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This message is generated randomly from a collection of short written statements taken from the notes, letters, and messages of The Mother. The process of generating the guidance is the electronic equivalent of randomly looking up a book to receive an indication or answer.

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Getaway from passionate nature and partisanship

[balawrites: Warring Sexes

Mirra is not too proud of the capabilities of women. She is wary of their weaknesses too that also get exposed by the first world war. She wants women to extricate themselves from the grip of emotions and sentimentality if they want to succeed in their position. Of course women are capable of love and humility and abstain from brutality and vulgarity. However they must getaway from passionate nature and partisanship to sustain themselves as successful administrators. Mirra appeals to the world to include women to achieve more. Women are for the interior and men for the exterior shall no longer be fructifying. The sexes must be put together for a sustainable progression. The hostility between the sexes must be put aside in the obsolete category... Posted by BALA at 4:31 AM] kkk

Tweets [Rajmohan Srinivas ‏@yrskmohan "Sources of Poetry" by Aurobindo is a masterpiece. Yet not many modern poets even heard about it. @Back2Vedas @SangeetaRG]

[10h vamanan ‏@vamanan81 Y Peter Heeh's Lives of Aurobindo is so many lies on Aurobindo. http://cidif.go1.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1197:the-lives-of-sri-aurobindo-by-peter-heehs&catid=43:livres-et-publications&Itemid=5 …]

1h inpondy ‏@PondyTweets @OliviaCummings8 The Sri Aurobindo Ashram has regular yoga asana classes from 645 to 830 every morning in its Ayurvedic Section. View conversation

[Sanjeev Sabhlok says: November 3, 2012 at 7:16 am You’ve understood nothing about me as well, young man. I too oppose crony capitalism. There is no such thing as “democratic socialism”. Either you oppose state control or you want it. Aurobindo opposed state control over our lives. Period.]

[5h - Sanjeev Sabhlok ‏@sabhlok @SavitriEraParty @hguptapolicy Thanks. Can I see your party's manifesto on economic policy and governance? Retweeted by Savitri Era Party View conversation]

[3h - Jaideep A. Prabhu ‏@orsoraggiante @SavitriEraParty Agreed. Spontaneous order is a fundamental principle of liberalism. @an4rky @sabhlok @hguptapolicy Retweeted by Savitri Era Party View conversation]

CV of an average Indian Posted by Tusar N. Mohapatra at 1:33 PM Thursday, November 01, 2012

[Robert E. Wilkinson - 7:01 PM, August 13, 2009 The only option is to deny the facts and idealize the beloved out of all proportion. Tusar Mohapatra has provided us with an unmistakable example of this view when he writes: […]

This is a classic example of someone taking their own unfounded hagiographic inflation to extremes. What is most revealing is Tusar’s desire to get away from all formulation, mythic or otherwise which allows him to believe whatever fantasy he likes without the inconvenience of having to deal with proof of his claims and the facts that support them. He does so by putting them “up there” on the Transcendent heights beyond the reach and explanation of mortal man. This is a perfect example of how devotees with no yogic experience and realization attempt to turn this epochal spiritual work into a Religion. What remains are un-provable pronouncements about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother solely derived from Tusar’s subjective devotional fervor. His hopes are pinned on the ‘years to come’ and any fellow disillusioned Aurobindonians who might rally to his flag.

In a work characterized by objective knowledge and precision, this kind of unqualified ‘new age’ response is simply unacceptable. By placing Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on incomparable, unreachable Transcendent heights, Tusar believes that he is doing them a service but in fact, as we have discussed in this paper, he is contradicting the very purpose they came to achieve. If joining the top of the ladder to the bottom is the whole secret of realization and the work of the Avatar, Tusar has just yanked the ladder out from under them and made their stated evolutionary goal of the divinization of matter a virtual impossibility.]

