscure consciousnesses of individual body cells.

Only the ‘supramental’ consciousness-force, as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother called it, is able to do that in the required way, by awakening in matter, including in the biological matter of our body cells, the same supramental power which as a ‘seed’ has been lying dormant since the beginning of evolution. In previous stages of evolution, it had been first the ‘seed’ of the life power, and then that of the mind power, which had awakened one after the other in their respective ‘season’. The former had given birth to the myriad plants and animals that express life power; the latter gave birth to the human being, endowed with the form and the ‘improved biological equipment’ required for emitting and receiving that mind power better than other existing species. This new species was meant to express the mental consciousness to its fullest potential.

For the first two evolutive ‘seeds’ to be activated, a tremendously long time had been necessary because there couldn’t be any conscious participation from anything existing yet on earth in this evolutive process. But now, the human species, thanks to its mind power, was able to discover that there was such a process of ‘evolution’: that’s what Darwin did. Even better, a human being was able to discover evolution’s spiritual laws and deliberately hasten the process: that’s what Sri Aurobindo did. Such a feat couldn’t have been done by the mere power of the mind.

Dark resistance

To hasten the advent of the supramental consciousness-force upon earth, one had first to become aware that such a power existed, far above the highest spiritual regions traditional spirituality had explored and conquered. Then, after one would have become able to stand the intensity of the vibrations of that higher power, one had to find the way to gradually pull down this consciousness-force towards the earth, until it would penetrate the very substance of earth. A tremendous task.

This is what Sri Aurobindo set out to achieve, but although the results were promising, they were slow because of the unconscious but ancient and strong resistances in human beings and in matter itself. He persevered, digging deeper in the dark layers of the collective subconscious. His poems of that time tell of the potent inner victories, but also of the terrible dark forces to be faced.

In spite of the serious setbacks that the two World Wars represented, with those very same dark forces behind them, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s inner influence finally prevailed. Secretly helped and inspired by them (which is usually not known), the Allies won, not that they were perfect, far from it, but at least on the basis of their relative sincerity of purpose, evolution could go on. Nazism would have meant a return to the most demoniac barbarity, and the true new step in evolution (not the one Hitler spoke about!) would have been greatly delayed.

After World War II had been won, Sri Aurobindo realised that the only way to get the supramental to finish descending was to do it from outside the physical plane, from behind the scenes, as it were. So on December 5, 1950, he deliberately left his physical body, transmitting to the Mother’s body all the supramental energy his own had accumulated.

Step forward

This ‘strategy’ did hasten the descent—hardly a few years later, on February 29, 1956, the Mother saw inwardly the moment when the supramental forces started at last pouring down in an irresistible flow and entering the earth’s atmosphere and substance. Since then, it has been a date celebrated every leap year in the Pondicherry Ashram, Auroville and all related places as the anniversary of the ‘Supramental Manifestation upon Earth’, as the Mother called it. This is what Sri Aurobindo’s most specific gift to the earth has been, which humanity one day will be grateful about, for it laid the necessary basis for a whole new evolutive step to begin.Then started the Mother’s own specific contribution.

First, the human body had to somehow learn how to make itself receptive to the new force, and how to function with this new energy instead of the ordinary physical, vital and mental energies a human body normally functions with. Another tremendous task. It is for this nearly impossible mission that the Mother had accepted to stay on in her physical body when Sri Aurobindo saw that he would have to leave his own. He had explained to the Mother that only her body, because of the most remarkable endurance it was endowed with, would be able to bear the enormously difficult (and often painful) process of this beginning of transformation that had to be attempted once the supramental would be there. “Your body is indispensable for the Work. Without your body the Work cannot be done,” Sri Aurobindo said to the Mother.

the Mother’s experiments

Over the next almost two decades, the Mother (and her body-cells!) gradually discovered for humanity the transformative process that one day will culminate in the first fully supramentalised body. These experiments are chronicled in the 13 incredible volumes of The Mother’s Agenda, the invaluable and moving document transcribed by Satprem, a French disciple, from the recorded bi-weekly conversations he had during most of those years with the Mother. In these, she confided some of what was increasingly happening in her body—groups of cells here and there, not only awakening but also starting, independently from her, their own yoga.

