Sunday, April 03, 2016

Mime by Drupad along with the students of Deepanam School

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Sri Aurobindo Study Forum: Discourse on Sri Aurobindo's 'Life Divine' by Subramany, Nithyatha, Auro Lab, Veerapanjan, 10 a.m.. madurai today The Hindu

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Keynote Address: Ramesh Bijlani, Chairman, Sri Aurobindo Education Society, New Delhi. Chair: D R Kaarthikeyan, President, FGG. Date: Tuesday 5th April 2016. Time: 6.30 PM ... Gulmohar Hall, India Habitiat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

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Sri Aurobindo & The Mother The Advent of a New World. A new permanent exhibition will be on display at Visitors Center, 1st floor. The inauguration with a silent ...
Silence is All Auroville Art Service
Special Performance. on Monday 4th April, to celebrate the 106th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Pondicherry. SILENCE IS ALL – a poem by ...
Special Performance
on Monday 4th April, to celebrate the 106th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival in Pondicherry
SILENCE IS ALL – a poem by Sri Aurobindo
will be performed in MIME by Drupad along with the students of Deepanam School
from 7.30 to 8.15 pm
in the amphitheatre of Savitri Bhavan
Everyone is welcome


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Even the smallest meanest work became 
A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament 
- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

"None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell. 
This too the traveller of the worlds must dare." 
- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

Sri #Aurobindo on #KeshabChandraSen types 'religious shallowness','literary sterility', 'Servile imitators of the English'

@SavitriEraParty particularly entertainment tax as it is ridiculous to ask people pay tax for being happy ! Govt May tx for being sorry too

Moderate believes in the good passages and the extremist believes in the bad. But it's the same book & that's what matters to the extremist. Like a virus that needs a human cell to survive and thrive, an extremist needs a moderate or else he will die, become extinct. Religion cannot be reformed. It is that book - a novel - that will have no further editions. Religion is Take it or leave it. Leave it. The biggest con in the world is the argument that one can be progressive and liberal and religious all at the same time. Infinitely amusing.
@TheJaggi Yes. Liberal: Total belief in freedom of choice, speech, expression. Religious: Total belief in God, his or her sermons, edicts.
@dire_nair Belief in God is irrational, stemming out of ignorance (wilful or not), fear, and refusal to accept science, logic. @TheJaggi

@ARangarajan1972 @dire_nair To be human is not about always being rational. Human rationality is circumscribed by human emotion & psy needs

@TheJaggi Well-said and true. Problem comes when humans decide to thrust their irrationality on other humans. En masse. @dire_nair

@ARangarajan1972 what about when rationality is thrust upon others? @TheJaggi @dire_nair https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5qAfyUuWE …

@ARangarajan1972 @TheJaggi Taking science and logic as your God comes from ignorance (born out of limited experience.) Can have a debate.

@ARangarajan1972 1/2 So Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna etc. were irrational beings @dire_nair @TheJaggi @rvaidya2000

@simpleriyaz Bharat mata is a Hindu diety. have been so since early 20th century. Why should Sikhs,muslims or Dalits venerate a Hindu deity?

A view: If not for Bharatmata, India would not be divided. We divided ourselves using a fake goddess, IMO. Motherland is an alien concept. We have the concept of Janmabhumi, the place where we were born on earth. :) Janani janmabhumischa swargadapi gariyasi does not mean that you should treat the country you were born in as mother. Misinterpretation. :)
Imaginary Bharatmata is irrelevant today. She was created to hate Muslims and British. It was long ago. We need not continue with hatred. Let us grow up as lovers of our nation, by whatever name you prefer to call, let us shut out Bharatmata. India/Bharat is far above. Let us drown Bharatmata, who was actually Bangamata into the Bay of Bengal with respect. We do not need her anymore. Bharatmata ki koi zaroorat nahin Bharat ko, use Bay of Bengal mein duba do Kali maa ki tarah. She divided India. 

Marketime: Dacca Nawab’s invitation to the Aligarh leadership was the genesis of Pakistan http://marketime.blogspot.com/2016/04/dacca-nawabs-invitation-to-aligarh.html?spref=tw …
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surrender to divine will. No one else can write, explain and define ShriAurobindo's truthful Vision of divine life on Earth as perfectly. itimes Blogs.