[Cf. (SCIY) rich 8:21 AM Sunday, October 29, 2006]

Monday, November 05, 2012

Within the four walls of the Ashram and its affiliates

[Fifth Letter of the Bengaluru Study Circle to the Trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram from Critique of The Lives

It is not just any academician, scholar, historian or litterateur, however eminent, who can be trusted to judge a biography of a Yogi because the intellect needs to be tempered for the purpose by certain inner sensibilities. In other words scholarship must be accompanied by humility and genuine reverence for things spiritual. Both in the Ashram and outside we have such people who combine in themselves scholarship, devotion and even sadhana. Many of them have already made known their specific objections to the Book in question. They cannot be just wished away because they do know more than anyone what they are talking when it comes to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

And yet the Trustees have chosen to ignore them and instead given misplaced importance to the views of an intellectual class who are either ignorant or altogether refractory. This is a gross error on their part that needs to be undone immediately through serious dialogue…

There has to be only one guiding principle for all of us in this important matter and it is axiomatic: The Ashram is by the Devotees, of the Devotees and for the Devotees… Every sadhak is precious because he represents the soul of the Ashram in his own individual way. A dialogue started on a note of trust and good will would be a noble gesture from your side, a gesture not so much out of magnanimity as out of wisdom, a gesture out of our deep commitment to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

It must be kept in mind that as devotees and sadhaks within the Ashram or outside, all of us are answerable first and foremost to ourselves, our conscience, our loyalty and Bhakthi towards our Guru rather than to any human being however exalted and eminent he might be, inside the country or outside… Thanking You, Sincerely yours, for SRI AUROBINDO STUDY CIRCLE Vaishali Ganapati Bhandari 30 October 2012 The above letter has been signed by forty more members of the Bengaluru Study Circle.]

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Any elephant in its heart is afraid of mice

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Our visitors might be wondering about copyright on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Works. There are different opinions represented by different organisations and individuals. Here is official status on copyright from Copyright Department of Sri Aurobindo Ashram:

The copyright of those works of Sri Aurobindo that were published during His lifetime have expired in India and some other parts of the world. The copyright in most works that have been published posthumously continue to exist.
The copyright of the Mother’s works published in Her lifetime expires only in 2033.
In the case of compilations (e.g. ‘The Bhagavad Gita: Text, Translation and Commentary’), the totality of the specific individual editorial acts of selection and arrangement gives rise to a distinct copyright in the compilation per se, which is independent of the copyright in the underlying works which may have expired

Works that are still in copyright many not be put up for download by any party, even ‘registered visitors’, irrespective of whether profit is involved. Picaboo! Books are back! Posted on 11/07/2012 Cheerio! Vladnesh

Sunday, July 08, 2012

Gods are not Hindu; they are cosmic powers

Re: A Hindu View of Christian Yoga—by Rajiv Malhotra

by ned on Wed 29 Dec 2010 08:02 PM IST Permanent Link

Really fantastic discussion going on here! Just wanted to say that it made my heart sing, especially some of the ideas posted by Govind.

by Sandeep on Thu 30 Dec 2010 01:19 AM IST Permanent Link

It would be splendid if Govind would oblige us by distilling his insights into an article.

by Sandeep on Mon 27 Dec 2010 05:08 AM IST Permanent Link

1) One of the reasons other religious people shun or modify Yoga is because they are repelled by the prospect of worshiping "pagan" Hindu Gods. The book could explain that Gods are not Hindu; they are cosmic powers which always existed even before sages in India discovered them just as gravity existed before Newton discovered it. We can provide quotes by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on this topic.
2) The caste system is a gross distortion of the original intent of division based on personalities. RYD has covered it here on the Mirror and here as well

by Govind on Sun 02 Jan 2011 12:21 AM IST Permanent Link

I think this is a very important point but I would say rather that the God of Jesus is different from the god that is today worshiped in his name.

The Theme of Cross in Savitri (6) from Savitri by admin

The Integral Yoga in the Upanishads (Vividha Rachana, 1955) Sri Aurobindo

The true aim, the true realisation is the unfolding of the Brahman, its self-manifestation, the visible diffusion of the Power of the Divine, the Lila of His Knowledge and Ananda, not in a few great souls, but in everybody in the nation and the entire humanity. We see the first form and stage of this knowledge and this sadhana in the Rigveda, the earliest characters inscribed on the Stupa near the entrance to the temple of the Aryan dharma at the beginning of history. We cannot say with certainty that it finds expression for the first time in the Rigveda, because even the Rishis of the Rigveda admit that those who were before them, the early ancestors of the Aryan race, ‘the primeval fathers of the human race’, had discovered this path of truth and immortality for the later man.

They also say that the new Rishis were only following the path which had been shown to them by the ancient Rishis. We find that the mantra of the Rigveda is the echo of the words of the ‘fathers’, of the Divine speech they uttered; consequently, the form of the dharma that we see in the Rigveda can be said to be its earliest form… We find that effort in the Gita, the Tantras and the Puranas; each of them has been successful to a certain extent; many new experiences have been gained but no longer do we find in them the comprehensiveness of the Vedas and the Upanishads. WRITINGS IN BENGALI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH 1:02 PM

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Serene, profound, and powerful love

The Hindu : NATIONAL KARNATAKA : Bangalore today

Bhajans on Aurobindo and the Mother: By Mohan Mistry, Sri AurobindoAshram, Cultural Hall, Sri Aurobindo Complex, J.P. Nagar 1st Phase, 10 a.m. ...

The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : Coimbatore today

Sri Aurobindo Devotees Prayer Group: Prayers to Sri Annai, Sasibalika Vidya Mandir, R.S.Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Sri Annai Meditation Centre, W7C, Kovaipudur, ...

The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : Chennai today

Sri Aurobindo Society: Meeting, 5, Smith Rd., Anna Salai, 10.30 a.m.. Vaithika Sri: Meeting, Sri Sathsangam, Sathsangam St., Madipakkam, 4.30 p.m. ...

Events in Delhi, Current Events in Delhi - Timescity.com

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

American historian Peter Heehs‎ makes history in India

Heehs to leave country briefly today IBNLive.com - 14 Apr 2012 PUDUCHERRY: Controversial American historian and an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Peter Heehs still plans to leave the country briefly on April 15, ... Peter Heehs may have to leave India‎ Times of India Heehs not to be deported‎ Times Now.tv India values diversity of views, freedom of speech: Heehs‎ Hindustan Times Deccan Chronicle - Outlook

- People of India respect right to freedom of expression: Heehs The Hindu - 14 Apr 2012 “I am looking forward to being forgotten,” remarked American historian Peter Heehs, as he spoke about the media attention that followed the extension of his ... Govt of India values freedom of expression: Heehs‎ IBNLive.com US Historian's visa victory in Sri Aurobindo's biography row‎ India Today Govt extends Heehs's visa by one year‎ Indian Express Hindustan Times - Asia Times Online - Heehs visa hangs fire IBNLive.com – 6 Apr 2012 NEW DELHI/PUDUCHERRY: The visa extension of American historian Peter Heehs, who has been living in India for the last 41 years, hangs fire as the Central... Video: Sri Aurobindo was a spiritual leader, not an avatar: Peter Heehs IBNLive Govt refuses to extend visa of American historian Peter Heehs‎ India Today Prepared for any exigency: Heehs‎ Deccan Chronicle Hindustan Times - MSN India

Chidambaram to decide on Heehs' visa tomorrow Times of

India

- 31 Mar 2012

PUDUCHERRY: Home minister P Chidambaram will review the decision to cancel the visa of American historian Peter Heehs, who wrote the controversial biography ... Let Heehs stay, scholars urge PM‎ IBNLive.com Cancellation of US historian Peter Heehs's visa to be reviewed: P ...‎ Economic Times Is extremists' objection to his book behind US historians expulsion?‎ Hindustan Times The Hindu - Indian Express

Yoga and philosophy of Sri Aurobindo is not a religion: Peter Heehs Economic Times - Historian Peter Heehs was born in Chicago in 1948. In 1968, he took a break from college to learn yoga- a decision that took him to the Aurobindo Ashram in ... Heehs' story‎ MSN India.

For Heehs work, a cloud over 40-yr tryst with India Indian Express - 8 Apr 2012 Peter Heehs reached the Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry in 1971. Forty years on,Heehs is among the most acclaimed experts on Aurobindo. The intolerant Indian?‎ Times of

India

Jairam writes to PC on visa cancellation of us historian Hindustan Times - 4 Apr 2012 The Puducherry foreign regional registration office's order to send back Peter Heehs,

historian and author of 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', ... Intolerance: A National Pastime?‎ NDTV

Nilanjana S Roy: Behind the portrait Business Standard - The recent persecution of Peter Heehs, who has lived and worked in

India

for many years, for his biography of Sri Aurobindo, might be seen in this context.

In Hume's footsteps Hindustan Times - 2 Apr 2012 It is in this noble tradition that Peter Heehs falls. Heehs was recently in the news, for the fact that after staying in

India

for nearly 40 years he finds ...

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Enlightened spirituality is all but forgotten

Debashish Banerji Hindustan Times

As an Indian and a follower of Sri Aurobindo, I feel it is really deplorable if what this report says is true about the denial of visa extension to Peter Heehs. Not only is it a defeat to the freedom of expression which is one of the pillars of the Indian constitution, but it is a clear case of fraudulent action since Heehs' book has nothing of a "blasphemous" nature. It seems to be a set-up and the carrying out of unconstitutional decisions pressed into effect in a underhand manner...

Thanks for being a sane voice in an ocean of xenophobia. It seems from most of the other posts that a politicized divide is being created. "Secular historians" like Ramchandra Guha and Romila Thapar are being clubbed with sensationalist western academicians like Wendy Doniger and Jeffrey Kripal, and Peter Heehs is being thrown into this league. I guess on the other side are ardent Hindutva flag-bearers. An enlightened spirituality is all but forgotten in the middle of this. It is also clear that these violent voices have not read Heehs' book or else they have no reading skills.

31 March 2012: Don't expel US historian, govt told Addendum: The question about the relationship between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is only one of dozens of objections raised by that handful of religious fundamentalists; it is not even mentioned in the Orissa Gazette Notification. It is, however, what appears to produce the most visceral effect in the public, for reasons we fail to understand. Heehs made it perfectly clear that there was no sexual element at all in this relationship. On the contrary, what he wrote underscores its profoundly sacred nature. Only readers with a serious Freudian hang-up can fail to see this. — Editors, IYF. Recent Additions

1 April 2012: Chidambaram to decide on Heeh's visa

31 March 2012: Don't expel US historian, govt told

10 March 2012: Those who get upset by these things are worse

24 February 2012: Sri Aurobindo, Heehs and the fragility of faith

9 August 2011: Review by Antony Copley

31 July 2011: BAN the BAN by Ramachandra Guha

SA used different terminologies and different formulations in different texts, this doesn’t necessarily mean he abandoned one for the other. debbanerji Posted March 14, 2012 Permalink

Finally, the siddhis and anandas spoken of in the Record are not addressed anywhere else but can clearly be seen in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s own functioning. Comment on The Seven Quartets of Becoming by Debashish Banerji by debbanerji from Comments for Posthuman Destinies by debbanerji Eyes open, mind closed

Chidambaram won't allow US historian to stay in India Hindustan Times‎ - Aloke Tikku, New Delhi, April 04, 2012 00:46 IST [Posted by General Editor at 4/04/2012 07:34:00 AM] 8:47 AM, 9:10 PM

Friday, March 30, 2012

Mirror of Tomorrow: Last Post—29 March 2012

Posthuman Destinies - Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) - Planetarium A woman in the shape of a monster a monster in the shape of a woman the skies are full of them a woman ‘in the snow among the Clocks and instru...

