... flexibility you should be able to solve the problem. 6 November 1967 A meeting of the teachers of the Higher Course was held on the 9th of November 1967 in order to discuss suggestions for possible changes in the Higher Course. A proposal was made that the Higher Course may be reorganised as follows: 4 1) The choice of a subject for study should be freely made by each student... for the Higher Course, I think, it must be made clear that only those who are here for Yoga can be admitted as members of this Course—then the education becomes Yoga. If Mother gives Her directive on this point, it will make things very clear to many of us. Page 177 Page 178 It is not quite like that. In all the sections, Primary, Secondary and Higher Course, the children... just in one direction at the cost of everything else. It will be an all-round progress in all directions. 1 10 September 1953 To avoid giving too much work to the students of the Higher Course, but without lowering the general standard, the ones who feel that they have too much to do could be invited to give up a few courses. They would then be able to concentrate their time and energy ...
... of the English groups need not be included? It depends entirely on the capacities of the students. Note to the Professors of the Higher Course The Mother has suggested the following procedure for the study of Sri Aurobindo's works in the Higher Course. (1) The teacher first presents a subject and gives the necessary elements of information to the students. (2) Next, he gives to... About the proposal of not making any subject compulsory, 4 X said that we should ask Mother if this could apply to the study of Sri Aurobindo's teaching also. Yes. He said that when the Higher Course was instituted some years back, it was Mother's chief intention that all the students should have a sufficient understanding of Sri Aurobindo's teachings and it was She who had made the Common Course ...
... Aurobindo was busy with has happened.” As the year advanced, there was a great richness of inner growth — steady growth. After a few years another movement of the being began to take shape. The Higher Course was completed, I was teaching and the work with my father continued but something else was taking shape. I had read Sri Aurobindo’s works in the Ashram but something in me felt the need to read... life, in the manner of being.” She said she had already given the direction. She added that this was the direction to follow and the goal was assured. I resumed teaching at “Knowledge” in the Higher Course at the Ashram Centre of Education. With Sri Aurobindo’s Centenary in 1972 there was a round of conferences in the country dedicated to an understanding of his work. A “Sri Aurobindo Chair of Philosophy” ...
... author's earlier books, this book too owes its origin to the loving request of some of his students. During the last more than thirty years, in every academic Session many of the students of the Higher Course of SAICE ('Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education', Pondicherry) have studied under the guidance of the author various books of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother such as, The Life Divine, The... a loss to know for certain how to begin the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga and from which point and how to proceed methodically thereafter. Now, at the end of their academic studies in our Higher Course, some of the students decide to join the Sri Aurobindo Ashram as serious practitioners of the Integral Yoga of Self-transformation. But their problems get multiplied with the passage of time. Many ...
... understood that the children are too young to know about Yoga and to decide whether they want to take up Yoga or not. So the education to them is education and nothing else. But for the Higher Course [here the students' ages vary from eighteen to twenty-one], I think, it must be made clear that only those who are here for Yoga can be admitted as members of this Course — then the education becomes... Mother gives Her directive on this point, it will make things very clear to many of us." The Mother's Answer: "It is not quite like that. In all the sections, Primary, Secondary and Higher Course, the children will follow yogic methods in their education and prepare and try to bring down new knowledge. So all the students can be said to be doing Yoga. A distinction must be made, however ...
... Mother sent the following note to the School on April 14, 1967: "Henceforth the existing rules concerning the Higher Course will stand modified as follows: (I) Students who wish to obtain a certificate of having successfully completed the Higher Course as 'full students' will naturally have to take all the prescribed tests and satisfy the regulations governing the full-studentship ...
... development of their true swadharma, self-nature. But it is not very easy on the part of an untrained average student to utilise the methodology of free progress in the right way. For example, in the Higher Course of SAICE, where the free progress system is in full operation since 1968, it is found that many students fumble in practice in making the proper choice. For, there, an individual student has full... of study and not Chemistry or Biology. I have decided to study German as a foreign language and that with the assistance of, say, Manimala-di and not of the other five available teachers in the Higher Course; etc. Are not these apt examples of free actions of a free individual?" We are sorry to point out that none of these instances exemplify "free" actions. All of these have arisen out of the ...
... will impose on our Higher Course, it is too early to say; it will have to be studied and investigated in the coming years. One may imagine provisionally that when a student has done satisfactorily - i.e., checked and controlled by the teacher - all the work assigned to Class 10 in any one subject, then a certain number of avenues of study will open to him in the Higher Course. If he has reached this ...
... English literature. Then I gradually moved on to teaching Sri Aurobindo’s works. Savitri , Life Divine and Mother’s Entretiens . Tell me about what teaching is like for you in Knowledge, the higher course of the Ashram School. As a teacher in Knowledge, we are somewhat at the mercy of the students. They are free to learn whatever they want and that is what we must teach. It is a form of the Free ...
... some learned electricity and became engineers. Some went into physical culture and other areas of study. Not everybody liked the Free Progress method. At present Sri Aurobindo is taught in the Higher Course at “Knowledge” and Free Progress is a choice, it is not imposed. The systems are parallel, not everyone has the kind of mentality to take up Free Progress. One needs to have a willing and keen mind ...
... The New Age Association On Education The New Age Association was founded in 1964 as a forum of expression for the Higher Course students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The reader will please note the meaning of the following signs which have been placed after the subjects of the quarterly seminars and the seventh and ...
... school. In course only of a few years, it has grown into unimaginable dimensions and attracted teachers from all parts of India and abroad. And the number of students from the kindergarten stage to higher course has so much increased of late that it is difficult to find accommodation for all the applicants. People had to wait sometimes from Special attention is paid to physical education of the children ...
... for the last five decades; indeed, since the time in 1950 and 1951 when the entire Poem came out for the first time in book-form in a two-volume edition. Also, being a teacher in the Higher Course of SAICE (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education), I have had the good fortune of studying Savitri in depth along with a number of senior students of SAICE who happened to opt in each ...
... Jugal Kishore Mukherjee who has been residing as an inmate for the last fifty-two years in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, and has been teaching there various subjects to the students of the Higher Course of SAICE (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education). Each one of Mukherjee's previously published books, whether in English or in Bengali, has been the product of carefully conducted ...
... never snaps. In hours of difficulty, in hours of doubt and confusion in your life, you have that within you to support you. If you are conscious * Addressed to the Final Year students of the Higher Course of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, on October 26, 1976. Page 28 of it, so much the better; if you are not conscious, believe that it ...
... this 'Dramatic section' to Ishta Prasad Ghosh who has some experience of Bengali drama. Informal programmes will take place in the Hall of Harmony once a month by the students of the Higher Course ('Knowledge' section) and teachers of Bengali. They will present a story, either as an extract or in its entirety. Once a year, we will present a full-fledged play, selected for its educational ...
... not light as I had been during the 'Marching' for example. She always encouraged my study, and, in spite of my being not of an age when people normally study, she permitted me to complete the higher course, once in 1955 taking English Literature, and again in 1959 taking Sri Aurobindo's subjects. Though the students laughed behind my back, I knew I had the Mother's blessings. I did not, and even now ...
... only way to... (Note: Here there is a big gap as one side of the tape was over and I realised it a bit late.) The Mother: There are not enough English teachers? Tara : Only for the Higher Course. And also for geography and history . The Mother: I know they don’t have enough. Oh, History is not so important. Geography is quite necessary. Tara : For the whole school there are only ...
... matter. The mother tongue is all right. But for those who want to do higher studies, the English is indispensable. Blessings. 3 November 1967 * At present many of our Higher Course students do not know sufficiently well any one language in which they could express their thoughts and feelings adequately and sensitively. Is this required or not, Mother? And if so, which language ...
... Page 220 The mother tongue is all right. But for those who want to do higher studies, the English is indispensable. Blessings. 3 November 1967 At present many of our Higher Course students do not know sufficiently well any one language in which they could express their thoughts and feelings adequately and sensitively. Is this required or not, Mother? And if so, which language ...
... inspiration is not ready, waiting to come to you? Inspiration brings its manifold gifts to the one who knows how to receive them. Sweet Mother, A young man who has finished the Higher Course came to see me a few days ago and said he wanted to study The Life Divine with me. As I have not read the book except in bits and pieces, I told him that I could not help him. But he was very insistent ...
... of India issued a gazetted notification in 1962 which solved the problem in a great way. The Government notification officially recognised "the successful completion by 'full students' of the Higher Course of Sri Aurobindo International Page 110 Centre of Education, Pondicherry, as equivalent to the First Degree of a recognised Indian University (i.e. B.A. or B.Sc.) for purposes ...
... Publishers' Note We are happy to bring to the reading public a seventh research work from the pen of Jugal Kishore Mukherjee who happens to be a senior faculty member of the Higher Course of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. We have already published six of his previous English works which are: 1. The Destiny of the Body (The Vision and Realisation ...
... Rough and hard was not the way she adopted when dealing with anyone, especially children. Lastly a battle royal raged among the teachers with regard to the study of English literature in the Higher Course. Some wanted it to be made compulsory for the Art students, others for making it optional. The decision was finally left to the Mother, Hearing both sides, she wrote: "To the teachers, It ...
... Mother formally opened a school for about twenty children. She herself was one of the teachers. From this small beginning has grown the International Centre of Education with its separate School and Higher Course classes and today it constitutes one of the most important and prominent features of the Ashram. Sri Aurobindo had a deep and abiding interest in education. As a teacher, he had seen the weaknesses ...
... because they came out after the last volume of that collection had been issued. In Part 4, "Talks to Page 117 the Students", almost all the talks were given to the students of the Higher Course of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education; they were intended especially for the final-year students who were leaving the school. The passages introducing the five parts of this book ...
... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections Your Soul I congratulate you all on your success, your success in having passed the Higher Course, which is all to your credit. But this is not the important thing. What is important is that you have passed your youth here and have acquired something in the process, something that one does not gain by dint of merit but ...
... decades, Nehru was with the ages; he was "one with the Soul of India that lives for Eternity". In the middle of June, Dr. Kishor Gandhi, received an inspiration to form an association of the Higher Course students of the Centre of Education with the purpose of "giving an effective response to the Mother's repeated calls for collaboration with the working of the newly emergent forces released in the ...
... educational landscape of the country, and flowing from this was the order of the Union Public Service Commission dated 14 August 1962 that students of the Centre of Education who complete their Higher Course are to be treated on a par with the holders of the B.A. or B.Sc. degree of the Indian Universities. Page 695 VI Another New Year, 1962; and once again the Mother's message ...
... possibilities of developing mind to manifest higher powers that would, in due course, promote higher levels of harmony. These topics should be presented in a graded manner so that one begins to perceive how the entire world-process is one and how a true harmony between oneself and humanity can be established. At higher levels in secondary or higher secondary courses, introductory topics which would provide... an attempt to correlate main aspects of what Swami Vivekananda spoke in regard to man-making education with the varieties of subjects that are normally pursued in the primary, secondary and higher secondary courses in Indian schools. This programme underlines those elements of education which seem to be indispensable for every one to grow up as a well-developed human being, irrespective of what... environment, and of value of relationships and internal complexities Page 34 of psychological and physical life. At a lower level, this clarity is conceptual, but as we ascend higher and higher, it assumes the nature of intuitive and inspirational enlightenment. Love is that indefinable but powerful force of delight that ultimately brings about harmony in all relations. As Shelley pointed ...
... before - pre-primary, primary, secondary, higher secondary, and tertiary or collegiate - this was to be no steel-frame classification, for pupils would be free to take some subjects at one level and others at other levels. In the Higher Courses there were the traditional faculties (Arts, Science, Engineering, etc.), but again pupils were free to opt for courses from more than one faculty. The new atmosphere... towards a goal that is nobler and vaster, more generous and more true.... We want here only those who aspire for a higher and better life, who thirst for knowledge and perfection, who look forward eagerly to a future that will be more totally true. 3 The academic courses were not to be stereotyped as of old so as to prepare the pupils to take their vulnerable places in the rat-race of the... and in teaching techniques. More than once during the nineteen-fifties, the Mother had expressed her deep dissatisfaction even with the best that was being done at the Centre of Education, and of course she knew that what passed for education in the outside world was hardly worth the name. But it was not enough for the Centre of Education to do just a little better than what others did badly elsewhere ...
... darshan within oneself to receive the blessing. Mother said, “Preparation in oneself is what makes darshan so special.” What did you do after you finished your courses in the Ashram school? I had asked Mother if I should take my higher courses in England. She wrote back: “I intended to let you go for your studies in England without telling you anything about it, because each one must be free to... great risk of drifting away from the experience you have realized and then you cannot know what will happen to you. That is all I wanted to say — now it is left to you to choose and decide.” Of course, I did not go. The Mother then said I could study botany in the Ashram library and I received special permission from Medhananda to do so. Mother asked me to take on teaching an English class in the ...
... assigned (as we have seen) a central role almost to education. A school had been founded for children on 2 December 1943, but in the course of the seven years they had grown up in age and abilities and spread and depth of consciousness, and were now ripe for higher education. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had definite views about the future, and about the role of education in hastening that future... regards the University Centre, the Mother confided to Munshi that she was building up "slowly, step by step, but firmly". For one thing, the entire adventure of education from Kindergarten to the Higher Courses was a single spectrum; and the whole arc, from physical to spiritual, was in integral whole. If in May 1951, she had opened the Sports Ground, now on 24 April 1952, she opened a section of the... Living", the Mother had said that the different aspects of education didn't exclude one another; they could and indeed should be pursued at the same time. She had added further that, as we rose higher, we would see that the Truth that we sought comprised the four major aspects of Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty, realisable respectively through the psychic, the mind, the vital and the body. In ...
