... this particular educational Institution of the Mother's creation issues "Certificates" to its "successful" students or not. Some swear by the Mother's well-known declaration that Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education established in Pondicherry does not issue any Certificate nor does it confer any degree or diploma to the successful candidate after proper academic examination. But there are others... world for all the others." (CWM, Vol. 12, pp. 353-54) So this was the deeper and essential reason, and not any arbitrary whim, which was at the basis of the decision why Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education decided at first to refuse giving any degrees, diplomas or certificates. But things took a different turn after some years. The story or history behind was quite interesting. ... better man-making education than in Page 108 Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It so happened that the Mother graciously admitted many children, in every academic session to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. And this process continued year after year. These children grew up in the Ashram atmosphere under the Mother's direct guidance and blossomed into a new type of human beings in ...
... course, referring to the aims and purpose set by the Mother behind the establishment of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Otherwise, it will be a great tragedy for all concerned. It is therefore the sacred duty of all the teachers, students and organisers of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education to keep vividly alive in their memory and consciousness these aims and ideals and make... Principles and Goals of Integral Education VIII SAICE: Aims and Purpose Behind Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education established by the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry and popularly known under its acronym, SAICE, has now a reputation all over the world as an educational institution of excellent teaching tradition, being... Centre with much more profound and far-reaching goals before it. This Centre, originally named as "Sri Aurobindo International University Centre" was later given the designation of "Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education". In popular parlance the educationists and others know it as "SAICE". To go back in history, we may recall that after the passing of Maharishi Sri Aurobindo, the great prophet ...
... then. But it was her faith in the Mother that brought her through all the vicissitudes of life. Sudhir Kumar: Kshatratejas Incarnate RANAJIT SARKAR ( Former student of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and now a Professor in Holland ) When I think of Sudhir Kumar, the image that arises in my mind is that of a burning flame, a portion of kshatratejas, warrior power. He was fashioned... dungeons of the Andamans. I can still hear his lion-like voice roaring against all hostile forces. Magnetic Influence ( Recounted by BIKASH MUKHERJEE , former student of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, to Mona ) When I think of Sudhir-da, the first thought that comes to my mind is his simplicity. He was a very simple man, inwardly and outwardly. No showing off, no pretence... strange conduct clearly shows that he believed in the adage: To hear adverse criticism against one’s Guru is a great sin. Why Worry? ARABINDA BASU ( Professor of Philosophy, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ) Once I pressed Sudhir-da to tell something on Sri Aurobindo. He remained silent for a long time. I could read on his face his effort to master his emotions. Slowly, very softly ...
... locution in either has semantically the same ring: there seems no ground ¹. "Overhead Poetry”: Poems with Sri Aurobindo's Comments, edited by K. D. Sethna (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry 1972), Pp.11..33 Page 27 to differentiate the middle turn of speech - "the Divine Presence" - in the latter phrase from that in the former... of us who used to gather in the "Prosperity"-room before the evening's Soup-distribution. Let me quote a recollection I put into a talk I myself gave to the students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education on 20 October 1971:³ "When we usually talk of Supermind and Overmind, we do draw a marked distinction between them, but we do not go beyond saying that the latter is only... absolutely Page 54 different. I have seen, it is this: the Supramental is at work there. I am passing through extraordinary hours." In the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, February 1972, where both the talks appear in the series "Notes on the Way" on pp. 83-84 and 91 respectively, a footnote has been put in connection with the second talk, reading: ...
... Sweet Mother-Harmony of Light ( 1978) as reported by Mona Sarkar. NOLLINI KANTA GUPTA: Collected Works in 8 volumes in English have been published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education Pondicherry. The two articles included here, Savitri-The Wont of Sri Aurobindo and The Opening Scene of Savitri (pages 50-67), are from Vol. 4. NIRODBARAN:... literature. RAVINDRA KHANNA: A Study of Similes in Savitri (pages 241-56) was published in Mother India, September 1968, pp. 605-620. He was professor of English at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. SISIRKUMAR GHOSE: Poetry of Sri Aurobindo and Sri Aurobindo: Poet are two of his significant literary works connected with Sri Aurobindo. Affiliated... A Sanskrit Rendering of the Symbol Dawn (pages 507-22) is from Sanskrit Writings, Vol. 9. Page 555 R. Y. DESHPANDE: Is professor of physics in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and associate editor of Mother India, a monthly review of culture published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry. The Legend of Savitri with Some Departures Made by Sri ...
... Aurobindo Archives and Research, Vol. I, No. 1 (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, 1977). 4. B-l: K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo: A Biography and a History (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1985). 5. BM: Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram: Early Political Writings (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1973). 6. C-Compl.: Nirodbaran's Correspondence... 29. SAC: Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952). 30. SAH: Nirodbaran, Sri Aurobindo's Humour (Correspondence Part III) (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1974). 31. Savitri: Sri Aurobindo, Savitri (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, 1970). Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Part One (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry... 35. TA: Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1982). Page 440 36. TP: Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna), Talks on Poetry (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1989). 37. TPL: Sri Aurobindo, Tales of Prison Life. Translated from the original Bengali by Sisirkumar Ghose (Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Calcutta, 1979). ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education During the 1920s and 1930s, the Mother's educational guidance was limited to instructing a few individuals in French and offering general counsel in other courses of study. At that time, children were not permitted, as a rule, to live in the Ashram. In the early 1940s, a number of families were admitted... resolved to establish an "international university centre". On 6 January 1952, she inaugurated the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre. The name was changed in 1959 to the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. At present, the Centre of Education has about 150 full or part-time teachers and 500 students, ranging from nursery to advanced levels. The curriculum includes the humanities... awaken in its students a joy of learning and an aspiration for progress that are independent of outer motives. Page 110 Significance of the Symbol of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education One of the most recent forms under which Sri Aurobindo conceived of the development of his work was to establish at Pondicherry an International University Centre open ...
... Principles and Goals of Integral Education IX SAICE: Courses of Study It is well understood by most educationists that in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education there cannot be any fixed syllabus for all the students of the same academic level, for "Free Progress" is the favoured norm there and in the free progress of the students it is... Integral Yoga, Puma Yoga. Many hundreds of sadhakas and sadhikas permanently residing there are seriously practising this integral way of self-development and self-transformation. And Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is an indivisible integral part of the Ashram organisation and culture. Hence it is obviously expected that a religious-spiritual bias will definitely be at work in choosing the... behind, let us quote some passages from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which will make clear to our readers' mind what courses of study are offered to the students in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and why. (1)"To unite East and West, to give the best of one to the other and make a true synthesis, a University will be established for all kinds of studies. Our school ...
... Education Commission, Government of India, by P.B. Saint Hilaire (Pavitra), Director, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, on behalf of the Teachers of this Institution.* ""This Memorandum is an official document stating the position of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. It is in fact a summary of the thesis expounded in the previous pans of this book... not mere chimeras; they were promises. And he can see now that the future will realise all the promises of the past. * Such is the basis that we, the teachers of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, would wish should be given to education in this country. India is in a unique position in this respect and we believe she has a great future before her, a future which is also ...
... Series, 1922 ' Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, First Series in 1926, Second Series in 1928 Combined Edition: Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1950 Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1959 ' First published in the Arya in two series: First Series from August 1916 to July 1918, and Second Series from August 1918 to July 1920. ... Self-Determination ( See 28). SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15 28 . THE HUMAN CYCLE—THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY—WAR AND SELF-DETERMINATION Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1962, Combined Edition (See 27, 30, 100) SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15 29 . HYMNS TO THE MYSTIC FIRE Sri Aurobindo... Pondicherry, 1952 The last of Sri Aurobindo's prose writings, reproduced from the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education ( presently called the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education), February 1949 to November 1950. Reprinted in New York in 1953 as The Mind of Light (See 53). SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16 87 ...
... Sethna's Wordsworth Criticism SETHNA'S lectures on poetry given to a group of students starting their university career at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and published under the title Talks an Poetry are astonishing in the wealth of critical thought they contain. As might be expected, these talks convey the flavour of his intellect... Indian's view has not added a new dimension to the poem. P. MARUDANAYAGAM Page 286 References 1. K.D. Sethna, Talks on Poetry, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 1989), p. 6. This book contains many of the critical essays discussed here and further references to it will be from this edition and pagination will be incorporated into ...
