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Sachidananda Mohanty: The Tale of My Exile by Barindra Kumar Ghose

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19 January 2012 At 18:30 - C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium
IIC BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Dr. Kavita Sharma, Director, IIC; Professor Indra Nath Chaudhury, former Member Secretary, IGNCA; and Professor Sachidananda Mohanty, former Head, Department of English, University of Hyderabad discuss The Tale of My Exile (Pondicherry, Arya Office, 1972) by Barindra Kumar Ghose
Chair: Dr. Karan Singh, MP

Sri Aurobindo had sent a telegram to Barindra Kumar Ghose

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Barindra Kumar Ghose’s tribute to the Mother « Overman Foundation: 'via Blog this'

No. But some time before he left his physical body Sri Aurobindo had sent a telegram to Barin Ghose which he got framed. This telegram used to adorn a wall in Barin’s room. Dilip Kumar Roy had seen this telegram when he visited Barin (he was quite close to Barin and respected him immensely) after he left the Ashram in 1953. He has also written about it in his reminiscences in Bengali titled ‘Smriticharan’. But the text of the said telegram is not available.

With warm regards,
Anurag Banerjee

Can you please pass on this information

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Education Innovation Fund for India - Grants upto Rs. 4 Crores

We are happy to announce that the India Council for Integral Education (ICIE), a project of Sri Aurobindo Society, has launched the Education Innovation Fund for India (EIFI), a collaborative project with Hewlett Packard, USA.

The purpose of EIFI is to identify, nurture and support the most promising and innovative ideas and projects for Education within India through the grants. These grants will be awarded to projects that show the capability to be developed, refined and scaled up so as to impact the next future of India’s education.

There is a One Crore Grant to the most promising project in educational innovation, 15 grants upto 15 lakhs and micro grants for students and children of ages 11 – 17 years. The last date for submission of the applications is 15th November 2011.

The full details are available in our website: www.eifi.aurosociety.org

Can you please pass on this information to as many schools, colleges, educational institutions, NGOs as possible who you feel will be interested, so that if they have some innovative ideas they can apply for the grants.

For any queries or information, you can contact Aishwarya Ramanujam. She will be glad to help. Her contact details are given below: Email id: aishwarya@eifi.aurosociety.org
Ph.: 94894-36397
SAS Newsletter - Sri Aurobindo Society
www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in/oct11.htm

Savitri classes in Gandhinagar

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Parameswaran Krishnasamy To: tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com Date: 6 September 2011, 18:54

"Dr K. Parameswaran conducts weekly classes on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri in the light of Integral Yoga-sadhana, Sunday, 9:30 - 11:00 am at Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Sector 23, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. It is followed by a collective meditation"

Tribute to Shyam Sundar

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In Memoriam Shyam Sundar - Memorial gathering of Shyam Sundar on August 14, 2011 at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville
On Saturday, 14th August, a memorial gathering was held in Savitri Bhavan dedicated to Syam Sundar who recently passed away. Shyam Sundar was appointed by the Mother as the secretary of Auroville affairs and was involved in the township project from the very beginning. About thirty Aurovilians and fifteen Ashramites gathered in Savitri Bhavan to pay tribute to Shyam Sundar. After a short meditation, several friends spontaneously shared their reminiscences of Shyam Sunder, who had taken significant roles in his lifetime.

Shyam Sundar played a central role in the unfolding of Auroville in the early years as Mother entrusted him with the responsibility for the project.

“I will always have goodwill for Auroville” - Shyam Sundar [Tusar N. Mohapatra - 7:31 PM (edited) ]

Foundation Day Celebration of Sri Aurobindo's Action at Kolkata: A ...

The foundation day of Sri Aurobindo's Action (Kolkata unit) was celebrated at Maha Bodhi Society Hall at 4A, Bankim Chatterjee Street on Friday, 29 July 2011. ...

Sri Aurobindo's message has to be spread all over the country

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Welcome to Sri Aurobindo's Action

(WORDS OF THE MOTHER)

"The only and unique aim of Sri Aurobindo’s Action is the country – India

India

has to guard her independence

India

has to defend herself

India

has to reorganise herself"

“The only solution of the country’s problems is what Sri Aurobindo has given in His writings. He has replied to all questions, including capitalism, communism, political organisation. These are to be put together. He wrote in English, but as many Indians do not know English it is necessary to translate in the languages which they understand. His message has to be spread all over the country, his solutions are to be shown to all who wish to know.

"A great force is there. One has to work without personal sentiments"

To work for the attainment of the perfect man and the perfect society as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

To work for India’s Resurgence, the world and the advent of a progressive universal harmony.
To demonstrate in action the possibility of realising Sri Aurobindo’s ideals in all fields of life, education, science, literature, fine arts, economics, industry etc.
To carry out research into the problems facing man, present their solutions and work them out in practice. [9:07 PM]

Sri Aurobindo’s Action aims at a collective change and every human being is an essential unit in the integrality. All are welcome to follow the Sunlit Path of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and work towards India’s Resurgence. Given below are a few ways of being part of this collective effort, movement and a sublime ideal. ...

At present the work is being carried on by the Management Team of Sri Aurobindo’s Action at Pondicherry. The Team consists of Kittu Reddy, Secretary; Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala, Treasurer; and Manju Bonke, Member.

A fighter for creative space The Hindu ARTS » THEATRE August 20, 2011 SATHYA SARAN

Actor, director, writer and producer Veenapani Chawla created Adishakti, a theatre collective, which operates in Puducherry now. After years of struggle, she is glad to have had her dreams come true. […]

“I shifted here because my Gurus, The Mother and Sri Aurobindo are here. Everyone looks for roots in language and culture, but because my roots are in their philosophy, I find myself open. My vision for Adishakti continues to grow in concentric circles, and I am constantly seeking...”. Another search, another hurdle which she will cross, giving of herself in the process, to emerge surprisingly unscathed and triumphant.

There are few who can compare with Sri Aurobindo

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Reviews Written by John Pellicci (Palm Beach Gardens, United States)

The Upanishads, 1st US Edition by Aurobindo Ghose Edition: Paperback Price: $12.26 Words of a Master, October 14, 2010 Amazon This review is from: The Upanishads, 1st US Edition (Paperback)

There are few who can compare with Sri Aurobindo Ghose. His erudition is only surpassed by his realization. A wordsmith of the highest order, who can bring to light and clarity the often confusing and veiled jargon of the ancient Rishis. His commentaries on the Upanishads opens vistas of thought that allow the earnest and informed seeker the opportunity to sit at the feet of a modern master-sage. Comment | Permalink

Essays on the Gita, New U.S. Paperback Ed. by Aurobindo Ghose Edition: Paperback Price: $14.96 Availability: In Stock 30 used & new from $3.59 Doing the Gita Justice, October 14, 2010 Amazon This review is from: Essays on the Gita, New U.S. Paperback Ed. (Paperback)

You can't ask for a more robust and accurate discourse on the profound truths of the Gita. Unlike the envious who seek to dethrone the Supreme Personality with their misreadings of the Gita's message, Sri Aurobindo maintains and magnifies the spirit of devotion throughout his writing. In his unique style, the Master-Sage brings the Gita to life for the modern, critical-thinking God-seeker; who blushes at sectarian stupidity and obtuse scholarship. If you are looking to understand the "Song of the Lord" in a way that brings you to the oceanic depths of Godhead, then click "add to cart." Comment | Permalink

The Life Divine - U.S. edition by Aurobindo Ghose Edition: Hardcover Price: $30.36 Availability: In Stock 38 used & new from $14.63 Our Future Self, July 26, 2011 Amazon This review is from: The Life Divine - U.S. edition (Hardcover)

Aurobindo is a golden Vessel. His words convey thoughts of the most sublime and supreme that a human is given to think and become. His depth of realization and breadth of learning continues to leave me aghast. This magnum opus dethrones and perfects the intellect, opens the being to higher ranges and transmissions to the effect of developing the necessary mental architecture for the radical uplift and trans-human amplification. Comment | Permalink

Narad worked personally with the Mother on the significances of flowers

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Notes on Authors - S´raddha - April 2011

Dalal, Dr. A S A Moslem by birth, Dr. Dalal was born in Tanzania, moved to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for seven years, then worked in the

U.S.

as a psychologist for over two decades before returning to the Ashram where he now lives. He has compiled about a dozen books based on the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and has written two books integrating Sri Aurobindo’s psychological thought with modern psychology. Various books of his, published in

India

and abroad, have been translated into French, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Korean and several Indian languages.

Deshpande, RY (born 17 Apr. 1931) obtained his M.Sc in Physics from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Thereafter he worked as a Research Physicist successively at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, 1955-57, BARC, Bombay, 1957-80, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. Headed several Atomic Energy & Space Projects in Advanced technology. Prof. of Physics at SAICE, Pondicherry since 1981 where he also teaches Astrophysics, Savitri, The Future Poetry and Science & Society. Editor of Mother India, 1996-2004; Sr Editor of Science-Culture-Integral Yoga (SCIY) web magazine, founded in Los Angeles, 2007-8. A prolific writer, he has to his credit some 50 scientific research papers in professional journals, over 20 books of prose and poetry and nearly a dozen publications ready for publication or are under preparation.

Narad (Richard Eggenberger), is a longtime member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville. Landscaper, plumerian, gardener, musician and poet, Narad was born on 29th July 1938 at New Jersey, U.S.A. He studied the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner including his bio-dynamic practices and studied Raja Yoga from a Pandit, at the same time prepared for an operatic career for the Metropolitan Opera on a scholarship from one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of the day, Regina Resnick and took voice lessons from her teacher, Rosalie Miller. He arrived in Pondicherry on November 23^rd 1961, when he had just turned 23. He began the OM Choirs in the Ashram, Auroville and many places around the world. Narad was asked by Mother in 1969 to design and build the Matrimandir Gardens. He was responsible for preparing the first slides of Huta’s Meditations on Savitri paintings, which the Mother arranged to be shown in the Ashram theatre, and later in Auroville, in 1972 as part of the celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s Birth Centenary. Narad worked personally with the Mother on the significances of flowers and on the Matrimandir Gardens in Auroville. He is past President of the Plumaria Society of America and author of numerous books and articles on tropical plants. He is the editor of the book “Flowers and their messages”, the first book published by the Ashram on spiritual significance of flowers.

Sethna, K D renamed Amal Kiran by Sri Aurobindo, was born in 1904. He joined the Ashram in 1927 and is one of the foremost disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother fortunately still amongst us today. He is a distinguished poet, a literary critic, an artist and a seer (kavi). Apart from his own poems, he is a great prose writer on a wide variety of subjects – poetry, literature, history, Christianity, philosophy and of course Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. He was founder and editor of Mother India: monthly review of culture for 50 years and is acknowledged to be one of the greatest authorities on Sri Aurobindo’s revelatory epic poem Savitri – a legend and a symbol.

Sunayana Panda grew up in the Ashram as a student of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and is in the editorial team of its alumni journal, The Golden Chain. She holds a M.A. in English Literature and has been in the field of education for over 25 years. Sunayana has brought to the stage several of Sri Aurobindo’s poetical works and contributes regularly to various Ashram-related journals.

Vladimir Iatsenko, after graduating from St. Petersburg University of Russia in Sanskrit Language and Literature, General and Theoretical Linguistics, studied in Poona University 1991-92 Sanskrit Grammar: Panini Ashtadhyayi. From 1992 he is a member of Auroville community, working in Savitri Bhavan as Sanskrit teacher and researcher in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Gita. He is also having courses in Indian Scriptures at ICIS in Delhi, SACAR and IPI in Pondicherry and University of Human Unity in Auroville.

