But Auroville kept popping up to rock the boat

Pondicherry sans Auroville Rachel Lopez HindustanTimes.com » Editorial » Offtrack » URBAN GYPSY Story September 2, 2006

I told everybody, I was spending a week in Pondicherry. Everybody responded in the same way — with chin raised, head cocked to one side and eyes squeezed shut with nostalgic delight, “Oh, you must go to Auroville. It’s won-der-ful!” they cooed...

But Auroville kept popping up to rock the boat. It was everywhere, giving the first half of its name to local businesses (like incense and souvenir shops) that sprung out of the nearby ashram, and establishments (like an STD booth and photocopy stall) that had nothing to do with Sri Aurobindo. “We should really book a car for the Auroville trip,” my companion reminded me as I tried, furtively, to ignore the shops. I really don’t relish the thought of being slow baked for an hour to get to a utopia that makes guests contribute towards infrastructure. But I don’t want to be a wet blanket on holiday either, so I make appropriate sounds of agreement...

There are book exhibitions and book stores aplenty and all of them have a huge section of books on Auroville, Sri Aurobindo and the Ashram philosophy. Everyone we meet asks us the same thing. “So, have you been to Auroville yet?” and you can tell that there’s not much else by way of tourist conversation in the quiet little town. The inactivity suits my plans just fine but furthers my companion’s resolve to get to Auroville.

All roads to Auroville

Look! Bips-Zayed on the run Somen Mishra CNN-IBN Posted Friday , September 01, 2006

Pondicherry: Braving the bright sun and dry weather, Bipasha Basu and Zayed Khan are on the run in Pondicherry. They are running on the streets, by the seaside and everywhere possible. And making them run is their good friend and filmmaker Rohan Sippy...Though it was Rohan Sippy's first trip to Pondicherry, both Zayed and Bipasha have old an association with the city.
"I shot here for Jism for a long time. On this particular trip I insisted that I stay in the same hotel, same room. Because I have really amazing memories of Jism," Bipasha said.
While Bipasha looked a little upset without beau John Abraham around, Zayed had wife Mallika to share all the nostalgia with.
"I used to study in Kodai International School. So, we used to visit Pondicherry, Auroville often on our field trip. I have lots of friends from these places. I am coming here after ten years. It feels nostalgic," Zayed said.

Savitri Era Worldwide

sriaurobindoashram.info/Default.aspx?1=234 Sri Aurobindo Ashram sriaurobindoashram.com/org.in/info Points to this site. Online reading and search on the works of the Masters. sriaurobindoashram.org/in Very good information on Ashram's organisation, how to visit Ashram, Where to stay etc.. Maintained by Archives department of the Ashram. sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org Information on books. Maintained Sri Aurobindo Books Distribution Agency. sanskrit.sriaurobindoashram.org.in Information about Sanskrit department of the Ashram sriaurobindoashram.net Maintained by Delhi Ashram Branch. saice.edu Information on Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education saice.org Information on Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education auroshikha.com Natural Essential Oils and Natural Essential Oil Incense, Incense Cones, Incense Holders, Incense Gift Packs,Perfumed Oils, Scented Candles, Potpourri sriaurobindoautocare.com Ashram's toors, travel and taxi service searchforlight.org One must visit this site. Most feature rich contents. Maintained by an ardent aspirant. sriaurobindosociety.org.in Maintained by Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.auroville.orgMaintained by Auroville miraura.org Site created by users in the 'auroarchive' email discussion group at 'compatible.com'. savitribysriaurobindo.com Exclusive site on Savitri by Sri Aurobindo. wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo_Ashram Information from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia lightendlesslight.org Maintained by another ardent aspirant. collaboration.org The Sri Aurobindo Association of America gnosticcentre.com Maintained by The Gnostic Centre,Delhi. mirapuri-enterprises.com Mirapuri is the humanistic-spiritual, european, free-consciousness City of Peace and Future Man in Italy founded by Michel Montecrossa on the basis of the worldpeace and progress ideals of Sri Aurobindo and Mira Alfassa. sriaurobindoinstitute.org Maintained by Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, Kolkata. motherservice.org Maintained by The Mother's Service Society, Pondicherry. intyoga.online.fr Bernard's site for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother matrimandir-habra.org Matrimandir-Habra's site , situated in the district of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal. The site is also working for the youths by joining hands with the Youth Section of Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir , Kolkata . The site has a quarterly E-magazine "Progress" , Specifically for the youths. theuniversityoftomorrow.org An online university offering programmes and courses in the philosophy and spiritual teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother vedah.com SAKSI is a Spiritual movement. The aim is to spread the message of Veda and Sri Aurobindo, which imparts awareness to lead a beautiful, harmonious, creative and happy life, individually and collectively. integral-centre.org.ua Centre dedicates its work to the vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. Among its activities are publication of bimonthly journal online "Aim"; it offers online Russian translation of the Introductory Course in Integral Yoga of The University of Tomorrow, Pondicherry. We have online library and open forum. aurobindo.ru Site dedicated to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother sriaurobindocenter-la.org Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles. The East-West Cultural Center - A California non-profit organization. matrubhaban.com/matru.htm kheper.net/topics/Aurobindo/index.htm integraltransformation.blogspot.com/