When the Mother, after 1956, begins to speak of “the yoga of the cells”, she doesn’t mean simply herself doing the yoga at the cellular level, but this mind-blowing new phenomenon of the cells themselves turning towards the Divine Presence and doing their best to evolve towards a divine life.This fantastic document is a must-read for those interested in the future of our human body and of the planet. Satprem later also published The Mind of the Cells, an introductory book to The Mother’s Agenda, written around chosen extracts from those 13 volumes. One can start with this book indeed with great profit, but only the Agenda can give the full scope of what the Mother went through in order to secure an easier way for those who would follow in her and Sri Aurobindo’s tracks.One of the happiest discoveries made by the Mother concerned the capacity that her own body cells had over the years acquired to receive in the right way the new energy. Moreover, she found that this capacity was ‘contagious’! That is, it could be passed on to cells in other bodies almost automatically, if there was in the other body the needed receptivity, and this without the other person consciously knowing it, at least until a certain point.

The Mother observed this phenomenon many times, long before she left her body on November 17, 1973. This ‘contagion’ was a most wonderful way, seemingly built-in within the cells, through which nature had insured that a new way of functioning, once effectively learned by enough cells in one body, could then be passed on to other bodies much more rapidly than if the cells in each body would have to learn it from scratch, like the very first cells in the first body had had to at the beginning.

Cutting-edge science

Readers with a scientific background might find all this strangely reminiscent of the discoveries made only two decades ago by British scientist Rupert Sheldrake, about similar phenomena observed in the behaviour of animals and even in chemical substances. Sheldrake has proposed the theory of ‘morphic resonance’ as “the basis of memory in nature...the idea of mysterious telepathy-type interconnections between organisms and of collective memories within species”. This is not the only instance when the Mother’s direct observation of what was going on in the tiny consciousness of her body cells has received indirect confirmation from scientific quarters. Already in the Agenda, the Mother describes visions she had of Sri Aurobindo or herself secretly collaborating with scientists here and there, who were actually (and unknowingly) inspired by the New Consciousness.

In a short article like this one, it is not possible to give several precise examples, but I will just mention some of the topics of research which happen to have become the ‘hottest’ in science lately—DNA, the human genome, biophotons. Is it surprising that they all have to do with cells? They also have to do with cellular consciousness, of course, but not many of the scientists involved suspect that yet. A new consciousnessAll of us have to be aware that the needed transformation of our body will not happen mainly through genetic manipulation from outside, but rather from within, in the way foreseen by Sri Aurobindo and described in his last piece of writing, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth (1949), the only thing he cared to work upon before he left his body, besides his vast epic poem Savitri, which he considered his true legacy to the world. In Savitri, the Mother was to find endless indications and confirmations of her own experiences at the cellular level. But in Book III Canto Four, one finds also a promising prophetic passage, part of a vision of the future of the earth by one of the main characters. From that passage, I quote a few lines:

‘Forerunners of a divine multitude, (...)

I saw them cross the twilight of an age,

The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn’...

In the Agenda itself, which the Mother subtitled ‘Agenda of the Supramental Action upon Earth’, she speaks several times from 1965 on of ‘the new children’, that is, newborn children in whom she could see a consciousness much more awake than in earlier babies. For her, this was one more sign of this ‘supramental action’ she could perceive behind many events in the world. It seems, from certain astonishing scientific reports, that some of the recently born children already have a slightly modified DNA.

What about the adults from the previous generations?

Seeing the emphasis that our collective mind, especially in the West, is putting nowadays on the body and its health, the importance that the concept of ‘fitness’ has acquired, the participation which many people now expect in their dealings with their doctors, the right they insist they have to seek alternative, non-invasive therapies whenever possible, one can easily guess that not only all this is due to the influence of the supramental, but that this new consciousness-force is at the same time taking advantage of it all for secretly helping our cells too to change their ways.This is exactly what has started happening, quite unexpectedly, in the body of this researcher, about 25 years ago; and later I discovered in some of the books I was acquiring (for the specialised library of the research-unit I had been able to start in Auroville, the ‘Laboratory of Evolution’), that here and there in the world, some other individuals, a number of them not knowing anything of Sri Aurobindo or the Mother, were also suddenly becoming conscious of their body cells and starting to work with them.

