... third prediction of 8 May, the authorisation for the new society had finally been obtained. It was those students and players of the Cercle Sportif "who formed the core group of the society, L'Idee Nouvelle or 'the New Idea.' Sri Aurobindo explained to Motilal in a letter: "The second part of my work is the practical, consisting in the practice of Yoga, by an ever increasing number of young men all ...
... group that she laid the first foundation of her work here; they formed the Society called "L'Id£e Nouvelle". 4 Already, in her Paris days, a similar group had been formed around her, a group that came to be 1 We publish after this article a notice relating to the Society called "L'Idee Nouvelle", which originally appeared in the first number of the Arya, in August 1914. - Editor. Page ...
... became clear that they would have to return to France. Richard was in the Reserve list of the Army and Mirra had her own calls to duty. So, in spite of their deep commitment to the Arya and l'Idee Nouvelle, the decision to go had to be taken. In her diary entries we find expressions of Mirra's anguish but also of her unquestioning surrender to the Lord in trustfulness and readiness to accept whatever... succeeded in enlisting the support of many young men. And he decided to stay on in Pondicherry to work amongst them, and in order to give a positive shape to this work, he started a society called lid& Nouvelle (The New Idea) in which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were both actively involved. For the Mother it was indeed a continuation of the work she had been doing in Paris. The object of the society was ...
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