The Sri Aurobindo Trust sponsored a comprehensive study into the botanical survey of Merveille and its surrounding area, Pondicherry. Main GoalThe present study meets two objectives: Output As a result of this proposed project the data collected will be part of research whichwill enable to Ms. Uma Maheswari to work for PhD. Two to threeContinue reading “Comprehensive and up to date botanical survey of Merveille and its surrounding area, Pondicherry”
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The Mother, an introduction
TToday, Sri Aurobindo Ashram is known as a great centre of spiritual endeavour. People from all over the world come to Auroville, in South India, to bathe in an atmosphere full of peace, light and joy, to live a life of sadhana and yoga, to imbibe a new spiritual force that can embrace and perfectContinue reading “The Mother, an introduction”
Sri Aurobindo Exhibition
The exhibition “Sri Aurobindo & The Mother, The Advent of a New World” was created as a permanent exhibition for the Auroville Visitors Center in 2014.Conceived as a meditative journey through Sri Aurobindo’s and The Mother’s vision and action, it displays some of their most essential and inspiring texts,and it is illustrated with photos andContinue reading “Sri Aurobindo Exhibition”
The Spirit of Auroville Exhibition
The permanent exhibition ‘Auroville, The City the Earth Needs’ has been created on the occasion of Auroville’s fiftieth birthday and was inaugurated on the 28th of February 2018.Conceived as an exploration of the Auroville’s Charter and it’s four main themes — Karma Yoga, Unending Education, The Cradle of a New World and Human Unity —,itContinue reading “The Spirit of Auroville Exhibition”
Powers of our mind, life, and body
For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them.
All life is the play of universal forces
The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces.But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force.
Integral Yoga
“If there are always forces around which are concerned to depress and discourage, there are always forces above and around us which we can draw upon, – draw into ourselves to restore, to fill up again with strength and faith and joy and the power that perseveres and conquers. It is really a habit thatContinue reading “Integral Yoga”
The Life Divine
“The complete use of pure reason brings us finally from physical to metaphysical knowledge. But the concepts of metaphysical knowledge do not in themselves fully satisfy the demand of our integral being.
The power of a spontaneous mantra
You choose your mantra; or rather, one day it comes to you spontaneously in a moment of difficulty.
A celebration of faith amid the darkness
Pages from the life of Mirra Alfassa who arrived in Pondicherry in April 1920 and became famous as the Mother of the Aurobindo Ashram.