Odia Scholar Gets Rare Honour By Debilal Mishra June 26, 2012
Dr
Sampadananda Mishra who has recently received the enviable ‘Maharshi Badrayana
Vyas Samman’ from the Indian president for his excellent contribution to
research in Sanskrit. Dr Mishra received this award on the 19th of this month
on an illustrious occasion in the Rashtrapati Bhawan…
While
in puducherry, Mishra explored Sri Aurobindo international society as a centre
to work for his sublime pursuits and got associated with it. Now he is working
as the Director of the Sri Aurobindo Foundation of Indian culture [SAFIC], a
principal constituent of Sri Aurobindo society.
PM to visit Puducherry on June 29-30 IBNLive.com PTI 05:06
PM, Jun 27, 2012
Puducherry,
June 27 (PTI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will arrive here on June 29 on a
two-day visit to the Union
Territory Pondicherry
University Pondicherry University
On
June 30, he would visit the 86-year old Aurobindo Ashram and pay homage at the
`samadhis` (memorials) of Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual collaborator The
Mother. The Prime Minister would also visit the room where Sri Aurobindo
carried out his spiritual experiments for several years. Sri Aurobindo breathed
his last in December 1950 while The Mother (Mirra Alfasa) passed away in
November 1973. Lt Governor Dr Iqbal Singh today visited the ashram to oversee the
arrangements for the Prime Minister`s visit.
from:
Sunil sunilauro@gmail.com date: 27
June 2012 09:36 subject: for posting
Sri
Aurobindo Ashram is a spiritual organisation, the priority for anybody given
the power must be determined by his spiritual capacity, his relationship with
the Divine, his or her commitment to fulfill the Divine's work. The number of
years one has been there is important but more important is the sincerity, the
straight forwardness, the simplicity and the intensity to make the Ashram work.
The individual's capacity to represent the Divine's work. All those who have
this living link should be given the representative positions. This will bring
in the safety for the Ashram and avoid the misuse of power and position for
personal gain, importance or rule. At present the Departmental Heads may be in
power because of their relation with Manoj and not with the Divine. In the Ashram
the work behind the appearance of all activity is that of and for the
supramental descent, so that being the real work and as the current management
is not representing the Trusteeship, new management has to come
A
question does arise as how to measure the spiritual level of the candidate, as
we have sadhaks who are genuinely doing the sadhana and there are those who are
genuinely showing others that they are doing the sadhana. But as the
consciousness of the individual does not lie, the truth can be easily detected
and the fake eliminated. And the ones who are not spiritually active as some of
them claim openly, they should not qualify for any Ashram management.
Some
such ground rules can be laid, and age too can be given a priority, as for the
right functioning of the job at hand. We are here to be ever young but that
does not mean that what we cannot do ourselves anymore, we will still continue
working in the same job even when we have become unfit for quality functioning. All
fitness coaches who are in the grounds must be fit and pass a basic fitness
level themselves, all teachers must have their standards of qualifications.
Every position in work and management must have a right training attached to it
to ensure the right workings and functionality worth of the Mother's and Sri
Aurobindo's name. A quality working control group can be formed to ensure the
high standards are maintained and improved.... All are disciples and
seekers for the Truth, and should be treated with respect, kindness and love.
The young and sincere should be given the opportunities to do the Divine's work.
Sunil
from: Matri Vandana matrivandana@gmail.com date: 23 May
2012 22:15 subject: Response to Jitendra Sharma
Jitender, stop pretending
that you are in any way serving the Divine!
Just how can you separate
the two issues?– Peter’s mischief and the Trustee’s unstinted support to him. Do you have to be reminded
that Peter’s extension of visa was given on the recommendation of the Ashram
trustees only? So your war cry that ‘I
will fight tooth and nail’ is all bogus.
People like yourself who
are supporting the present set of trustees are only making use of moral and
yogic ideas to conceal their personal motives. Instead of serving the Divine
you are only serving your own violent egoism. This is no longer even
self-deception: it’s sheer hypocrisy!
The present set of trustees
have only been misconducting themselves, are egoistical, unfaithful ,
treacherous.What all they have been
doing all these years is cloaking everything with a favorable appearance,
giving all movements a favorable explanation. But it has been so flagrant that
it can fool nobody but themselves!
So,
when a Peter denigrates Sri Aurobindo in his own Ashram he is given all possible
support, he is even welcomed back to the Archives!
And
when one Radhikaranjan stands for Sri Aurobindo, he is thrown out of his job!
This
is the war of the Gods and Titans, the symbol of which the old Indian
literature is full. The present trustees are the incarnations of the Titanic
powers, they are Asuras. Who shall win in the end in this struggle between
Dharma and Adharma, well, you very well know it!
Does
Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry Stand the Test of Critics and Time? from: Jitendra
Sharma aurofrance@gmail.com date: 26
June 2012 22:23 (Sri Aurobindo to Dilip. Ed. Sujata Nahar and Shankar
Bandopadhyay. Pune and Mysore
Not
only the Western critics took an adverse view of Sri Aurobindo’s poetic works,
some Indian poets and critics like P. Lal and Nissim Ezekiel, following their
trail, criticised and disapproved of his creations. One of Sri Aurobindo’s
followers, poet and critic, K. D. Sethna, amply replied them…
In
only 10 pages we get so many intriguing things that it casts a doubt as to how
many such gems are scattered in almost all the other pages of the book to so
greatly represent Sri Aurobindo before the enthusiastic public… © Aju
Mukhopadhyay, 2011
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