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Orissa: 1948-1968

Although the first Sri Aurobindo Study Circle began in Rairangpur of Mayurbhanj District in 1948, the movement grew gradually from 1960. In Cuttack, weekly Pathachakra sessions were conducted in the residences of Narendra Kishor Das (Naribabu) and Lalit Mohan Ghosh. Around the same time, Nimain Charan Mohapatra started a Study Circle in the Railway colony of Retang in Jatni. He also organized the first State level Conference there. Later in 1964, Gobinda Tej on behalf of the Sri Aurobindo Society held a Conference from April 4-7 in the Barabati Stadium. The next Conference took place in 1968.

Prasad Tripathy, THE MATRUBHABAN PATRA, AUGUST 2006
Editor : Gadadhar Mishra, Matrubhaban, Sri Aurobindo Marg, Cuttack - 753013
E.mail - ctk_matrubha@sancharnet.in Please visit us : matrubhaban.com

Sri Aurobindo: the science of the Infinite

Daily Meditation Tue, 22 Aug 2006 Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into a hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite. - Sri Aurobindo ... Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ... Sri Aurobindo
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Shiva 725 Fri, June 23, 2006 - 11:04 AM Ascending Truth
Jerry! I think this duality is everywhere in the present human consciousness. That's what makes us humans. But this one thought of Sri Aurobindo on God could be enough to unite everything... "The knowledge that unites is the true knowledge " says Sri Aurobindo, and in saying he is not just polite or to impress all the followers of the defferent paths..his is a Divine Synthesis...of Raising High in Consciosuness and seeing the truth from each height we raise in the progressive unfolding of the Transcendental Truth -Consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo on God 22 Jun 2006 by Transformation_S_8
Because a good man dies or fails & the evil live & triumph, is God therefore evil? I do not see the logic of the consequence. I must first be convinced that death & failure are evil; I sometimes think that when they come, ...
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Download free books from Google 14 hours ago by ebuddha
I looked for some Aurobindo in the Free Library, but didn't find it. The trick for finding the early stuff, is to choose "Full View books" as a search option, and then include free library, as well as what you are searching for. ...
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Liberation 17 hours ago by Vasu
This is a sonnet by Sri Aurobindo. Just thought it was an interesting read, though I could nt comprehend most of it... Liberation ~I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind And stand now in the spirit's silence free, ...
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The other day I heard a joke, but this time this joke didn’t make ... 17 hours ago by Karan
This is what Rishi Aurobindo Ghosh meant. Even I feel that India in itself is an ethos and any amount of imitation of the west or anything short of pure statesmanship on the part of our social leaders will vilify it. ...
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Etheric plane 18 hours ago by Nancy Brown
It might be argued that the etheric plane is in part equivalent to Sri Aurobindo’s concept of the subtle physical.[3] In Anthroposophy the equivalent is the etheric formative forces.[4]. Etheric region in the Western Wisdom Teachings ...
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Comment on William Harryman's blog entry "Speedlinking 8/29/06" 22 hours ago
Apparently Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the devil -- so says the Vatican. Well, of course. Why else would they have done those things?" bro, even Aurobindo thought so. you don't have to believe me. just check out this book :)
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Sri Aurobindo Quote Collections I 29 Aug 2006 References
"The arrival of a new radical idea in the minds of men is the sign of a great coming change in human life and society; it may be combated, the reaction of the old idea may triumph for a time, but the ...
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Sri Aurobindo: Ripples and Waves 23 May 2006 by Infinisri
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Divine Sight by Sri Aurobindo 7 Jun 2006 by Parvati
Truth Vision Each sight is now immortal with Thy bliss: My soul through the rapt eyes has come to see; A veil is rent and they no more can miss The miracle of Thy world-epiphany. Into an ecstasy of vision caught ...
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Sri Aurobindo on the nature of true democracy 20 Jun 2006
In the simpler as in the complex polities none of the social orders was predominant; nor was uniformity needed. The social, political and economic dharma and its artha shastra harmonised the pre-existent patterns with newly evolved ones ...
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Reincarnation of Sri Aurobindo? 21 May 2006 by Lori Tompkins
If as you believe he is [Sri Aurobindo] come again, then could you point me to his ... [Sri Aurobindo] at 42 (having been born in inconscience like the rest of us) was ... They KNOW exactly what Sri Aurobindo should or should not do, ...
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Savitri Era - Of those who adore The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

