X SAICE: The Status of "Certificates" There is much confusion reigning in the minds of people, both inside SAICE and in quarters outside, as regards the question whether this particular educational Institution of the Mother's creation issues "Certificates" to its "successful" students or not. Some swear by the Mother's well-known declaration that Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education established in Pondicherry does not issue any Certificate nor does it confer any degree or diploma to the successful candidate after proper academic examination. But there are others who affirm equally strongly that they personally know many cases where the

III The Role and Responsibility of the Teachers It is by now clear to our readers that Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is not just an ordinary school, college or university having for its sole aim the excellent training of its alumni in various academic subjects. The Mother has placed before it very high extra-academic goals. Indeed these goals are its real raison d'être; academic excellence and competence in various disciplines of knowledge is only a necessary but no more than a complementary achievement. Now the fact cannot be overstressed that to help in the fulfilment of the real aims of SAICE, it will not do

VIII SAICE: Aims and Purpose Behind Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education established by the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry and popularly known under its acronym, SAICE, has now a reputation all over the world as an educational institution of excellent teaching tradition, being animated at the same time with very high and noble man-making ideals. This is not just a college or university of the ordinary genre, may be of an excellent quality. It has been founded by the Mother with a particular end in view and that characterises its functioning, also the motives and aspirations of its students and teachers. But what is this

Principles and Goals of Integral Education Principles and Goals of Integral Education as propounded by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and the experiment at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry JUGAL KISHORE MUKHERJEE SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERRY First edition 2005 Rs. 75.00 ISBN 81-7058-806-5 © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 2005 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Pondicherry - 605 002 Website: http://sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org

Foreword It is not often realised how important a place Education, in the true sense of the word, occupies in the life, writings and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo was a professor and later Vice Principal at the Baroda College from 1897 to 1905. In 1906, he came to Calcutta as the Principal of the newly founded Bengal National College. At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother laid the foundation of a new centre of education, and some of the last writings of Sri Aurobindo were meant for the Bulletin of Physical Education. After Sri Aurobindo left his body in December 1950, the Mother announced in the beginning of 1951: "One

Introduction Sri Aurobindo, through his innumerable illuminating writings has left to the world a vast mass of his actually experienced living knowledge, which is a priceless treasure for all who want to tread the path of the evolution of human consciousness. He was a ceaseless explorer, not only delving deep into the "past dawns" but also lifting the veils that withhold our vision of the "noons of the future." He stands out, therefore, as a Supreme Teacher, Mahā Guru of the entire human race, who came to reveal to man the higher and higher peaks of consciousness that he has to conquer through his ever new experiments in this "thinking and living laboratory" of human lif

Sri Aurobindo to Dilip Volume 1 1929 - 1933 edited by Sujata Nahar, Michel Danino Shankar Bandopadhyay Hari Krishna Mandir Trust, Pune, & Mira Aditi, Mysore

1933 1933? Each has his own periods of fulfilment and difficulty, his own distinct course and times and seasons of the sadhana. 1933? (Dilip had written that Jyoti was constantly shocked that people should lie, "But while we all agree that we all lie she seems to think that she is incapable of lying!") Lies? Well, A Punjabi student at Cambridge once took our breath away by the frankness and comprehensive profundity of his affirmation: "Liars! But we are all liars!" It appeared that he had intended to say "Lawyers," but his pronunciation gave his remark a deep force of philosophic observation and generalisation which he had not intended! But it seems to me

1930 January 1930 It means both the individual and the cosmic Nature. The Divine is concealed in the secret heart of all things and all beings. The phrase is an allusion to the constant Vedic and Upanishadic expression Hrdaye guhāyām, nihitam gūhāyām, gudham guhāyām, [hidden in the secret cavern of the heart]. What is meant, in the individual nature, is the secret psychic centre which is covered up in man by egoistic emotion and feeling and desire. It is not necessary to translate the word. Nature. Any word or epithet which will convey the idea of the secret centre of the being or the consciousness, will do equally well. March 16,1930 (About a book Dilip wa

Note In 1928, Dilip decided to live permanently in the ashram at Pondicherry. That was two years after Sri Aurobindo's complete withdrawal from public life, and from direct contact with his disciples: they could see him only three times a year (four later on) for a brief darshan, while Mother looked after the whole material aspect of life in the ashram and took direct charge of the disciples. But they could also write letters to Sri Aurobindo. And write they did, often daily. With inexhaustible patience, Sri Aurobindo would soon spend most of his nights answering every one of them, explaining his Yoga, guiding them in their inner life, encouraging them to overcome doubt, depressi