“Death is but a passage; not an end, but a new beginning.” — Sri Aurobindo The question of life after death has echoed through the halls of every civilization, religion, and philosophical tradition. For most, death represents an end. But in the vision of Sri Aurobindo, it is a transition—an evolutionary step in the journey of theContinue reading “Life After Death: A Vision Through Sri Aurobindo’s Eyes”
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What Is Integral Yoga? A Path to Divine Life on Earth
“All life is yoga.” — Sri Aurobindo In an age of spiritual seeking and inner transformation, many paths offer escape from the chaos of the world. But Integral Yoga, as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo, offers something radically different: not escape, but transformation—not renunciation of life, but its divine fulfillment. The Essence of Integral Yoga Integral Yoga is a comprehensiveContinue reading “What Is Integral Yoga? A Path to Divine Life on Earth”
Siddhi Day – ‘The Day of Victory’
November 24 is a very significant day, especially for the devotees of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, as it marks the anniversary of the Siddhi Day – ‘The Day of Victory’ – the descent of the Sri Krishna Consciousness or the Overmental Consciousness into the physical, which took place in the year 1926. This wasContinue reading “Siddhi Day – ‘The Day of Victory’”
The Ashram restored to it’s former glory
The Ashram restored to it’s former glory
A look at India’s first modernist building, Golconde in Pondicherry
This is the first reinforced-concrete structure in India, predating Chandigarh’s and Ahmedabad’s modern architecture. Golconde in Pondicherry was completed in 1945. It was built as a dormitory for members—ashramites, as they are called—of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It might be easily overlooked from the street, but walk through the singular discreet wooden door with aContinue reading “A look at India’s first modernist building, Golconde in Pondicherry”
Guiding Light: The drive of desire and the spiritual path
Most men are, like animals, driven by the forces of Nature: Whatever desires come, they fulfil them, whatever emotions come they allow them to play, whatever physical wants they have, they try to satisfy. We say then that the activities and feelings of men are controlled by their Prakriti, and mostly by the vital andContinue reading “Guiding Light: The drive of desire and the spiritual path”
In search of paradise
Sohini Dhar’s “Silence, the mystic birthplace of the soul” ~ Sri Aurobindo, reiterates that changing tastes and trends haven’t eclipsed the landscape as a genre. It would take unforeseen shifts in civilizational thinking for the landscape — or Nature in some form — to retire from art, all its metaphorical inflections exhausted. Sohini Dhar’s onlineContinue reading “In search of paradise”
Documentary on Auroville’s afforestation project to be screened at ChangeNow summit.
‘I am excited and proud that my film will be screening alongside Sir David Attenborough’s new documentary Breaking Boundaries,’ says Aurovillian Christoph Pohl. Aurovillian Christoph Pohl’s documentary Ever Slow Green, which tells the story of Auroville’s unique afforestation project that took root on an eroded desert plateau in Villupuram district, has been officially selected for screening at the prestigiousContinue reading “Documentary on Auroville’s afforestation project to be screened at ChangeNow summit.”
Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
In 1879, a young Indian boy arrived in England from Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, sent by his father to receive a British education. Aurobindo Ghosh showed enormous promise and would go on to receive a scholarship to study classics at King’s College, Cambridge. By the time he had moved back toContinue reading “Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh”
Bonne Année 50th
50th Anniversary of the coming of la conscience du surhomme on 1 January 1969 50 years ago, on the morning of 1 January 1969, a powerful New Consciousness descended into the earth atmosphere. The Mother described it in Notes on the Way, pp.148-160. The following are some extracts.1 January 1969In the night it came slowlyContinue reading “Bonne Année 50th”