What I have personally witnessed since about a decade is a totally new, spontaneous interest in the cleaning of cellular memory, as proposed in workshops by other people in the West. Better still, since a few years there is also an interest in the consciousness of cells, and how to help it awaken gradually to its own divine potential: the workshop on this topic which I had been asked to put together first in Auroville, based on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s own advice, is somehow becoming known elsewhere too. I am being invited to various parts of France, Europe, the Americas and recently for the first time in India (outside Auroville), by people wanting to know and experience something about that whole new field of exploration, and integrate it into their overall evolutive effort. This is definitely a most encouraging sign about the on-going supramental action upon earth! May our gratitude go to the two pioneers who made all this possible, as well as all which will continue to unfold.

Bhaga, a Frenchwoman, discovered the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in 1971 and immediately started practising Integral Yoga. In 1972, she joined Auroville where in 1985 she started the Laboratory of Evolution, a resource and research centre on evolution, and its twin unit, the Centre for Human Unity. There the research she had been doing on her own for years found its collective usefulness. Life Positive Apr - Jun 2004

The relics are often like a flame that is looking for a human wick

The following is a response by Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni (Nadkarni ji) to a letter written by Ameeta Mehra seeking answers to questions regarding the impact of Relics on the larger collective atmosphere. gnostic centre

Dear Ameeta:
Before turning to the questions you have raised, I would like to make a couple of general observations:

Relics are an important aspect of the tradition of Buddhism, of some denominations of Christianity, and of many other personal belief systems. In Hinduism the veneration of relics as found in Christianity and Buddhism is largely absent. Islam has had a cult of relics associated with its founder and with saints, but the use of relics has had no official sanction in this religion. Neither Sri Aurobindo nor the Mother have spoken or written anything about relics, except what we gather from Champaklal in the Gujerati version of his personal memoirs entitled Champaklalna Sansmarano, (1987). That brief passage, on page 189, translated into English, reads as follows:

Mother never approved the worship of anyone’s picture or photograph. In childhood I was attracted by the Arya Samaj. Seeing the Arya Samajists worship Dayanand I used to wonder what was the difference in their opposing the worship of idols but themselves worshipping a photograph! The same question used to arise in me regarding the photos of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. But later, the Mother explained to me that this too does have a place and necessity. I was also against the opening of centres and the installing of relics but the Mother explained to me their necessity. Of course, nothing is done in the right perspective; but what can be done about that? 1

Now to turn to your questions.
All shrines and spiritual places have an impact....In that regard, what would be the special impact or effect of Sri Aurobindo’s relics on the collective atmosphere and life of the surrounding area, for example, in Gurgaon, which is next to the Gnostic Centre area?
The relics contain the supramental consciousness of Sri Aurobindo. How does one explain their importance and influence in the subtle and gross atmosphere to the lay person, who does not understand what the supramental consciousness is?

Now first of all, I thank you for not asking me whether the relics have any effect on human affairs. If we are believers, they do have an effect but we can never prove this to the satisfaction of non-believers. Both of us believe that they have an impact on the humans and their surroundings.
If the relics will have a “special impact or effect” it has to be attributed to what distinguishes Sri Aurobindo from all other saints and men of God – namely, that he realised in his own body the supramental consciousness. But the difficulty arises precisely here. For it is difficult for the mind to understand, leave alone to foresee what the supramental consciousness will do. Let me quote what Sri Aurobindo himself has said about this:

…what we propose just now is not to make the earth a supramental world but to bring down the supramental as a power and established consciousness in the midst of the rest – to let it work there and fulfil itself as Mind descended into Life and Matter has worked as a Power there to fulfil itself in the midst of the rest. This will be enough to change the world and to change Nature by breaking down her present limits. But what, how, by what degrees it will do it, is a thing that ought not to be said now – when the Light is there, the Light will itself do its work – when the supramental Will stands on earth, that will decide, It will establish a perfection, a harmony, a Truth-creation – for the rest, well, it will be the rest – that is all. 2

In this passage Sri Aurobindo states clearly that when the Supramental Will is here on earth, it will decide how to act. But even if we have hints of what impact the supramental may have, how does one explain it to a lay person? How does one make such a person understand what benefits may accrue from the presence of the supramental consciousness enshrined in his township? I will try to find an answer to your questions but I caution you that my attempt is going to involve tight-rope walking all the way and it may also prove to be a case of the blind leading the blind. But I must do what I can.