... inevitable diminution until the day when the mind itself will be transformed and be capable of participating in the experience without deforming it.... 54. Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, August 1964, pp. 81-83. Page 162 "This transformation is just the most difficult point for the ordinary mind to accept, because it means that almost the faculty... the Supreme Reality. Because of its nature of supra-rational inalienable Unity, it is absolutely free from all mental formulations, however comprehensive 55. Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, August 1963, pp. 31-35. Page 163 these may be. Thus, when we seek to envisage It by the mind, we have perforce to proceed through an unending succession of separate ...
... paintings to be my personal possessions and affair, because I had done them and because the Mother had graciously granted me the copyright of them—which much later I passed on to the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. But really speaking, the paintings of the whole of Savitri are the Mother's own creation, based not only on her series of visions but also on her own guiding sketches: they are... to stay near her on 10th February 1955. Once she revealed to a small group of sadhaks, soon after the first one-volume edition of Savitri was published in 1954 by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education: Savitri is occult knowledge and spiritual experience. Some part of it can be understood mentally—but much of it needs the same knowledge and experience for understanding ...
... a new ascent of the species above and beyond man towards superman, leading in the end to the appearance, of the divine race upon earth.46 Page 78 Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education In the foregoing pages I have shown that, if education is to prepare humanity for its future and meet the needs of a rapidly evolving world, it must be based on a clear... human life, both individual and collective. And I have tried to show that the comprehensive views of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother give a complete answer to this problem. The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is tentatively trying to translate this ideal into practice, but does not in any way claim to have realized it. The ideal we have accepted, it is towards it that we move with our ...
... considerably by the inclusion of two new sections: "Our New System of Education", a transcript of a series of three lectures delivered by the author in 1961 to the teachers of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and "Two Cardinal Points of Education", a collective memorandum written by the author and presented by him in 1965 to the Education Commission of the Government of India. This... This enlarged edition was brought out again in 1976 and is presently (1991) being issued for a fifth time. All five editions have been published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Page 184 Education and the Aim of Human Life By Pavitra (P. B. Saint-Hilaire) Written in 1961 and revised by the author in 1967, this book offers a succinct analysis of the nexus ...
... Counouma, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Most of them were subsequently published in the eight-volume Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta (English edition), published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. A few pieces in the present book were published only in the Collected Works. One piece, "What Is to Be Done?", is being published here for the first time. In The... 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 are taken from Nolini's "Observations" ...
... HUMAN LIFE Publisher's Note This book is a study of the educational ideal of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and of the educational method being developed at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Its author, Pavitra, was the first director of the Centre of Education. In the first section of the book he affirms the need of an "integral" education - one aimed at developing... Mother, and remained with them for the rest of his life. In 1951 the Mother appointed him director of the newly-founded Sri Aurobindo International University Centre (later renamed Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education). He served in this position for eighteen years, until his passing in 1969 at the age of seventy-five. . . . they should be children of the past, possessors of the ...
... Edition of 1978. Most of the quotations from the Mother's writings have been given their references in the Collected Works of the Mother published in the late 70s. The Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is herein referred to only as Bulletin. The other references have been left as they were in our 1972 Edition. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Renascent India... 70. Reported by Dr. P. Sanyal in 'A Call from Pondicherry', Mother India, December 1953, p.187 71. Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, Published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (1954). Editor's Note, p. 817 72. Mother India, February 1954, pp. 46-47 73. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 132 74. Mother India, March 1971, pp ...
... Anti-Ashram elements attack, murder one inmate just outside the main building. 1949 Feb 21 Publication of the Bulletin of Physical Education (renamed in 1959 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education), in which many of her writings and talks and her (translations of Sri Aurobindo's works are first published. - Feb 21-1950 Nov 24 Sri Aurobindo's last prose writings The... re-open official negotiations regarding the merger of French-Indian territories with India. - Jan 6 Inaugurates Sri Aurobindo International University Centre (renamed in 1959 Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education). 'The conditions in which men live on earth are the result of their state of consciousness. To seek to change these conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera ...
... Yoga aiming at nothing short of perfection. Finally I am happy that, like my earlier book on Sri Aurobindo, this Homage to the Mother too is being published under the aegis of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and, opportunely, at the time of the Mother's Birth Centenary celebrations. K. R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR 'Matri Bhavan' Mylapore, Madras February 1978 v ... associates' taste and tact and finesse in finalising the 'copy'. It is a rare pleasure, finally, to record once again my thanks to Kumari Parubai Patil, Registrar of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, for her decision to bring out this new edition of On the Mother to meet the steady demand for the book. K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR 6 October 1992 ...
... care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bulletins! ¹ Sri Aurobindo, "Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on The Second World War", Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1 (February 1976), pp. 24-26. ² Narayan Prasad, Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1968), p. 288. ³ Sri Aurobindo... (Pondicherry: Sri Aurol Ashram, 1973), p. 159. ³ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 39. 4 Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the Second World War”, Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XXVIII, No. (April 1976), p. 58. 5 Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 394. Page 232 Sri Aurobindo (April 1950) Sri Aurobindo ...
... The Golden Path Jhumur Bhattacharya ( Teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, actress in Sri Aurobindo’s plays and dancer ) Jhumur is one of the true swans of the Ashram. Tall, statuesque, regal and elegant she gracefully moves about the Ashram compound in beautifully hand-painted saris and most of the time she carries with... facing Mother’s balcony. Suddenly, I saw her come out dressed all in white and for a moment I forgot that she was not actually physically there. In the August 1995 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, one of the Ashram photographers had taken a photo of Mother’s balcony and it shows Mother standing there, in kitty cap, in a subtle physical form! So you see, she is still with ...
... resolved to establish an “international university centre.” On 6 January 1952, she inaugurated the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre. The name was changed in 1959 to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. ‘At present [ca. 1978], the Centre of Education has about 150 full or part-time teachers and 500 students, ranging from nursery to advanced levels. The curriculum includes the... them in the body of humanity. But the supramental transformation is the business of humanity as a whole, of which some privileged or pioneering elements found their way to the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Of these elements some became Ashramites, many more went out to live the worldly life. On a certain occasion the Mother even said to the teachers: ‘If out of 150 students there ...
... December 1 is the day of the Annual Programme of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. In 1955 it took place in the Playground where the spectators had to sit in the open. × Now the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. ...
... Publisher's Note This compilation consists mainly of selections from the Mother's correspondence and conversations with the students and teachers of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, the school of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. There are, in addition, a few notes and messages and some letters to young people living in the Ashram in the 1930s. Most aspects... establish a University Centre in his name. One year later, on 6 January 1952, she inaugurated the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre; this name was changed in 1959 to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Classes at the Centre of Education range from nursery level to college level, with courses in the humanities, fine arts, sciences, engineering and vocational training. Mathematics ...
... those in the first. Part One. Articles These fifteen articles were first published in the Ashram quarterly, Bulletin of Physical Education (later renamed Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ) between 1950 and 1955. The Mother wrote them in French and translated a few, entirely or in part, into English; these translations have been retained here. Early translations... made by others have been revised, or new translations made for publication here. Part Two. Messages, Letters and Conversations I. Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The material in this section was compiled from correspondences, private papers, public messages and tape-recorded conversations of the Mother. Some entries were first published in various Ashram books and journals; ...
... of one's conscious being and enters into a part of one's being which is completely 1 The Synthesis of Yoga p. 453. (Italics ours) 2 Vide Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XIV, No. 3, pp. 43-45. (Italics ours) Page 89 unconscious or rather into a domain where one has no corresponding consciousness — one goes beyond the... For wherever a radical transition has to be made, there is always this triple movement, — ascent, widening of field and base, integration..." 2 1 Vide Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XIV, No. 3, p. 43. (Italics ours) 2 The Life Divine, p. 737. (Italics ours) Page 90 So we see that in order to have a divinely transformed ...
... and weaknesses associated with the race everywhere on the globe. This vision is clearly and unambiguously encoded in the "Students' Prayer" given by the Mother to the students of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The Prayer is as follows: "Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born, against the past... full of faith; fight in order to win, as you say [in your prayer], the great victory. I have trust in you and I count upon you." (CWM, Vol. 12, pp. 153-54) Students of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, never forget these reassuring words of the Mother: "I have trust in you and I count upon you." Show your gratitude to her by sincerely trying to fulfil her expectation. Act and ...
