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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.

Sri Aurobindo is one of India’s greatest philosophers and August 15 is not only Independence Day, but also his birthday, and therefore a day to reassess and understand his philosophy.

In later years, Mirra would come across as the perfect blend of the West and East, and one of the most magnetic interpreters of the East to the West.

— The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram If at any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives you to despair, there is an infallible way to regain calm and peace.

Sri Aurobindo Foundation will be hosting 12 webinars in total, every two months, all based on the various topics on the teachings and principles of Sri Aurobindo.

It is believed that every nation exists in order to add contribution to the human evolution.

Sometimes a great wandering Thought sees the ages still unaccomplished, seizes the Force in its eternal flow and precipitates upon earth the powerful vision, which is like a power of realizing what it sees. The world is a vision becoming real. Indeed its past and its present are not the result of an obscure impulse coming from the womb of time, of a slow accumulation of sediments which little by little mold us—and stifle us and imprison us. It is the powerful golden attraction of the future which draws us in spite of ourselves, as the sun draws the lotus from the mud, and forces us to a glory greater than any our mud or efforts or present triumphs could have foreseen or created.

Today it’s difficult to pick up any publication without reading about the state of the environment. But the first Aurovilians, struggling in the late sixties, early seventies to gain a foothold on a scorched and almost barren plateau in south India, did not agonise over pH-levels, the destruction of the ozone layer or the greenhouse effect. They had no choice. They dug, they planted, they watered. And this basic, uncomplicated approach, taken up by many others and refined over the years, has made Auroville what it is today – a comparatively green and pleasant land which is the indispensable physical base for its dreams and its experiments.

The first necessity is the inner discovery in order to know what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances.
At the centre there is a being free, vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville.

A message to the trust from SOAS university…. “Now in our fifth year of the Modern Indian Philosophy module, which is made possible with the generous support of the Sri Aurobindo Trust.