Mirror of Tomorrow - “Suns” by Amal Kiran - The golden sphere of the sun in earthly skies Echoes a globe of God whose self is light Hung over mortal mind in a blue of bliss. Even as the soil’s cry fe...

Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother - On Multitasking, Avadhana-Kala and Multiple Samyama - The American President Lyndon Johnson once claimed that his political opponent Gerald Ford could not pass wind and chew gum at the same time...For the past...

Sri Aurobindo Studies - The Limitations of the Overmental Consciousness - As powerful and as wide as the overmental consciousness is, it’s action is not yet based in or centered in knowledge; it remains a power of action founded ...

Savitri Era - Intellectual culture facilitates East-West dialogue - Kepler apparently wins, but in order to corner his opponents he forges several propositions which appear to be too abstract. One is his conception of Yog...

At the Feet of The Mother - - Savitri (Hindi) 28th March 2012 at Dining Room Hall, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India. Language : Hindi Duration : 37 Minutes File Size : 34 MB ...

Mirror of Tomorrow - Last Post—29 March 2012

Supramental - Transformation Supramentale, Conscience Supramentale, Force Supramentale, Manifestation Supramentale - Un monde vivant - Notre monde est un monde fait d’une conscience énergie vivante qui est qui, cette conscience énergie, sans arret devient les états de conscience et les cor...

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs - Video Report of Dilip Datta's Violence against Devotees in Silent Protest - We have received a video report of the events of 27th February 2012 in which Dilip Datta, trustee of the Ashram Trust, misbehaved with devotees in Silent P...

Overman Foundation - Publication of the second edition of “Sri Aurobindo: His Political Life and Activities”. - Dear Friends, It gives me immense pleasure to announce that on 12 March 2012 Overman Foundation has published the second and paperback edition of its e-b...

Savitri Era Devotees - Money Power - Q: Divine Mother, could we have a message from you to pass along to those in the

United States

who may be ready to aid in the fund-raising work we are d...

Auro Truths - New content: Attempts to create an “Aurobindonian religion” - New content, reproduced below, has been added to this website: Attempts to create an “Aurobindonian religion”: Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have unambiguou...

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Routledge India, 2008

Eyes open, mind closed

Hema Malini remembers Sri Aurobindo in Rajya Sabha...

Liberalize, pluralize, and modernize

Deleuze in Delhi, Shankara in San Francisco

Compassion, cooperation, and contentment

Doesn’t it have a certain religious feel to it?

Shift from a subjective age to a spiritual age did...

Human subjectivity is instrumentalized and commodi...

Space and time have become relativized or unhinged...

A thought comes when “it” wishes, and not when “I”...

I am skeptical of anyone who claims that The Mothe...

Analyze, sift, share, and steer

Manoj Das invited for public discussion in Cuttack...

Privileging people before abstractions

Evaluation of positions is infinitely deferred

Matrubhaban, Cuttack Conference from April 4-7

29 March 1914 is a momentous event in the annals o...

No freedom of speech for erudites like Prof Deshpa...

Everyone believes what they want to in a post-fact...

You have been habitually autocratic, unprincipled ...

Peter Heehs has stirred a hornet's nest

The Yoga and its Objects and Record of Yoga

Reducing religious belief to the ethical

Deleuzian nomadology and the delusion of public m...

Supreme authority rested in the hands of The Mothe...

Ego-aggrandizement, self-delusion and arrogance

This world unity stinks

Therapeutic functions of religious beliefs

Show me someone who can provide details of experie...

Emergence of mental purusha as a purifying agent

Turning point in the relationship between Aurovill...

Key source of confusion

Once you put out a book, its content get quoted in...

The Mother distributed her own photograph to disci...

We are narrative animals

Hundreds and hundreds of people caught the lightni...

Sri Aurobindo talks about divinizing matter

We should be having trustees who are Oriyas only

If nothing visible is seen, do we scrap the The Li...

Our community is still divided

Fundamental groups are plotting a planned and syst...

Being indifferent to past religions

Ideological differences shouldn’t be turned into e...

