National conference on “Re-reading Sri Aurobindo” on March 4 and 5

The Hindu: Puducherry News: Meet on 'Re-reading Sri Aurobindo'

Staff Reporter

Centenary of his arrival in Puducherry

PUDUCHERRY: The Department of English, Pondicherry University is organising a two-day national conference on “Re-reading Sri Aurobindo” on March 4 and 5.

A total of 10 sessions grouped under five topics will be held during the conference. The topics are – “Culture, civilisation, religion”; “yoga, psychology, mysticism”; “philosophy, evolution, vision”; “poetry, poetics, literature,”; and “Savithri and other poems”; said S. Murali, Head of Department, English and co-ordinator of the conference.

The conference comes in the light of 100th year of Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Puducherry which falls on April 4. “Thus, the need for re-reading Sri Aurobindo in an academic forum, looking at his influence on culture studies, philosophy, literary theory and many more,” he explained.

A total of 50 papers will be presented in the conference, which will have participation from various parts of the country.

Talk on significance of Sri Aurobindo, overview of Aurobindo's works and relevance of Sri Aurobindo will be part of the event. A round table on “visions of the future” will also be held, he said. Search Amazon.com for Sri Aurobindo philosophy, The Persistence of Religion; an Essay on Tantrism and Sri Aurobindo Philosophy, Integral Consciousness: Sri Aurobindo's Yoga and how Haridas Chaudhuri brought it to the West, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy, The Meeting of the East and the West ; In Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy, THE PHILOSOPHY OF SRI AUROBINDO, The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: A Commemorative Symposium, Worthy is the World; the Hindu Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the New Age, Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays, The Fallacy of Karl Marx: A Critical Appraisal of Marxism in the Light of Sri Aurobindo's Social Philosophy, Sri Aurobindo and Vedanta philosophy, Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching & Method of Practice, A Greater Psychology: An Introduction to the Psychological Thought of Sri Aurobindo,Eckhart Tolle Sri Aurobindo,  The philosophy of integralism;: The metaphysical synthesis in Sri Aurobindo's teaching, The Persistence of Religion: An Essay on Tantrism and Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy.