Sunday, January 24, 2010

SAFIM Workshop on Value-Based Management in Puducherry on January 30, 2010

One day Workshop on Value-Based Management
conducted by SAFIM, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry in association with Madras Management Association, Puducherry On 30th January 2010 (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) at Beach Office, Puducherry, India. For Registration Contact: Mr. Prakash, MMA, Chennai 09444058176
Auroville Marathon 2010 on Feb 14th
The 3rd edition of this beautiful and scenic marathon would be held on Feb 14th at Auroville, a quite little township near
Pondicherry...
Sadhana Day 12: Auroville 2 - LOW-CARBON LIVING IN INDIA ...
20 years old; From United States; Currently in Auroville, India ... After visiting the American and Tibetan pavilions in Auroville, we visited a couple of ...

Settling into Sadhana Forest « Bexz's Long Overland Globe-trot
By bexzslongestoverlandglobetrot
I arrived at
Sadhana Forest, on the edge of Auroville, Tamil Nadu three weeks ago today. Time has certainly flown by. If I'm honest it took me the first two weeks to settle in, and this last week to start figuring out what I want to ...
The green game theory
Daily News & Analysis
Mumbai: A month of community dining in Auroville is bound to initiate a 're-think' in the way one goes about business back in the city. ...

Passion, Panache, and Prema
Express Buzz
There is no denying that a formal training is a benefit but in my case I think my process (I started from the inside out), my environment (Auroville with ...

Dilip Kapur Images Fashion
He grew up in Sri Aurobindo Ashram and went to school in Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts. Dilip Kapur founded Hidesign in 1978. ...

Tilak's Southern lieutenant The Hindu
VOC wired to Tilak and Aurobindo proposing Lala Lajpat Rai for the presidentship of the Congress. In the event, Rash Behari Ghosh, the
Calcutta moderate was ...
Transformation of Mind with Sri Aurobindo. « shaman sun By shamansun 
Sri Aurobindo had a fascinating and mystical description for where humanity was headed. He describes an evolution of consciousness, whereby a higher reality, or Light-Consciousness, was the next major evolutionary transformation. ...

Travelling without moving: Obscured Human evolution - By Sri Aurobindo By Daniel
Obscured Human evolution - By Sri Aurobindo. It is not very easy for the customary mind of man, always attached to its past and present associations, to conceive of an existence still human, yet radically changed in what are now out ...

Relics of Sri Aurobindo installed at Goudtikra Express Buzz
BARGARH: The relics of Sri Aurobindo were kept in a newly-built meditation centre at Goudtikra near Attabira today. The relics were brought from Sambalpur ...

Sri Aurobindo's Vision and the 20th Century by Rod Hemsell
it is perhaps inevitable, then, that we rewrite Sri Aurobindo, that we revision and rethink his vision as the background of this passing age of scientific ...

Mirror of Tomorrow :: Sanatana Dharma XXXIV—Bhaga Savitri or the ... By RY Deshpande
Sri Aurobindo has presented the Vedic hymn V.82 in The Secret of the Veda and revealed the veritable nature of these four mighty powers,—Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga, Aryaman,—who also took upon themselves the painful and difficult task of ...

The liminality or negative capability required in Yoga « Integral ... By Sandeep 
This is why Sri Aurobindo asked his disciples to distinguish between intellectual understanding and experiental understanding. It is the latter that the aspirant must cultivate. Besides there are two kinds of understanding—understanding ...

The Traveller Between Birth and Death « Sri Aurobindo Studies
Sri Aurobindo's description of the soul's journey from birth to birth and life to life brings us to the recognition that it is the inner soul, the psychic being, that gathers the experience, learns, grows and evolves as it moves from ...

Mirror of Tomorrow :: Jung's Psychology of the Living God and ...
By RY Deshpande
When I lived in
Pondicherry and worked at the Ashram during the early seventies, I began my study of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as well as Jung. They came together for me in such a way that, despite their differences, I could only see ...
New Birth or Decadence? Sri Aurobindo – The Future Poetry
By rcarlson
If one references the book The Emancipation of Dissonance one confronts the world Sri Aurobindo was assessing in this chapter. 'But then comes the now vital question in this cultural evolution, — in what is this intellectualism to ...

