SRI AUROBINDO'S ASRAM   AN Asram means the house or houses of a Teacher or Master of spiritual philosophy in which he receives and lodges those who come to him for the teaching and practice. An Asram is not an association or a religious body or a monastery—it is only what has been indicated above and nothing more. Everything in the Asram belongs to the Teacher; the sadhaka (those who practise under him) have no claim, right or voice in any matter. They remain or  Page - 3 go according to his will. Whatever money he receives is his property and not that of a public body. It is not a trust or a fund, for there is no public institution. Such Asrams have existed in India s

  In order to remove many misunderstandings which seem to have grown up about his Ashram in  Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo considers it necessary to issue the fallowing explicit statement.  

  THE TEACHING AND THE ASHRAM of SRI AUROBINDO   SRI AUROBINDO THE MOTHER      THE ASHRAM

       

SRI AUROBINDO'S TEACHING   The teaching of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India that behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and Consciousness, a Self of all things one and eternal. All beings are united in that One Self and Spirit but divided by a certain separativity of consciousness, an ignorance of their true Self and Reality in the mind, life and body. It is possible by a certain psychological discipline to remove this veil of separative consciousness and become aware of the true Self, the Divinity within us and all. Page - 7 Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved

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