Amal Kiran was the foremost mystic poet of our generation, next only to Sri Aurobindo

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A colossus passes on MANOJ DAS The Hindu August 6, 2011

To many of us, K.D. Sethna was the foremost mystic poet of our generation, next only to Sri Aurobindo. He has left behind nearly a thousand splendid poems and several volumes of prose.

Future will decide whether Amal-kiran (K.D. Sethna) who died completing 106 years of age was the last of a great tradition or the forerunner of a future poetry.

“I have nothing to declare except my genius,” said Oscar Wilde on his arrival at the New York Customs House in 1882. Amal-kiran (K.D. Sethna) could have made the same statement, but for his modesty, had his identity been demanded at any literary event, for he had no award or decoration to declare.

Probably it is an irony as well a glory that a man who, along with Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Nirodbaran and Dilip Kumar Roy had the rare privilege of blossoming as a poet under inspiration and guidance directly from Sri Aurobindo, one who as a historian produced highly original works of research, The Harappan Culture and the Rig Veda and The Problem of Aryan Origin, one who as a critic shed new light on Shakespeare's mysterious Dark Lady, who engaged Einstein in a discussion on Relativity and the poet Kathleen Raine on mystic poetry, should be primarily referred to in some of the obituaries as the oldest living poet in the world to have passed away, while running 107, on June 29.

Unparalleled

Kekoo D. Sethna was born in an aristocratic Parsi family of Mumbai on November 25, 1904. Educated at St. Xavier's College, he, according to his earliest editor, Prof. V.N. Bhushan (1945), “took both the Selby scholarship for logic and the Hughling Prize for English, a combination not achieved by anyone else yet. Passing the B.A. examination of the Bombay University with honours in philosophy, he again put up a performance not paralleled so far – namely, that he, a philosophy student, won the much-coveted Ellis Prize for English. And before he left college he made his literary debut with a bunch of poems marked by a piercing psychical and intellectual passion. Published about the same time his volume of critical essays entitled Parnassians (1923) elicited from H.G. Wells the prophetic remark, ‘This young man will go far'. And he has gone far — farther than the celebrated English writer could have meant or expected. He has gone far on the path of spiritual quest — with vision in his eyes and song on his lips.”

Song on his lips indeed. He has left nearly a thousand splendid poems behind, apart from several volumes of prose.

Is chance a pseudonym of God which He uses when He does not wish to put down His signature? It seems so in Sethna's case. As he unwrapped a pair of newly bought shoes, the piece of newspaper wrapping his newly bought shoes carried an article on Sri Aurobindo. He read it and that changed the course of his life. Instead of appearing for his Master's, he came over to Pondicherry in 1930. Rechristened Amal-kiran (Clear Ray) by Sri Aurobindo, he lived in the Ashram, with one break, till his end, editing the Ashram's monthly journalMother India, and taking classes at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.

Sri Aurobindo, in the process of writing his poetic magnum opus, Savitri, would send cantos of his epic and answer his queries on the mystic significance of allusions and symbols used in the poem. Amal-kiran's correspondence with the Master is an indispensable help for readers in general and scholars doing research on Sri Aurobindo's works in particular.

A polymath of the first order, the originality of his outlook — often an uncanny insight — was manifest in his evaluation of any subject, literary, historical or even scientific. He interpreted Blake's Tyger as an allusion for Christ. No wonder that his thesis should surprise many and disturb the noted authority on Blake, the poet Kathleen Raine (1908 – 2003). The exchange of arguments between the two, compiled in a volume — is an exemplary document in creative criticism and dignified humility — concluding with Raine's statement, “I concede you the victory”.

Raine became an ardent lover of Amal-kiran's poetry. Praising lines from one of his poems, The Errant Life, she wrote to him (31-12-1993), that she wished she had written them! The lines are:

Speak to me heart to heart words intimate

And all thy formless glory turn to love

And mould Thy love into a human face.

She wrote further, “A life of aspiration to the divine vision cannot but bring its reward, not in the poems only, but in other ways — all ways — and setting your heart and mind on ‘whatsoever things are lovely' (in St. Paul's words) you must have experienced many times a great joy…Those friends who share that ‘divine vision' or seek it are very precious, in this dark world…”

Polio had badly affected one of his legs when he was a child. Treatment in Britain and elsewhere did not secure for him the freedom to move without a stick — before a fall in 1991 confined him to a wheelchair. But as his friend for more than 60 years, the doctor-turned poet and yet another centenarian in the Ashram, Nirodbaran wrote, “He had no regrets. Rather, he considers this God's blessing to him, for it has enabled him to plunge into the oceans of the mind, and thus acquire a vast body of knowledge at an early age — so much so that Sri Aurobindo jokingly remarked: ‘He has learnt too much. He must start unlearning now.' ” What is remarkable, whoever came in contact with him went back imbibing a ray of his ever-shining wit and humour.

According to many he was the foremost mystic poet of our generation, next only to Sri Aurobindo. Future will say whether he was the last of a great tradition or the forerunner of “those who shall be the creators of the poetry of the future”, as Sri Aurobindo anticipates in his Future Poetry.

Peter Heehs is without appropriate legal permits

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Peter Heehs has never been in charge of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives as you wrongly claim, and has multiple cases pending against him in various courts for impersonating as the "founder of the Ashram Archives" when in fact he was only one of 40 proof-readers/ researchers there. …

For the record, Mr. Peter Heehs is currently in

India

without appropriate legal permits. - Prof Kamal Das (Date: Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM Subject: RAMACHANDRA GUHA: RIGHT SPIRIT - WRONG FACTS!)

Auroville and Matri Mandir, Pondicherry | Travel Stories Priyanka Dalal

This is also where the Matri Mandir – an intriguing meditation complex made by the Mother and Aurobindo is located. My first view of this center was a sense of lot of ‘disjoint’ communities working together. It probably felt disjoint because the different building complexes are some distance from each other, and surrounded by the forest. …

The Aurobindo ashram in Pondicherry is surprisingly distinct from this settlement, considering that Auroville was Aurobindo’s movement as much as the ashram was! In fact a few questions can uncover some hostilities towards the other establishment. For a visitor however these things may not matter much but for anyone planning to involve themselves further in the movement these signs could point towards deeper problems.

Radical realists Times of India Baskaran Pillai | Jul 25, 2011

The physical immortality of the body is a key concept among the Siddhas. According to them, enlightenment is simply not psychological. Liberation is not just psychological liberation from thought forms. Nirvana, according to Swami Ramalingam who turned his body into light in 1874, is a stage in the evolutionary process. He maintained that one should attain evolution of body, mind, and soul. You cannot simply evolve your psychology or your soul, and say that it is everything. Sri Aurobindo, although he was not a Siddha, upheld the Siddha ideal that unless the body is turned into light, the evolution of the human is not complete. Aurobindo admitted not reaching that stage, but praised Swami Ramalingam and the Siddhas for holding the highest ideal of enlightenment.

One must not cling to the memories of past experiences

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Mark O Conghalaigh 4:16pm Jul 21 Original Post

According to Sri Aurobindo, when one dies do we retain memories in a certain way, so that it is integrated into something finer and grander or is there a certain relapse, forgetting 'human experiences' as other world views would suggest? Ive read a couple of books about this great man by Chaudhuri etc. but don't know his interpretation on this clearly. If anyone can make a suggestion I'd appreciate it. Thanks

Jerome van der Linden 9:38pm Jul 22

Memories of that part of your life that involves your soul, or psychic being as it is nuanced in the integral yoga, are retained. That is essentials.

Jerome van der Linden 9:41pm Jul 22

Also there is the common knowledge that the mother constructed a bridge - a tunnel of light - in the first part of the last century, that allows that psychic being to pass directly to the psychic world without the perilous s-and sometimes long- journey through the 'lower' regions.

Why do we forget our vivid dreams? « Integral Yoga of Sri ... 14 Jul 2011 by Sandeep

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 physical world is not the only world that we live in; the Universe consists of layer upon layer of occult worlds differentiated by the ... When you return to a place on Earth where you had lived many years ago, your senses are stimulated and you spontaneously recall memories of past interactions at that place. ...

Savitri Era Devotees: Why spiritual experiences do not repeat? 13 Jun 2011 by aurofrance

Intermittently, one may encounter an oasis of water in the form of a replenishing soul moment, but the rest of the time one has to trudge through the scorching heat of the hardships of daily life. It is in this context that the ... As the Mother says above, one must not cling to the memories of past experiences and the case of the Satprem, a disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, is particularly apposite in this discussion. In the early stages of the ...

Guru's action is fluid

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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

Comment posted by: Sandeep Re: Integral Leadership by Anurag Banerjee

The answer would be that the Coaching Style was followed by Sri Aurobindo while the Mother followed the Authoritative Style.

Any attempt to situate a Guru in some matrix of leadership styles, based on their external behaviour, is fraught with error… Rich Carlson commits this same error time and again.

The Guru's action is fluid. He or she guides more from within than without, subliminally sensing the needs of every disciple and sending out waves of influence that resolve subconscious blocks. The external organization of the Ashram, or Auroville for that matter, is based on whatever Sankalpa comes through during spontaneous visions.

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

The Mother followed the Authoritative Style

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Integral Leadership by Anurag Banerjee Thu 14 Jul 2011 Permanent Link

A question might arise: which style of leadership did Sri Aurobindo and the Mother follow? The answer would be that the Coaching Style was followed by Sri Aurobindo while the Mother followed the Authoritative Style. …

But neither Sri Aurobindo nor the Mother delegated absolute authority to any of the department-heads. The leaders following the “Coaching Style” provide regular feedback and encourage interaction between him and the employees; he conveys to them what he expects from them. And that is what Sri Aurobindo did. He always gave directions and advice whereas the leader following ‘laissez-faire’ would not do so.

The Mother, as mentioned earlier, followed the Authoritative Style. As a visionary, she knew what she was doing and her followers/disciples also knew what and why they were doing and how their tasks would fit into the organizational goal. [India's Contribution to Management, The Flowering of Management, The need for a many-sided progress.: An article from: International Journal of Humanities and Peace, Sri Aurobindo and the New Millennium. (Book Reviews). (book review): An article from: International Journal of Humanities and Peace]

SRI AUROBINDO'S THEORY OF POETRY: SEARCHING FOR A COMPLETE MANIFESTO Goutam Ghosal NEW RACE Vol. XII – II April2011

Sri Aurobindo became a relaxed guru after 1926. Apart from that, the Mother’s influence might have been a significant force behind the clarity of his post-1926 letters. One suspects he learnt a lot about expressive skill from the Mother’s writings. There is an obvious change in his prose style in the 30s and the progressive clarity reached a supreme height in The Supramental Manifestation on Earth. [Sri Aurobindo's prose style (with a foreword by V.K. Gokak), Rainbow Bridge: A Comparative Study of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo and world literature]

Kaikhosru Dadhaboy Sethna (1904 - 2011)

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India: morto KD Sethna, discepolo prediletto di Sri Aurobindo swissinfo.ch – 30 giugno 2011

Il filosofo indiano K.D. Sethna, uno dei primi e più famosi discepoli di Sri Aurobindo, teorico dello yoga integrale di fama mondiale, è morto in un villaggio dell'India all'età di 106 anni. Nato il 26 novembre 1904 come Kaikhosru Dadhaboy Sethna, il poeta e scrittore ha pubblicato oltre 40 libri, tra saggi, raccolte di racconti e di poesie, alcuni dei quali con lo pseudonimo Amal Kiran.
Sethna studiò filosofia all'Università di Bombay e all'età di 23 anni, nel 1927, fu ammesso all'ashram di Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), uno tra i più importanti filosofi e maestri spirituali dell'India moderna, fautore dello studio e della pratica dello Yoga integrale.
Come il suo maestro, Sethna, che ne divenne il discepolo prediletto, ha vissuto per oltre 80 anni nello ashram praticando lo Yoga integrale e interrompendo la meditazione solo per scrivere libri, articoli e poesie e tenere conferenze. K.D. Sethna pubblicò il suo primo libro di poesie nel 1933 con il titolo "Inmost Beauty". Nel 1949 fondò "Mother India", la rivista dello Sri Aurobindo Ashram, che diresse poi per 50 anni. sda-ats

Seeing every work as the Mother’s work

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Socrates Departs From Orissa from ANTIDOTE by naturalorder@gmail.com (Sauvik)

I am leaving Orissa in a few hours, and by the evening expect to be in Pondicherry, where Aurobindo - who started off as a "terrorist" - took refuge and spent the rest of his life in metaphysical speculations. I have some lectures scheduled in the Roshni Nilaya School of Social Work, Mangalore, a Christian institution where I have taught many times before, and I guess I will make my way across to the West Coast again.