No need to mourn a traitor's (Jyoti Basu) death! | Drishtikone By D Kapoor
It is difficult to say that this state once boasted of people like Netaji, Aurobindo, Tagore and Bipin Chandra Pal! The soil has certainly lost its fertility and inherent intellect. It is even worse that such a guy was within a hair's ...

Most of us know the work of Sri Aurobindo which he carried on the material .... In the broadcast of SriAurobindo's message over the Trichinopoly Station of ...
The Hindu Other States Orissa News Relics of Aurobindo reach city
BERHAMPUR The relics of great revolutionary and thinker of modern India Sri Aurobindo Ghosh reached the city on Tuesday afternoon ...

The Hindu : Other States - Orissa News : Aurobindo's relic installed
KORAPUT: Sri Aurobindo's relic was installed in the prayer hall of Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Damanjodi in Koraput district, on Monday. The caravan carrying the ...

englishmediakoraput: Sri Aurobindo's relic installed By koraputonline
KORAPUT: Sri Aurobindo's relic was installed in the prayer hall of Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Damanjodi in Koraput district, on Monday. The caravan carrying the relics from Matru Bhavan,
Cuttack, was received at Koraput on Sunday evening. ...
The Desire-Soul's Leadership Of Mind, Life and Body « Sri ...
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga. « The Guiding Influence of the Psychic Being. The Desire-Soul's Leadership Of Mind, Life and Body. By sriaurobindostudies. When the outer desire-soul leads the being we find that the ...

Stream Source: Self-Discovery By Stream Source
As true today as it was in Aurobindo's time. The one difference that lends hope to his thought, "But there would be little room and freedom for such a movement of self-discovery and sel-feffectuation in a closely regulated and ...

TWIN SOULS - WHEN LOVE INCARNATES - TEXT FROM THE VIDEO by ... By Taikunping
quote by Sri Aurobindo The twin flames were created together in the dawn of time, like the two faces of the same coin. But as the 3D experience unfolded they became separated by a dualistic system which pulled them into an unbalanced ...

ANTI NEW WORLD ORDER: Antione Guillaume Chereau By Jared
Kellner was a man of science, as well as a mystic, and if he was a student of a teacher who was promulgating the secrets of Atom-Yoga, which we can see traces of in the writings of Sri Aurobindo and in the writings of Sir John Woodroffe ...

WEEKLY GITA: III: 1 By Krishna Jaya 
Sri Aurobindo: “
Krishna has been teaching the withdrawal of the will from the normal temperament of the sense-seeking lower mind with its ignorance to the desireless, calm unity and serenity of poise in the Self. ...
Not Knowing By Ivo Quartiroli 
Sri Aurobindo said, regarding the enlightened mind: “One is in an unutterable state of truth without understanding anything about it - simply, it is.” (Satprem. Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness. Harper & Row.
New York. ...
Speech by Hon'ble President of India Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil ...
Puducherry is linked with the lives of two great personalities of
India – Sri Aurobindo Ghose and Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi. It was here in Puducherry that Sri Aurobindo attained spiritual enlightenment and wrote his celebrated works ...
Koenraad Elst: Jyoti Basu and the unnecessary success of Indian ... By Koenraad Elst
Sri Aurobindo lamented that the mind of the Hindus had become dysfunctional, but he too failed to formulate an alternative, let alone to work for it. After his personal experience with the failure of the armed struggle, he soon retired ...

Indian Poetry in English – an appreciation By a
The book is a collection of eight or nine Amar Nath Prasad published papers on some of the most important Indian English poets such as Henry Derozio, Toru Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, ...

Intimate Enemy (part 2) by Ashis Nandy By rcarlson 
In the comments section following I will abstract the section dealing with Sri Aurobindo and briefly comment. Probably in such a world, once the codes of both Indian materialism and Indian spiritualism are cracked, both can be shown to ... Certainly, for centuries, it has mounted the same chaotic, part-sincere search for a humane society that other parts of the world have mounted. Certainly, many of
India's experiments in civilized social life, too, have been makeshift ...
Are earthquakes due to Divine retribution? « Integral Yoga of Sri ... By Sandeep 
Sri Aurobindo (countering the moral reasons which someone had offered for recent earthquakes): No, prior to man there was no moral law. In the material or vital world, moral law doesn't exist. It comes in with man, and at a certain ... Even then, it is a social necessity, because without some kind of moral law society can't exist. But to say that the world is regulated by moral law is to deny the facts of existence. That is absurd. There are two ways: one can either go ...