Most religions and races make a great effort to preserve with the utmost care the bodies of their holy men, to give them a burial consistent with the greatness and sanctity of the person and make it accessible to coming generations. In all countries where such practices obtain, there is a consensus of opinion that unusual and scientifically unexplainable things happen at or near these tombs, samadhis, graves, mausoleums, and stupas.

While it is possible to dismiss these occurrences as imaginary or as the results of chance, the weight of evidence over several centuries suggests that in these places some force or forces are at work, though science has yet to identify them. If science prefers to stop at this barrier because of its belief system, let it, but we have a different belief system and have no qualms about crossing it. Let me begin by quoting a few lines from Nirodbaran’s article “Relics”:

She (the Mother) has said that each and every molecule of Sri Aurobindo’s body was filled with Supramental Consciousness. We know that his body was glowing with Supramental Light as soon as he left it. That consciousness is not a mortal thing which ceases with the death of the physical body. If that is to be, then we wouldn’t feel such extraordinary power and strength when we touch the Samadhi [Sri Aurobindo’s Samadhi at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry].
We have learnt that wherever the Relics are enshrined, there dwell such peace and tranquillity. Therefore, the Relics are not a mere memento. Relics are the living presence of Sri Aurobindo and imbued with the light and force of his lifelong sadhana, just as an atom contains an infinite power in itself – this is the truth behind the Relics. To always keep alive that truth and give due respect to it is what the Relics demand of us. 3

Although I don’t discount the possibility of material benefits accruing from the enshrinement of Sri Aurobindo’s relics at the Gnostic Centre to the people living in the surrounding areas, I am inclined to believe that the greatest benefit to them would be spiritual. The fullest perfection of human life here on earth being the goal of Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual mission, this spiritual benefit would not exclude any of the other benefits, material, emotional, mental or psychic.
For one thing, wherever Sri Aurobindo’s relics are enshrined and cherished, peace and tranquillity begin to dwell in the surrounding areas. It is believed by some people that the political tension and the pall of fear palpably felt in Punjab began to lift soon after the relics of Sri Aurobindo were installed in Patiala on 4 April, 1992. Most political observers would vouch for the waning of the fear-complex in Punjab from that time.

A second spiritual benefit of the enshrinement of the relics would be that people living in that area would find it more easy to evolve from the Ignorance towards the Light, and to organise their existence according to it. Whether this statement would be greeted by the people concerned with great jubilation or with uncomprehending bafflement is difficult for me to judge. That is the state of humanity today, which regards spirituality as little more than an investment in God as security against bad times.
As we all know, Sri Aurobindo has charted the grades of consciousness between the mind and the supermind. Until there is support from the presence of the supramental power, these intermediary grades of consciousness, realised by some of our enlightened and spiritually advanced people, can act only as influences (the highest of them as very indirect influences) on the human mind and consciousness and cannot do more. That is why the war between the good and the bad that is raging in the theatre of the human heart seems to be unending and the final outcome so uncertain. This will change as the supramental consciousness begins to act. . Let me put this in Sri Aurobindo’s own words:

An organised higher human consciousness could appear or several degrees of it, with the supermind-organised consciousness as the leader at the top influencing the others and drawing them towards itself. It is likely that as the supramental principle evolved itself the evolution would more and more take on another aspect – the Daivic nature would predominate, the Asuro-rakshaso-Pishachic which now holds so large a place would more and more recede and lose its power. A principle of greater unity, harmony and light would emerge everywhere. It is not that the creation in the Ignorance would be altogether abolished, but it would begin to lose much of its elements of pain and falsehood and would be more a progression from lesser to higher Truth, from a lesser to a higher harmony, from a lesser to a higher Light, than the reign of chaos and struggle, of darkness and error that we now perceive. 4

Sri Aurobindo is saying that with the advent of the supermind, the world will gradually grow more Sattwic. There will be more unity, harmony and light. There will be less pain and suffering, confusion and strife.
In your questions you have identified Gurgaon, which is next to the Gnostic Centre area, as the location likely to be influenced by the enshrinement of the Relics. I prefer to see the relics enshrined at the Gnostic centre as belonging to Delhi, the capital of India. We have already two other centres in Delhi which have enshrinements of Sri Aurobindo’s relics – one is Sri Aurobindo Ashram, New Delhi, near Hauz Khas, and other is at the Sri Aurobindo Society centre at Adhchini. Delhi has been known as the seat of Mogul, then of British and now of Indian rule. Therefore Delhi has always been seen as a hub of Indian politics and administration, and also of intellectual and artistic life. The three enshrinements of Sri Aurobindo’s Relics in Delhi provide it what it needs most without realising it – the spiritual presence of Sri Aurobindo.

