Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Mother's Agenda : tape recordings made by Satprem, Part I (1958-1965)
The Mother
"Agenda"
tape recordings made by Satprem
1958
195800:47
30/05/5801:14
30/08/5806:10
16/09/5815:20
6/10/5801:49
10/10/5806:35
17/10/5803:05
25/10/5802:24
2/11/5801:17
4/11/5831:21
8/11/5826:13
11/11/5810:25
15/11/5815:42
22/11/5835:30
27/11/5814:21
1959
10/03/5906:48
11/03/5901:15
1960
16/05/6012:29
23/05/6002:05
7/06/6022:34
21/06/6003:13
10/08/6015
Satprem and Mother's Agenda
SATPREM
(1923 – 2007)
A sailor and a Breton, though born in Paris in 1923. A member of the French Resistance, Satprem was arrested by the Gestapo when he was twenty and spent a year and a half in concentration camps. Devastated, he journeyed first to Upper Egypt, then to India, where he served in the French colonial government of Pondicherry. There he discovered Sri
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Sri Aurobindo's Birthday and India's Independence Day
The Kalki Avatars-Napoleon Bonaparte
Sri Aurobindo was known in his ashram as the rebirth of Napoleon. Napoleon’s birthday was also August 15th.... In his previous births, it was believed he was Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Krishna and many other persons too. Someone asked Sri Aurobindo whether he had been Shakespeare as well, but could not elicit an answer.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Politics
Question: Sweet
Mother, what should be the attitude of a true politician?
Ans.: But it's just the
attitude of a true politician which I have given here. It's
the ideal
politician, my child. One can't make a better one. It is the circumstances, he
says that himself: "a greater force than mine..." it's the way the
world is organised; he started with the best intentions, he tried his very
best,
Friday, August 2, 2013
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Planchette, Automatic Writing
Sri
Aurobindo's younger brother, Barindra, was like an orbiting planet round the
Sun that was the elder brother… During his
stay at Baroda, Barindra who had been reading about the then widely popular
phenomenon of "Spiritualism" started experimenting with planchette
writing, table tapping and mediumistic communication. Sri Aurobindo sometimes
joined the séances, partly out of amusement and
Thursday, August 1, 2013
The Longest Sentence in English Poetry is in Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri"
The
longest sentence in English poetry—143 words and, if a compound is counted as
two, 144—is in Savitri, Book IV, Conto III,
P.426.
We must understand, of course, that true sentence-length does not really depend
on putting a full-stop as late as possible and substituting commas and
semi-colons and colons for it wherever we can. The true length is organic. The
construction is such
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