"When you come to the Ashram, take it to be your home." --- The Mother   PANDIT SRIPAD DAMODAR SATWALEKAR In 1960, one of the greatest Vedic scholars of this  age, Pandit Satwalekar had come to visit the Ashram.  At that time he was, according to him, 93 years young. Generally  at an  advanced  age one gets fossilized, the mind is not ready to grasp new ideas. Panditji said the first thing that appealed to him  bout the Ashram was the eq

D.R.Bendre Great poet from Karnataka "After I saw the Mother at Pondlcherry, I found the basis supporting all manifestations of motherhood".   Given three reasons for the rise in him of the awareness of the mother principle. The first of these was the great influence that his own mother and grandmother exercised on him. As long as his mother was alive (she died when he was twentyeight) he considered himself a child. The second was the Impact of Tagore's child poems: 'It was Tagore's child poems that made me aware of my own mother*. The third was the inspira

Subramanya Bharathi Chinnaswami Subramanya Bharathi (Tamil: சின்னசுவாமி சுப்பிரமணிய பாரதி) (December 11, 1882 – September 11, 1921) was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and social reformer from Tamil Nadu, India. Popularly known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar (Tamil: மகாகவி பாரதியார்), he is considered[by whom?] to be a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry.Born in Ettayapuram in 1882, Subramanya Bharathi studied in Tinnevely and worked as a journalist with many newspapers, notable among them being the Swadesamitran

WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER  © Sri Au Maurice Magre   Maurice Magre (March 2nd 1877 with Toulouse - December 11th 1941 in Nice) was a French poet, a writer and a playwright  . He was a burning defender of Occitanie, and largely contributed to make known the martyr of Cathares of XIII century. With regard to his historical novels on the catharism, Maurice Magre fits especially in the line of the historian Napoleon Peyrat, in the direction where the author often prefers the legends and the romantic epopee with historical truth. He composed his first poem at the  age14. His fir

Vasishta Ganapati Muni   1 Vasishtha Ganapati Muni, the previous Guru of Sri Kapali Sastriar, was a celebrated poet, seer and prophet. It will be recalled how he discovered the Maharshi and named him RAMANA, the appellation by which he is known all over the world. The Muni had passionately dedicated himself to the liberation of his mother and

  ACHARYA SRIRAM SHARMA   Globally acknowledged as a Brahmarshi, Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya was an eminent seer, sage, and saint of imminent emergence of the golden era of peace, goodwill, harmony, and understanding amongst all humanity races. He was a celebrated figure known for transforming the significance of Gayatri Mahamantra and making it available to all people, irrespective of race, caste, creed, and sex. This great holy reformer spent his entire life creating a path of self-exploration, self

SUMITRANANDANPANT -HINDI POET ( सुमित्रा नंदन पंत )   This indeed is an invitation to power of passion and to light of thought. Few of us could accept it. But one man did. It was Sumitranandan Pant, himself a seeker of light. It was not for power of passion so much as for light of thought that Pantji discovered his affinity with Sri Aurobindo. The call of the sturdy oak was responded to by the lonesome pine. Sri Aurobindo's impact on Pantji resulted in confirmi