Im angry at god: D Sivakarthikeyan IBNLive.com
Also, I visit Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry occasionally. I love that place for its serenity and peacefulness. My life has never been a bed of roses. Whatever I’m today is because of my hard work. When I lost my dad I thought of ending my life, ...

Re: SECOND INDEPENDENCE -- IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS RELEASED BY DR. LEO Joy Roy Choudhury

Sometimes the most important work is done silently in the background by some and all these are highly interconnected forces that bring about the "golden change" (From Savitri). Such is the power of consciousness. We reap the harvest of the work done for the creation. Divine chooses each one in his own way to do the work, a simple doodle or a quibble can also have an immense power or it can release right positive energy if it has the right aspiration to connect with the source of an all-ascending prayer of transcendence: […]

Re: The Death of Democracy and Human Rights in India Joy Roy Choudhury Jun 15, 2011 Dear All, Again the key to all these issues I think is Evolution of Consciousness. India is evolving at her own pace and to eventually eradicate corruption and poverty, it will take time. But one can be hopeful that all this will be done by the grace of the Divine Mother.

Its the same Divine Will that created this wonderful land will take its wheel forward to the next level. We humans can play a big part to make it happen by bringing about the change and transformation first within ourselves. We must admit here that there are faceless hidden
forces that sought to govern the earth, these forces which we don't see or apprehend are there as mechanisms that fail, they are the present system of politics, democracy, judiciary, financial institutions etc. They fail at their present renderings because they are bereft of the Truth Consciousness. Man in his present state is still very much a mental human being so he can be easily governed by these nameless, faceless forces of falsehood or ignorance and death.

Often, it was said during the Jacobean period that Man in Trying to be Something More than Man Ends up in Becoming Less than Man, this can happen and looking back at history or even today we know this is true because then his evolutionary forces are not directed towards the Existence, Consciousness and Bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda) but towards the satisfaction of the Lower Nature.

Man has to understand first his position in the Great Chain of Beings and then rightly assess the situation and proceed towards the Summit of the Forces, towards the Light and towards Love Consciousness and Knowledge. All these better said than done. Avatars have come, and so His Bibhutis and also Maha Rishis and Gurus - we have moved on from one-celled organism to a super ape using android and iphones and what nots. But if we are conscious, then we can make a difference to this whole process of evolution.

Jai Ma: Srimanka Seva — Pashupati Bhattacharya
Publisher: Madanlal Poddar, Pondicherry - Oriya translation of Jai Ma: On the Mother's Service

Reproduced from a chapter in On the Mother Divine by Pashupati, this small booklet addresses the right attitude to be taken towards work as part of one’s sadhana. It urges the reader to begin seeing every work as the Mother’s work, to be carried out with a constant remembrance of her, and to abandon the notion of personal gain and egocentric success. Work done in the right spirit, in whatever field of endeavour, can bring about a change of consciousness and draw one nearer to the Divine.

rainbOwther: Integrating Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, & Service

The caste systems as we find today is of course of a deviated and deformed version of the original Caturvarna system. Sri Aurobindo examines the problem ...

Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo's examples are worth emulating for nation building

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Train of thoughts halts at Cantonment IBNLive.com Indian Express Posted on Jun 20, 2011

While the first concentrates on the earlier and formative years, the latter represents his teachings and morals along with his decision on attending the Parliament of Religion in Chicago, in 1893. His address at the Parliament of Religion is also framed.

The board at the far end of the second coach summons the exhibition with Swami Vivekananda’s signature and one-liners from personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sri Aurobindo.

The Life Divine, in status, is a veritable Veda

The Life Divine, the magnum opus of Sri Aurobindo is the agenda of the New Age, ... The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus and His blue-print for the ...

Bharat Rakshak • View topic - Islamic Sectarianism

In any case, I will end this with a quote from the Revolutionary-Saint Sri Aurobindo, it would augur well as a "strategy" for resolving ...

Bharat Rakshak • View topic - The Jan Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare ...

Rajeev Srinivasan on how Ramdev, Hazare, and Husain are all representative of ... The most prominent, of course, were Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, ...
AV's politics

It is obvious that Hazare pops out every once in a while with an anti-political .... So what is the guarantee that a Lok Pal (who is again a person) will be immune …. Ramdev wanted an honourable way out and that was provided by Sri Sri .....

I would anyway say Vivekananda and Aurobindo are the greatest Indians of the last century and certainly en example worth emulating in nation building.. Suman Kalyan

Day 2 at Auroville « The glass half full 20 Jun 2011

There's books on the Mother and Sri Aurobindo about the vision for Auroville, there's all sorts of spiritual and psychological readings, ...

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Still, on both counts, Baba Ramdev has come up woefully short and has plenty of ..... The Hazare gang says it will go ahead with the protest despite the ban, setting the ... Ramana and Aurobindo did not leave their ashrams for decades on end. ...

Who Is Undermining Parliament? Civil Society or Government?

We may not agree with everything that Anna Hazare proposes – but his ideas are out there in ... (The author teaches Economics at Sri Aurobindo College (Eve.

Ramdev - Wikipedia, de free encycwopedia

He is popuwarwy known as Baba Ramdev, and has gained popuwarity for his teachings of Yoga, ... This incwuded a rare book of Aurobindo Ghosh, Yogik Sadhan, .....Many pepowe wike sri sri ravi shankar awso forced him to end his fast. ...

Auronet

A Weekly meditation with Sri Aurobindo's epic and initiatic poem at the very center of Auroville. Every THURSDAY at sunset 6 to 6.30 p.m. ...

A person may grow spiritually more during the last few years of life

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Until next time Times of India Ramesh Bijlani | Jun 13, 2011, 03.02pm IST

The spiritual explanation provided by the Mother (Aurobindo Ashram) is that a person does not die till he gives his consent, may be only for "the hundredth part of a second". As she says, there is always something in the person which, out of fatigue or disgust, says: "Well, let it be finished, so much the better". …

The body is subject to ageing and decay. Like any machine, it cannot go on working forever. Therefore, death is a physical necessity. Death is also a spiritual necessity. The goal of life is spiritual growth, and most of us are unable to complete the journey of spiritual growth in a lifetime. Beyond a point, our body is too worn out to continue with this journey. We should be happy that death provides us a mechanism by which we are sure to get rid of this body, and get a brand new body to continue the journey further.

How can we be reborn unless we are ready to die? Death not only clears the way for another opportunity to take a few steps in our spiritual journey, it also helps us grow in this life. If we were assured of physical immortality, few of us would be motivated to grow spiritually. A sinful life can be so engaging, absorbing, and entertaining, that it would not leave us any time, incentive or energy to live a better life. The certainty of death is a powerful force that restrains evil and encourages good deeds. That is why a person may grow spiritually more during the last few years of life than in the preceding several decades.

Auromira Yoga: OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SPIRITUALITY By Dr. Ramesh Bijlani The misplaced curiosity trap

Drifting into spirituality with the relatively simple aims of pursuing something of lasting value, something useful to others, or something better than joining the rat race, some young people get distracted by the futile search for answers to irrelevant questions. They want to know more and more about life after death, rebirth, past life regression, or forecasting the future. They start resolving the apparent discrepancies in the karma theory.

Thoughts and Aporisms 29 from All choice by Barindranath Chaki

We should understand properly what "will" is. The human will is a thought, supported by a 'force' for execution and also supported by an 'impulse'. Often, it is supported by a lesser knowledge and/or understanding, lesser force and lesser and baser impulses and instincts. We find on earth and among humans clash of wills. Whenever the thought and the force and the impulse backing the will is limited, more or less, conditioned by unconsciousness or half-consciousness, by grossness, by lack of enlightenment, there comes the question of clash or the question of virtue and vice. Barindranath Chaki 12-06-2011 [Simultaneously published by me in All choice and Sulekha.]

The Guru, the Gandhian, the Organisation Man Rediff Rajeev Srinivasan

Baba Ramdev does identify with the hoary spiritual traditions of India, although he does bring in his own idiosyncrasies. For instance, the traditional Guru has been a mild, philosophical, spiritual person emphasising the syncretic, tolerant strain of meditative Indic tradition. A good example would be the other-worldly and kindly Ramana Maharshi of Tiruvannamalai, or Sri Ramakrishna of Calcutta. Ramdev is not so mellow.

That is not to say that there have not been assertive Gurus. The most prominent, of course, were Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, who did much to rekindle the spirit of Indian civilization, under withering attack by malign forces. And let us not forget the youthful Adi Sankara, he who traversed the length and breadth of the subcontinent, defeating the Buddhists in intellectual battles.

Baba Ramdev is perhaps in the mould of these robust Gurus.

Savitri Era: Sri Aurobindo is a victim of disinformation

The name of Sri Aurobindo has adorned the media in diverse contexts in the wake of the current Hazare-Ramdev mobilization, but no one cares to point out the ...

How does Heehs conclude that Sri Aurobindo was a stoic?

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Comment on Kundalini in ancient Greek and other non-Indian cultures by Sandeep from Comments for Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother by Sandeep

Jason,

McEvilley is definitely worth reading. He devotes a chapter to some peculiar parallels between the Greek Stoic school and Hinduism. Many of the Stoic scriptures were lost, but based on the extant manuscripts, it seems the Stoic averred the cyclic creation and destruction of the cosmos, the pneuma (i.e. conscious-force) which dwells in plants, animals and man, the interpenetration of the soul with the body, our existence after death, etc.

I plan to write a post on the Stoic-Hinduism parallels someday soon.

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ... JUN 9, 2011 Is This History or Speculation? -- by Krish Patwardhan

Finally, Sri Aurobindo’s “own stoicism, partly innate and partly learned from philosophers such as Epictetus, would have helped him to keep his sexual tendencies in check.” I reproduce below the document which Heehs has based himself upon to show the reader how he decontextualises his sources:

Sri Aurobindo’s intellect was influenced by Greek philosophy.

Very little. I read more than once Plato’s Republic and Symposium, but only extracts from his other writings. It is true that under his impress I rashly started writing at the age of 18 an explanation of the cosmos on the foundation of the principle of Beauty and Harmony, but I never got beyond the first three or four chapters. I read Epictetus and was interested in the ideas of the Stoics and the Epicureans; but I made no study of Greek philosophy or of any of the [? ]. (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Autobiographical Notes, p 112)

Sri Aurobindo’s note begins with “Very little” in answer to the biographer’s statement on him being influenced by Greek philosophy. If Sri Aurobindo goes on to say that he read Epictetus and was interested in the ideas of the Stoics, it certainly does not mean a denial of his opening answer or that he was indeed influenced by Epictetus and the Stoics. How does Heehs then conclude that Sri Aurobindo’s stoicism was “partly learned from philosophers such as Epictetus”? How does he at all conclude that Sri Aurobindo was a stoic? By the fact that he took up Yoga which requires self-control? If that is the case, then we can conclude that only stoics take up Yoga!

