Publisher's Note   The fourth edition of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, called the Revised Edition, was published in 1993. Since then it has been reprinted several times. The edition is the outcome of years of study of the manuscripts of the poem. Differences between editions are listed and explained in the "Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri”. In spite of the explanations given in the Supplement, some misunderstandings about this edition have arisen. To clear them up, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust has issued a booklet, "On the New Edition of Savitri” (Part One). Questions raised after that booklet was published are answered in the present b

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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What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history is not a teaching, not even a revelation: it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme. –The Mother As a Teacher Sri Aurobindo was loved and highly revered by his students at Baroda College, not only for his profound knowledge of English literature and his brilliant and often original interpretations of English poetry, but for his saintly character and gentle and gracious manners. There was a magnetism in his personality, and an impalpable aura of a lofty ideal and a mighty purpose about him, which left a deep impression upon all who came in contact with him, particularl

Foreword Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872. In 1879, at the age of seven, he was taken with his two elder brothers to England for education and lived there for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in 1884 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two years. In 1890 he passed also the open competition for the Indian Civil Service, but at the end of two years of probation failed to present himself at the riding examination and was disqualified for the Service. At this time the Gaekwar of Baroda was in London. Sri Aurobindo s