... scope with far-reaching consequences for the future of humanity, by progressively transforming it into a University Centre in 1953. This University Centre is currently known as "Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education" more familiarly known as "SAICE", its acronym. Many a novel and original experiment in education has been conducted in this "Centre" under the Mother's direct guidance and is still... handbook to these friends in a manageably brief compass. Now comes a third but no less important reason. During the long period when the Mother herself held the reins of "Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education", she trained under her own direct guidance many of her children into capable teachers who would properly understand her principles of education, be clear about the true nature ...
... Synthesis of Yoga, Part 1. 1949 — The Human Cycle published. February 21 First issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education (now called the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) with Sri Aurobindo's "Message". Seven more articles written by Sri Aurobindo appear in subsequent issues. First issue of the cultural review Mother India. 1950 — P... Two and Three of Savitri. April 24 A convention, presided over by the Mother for the inauguration of the Sri Aurobindo University Centre (presently called the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education). 1968 — February 28 Foundation of Auroville. 1972 — August 15 Worldwide celebration of the birth centenary of Sri Aurobindo. Publication of his complete works ...
... to me; and some works — Collected Poems and Plays, for example — have long been out of print. For Savitri and for the major prose works I have generally used the uniform Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education Collection. Once the Centenary Edition is completed, it should be possible to standardise the pagination, and I do hope that, when the time comes for me to prepare the next edition... producing this rather voluminous work both expeditiously and xv efficiently. It is also peculiarly appropriate that this book should be published under the auspices of Sri Aurobindo international Centre of Education in the Sri Aurobindo Centenary Year. K. R. S RINIVASA I YENGAR Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Delhi Branch) New Delhi 16 12 March 1972 xvi ...
... Sri Aurobindo International University Centre was renamed by the Mother as "Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education" in order to give a wider scope and meaning to the training given there. The Bulletin of Physical Education was likewise renamed the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The Ashram School, established on 2 December 1943, had grown into the University ...
... imp. 1991) The Mother: Paintings and Drawings (1992) Flowers and their Messages (4th Revised ed. 1992) The Spiritual Significance of Flowers (1994) Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry) A New Education for a New Consciousness (1992) Ever to the New and the Unknown (1993) Sri Aurobindo Ashram (New Delhi) Pioneer of the S... Pondicherry, 1990 Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, Calcutta, since 1942 The Advent (Quarterly) since 1944 Sri Aurobindo Circle (Annual) since 1945 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (formerly Bulletin of Physical Education) (Quarterly) since 1949 Mother India (Monthly since 1951- originally fortnightly) since 1949 Srinvantu (Quarterly) Calcutta ...
... translation. All of them were tape-recorded. The talks from January 2 to September 15 were first published in the original French with an English translation in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from April 1973 to August 1978. In 1979 all the talks were brought out in English under the title Questions and Answers 1954 , as Volume 6 of the Collected Works of the Mother ...
... by hand, but most were recorded on a dictating machine and then transcribed. They were first published in an incomplete form in French and English in the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education . Extracts from ten talks appeared in various issues between 1957 and 1959; the rest, with four exceptions, were serialised in chronological order in the issues between November ...
... And the thing that becomes most important for them is to prepare to pass examinations with success; for it is with * Reproduced from the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo international Centre of Education (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry ), Aug. 1960. Page 167 diplomas and certificates and titles that they will be able to get good positions and earn much ...
... × The Ashram School was originally named Sri Aurobindo International University Centre; later the name was changed to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. ...
... English translation. All of them were tape-recorded. Passages from some of the talks were published in the French original with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from 1956 to 1963. Between March 1970 and August 1974 a new translation of all the talks was serialised in the monthly journal Mother India . This translation was brought out ...
... translation. All of them were tape-recorded. Passages from some of these conversations were published in the French original with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education between 1957 and 1963. In 1973 a new English translation of all the conversations was brought out as a book entitled Questions and Answers 1957 & 1958 . The same book, with minor ...
... Aphorismes: Traduits et Commentes par La Mère . The remaining translations and commentaries were serialised in French, with an English translation, in the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education between April 1960 and August 1976. A complete edition of the French text, entitled Pensées et Aphorismes: Traduits et Commentes par La Mère , was published in two volumes in ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Study My dear child, The true wisdom is to be ready to learn from whatever source the knowledge can come. We can learn things from a flower, an animal, a child, if we are eager to know always more, because there is only One Teacher in the world—the Supreme Lord, and He manifests through ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Conduct WHAT A CHILD SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER The necessity of an absolute sincerity. The certitude of Truth's final victory. The possibility of constant progress with the will to achieve. AN IDEAL CHILD IS GOOD-TEMPERED He does not become angry when things seem to go against ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Reading Sweet Mother, You have said that I do not think well. How can one develop one's thought? You must read with great attention and concentration, not novels or dramas, but books that make you think. You must meditate on what you have read, reflect on a thought until you have Page ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Aims Why are we here in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram? There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers himself ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Students You who are young, are the hope of the country. Prepare yourselves to be worthy of this expectation. Blessings. Of one thing you can be sure— your future is in your hands . You will become the man you want to be and the higher your ideal and your aspiration, the higher will be ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Studies Elsewhere I intended to let you go for your studies to England without telling you anything about it, because each one must be free to follow the path he has chosen. But after what you have written I feel compelled to write to you. No doubt from the exterior point of view, you will ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Holidays There are two rumours in the Ashram concerning holidays. The first is that You said that this time You are allowing us to go out during the holidays, but that You will not allow it next year. The second is that You do not want us to go out. I would like to know which rumour ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Students Prayer Given at the inauguration of the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre. Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born, against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Messages to The Mother's International School, Delhi A new Light has appeared upon earth. Let this new School opened today be guided by it. Blessings. 23 April 1956 Page 114 Teach us to be really sincere in our effort towards the Truth. 23 April 1957 Let yesterday's ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Study of Works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Sweet Mother, how should one read your books and the books of Sri Aurobindo so that they might enter into our consciousness instead of being understood only by the mind? To read my books is not difficult because they are written in the simplest ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Languages To unite East and West, to give the best of one to the other and make a true synthesis, a university will be established for all kinds of studies. Our school will form a nucleus of that university. In our school I have put French as the medium of instruction. One of the reasons is ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Teachers To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can make to a child, to learn always and everywhere. It is an invaluable possession for every living being to have learnt to know himself and to master himself. To know oneself means to know the motives of one's actions and reactions ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education National Education Our aim is not a national system of education for India, but an education for the world at large. Sublime Mother, Our aim is no exclusive national system of education for India but an essential and fundamental education for all mankind. But, is it not true, Mother ...
... most of these letters on Yoga, along with many additional ones, were published under the titles On Yoga II: Tome One and On Yoga II : Tome Two , as Volumes VI and VII of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education collection. The first tome, with further additions, was reissued in 1969. In 1970 a new edition of the letters was published under the title Letters on Yoga ; this edition contained ...
... Works" appeared in this edition for the first time as chapter XIII of Part I. The SAIUC edition was reprinted, with corrections, in 1957. The same publisher (under the new name Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) issued a new edition of the same text in 1965. In 1970 The Synthesis of Yoga was published as volumes 20 and 21 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. This ...
... Hymns , Hymns of the Atris , and seven of the "Other Hymns" under the title On the Veda . A new edition of the same text was brought out by the same publisher (renamed Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) in 1964. Both these editions included as an appendix an essay from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts, "The Origins of Aryan Speech". In 1971, most of the same material ...
... one physical volume) by the same publisher in 1944. A third edition of "Volume I" came out in 1947. In 1955, a fourth Indian edition of The Life Divine was published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in one physical volume. This edition was reprinted in 1960. A fifth edition was brought out in 1970 by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram as part of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library ...
... something different from my conception. As for sainthood itself or the siddhis † of Yoga including a siddha ‡ body, that too *First published in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, November 1980, pp. 52, 54. *Liberation † Occult powers. ‡ Perfected Page 83 is not what I mean by transformation - it is a radical change ...
... only against her principal field of work but also against the spirit of Truth, the Truth-Consciousness, which she represented on earth. 3 February 1982 1. Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, April 1969, p. 87. Page 228 ...
... double role that Amal Kiran (as Sri Aurobindo had renamed K. D. Sethna, giving the new designation's meaning as "The Clear Ray") was appointed lecturer in poetry soon after the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education had been founded. The class he took twice a week was from the beginning an unusual one. He had told the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, who had appointed him, that he would ...
