India forever India by Aju Mukhopadhyay

                                                          India, a vast country like a continent, containing almost all
the physical, mineral and environmental varieties of the world, a fountain
head of spirituality, was the cradle of one of the oldest civilizations on
earth. I think like Swami Vivekananda that it was the swing of my childhood,
grove of my youth and it is the

Did Sri Aurobindo & The Mother Foresee This Time? By Bhaga

Yes, we are rapidly coming already towards the last part of this famous Year 2012 that is supposed to mark the end of things as we know them, and the beginning of… Something Else.

Did Sri Aurobindo and the Mother foresee such a special period as the one we find ourselves in presently?

In Sri Aurobindo’s great poem, ‘Savitri’,  there is a passage when Ashwapathy, the King in ancient India who

Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo

Courtesy: "LIFE" Magazine, May 30, 1949







Ramana Maharshi -
Initiation in Mantras is must



Question
: Can anyone get any benefit by repeating sacred syllables [mantras] picked up
casually?
Ramana
Maharshi: No. He must be competent and initiated in such
mantras. This is illustrated by the story of the king and his

In the Lap of the Mother - Prof. Jhumur Bhattacharya

Courtesy: "Femina " Magazine, February 1, 2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson's Photos of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with Diary Notes

NOTE FROM BRESSON’S PERSONAL DIARY:

‘Four times a year, Sri Aurobindo puts in an appearance
before
his disciples. They are allowed to file past him, one by one, and

many deposit  flowers in a hold at his feet. He
sits immovable for

hours, in a sort of tabernacle with silk ornament.
Next to him is

the Mother, his counterpart in divinity, in long gold veils
covering

her forehead down

Mahatma Gandhi’s aborted attempt to meet Sri Aurobindo by Sandeep Joshi

In 1934, Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian freedom struggle, sought to meet Sri Aurobindo because they had never met in person before.  The latter declined the request because he didn’t want to break the seclusion that he had been observing since 1926.  Strangely, the Mother who had no such restriction also declined to meet him.  By combining the correspondence available in the

The Supramental Harbingers: Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

 




SEQUENCES

TITLE

YEAR


27.
SRI AUROBINDO SACRIFICES HIS BODY1950

28.
THE ASHRAM SCHOOL1951-1955

29.
MANIFESTATION OF THE SUPRAMENTAL1956-1958

30.
THE MOTHER ‘ON A DANGEROUS BRINK’1959-1962

31.
THE MOTHER’S NEW BODY1963-1967












































SEQUENCE – 27: SRI AUROBINDO SACRIFICES HIS BODY : 1950
TOPIC 1:Incident a)
In April 1950, The Mother allowed, for