AV News Summary
Eds. Reports From the AV Council Report on the recent survey on the Matrimandir Management: 200 people have responded to the survey about the Management of ...

Guest Book - nandivarman's blog
auroville says You are so right!
Auroville is a neo-colonialist village occupied by the foreigners who enslaved the local Tamil populations!

Every foreigner has a personal Tamil amma or gardener now.
But the French woman Mira Richard who founded Auroville said that there must be no personal servants.

95% of Matrimandir was build by the hands of hired Tamil workers from villages.
But Mira Richard said that Matrimandir must be built by Aurovillians. Not by hired labor.

Bharath Nivas, Pavilion of India, was to showcase the best of India culture. The Central Gov. spends crores of rupees each year on it.
At the cost of Indian tax-payer the French and Germans do their salsa, jazz and western ballet/theater shows & workshops.
The French Aurovillians occupied Pavilion of India. There are almost no programs about Indian culture. But even these rare Indian cultural programs mostly are staged by foreigners who can pay the rent! SriAurobindo auditorium rent fee for showing French and German films is

India - Auroville - 2010: Spiritual Day By Peter Choate
Here in Auroville is a large strucutre called the Matrimandir. This structure has at the very top a glass panel that shines light into a Zeiss globe which then reflacts the light straight down through the structure to a similar but ...

Readiness is only the beginning of confidence.: India By Christina 
Today our journey to Matrimandir began with taxi ride to the gate and waited in line with many different nationalities, then the guide came and instructed all on the way how this experience would unfold to go into the inner sanctum. ...

Readiness is only the beginning of confidence.: India By Christina
Today we took a taxi to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram about 7 km from our guesthouse ..The Ashram is in a beautiful tree lined street quit a wonderful space like entering from the hustle and bustle in an oasis ...

Circumsolatious: The Old Consciousness in Contrast to the New By Lori Tompkins
In past articles I have emphasised the distinction that must now be made in the light of new attainments in the Yoga. It is the difference between DESTRUCTION and DISSOLUTION. I would like to discuss this to some extent, but the focus of the ... Thus, one essential ingredient in a new cosmos based on anintegral creation is that it must have a single 'centre', like the Sun in our solar system. This centre/sun maintains the system or cosmos not by feeding off its orbiting, ...

Bikes and Cars: Ebooks Collection Related To Hinduism - Gita ... By Unique Lover
It was after reading these essays, in particular, that in the 1930's President Wilson's daughter went to Sri Aurobindo and devoted her life - receiving the name Nishtha via his vision in the Sri AurobindoAshram at Pondicherry. ...

Matrugram, Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Matrugram, Sri Aurobindo Ashram This place belongs to Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Presently Mr Prakash Panda is the Incharge here. Other Ashramites are Ranjan, ...

Event: The Dover Lane Music Conference When: January 22 - 25; 8.30 pm onwards ... Calcutta Telegraph
January 22 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani;
6.15 pm: Sura Kavya Trust, in association with Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Calcutta, celebrates the ...
Monday Inspiration « Bazm-e-Rindaan By buttersisonlymyname
If we wish to refuse an impartial & openminded enquiry, we can always find the most respectable polysyllables to cover our refusal or impose tests & conditions which stultify the inquiry.' — SriAurobindo ...

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ... By Raman Reddy
They have been instrumental in establishing upon earth the seeds of the Supramental Truth-Consciousness that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo brought down to earth by Their tapasya. Indeed it is Their labour, Their Glory, Their Grace and ...

Each Little Mystery: Help, help, help By CMC
... but you should first learn to be a fit and egoless instrument...To grow in the spirit is the greatest help one can give to others, for then something flows out naturally to those around that helps them." -SriAurobindo ...

Overcoming the Ego-Centric Viewpoint « Sri Aurobindo Studies
Sri Aurobindo points out however “in our spiritual change we have to forego this defense; ego has to vanish, the person finds itself dissolved into a vast impersonality, and in this impersonality there is at first no key to an ordered ...