... suggestive summary of the poet's mood in its basic orientation. The poet moves among a * Adapted from Nos. 2,3. and 4 of Talks on Poetry delivered to students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and published in Mother India but not yet collected in book-form. 1 P. 446. Page 199 diversity of things but everywhere he gets into living touch with ...
... experience and an inner progress. We start from what is existing at present with the will to advance towards a more perfect realisation. October 1964 ( Students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education were invited to participate in a local symposium on "1965—International Cooperation Year". ) I have no objections to World Union, yourself and X joining the demonstration. I ...
... 233 "spears", 31, 32,60,61,162,164,166 Spectre, The (Reasoning Power), 149, 161,164,243,244 Sri Aurobindo, 4,5 Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, iv Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, i St. Athanasius, 50 St. Augustine, 73 St. Bonaventure, 48 fn. 17 St. Francis, 48 St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies, 48 fn ...
... some power to rise above our circumstances? Did not Mencken feel that instead of coming down with a big stick on poetry he could have observed mentally the non-caning rule of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education — or that if an idea of his were severely criticised by a Poetry teacher of that Centre he could still keep a smile on his stolid face? Surely, in however small a field, we can ...
... BASU Notes and References 1. Pp. 489-498. 2. Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, June 1994, p. 391. 3. Sri Aurobindo - the Poet, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1970, pp. 163-64. 4. For instance, Ibid., passim, the reader may refer to pp. 227-239 and pp. 240-263. 5. The Secret Splendour, Sri Aurobindo ...
... form part of an integral physical culture. Keeping these features in mind let us review two educational experiments, aiming at an integral way of self-perfection: the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, and The Gnostic Centre, New Delhi. The Ashram school (SAICE) has taken up the integral training of mind, life and body. This is apparent in the way the student ...
... Centre. She and her doctor husband have not joined Auroville as yet. He is working in the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences and they have two sons who are studying in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Deepti, their second daughter, is married to Arjun Puri. She is involved in education and writes the Matrimandir Journal and Arjun works at the Matrimandir. Abha, their third ...
... that the Mother had named “Fenêtres” (Windows). This is home to Udar Pinto, his English wife Mona, manager extraordinaire of Golconde, and their daughter Gauri, a teacher at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Sri Aurobindo gave Udar (Generous) and Gauri (another name for Durga meaning the Fair One) their names but asked that Mona keep her own name as it reminded him of the Mona Lisa ...
... The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is a research in a new order of existence, with a supramental fount of activity in every department. This research has a particularised aspect in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, with an eye to assimilating special academic qualification into the general inner education that is the Integral Yoga. The Sri Aurobindo Ashram, researching in what may be termed ...
... permanent place for himself in the literary firmament. 4. Sethna, K.D., The Obscure and the Mysterious: A Research in Mallarme's Symbolist Poetry , Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 1987, p. 64. Page 215 ...
... international institution is a significant sign of the revival of the ancient spirit.” 8 In his Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo, Nirodbaran reminisces: “When the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was launched, the Mother wanted to initiate it with an article from Sri Aurobindo. Some days passed. She asked him if he had started writing it. He answered with a smile, ‘No.’ ...
... and he had to dictate everything to an amanuensis, poetry as well as prose. All the same, he could not refuse a request from the Mother for a contribution to the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education which she had newly founded. Therefore he dictated eight articles between 30 December 1948 and the time he left his body, on 5 December 1950. What started as an encouragement ...
... right care and attention, the right training which would slowly bring about a steady widening and growth of consciousness. The school thus started grew in, course of time into Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education with proper facilities from the kindergarten to post-graduate research. A new system of education thus came into being, which is called Integral Education. A stage came when ...
... 97. Savitri, Book X, Canto IV, p. 659. 98.Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, pp. 33, 41. 99.The Foreword in facsimile to Meditations on Savitri (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 1962). Page 117 A high liberty begins and luminous room: He glimpses eternity, touches the infinite, .... To join the heights and depths of being ...
... transformation, as they were being progressively worked out, are invited to go through the last writings of the Mother, that were being serialized in the issues of Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. 2 Towards February 29, 1960, p. 2. 3 See Bulletin, February 1967, p. 75. 4 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 69-70. Page ...
... Mother wanted to bring out a quarterly magazine, the Bulletin of Physical Education, the first issue of which was published on 21 February 1949. (It was later renamed Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. ) Sri Aurobindo had started revising The Life Divine shortly after the accident to his leg. In 1945 his eyesight deteriorated badly, he probably had cataract in both eyes ...
... Mātaram, Vande Mātaram, Vande Mātaram! Then the band played Vande Mataram. This was followed by a concentration. Afterwards the Mother distributed the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education to the heads of the Ashram Departments, teachers, Group captains and certain other people. There was also a short programme of performances. Some small children did a mouse ...
... various oil colours. It was really a beautiful token of the Mother's appreciation and love. Later I came across a review about the Savitri paintings in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education as follows: We had during this quarter around the Darshan period, a very noteworthy exhibition of the paintings on "Savitri". All the twelve books of this great Epic of Sri ...
... to stay near her on 10th February 1955. Once she revealed to a small group of Sadhaks soon after the first one-volume edition of Savitri had been published in 1954 by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education: Savitri is occult knowledge and spiritual experience. Some part of it can be understood mentally—but much of it needs the same knowledge and experience for understanding it ...
... paintings of Savitri . The slides were shown in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Theatre during the Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo in 1972. Later it was stated in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education about the exhibition of paintings— Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's Poems : During the Darshan period there were the following exhibitions: “Batik and Painting; handloom products; ...
... the first children admitted to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram; he came at the age of ten. Interested as a youth in music, painting and poetry, he later became a teacher of music in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. He began writing to the Mother at the age of twelve. Always do with pleasure the work you have to do. Work done with joy is work done well. 14 March 1932 When ...
... Series Nine (1960 - 1963) Some Answers from the Mother Letters to a Young Teacher To a young teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Sweet Mother, With what attitude should I read Sri Aurobindo's books when they are difficult and when I don't understand? "Savitri, The Life Divine," for example. Read a little at ...
... fourteen correspondences in this volume were first brought out separately in books and journals published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Most of them appeared either in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , a bi-lingual quarterly in French and English, or in Mother India , a monthly in English. The correspondences were first published together in English in 1987 in the first edition ...
... "What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme." Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , April 1961, p. 169 ...
... where Sri Aurobindo narrates the early life of Satyavan. Satyavan is called __________ 1 Adapted from Nos. 2, 3 and 4 of Talks on Poetry delivered to students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. [Published in Mother India and later in the book Sri Aurobindo -The Poet (1970).] Page 158 A wanderer communing with depth and marge. [p. 393] ...
... her not a disciple but his spiritual equal and collaborator. Under her guidance the Ashram grew into a large, many-faceted spiritual community. She also established a school, the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, in 1952, and an international township, Auroville, in 1968. Her teachings have been published in the Collected Works of the Mother, which to date comprise 17 volumes. The Mother ...
... had just been kept aside. Now it has been allowed to dissolve, and the Mother has only a divine ensheathing. But she has assimilated into it all the at- 1 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, August 1972, p. 75. Page 149 tainments of the dissolved sheath in terms of "body-mind" and thereby brought it closer to our longing human arms than it ever could ...
... volume, making me her most grateful debtor. The Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust was responsible for the first appearance of " Overhead Poetry " is a research-project of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and the Sri Aurobindo Circle of Bombay for that of The Adventure. Altar and Flame owes its debut to "Aspiration", Charlotteville, Virginia. My cordial thanks are due to all ...
... Part III: Miscellany Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Symbol of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education The effective manifestation of Ishwara and Ishwari in union. The Mother ...
... Deshpande. It presents the Marathi Adi Kavi's work in an entirely new way. Prof. Deshpande,— a well acclaimed poet, writer, critic and scientist,—is a professor of physics at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and also the Associate Editor of Mother India, a monthly review of culture, published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. A major part of The Wager of Ambrosia, a phrase taken ...
... he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. In 1976, the Government of India invited him to be Education Advisor ...
... resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. In 1976, the Government of India invited him to be Education Advisor ...
... resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. In 1976, Government of India invited him to be Educational Adviser ...
... he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. In 1976, the Government of India invited him to be Educational ...
... education was launched by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, when in 1943, a school came to be established at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry in South India. It was expanded into Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in due course, and the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on education have influenced greatly the innovative processes of education in the country, and they have also received ...
... he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondich- erry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. In 1976, the Government of India invited him to be Education ...
... developed the Ashram. The Mother is the author of several books. Prayers and Meditations and On Education are her short but important books. She presided over the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in which hundreds of students studied. The Mother herself taught classes, and her talks to the children constitute a series of nine books entitled Entretiens or Conversations ...
... Principles and Goals of Integral Education III The Role and Responsibility of the Teachers It is by now clear to our readers that Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is not just an ordinary school, college or university having for its sole aim the excellent training of its alumni in various academic subjects. The Mother has placed before it ...
... name I open today this convention meeting here with the purpose of realising one of his most cherished ideals." What could be more clear and emphatic! This is how Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE) came into existence. Right from its birth, the Mother took a direct and personal interest in every aspect of its growth and development, guiding the teachers and herself ...
... 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 in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga) ...
... Note This is a companion volume to the other book by the same author, The Destiny of the Body, which too has been published by us some time back under the auspices of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. The Destiny of the Body dealt with the particular question of the evolutionary possibilities of man's physical existence including his body. The present ...
... a trepidant heart. I have felt like taking up this ticklish task and that for the following reason. In course of their close contact with me many of the senior students of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education have often asked me some interesting - at times embarrassing - questions concerning our Ashram, its functioning and its possible future. Some of their representative questions are ...
... my nature lives In the deep heart of immortality. (Sri Aurobindo, More Poems, p. 72) * Jugal Kishore Mukherjee. The Destiny of the Body. (Publishers: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry-605 002). Page 174 ...
... the delight of its all-existence, but to that delight desire must be foreign, — it can only 1 2 The Life Divine, p. 960. (Italics ours) 3 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XII, No. 1, p. 69. (Italics ours) Page 62 be the appanage of the incomplete evolutionary ego..." 1 But is it at all possible to have an egoless ...
... superstition. It is he himself who must be induced to expand according to his own nature.' These ideas are at the core of the Free Progress System of education followed in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at the Pondicherry Ashram. As at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was held in great respect and admiration by his students at the National College. After his arrest and resignation as the ...
... Frenchman who joined the Ashram in the 1930s, after having been to Japan, China and Mongolia in search of spiritual guidance, he was a Polytechnician and became the Director of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. He was one of the spiritual stalwarts of the Ashram. 15The name suffix '-da' roughly translates to elder brother' and denotes affectionate respect. 16Sri Aurobindo ...
... surprised to see me, and began to smile and she kept on smiling and I was feeling very uncomfortable! I was looking up 249 'Progres' is the name of a certain section in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Page 195 and looking down - once up and once down - and She kept smiling all the while; not a word was coming out of my mouth. Then She commented, "He is very ...
... know her very well. I have often met her. In fact, I have explained all this, in detail, in the Bulletin 1 which is going to come out. Yes, Mother. 1. Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , February 1968, also Collected Works of the Mother , Vol . 11, pp . 102-05. Page 20 Terrace Darshan — November 24, 1967. Page 21 ...
... of the most important periodicals, in English and Bengali, published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. He holds the position of Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education to which he is a constant inspiration. Sisirkumar Mitra ...
... c'est 1'arni. C'est avec lui qu'il faut vous associer et non avec celui qui fortifie vos mauvais penchants et participe a vos mauvaises actions. 1 1 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education: Aug. 1961. Pp. 38-41. "That should be the basis of the attitude which one has the right to expect from a true friend: he must not wish that you should be like him, but that ...
... Flowers of Sri Aurobindo Ashram; and The Mother: Glimpses of Her Life. Before that I made three films: A Short Life of Sri Aurobindo; Sri Aurobindo Ashram; and The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. These too are now available on video cassettes. Once Henri Cartier Bresson came from France to photograph Sri Aurobindo. As a press photographer, he had made a name for himself ...
... are inspiring countries with a new vision. The two major activities that she took up during this period were the Ashram School and Physical Education which together form the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Both of them, like the others, were born from tiny chromosomes and out of a compelling necessity, for the Japanese aggression had driven the children of the disciples in affected ...
... article describes how Mother had a three-hour talk with Sri Aurobindo on Auroville. A very interesting talk: She said She was 157 SABCL,28:3. 158The Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is a quarterly that carries news of the Ashram, the School and other items. Page 108 giving Him all the information about Auroville. So why shouldn't you believe ...
... C'est avec lui qu’il faut vous associer et non avec celui qui fortifie vos mauvais penchants et participe à vos mauvaises actions.¹ ¹ Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, August 1961, pp. 38-41. "That should be the basis of the attitude which one has the right to expect from a true friend: he must not wish that you should be like him, but that ...
... Savitri, 238-46n., 248, 249-52n., 266, 274, 276n., 286n., 287, 300, 318n., 323, 383, 390n – The Mother, 293n –Vasavadutta, 385 –Viziers of Bassora 385 Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 32n Srotas, 330 St. Augustine, 290, 338 Stone Age, 155 SunahsheIta, 318 Surra, 221, 327 TAGORE,97 Tantras, the, 182-3, 326 Tertullian, 290n – ...
... the supramental manifestation upon earth. There was a steady - though not spectacular - growth from year to year, and in 1959 the University Centre was re-named as the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, avoiding the word "university" with its restrictive and hence Page 764 inhibiting associations. In due course the Centre organized the four basic Faculties (Arts ...
... Browning, Oscar, 33 Browning, Robert, 171,177,615 Brunton, Paul, 609 Buchanan, D.A.,11 Buddha, The, 7,211, 239,498, 568 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 551, 718 Byron, Lord, 78, 490, 614 Caliban upon Setebos, 171 Cameron, D. R., 692fn. Carlyle, Thomas, 241, 271,352 Carmichael, Lord, 378 ...
... April 1945. The Advent, a Quarterly Journal, the first number appearing on 21 February 1944. Mother India, first a fortnightly, later a monthly. The Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (originally 'Bulletin of Physical Education'), a Quarterly in English-French-Hindi, since February 1949. World Union, a Quarterly Journal. Equals One (=1), a Quarterly ...
... That was a marvellously sincere and marvellously accurate assessment. Dr. Okhawa seemed to be a little exhausted, and he quietly listened when Gokakand I described the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ,Education that was coming up under the aegis of the Ashram and the direct inspiration and guidance of the Mother. We had then cakes and tea, and gratefully partook of Madame Okhawa's ...
... spontaneously drawn to one who can awaken their souls, unveil their innate harmony and happiness, and lead them to the perfect fulfilment of their divine destiny ? In 1951 the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education came into existence. On the occasion of its convention the Mother said : "Sri Aurobindo is present in our midst, and with all the power of his creative genius he presides over ...
... Aurobindo Part I & II, The Divine Collaborators etc. His book : Sri Aurobindo—His Life Unique was written as one inspired by the Mother and it was first serialised in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Rishabhchand was the guide and inspiration on the Path of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga for many younger aspirants. He left his body on 25th April 1970. In the words of The Mother—The ...
... (Promesse’s brother), Harit (Pranab’s youngest brother), Sumantra and Manoj. Mona was the head-captain. These boys were then merely 12 or 13. The establishment of our school—the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education—occurred on January 6th in A ribbon was put at the southern gate of the school and the Mother came to cut it in the evening. And so at that auspicious moment She launched our ...
... Father was given work as the head of the publishing department. Then he was given work as the head of our Ashram press. When the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre (now Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) was established, the Mother made my father professor of philosophy. Father continued to teach even while managing the Ashram press. At night he would attentively go through the ...
... on 5th November, 1945. × Published in the February 1960 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education . ...
... exchanges deal with the Mother’s guidance to Sanijban as an aspiring artist. Most of the material presented here was first published in issues of the quarterly journal Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education between August 1996 and February 1998. The present complete correspondence, which contains additional entries, has been prepared from Sanjiban’s manuscripts. The correspondence ...
... 28 May 1953 (The disciple asked the Mother about the future of the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre (later renamed Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education), inaugurated in 1952. In reply she sent the following letter :) Surendranath, I am perfectly sure, I am quite confident, there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that ...
