Saturday, July 28, 2012
Religion: The Mother Departs
She was born in France 95 years ago, the daughter of a Parisian
banker of Egyptian lineage. Dark-haired and beautiful, she might have grown up
in that age of fin de siecle elegance to become one of those delicate
butterflies that flutter through the paintings of Renoir. But even as a child
Mira Alfassa had had mystical experiences, and the Paris salon she commanded
was a circle of devotees
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
American President's Daughter had lived in Sri Aurobindo Ashram
(Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.)
Margaret Woodrow Wilson in 1912
Religion: Dishta of Pondicherry
Monday, Feb. 08,
1943
On
southern
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Does Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry Stand the Test of Critics and Time?
“I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher!” Sri
Aurobindo said. (Sri Aurobindo to Dilip. Ed. Sujata Nahar and Shankar
Bandopadhyay. Pune and Mysore; SariKrishna Mandir Trust and Mira
Aditi. V-2.p.100)
Whereas the poet claims himself to
be a poet contributing so much in poetry, above 50000 lines, experimenting in
various metres including those of the other languages like
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Who is the Mother? What is her Work? What she really said?
Mother’s Work
While in her body,
Mother entrusted certain works to certain persons according to the suitability
of one’s inner conditions, according to the necessity of time and place, which
she must have reconsidered had she been a witness to it till today. From a letter
of Sri Aurobindo dated 28.9.1933 we find that this point was hinted at, “As for
Mother, one will not find in her this
Friday, June 15, 2012
"Aurobin Dogos" in the book “The Lost Footsteps”
Silviu
Craciunas’s only book, “The Lost Footsteps” is a record of his experiences in
Rumania as a nationalist leader fighting against the Soviet occupation of his
State, in his own way. It is not a novel but more than a novel. It is an
autobiography but not in the conventional way. It speaks of the reality in
intimate fashion. The book is a human document against
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