Savitri Era - Of those who adore The Mother and Sri Aurobindo [2] [3]

With grateful acknowledgements to

Madhu Bhaina

Purna Bhaina

Anadi Bhai

Bhaja Bhai

Pal Bhai

and

Mohanty Babu

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Mahatma Asiananda

mahatma said... Dear Alan, i just happened to glance through your (auto) biographical piece, i am also familiar with much of your web page since it used to come up again and again at my googling, which means we have much shared interest, I am deeply connected to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, stayed quite long at Auroville, and I am a fellow pilgrim as you are, trying to fathom the comos in the integral way you are doing, i wish success in your essays and your book project, i was also very impressed by your past lives, which gives me courage to my own self discovery in terms of my past avatars, of which i had intimations but never quite believed, also the Gaia is a deeply share inter subjective experience between us, let us stay in touch, good wishes again, Asiananda presently in Germany 2:15 PM

m alan kazlev said... Hi Mahatma Thanks for your feedback! Yes, it is great to find people with interests and spiritual orientation in common! 6:31 PM

Daughters as beneficiaries of inheritance

The will to have a girl child Arun Ram DNA Sunday, August 27, 2006

CHENNAI: In a land infamous for female infanticide, a small group of women is heralding social reform with a new interpretation of the adage ‘where there is a will, there’s a way’. Twelve women of a self-help group (SHG) in Usilampatti, 40 km from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, have bequeathed their wealth to their granddaughters. The message to the new generation is strong and simple: Take care of the girl child and inherit our wealth. Now the idea is catching on in the region.

The first step for these women was to empower themselves. “None of us were working and we had no money, though we hail from middle-class families,” says Chellammal. She realised that women had to earn to be powerful. “The Aurobindo Meditation Centre in Usilampatti helped us set up a supermarket,” she says. Prosperity supermarket, which opened in January 2005, now has a monthly turnover of Rs 1.5 lakh.

“When Chellammal told me she was depositing her earnings in the names of her granddaughters, I suggested everyone in the group should do that,” says Parimala of the Aurobindo Centre. “Now, about 50 women are following suit and we are spreading the message in the villages,”

Some women like Pandiammal (43) have nominated their daughters as beneficiaries of inheritance. “I feel ashamed when people of other towns refuse to let their daughters marry Usilampatti men, fearing that their girl children may be killed,” she says. Gory tales of girl babies being killed by the administration of ‘kallipal’ (cactus sap), or being asphyxiated by having their nostrils blocked with paddy grains, abound in Usilampatti.

Sri Aurobindo Bhaban Trust, Jeypore, Koraput

Managing Trustee : Sri Ramnath Panda
Date of Installation : 9th December,, 1970, 10 AM
Installed by : Sri Prapatti
Library attached : Yes ; Garden attached : Yes
Timings of Public Darshan of RC : 6 AM to 11 AM and 4PM to 7 PM
No. of persons visiting daily : About 50 persons
Plan made by : Self ; Flooring Marbel finish : Yes
Daily activities of the Ashram : Daily Meditation, Study Circles, and other functions
BRIEF HISTORY :
Prapatti left for Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, from this place. It is his prayer and aspiration supported by Sri Babaji Maharaj that inspired Sri Ramanath Panda and Sri Panchanan Patra to work out the programme of the installation of Sri Aurobindo’s Relics at Jeypore. This is the second Relics centre in Orissa.