... Gita have appeared in one volume. An American edition was published by The Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, in 1950. The sixth and seventh Indian editions were published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in 1959 and 1966. In 1970 Essays on the Gita formed volume 13 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. This, the eighth Indian edition, was reprinted many times. ...
... and its activities. It was in those early months of 1951 that she held a convention to which she invited educators and other leaders of the country to announce the formation of a Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. She said that Sri Aurobindo was in our midst and with all the power of his creative genius was initiating this further growth of what had so far been the Ashram school. A whole ...
... The Golden Path Gauri Pinto ( Teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ) My return visit to “Fenêtres” on Rue St. Gilles in Pondicherry, home of the Pinto family, found me again being greeted at the door by the furry likes of “Starry”, “Jackie-Boy”, “Cutie”, “Tina”, “Brownie”, “Radha” and others of Gauri Pinto’s numerous ...
... The Mother × Tehmi (b. 17.1.1917), an ardent devotee and dedicated teacher in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education since 1950. × Happy Birthday! Happy New Year! Good Health! ...
... writings, were serialised there in 1949-50 and reprinted in book-form 1952 under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . In 1959. quarterly was renamed Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education . ...
... of the Students’ Prayer given by the Mother for the inauguration of the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre on 6 January 1952. (The University Centre was later renamed Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.) ...
... description of the state of psychological health contained in the following message given by the Mother for newcomers to Sri Aurobindo International University Centre (now called Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education): "Some of them come with a mental aspiration, either to serve or to learn; others come in the hope of doing yoga, of finding the Divine and uniting with Him; finally there ...
... L’Agenda de Mère II, 410-11 × Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, vol. XXXI, August 1979,104 × Talks with Sri Aurobindo (recorded by Nirodbaran) ...
... and then one found it somewhat difficult to get the radiant touch. At its best, with its limitations at a vanishing point, this trend made him a very competent Director of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. But what rendered him a most consecrated Director was the drive of the soul with its utter self-giving to the Mother. The true spiritual child Page 137 ...
... S.A. Sri Aurobindo - Letters on Savitri, Edited by K.D. Sethna, 1951, 2000, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo-The Poet, K.D. Sethna, 1970,1999, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry Inspiration and Effort: studies in literary attitude and expression, Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna), 1995, The Integral Life Foundation, Waterford CT, 06385 ...
... exposition of Mallarmé's symbolist poetry. K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR (The Obscure and the Mysterious: A research in Mallarmé's Symbolist Poetry, by K.D. Sethna — Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry; paperback - reviewed in The Hindu, dated 2 February 1988.) Page 423 ...
... group laws which are the expression of some aspect of Eternity and Infinity—naturally!..." 2 "Is it possible to obtain a total personal transformation 1 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, February 1960, p. 63. 2 Ibid., August 1962, p. 73. Page 50 unless there is something at least corresponding in the collectivity?... It seems to me that ...
... that substance and form was the one we could glimpse through the half-enigmatical disclosures of the Mother's "Notes on the Way", her talks with a disciple, in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from 1965 onward. The most baffling of these disclosures—a kind of paradoxical peak to the process—meets us in the issue of February 1973. 1 It is dated December 30,1972, ...
... when he was in his body and that only by means of his so-called death could he get the increased capacity which had become necessary. We may further mark 1 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, February 1973, p. 89. Page 16 that the Mother characterises the action of Sri Aurobindo as "concrete" and almost "material". The same holds for her own action ...
... might-have-been. Considerable overpassing of early limitations is achieved in the companion collection of essays, Sri Aurobindo — The Poet, published in 1970 by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. But, however broader in various respects the scope of the later volume, none of its essays except the first two were seen by Sri Aurobindo himself and commented upon The ...
... from behind the banana trees. At that time, Amal Kiran, as Sri Aurobindo named him, — it means ‘The Clear Ray' - was lecturing on Poetry at the Ashram School, the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The substance of his talks was appearing in the monthly Ashram magazine Mother India of which he was, and is, the editor. As an Englishman, I was at once struck by his detailed ...
... References 1. Amal Kiran, Altar and Flame, Aspiration, Chariottesville, Virginia 1975, p. 1. 2. K.D. Sethna, Overhead poetry , Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1972, Quoted at p. 16. 3. Amal Kiran, Altar and flame, p. 14 ("Fragments"), 4. Ibid., p. 12 ("God's Sleep"). 5. Ibid., p. 15 ("After ...
... le which tries to suck us in irrevocably." ( Light and Laughter , p. 60) Amal Kiran is full of wit and humour. In one of his talks to the students and teachers of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry - in short, of the Ashram School, - he said: Let me whisper into your ears at the top of my voice an unbelievable secret. It is this: twice in Savitri, which ...
... oneself Otherwise it is boring for the teacher as for the student . The Mother, On Education: Teaching These messages were given by the Mother when she declared open the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education on 6.1.1952. These apply to schools of Auroville also. There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from ...
... Auroville I recall an incident about gossip-mongers. In 1966, Alice, my American friend who is PhD in Art, used to teach painting in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. She often came to my house to know how the Mother taught me Savitri paintings and other visionary paintings, how to use various colours, etc., etc. One afternoon she came ...
... Earth These eight essays, Sri Aurobindo's last prose writings, first appeared in the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education (at present called Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ) in 1949 and 1950. Unable to write as a result of his failing eyesight, Sri Aurobindo dictated them to a secretary. The series was left unfinished on his passing in December 1950 ...
... American edition was brought out the next year. In 1962 a combined edition of The Human Cycle , The Ideal of Human Unity and War and Self-Determination was published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. In 1971 the three works were published under the title Social and Political Thought as volume 15 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. This has been reprinted several ...
... Ashram, 1957). The letter to Morarji Desai was published in Desai's The Story of My Life in 1978. Most of the messages on the Second World War appeared in the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in 1978. Many other items included in this book first appeared in the journal Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research between 1977 and 1994. In T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS ...
... translation. All of them were tape-recorded. Passages from some of the talks were published in the French original together with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from 1955 to 1960. The first five months of talks were serialised in the Bulletin from November 1978 to November 1980. In 1979 all the talks were brought out in English under ...
... noted down by one of the participants; the rest were tape-recorded. The talks were first published in the French original and in English translation in the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from August 1967 to February 1973. In 1976 the English translation, slightly revised, was brought out under the title Questions and Answers 1953 as Volume 5 of the Collected ...
... Works; about five percent are from the following sources: On Thoughts and Aphorisms, Volume 10, pp. 1 and 256; Words of the Mother, Volume 14, pp. 150, 193 and 371; Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, issues of February, April and August 1987, in the correspondence entitled "Guidance to a Disciple"; and an unpublished correspondence. These entries have been organised by subject ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Arts On the physical plane it is in beauty that the Divine expresses Himself. In the physical world, of all things it is beauty that expresses best the Divine. The physical world is the world of form and the perfection of form is beauty. Beauty interprets, expresses, manifests the Eternal ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Discipline Constraint is not the best or most effective principle of education. The true education should open out and reveal what is already there in these developing beings. Just as flowers open out in the sun, children open out in joy. Obviously joy does not mean weakness, disorder and confusion ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Tests Sometime I would like to know, Mother, Your intentions with regard to regrouping these classes in the new year, whether with an examination or without. I consider an examination as quite necessary. In any case there will be one in French. My love and blessings. 29 October 1946 ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Basic Issues of Indian Education In August 1965 an Education Commission of the Government of India visited the Ashram to evaluate the ideals and educational methods of the Centre of Education. At that time a group of teachers submitted this series of questions to the Mother. 1) In view of ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Other Subjects To know how to read and write, to speak at least one language correctly, to know a little general geography, have an overall view of modern science and know some rules of conduct—this is indispensable for living in a group or a community. It seems to me that psychology without ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Homework All the students complain that their teachers think only of their own classes and want to give them homework, each one thinking that he is giving very little and not understanding that all these little bits together make up a considerable amount. I cannot say they are wrong. ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Message for the Inauguration of a French Institute at Pondicherry In any country the best education that can be given to children consists in teaching them what the true nature of their country is and its own qualities, the mission their nation has to fulfil in the world and its true place in ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Facsimiles of the Mother's Handwriting in Various Languages The following eight pages contains examples of the Mother's handwriting in these languages: Sanskrit (Isha Upanishad, with French translation) Hebrew Phoenician Chinese Japanese Bengali Page 223 ...
... 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 ninth annual ...