Meaning of the term ‘Integral’

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Program Listing - Cultural Integration Fellowship - June 2011 CIF Home - About CIF

June 12 The Pilgrimage to Pandharpur: Bhakti on the Road

with John M. Stanley, PhD, professor of Religions and Anthropology

Dr. Stanley made many trips to India to study the popular devotional sects and the religious practices of the devoted worshippers of Vitthoba whose yearly pilgrimage to the village of Pandharpur demonstrates the devotional intensity of the bhakti traditions. Dr. Stanley’s power point presentation includes exciting photos of the pilgrimage and underscore his vast knowledge of the bhakti traditions of India.

John M. Stanley is the recipient of an M Div degree, summa cum laude from Pacific School of Religion and a PhD from Columbia University in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. A professor of History of Religions and Anthropology of Religion at Lawrence University in Appleton Wisconsin from 1961 to 2000, he was five times the director of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest India Study Program and twice received year long grants to conduct research in India. Professor Stanley has been the recipient of a Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship and has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the author of several published articles on Bhakti practices in Maharashtra.

June 26 Haridas and Bina Chaudhuri Memorial concert offering

with Sri Karunamayee, Sur Laya Sangam and Arshad Syed on tabla

Sri Karunamayee is renowned for her soul-empowering music. She refined her rendering of North Indian Classical vocal music under the revered tutelege of Pandit Pran Nath ji and holds Masters degrees in both philosophy and music, having served as an innovative educator in academic settings. Sri Karunamayee is a vital member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Delhi.

Jul 10: Mother Sees that the Psychic Being Materializes into the Supramental Being with Loretta Shartsis, long-time practitioner of integral yoga and resident of Auroville

Friday, July 8, 2011, 11:00 - 3:00 The Integral Way...as we move ahead

Please join us for an interactive workshop with Aster Patel, PhD. Aster is a long time resident of Auroville and member of the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation. We will explore the meaning of the term ‘Integral’ and explore its significance as it reveals itself in discoveries made by the natural sciences and our potential for human growth and evolution.

Dr. Aster Patel is a long time resident and member of the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation. For over three decades, she has been engaged in the experiment of Auroville where she is in charge of the Centre for Research in Indian Culture and Centre of Indian Studies in Bharat Nivas, in the International Zone of Auroville. Aster has taught for many years at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry and has participated in seminars and conferences at various centers and universities in India and internationally—including UNESCO, Paris and the United Nations— as well as other institutes in the U.S. Aster has written and published papers in philosophy, integral psychology, education and yoga. As a child, she lived with her parents at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry and studied at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Aster received her doctorate from the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where she wrote her doctoral dissertation titled: A Comparative Study of the Philosophies of Sri Aurobindo and Henri Bergson. Among numerous other accomplishments, Aster received the ‘Sri Aurobindo Puraskar’ in 2005 for a collection of papers and graphics that was published in 2006 under the title – The Presence of Time.

Foundations of Indian Psychology (in two volumes) edited by: Matthijs Cornelissen, Girishwar Misra, & Suneet Varma, published by: Pearson Education, New Delhi

Dalal, Ajit K. (2010). A journey back to the roots: Psychology in India

This chapter traces the history of pychology in India and discusses how it can be enriched by drawing from the classical Indian texts.

Dalal, Ajit K. & Cornelissen, M. (2010). Sri Aurobindo: A Yogi and a Poet

The chapter discusses the biography of an eminent Indian yogi and a poet, Sri Aurobindo. It also throws light on his creative genius as evident in his writings, particularly in his classic work, Savitri.

Cornelissen, R. M. Matthijs (2009). Sri Aurobindo, A short biography

Cornelissen, R. M. Matthijs (2007). In Defence of Rigorous Subjectivity

This article gives the basic argument why rigorous, yoga-based, research of first person experience is necessary to take Psychology further. It is based on a keynote given at the Annual Conference of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the BPS in 2007.

Cornelissen, R. M. Matthijs (2006). What is knowledge? A reflection based on the work of Sri Aurobindo

This article looks from an experiential angle at the different types of knowledge that are involved in yoga-based research. A slightly shorter version has been included in Matthijs Cornelissen, Girishwar Mishra and Suneet Varma (eds.) (2011), Foundations of Indian Psychology (Vol. 1), New-Delhi: Pearson.

Anurag Banerjee awarded 2011 Nolini Kanta Gupta Smriti Puraskar

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Anurag Banerjee awarded the Nolini Kanta Gupta Smriti Puraskar

May 21, 2011 at 7:47 am (Uncategorized)

Dear Friends and Well-Wishers of Overman Foundation,

It gives us immense delight to announce that the Founder and Chairman of Overman Foundation, Shri Anurag Banerjee, has been awarded with the ‘Nolini Kanta Gupta Smriti Puraskar’ for the year 2011 for his contribution in the field of research and education. It is noteworthy that Shri Banerjee is the youngest recipient ever to receive this prestigious award given by ‘Srinvantu’ and Sri Aurobindo Bhawan, Kolkata.

Under the guidance of Shri Banerjee, Overman Foundation has become India’s only online research institute dedicated to the mission of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. We take the opportunity to congratulate Shri Banerjee and wish him all the success in life.

The Overman Foundation Team.

Auro-Ratna Awards 2011

March 27, 2011 at 8:03 am (Uncategorized)

Dear Friends and Well-wishers of Overman Foundation,

Since its inception in March 2010 Overman Foundation aims to recognize the invaluable contribution of the scholars, writers, researchers and workers of the Aurobindonian movement in various fields. For this purpose, the ‘Auro-Ratna Award’ was initiated to felicitate the ‘true children’ of the Divine, who, as defined by the Mother, are those few who have consecrated all of themselves and all they have—soul, life, work and wealth. In 2010, the recipients of the first ‘Auro-Ratna Award’ were K. D. Sethna alias Amal Kiran, Prof. Arabinda Basu and the late Jugal Kishore Mukherjee.

Today, on behalf of Overman Foundation, I take the opportunity to announce the names of the recipients of the ‘Auro-Ratna Award’ for the year 2011. This year the award will be given to Shri Robi Gupta, Dr. Kireet Joshi and Dr. Prithwindranath Mukherjee for their outstanding contribution in the field of literature, education, philosophy and research.

Shri Robi Gupta (b. 1926) is the youngest son of the late Nolini Kanta Gupta. He became an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1944. He is one of the foremost poets of Sri Aurobindo Ashram whose works were appreciated by Sri Aurobindo himself who gave him the title of ‘Tagore of the Ashram’. A linguist and the recipient of the prestigious ‘Sri Aurobindo Puraskar’, Shri Robi Gupta’s published works in Bengali include ‘Swapani’, ‘Sarani’, ‘Mandakini’, ‘Mormomoral’, ‘Geeti-arghya’ and ‘Shiulijhora Bhorer Bela’ to name a few.

Dr. Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for I. A. S. in 1955 but in 1956 he resigned to devote himself at Sri Aurobindo Ashram to the study and practice the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the guidance of the Mother. In 1976 the Government of India invited him to be the Educational Adviser in the Ministry of Education. In 1983 he was appointed Special Secretary to the Government of India and held this post till 1988. From 1987 to 1993 he was the Member-Secretary of Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan. From 1987 to 1990 he served as the Vice-Chairman of the UNESCO Institute of Education, Hamburg. In the Ministry of Education, he was in-charge of Higher Education, National Commission on Teachers, Languages, Youth Affairs and UNESCO affairs. He was also the Chairman of Auroville Foundation and Indian Council of Philosophical Research. His published works include ‘Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga’, ‘Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’, ‘Education for Character Development’, ‘Education for Tomorrow’, ‘Education at Crossroads’, ‘Glimpses of Vedic Literature and Veda and Indian Culture’ and ‘Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays’.

Dr. Prithwindra Nath Mukherjee (b. 1936) is the grandson of the famous revolutionary Jatindranath Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin. He came to Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1948, studied and taught at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. He was mentioned by the Sahitya Akademi manuals and anthologies as a poet before he attained the age of twenty. He has translated the works of French authors like Albert Camus, Saint-John Perse and René Char for Bengali readers, and eminent Bengali authors into French. He shifted to Paris with a French Government Scholarship in 1966. He defended a thesis on Sri Aurobindo at Sorbonne. He served as a lecturer in two Paris faculties, a producer on Indian culture and music for Radio France and was also a freelance journalist for the Indian and French press. His thesis for PhD which studied the pre-Gandhian phase of India’s struggle for freedom was supervised by Raymond Aron in Paris University. In 1977 he was invited by the National Archives of India as a guest of the Historical Records Commission. He presented a paper on ‘Jatindranath Mukherjee and the Indo-German Conspiracy’ and his contribution on this area has been recognized by eminent educationists. A number of his papers on this subject have been translated into major Indian languages. He went to the United States of America as a Fullbright scholar and discovered scores of files covering the Indian revolutionaries in the Wilson Papers. In 1981 he joined the French National Centre of Scientific Research. He was also a founder-member of the French Literary Translators’ Association. In 2003 he retired as a researcher in Human and Social Sciences Department of French National Centre of Scientific Research in Paris. A recipient of ‘Sri Aurobindo Puraskar’, in the same year he was invited by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the world premiere of Correspondances, opus for voice and orchestra where the veteran composer Henri Dutilleux had set to music Prithwindra’s French poem on Shiva Nataraja, followed by texts by Solzhenitsyn, Rilke and Van Gogh. In 2009 he was appointed to the rank of chevalier (Knight) of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture of France. He has penned books in English, Bengali and French and some of his published works include ‘Samasamayiker Chokhe Sri Aurobindo,’ ‘Pondicherryer Dinguli’, ‘Bagha Jatin’, ‘Sadhak-Biplobi Jatindranath’, ‘Undying Courage’, ‘Vishwer Chokhe Rabindranath’, ‘Thât/Mélakartâ : The Fundamental Scales in Indian Music of the North and the South’ (foreworded by Pandit Ravi Shankar), ‘Poèmes du Bangladesh’, ‘Serpent de flammes’, ‘Le sâmkhya’, ‘Les écrits bengalis de Sri Aurobindo’, ‘Chants bâuls, les Fous de l’Absolu’, ‘Anthologie de la poésie bengalie’ and ‘Les racines intellectuelles du movement d’independence de l’Inde (1893-1918)’ ending up with Sri Aurobindo, “the last of the Prophets”.

It will be our privilege to hand over the ‘Auro-Ratna Award’, named after Sri Aurobindo, to three of his most faithful followers.

With warm regards,

Anurag Banerjee

Chairman and Chief Executive,

Overman Foundation.

Concept of Man in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry

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Comment by Vladimir Last Updated: June 1, 2011

It is very intuitive observation:

"The individual consciousness has however, even by plunging into rationality and logic, the means to break free and become the vehicle of the soul. The individual consciousness can include the rational and logic into the process of becoming integral. It just needs to lift its gaze to the unlimited realities and give them names, make the eternal the alphabet of its reasoning and build action on its ground."

It's very true, indeed, for it is only through the individual that the integral consciousness can emerge. Logic and rationality are only the means of individualisation. Back to Discussion (Topic:Some thoughts on the Vedic studies and Linguistics)

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

proindie‎ Sri Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, a medico, drew his inspiration from Swami Vivekananda, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Rishi Aurobindo.