Imperfect Indocentrism

Unadulterated Hutchinson

Thursday, March 08, 2012

He stood ten feet above us

Although he stood ten feet above us, each foot a sky, he yet attended to every detail of this life of ours, eternity taking care of each and every moment of time, each ray kindling a spark in each grain, in each particle of dust. Comment posted by RY Deshpande Re: Two Poems by Arjava with Sri Aurobindo’s Comments Mar 7, 2012 08:23 PM

Ranganath Raghavan's Response to "A Declaration of Solidarity" from A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs To Jay Raichuria and Meera Gupta (Sabda)

Besides, we may say that individual sadhana is not the only purpose in the Ashram. The collective sadhana is equally important and this imposes many responsibilities on the management which they have to discharge with great care and equity. Removing members from their work spots on relatively flimsy grounds does not seem to meet the requirements expected of the trustees... But if problems are to be solved internally, without external intervention, a sincere dialogue seems to be the only way. January 24, 2012 Ranganath Raghavan 12:23 PM

A DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY

The point of this declaration is not to issue a personal endorsement of the trustees as individuals. It does not even matter who the five trustees happen to be. Rather this is an initiative that expresses faith in the constitutional structure and processes enshrined in the Trust Deed, the Mother's document. It is therefore an initiative in support of the high ideals, the very idea, the sheer reality, of Sri Aurobindo Ashram itself. We must not and will not see the fabric that holds our organization together ripped apart. And by the same token, those making the point that they are only attacking the trustees and not the Ashram itself and that their actions are for the good of the institution are deluding themselves and playing a dangerous game. There are vested interests attempting to create the impression that a majority of Ashramites are sympathetic to those filing lawsuits against the Trust, but nothing could be further from the truth. We will not allow this false and dangerous notion to gain further ground. This is the time to stand firm, stand together in the face of this assault on the core values of our Ashram, to lend our voices in support of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's institution and its appointed representatives against the forces that are out to destabilize our community.

from: Narayan T Rao narayan.t.rao@gmail.com date: 6 March 2012 22:16 subject: reply to Shri Ranganath's response to the Declaration 12:33 PM 6:37 PM 7:45 PM 8:41 PM 9:48 PM

How many Ashrams have we imagined where the inmates, some unmarried, especially women, expose their lower bottom on the body by wearing shorts and go out on the streets, even to the markets? How many traditional Indian ashrams serve non-vegetarian food to their inmates? This is a reality in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and a big attack by some fundamental groups who are plotting a planned and systematic attack to the very essence and existence of its survival. This is the nature of attack…

Anybody, following the words of our Gurus is doing Their work, be it a coolie in a railway station, or an inmate working in a department of Ashram or an individual trustee working for the Ashram Trust Board. The aim of the individual determines the direction one takes in life… You say that the number is big and they are highly dissatisfied with the management… If numbers and figures determine the views of the inmates, then we should be having trustees who are Oriyas only, and not from any other state, I think... Manas

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Dilip Dutta lodged complaint with the police

Tension at Ashram Puducherry, Monday, Feb 27 2012 webindia123.com

Tension prevailed as inmates of the Aurobindo Ashram here continued to be on dharna for the second day today demanding the American-born Ashram inmate Peter Heehs, who wrote a book on Sri Aurobindo, be removed from the Ashram. The agitating inmates maintained the the book contained objectionable matters depicting distorted facts about the life and character of Sri Aurobindo. The agitation took an ugly turn today when a few agitators tried to prevent one of the seniormost members from entering his office and tried to snatch away files from his possession. However, police posted near the dharna venue prevented a scuffle between them.

