Pranab da: The Uttar Sadhak, A talk by Sri Ananda Reddy

Events Two Certificate Courses in Indian Psychology organised by the Indian Psychology Institute

-         "Pondicherry course": 8-day intensive + 5 weekends , all in Pondicherry

-         "Delhi course": 8-day intensive in Pondicherry + 5 weekends in Delhi
8-day intensive: June 6-13, 2010. 5 weekends: June, July, August, Sept, October 2010 Further information 

ICIS online programmes & courses are certified by IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India). Contact: admin@integralstudiescentre.org, ameetamehra@hotmail.com

Integral Yoga and Environmental, Social and Economic Sustainability

The University of Human Unity will be a platform for exploration and discovery in all areas of human knowledge and activity where students themselves may conceive and pursue programs of study in a supportive and contemplative atmosphere with the participation and cooperation of other students and facilitators in their respective fields of interest. Through this University, we will explore new approaches to knowledge and new ways of being, self-educational methods and learning modalities which may lead us to a new perspective and expression, a deeper understanding and a truer force of consciousness that is manifesting in Auroville and the world.

To further support an integrated and continuing learning process, UHU programs will be offered to the world through the development of a comprehensive cyber-platform. This online universe-city will offer personal portals, group collaboration centres for study and research, an interactive speaker/mentor bureau, a comprehensive library of data that includes text, images, audio, video and self-study tutorials. In addition, the site will include international program and event calendars, topic specific forums, bulletin boards, blogs and live webcasts. Integral Philosophy Psychology Science Art Linguistics Sociology Miscellaneous List of UHU Events (click any title for detail)

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STUDIES OF THE RIG VEDA Hymns to the Rising Sun, Surya‐Savitri  Aug 8, 2010, 12:00 am       Feb 8, 2011, 12:00 am

ICIS Courses of the Fall Semester 2010  Aug 8, 2010, 12:00 am    Feb 8, 2011, 12:00 am

The Study of The Bhagawad Gita in the light of Sri Aurobindo  Feb 1, 2010, 12:00 am   Aug 1, 2010, 12:00 am

The Upanishads in the light of Sri Aurobindo. Online Course.  Feb 12, 2010, 12:00 am Aug 12, 2010, 12:00 am

Post-Graduate Programmes offered by SACAR in collaboration with IGNOU  Feb 1, 2010, 9:00 am                                                                                                   Jul 31, 2010, 5:00 pm

UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN UNITY/EARTH DAY: PRESENTATION and DISCUSSION  Apr 24, 2010, 9:30 am                                                                                    Apr 24, 2010, 12:30 pm

Presentation on Islamic mysticism: The way of mystical states and stations in classical Sufism.   Mar 24, 2010, 5:00 pm       Mar 24, 2010, 6:00 pm

MUSIC THERAPY PRESENTATION    Mar 20, 2010, 5:00 pm   Mar 20, 2010, 6:30 pm

Mutation ... a process. Conference in Auroville. February 12-14, 2010   Feb 12, 2010, 9:00 am   Feb 14, 2010, 6:00 pm

University of Human Unity Seminar: a discussion on Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities: Is Auroville an Ecovillage?     Feb 6, 2010, 9:30 am       Feb 6, 2010, 12:00 pm

An Introduction to Integral Studies: Key Perspectives from the Works of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother Feb 1, 2010, 12:00 am       Apr 1, 2010, 12:00 am

"Spirituality Beyond Religions" International Congress Program  Jan 5, 2010, 9:00 am     Jan 8, 2010, 6:00 pm

Haridas Chaudhuri's Triadic Approach to Integral Psychology

Symposium on Integral Consciousness Dedicated to the pioneering work of CIIS Founders April 16, 2009 by bshirazi California Institute of Integral Studies 

This symposium provides a forum for CIIS community members and friends to exchange and deepen their understanding of integral consciousness, its evolution and its relationship to the planetary challenges and transformational processes currently taking place. 

Friday April, 9  2010 10:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

CIIS Mission Building, Namaste Hall (3rd floor) 1453 Mission St. , San Francisco, CA 94103 

Co-sponsored by: CIIS Library, Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham ( Lodi center), Cultural Integration Fellowship.  Free Admission For more information please contact Bahman Shirazi  bshirazi@ciis.edu (415) 575-6253

June 20 Dr. Chaudhuri's Triadic Approach to Integral Psychology

Dr. Chaudhuri's unique approach to integral psychology is rich with perennial wisdom integrating the personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal dimensions of the self in a whole-person framework in which integral self-realization can be understood and practiced. This presentation explores how a healthy balance between these dimensions is essential to development of a healthy personality as foundation for integral yoga.