www.speakingtree.in/article/surveys-that-defy-belief
Editorial by Mukul Sharma - In 2005, for instance, space scientists had travelled to Tirupati to seek blessings of Lord Venkateswara before launching the rocket and satellite. Commenting on the findings, the chairman of the Centre For Inquiry, Innaiah Narisetti, said: “Our scientists aren’t applying the scientific temper in all fields of life to provide an ethical alternative to religious and paranormal worldviews.” Incidentally,Narisetti who submitted his PhD thesis in 1969, entitled ‘The Philosophical Consequences of Modern Science with Special Reference to Determinism’ to his dissertation director,V Madhusudan Reddi, a devotee of Sri Aurobindo, had it rejected. Reddi refused to allow Narisetti to graduate and his bias prevented the approval of the thesis for 13 more years.The degree was finally awarded only in 1982, after having gone through three examining boards and after the High Court ordered the university to follow rules and decide the case.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Anniversary of The Mother's arrival at the Puducherry Railway station

The Hindu PUDUCHERRY, March 30, 2016 S. PRASAD
She returned home soon only to come back in 1920 and settle down
Devotees offer floral tribute to the portrait of Sri Aurobindo and Mother in Puducherry Railway Station on Tuesday. —Photo: S.S. Kumar
The 102nd anniversary of the visit of Mirra Alfassa, or The Mother, to the city was celebrated with a session of meditation and silent prayer on Tuesday.
A special commemoration was held at the Puducherry Railway station by The World Peace Trust of Pondicherry and the Bangavani Trust of Nabadwip Dham West Bengal. The 102nd anniversary of the visit of Mirra Alfassa, or The Mother, to the city was celebrated with a session of meditation and silent prayer on Tuesday.
It was in 1914, at the age of 36, that Mirra, accompanied by her spouse Paul Richard, embarked on two different journeys; one an exacting trip stretching over three weeks by ship, boat and train to this city, the other one of life-changing self-discovery and enlightenment that would follow her momentous meeting with Sri Aurobindo in this city.
“The Mother arrived at Puducherry Railway station on the morning of March 29, 1914. While approaching Puducherry, the Mother had a vision of a huge column of light and the intensity of the light became greater when she arrived in the city. She met Sri Aurobindo at his Ashram and recognised him as her guru or Krishna,” Dibyendu Goswami, convenor of the Bangavani Trust told The Hindu.
Though The Mother returned home after her first arrival in 1914 she came back to settle here permanently in 1920 and took charge of the Ashram, Mr. Goswami said.
While the centenaries of both the events were celebrated on a grand scale in 2010 and 2014, the World Peace Trust here and the Bangavani Trust based in Nabadwip Dham, West Bengal, have been celebrating the anniversaries of both events with various programmes since 2002.
At Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a large number of devotees and followers of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo thronged the premises to commemorate the occasion of The Mother’s first arrival in Puducherry.
Cultural events
Various cultural and spiritual activities were also held at the Ashram school to celebrate the occasion. The Hindu
















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Mass meditation by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram inmates and silent prayers marked the 102nd anniversary celebration of the Mother (Mirra Alfassa) of ...
Mass meditation by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram inmates and silent prayers marked the 102nd anniversary celebration of the Mother (Mirra Alfassa) of the Ashram here today. The world peace trust and Bangavani trust of Nabadwip Dham ,West Bengal held a special function at the Puducherry Railway station to commemorate the occasion.
It was in 1914, at the age of 36, that Mirra, accompanied by her spouse Paul Richard, embarked on two different journeys; one an exacting trip stretching over three weeks by ship, boat and train to this city, the other one of life-changing self-discovery and enlightenment that would follow her momentous meeting with Sri Aurobindo in this city.
"The Mother arrived at Puducherry Railway station on the morning of March 29, 1914. While approaching Puducherry, the Mother had a vision of a huge column of light and the intensity of the light became greater when she arrived in the city. She met Sri Aurobindo at his Ashram and recognised him as her guru or Krishna," Dibyendu Goswami, convenor of the Bangavani Trust said. Though The Mother returned home after her first arrival in Pondicherry in 1914 she came back to settle here permanently in 1920 and took charge of the Ashram, Mr. Goswami said.
While the centenaries of both the events were celebrated on a grand scale in 2010 and 2014, the World Peace Trust here and the Bangavani Trust based in Nabadwip Dham, West Bengal, have been celebrating the anniversaries of the both events with various programmes since 2002. At Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a large number of devotees and followers of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo thronged the premises to commemorate the occasion of The Mother's first arrival in Puducherry. Various cultural and spiritual activities were also held at the Ashram school to celebrate the occasion. UNI PAB KVV AK 2115 -- (UNI) -- C-1-1-DL0414-659234.Xml

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March 30, 2016 - Many have started restricting the Indian worldview to some cultural/moral aspects only. For politico-economic aspects, they rely on systems that derive from schools of thought belonging to the Left-Right spectrum. This is creating identity crisis among Indians. 
People find workplace value system in direct conflict with the value system they believe in. The workplace doesn’t let one prosper in all the dimensions. Professional life does not align with the idea of evolution a common Indian possesses. We need to recognize that choice of technology is at the bottom of all this.