Aurobindo, a Realist ! from aurobindo philosophy by Zodiac Astrology

Buddha and Sankara of course were two of the greatest philosophers to have graced this planet. Another equally great, Bhagavan Aurobindo, said so …

Hegel's Dialectical Idealism was reversed by Marx ( Dialectical Materialism ). Aurobindo integrated both Materialism and Idealism and called it Dialectical Integralism. He integrated Matter and Spirit. Matter is Brahman ( Padartham Brahma, Annam Brahma ) and is the outer garment of Spirit.

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On the life and works of Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950, Indic philosopher, nationalist, and poet; includes Hindi translation of 14 poems of Aurobindo by the author. User Review - 1 Review

mene is kitab ko parha hai. hindi bhasa me sriaurobido par dinkarji ke en nibandhon dwara jo prakas dala gaya hai vah bejorh hai. dinkarji ke ye nibandh tatha kavitaon ke hindi anubad unake sriaurobindo ke prati shradha ko darsati hai. meri vinati hai ki jo bhi sriaurobindo ko hindi ke madhyam se janana chahate hain uneh is pustak ko jarur padana chahiye. munni singh kushwah gwalior m. p. india

Acharya Abhay Dev was a great admirer of Maharshi Dayananda as well as Sri Aurobindo

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aryasamajonline : Message: Essays of Sri Aurobindo on Maharshi ...

Sri Aurobindo (= Sri Arvind Ghosh) wrote two essays in English on Maharshi Dayananda: (i) "Dayananda - The Man and his work" and (ii) "Dayananda and the Veda". There essays were published first time in 'Vedic Magazine' edited by Prof. Ramdev ji in two issues in the years - 1915 & 1916. Thereafter these brilliant essays of Sri Aurobindo got published in so many other magazines and also translated in to other regional languages including Hindi. These are published from Pondicherry in a book vide "Swami Dayananda" and "Bankim-Tilak-Dayananda". Sarvadeshik Sabha of Arya Samaj also published these books. The contents of these essays have been quoted in numerous books written on Swami Dayananda and his interpretation of the Vedas.

The Hindi translation of these essays is also done by more than one scholars. Sri Acharya Abhay Dev ji was a great Vedic scholar and he used to visit and stay at Sri Aurobindo Ashram-Pondicherry when Sri Aurobindo was alive, to practice Yoga. He was a great admirer of Maharshi Dayananda as well as Sri Aurobindo. PDF of these famous essays written by Sri Aurobindo on Maharshi Dayananda (Hindi translation by Acharya Abhay Dev ji) is attached herewith.

These essays in Hindi was published in Oct-2008 issue of Hindi monthly "Yog-sandesh" of Patanjali Yog-peeth of Swami Ramdev ji Maharaj. Our acknowledgment is due to "Yog-sandesh" and its editor also for the same. I wish these essays will be widely read, utilized and circulated among the masses by the learned readers to spread the greatness of Dayananda and the true picture of his Vedic vision. = Bhavesh Merja

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Western rationality clearly stands under the Upanishadic golden lid

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In The Life Divine and elsewhere Sri Aurobindo argues that humankind as an entity is not the last rung in the evolutionary scale, but can evolve spiritually ...

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He was one of the founding members of Jugantar, a revolutionary outfit in Bengal. Barindra Ghosh was a younger brother of Arabindo Ghose (aka Sri Aurobindo) ...

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Tusar N. Mohapatra Says: May 21, 2011 at 8:24 am

[Principles of the Evolutionary Process from Sri Aurobindo Studies

Sri Aurobindo has outlined this very succinctly in this chapter:]

philippe on Issues of inclusion v exclusion in Auroville Recent Comments by philippe in reply to Rod Last Updated: May 19, 2011

Western rationality clearly stands under the upanishadic golden lid, it is not rationality that has to be removed but the lid we are dying under. The discovery and the opening up of the lid is the historical force that has destined India to be the leader .

Rationality cannot combat the pseudo, the twisting, the distorted, av is facing. It cannot even identify clearly the enemy. Here is the struggle : pseudo AV vs un-distorted AV. I do not think people need to be protected against any mass paranoiac psychosis, they rather need protection against soul’s assassination. Philippe Auroire.

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Mangesh Nadkarni was a student of Prof. V.K. Gokak

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The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Orissa | Everest glory for Oriya

I wanted to spread the message of spiritual leader, Sri Aurobindo and I have done it,” he said. He went on this expedition as part of the 'Prayer, ...

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Dehradun Edition

It was not a mere coincidence that the Rabindra Jayanti was held at Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Both Tagore (1861-1941) and Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) were ...

Hindu ethos: Prevent the loss; retrieve the lost; bring back glory Dr. Sastry Putcha

But all will not be lost if the teachings and works of the recent Spiritual Masters like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Ramana Maharishi are ...

Stephen Hawking claims a belief of heaven or an after life is a ...

Sri Aurobindo wrote: What, you ask, was the beginning of it all? And it is this... Existence that multiplied itself, for sheer delight of being. ...

V. K. Gokak - News - Evri

During his college career, Nadkarni was a student of professor V.K. Gokak who influenced Nadkarni towards Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. Mangesh earned. ...

Book Lore —M. K. Naik.

Among those who wrote in English outside England, we have Sri Aurobindo (India) and Patrick White (Australia). The general impression left on the reader's ...

4 - Fourth Dimension Inc. - Towards Integral Management
The author is a Research Associate at Sri Aurobindo Society and on the editorial board of Fourth Dimension Inc. His major areas of interest are Management ...
Sri Aurobindo and the Freedom of India. THE - ekNazar.com
The members of this society took an oath for the freedom of India. ... Mirra Richard—who was to be the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram—came to Pondicherry on ...

http://artcritique.wordpress.com/ Rabindranath Tagore’s Paintings: The Fundamental Dynamics of a Polysemic Descent of Consciousness and the Coplanar States of Being and Existence

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

Stockhausen discovered Sri Aurobindo in 1968

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http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2011/apr/270411-Shri-Sathya-Sai-Baba-music-strong.htm

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is known for his ground-breaking contribution to Electronic Music, might have committed suicide after splitting from his wife, if it weren't for his reading of the biography of Bengali guru Sri Aurobindo, which is when the composition Aus Den Sieben Tagen came to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen

http://homepage.eircom.net/~braddellr/stock/index.htm

Stockhausen discovered the writings of Sri Aurobindo in May of 1968 and it is in these writings that he found clarification of his own individual philosophy. In the preface to Mantra, Stockhausen quotes Aurobindo who says that music like the mantra comes from the ‘overmind’: For anyone who has the capacity to enter more and more consciously into relation with the higher planes – poet, writer, artist – it is quite evident, perceptible, that after a certain level of consciousness it is no longer it is no longer ideas that one sees and tries to translate. One hears. There are literally vibrations or waves, rhythms which lay hold of the speaker, invade him, then clothe themselves with words and ideas or with music, colours, in their descent. But the word or the idea, the music, the colour, is a result, a secondary effect: they just give body to the impervious vibration

In Stimmung the swinging periodicities of repeated syllabic patterns conveys this feeling of impervious vibration that Aurobido talks of. This statement of Aurobindo equally holds true for Stimmung as it expresses an important aspect of Stockhausen’s thinking on music. Jonathan Cott writes:

Stockhausen has attempted to mediate between Eastern and Western musical traditions. His Development of a new time dimension, his exploration of sounds in space, his meditation of statistical and deterministic elements, his revelation how one can transubstantiate one musical parameter into another, and his presentation in his compositions of the process of these changes are all in the service of an integrating conception of art and life

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2001/sep/29/arts.highereducation3

Stockhausen surrounds himself with a close circle of devotees, many of whom share his enthusiasm for the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo: both his current "wives" - he is not legally married to either - are Aurobindo disciples, and his second wife, Mary Bauermeister, believes that these eastern philosophies have given her powers of astral projection which she uses to monitor Karlheinz's marital infidelities.

The Mother had a unique bond of love and affection with Dilip Kumar Roy

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from overman foundation overmanfoundation@gmail.com to overmanfoundation@yahoo.com bcc tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com date 12 February 2011 16:51 subject From Overman Foundation: The Mother’s Correspondence with Dilip Kumar Roy

Dear Friends,

Not many people are aware of the fact that the Mother had a unique bond of love and affection with Dilip Kumar Roy (1897-1980), one of Sri Aurobindo’s most favourite disciples. Sri Aurobindo is reported to have written the maximum number of letters to Dilip Kumar Roy. Even after Sri Aurobindo’s accident in November 1938 which resulted in the cessation of all correspondence between Him and His other disciples, the epistolary exchanges between Sri Aurobindo and Dilip Kumar went on till the end of 1950.

But not many people know that the Mother too had written numerous letters to Dilip Kumar. We take the opportunity of publishing a dozen of such letters written to Dilip Kumar Roy by the Mother.

To read the letters, please click on the following link:

http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/the-mother%e2%80%99s-correspondence-with-dilip-kumar-roy/

With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee

Chairman, Overman Foundation

Magic in images of daily life

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From Paulette paulette@auroville.org.in Date 10 February 2011 03:36 subject THE MYSTIC SOUL OF NATURE: photographic exhibition

Nature is a world of wonder both in its grand cosmic design as in infinitesimal details. In this photographic exhibition I have tried to capture the magic found in images of daily life: misty mornings, foggy and rainy days, sunsets and sunrises and passing clouds, the intricacies of barks and branches, minute images of grass, aerial seeds and tiny wild flowers and dew drops... A secret energy is at work, a numinous power that generates the evolution of countless forms, each of them a miracle of creation.

We have lost touch with the inner shaman, who is one with the divinity of Nature. We have to recover the untamed child within and look at beings and forms as the Divine in manifestation, inhabiting each and all, immanent, and transcendent.

“No one I am, I who am all that is”: truth of being and becoming.

Paulette

Poetry in motion The Hindu

The show, presented by Apollo Children's Foundation and Astad Deboo Foundation, travels to Auroville on Feb 18, and to Pondicherry on the 20th. ...

Bend it like bamboo The Hindu

Mohan, who was the head of the Auroville Bamboo Research Centre, believes that we need to renew our association with natural materials. ...

Inception and the subconscious Times of India

Sri Aurobindo discovered, for example, that there are several realms of ... According to Sri Aurobindo these other worlds are stacked in a spiral of lower ...

Now, French film zooms in on Pondy Bosco Times of India

early 1900s and met nationalist poet and philosopher Sri Aurobindo, following the advice of his collaborator Mirra Alfassa, better known as The Mother'. ...

A FREED MAN Journey to the Farthest Reaches of the Self and to the Center of the Universe

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 Day 36 - 43 Day 36 - Body Memory

Check out this piece I wrote on Body Memory, which my friend that works at the garden with me posted on her wonderful blog! Evolutivity - Body Memory

Sri Aurobindo Ashram's urgent call to the divided world

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Modern Indian responses to religious pluralism - Page v - Harold G. Coward - 1987 - 340 pages - Preview

The Response of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother 85 RN Minor 6. The Response of Swami Bhaktivedanta 105 RD Baird 7. The Response of Modern Vaisnavism 129 KK Klostermaier 8. Saiva Siddhanta and Religious Pluralism 151 K. Sivaraman 9....

Indian critiques of Gandhi - Page 105 - Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages - Preview

For a full discussion, see Robert N. Minor, "The Response of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother," in Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism, ed. Harold Coward (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), 85-104. 28. ...

