Published by sri aurobindo ashram publication department. The mother, born mirra alfassa in 1878 in france, was the spiritual collaborator of sri aurobindo. Mar 08, 2017 women are not more bound to the vital and material consciousness than men are. The writing of savitri extended over much of the later part of sri aurobindo s life. Sri aurobindos teaching and spiritual method auroville. One of the best things about this book was aurobindo s realistic attitude about powers within or siddhis. However sri aurobindos position is certainly much different from that. At one time i owned the complete library of his works, but years later gave it away. The four austerities and the four liberations, sri aurobindo s yoga and advent of new race,transformation of man into superman and search of immortality,true knowledge, light, delight, secrets of. Series six 19331949 153 to a young sadhak who became a teacher in the sri aurobindo international centre of education.
Sri aurobindo s advanced world vision, the backbone of auroville, takes one up in wider areas of self, of life, of other. The mother a brief sketch of her life and work auroville. Sri aurobindo and the mother on india let us all work for. An account of her experiences in the course of this work is given in the mother s agenda, an intimate record of the last 18 years of her life. In this book, sri aurobindo presents a theory of spiritual evolution and suggests that. This volume includes two early collections of conversations by the mother and her oral commentaries on the dhammapada. Under her guidance, which continued for nearly fifty years, the ashram grew into a large, manyfaceted spiritual community. The mother, who had first met sri aurobindo in 1914, returned permanently to pondicherry in 1920 and in 1926 sri aurobindo gave her the full charge of his ashram and the guidance of the spiritual and material lives of the disciples. It has been a most dynamic work with the entire earth as its central field. The rest of the volume consists primarily of letters on the mother on the divine mother and on sri aurobindo s collaborator, the mother, who was the head of his ashram. This was the foundation of the sri aurobindo ashram which grew up around him as its centre.
Jul 01, 2017 how the mother s quest brought her to sri aurobindo is a talk by lopa, given at the sri aurobindo ashram. These three constituents make up the three parts of the volume. Always they are a force in action, uttered with a definite purpose, and they lose their true power when separated from that purpose. He began to attract sincere seekers and soon the fledgling ashram grew. Download the complete works of sri aurobindo as a free pdf. Sri aurobindo and mother book by kireet joshi, read online or download in pdf.
When the sri aurobindo ashram was formed in november 1926, sri aurobindo entrusted its full material and spiritual charge to the mother. Jul 25, 2017 the silence is the silence of the inner consciousness and it is in that silence unmoved by outward things that the true activity of the consciousness can come without disturbing the silencetrue perceptions, will, feelings, action. Jun 19, 2015 download free pdf ebooks download pdf s. In sri aurobindo and mother he found the guides he was seeking. Italso includes his translations of passages from the mother s prayers and meditations. The education of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life. Feb 21, 2016 dear friends, 21 february 2016 marks the 8th birth anniversary of the mother. These inspirational essays by sri aurobindo form a powerful statement of the true attitude to be taken by a sadhak of the integral yoga.
The mother or sri aurobindo birth centenary library, volume 25. The earths uplook to a remote unknown is a preface only of the epic climb of human soul from its flat earthly state to the discovery of a greater self. If our search is for action that ensures the highest good of the entire world, then the study of sri aurobindo and mother becomes inescapable. Sri aurobindo and the mother access to integral yoga. During lunch i picked up a book titled the right object of education and indias national education, words of sri aurobindo and the mother. On the contrary, as they have not, in general, the arrogant mental pretensions of men, it is easier for them to discover their psychic being and to allow it to guide them.
After sri aurobindo withdrew to his room in 1926, mother took complete charge of the disciples and the development of sri aurobindo ashram. Sri aurobindo the hidden forces of life piercing the. Prayers and meditations volume 1 words of long ago volume 2 questions and answers 19291931 volume 3 questions and answers 19501951 volume 4 questions and answers 1953. You are like the scientists who say or used to say that there is no such thing as mind or thought independent of the physical brain. In this essay i consider the relation between the integral yoga of sri aurobindo and the mother mirra alfassa, and the integral tradition of thought, especially its newest incarnation the for sake of a better word integral movement. Series seven 19351940 201 to the sadhak who was the dentist at the sri aurobindo ashram during the 1930s and then served as one of sri aurobindos personal. It was the mother who was the driving force behind the manifestation of auroville. As our special homage to her, some photographs of the mother with the early inmates of sri aurobindo ashram, pondiche. Apr 22, 2012 sri auorobindo mad,intimate with the mother.
The sanskrit word darshan means seeing and refers, in this context, to seeing sri aurobindo and the mother in order to receive their blessings. But he wished her to be great, noble, pure and worthy of her big mission in the world. But she loves to call herself a force in action endeavouring to evolve the next species. The spiritual path or sadhana as developed by him, works with a combination of a voluntarily adopted psychological discipline and various yogic practices. It covers the various ranges of human consciousness, from the powers of thought and imagination to the powers of immobility, intuition and yogashakti.