THE MESSAGE INSCRIBED ON SAMADHI :

To Thee who hast been the material envelope of our Master, to Thee our infinite gratitude. Before Thee who hast who hast done so much for us, who hast worked, struggled, suffered, hoped, endured so much, before Thee who hast willed all, attempted all, prepared, achieved all for us, before Thee we bow down and implore that we may never forget, even for a moment, all we owe to Thee. -The Mother

A Visit to Sri Aurobindo Srikshetra, Dalijoda

A report on Visit to Sri Aurobindo Srikshetra, Dalijoda, Cuttack

On 20th December 2004 in a team comprising of Mr. Bibhu Prasad Mohanty, Sr.Scientist-Site coordinator, M.S.Swaminathan Reserarch Foundation (MSSRF), Ms. Sujata Das, Research associate MSSRF and Prof. KC Mohapatra a retired agriculture scientist-cum-academician from OUAT involve in agrarian movement in Orissa, reached Sri Aurobindo Srikshetra. This organisation is famous in Orissa for its contribution on realizing and popularizing Sri Aurobindo philosophy at grassroots level. We conducted a few activities from 20th 21st Dec 2004. Following is the detail of the activities conducted by the team memebers during the stay The CampusThis centre has 250 acres of land, one relics centre of Sri Aurobindo with a systematically developed beautiful and strong nursery setup. This has got a small but powerful cactus collection, extensive horticulture activities and captive zoo of swan and peacocks. In addition to these, a well-organised dairy activities, models of modern scientific agriculture practices, rainwater & stream water harvesting systems, afforestation and appropriate management of natural resources. Entire area is fully utilized for agriculture, horticulture activities and conservation of agro biodiversity materials and commercial exploitation of those. It has got a strong nursery of various plants, a good floriculture activity, bio-waste management approaches and so on. It is a center of complete demonstration of livelihood security from natural farming approach. Following the is list of agriculture activities conducted at the center

The ideals of democracy and history

36 statues in Parliament & counting Pallavi Ghosh CNN-IBN Posted Saturday , August 26, 2006 at 15:10

HOUSE STATUE: For a more than five-year-term in Parliament, all a statue needs is a sponsor.

New Delhi: Speaker Somnath Chatterjee says that statues are a reminder to Parliamentarians of the ideals of democracy and history and in keeping with his words, 36 statues are being erected in Parliament. The question is, do these mute statues make MPs behave or are they as helpless as the Speaker is to maintain decorum in the House?

Winning a seat to Parliament may be tough, but for statues, it's becoming much easier to get in. To get a more than five-year-term in Parliament, all a statue needs to do is find a sponsor, usually a private trust. Even an MP would do. Two cases in point are the statues of Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekanand, which were inuagurated on Wednesday and sponsored by ex-MP L M Singhvi . And these are not all. There are more waiting statues waiting for a coveted place in Parliament.

Invitation To Creation Of Sri Aurobindo Society in Gurgaon

A center of Sri Aurobindo Society is being planned at Gurgaon.

Basically a humble offering is being attempted. Gurgaonites who would like to felicitate, participate, and guide may please contact manojg2k@gmail.com
All devotees, sadhaks, please feel free to contact and advise.
Thanks, Manoj

Posted on Wed Jul 5th, 2006 at 12:07:04 AM EST

Wed Aug 9th, 2006 at 10:20:26 PM EST pls. contact at 9810299183

Aurobindo’s birth anniversary celebrated

The Tribune Our Correspondent Thursday, August 17, 2006, Chandigarh, India

Ludhiana, August 16 Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management here celebrated the 134th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo yesterday. The college had organised a paper reading contest to mark the occasion. The topics of the contest were related to the life and philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Indian culture and philosophy, India’s Independence — historical perspective, economic and social transformation of India and India of my dreams.

The secretary of Sri Aurobindo Society, Mr Manmohan Bamba, was the chief guest. Prof V.P. Gaur, former Principal, SCD Government College, Ludhiana was the guest of honour. Dr D.B. Sharma, Director, Sat Paul Mittal School, and Dr Vijay Asdhir, Principal, Kamla Lohtia SD College, were among the other members of the panel of judges. Mr Bamba spoke to the students about Sri Aurobindo’s life and his teachings and about the mother.

Aakansha Verma of B.Com II stood first in the competition; Sahibpreet of B.Com I was declared second; Darshpreet Singh of B.Com I was adjudged third, and one consolation prize was given to Goria Mangla of B.Com II. Dr Prem Kumar appreciated the efforts of the participants and Col P.S. Choudhry, GM (Admn and Edu.), presented the vote of thanks.

Its wonderful that a place like it exists on this planet

We made it to Pondicherry about 5 in the morning… I was partially asleep and just followed ppl where ever they went . We had to meet Vidya’s friend and went in search of the place we were staying. We ended up in the outskirts of the city(about 6km from the city) and thats when we realized that there was another place with the same name in the city. Thej called up Rajesh(Vidya’s friend) and realized that Rajesh was actually at the bus stand itself. This thing of reaching a place then retuning became a pattern in the trip.