About the Speaker: Bahman Shirazi, Ph.D., is a faculty member at California Institute of Integral Studies and Institute of Transpersonal psychology. Bahman has been researching the emerging field of integral psychology for the last two decades. He has published several articles and book chapters highlighting and extending Dr. Chaudhuri's pioneering work in integral psychology.

June 27 Dr. Haridas and Bina Chaudhuri Memorial Sacred Music of India

About the Presenter: Sri Karunmayee is renowned for her soul-empowering music. She has refined her rendering of North Indian Classical vocal music under the revered tutelage 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.

The Hindu : Young World : Celebrating Aurobindo

In homage to Sri Aurobindo on the occasion of the centenary year of his arrival in Punducherry, a play “Tryst with God” was staged by the students of the ...

Gender bender Express Buzz 

“We have bought instruments for the performance through many foreign sponsors and friends I know at Auroville,” says Kalki, whose goal is to change the ...

Commonwealth Literature The Journal of

'Sri Aurobindo as a Writer of English Prose' Prema Nandakumar. Journal ..._ Symbolism in the Poetry of Sri Aurobindo Syamala Kallury 122pp Abhinav ...

Am I my body, my feelings, or thoughts?

Psychic Realisation and Transformation in the Integral Yoga, talk

A spirit that is a flame of God abides,
A fiery portion of the Wonderful,
Artist of his own beauty and delight, [...]

Supramental Consciousness and Human Evolution, talk

About one hundred years ago, Sri Aurobindo withdrew from active politics in order to pursue a line of development that he realised was far more important for the humanity. Having passed through a series of experiences, [...] a transcript of the talk

Auroville, Integral Yoga and the Future of Mankind, talk

Human evolution has reached a point of crisis in which there are only two possibilities left: a radical change in human nature, or the extinction of the human species. As if to precipitate the positive future and establish it as an inevitable certainty [...]

Who Am I ? , talk

Am I my body, my feelings, or thoughts? Or am I something more than all these? We are led to introspect and go behind, layer by layer, into some inmost psychic essence that we know to be ourselves. Beyond that, we are all united in a Oneness. [...] 

What's New

• Blossom like a flower
• Global Oneness Project
• THE MOTHER - selected photos, book
• Supramental Conscious. and human evolution, talk
• Supramental Conscious. and human evolution, DVD
• On Vijnana or Gnosis, talk
• Introduction to Integral Education, book
• Science, Religion and Spirituality, DVD
• On Spirituality, talk 

COLLABORATORS

Sraddhalu who is a longtime Ashramite

Sergey Aurovilian and co-founder of Wisdom-Splendour

Narad a longtime member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville, is an expert on landscaping and horticulture. He is a past President of the USA Plumeria Society and author of books on plumeria and oleander. He founded Matrimandir Nursery.

Mirajyoti Aurovilian, editor and advisor of Wisdom-Splendour

Vytas a friend of Wisdom-Splendour, helps with transcriptions

Namah Aurovilian, researcher

John Robert a friend of Wisdom-Splendour for proof-reading and design

The future must be someone's responsibility in the present

Comments in sciy on The Lives of Sri Aurobindo Controversy

by Debashish on January 10, 2009 11:25AM (PST)

THE LIVES OF SRI AUROBINDO CONTROVERSY

Corrections to textual excerpts of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs

•   Author's Intent, Relativism of Reason, Spiritual Experience and the Modern Mind
•   Deified Mythologies and Decontextualized Quotes:
•   Guruvada, Trascending the Mind and the Need for Devotion:
•   Cultural Psychology and World Transformation
•   Refutation of Sraddhalu Ranade's charge of "Freudian psychoanalysis":
•   Response to Vladimir: Recommended Attitude for Those who Have a Strong Negative Reaction
•   Impression of the Work - Need to Read the Entire Book
•   Judgements Based on Hearsay and Not Reading:
•   Privacy of Guru-Devotee Relationship, Reality and Expression
•   Cultural History, Tastes in Representation and Need for Synthesis:
•   The Regime of Quotation - Quotes, Religion, Authorization and Predictability
•   The Regime of Quotation - Utility and Place of Shastras (Quotation)
•   Illegitimacy of Quotations for Collective Judgements
•   Taking Stock - A Summary of Events and Arguments:
•   Verdict of the Future and Cultural Partiality:
•   Description of Devotion in the Yoga:
•   Thread that Ties the Lives:

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing - an Introduction by Diane Christine

•   A Tale of Two Cities

Auroville Today Interview with Peter Heehs

•   Aniconism and Adequacy of Representation:

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton

•   Partiality of Representation and Growth of Understandong Through Critique:

Explanation of my Stand wrt The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Debashish

• Freedom of Choice and Social Governance:
•   Central Message of the Integral Yoga and Sri Aurobindo's Representation of Buddhism
•   Attention to Physical Detail and Darshan:
•   Spiritual Justification of Hurt Sentiments, East and West and Transparency of Motives:
•   The two sides of the anti-Heehs phenomenon- ringleaders and gullible followers:
•   How'd we end up in this Mess and How to Resolve It:
•   Force-Field:

Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im

•   Hadith-Hurling, History and the "New Clerics" of Pondicherry:
•   The "Children of the Mother" and the Movement of Jah People:
•   Text, Reality, Interpretation:
•   The "Children of the Mother" and Gullibility
•   Interpretive Communities and the Illegitimacy of Foreclosed Interpretation:

Representing Swami Vivekananda: Some Issues and Debates By Makarand Paranjape

• Hagiography and Biography: Individual and Social Matrix of Transformation and Fossilized Myths
•   Pre-empting Arguments of Academic Historians, Standardized Versions of IY and Contemporary Global Needs:
• Spiritual Biographies: Bridging Cultures and Disciplines

Orissa court stays release of book on Sri Aurobindo (the next Satanic Verses -taindian news)

•   Fundamentalism, Propaganda and the Invention of Truth:
• Loka-sangraha and the Reclamation of the Concept of Dharma-Yuddhah - A Quote from Sri Aurobindo

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: the aggrieved victim by Rich Carlson

•   Obscuration of "the ashram" by a few ringleaders
•   Changing Texts of Sri Aurobindo and Access to Archived Materials:
• Privileged Indian Birth and Access to Sri Aurobindo's Teaching:

The Greyscale Between Religion and Spirituality by Rick Lipschutz

•   What is Wrong with Religion:
•   Outpouring of Emotion and Personal Love for the Divine:
•   Personal Love for the Divine in The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

A Cultural Misunderstanding by Angiras

•   Institutional Standards, Diversity of Opinions and Growth Towards Integrality
•   Memorial Conservatism and Cultures of Progress
•   Asuras, Transformation and Moral Judgements
•   Language Use, Experience and Moral Judgements

The Strange case of Dr. M and Mr. S by Angiras

•   Postcolonial jazz and Pluralization of the Self
•   Human Singularity and Manichaen Divisions
•   What the Walrus Said: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, Pluralization and Sadhana

  Larger Issues of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" Controversy

•   Cultural History, Swadharma and the Integral Yoga
•   Theory of History and "Taking the Blame"
•   Tradition and the Integral Yoga, Secular and Occult Terms, Control of Representation
•   Respect for Guru, Freedom of Speech and Growth of Consciousness, Non-Interference
•   More "With the Grain" Than "Against the Grain," Public Opinion and Unpleasant Reactions, Secular and Spiritual Judgements, Self-Definition of Ashram
•   Religious Fundamentalism and Integral Yoga in a post-physical-presence-of-the-gurus era
•   Miracle-hungry Avatar Adulators and Darshan     

Against the grain and With the Grain: A Short Review of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by J. Kepler

•   Academic Debates and Authorial Engagement
•   Publisher's Choices and Author's Critique of Jeffrey Kripal
•   Ain't Nobody's Business

Reflections of an Evolutionary Activist: The Shadow of Fundamentalism in the Integral Yoga by Savitra

•   Transcendental Relations and Fanaticism
•   Enumeration of Attitudes to the Lives Controversy and "The Silent Majority"

The Core Problem by Angiras

•   Faith of Modernity and Challenging the Church of Reason
•   Addressing academia and doing yoga
•   Establishing a Possibility in the Terrestrial Buddhi

IYFunamentalism

•   A Call For Balance

LARGER ISSUES SURROUNDING THE LIVES CONTROVERSY

Jihad Vs. McWorld - the Introduction by Benjamin Barber:

• Barber's analysis of "democracy" and Sri Aurobindo - particiaptory intentional communities and world government

