An Approach to Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri" along with a short sketch of Sri Aurobindo's Life and Works in chronological order with comments on some events Rakhal Bose SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERRY September 1977 Published -and printed by Raju and Printed .at Andhra Bhavan Press Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry-605002. Price: Rs. 2-50

An Approach to Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri" (a) 'A Legend and a Symbol' The great Epic, the Epic of epics, one of the four pillars of the stupendous structure of Sri Aurobindo's Supramental work may from a point of view be regarded and studied as an epitome of the unimaginable labour of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for hewing out paths of Supramental realisation needed for divinising man and heaven sing Earth. Particularly it epitomises the holocaust of the Mother in her gigantic work of breaking the rocks of the inconscient world for laying the path to physical immortality. The day will come when poets, philosophers, and neo-scientists yet to

...THEIR  DEEP  COMPASSION        A: Well — the best thing you could do is not to listen to what people say, it would save you from many falls of con­sciousness—     This afternoon when I looked at you in silence I told you, "be faithful to your love". I suppose this is a sufficient answer and you do not expect me to justify my love in front of the foolish ignorance of such interpretations. Whether you believe it or doubt my love and blessings are with you. 12-8-1939 *     Q: I apologise humbly for my yesterday's query and pray to be forgotten. How could I question your love, you why are the soul of truth and love and goodness? If you were not true, you who are the incarna

Satyendra Thakore   THEIR  DEEP  COMPASSION   You ask me how my contact with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother started and when. Well, it is difficult to fix it. All that I would say is that when I was a small boy I remember standing as a volunteer witnessing a procession in Surat of Sri Aurobindo and the other national leaders of that time. Later as a student in the college I had occasions to read the Master's books like Yoga and its Objects, Yogic Sadhan, Isha Upanishad, etc. My cousin (who later became Adviatananda) was a regular subscriber to the Arya and held Sri Aurobindo in very great regard; he introduced me to the writings of Sri Aurobindo. I was d

An Experience in the Body                 Sri Ramkrishna Das             First Edition : 14th August 1999     © Matru Karmadhara Trust 2, Rue Saint Ange, Pondicherry       Publisher ( Nirmal ) 13, Rue Saint Gilles, Pondicherry - 1         Distributor Navajyoti Karyalaya Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry - 2 The manuscript of this booklet "An Experience in the Body" was found from the Almirah of Sri Ramkrishna Das, a well known sadhak of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, popularly known as Babaji Maharaj, af

THE GRACE   (Some Reminiscences)   romen palit   This is not a polemic or an abstraction on the reality of the Divine Grace which the materialist might frown upon or draw the devotee to wax into high-sounding eulogy. What I recount is factual without a grain of fiction. Yet these might seem impossibles. Why? Take for example the capacity for literary or musical creation I am supposed to possess. From where did I imbibe them — from my family ? Good heavens! No. None in our past generations had either been a poet, a critic or a musician. They were hard-boiled materialists bent on the utilitarian pastime of earning and producing wealth. And yet I would be all these though I must

AS I LOOK BACK   shivabhai amin   It was during my school days (1916-1920) that I came to know of Sri Aurobindo, as a national leader who believed in Yoga. To see his photograph was to convince oneself for ever. Earlier I had been reading Vaishnava literature under the guidance of my grandfather and was of course drawn to Shri Krishna. Then came the works of Ramtirtha, Ramkrishna Kathamrita and sadhana of sorts, asanas, pranayama, concentration, meditation observing chakras etc. Through Puraniji and under his care, I began turning to Sri Aurobindo and his books like

PORTRAIT(S) The Mother gave her help and encouragement to a number of people in the Ashram who wished to draw and paint, both beginners and trained artists. The results were varied, often original and sometimes remarkable. For two or three aspiring artists she herself made sketches and suggested compositions. The Mother demonstrated the technique of oil to Sanjiban in the