... es of developing mind to manifest higher powers that would, in due course, promote higher levels of harmony. These topics should be presented in a graded manner so that one begins to perceive how the entire world-process is one and how a true harmony between oneself and humanity can be established. At higher levels in secondary or higher secondary courses, introductory topics which would provide... attempt to correlate the main aspects of what Swami Vivekananda spoke in regard to man-making education with the varieties of subjects that are normally pursued in the primary, secondary and higher secondary courses in Indian schools. This programme underlines those elements of education which seem to be indispensable for every one to grow up as a well-developed human being, irrespective of what... to higher levels of character. These are: illumination, love and heroism. Illumination is basically the experience of clarity in respect of understanding of inner states of consciousness, of widening horizons of environment, and of value of relationships and internal complexities of psychological and physical life. At a lower level, this clarity is conceptual, but as we ascend higher and higher, it ...
... ignore, as much as possible, those that separate. ... 11 In the course of the Sweet Year, there were a few promising outer events like the inauguration of Auropress on 24 April and the opening of Last School by Andre on 6 October, both in Auroville, and the inauguration by Nolini on 14 December of Knowledge to house the Higher Courses in the Centre of Education. On the latter occasion, the Mother sent... established here upon earth the Life Divine. This Force, this "decisive action direct from the Supreme", was really the evolutionary push towards new horizons, the tearing of the mental lid to reach the higher godheads of consciousness, - something of a breakthrough comparable to, but of infinitely more momentous consequence than, the recent breakthrough in atomic physics, molecular biology and space technology... thought was something that had a whirling motion, while consciousness opened upward. For the Mother, in all things, the attitude of surrender to the Supreme ("What Thou wiliest!") had become the only course. Her old motivations and spring-boards of action had now crumbled down, and the Divine was her sole refuge. While her body seemed to be enfeebled ("I can no more see clearly nor speak clearly"), it ...
... ns. He, therefore, underlined the importance of merit. He said that teachers are not receiving the kind of respect that they ought to get. He said that by the time a student comes to higher secondary course, he tends to reject the teacher; and at the level of university education, the relationship between the teacher and the student totally breaks down. He pointed to the attraction of the... He referred in this connection to the four motivations or purusharthas which are recognised in the Indian tradition, namely, dharma, artha, kama and moksha. He said that the higher the motivation of life, the higher is the character of a person. He also referred to the definition of dharma given by Vyasa, who, in a brief statement, said that dharma is that which promotes help to others while... his association with the National Service Scheme, he said that it is only when the leaders of the Scheme personally participate in the programmes that the students feel inspired to put into practice higher values. As for the role of mass media, he pointed out that they should not only cater for entertainment but also provide information and message. He deplored the fact that the present films and programmes ...
... 1952. 29 And the Mother was by no means impatient, for she had told K. M. Munshi in March 1952: "I am building up slowly, step by step, but firmly." 30 For one thing, from kindergarten to the higher courses, it was one continuous spectrum; and again, from physical to spiritual - covering on the way vital, mental and psychic education - was viewed as one integral whole. That from the very beginning... depression, reminding always of the ever-present help, pointing to the eternal sunshine, she is firm, quiet and persevering in the deep and continuous urge that drives us towards the integrality of the higher nature. All the work of the other Powers leans on her for its completeness; for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of the structure... even when Sri Aurobindo and the Mother espoused the Allied cause during the war, or when Sri Aurobindo advised the Indian leaders to accept the Cripps Proposals in 1942, they were only acting from the higher spiritual - not the political or national - level. The issue as they saw it was between the Divine and Asuric forces, and they had to side with the former and try to persuade others also to do so. ...
... Mira, who had just then finished with distinction her higher secondary course. Father had decided that she should join the local women's college and study for the B.A. degree. She had to decide what subjects she should offer. I was in the twelfth class, still one year below her level, but I had the firm view that the college provided no courses which were truly relevant to Mira's psychological needs... imprisonment to escape from which we yearned intensely. In that year, however, in the month of December, when Mira was preparing hard for her Board Examination of the final year of the Higher Secondary Course, a small group of five women from Delhi paid a visit to Dwarka. The Page 220 group was led by an impressive scholar and singer, Kamalini Sharma, who had taken a vow to sing only... "Look, your Page 223 father is expecting Mira to pass her higher secondary examination with very good marks. She should fulfil his expectations. Thereafter, we may be in a better position to persuade him," We agreed to follow mother's counsel. Mira appeared at her final examination and the results came out in due course. All this took nearly six months. Mira had done exceptionally well ...
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