The
Mother’s Work—A Radio Talk by RY
Deshpande on Wed 21 Mar 2012 03:30 AM IST Permanent
Link A Talk on All India Radio Pondicherry: 21 February 2001, 9:15 PM
The Mother came to India
Since 1926 the Mother took charge of the Ashram and
gave to it another direction, worked on a wider basis for universalisation of
their achievements. Practical aspect of the collective spiritual life is a
necessary concern to create and shape the future.
She was now “at the centre of the organization”. At
that time, in 1927, there were just 30 disciples but in less than two years the
number increased to 90, with seventeen houses for their stay. Presently there
are about 2000 disciples in the Ashram. People came from all the walks of life,
men and women, elderly persons and the young, from different parts of India and
from distant foreign lands, they with varying backgrounds and qualifications,
writers, poets, painters, musicians, thinkers, philosophers, doctors,
engineers, bureaucrats, business-men,—accomplished souls aspiring to live a
life in the wonder and greatness of the spirit.
The Mother had to take care of them all. She had to
organise services to look after such a large family with diverse interests and
with different expectations, though the central aim was the spiritual. Soon she
created a number of departments and attended to their daily essential problems.
This was done with a twofold purpose: organization and work as a part of the
sadhana. Thus were created several departments such as Reception, Dining Room,
Bakery, Laundry, Domestic Services, Health Care, Buildings, Electrical,
Workshop, Furniture, Gardens, Agricultural Farms, Dairies, Tailoring, Cobblery,
Weaving, Cycle Shop, Hair Saloon and such many services. Along with these also
grew Music, Painting, Poetry, Embroidery, Dancing, Drama, Theatre, Photography,
Physical Culture, Cottage Industries, Printing Press, Publications, and so on.
And all this had to be done within the limited resources available at the time.
Work as a necessary aspect of spiritual growth was
the truth that found its place in the scheme of things deeply spiritual.
Sadhana through work gives a certain solidity and equipoise, and prepares the
base more luminously. By it the will in action opens out to higher
consciousness, bringing perfection to it, to things of nature which must
change. Similarly, in another sense, to express the creative delight through
music, painting, poetry was important, and great attention was paid towards
this, these as means of spiritual-inner growth. Nothing is considered trivial
or out of place. During the anxious and turbulent period of the Second World War
another situation arose, and the Mother had to start a School for the children
of the disciples who had come to the Ashram…
Enlarging on the Ashram experiment, the Mother moved
to the larger humanity, a preparatory step towards the new race capable of
manifesting the Divine ideal. She was already 90 when she initiated the
Auroville project, but it was with such enthusiasm that as if she was in her
full joyous youthful vigour… On 21 February 1971 the Mother initiated the
project of Matrimandir as a living symbol of Auroville’s aspiration for the
Divine, a unique place in the wilderness of man’s hopes and struggles.
Matrimandir is the Soul of Auroville. If the Ashram and Auroville were the
preparatory projects initiated by the Mother, their true fulfilment is to be
seen in the New World she was preparing to
make a reality here on earth.
Health,
Science and Dance by Hamish Friday,
16 March 201 auroville radio
Announcing a 5 day Wind/Solar Hybrid Workshop. A
presentation of Bharatnatyam Classical Dance is being offered with images of
Ashwini's oil paintings. A salutogenetic communication group will be formed to
discuss our total health. The University
Of Human Unity Seminar
For nearly forty years behind the wholly good I was
weakly in constitution; I suffered constantly from the smaller and greater
ailments and mistook this curse for a burden that Nature had laid upon me. When
I renounced the aid of medicines, then they began to depart from me like
disappointed parasites. Only then did I understand what a mighty force the
natural health within me and how much mightier yet the Will and Faith exceeding
mind which God meant to be the divine support of our life in this body.
Mind-Body Medicine and Beyond Date: Jun
16, 2012 Venue: VAN NIWAS Himalayan Centre of Sri Aurobindo Ashram -- Delhi
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Hindi translation of ‘SMRITI KATHA’ is being
published in ADITI. Serially. Wonderful authentic document of history! Must
read. Suresh Tyagi
Language,
Nation and Narration WRITING INDIA ,
WRITING ENGLISH By G.J.V. Prasad, Routledge , New Delhi ,
Delhi
Before I begin the review of G.J.V. Prasad's work a
word on the dust jacket cover: it speaks of the multicultural, multilingual,
multifarious ways in which English is read, written, and spoken in India India
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