... body of conversations that the Mother called l’Agenda . These selections were seen, approved and occasionally revised by the Mother for publication in the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ; they came out regularly from February 1965 to April 1973 under the titles "Notes on the Way" and "A Propos" in the original French with English translations. The same translations ...
... in Questions and Answers 1957-58 ( 19 February 1958 ). × See Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , Vol. XIII: 2 (April 1961), p. 23. ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Teaching The school should be an opportunity for progress for the teacher as well as for the student. Each one should have the freedom to develop freely. A method is never so well applied as when one has discovered it oneself. Otherwise it is as boring for the teacher as for the student. ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Messages for the Annual Re-Opening of Classes Another year has passed, leaving behind it its burden of lessons, some hard, some even painful. Now, a new year begins, bringing possibilities of progress and of realisation. But to take full advantage of these possibilities, we must understand ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Inaugural Message for the Sri Aurobindo Memorial Convention Sri Aurobindo is present in our midst, and with all the power of his creative genius he presides over the formation of the University Centre which for years he considered as one of the best means of preparing the future humanity to receive ...
... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education On Education Message for the Inauguration of Sri Mirambika High School, Ahmedabad Faith and Sincerity are the twin agents of success. Blessings. 14 June 1966 Page 115 ...
... the Mother Note on the Text Of the six correspondences in this volume, four were first published in whole or in part in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , a bi-lingual quarterly in French and English; the remaining two were first brought out in 1990 in the first edition of this volume. Two of these correspondences were written in ...
... Series Thirteen (1969 - 1970) Some Answers from the Mother Letters to a Student (2) To a student in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education who began writing to the Mother at the age of sixteen. Sweet Mother, Should one give money to beggars or not? In a well-organized society, there should not be any beggars. But as long ...
... Series Twelve (1969 - 1970) Some Answers from the Mother Letters to a Student (1969-1970) To a student in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education who began writing to the Mother at the age of sixteen. Sweet Mother, I used to have the habit of reading "Savitri" or one of Your books before going to bed at night. But now I have ...
... Series Six (1933 - 1949) Some Answers from the Mother Letters to a Young Sadhak To a young sadhak who later became a teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. 1 I I hope and believe Your work does not depend upon human beings. No, it does not depend at all upon human beings. What has to be done will be done despite ...
... Tyger Preface This essay in interpretation has grown out of half a dozen talks given during 1959 to students of First Year Arts at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry (South India) in the course of a general study of poetic vision and expression. It is mostly the pursuit, along several ways, of what has seemed to the author a ...
... which reaches a point of implicit vision at the termination of either line: "disguised" and "surprised" prompt us to see and feel 1 Ravindra Khanna, Professor of English, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, to whom, as well as to Nirodbaran, another Professor of English at the same institution, I owe several helpful hints. Page 103 the truth enunciated ...
... idea mooted some years ago that Pondicherry should be converted into a University town, a cultural meeting-place between India and France consciously organised around the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education which was initiated in 1951 and is fast flowering now. This Centre draws its inspiration from the creative genius of Sri Aurobindo, a master of East-West synthesis, as well ...
... Classical and Romantic Foreword We were doing Coleridge's Kubla Khan in the first year Poetry Class at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Pondicherry. When we had recovered enough from the intoxication of reading it and could ask critical questions, the very first and the most general and fundamental that arose were apropos ...
... manifestation as it is being actually elaborated may consult the above booklet priced at Re. 1/- and follow the writings of the Mother that have been serialised in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India). Page 151 ...
... a particular level of awareness, the level of the so-called waking hours, we are apt to think that all of us are really and truly awake 1 The Mother in Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XIV, No. 3, pp. 45-47. (Italics ours) Page 167 while in this state. But this is nothing but a most serious error of perspective. In fact, a ...
... phenomena, engage in the same worn-out exercises, or lounge idly in the same unchanging stagnation. They have 1 2 Savitri, Book VI, Canto II. 3 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XV, No. 3, pp. 45-47. (Italics ours) Page 381 drained every spring of knowledge. They have exhausted every source of enjoyment. No dim marvels, no ...
... and Sri Aurobindo's Humour. In this new edition, nearly half of the material is being published for the first time. Parts of the edition were serialised in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (November 1971 to August 1975) and Mother India (May 1980 to November 1982). ...
... sent in private to Amal Kiran for his guidance. One of the editorials was based on it. Sri Aurobindo declared privately that Mother India was his paper. When the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was launched, the Mother wanted to initiate it with an article from Sri Aurobindo. Some days passed. She asked him if he had started writing it. He answered with a smile, "No." ...
... he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. * In 1976, Government of India invited him to be Educational ...
... the children performed them. The highlight was Spring-Song. A fantasia of dance and song heralding the New Dawn. Written, composed and organised by teachers and students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The following day I peeped into the rooms where the Japanese exhibition was being held. No one else was there. Tosiko Kawaguchi showed me round and told me many fascinating ...
... intuitions are admitted only as a first step and are not considered as realisation - they must be 14.A. d'Abro, The Rise of the New Physics, pp. 9-10. 15. Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Page 68 confirmed by being translated into and justified by experience." 16 But in order to obviate any possible chance of misunderstanding it must be forthwith ...
... transformation, which is of all things the most difficult, you must have your inner consciousness firmly, solidly established in the Truth... (The Mother, Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 51.) Our sadhana has for its goal not merely the spiritual liberation of some isolated individuals from the shackles of phenomenal Ignorance ...
... to be incessantly reborn.' Sri Aurobindo has pinpointed the basic issue when he says: 1 Kālas na pacyate tatra Na kālas tatra vai prabhuḥ. 2 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Vol. XIX, No. 1, p. 75. 3 The Ramayana. 4 The Mahabharata, Adiparva, 14.50. 5 Genesis, 3.24. Page 409 "The physical being ...
... 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 academic Session since 1967 to make a ...
... 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 research in a separate field of its ...
... 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 Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita, ...
... latest book coming from the pen of Jugal Kishore Mukherjee who has been residing as an inmate for the last fifty-three years in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. SAICE (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry) has already published the following books in English written by Prof. Mukherjee: 1. The Destiny of the Body (The Vision and Realisation in Sri Aurobindo's ...
... through the millenniums.” 10. K.D.S. as a Teacher Yes, many may not be aware of the fact that Amal Kiran has been for some time in the teaching profession. After the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was established in Pondicherry, the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram appointed him lecturer in poetry. The class he took twice a week was from the beginning an unusual one. He ...
... potent source of dilution: this comes from the apparently innocuous factor of the Annual Vacation in SAICE. Let us elucidate. As distinguished from other centres of learning, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education does not believe in giving periodic long vacations to its students. Study, according to its principle, should be the main occupation and preoccupation of the students and it should ...
... Education IV The Mother on the Method of Teaching It is by now well known to most educationists and even to the general public that Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education established in Pondicherry by the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram is a unique institute of learning distinguished in many significant ways from most other normal schools and ...
... for I.A.S. in 1955 but resigned in 1956 in order to devote his life to the study and practice of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga at Pondicherry. He was responsible for the establishment of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Research at Auroville. Invited by the Union Government of India he joined the Ministry of Education as Educational Adviser in 1976 and later as Special Secretary in the ...
... he resigned in order to devote himself to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother at Pondicherry. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. In 1976, the Government of India invited him to be Educational ...
... new and, to the general public, quite an unfamiliar aspect of Sri Aurobindo — his humour. It was first published to mark the Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo in 1972 by Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry under the title Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo— Part II. It is now reprinted by Sri Mira Trust, Pondicherry under its new title. Preface There is a common ...
... literature by him. Eventually as Sri Aurobindo’s scribe, he took down a major portion of the epic poem Savitri dictated by the Master. today Nirodbaran is an active member of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. Now we are bringing out a revised and enlarged edition of his book on the Mother under a new title. ...
... because "Nirodbaran" means a dark cloud. 68A currency coin of very small value. 69Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyan was the director of the Physical Education department of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and a very close attendant of the Mother. He came to the Ashram in the mid-forties from Behrampore in West Bengal, along with his mother, father and six brothers. Page 37 ...
... poet was born! The genesis of this book came about in this manner: Somewhere around 1968-69, a teacher had the bright idea of asking Nirod-da to speak to the students of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education about Sri Aurobindo. It was deemed that his talks would help prepare the students for Sri Aurobindo's birth-centenary. Nirod- da had been in close personal contact with Sri Aurobindo ...