Hindu-Christian dialogue: perspectives and encounters - Page 45 - Harold Coward - 1993 - 281 pages - Preview

For a thorough treatment of Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on religious pluralism, see RN Minor, "The Response of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother" in HG Coward, pp. 85-104; and RN Minor, "The Christian Education of Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan,"...

World union: Volume 14 - World Union (Organization) - 1974 - Snippet view

I greet you in the name of the World Union which is the response of Sri Aurobindo Ashram's urgent call to the divided world for existence and for recovering its soul of unity. Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's philosophy and practice of ...

Religion and law in independent India - Robert D. Baird - 1993 - 401 pages

On their view of other religions see Robert N. Minor, "The Response of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother," in Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism, ed. by Harold Coward (Albany, 1987), pp. 85-104. ...

The religious, the spiritual, and the secular: Auroville and ... - Page 176 - Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages - Preview

27. Ibid., p. 1062. 28. Ibid., XV, p. 127. 29. For a full discussion of Aurobindo's position toward "religion" and "the religions," see Robert N. Minor, "The Response of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother," ...

The New approach to education - Norman C. Dowsett, Sita Ram Jayaswal - 1974 - 49 pages - Snippet view

The Response of sri Aurobindo Ashram The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry has been experimenting along these lines recognising the world cry and the urgent need, for the past thirty years. ...

She was known as Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa

2011-02-08T12:45:00.000+05:30

From overman foundation overmanfoundation@gmail.com date 8 February 2011 12:30 subject From Overman Foundation: Photographs of the Mother’s early years.

Dear Friends,

The late Pournaprema, the Mother’s youngest grand-daughter, whom we lovingly addressed as ‘Pourna-di’, has begun her book on the Mother titled A Unique Little Girl in the following words:

‘A unique little girl…

Do you understand what that means?

A unique little girl, is a little girl who is not ordinary.

I believe you know her… This is the little girl who is not ordinary.

This little girl is called Mirra—Mirra Alfassa. That is to say, right from her birth, she was called Mirra Alfassa, and her initials were M A, MA. From the moment she was born she was called MA. On her clothes, on her sheets, on her dresses, there was embroidered: MA’

Today we take this opportunity of sharing with you some rare photographs of the Mother’s early years when She was known as Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa. These photographs were taken between 1883 and 1898.

To view the photographs, please click on the following link:

http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/photographs-of-the-mother%e2%80%99s-early-years/

With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee

Chairman, Overman Foundation.

Complete judgment of the Alipore Bomb Trial

2011-02-07T17:11:00.000+05:30

From overman foundation overmanfoundation@gmail.com date 2 February 2011 17:17 subject From Overman Foundation: The Mother’s First Essay

Dear Friends,

February is the month in which, on the 21^st, the Mother’s birthday is celebrated in the Aurobindonian community. To commemorate the said occasion, we would publish from this week onwards till the 28^th of February a number of documents related to the Mother’s life and works every week as tributes.

Today we are starting our series of tributes to the Mother by publishing the first essay titled The Path of Later On which She had penned as a young girl of fifteen in 1893. To read the essay, please click on the following link:

http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-mother%e2%80%99s-first-essay/

With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee

Chairman, Overman Foundation.

From: overman foundation overmanfoundation@gmail.com Date: 30 January 2011 12:14 Subject: From Overman Foundation: Sri Aurobindo’s Messages on the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Dear Friends,

On 30 January 1948 Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated at Birla House, New Delhi. On the said occasion, Sri Aurobindo had issued two statements. The first one was a telegram dated 4 February 1948 which was sent to Mr. Kumbi of Gadag, in reply to his telegram “DARKNESS SORROW SPREADS FAST INDIA BAPUJI DEATH CHILDREN PRAY MESSAGE’. It was later released to the newspapers. The second message was sent to All India Radio, Tiruchirapalli, on 5 February 1948 in response to a request for a message.

We take the opportunity of sharing these two messages with you. To read the two messages, please click on the following link:

http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/sri-aurobindo%e2%80%99s-messages-on-the-assassination-of-mahatma-gandhi/

With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee

Chairman, Overman Foundation.

From: overman foundation overmanfoundation@gmail.com Date: 5 January 2011 17:19 Subject: From Overman Foundation: Publication of The Alipore Bomb Trial Judgment.

Dear Friends,

It gives me immense pleasure to announce that on 30 December 2010 Overman Foundation has published its first research project in English, the unabridged version of the Alipore Bomb Trial Judgment rendered by C. P. Beachcroft on 6 May 1909.

A portion of this judgment emphasizing mostly on Sri Aurobindo was published in the book, “The Alipore Bomb Trial” edited by B. K. Bose in 1922. But it is only through this publication of Overman Foundation that the complete judgment of the Alipore Bomb Trial has seen the light of the day. Not only will this book help the students of history but also the students of law.

Compiled and edited by Shri Anurag Banerjee, this e-book consisting of 149 pages is priced Rs. 50 (fifty) only. Those who would like to place an order may write to us at the following email addresses:
overmanfoundation@gmail.com overmanfoundation@yahoo.com

With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee
Chairman, Overman Foundation.
http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/publication-of-the-alipore-bomb-trial-judgment/

Light at ten

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From overman foundation overmanfoundation@gmail.com date18 December 2010 12:56 subject From Overman Foundation: Sri Aurobindo's First Poem

Dear Friends,

Sri Aurobindo was once asked, in 1939, during the course of a conversation by one of his disciples: “When did you begin to write poetry?” He answered: “When my two brothers and I were staying at Manchester. I wrote for the Fox family magazine. It was an awful imitation of somebody I don’t remember.”

The magazine which Sri Aurobindo had referred to was the Fox’s Weekly which saw the light of the day on 11 January 1883. And the poem of Sri Aurobindo, titled Light, which was deeply inspired by P. B. Shelley’s The Cloud, was published in the very first issue of 11 January 1883. Let’s recall that in 1883 Sri Aurobindo was barely ten years of age.

We take the opportunity of sharing this poem with you all. To read the poem, please click on the following link: http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/sri-aurobindos-first-poem/
With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee

Chairman, Overman Foundation.

Politics of Marginalisation—by Anirban Ganguli

2010-11-18T11:10:00.000+05:30

Sri Aurobindo Studies - Characteristics of Knowledge by Direct Contact of Consciousness - Sri Aurobindo continues his exploration of the first development of the powers of separative knowledge as a step away from the power of knowledge by identi...

Mirror of Tomorrow - The Civilisational impact of Sri Aurobindo's Arrival in Pondicherry: the Politics of Marginalisation—by Anirban Ganguli - When a concerted attempted is being made, both to consign India’s past achievements and evolution to the waste bin of history and to further fracture her ...

Overman Foundation - Nolini Kanta Gupta’s Message for 17 November 1973 - Dear Friends, A few hours after the Mother left her physical body on 17 November 1973 at 7.25 p.m. Nolini Kanta Gupta had issued two statements. We take th...

Posthuman Destinies - Unifying Hinduism by Andrew J. Nicholson - "An issue that has been discussed here often is the concept of Hinduism as a totalizing way to explain the rich cluster of beliefs among communities in Sou...

Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother - Similarities between Sumerian Anki and Vedic Agni by Jean-Yves Lung - A previous blog post on Kundalini examined whether the notion of Kundalini may have existed in ancient Greek and other cultures. In consonance with that th...

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs - Ashram Trust "does not approve" of TLOSA book! - "Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust does not approve and has nothing to do with the book entitled 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo' written by Peter Heehs"* [The fo...

Intellectual Roots of the Independence Movement in India: 1893-1918 by Dr Prithwindra Mukherjee

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from Prithwindra Mukherjee Prithwindra@aol.com to "Tusar N. Mohapatra" tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com date 26 October 2010 14:10 subject

RE: THE INTELLECTUAL ROOTS OF THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN INDIA -1893-1918 by DR PRITHWINDRA MUKHERJEE

Bhâi Tusâr, Thanks.

Enclosing a translation of Mr Attali's foreword. As you know, Mr Attali had been appointed advisor by former President François Mitterand, and is considered to be foremost among Western thinkers today. Regards.

Prithwindra Mukherjee

A Fascinating Thesis

Jacques Attali

No one leaves this great book by Prithwindra Mukherjee, unaffected by it.

It is the work of a great intellectual, sociologist, writer, musicologist; a thesis begun under Raymond Aron and completed under Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, supported by the biggest shots of French university, like Annie Kriegel. A wonderful instance of the quality of a university, which can welcome within its fold someone coming from somewhere else and offering to France - in exchange - more than what she has given him.

This fascinating book constitutes first of all a passionate tribute to a grandfather, activist and martyr, whose place in the history of India has not been recognised as it deserved to be, in the front rank of the freedom fighters; simultaneously with a look for details, lucid, distancing itself, concerning a period very little known, that which, at the bend of the 19th to the 20th century, opens before India the path leading to the awareness of her identity, and the necessity of her fighting for independence.

For too long a lapse, indeed, people have wished to think that Gandhi's non-violence had been enough to drive out the armies of the colonizer. That is not true. Before Gandhi succeeded in animating the vast social movement of the 1930s, there had been the great intellectual movement of Aurobindo, of Bagha Jatin, and of all those who strove by their side, at times up to death, enabling India to become aware of herself.

This book is essential for understanding what today's India is, even in her violence, and to put back in their due - the first - place, all the dreamers who, from Aurobindo to Tagore, from Gandhi to Patel have trodden diverse paths leading her to independence, in its diversity.

It is essential as well for understanding the very special role that intellectuals played in all freedom movements, in India and elsewhere. And first of all their role in kindling the perception of the national idea, often artificial, often imaginary : here, Mr Mukherjee explains very well their driving power and the conditions of their crystallisation.

Essential, at last, for understanding the role of intellectuals in History, so often carried off by the consequences of their ideas, swept out, chased away, censored, by the very persons who implement their concepts.

Become, by fluke of history, an exceptional musicologist and a great poet, having been set to music by the greatest musicians of our time, the author of this book reminds us that humanity is one, that music, poetry and politics are mere dimensions among other than human condition, and we have as yet much more to learn from India. Let France take advantage of it and establish relations necessary for our future. Jacques Attali

11762 Sri Aurobindo Study Circles in Odisha

2010-10-24T16:57:00.000+05:30

ALL ORISSA SRI AUROBINDO STUDY CIRCLE COMMITTEE

MOTHER’S WORK IN ORISSA , 2010

All here shall be one day her sweetness’ home

–Sri Aurobindo

Today in Orissa

Sri Aurobindo Pathachakra 9362

Sri Aurobindo Mahila Pathachakra 1655

Sri Aurobindo Chhatra Samaj 745

Total Sri Aurobindo Study Circles 11762

Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centres 547

Integral Education Centres with Hostel 141

Sri Aurobindo Relics Centres 73

Agriculture Units 78

Production Units 53

Diary Farming 46

Sale Centres 238

News Letters & Souvenirs 49

Centres having minimum 1 acre of land 178

Computer Education 108

Forthcoming Events:

Annual State Level conference of Sri Aurobindo Medical Association on 11th & 12th Septemebr 2010
Annual State Level conference of Sri Aurobindo Engineering and Tecnical Group on 10th October 2010 at Damanjodi, Koraput

Publications:

Deference and respect and awe-filled genuflections

2010-10-21T11:45:00.000+05:30

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "This is Sri Aurobindo’s Ashram not yours and not P...":

Also, about the deferential kow-towing to Pranab-da. I have observed and experienced that the victim in such situations, the moment he/she has the opportunity, often turns around and looks for others to give him/her the same deference and respect and awe-filled genuflections. They feel that they have paid their dues to Pranab-da and so now others in the same "junior" position to themselves as they were vis-a-vis Pranab-da need to compensate them in the same manner. After all, why should others get away and enjoy equality and freedom when they themselves could not? That would be patently unfair according to them. Since they have paid their dues and played by the rules of the game, others cannot go scott free without paying the necessary toll. From what I have seen MDG etc. are following this human psychological pattern to the T. So I hope you will understand me if I take the claims of the dawn of the golden age of guru-bhai-hood and equality post-Pranab with a massive helping of salt. Posted by Anonymous to Savitri Era Open Forum at 9:32 PM, October 20, 2010

Keshav was the cynosure of all eyes

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Matrimandir - Newsletter October 2010
And then, for the plantation of the garden, organic compost is required, and to produce the high grade of compost that we wish to use in the Matrimandir ...