Yoga, religion, and fundamentalism in the Integral Yoga Community by Lynda Lester:

• Response to Ned - Human Freedom of Growth:

The Evolution of Discourse and The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Rich Carlson:

• Postmodernism and the Integral Yoga - deconstruction and organized religion:
• Postmodernism and the Integral Yoga - the postmodernist lineage and the historical evolution of thought
• Postmodernism and the Integral Yoga - historicism and existential will - Hegel, Nietzsche and the postmodern lineage

Religious Nationalism and Transnationalism in a Global World by Mark Juergensmeyer

• Sri Aurobindo's "A Vision of Science" - the Three Angels and the Answer that "pealed from our ancient hills":  [Permanent Link]

‘Auro-Ratna’ awards by Overman Foundation for 2009-10

From Overman Foundation overmanfoundation@yahoo.com to tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com date 15 April 2010 18:43 subject For Savitri Era Open Forum and Aurora Mirabilis

K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), Prof. Arabinda Basu and the late Jugal Kishore Mukherjee to receive the ‘Auro-Ratna’ award. 

Overman Foundation aims to recognize the contribution of the scholars, writers and workers of the Aurobindonian movement in various fields. For this purpose, the ‘Auro-Ratna’ award has been created 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.

Today, on behalf on Overman Foundation, I take this opportunity to announce the names of the first recipients of the ‘Auro-Ratna’ award. For the year 2009-2010, the ‘Auro-Ratna’ award will be given to K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), Prof. Arabinda Basu and the late Jugal Kishore Mukherjee for their invaluable and outstanding contribution in the field of literature, research and philosophy. It will be our privilege to hand over the ‘Auro-Ratna’ award, named after Sri Aurobindo, to three of his most faithful followers. 

Regards, Anurag Banerjee, 

Chairman, Overman Foundation

Overman Foundation

from Overman Foundation overmanfoundation@yahoo.com to tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com date 14 April 2010 16:09 subject For Aurora Mirabilis and Savitra Era Open Forum

A new organization named the 'Overman Foundation' has come into existence on 29th March 2010 with the view of conducting research and workshops on the topics of Integral Management and Social Unity in the Light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and also to recognize the contribution of eminent scholars and workers of the Aurobindonian movement. It also embarks on the spiritual mission to inculcate the 'urge' to rise over our mundane aspects of life and delve deeper into our inner 'I'. The Foundation reaches out to the society with its sole aim of conceiving species of Overman –a transitory state in the creation of Superman. The association firmly believes that it is the duty of every individual to empower himself /herself with an urge for seeking the divine. One needs to replenish herself/himself amidst the trivialities of our surroundings and reach out to a knowledge seeking, a prerequisite to be a ‘Superman’. The Foundation painstakingly indulges in this knowledge seeking through knowledge sharing of Aurobindonian philosophy.
    Founded by Shri Anurag Banerjee, the organization is proud to have Shri Nirmal Singh Nahar, Founder-Trustee, Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata, Prof. Kittu Reddy and Shrimati Krishna Chakravarty of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, as the esteemed members of the Advisory Board with Shri Kushal Sinha as its Honorary Secretary and Shri Anurag Banerjee as the Chairman.

    The objectives of the organization are as follows:

1. To promote spiritual progress in its absolute sense for everyone without any discrimination based on caste, creed and gender.

2. To spread the evolutionary vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with respect to the establishment of a divine life in a divine body in all fields of life.

3. To spread and help to spread the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in the towns and villages of West Bengal.

4. To conduct researches on the lives of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and the eminent sadhaks of the Integral Yoga and collect and preserve documents related to them.

5. To conduct seminars and workshops to promote the views of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Integral Management and Social Unity.

6. To recognize the contribution of the scholars and workers of the Aurobindonian movement in various fields. (For this purpose, the ‘Auro-Ratna’ award has been created which would be given out every year based on the recommendation of the Advisory Board.)

7. To publish literature and books for the promotion of the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Interested persons are welcome to contact us at the following email addresses for information and refer to the link given beneath for more details about Overman Foundation:

     overmanfoundation@yahoo.com   (Chairman)
     overmanfoundation@gmail.com    (Secretary)

    http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

  Head Office: 36/3 Prince Ghulam Mohd. Shah Road, Golf Gardens, Kolkata 700033.
  Branch Office: 235/1/2A N.S.C. Bose Road, Kolkata 700047.
Best regards, Kushal Sinha
Secretary, Overman Foundation