... and developed the Ashram. The Mother is the author of several books. Prayers and Meditations and On Education are her short but important books. She presided over the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in which hundreds of students studied. The Mother herself taught classes, and her talks to the children constitute a series of nine books entitled Entretiens or Questions and ...
... his press work, his personal affairs and his sadhana. A selection of letters from Madanlal’s correspondence was published in the April 2008 issue of the quarterly Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education . Then in 2016, on the occasion of Madanlal’s centenary, a book on his life was published — The Joy of Offering . It contained extensive selections from his correspondence with ...
... equipment or magnificence. You will get there the kind of success you look for. We do not compete with them. We move in a different sphere, on a different level. ¹ Now the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education Page 32 But this does not mean that I ask you to feel superior to others. The true consciousness is incapable of feeling superior. It is only the small consciousness ...
... 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 is there. The Mother's love, Her ...
... curtain, she sought to infuse into the material form, even press into it or ¹ Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1970, p. 179. ² Notes on the Way: Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education – August 1972 (Notes on 25-3-72 ). Page 88 force into it this new element; but Matter and man's physical nature were not yet ready: Earth ...
... resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational experiments under the direct guidance of The Mother. In 1976, the Government of India invited him to be Educational Advisor ...
... he served as the general secretary of the Ashram. In 1955 he was appointed as a trustee of the newly-formed Ashram Trust. For many years he also taught in the Ashram's school, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. An eminent writer and poet, his works have been published in an eight-volume set of Collected Works in both English and Bengali. He was the editor or editorial advisor of a number ...
... episode is an addition to the third edition. 20. the head of the Prospective Movement, Gaston Berger, a leading educationist, visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, of which the Sri Aurobindo international centre of Education is a part, in 1959. He said that he was surprised to find among the members here an "identity of preoccupations" with those of the Prospective groups in France. He died in late ...
... humility and colour gracefully the flow of his style and language. He wrote it indeed as one inspired by the Mother and the very fact of its serial publication in the "Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education" (from August 1960 to February 1971) carries in it Her seal and sanction. The author had a vaster plan in his mind but that was not probably in the plan of the Divine and so remained ...
... Mother India. First published as a fortnightly from Bombay (since February 1949), and subsequently converted into a monthly and published from Pondicherry. Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Originally published (since February 1949) as the Bulletin of Physical Education: now issued quarterly as an Anglo-French-Hindi illustrated Journal; published by Sri Aurobindo ...
... of Yoga, Part I. 1949 The Human Cycle published. February 21 First issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education (now called the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) with Sri Aurobindo's "Message". Seven more articles written by Sri Aurobindo appear in subsequent issues. First issue of the cultural review Mother India. 1950 ...
... vision, accompanied by an active effort in collaboration with the Mother, has created, out of almost nothing, two institutions of international importance — the Ashram and the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, where the pattern of the new life envisaged in his conception of man's destiny on earth is being worked out. These activities, undertaken during his apparent retirement, have awakened ...
... Your Sejdada ³ . ¹ “The Fossilised House" or "The Home of Conservatism" - name of a play by Rabindranath Tagore. ² A Letter of Sri Aurobindo, Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , Vol. XIV, No. 3 (August 1962), pp. ii-xxii (slightly edited). ³ Elder brother Page 173 These two letters written early in 1920 – one to Baptista ...
... published The Life Divine in book form, the first volume in 1939 and the more sumptuous second in 1940. The one-volume American edition (with the Index) came out in 1949, and the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education edition (also in one volume of 1272 pages) followed in 1955. A definitive edition in two volumes has since appeared in 1970 in the Centenary Edition. Along with The Synthesis of ...
... French by the Mother as La Synthèse des Yoga, and the English, French and Hindi versions have been appearing side by side since 1958 in the trilingual edition of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Wide-ranging in its scope, the emphasis still is on synthesis, integration, unity of aim and coordination of means. However, the little trodden paths of Sri Aurobindo's Supramental ...
... problems of right education in the context of the national resurgence. Sri Aurobindo's ideas on ends and means in the field of education were elaborated in later years, and the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education at Pondicherry has been trying over a period of twenty-five years to serve as a pilot project to translate his dreams and ideals into practice. But the germs of the Aurobindonian ...
... edition as a companion volume in format and style to On the Mother, I am grateful beyond measure. I am happy that this edition too, like its predecessor, is sponsored by Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. xvii I extend my special thanks to its Registrar, Parubai, whom I have known since her childhood days in Belgaum. And it was her noble father, the late Shankargauda ...
... 14th of June was his birthday. In fact it was his 65th anniversary. He grew to be a Secretary of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He was also actively associated in the work of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The World Union had him as its Chairman. An erudite scholar, he has written about a hundred books on Yoga, Tantra, Vedas, Upanishads, etc. He Page 17 had a large ...
... spirit. It was not surprising therefore that the Bulletin took all knowledge and experience for its province. After some years, the name of the journal was changed to Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and was also to appear in a Hindi edition. By popular use, however, the journal is known only as Bulletin, and is immediately recognisable with its red cover and the Mother's ...
... and the Life Divine', 'Supermind and Humanity', 'Supermind in the Evolution', 'Mind of Light' and 'Supermind * More recently, the name has been changed to Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and it is published in English-French-Hindi. Page 718 and Mind of Light', the last appearing in the issue of November 1950.* In the "Message", Sri Aurobindo ...
... Learning with the Mother PRAYER OF THE STUDENTS On 6th February 1952, the new building for the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was inaugurated by the Mother. On behalf of all the children the Mother gave a prayer and her answer to the prayer. Student’s prayer Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects Sri Aurobindo's International Centre of Education Many people who know or have heard of Sri Aurobindo Ashram do not know of its core, the heart-centre and pivot of all its manifold activities, the International Centre of Education. Sri Aurobindo had long thought of this centre for radiating his teachings through... Centre of Education. In their divine wisdom, the Mother and Sri Aurobindo laid a solid, sure and secure basis for their work of Transformation of the earth-life in the International Centre of Education of the Ashram. Night, splendid with the moon dreaming in heaven In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign. She brooded through her stillness on a thought Deep-guarded by her mystic folds of light... from the Centre of Education itself, the cycle of progress will go on with added momentum from generation to generation till the supermen emerge from here and the supramental light spreads to other center from here and the supramental light spreads to other centres of the Ashram like fire from hearth to hearth, from alter to alter. The core of this manifestation will be the International Centre ...
... stuffing him externally with information and stuffing the inner fact which brings unity, harmony and creativity to life. Sri Aurobindo's International Centre of Education with its facilities from the kindergarten to post-graduate research is the ostensible result. 10) The International township of `Auroville' was the last thing to be undertaken. The aim was to concretise human unity beyond ordinary barriers... work from the very beginning to an international status in Sadhana, in education and in the construction of an international township. In the literary way, the organization of " The Arya ", which brought forth Sri Aurobindo's main works, and Her own writings, which came later are additional. Further additional are Her capacities and creations in painting and music. 8) In Sadhana, the work consisted... soul and God. Objectively it was to recreate the entire contemporary cultural life on the spiritual basis. Sri Aurobindo Ashram with its large community of about 2,000 persons and a vast set-up of varied departments with wide international contacts is the present shape of things. 9) In education, the work consisted of organizing a proper environment, creating a new atmosphere and providing for each ...
... Thus, to put it in the language of exhortation of the Master: 6 Imagine not the way is easy; the way is long, arduous, 6 Words of the Master, Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Physical Education, Vol. Ill, No. 2. Page 127 dangerous, difficult. At every step is an ambush, at every turn a pitfall. A thousand seen or unseen enemies will start up... mystic is of a piece with the anchorite and as such has no message to deliver to humanity at large. What is contended in this view is something interesting because there is a modicum of truth, as Sri Aurobindo wrote to me once, in every intellectual conviction seriously cherished. What is true in this indictment against the mystic is that his contribution to human culture its not conterminous with... feels not because he wishes to feel but because he cannot live without feeling it, because life becomes for him a blind alley without the lead of the mystic light, or, to put it in the words of Sri Aurobindo: Impenetrable, a mystery recondite Is the vast plan of which we are a part; Its harmonies are discords to our view, Because we know not the great theme they serve. 1 ...
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