The opening ceremony of the 19th Commonwealth Games begins Daily News & Analysis
From Auroville in Puducherry, the child prodigy's performance was part of 'Rythms of India' segment of the ceremony which was tipped as an Indian invocation ...

Live - Commonwealth Games opening ceremony BBC Sport
According to my notes, Keshav, from Auroville in Puducherry, started playing on the tablas in perfect ryhthm when he was only two. Blimey. ...

Delhi showcases Brand India Daily Pioneer
The showstopper of the first reverberating 12-minute session was Keshav, seven-year-old tabla prodigy from Auroville, who looked and played like the ...

Colours of India come alive in a dazzling CWG opening ceremony NDTV.com
A spectacular display of drummers from various parts of India then took centrestage and Keshav, a child prodigy from Auroville, Puducherry, was the cynosure ...

Little tabla master delights spectators The Hindu
He was selected to play by CWG creative head Bharat Bala, who said: “I spotted him in a show at Auroville at Puducherry. I was conceiving 'Rhythms of India ...

Mirror of Tomorrow :: Beyond the Homo Sapiens: The Next Species—by ... by RY Deshpande
According to Sri Aurobindo, the primal, inevitable, ultimate and highest aspiration of humanity, apart from that for God, Light, Freedom, and Bliss, has been for Immortality. And this aspiration according to Him, will be fulfilled with ...

INDIA HOLDS THE KEY TO THE WORLD'S FUTURE – FRANCOIS GAUTIER | Be ... by sakshamkatyal
But ultimately, one must understand the original purpose behind the caste system, as spelt out by India's Great Sage and Avatar of the Modern Age, Sri Aurobindo : “Caste was originally an arrangement for the distribution of functions in ...

Mahatma Gandhis's Contribution to Education

Perhaps few other cultures and civilizatio ns have produced such courageous, saintly and visionary role models such as Radhakrishnan, Sri Aurobindo, ...

Self-exile in An Indian Ashram

While at the Ashram Aurovalley (aurovalley.com) owned and run by Swami Brahmdev (Swamiji), follow the teachings of Sri Aurobindo. Ashram is attractive to ...

So entirely captivating and consuming my entire being

2010-10-01T05:54:00.000+05:30

Alive & Awake… » Sri Aurobindo Studies

Since then 25 years passed by – yet – in all those years I didn't came across something so entirely captivating and consuming my entire being like it is to me right now the study of Sri Aurobindo and his works. ...

REFLECTIONS ON INDIAN POETRY OF CLASSICAL GENRE: WITH SPECIAL ... 29 Sep 2010

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh is another great Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, spiritual philosopher and above all a renowned “yogi”, who brought laurels to his motherland, was born on 15th august 1872. Although he wrote mostly in English his ...

Tilak as seen by his fervent admirer VOC The Hindu - Prema Nandakumar

That time belonged to sea-green, incorruptible supermen like VVS Aiyar, Sri Aurobindo, Mohandas Kharamchand Gandhi, and Subramania Bharati. ...

Scholars Extraordinary Times of India - Dileep Padgaonkar

His principal mentors were the linguist Harinath De, Prof Manmohan Ghosh, (brother of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh), Satyendranath Tagore and, above all, ...

Root recall The Hindu - Shailaja Tripathi - 22 Sep 2010

Sri Aurobindo wrote about it, so did Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu and Mahatma Gandhi in their poems,” tells Shiva. A book comprising poems that have ...

Sri Aurobindo's advice and Bengali Hindus Hindus still suffer the ... Organiser - Anirban Ganguly - 19 Sep 2010

The reply Sri Aurobindo gave on September 16, 1935 - nearly 75 years ago to the date - was itself portentous, 'That (India's independence) is all settled. ...

Kids' Org Organiser - Manju Gupta - 12 Sep 2010

... Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sri Aurobindo and VVS Aiyer, inspired thousands of Tamilians to rise in revolt against the British. Bharati was born on December 11 ...

Inception And The Subconscious Times of India - Jui Pagedar - 5 Sep 2010

Sri Aurobindo discovered, for example, that there are several realms of ... According to Sri Aurobindo, these other worlds are stacked in a spiral of lower ...

Oakley Center Announces 2010-2011 Fellowships iBerkshires.com

Hari N. Ramesh, a senior and Ruchman Student Fellow, will work on his honors thesis in political science, titled "Connecting Critiques of Imperialism: On Sri Aurobindo's Political Theory." Ramesh, of Wayland is a member of the Williams College concert choir, SpeakFree spoken word group, and Center for Community Engagement.

Concentric layers of consciousness make up the Universe

2010-09-29T10:32:00.001+05:30

Comment posted by Sandeep

I don't know what to make of Satprem's remarks. Did he say this out of spiritual insight or was it just speculation? Sri Aurobindo and the Mother repeatedly said that the future is a play of Forces - that everything is not completed worked out. As you (i.e. Anon) may have read in their works, there are concentric layers of consciousness from the gross to the subtle which make up the Universe. It is only when an event is fixed in the subtle-physical that one can say with certitude that it will manifest in a certain fashion. Everything in the worlds above is subject to modification.
For instance, both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had seen India's freedom in their visions around 1910 but they did not know until much later that there would also be a partition.

Two Precious Gifts « Overman Foundation

Dear Friends, It gives me immense bliss to announce to you all that Overman Foundation has received two precious gifts from two senior sadhikas of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. And the gifts are a sari with a blouse worn by the Mother and a piece of cloth belonging to Sri Aurobindo.

These rare gifts will adorn the shrine of Overman Foundation and be brought out for public darshan on special occasions.

With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee

Chairman, Overman Foundation.

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ... By General Editor
[The following notice was put up on the Sri Aurobindo Ashram's notice board on 23.9.2010 afternoon and then removed the same evening. It was put up again on the 24th afternoon and again removed on the 27th afternoon. Since this notice has significant bearing on the recent controversies surrounding the book, we hope that its circulation in public will help to clarify things and lead to better understanding among all. -- Editorial Team]

Certificate in Contemporary Indian Society and Polity (C-CISP)
Sri Aurobindo Darshan: The University of Tomorrow. ... will be closely examined in the light of Sri Aurobindo's writings on Indian culture and society. ...

The Hindu: Engagements: In Chennai Sri Aurobindo Society: Meeting, 5, Smith Rd., Anna Salai, 10-30 a.m..

The Hindu : NATIONAL - TAMIL NADU : Coimbatore Sri Aurobindo Devotees: pushpanjali offerings and prayers, Sasi Balika Mandir, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Sri Annai Meditation Centre, Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.

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Manoj Das Gupta is the latest to join the anti-book bandwagon, and you may address your request to him for an authorized explanation. [TNM] Posted to Savitri Era at 12:54 PM, September 27, 2010

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The most beautiful post I have read so far on this forum, and perhaps the only one that is truly worth reading. Posted by Govind to Savitri Era Open Forum at 6:29 PM, September 29, 2010

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You have revealed the ugly force behind the book in your revelatory, and by far the best critique that there exists. True, eloquent and masterful are both your comments. Posted by Anonymous to Savitri Era at 12:37 PM, September 21, 2010

Talk on Savitri – by Makarand J Paranjape

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Sri Aurobindo Society,

Singapore

2A Starlight Terrace, Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society, Singapore

We are a non profit organization of the followers of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother and the path of integral yoga as outlined by Sri Aurobindo. Our activities include weekly meditations, a monthly walk and an integral enrichment program for children

Program DATE TIME DETAILS

5^th Sep, 2010 Sunday 6.00 pm Living Question and The Mother’s Answerconducted by Shailaja

12^th Sep, 2010 Sunday 6.00 pm Guided Meditation

19^th Sep, 2010 Sunday 6.00 pm Savitri Circle

26^th Sep, 2010 Sunday 6.00 pm Talk on Savitri – by Makarand J Paranjape Canto 1 of Book VI, "The Book of Fate"

IEP Sessions

The first of a series of IEP sessions will be held on 12th September 2010, 3pm to 5pm. The topic of exploration is Sincerity. For more details on this year's IEP schedule and to register please contact Kiruthika (kimira1012@yahoo.fr) at 9649 0670, ShreeValli (msvy001@hotmail.com) at 90266795 or Jayanthy (k.jayanthy@gmail.com) at 9652 2197.

“Savitri” Talk at Our Centre By Prof. Makarand R Paranjape

We are pleased to inform you that Prof. Makarand Paranjape will be presenting a series of talks on “Savitri” every fourth Sunday of the month at 6pm at our centre. The season began with an "Introductory Talk on Savitri" on 29th Aug 2010.

September Talk: Sunday 26th September 2010, 6 - 7pm, Prof. Makarand Paranjape: Canto 1 of Book VI, "The Book of Fate" - Sri Aurobindo Society of Singapore, 2A Starlight Road, #01-07, Singapore.
Prof. Makarand R. Paranjape is currently a Visiting Professor at South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. We look forward to seeing all of you there.

Opening of Centre on Saturdays

We are pleased to announce that the centre premises will be open on Saturdays with effect from the month of August, i.e. 7 August 2010 onwards, between 4pm and 6pm. The premises will be open for anyone who is interested to browse through our library collection, read, meditate or simply spend some quiet moments there. All welcome.

Any member who is interested in assisting in this endeavour in one way or another may please contact Sundari at 97519760 or Jayanthy at 96522197.

Hosting of Walks

Dear members, If you wish to host one of our Sunday morning walks’ meditation session followed by brunch in your home, do write in to Ramanathan at auromaa@singnet.com.sg. or make a call on his mobile Tel No: 91385130, with details of your full name and address, preferred month of walk and preferred walk venue, if any.