Pondicherry is a very beautiful place… Its history and culture are incredibly rich and you are just exposed to the culture it adapted thanks to its previous residents. The area we stayed in was beautiful, just 5 min from the beach(by walk), nice roads and very clean. 15th Aug, India’s Independence day also happens to be Sri Aurobindo’s birthday. All hotels in Pondicherry were booked and we ended up staying in a dormitory which was nice in its own way. Sid was not feeling great at the start of the trip and it got worse in Pondi. He was fully bedridden and saw nothing other than the inside of the room. He had viral fever and cost him almost the entire trip.

Our stay in Pondicherry constituted almost of 70% of visiting different Ashrams in the city. We had our breakfast and lunch in the Ashram and leaving Thug nobody actually enjoyed the porridge and brown bread. Lunch was much better for us as we hardly took time with the rice and sambar. We visited the cloth mills and paper factories. We bought a little merchandise in the stores filled with scented candles and incense sticks. It was lunch time when we finally ended our tour.

We visited Auroville during the afternoon. The concept of Auroville sounds great and its wonderful that a place like it exists on this planet. Auroville also boasts of its amazing beauty… let it be the well constructed buildings or the thick lush trees that surronds the place. In the evening we walked to the beach and played a little in the water. I hv always thought beaches are the most calming places and always felt that ppl who live near the sea are truly blessed. Having lived all my life in landlocked Bangalore it was a pleasure to spend sometime in the ocean water. We played in the water until sunset and walked back to our room. Links to Photo Galleries: Theju: Gallery and FlickrMine: Gallery and Flickr Haas wrote on August 24, 2006 at 3:49 pm Sand, Sea and Fun - Trip to Pondy and Chennai

Sri Aurobindo and the Swadeshi Movement

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M.N. Roy, the lonely lion

Roy, Manabendra Nath (1887-1954) communist leader and a revolutionary. Manabendra Nath Roy's father Dinabandhu Bhattacharjee was a Sanskrit teacher in a minor English school in Arbelia village of 24 Parganas of West Bengal. Born on 21 March 1887, his early name was Narendra Nath Bhattacharjee and was known in this name till 1916. Though he adopted different names such as C Martin, Hari Sing, Mr White, D Garcia, Dr Mahmood, Mr Banerjee etc at different times in conducting revolutionary activities, he was known as Manabendra Nath Roy (MN Roy), the name he adopted at San Francisco to evade arrest.

Naren had his early schooling at Arbelia. The family shifted to Kodalia in 1898. He studied in Harinavi Anglo-Sanskrit School until 1905. Keen in social service, he organised a volunteer group to nurse the sick, particularly those suffering from epidemics and famines. He was inspired by the writings of bankimchandra chattopadhyay and swami viveknanda. At the wake of the partition of bengal he came in contact with the militant nationalists. In 1905 Naren and some of his friends were rusticated from the school for attending a meeting addressed by surendranath banerjea and joining the procession, in violation of the order of the Headmaster. Later on he was introduced to the anushilan samiti of aurobindo ghosh.

Naren passed the Entrance Examination from the newly started National University (started by Aurobindo) and then he studied Engineering and Chemistry in the Bengal Technical Institute. He was actually a self-taught person. At this time, with his underground group, he experimented in bomb making and practised shooting in the Sundarbans. The group collected money by robbery for revolutionary purposes.

For sometime he worked with Bagha Jatin (Jatindra Nath Mukhopadhyay) in the Jugantar of the Anushilan Samiti. Naren and his group were involved in underground activities in Howrah-Sibpur area and were arrested in 1910 to face the 'Howrah-Sibpur Conspiracy Case, 1910-11'. During the trial period that lasted for more than a year, Jatin and Naren, in confinement, planned to arrange armed insurrection all over India. On release, Naren travelled in the garb of a sanyasi until 1914. The revolutionary organisations were extended to Far East, West America, and Germany where Indian revolutionary committees were formed...

In 1948, he abolished Radical Democratic Party and founded Radical Humanist Association. He founded Indian Renaissance Institute and edited the quarterly journal The Humanist Way which was originally named as The Marxian Way. He wrote another significant book titled Reason, Romanticism and Revolution. He attempted to write his memoirs that he could not complete.