Meanwhile, Dilip Dutta, a senior member, lodged complaint with the police that the protesters prevented him from entering his office and tried to snatch away files, which was denied by the protesters. The controversy over the book- 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo' written by Peter Heehs has been-- had been raging for a while now, particularly after the group opposed to the book launched a series of protests in January demanding expulsion of Mr Heehs and resignation of members of Trust for not condemning the book openly. The group launched a three-day protest on Sunday with a large number of them coming from Orissa. UNI PAB GM 2042 NNNN -- (UNI) -- 27ms67.xml

28th February 2012, Tuesday — Daily eMedinewS by Drkk

Study Camp on ‘Mind–Body Medicine and Beyond’ 16–23 June 2012, Nainital Centre (Van Nivas)

Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch will organize the 5th Study Camp on ‘Mind–Body Medicine and Beyond’ for doctors, medical students and other health professionals at its Nainital Centre (Van Nivas) from 16–23 June 2012. The camp, consisting of lectures, practice, and participatory and experiential sessions, will help the participants get better, feel better, and bring elements of mind–body medicine into their practice. The camp will be conducted by Prof. Ramesh Bijlani, M.D., former Professor, AIIMS, founder of a mind–body medicine clinic at AIIMS, and the author of Back to Health through Yoga and Essays on Yoga. For more details, send an e–mail to the Ashram (aurobindo@vsnl.com) or to Dr. Bijlani (rambij@gmail.com). Auromira Yoga - The Nones: a Growing Non-tribe - *The articles and dogmas of a religion are mind-made things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code of life made out for you, you do not...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Mother's birthday

People throng Aurobindo Ashram, P'cherry on Mother's anniversary All India Radio‎ - Feb 21, 11:38 AM

People from across the country thronged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry today and offered prayers on the occasion of the 134th birth anniversary of The Mother. They later participated in a mass meditation around the samadhis of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, her spiritual mentor. They also visited the rooms where Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stayed, ashram sources said. The Ashram was founded in 1926. Sri Aurobindo passed away in 1950 while the Mother breathed her last in 1973. Devotees throng Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Chennaionline News Puducherry, Feb 21:

Thousands of devotees from all over the country and abroad today thronged Sri Aurobindo Ashram on the 134th birth anniversary of the mother, the principal devotee of saint-philosopher Sri Aurobindo. A mass meditation was organised by the Ashramites on the occasion. The room used by Sri Aurobindo and the mother were thrown open for public darshan today. 134th birth anniversary of ''The Mother'' celebrated news.in.msn.com Puducherry, Feb 21 (PTI)

People from across the country thronged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram here today and offered prayers on the occasion of the 134th birth anniversary of ''The Mother''. They later participated in a mass meditation around the samadhis of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, her spiritual mentor. They also visited the rooms where Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stayed, ashram sources said. The Ashram was founded in 1926. Sri Aurobindo passed away in 1950 while the Mother breathed her last in 1973. The Mother (Mira Alfassa) founded Aurobindo International Centre of Education in 1952 and the international township of Auroville, 10 km from here, in 1968. Devotees throng Sri Aurobindo Ashram webindia123.com

Thousands of devotees from all over the country and abroad today thronged Sri Aurobindo Ashram on the 134th birth anniversary of the mother, the principal devotee of saint-philosopher Sri Aurobindo. A mass meditation was organised by the Ashramites on the occasion. The room used by Sri Aurobindo and the mother were thrown open for public darshan today. UNI PAB AKM JM0932 NNNN -- (UNI) -- 21ms1.xml Timeout telegraph February 21 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 6pm:

The Mother’s Jayanti Function with reading by Dipak Mukherjee, recitation by Debashish Mitra, song by Debarati Som and talk by Prof. Biswanath Ray. Jayanti meditation will be held around the shrine from 7.30pm - 8pm.

'Oneness inside will lead oneness outside' Times of India Aparna Nair, TNN | Feb 21, 2012

Retired Supreme Court judge Vikas Sirpurkar said that spirituality is a quest to know our own selves. Quoting Aurobindo Ghose he said, "When you understand yourself, spirituality comes automatically." He also said that Nagpur would prove an apt and perfect venue for the next World Parliament on Spirituality.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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

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

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sri Aurobindo had sent a telegram to Barindra Kumar Ghose

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

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