The mother s music,mp3,new year music,savitri music,organ music, music for meditation, concentration,sunilda, sunils music, sri aurobindo yoga, advent of new race,transformation of man,superman, search of immortality,true knowledge, light, delight, secrets of body and of matter. Collected works of the mother complete works of sri aurobindo. The mother has referred to it as the supreme revelation of sri aurobindo s vision. The mother sri aurobindo always loved deeply his motherland. Aurobindo s passages are clear and interesting, the mother s are also clear and interesting but dont seem to be coming from the same place as aurobindo s. Download free ebooks for tablets and kindle from auro ebooks. In 1968, she founded auroville, the city of dawn, near pondicherry, an experiment to bring together human diversity in order to build an ideal human unity. Powers within by sri aurobindo and the mother and a. The biography the lives of s aurobindo sparked off a controversy on the life of sri aurobindo,freedom fighter,yogi.
People from all over the world come to puducherry formerly pondicherry, 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 perfect life and the word they hear the most in the ashram is mother. Today, sri aurobindo ashram is known as a great centre of spiritual endeavour. The mothers occult action for answering calls for help wrong ideas about the mothers listening to calls unfailing help and protection conditions for the working of the mothers protection accidents and the mothers protection the mother protection on the vital plane rejection of difficulties by inward surrender. They met on 29 march 1914 and she at once recognised him as the one who for many years had been guiding her spiritual development. Some years ago i started uploading the 35 volumes, every single book in a single file. Collected works of the mother sri aurobindo ashram. It aspires to create a community of spiritual aspirants who seek this goal. Most of his major works have been published in us editions by lotus press.
Jul 15, 2016 the complete works of sri aurobindo in one pdf. A significant moment in the growth of the ashram and life of sri aurobindo was the arrival of madame alfonso who became known as the mother and was an integral part of sri aurobindos mission and spiritual identity. Integral yoga of sri aurobindo and the mother book by kireet joshi, read online or download pdf free. The mother download books, sacred, spiritual texts and pdf. The greatest legacy of sri aurobindo and the mother was the development of integral yoga. Download free pdf versions from sri aurobindo ashram website. In a nutshell, integral yoga is the philosophy that all life is yoga. Collected works of sri aurobindo collected works of sri. Men are being constantly invaded by the hostiles occult forces and there are great numbers of men who are partly or entirely under their influence.
The integral yoga of sri aurobindo and the mother this net of sweetness woven of aureate fire. Print version is available from sri aurobindo book distribution agency sabda. There also one can feel more easily the mothers working. When i purchased it i was expecting a discussion of the woman who ran the aurobindo ashram who was known as the mother. Sri aurobindo was a prolific writer over a wide range of subjects including philosophy, yoga, poetry, human unity and much more. They describe the triple movement of aspiration, rejection, and surrender, the conditions for a true faith and sincerity, the irresistible power of the divine. As disciples began gathering around sri aurobindo and mother, the ashram was formed and, in 1926, when sri aurobindo withdrew from public view to pursue the integral yoga, he put her in charge of the material and spiritual needs of a growing population of sadhaks. The mother with letters on the mother sri aurobindo. Oct 02, 2009 what sri aurobindo represents in the histroy of the earth spiritual progress is not a teaching, not even the revealation, it is the mighty action straight from the supreme.
Part i of the book relates to the lives and teachings of sri aurobindo and the mother. How i came to sri aurobindo and the mother youtube. The four austerities and the four liberations sri aurobindo. Auromere is owned and operated by a nonprofit integral yoga ashram in northern california. A collection of photographs of the mother and sri aurobindo. He refused to let her sink to the sordid and vulgar level of blindread more. In the meantime you can download pdf versions of these volumes for your own personal use. There, in the ashram of sri aurobindo, my father met page10 mother. This book is a collection of pieces of work from aurobindo and the mother.
On these occasions, sri aurobindo and the mother sat together in a small room, while the sadhaks and devotees, one by one, approached, offered flowers and bowed. Pdf sri aurobindo, the mother, and the integral movement. Download the bible, the holy quran, the mahabharata and thousands of free pdf ebooks on buddhism, meditation etc. It was then that sri aurobindo quietly left calcutta and went away to pondicherry, not only to evade arrest, but to pursue the experiences he had had while in prison. I have been reading sri aurobindo for over 40 years. Sri aurobindo books in hindi pdf each published volume can be viewed and downloaded in pdf format. Indiaabstractsri aurobindo is the vedic rishi of our times who did tapasya at pondicherry in south india for 40 years endeavoring to bring the supramentalconsciousness to the earth. The mother by sri aurobindo free ebook auro ebooks. This book deals with the dynamic inner faculties inherent in man, though more or less dormant. New pages links write us main site mirror 1 mirror 2. Starting page of the site dedicated to sri aurobindo and the mother. This incident has been described by sri aurobindo s direct disciple, nirodbaran in his book, memorable contacts with the mother. An incident which gives us a glimpse into sri aurobindo s ability to know of things happening in distant places.