Roy succumbed to a severe attack of coronary thrombosis at midnight of 24-25 January 1954 in Dehradun. He married Ellen Gottsechalk in 1937 after his first wife Evelyn had left him in 1925. He had no children. The Amrita Bazaar Patrika depicted him as the 'lonely lion who roamed about the world'. [T Hossain] [Chief Editor's Preface] [Home] Index:[A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z ]

The provincial Congress session at Barisal in 1906

Mitra, Krishna Kumar (1852-1936) one of the leaders of the brahma samaj and the swadeshi movement, was born in 1852 in the village of Baghil in mymensingh in a conservative Hindu kayastha family. His father, Guruprasad Mitra, was a middle class landholder and patriot who organised an armed struggle in his village against oppressive English indigo planters. In 1881, Krishna Kumar married Lilabati Devi, fourth daughter of rajnarayan basu, according to Brahma rites...

During his college days in Kolkata, Krishna Kumar had made friends with ananda mohan bose, Herambachandra Moitra, Kalishankar Shukul and Shrinath Chanda; their influence prompted him to join the swadeshi movement. He was a close associate of surendranath banerjee and together they travelled across northern India to publicise their political ideas. In 1890 he joined the indigo cultivators' agitation. He was associated with the Indian National Congress since its birth in 1885 but in 1921 opposed Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement.

In 1883 Krishna Kumar launched a nationalist Bengali weekly, Sanjibani, in cooperation with Kalishankar and others. As editor, he endeavoured to raise the latent nationalistic consciousness of the people. In his article 'Tea or Coolie's Blood', he exposed the repression of tea workers by owners of the tea gardens of Assam. His protests forced the government to provide legal protection to tea garden workers. As a journalist he will be remembered for his bold advocacy of the freedom of the press.

Krishna Kumar was opposed to the partition of Bengal (1905-1911) and used his journal to arouse public opinion against the partition. He openly advocated boycott of foreign goods and refused to accept advertisements for these goods in Sanjibani. At the provincial Congress session at Barisal in 1906, he condemned harassment by the police and police atrocities. When aurobindo ghosh was arrested in 1908 in the Maniktala bomb case, it was at the initiative of Krishna Kumar that chitta ranjan das was made defense counsel. On 10 December 1908 Krishna Kumar was detained by the British government and sent to Agra jail for his involvement in the swadeshi movement.

Krishna Kumar was a dedicated social reformer who fought against idolatry, the caste system and social prejudices. He also opposed the repression of women and formed the Nari Raksa Samity to work for their rights and protection. He advocated temperance, and strongly criticised the government plan to set up public drinking houses. Puritanical Brahma, liberal social thinker, staunch nationalist, Krishna Kumar was an enthusiastic reformer and dedicated journalist. Apart from his writings in Sanjibani, he also wrote a number of books, among them Mahammad-Charita, Buddhadev-Charita and Bauddhadharmer Sangksipta Bibaran. [Sambaru Chandra Mohanta]

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Without the withdrawal from the world

By Dr Bhadran Ambalathara

One of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy, which has had widespread influence on many schools of Indian thought. It is better known through its practical aspect than its intellectual content, which is largely based on the philosophy of Samkhya...

The basic text of the Yoga philosophical school, the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (2d cent. B.C.), is a systematization of one of these older traditions. Contemporary systems of yoga, such as those of Sri Aurobindo Ghose and Sri Chinmoy Ghose, stress that spiritual realization can be attained without the withdrawal from the world characteristic of the older traditions. Yoga is usually practiced under the guidance of a guru, or spiritual guide. posted by prem at 9:05 PM

~ Tusar N Mohapatra of SELF Forum posts a review of The Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo by Ram Shankar Misra. posted by WH @ 3:52 AM 1 comments

1872 -> 2006

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 10:08 pm Sri Aurobindo statue will be installed in the parliament 23rd August, 2006 By sarmas

Dear Friends,
Tomorrow (23rd August) a bronze statue of Sri Aurobindo will be installed in the Parliament Hall. The unveiling ceremony will take place at 10 AM and will be covered live by Doordarshan, possibly by some othernews channels also. Chances are that it may be shown in the evening news as well. So keep an eye on the telly. The work of getting the statue made was undertaken by Lalit Verma. Have a nice day tomorrow
Thank you, Sangi

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Knowledge that unites is the true Knowledge - Sri Aurobindo

I read Sri Aurobindo's complete works for my M.A. thesis

by Rich on Sun 16 Apr 2006 10:22 PM PDT Permanent Link Author: Jyotirmaya Sharma: asst. editor of the Times of India, a past lecturer at Oxford and Delhi, current member of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, etc, etc.The book: Hindutva, Exploring the idea of Hindu Nationalism Published by: Viking Penguin© Jyotirmaya Sharma, 2003 Science, Culture & Integral Yoga

