-012_The Ashram's sixty years.htm THE ASHRAM'S SIXTY YEARS GLIMPSES FROM A PERSONAL STANDPOINT A line in the opening passage of Sri Aurobindo's Ilon runs; Ida climbed with her god-haunted peaks into diamond lustres... A sacred mountain of ancient Greece, Ida as seen by the poet, an ever-uplifting vigil, full of secret divine presences, now emerging in the dawn-light which has the purity and transparent depth of an ethereal diamond — here is an apt symbol for Sri Aurobindo's Ashram on November 24, 1986, the sixtieth year of its establishment, what is termed in traditional reckoning its diamond jubilee. It is also apt that Ida should be spoken of in the feminine

AN ALL-ROUND REVELATION Sri Aurobindo's spiritual vision of the world can be considered an all-round revelation because it finds some essential truth in every world-view reached by mystical, philosophical or scientific research, and weaves it into its own comprehensive system. There is nothing it rejects or fails to explicate. Take even the very denial of it, the most extreme Materialism of our day, basing itself on blind physical phenomena, random genetic mutation, mindless natural selection of mutated forms by the environment, extensively wasteful processes of evolutionary life, mechanical reactions and reflexes of organisms, dependence of psychologica

SIDELIGHTS ON THE AUROBINDONIAN TRUTH A LETTER FROM KRISHNA PREM (RONALD NIXON) TO MR. KOSKE AND A COMMENT BY K. D. SETHNA The Letter September 1946 Dear Mr. Koske, "Whom should I believe?" You can cut Bradley, Bergson, Hegel, etc., out of the list as admittedly their views are mere speculations. They do not even claim to have reached the other shore. How, then, will they guide us? It is useless to reach one unique and final philosophical system. All such systems are relative. The Buddha described his teachings as like a raft — useful to cross the river but to be left behind on the further bank. Thou

-015_Dr. v.k.GOkak Amd Sri Aurobindo's savitri.htm DR. V. K. GOKAK AND SRI AUROBINDO'S SAVITRI In the Indian Express, Saturday, September 11, 1982, p. 14, Dr. V. K. Gokak was interviewed on his latest literary work, an epic in Kannada due to be published in November of the same year. Asked why, being an English scholar who had taught the language for more than three decades, he wrote his epic in Kannada, Dr. Gokak was quoted as replying: "...I was hesitant to write in a language which I have not mastered completely. Aurobindo who had mastered the language wrote his Savitri in English and, though it contained most beautiful passages, I felt the language was a bit awkward. If a schol

SRI AUROBINDO, PARTHASARATHY IYENGAR AND PONDICHERRY A NOTE TOWARDS CLARIFYING THEIR CONNECTION This article by the Editor of Mother India is published at the request of readers who wanted his views on the subject apropos of some views already in print. In the issue of Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research for December 1987 the "Archival Notes" are partly aimed at settling certain queries raised by some statements of the writer two years earlier in the same periodical. His new statements too have come in for criticism. It may be that his true drift has failed to be caught, but the cause of