Reading Book I Canto II of Savitri by Sri Aurobindo - Arin Basu's ...
Reading Book I Canto II of Savitri by Sri Aurobindo. A few lines that capture the spirit of the text, here,. "... This slow and strange uneasy compromise. Of limiting Nature with a limitless Soul, Where all must move between an ordered ...
Forecast for Saturday 23 January 2010 by Hugh Higgins — Gaia Community By Hugh
Even such plans may be flawed if not imbued with the Supramental, in Sri Aurobindo's terms, or the Divine Will in universal theistic terms. The planets can be said to be as dual as our own nature. That is, the higher Mars is a serious, ...

India Current Affairs » Blog Archive » MOULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD ...
He took active part in the agitation, joined the secret societies and revolutionary organization, came in contact with Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Shyam Sundar Chakravarty. He stood for a unified
India and never deviated from his stand. ...
Religion events Times Herald-Record
Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center
1218 Wittenberg Road, holds weekly reading and meditation, 9 am Sat. Readings are chosen from the writings of Indian ...
A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ... By Raman Reddy 
The role that Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya (Dada) played in the history of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram is invaluable and, whatever his critics might say, he will be always remembered with love and pride. Articles will now be written and books ...

ASHRAM CAUGHT IN CONTROVERSY « DRAVIDA PERAVAI By nandhivarman 
Mr.Peter Heehs is an American historian living in
Pondicherry for more than 35 years and is in charge ofAurobindo Ashram Archives. One bold lady Ms.Sureka Jain had filed a Writ Petition [W.P.24599 of 09] in the High Court of Madras ...
Pilgrimages, Wanderings and Encounters: The Junk Drawer By Miguel Angel
That was until I read A greater psychology, the psychological thought of Sri Aurobindo, Edited by A.S Dalal. I was enthralled by the vision and scope of this man's psychology. His knowledge of Western psychology was astonishing yet, ...

Savitri: the Light of the Supreme :: 01: Aswapati's Yoga-Tapasya ... By RY Deshpande
In one of his letters Sri Aurobindo says that there are two movements in the spiritual development of Aswapati: psycho-spiritual transformation and spiritual transformation with an ascent to a supreme power. ...

Readiness is only the beginning of confidence.: India
By Christina
One needs to register to visit Auroville's inner sanctum Matrimander, a building with a many petal golden dome representing the idea of a new specie, man living in harmony together through service.Auroville belongs to nobody in ...

Haindava Keralam - global community of dedicated Hindu Keralites ...
... Besant seeking refuge in theosophy while Madeline Slade sought refuge in Gandhi and the Turkish-Egyptian Jew Mirra Alfassa sought refuge in Aurobindo. ...

Other(s)Worlds: Mysticism and Radicalism at the Fin De Siecle by ...
In March 1914, Mirra Alfassa (1878 – 1973), a French-Jewish socialist, materialist, 'new woman' and occultist, traveled to the French enclave of
Pondicherry ...
Project MUSE - Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History ...
Indeed, some of the same cast of characters -- C.F. Andrews, M.K. Gandhi, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Sri Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa Richard--feature ...

A Flower To Auroville Mother-9 by Indira Renganathan
A Flower To Auroville Mother-9 - by Indira Renganathan .. Saamandi, Jevandi( Chrysanthemum) Innocent those flowerheads innocently stray Rooting variable in ...

special interest...: Pondy's best affordable restaurants
By Pheroze Lawrence Vincent
At fourth place we have
Lhasa in Auroville. Just along the slope from Auroville bus stop, in Tamil Nadu- 8 km from Pondy, Lhasa is a delightful little thatched restaurant decorated with brilliant Tibetan wall hangings and flags. ...
relationships galore: Musings
By shveta
Shall be back with my observations of Auroville or the 'city of dawn' as its known as....Like the philosophy behind it and refrain from being judgemental of the community life today..but got an interesting insight! ...

Auroville India Ecovillage Spotlight EcoWorldly
Continuing a series on Ecovillages I started last month this article delves into some of the unique features and successes of the extraordinary Auroville ...

Plain & Simple: Auroville population is inching up to the 2200 mark. By Tusar N Mohapatra
Perhaps the most significant statistic is that the Auroville population is inching up to the 2200 mark. By
November 1st, 2009, the numbers had reached 2184, a growth of 6.8% as compared to 5.3% a year ago. ...
Aurofilio is a die-hard supporter of Peter Heehs a...:
The hyperlinked title when clicked goes to another site which has something else and not the matter of Aurofilio. Please correct. Thanks. Posted by Anonymous to Savitri Era 

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