It is a collective effort of many souls united in their aspiration and devotion to the mother and sri aurobindo and the supramental force which they have brought down and is now in the process of transforming this earthly life to a life divine. Bernards site for sri aurobindo and the mother as for the mother and myself, we have had to try all ways, follow all methods, to surmount mountains of difficulties, a far heavier burden to bear than you or anybody else in the ashram or outside, far more difficult conditions, battles to fight, wounds to endure, ways to cleave through impenetrable morass and desert and forest, hostile masses. April 1, 2020 april 1, 2020 sri aurobindo and the mother what is the difficulty in understanding how the subtle forces of illness attack the body using bacilli and viruses for their purpose. Indeed, if we want this education to have its maximum result, it should begin even before birth.
In our common sense point of view, we can immediately remove this dichotomy by calling that self is conscious and body is unconscious, hence body should never stand for self. In april 1920 the mother rejoined sri aurobindo in pondicherry. This message is generated randomly from a collection of short written statements taken from the notes, letters, and messages of the mother. Guidance from the words of sri aurobindo and the mother. The surrender must be total and seize all the parts of the being. The mother with letters on the mother this volume opens with sri aurobindo s small book the mother, in which he describes the nature, character and role of the divine mother. During the history of publication of sri aurobindo s works, their texts were modified here and there sometimes by elementary misprints, but more often because of the hard work of editors, who. Recorded in 2014 in sri aurobindo ashram, pondicherry, india.
Centenary edition01bandemataramvolume0102karmayoginvolume02. Sri aurobindo,mother,music,new age,savitri, new year music. Mirra alfassa 21 february 1878 17 november 1973, known to her followers as the mother, was a spiritual guru, an occultist and a collaborator of sri aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name the mother. Poet,winner of the nobel prize for literature for his gitanjali and a great mystic, by peter heehs. They describe the triple movement of aspiration, rejection, and surrender, the conditions for a true faith. The ashram and auroville a worldwide community literature and publications events links to websites. The mother, sri aurobindo and the supramental descent 92 the triple transformation and control over death 93 dif. The complete works of sri aurobindo and the mother. We are hard at work to make the complete works of sri aurobindo available online. Sri aurobindo succeeded in bringing the supramental golden light into his very physical body in 1950.
Sri aurobindo the hidden forces of life piercing the veil. The mother consists of six chapters, all of them written in 1927. How the mothers quest brought her to sri aurobindo youtube. This website is a place of peace, harmony and love, above all conflicts and disagreements. Yoga is a methodised effort towards selfperfection by the expression of the potentialities latent in the being and a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent. Some selected words of sri aurobindo and the mother on india india is my soul. Savitri is sri aurobindo s revelatory mantric epic poem. Integral yoga of sri aurobindo and the mother in 1910, soon after his acquittal from the jail, he withdrew to pondicherry to concentrate upon this new research work, to hew a new path. This work, the mother, is a very short piece but with so much information. The one whom we adore as the mother is the divine conscious force that dominates all existence, one and yet so manysided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. Integral yoga of sri aurobindo and the mother book by.
Part ii contains the english originals of articles published in amudhasurabhi magazine over the past eight years. He joined the indian movement for independence from british rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. The mothers photographs with the early inmates of sri. It is not enough that the psychic should respond and the higher mental accept or even the inner vital submit and the inner physical consciousness feel the influence. The basic object of sri aurobindo divine life education centre sadlec an autonomous unit of sri aurobindo society, pondicherry is to work for the realization of a divine life upon earth as envisioned by sri aurobindo and the mother.
The first session was on the impact of music, sound on our minds and body. The process of generating the guidance is the electronic equivalent of randomly looking up a book to receive an indication or answer. After sri aurobindo s passing, the mother continued his work of psychological and physical transformation with the help of the new force. This volume consists of two different but related works of sri aurobindo. In 1952 she established sri aurobindo international centre of education, and in 1968. Sep 21, 2012 the mothers power and not any human endeavor and tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the covering and shape the vessel and bring down into this world of obscurity and falsehood and death and suffering truth and light and life divine and the immortals ananda. Sri aurobindo society is an association, a movement, an invitation and an opportunity to connect and then surpass oneself, to realize ones unity with others and integration with the entire creation, to work for a happier world, to participate in the collaborative effort, and to create the next future. Sri aurobindo and the mother on india let us all work.
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