Response by Jyotirmaya Sharma on Mon 21 Aug 2006 01:34 PDT Profile Permanent Link I have taught philosophy for long years, have first language proficiency in Sanskrit, I know my texts.

by Jyotirmaya on Mon 21 Aug 2006 12:15 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link Let me tell you a thing or two about what you call my unbalanced treatment of Aurobindo. I read Sri Aurobindo's complete works for my M.A. thesis, which was supervised by an Aurobindo devotee. He remains a friend even today and we disagree on Aurobindo. My former supervisor also remains a staunch devotee.

by Jyotirmaya on Tue 22 Aug 2006 10:46 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link In my book, I have never even indirectly imputed that Aurobindo Ghosh was a Hindutva votary. The book is about the ideas that went into making of political Hindutva. In other words, it is about genealogy of ideas, rather than suggesting that so and so was a Hindutva votary or any such nonsense. Moreover, the book contains attributions not only to the Bande Mataram period but takes the story upto India's independence and Sri Aurobindo passing on.

There are two things being conflated here. One is my inadequate research, a charge not even worthy of rejection. The second is my perspective, which I am more than happy for people to disagree with. But it is a perspective, not a `misunderstanding' as you suggest. Since, I do not think that philosophical texts ought to be hostage to a single understanding or interpretation. As for his continuing engagement with `otherness' and modernity, I have dealt with it exhaustively, within the parameters of my perspective...

In the case of Sri Aurobindo, all I have suggested in the book is that whether it was the period of revolutionary terrorism or the period as a Maharshi in Pondicherry, there are aspects of Sri Aurobindo's thought that forms the genealogy and patrimony of political Hindutva as we know it today. It simply cannot be dismissed as a simple instance of appropriation, which is the line Mr. Peter Heehs also tends to take. Whether Hinduism is not fossilised, or whether it is an evolving cultural/spiritual corpus or not, this is a subject which I shall try to have my say in a book published next year.

Annette Akroyd and Sri Aurobindo

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo
Table of Contents
BIRTH
ANNETTE AKROYD AND SRI AUROBINDO
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION: DARJEELING AND ENGLAND
RETURN TO INDIA AND LIFE IN BARODA
LIFE IN BARODA 2
ON "SONGS TO MYRTILLA" (1898)
MORE ON "SONGS TO MYRTILLA"
NATIONAL EDUCATION
BANDE MATARAM
THE BANDE MATARAM CASE
THE SURAT CONGRESS
SRI AUROBINDO’S SPEECHES AND HIS MEETING WITH LELE
THE ALIPORE TRIAL
THE ALIPORE TRIAL 2
THE ASSASSINATION OF NARENDRANATH GOSWAMI
THE JUDGMENT IN THE ALIPORE BOMB CASE
PROPOSED APPEAL OF THE ALIPORE JUDGMENT
THE HOOGHLY CONFERENCE
THE KARMAYOGIN CASE
THE "INDIA" INTERVIEW (1909)
THE DEPARTURE TO CHANDERNAGORE
FROM CHANDERNAGORE TO PONDICHERRY
MORE ON SRI AUROBINDO'S COMING TO PONDICHERRY
VEDAPURI, AGASTYA, AND THE ASHRAM (ANALYSIS OF A LEGEND)
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN PONDICHERRY 1910-1915
LIFE IN PONDICHERRY 1910 AND AFTER
FRIENDS IN PONDICHERRY
VISITORS IN PONDICHERRY 1911-1912
SRI AUROBINDO, THE MOTHER AND PAUL RICHARD 1911-1915
PAUL AND MIRRA RICHARD IN JAPAN 1916-1919
THE LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SRI AUROBINDO

Glossary to the Record of Yoga
This provisional glossary contains Sanskrit and other terms used by Sri Aurobindo in the Record of Yoga, the diary of his spiritual practice between 1909 and 1927. To download the current PDF version, click here .

To fully reconcile soul and body and achieve the Life Divine

I do believe that the evolutionary task of our age is to bring these two extremes back together--to fully reconcile soul and body and achieve the Life Divine in a monkey body. In truth, it is merely a matter of emphasis, for there is no question that this is at the heart of the uncorrupted Christian message.

