Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Shri V. V. Giri and Dr. Karan Singh (sitting) at the Inauguration of the National Seminar on 16 August 1972 Inauguration of the International Seminar on 5 December 1972 Left to right: Dr. Karan Singh (speaking); Prof. Nurul Hasan, Education Minister; Shrimati Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister; Prof. Arabinda Basu, Director of the Seminar At the release of Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Commemoration Stamp by Shri H. N. Bahuguna in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch. Dr.Karan Singh examining the stamp; Sri H. N. Bahuguna and Sri Surendra Mohan Ghose looking on Sri Aurobindo: A

  Sri Aurobindo's Life* Suniti Kumar Chatterji   I   SRI Aurobindo came into the world on 15 August 1872 and passed into the Great Beyond on 5 December 1950. He had thus lived and trod upon this earth for about seventy-eight years and three months. But before he joined the majority, by the glory of both his Thought and his Action in the living world, and by his Vision of the Unseen (glimpses of which out of the abundance of the Grace he had received from the Unseen, he brought within the ken of seeking souls), he had already become one of the Immortals of history.     Sri Aurobindo has been one of the great band of divine choristers in the history of man,

Sri Aurobindo and Human Unity* Amaury de Riencourt THE fundamental problem of human unity appears insoluble under The problem is all the more acute in that this implosion has increased tensions between many human groups rather than decreased them. The search for national and cultural identity, now threatened by the depersonalization caused by an anonymous industrial civilization, is prompting many to look back wistfully at the past in an attempt to find roots and a sense of personal destiny that are being stripped away by this convergence itself. The very elements that could have provided links with which to consolidate human unity are being thrown overboard since t

Auroville — A Model of Human Unity* Navajata AUNIQUE project drawing attention all over the world is "Auroville", a universal town of culture and research which is being established in South India, near Pondicherry. In Auroville men and women of all countries will be able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. Its purpose is to realise human unity. Auroville proposes to realise this unity in freedom and diversity — in multiplicity — and not in uniformity, a spiritual unity reflecting itself in a psychological unity of one family and one origin, but expressing itself in the diversities of life. When completed

Sri Aurobindo as Seer-Poet* Dilip Kumar Roy 'T'O be utterly sure of the evidence of Sri Aurobindo's greatness I have often of late cross-questioned myself: "What was the storm-sweep that uprooted you from your native soil of poetry and music, laughter and popularity, to be flung at his feet in eager self-surrender more than four decades ago ?" It is not a question easy to answer because, to quote Nive-dita, our deepest convictions often enough spring from data which can convince no one but ourselves. I can only say that in his presence I felt myself gripped by a silence, wonder and intense longing to lay my utter self at his feet and lie cradled in his indefinable Grac

APPENDIX I National Committee for the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary, 1972 Patron President (Shri V. V. Giri) Chairman Prime Minister (Shrimati Indira Gandhi) Vice-Chairmen Education Minister (Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao; Shri Siddhartha Sankar Ray; Prof. Nurul Hasan) Lt.-Governor, Pondicherry (Shri B. D. Jatti) Shri Farouk Maricar Convener Dr. Karan Singh Members Shri Bishwanarayan Shastri, M.P. Dr. D. S. Kothari, Chairman, U.G.C. Shri Ganga Saran Sinha, M.P. Shri G. Parthasarathy, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Dr. Hare Krushna Mahtab Shri J. J. Bhabha Shri Kedar Nath Mookherjee

  Sri Aurobindo's Aesthetics* V. Raghavan   ALTHOUGH Sri Aurobindo wrote extensively on the Gita, the Veda and the Upanishads, and on Yoga and philosophical subjects, and subjects of wider and more general interest like Civilisation and Culture, his creative work as a poet, his literary productions in the form of metrical trans-creations of Sanskrit poems and plays, and his critical writings in which he analysed poets and poetry and evaluated Vyasa, Valmiki and Kalidasa, and reviewed the whole panorama of the poetry of Europe from Homer to the recent moderns including the Indo-Anglians, mark him out pre-eminently as a poet with a full mastery and knowledge of the art and