Debashish is a good story teller

Sri Aurobindo Integral Yoga Retreat Schedule

Wednesday: 7/18/12 First Day 8pm Meditation by Narad 

Savitri – Reading-OM Choir by Narad

Dr. Alok Pandey – Introduction to Foundations of Integral Yoga Practice

Thursday: 7/19/12 (Theme – Inner Work)
AM: Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga by Dr. Dilip Sarkar Meditation
Dr. Alok Pandey – Man as a Bridge
Sraddhalu Ranade – Meditation and Concentration

PM: Dr. Alok Pandey – Dealing with the Ego
Sraddhalu Ranade – On Prayers: Use of Mantra, Japa and Prayer in Sadhana
Pranayam by Dr. Dilip Sarkar or OM Choir by Narad Eggenberger
Evening – Difficulties of Interpersonal Relations (Questions and Answers)

Friday: 7/20/12 (Theme: Action in World)
AM: Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga by Dr. Dilip Sarkar Meditation
Dr. Alok Pandey – Equanimity and Action
Sraddhalu Ranade – Science and Symbolism of Indian Rituals

PM: Dr. Alok Pandey – Blossoming of Personality in light of Yoga
Sraddhalu Ranade – Science of Occultism
Pranayam by Dr. Dilip Sarkar or OM Choir by Narad Eggenberger
Evening – Navigating through the Global Crisis (Questions and Answers)

Saturday: 7/21/12 (Theme: Planes & Parts of Being)
AM: Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga by Dr. Dilip Sarkar Meditation
Dr. Alok Pandey – Planes and Parts of the Being: An Overview Introduction
Sraddhalu Ranade – Mind & Beyond Mind

PM: Dr. Alok Pandey – Training of Vital Being
Sraddhalu Ranade – Training of Physical Being Consciousness
Pranayam by Dr. Dilip Sarkar or OM Choir by Narad Eggenberger
Evening – Practical Guidance on Health (Questions and Answers)

Sunday: 7/22/12 (Theme: Sunlit Path to Life Divine)
AM: Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga by Dr. Dilip Sarkar Meditation

Dr. Alok Pandey Sraddhalu Ranade Narad – OM Choir “RETREAT ENDS “

The Life and Politics of Sri Aurobindo | Evolver.net

I'd like to share with fellow Evolvers a video sent to me via M. Alan Kazlev, a friend and correspondent of mine. It runs for an hour and a half, and details the life, transformation and teachings of Sri Aurobindo.

Dr. Debashish is a good story teller. This video, I think, is appropriate on Evolver particularly for Aurobindo's insights for political activism, social change, and utilizing yogic powers as a means for creating "a life divine." Hope you enjoy! –Jer

Sri Aurobindo And Integral Yoga | Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Integral Yoga, Evolution and the Next Species

The spiritual theory of evolution as developed by Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) and the Mother (1878-1973) is experimental in character and it is this theory which has been expounded in this book as briefly as possible. The consequences of the spiritual theory of evolution are for the individual momentous, since it is the developed individuals who will lead the evolutionary process to the next step. Continue reading»

Integral Yoga and Evolutionary Mutation – Its Aid to Humanity and Human Species

Integral Yoga and Evolutionary Mutation – Its Aid to Humanity and Human Species
According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the contemporary crisis of humanity is evolutionary in character and that the basic solution to the crisis requires, and even necessitates, evolutionary progression that leads to the emergence of the next species. Continue reading»

Supermind in Integral Yoga – Problem of Ignorance Bondage, Liberation and Perfection

This book is an attempt to bring together some of the most important statements of Sri Aurobindo in regard to the supermind and how the origin of the ignorance can be shown to be explicable in the context of the operations of the supermind. Continue reading»

Integral Yoga of Transformation – Psychic, Spiritual and Supramental

The secret of the manifestation of Para Prakriti has been discovered by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and it is this discovery which constitutes the novelty of the yoga of the integral transformation. This has a great deal to do with the evolutionary intention of Nature, and the entire process has been divided into three major steps in the Integral Yoga, namely, psychic transformation, spiritual transformation and supramental transformation. Continue reading»

Integral Yoga – An Outline of Major Aims Processes, Methods and Results

In history of yoga, you find the first synthesis of yoga in the Veda, which was followed by the synthesis in the Upanishads; the third synthesis is to be found in the Gita and the fourth synthesis is to be found in the Tantric Yoga. The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is a new synthesis, and a question is often asked as to what is new in this synthesis. This book aims at answering these questions, and it can be regarded as an introduction to the original works of Sri Aurobindo on yoga and to the Mother’s books on the same subject. Continue reading»

Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga

Sri Aurobindo has called the present crisis of humanity an ‘evolutionary crisis’. After intensive research in Pondicherry in the Yogic systems of the past beginning with the Veda, he developed new methods so as to create and perfect a synthesis of Yoga directly relevant to humanity’s highest needs of today and tomorrow. Continue reading»

Prime Minister visits Sri Aurobindo Ashram « jothicharles July 1, 2012 by jothicharles

The Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh visited Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’s Samadhi at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in the morning of 30th June. 

It is interesting to note that Dr. Manmohan Singh had once quoted from Sri Aurobindo’s writings on karmayoga in a speech at the parliament, when he was the Finance Minister.

April 11, 2012 at 8:03 am ID # 4041: Rajendra Prasad Mohapatra (SAILO-JHARAPADA, CUTTACK)

Indian RAilways always milch Odisha never gives anything. They collect maximum revenue from ODISHA and rule from KHARAGPUR-CHAKRADHARPUR-VISHAKHAPATNA. How long we will tolerate. ROURKELA DIVISION IS THE LEGITIMATE DEMAND