Peter Heehs is studying and practising Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga

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Comment posted by: RY Deshpande Re: An Open Letter ... Manoj Das’s Disastrous Advice

Manoj Das Gupta, Managing Trustee, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, wrote on 21 June 2010 a letter to the Regional Registration Officer, Pondicherry, for the extension of the visa of Peter Heehs by five years. This looks strange, to say the least. He had asked Peter Heehs to stay away from the Archives a few months ago, but did not officially assign work in any department of the Ashram. Now here’s a letter of recommendation! If Peter Heehs is here for the purposes of “studying and practising Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga", as the letter states, we do not know in what exact capacity he is here—as a private individual or as a member of the Ashram. It is obligatory for the Managing Trustee to clarify the point. ~ RYD

Hour of God & Mind of Light

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Volume 9	Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit (TO BE PUBLISHED) All writings in Bengali and Sanskrit. Most of the pieces in Bengali were written by Sri Aurobindo in 1909 and 1910 for Dharma, a Calcutta weekly he edited at that time; the material consists chiefly of brief political, social and cultural works. His reminiscences of detention in Alipore Jail for one year ("Tales of Prison Life") are also included. There is also some correspondence with Bengali disciples living in his ashram. The Sanskrit works deal largely with philosophical and cultural themes. (This volume will be available both in the original languages and in a separate volume of English transla tions.)
Volumes 10-11	PDF last updated: 15 Aug 09 The Record of Yoga — I–II Sri Aurobindo's diary of his yogic practice between 1909 and 1927. This two-volume record of sadhana contains fairly regular entries between 1912 and 1920 and a few entries in 1909, 1911 and 1927. It also contains related materials Sri Aurobindo wrote about his practice of yoga during this period, including descriptions of the seven "chatusthayas" (groups of four elements), which are the basis of the yoga of the Record.	4.61MB
Volume 12	PDF last updated: 15 Aug 09 Essays Divine and Human Short prose pieces written between 1910 and 1950, but not pub lished during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime. The material is arranged in four parts: (1) "Essays Divine and Human", complete essays on yoga and related subjects, (2) "From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga"; (3) "Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects", and (4) Thoughts and Aphorisms. (Some of this material was formally published under the title The Hour of God and Other Writings)	1.49MB
Volume 13	PDF last updated: 15 Aug 09 Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Short works in prose written between 1909 and 1950 and published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime. Most of these short works are concerned with aspects of spiritual philosopy, yoga, and related subjects. The material includes: (1) essays from the Karmayogin, (2) The Yoga and Its Objects, (3) writings from theArya, such as On Ideals and Progress, The Superman, Evolution, Thoughts and Glimpses, The Problem of Re birth, and (4) The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. (Most of these works were formerly published together under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth and Other Writings.)	1.82MB

Volume 26

PDF last updated: 15 Aug 09

The Future Poetry with On Quantitative Metre
Sri Aurobindo's principal work of literary criticism.
In this work, Sri Aurobindo outlines the history of English poetry and explores the possibility of a spiritual poetry in the future. It was first published in a series of essays between 1917 and 1920; parts were later revised for publication as a book.

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Birth anniversary celebration of Sri Aurobindo in Puducherry

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Aurobindo's birth anniversary celebrated - ChennaiOnline News Puducherry, Aug 15

A large number of people from different parts of the country today thronged Sri Aurobindo Ashram here on the occasion of the 138th birth anniversary of the saint philosopher.

Followers of Sri Aurobindo sat in meditation before the samadhis of him and The Mother (his spiritual collaborator) and also visited the room where the saint philosopher had carried on his spiritual works.

Aurobindo, who founded the ashram in 1926, had evolved a new method of spiritual practice, which he called the Integral Yoga. He died on December 5, 1950. - (Agencies) Aug 15, 2010 Aurobindo's birth anniversary celebrated Deccan Herald

Even now things can be mended

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An Open Letter to Manoj-baboo from RY Deshpande Comment posted by: RY Deshpande >> Had the Trust gone ahead and swiftly evicted Heehs out…>>

Even now things can be mended to a large extent if the action of eviction is taken by the trustees. Instead, what they are doing is, give him repeatedly certificates of good conduct and of invaluable services rendered by him to the Ashram. Which only means that the full blame for the divide will have to be put at the door of their office. They will have to take the responsibility on them. If they realize that such a divide is contrary to the ideals and practices in the Mother’s work, they should act at least now particularly after the issue having become public. ~ RYD

Mirror of Tomorrow :: Sraddhalu Ranade writes to Manoj Das

[Clarification for those unfamiliar with these names: Manoj Das Gupta (MDG) is the present Managing Trustee of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, while Manoj Das is the scholar and journalist in answer to whom this letter is written.]

Mirror of Tomorrow :: Main Page - 5 Aug

It was this, the work that Sri Aurobindo had given me. That had been the battle; but something happened, and the body answered with its attitude: “It is as ...

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ... By Raman Reddy
But what is not at all appreciable is the deceptive stance taken by Heehs: pretend to accept the spiritual reality, speak of himself as a practitioner of the Integral Yoga and downplay Sri Aurobindo by pointing out so-called ...

Auroville Cultural Exchange Most of the visiting dancers are supposed to find sources of funding to pay the Aurovilleguesthouses' rents, the Auroville taxi fare, etc. ...
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Sri Aurobindo Sanskruti Sansad Trust & New Life Education Trust

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Sri Aurobindo Institute of Integral Education

Matruvihar, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,

India

- 751030

Phone - +91-674-2386374 / 6523144

School Website launching day 15th July 2010

The 'Sri Aurobindo Institute of Integral Education' (SAIIE) is a special Institute aiming at integral development of students, founded on the educational principles and thoughts of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This institute was set up on 15th July 1970 by then Sri Aurobindo Sankruti Sansad Trust in Bhubaneswar for dissemination of the aims and objectives of the Philosophy of Integral Education as done in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. A total perfection is the ultimate aim.

What we set before us, as our ideal is the Divine Life upon earth. In the real sense, ours is an attempt at evolving newer ways of learning and thinking and it is also an attempt towards going beyond the structural schooling into a joyful freedom of inner growth that would flow from within to without. This Novel System richly deserves unstinted encouragement with all generous support to build up a “Better Tomorrow for the Mankind” as a whole.

It is not for our family, it is not to secure a good position, it is not to earn money, it is not to obtain a diploma, that we study. We study to learn, to know, to understand the world, and for the sake of the joy that it gives us. - The Mother

Management

Sri Aurobindo Sanskruti Sansad, the original Pathachakra (Study Circle) emerged in 1970 with a group of young volunteers and dedicated devotees. The Sansad being the parent body, established this Institute on 15th July 1970 and with a group of 12 little children, the School started at Sardar Patel Hall, Unit-II, Bhubaneswar. During 1997-98, the Institution shifted to its own campus at Matruvihar, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar-751030.

The campus is spread over an area of about 10 acres of land, 0.5 km away from Barmunda bus stand towards Khandagiri along the NH5. The Sansad has been converted into a Trust, named as Sri Aurobindo Sanskruti Sansad Trust (SASST) in 2005 as per Indian Trust Act. The following members constitute the Trust Board.

Advisors

Prof. Mohapatra Nilamani Sahu, Founder member & Littérateur
Dr. Archana Nayak, Educationist
Dr. Prasanna Patsani, Hon’ble M.P., Loksabha
Sri Bauri Bandhu Nanda, I.P.S. (Retd.), Ex-D.G., CISF
Sri Braja Kishore Mishra, Ex-Director (Per.), NALCO
Sri Prasad Tripathy, Secy, NLET

Trustees

Sri Bimal Prasanna Das, Managing Trustee (Mob - 9438186226)
Sri Sankar Mohanty, Dy. Managing Trustee ( Mob - 9437941522)
Er. Biranchi Kumar Karan, Secretary (Mob - 9437044800)
Er. Niranjan Kishore Das, Member
Sri Subash Ch. Patnaik, Member
Sri Bhupal Ch. Mahana, Member (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
Sri Chintamani Mohapatra, Treasurer

Invitee

The Trust has constituted the Managing Committee of the School with the following members.

Sri Subash Ch. Patnaik, President (Mob – 99374 94321)
Er. Biranchi Kumar Karan, Secretary (Mob - 9437044800)
Smt. Satyabhama Swain, Principal (Mob - 9938614970)
Sri Sankar Mohanty, Member
Sri Chintamani Mohapatra, Member
Er. Binod Kumar Sahu, Guardian Member (Mob – 9437213155)
Sri Ramakanta Sahu, Guardian Member (Mob – 9238560707)
Er. Jadunandan Samal, Member
Dr. Archana Nayak, Educationist
Sri Satchitananda Parida, Teachers’ representative
Smt. Shanti Mohanty, Teachers’ representative

ABHIPSA: An Alumni of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Integral Education

Regd. No. 1697-289 of 1987-1988 Matru Vihar, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar – 751030 Executive Committee:

President - Arabinda Bhuyan(1980)
Vice President - Ajay Kumar Dash(1981)
Secretary - Sanjeev Kumar Jena(1982)
Asst-Secretary - Swedesh Mohanty(1983)
Treasurer - Bibhuranjan Swain(1982)

Members Shati Swaroop Rath(1980), Bijon Subudhi(1980), Santosh Kar(1981), Nachiketa Purohit(1981), Tapan Sunder Mohan ty(1982), Padmaja Nandini Sahoo(1982), Debiprasad Das(1983), Srimanta Sahoo(1983), Sachidananda Parida(1984), Priyabrata Pattanaik(1984), Dulal Mohanty(1988), Swarnendu Mishra(1990), Jagyandatta Panda(1993)

Sri Aurobindo Institute of Integral Education School Bhubaneswar

Sri Aurobindo Institute of Integral education is a coeducation school teaches from KG to Higher secondary. They follows the study guidelines of New Life Education Trust upto VII std. From class 8th onwards it is affiliated to state board.

Dr. Sampadanand Mishra & Dr. Sampada Savardekar

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Sanskrit - The Language of God 1st August 2010
Sanskrit - The Language of God Date :- 1st August 2010, Sunday
Time :- 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM Place :- 631 Vale Drive, Morganville, NJ 07751.

Topic: The Wonder that is Sanskrit - Dr. Sampadanand Mishra

Topic: Sanskrit in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga - Dr. Sampada Savardekar

The ancient and classical creations of the Sanskrit tongue both in quality and in body and abundance of excellence, in their potent originality and force and beauty, in their substance and art and structure, in grandeur and justice and charm of speech and in the height and width of the reach of their spirit stand very evidently in the front rank among the world’s great literatures.

- Sri Aurobindo

Speakers: Topic: The Wonder that is Sanskrit - Dr. Sampadanand Mishra
Dr. Sampadananda Mishra hails from Orissa in eastern

India

. After finishing his post-graduation in Sanskrit from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, he did his M.Phil in Sanskrit under the guidance of Prof. V. Kutumba Sastri in Pondicherry Central University and received the Gold Medal for his excellent performance.

He did his Ph.D. from Utkal University on Sanskrit and the Evolution of Human Speech. He is the Chief Coordinator, Sanskrit and Indian Culture, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry. Dr. Mishra also conducts workshops, teacher’s training programs, orientation courses, gives talks, presents papers in National and International seminars and conferences. He also writes popular articles related to

India

and Sanskrit in English, Oriya and Sanskrit and composes verses and songs. He conducts special workshops on authentic and effective chanting of mantras in Sanskrit.

Topic: Sanskrit in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga - Dr. Sampada Savardekar

Dr.Sampada Savardekar has been initiated into Sanskrit and Indian Culture from the moment she joined Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education in 1990.Having spent 12 years there as a student, she went on to complete her Master's in Sanskrit language and earned her Doctorate in Sanskrit from the Pondicherry University.She holds that Sanskrit language and Indian spirituality cannot be separated and are incomplete without one another.Apart from teaching spoken Sanskrit, she specialises in Sri Aurobindo's interpretation of the Bhagawad Gita.She is currently adjunct faculty of INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, New Delhi and facilitates an online course.She has also undergone rigorous training in Dance at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and has performed in several places including France, Italy, Mauritius, Reunion and the U.S.A. In the future, she looks forward to spreading the Word of Sri Aurobindo, his Integral Yoga drawing attention to the practical aspect of his teachings.

Information: New Jersey: Vivek Sinha 732-772-0864 Pennsylvania: Devendra Patel 215-970-5170 New York: Govind Nishar 914-400-3444 Upcoming Event:- Conference - Gita and Sri Aurobindo 24th July 2010, Saturday

Sanskrit - The Language of God 1st August 2010, Sunday

Prof. Vyas Memorial Lecture Series 25th August – 29th August, 2010

Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America - Adhoc Office:- 631 Vale Drive, New Jersey 07751 Tel: 732 772 0864