Before I close, I would like to add one more word. The relics when enshrined may act by themselves and bring about the greatest of changes in the life of the people if that is the Divine will; Divine Grace needs no human direction to act. But more often than not, the Divine Grace acts in a different way. Relics more often than not act like a spark of the Divine energy and will, which can lessen and fade if not fanned properly by the breath of human aspiration. The relics of Sri Aurobindo have gone to many places in India and even abroad, and not in all places have their effects been evident.

The relics are often like a flame that is looking for a human wick which can bear it and spread the light around. If such a support is not forthcoming, then the relics are not guaranteed to give us the results we anticipate. God is much more than a mere magician, his greatest concern is the growth of the human consciousness. God has to manifest here in each individual being his plenary consciousness and its glories and perfections. Therefore man has to be prepared to do his bit; otherwise as Sri Aurobindo puts it while describing the dawn in the opening canto of Savitri,

Then the divine afflatus, spent, withdrew,

Unwanted, fading from the mortal range. 5

With best wishes, Mangesh Nadkarni
Puducherry, 31 May 2007

1 I am grateful to Bob Zwicker of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Archives and Library for this reference

2 Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL vol.23, p.13, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry

3 In Nirodbaran: Divinity’s Comrade, edited by Hemant Kapoor, pp.216-17

4 The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Method of Practice, compliled by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1993. pp.73-74

5 Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1993 ed., p.5

There are some other integral yoga related blogs out there

Re: 15: Juxtaposition of rationalistic & poetic by RY Deshpande on Sun 24 Jun 2007 07:15 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link Dear Deba Thanks, but about your Life Divine sessions: your timings are rather inconvenient for us here, for live participation. But I have a suggestion. It will be good if you can post a summary, say in about 800-1000 words, every week, covering the topic and the discussion of that Thursday. For these postings you can supply the skype/sciy link also. These postings as Arguments can come in the category of articles which will be easy to track and follow later on. Please consider, and thanks. RYD

by Debashish on Sun 24 Jun 2007 01:30 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link Better still, if someone could transcribe the LD sessions and put the text on sciy along with the source passages. Any volunteers? DB

by Rich on Mon 25 Jun 2007 09:24 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link Having just returned from the AUM and the emphasis of a wider community. I think it essential to open more themes such as suggested by RYD for SCIY and open the forum up for a greater audience participation. We may all do a skype call to discuss this as I think we can do a conference call via skype. One problem I know is that some folks are either not comfortable or dislike the virtual environment, if not immediately then over time it happens. While there is nothing specific we can do to address this issue We should be aware of this aspect of virtual environments. However, that said there is simply no other way to open this up regularly to a larger audience but via the web. Since there are some other integral yoga related blogs out there, it may also be a consideration to network conversations, and posting among us rich

by RY Deshpande on Tue 26 Jun 2007 04:21 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link Rich, What about posting some of the really important technical highlights of the aum? These will be intersting, if you are not already planning. and thanks RYD

by Rich on Wed 27 Jun 2007 08:59 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link Hi RYD, I just got back today, but yes this is something I will do over the next few days. I still hope we can set up a Skype call between several of us, in which we can discuss future directions for SCIY best Rich

A profoundly elevating experience of song

At the beginning of last year, I attempted what seems in hindsight a pretty brazen task - to learn a 224 line song written in Bengali (a language I cant exactly claim fluency, or even competence, in) in the space of one single day! The song, titled Dyulok chariye nara narayan, is a profoundly elevating experience of song, the words of which come from a poem my teacher, Sri Chinmoy wrote when thirteen years of age (roughly around the time that photo on the left was taken). The poem was written for his spiritual Master, Sri Aurobindo (right), in time for his birthday on August 15, 1945.

Fifty years later, in 1995, Sri Chinmoy set the entire poem to music in the form of this song. I began learning the song at 7 a.m. armed with a recording sung by my friend Hiyamallar from California, only to retire five hours later with a severe bout of head-spinning, and not a lot to show for my efforts! But at least it was a start; I kept learning it for a while. My name is Shane, and I hail from Dublin, Ireland. Posted June 25, 2007

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