Likewise, although Sri Aurobindo is responsible for correcting Vedanta’s overemphasis on otherworldly concerns, he too was simply going back to the original message of the Upanishads: “Those who combine action and meditation cross the sea of death through action and enter immortality,” that is, through the sacred union of soul and body, spirit and matter, male and female, mamamaya and papurusha (for those who know their sanskrit). posted by Gagdad Bob at 8:22 AM 3 comments

Auroville Romantics

Previous: Jyotirmaya Sharma: Hindutva (revisited) Next: Victory over Hindu Nationalist in California textbooks rewrite The other face of fanatacism by Pankaj Mishra by Rich on Wed 19 Apr 2006 10:47 AM PDT Science, Culture & Integral Yoga Permanent Link

Mishra is one of the leading lights of Literary and Cultural Criticism in India and the World today. His works are often cited in the "New York Review of Books," one of the great literary magazines in the world. Part of his own book The Romantics is set in Auroville and the Pondicherry Ashram, where the father of the protagonist goes to retire. Excerpt from: The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra © 2000. For ordering & reviews, see: The Complete Review, http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mishrap/romantics.htm

Synthesizing evolutionary theory with Eastern involutionary theory

Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was born in India, and educated in England where he was exposed to Western ideas and became a writer. After his return to India, he became a newspaper editor and leader of a nationalist movement. After a year in jail, he was introduced to yoga and meditation. Profoundly changed, he went on to found an ashram and dedicate the rest of his life to the study and practice of Advaita (nondual) Vedanta. Though his works are mainly philosophical and metaphysical, he is credited with synthesizing evolutionary theory with Eastern involutionary theory. Thus, his work does not include the detailed scientific references, seen for example, in Teilhard’s or Wilber’s work. Still, Aurobindo outlined a postmodern way to understand how Causal Consciousness creates, one that had a big influence on Wilber’s early work.

Aurobindo wrote The Life Divine (1940) over a period of years from 1914-1920. His version of the “Great Chain of Being” can be simplified into five major aspects nested within the three great fields of All-That-Is: Matter (physical), Life (physical), Mind (physical), Overmind (subtle), and Supermind (causal). “The oldest Vedantic knowledge tells us of five degrees of our being, the material, the vital [Life], the mental, the ideal [Overmind], and the spiritual or beatific [Supermind] and to each of these grades of our soul there corresponds a grade of our substance, a sheath as it was called in the ancient figurative language.

A later psychology found that these five sheaths of our substance were the material of three bodies, gross physical, subtle, and causal, in all of which the soul actually and simultaneously dwells, although there and now we are superficially conscious only of the material vehicle. But it is possible to come conscious in our other bodies as well and it is in fact the opening up of the veil between them and consequently between our physical, psychical [low subtle], and ideal [high subtle] personalities which is the cause of those ‘psychic’ and ‘occult’ phenomena that are now beginning to be increasingly though yet too little and too clumsily examined....” (31)

Further, notice that Matter is equivalent to the physiosphere, Life the biosphere, and Mind the noosphere, the three major stages of evolution to date. Also, Aurobindo’s Vedic ontology of physical, subtle, and causal sheaths or bodies are ontologically equivalent to our use of fields. In his cosmology, Supermind (All-That-Is) functions as the Primal Cause that fuels evolution through involution. “Supermind ... possesses the power of development, of evolution, of making explicit, and that power carries with it the other power of involution, of envelopment, of making implicit. In a sense, the whole of creation may be said to be a movement between two involutions, [Causal] Spirit in which all is involved and out of which all evolves downward to the other pole of Matter, Matter in which also all is involved and out of which all evolves upwards to the other pole of Spirit.” (32)

So what does this great sage see coming next in evolutionary terms? In the closing chapter, The Divine Life, Aurobindo explored probable futures. He wrestled with how the next great phase he called gnostic consciousness might manifest. Possibly in small enclaves and communities, but that has not worked to date in terms of the premodern religions. Though there was no clear path he could discern, he sensed that this next great stage of evolution, gnostic consciousness, would include a profound shift in consciousness and enhanced capacities. “An entirely new consciousness in many individuals transforming their whole being, transforming their mental, vital, and physical nature-self, is needed for the new life to appear; only such a transformation of the general mind, life, body nature can bring into being a new worthwhile collective existence.

The evolutionary [striving] must tend not merely to create a new type of mental beings but another order of beings who have raised their whole existence from our present mentalised animality to a greater spiritual level of the earth-nature. “Any such complete transformation of the earth-life in a number of human beings could not establish itself altogether at once; even when the turning-point has been reached, the decisive line crossed, the new life in its beginnings would have to pass through a period of ordeal and arduous development.” (33) Thus, Aurobindo points to the continued birth pangs as Consciousness attempts to manifest ever more fully in the physical field. « Free Personal Art main Universal & Spiritual Laws ... » .Seth Speaks Newsletter - Volume XXIII Fri, August 4, 2006