"Thus, Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhi and Dayananda have presented Neo-Vedanta. Philosophy according to contemporary conditions in India and development of thought in the West and East. All these philosophies, with minor differences among them, have maintained what can be called integral humanism. This integral humanism is the philosophy of our age. It alone can supply the philosophical framework for the understanding the problems of our society" (Sharma, G.R, Trends in Contemporary Philosophy of Education: A Critical Evaluation)

Sri Aurobindo presented a more elegant model of this ancient theory and divided the human into physical, emotional, mental, intellectual and spiritual, since this model has gained currency in contemporary humanistic psychology, and now it is common place to to look at a human being as an integral being who has physical needs, emotional needs, spiritual needs etc. This is the basis behind Deen Dayal's IH. IH is a political theory that says that the state need to cater to all the needs of a human being, and not just look at one in exclusion. In Marxist humanism, for example, only physical needs are important; in secular humanism spiritual needs are ignored.
Also humanism and dharma are not mutually exclusive, in fact Krishna in the Gita says manavata dharma or humanist dharma is the highest dharma. When we say India is "dharmic" we actually mean it is humanist, and the type of humanism we are talking about is integrally humanist.

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Recent years have brought a dawning realization that we need to rethink the foundational bases of capitalism, starting with the idea that it is solely rooted in the pursuit of narrowly construed and material self-interest. Human beings have multiple primal drives, including the need to survive and the need to care. Love and work define what it means to be human. The emerging Conscious Capitalism philosophy is about blending the two. It starts with asking the question “What is the purpose of business?” The answer: it is not to maximize profits but rather to uplift humanity, by meeting real needs, providing meaningful work, spreading prosperity, and enabling more of us to lead more fulfilling and more fully human lives. The second pillar is stakeholder integration. Companies should consciously create multifaceted value for customers, employees, communities, suppliers, investors, the environment, and beyond. The well-being of each stakeholder should be seen as an end in itself, not as a means to the end of making more money for shareholders.
The next pillar of Conscious Capitalism is that companies should create nurturing and life-enhancing cultures imbued with values such as trust, accountability, caring for, and transparency. Most businesses are characterized by high levels of fear and stress; conscious businesses are built on love and care.

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LUDHIANA: The students of Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management of class of B.Com Semester 2B organised a panel discussion on topic "How to Make Life Better". The students who took part as panel member were Mehak, Ritika Arora, Simer Madhok, Rohish Bedi and Gautam Bansal.
Students discussed that we have made the life complicated by unnecessarily adding so much expectations from others. Also present life has become mechanical and full of distractions for youth. They stressed that if we compare the life of city with villages, life in villages is much peaceful and satisfied.
A student, Mehak while addressing to other students, said, "We should treat others well and also must take one hundred per cent responsibility for our lives. Focussing on present, and enjoying what we have and not regretting what we don't have."
Positive attitude and living in the right state of mind were some of the other aspects added in the discussion by the members.

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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Sri Aurobindo Society, Noida and The Gnostic Centre

INVITATIONS: Programmes on Saturday, 19th March, 2016
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Dear Member,
Invitations for the following programmes on Saturday, 19th March,2016 are attached: 
(1) Saturday, 19th March, 2016 from 10:30 am to 12 noon: Talk on "Managing Stress in day-to-day life" by Dr. Prabhjot S. Kulkarni.
(2) Saturday, 19th March, 2016 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm: 'Musical Offering (Manas Fusion Part II) - Jeevan Ke Rang - Manas ke Sang' by Shri Deepak Srivastava
All are cordially invited to attend with family & friends.
Regards.
Suresh Gupta
Executive Secretary

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THE GNOSTIC CENTRE'S ANNIVERSARY
The Gnostic Centre celebrates its 19th anniversary, on Monday, 28th March. It is also the 9th anniversary of the enshrinement of the sacred relics of Sri Aurobindo, at the Gnostic Centre. 
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The programme (6.00 pm to 7.30 pm) is as follows:
6.00 pm - High Tea (at the Gnostic Centre lawns)
6.50 pm - Silent Meditation at the Shrine* 
7.20 pm - Prasad
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We look forward to seeing you.
Please send in your confirmations to gnostic@gnosticcentre.com by 20th March so we can esure there is enough space and prasad for everyone. * Note: The doors to the Shrine will close at 6.50 pm, so please be seated by 6.45 pm. 
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Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

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