Madurai Today - The Hindu March 3, 2013
Sri Aurobindo Society: Study circle meeting on ‘The Mother on
Savitri,’ 3 Lajapathi Roy Street ,
Chinna Chokkikulam, 10.30 a.m. ~ Sri Aravindar Annai Trust: Collective meditation, Aravindar Annai
Relics Meditation Centre, 12
Aravindar Avenue , Tirunagar, 10 a.m.
Class - Savitri Bhavan 10:30
AM Savitri Study Circle at
Savitri Bhavan
Class - Verite Hall 06:45 AM Vinyasa Yoga with Einat - in
Vérité
Exhibition - Savitri Bhavan 09:00 AM Exhibition - The Mother's
Yoga:1956-1973 at Savitri Bhavan
Exhibition - Savitri Bhavan 09:00 AM Exhibition - Meditations on
Savitri at Savitri Bhavan
Exhibition - Pitanga 10:00 AM Light beyond skin
Exhibition - Exhibition: Chantal GOWA (Shanta) Rétrospective 03:00 PM Exhibition: Chantal GOWA
(Shanta) Rétrospective
Exhibition - UNITY PAVILION 04:30 PM Matrimandir and The Park of
Unity
For general information about Auroville please visit us at auroville.org
Natural
childbirth: new midwife in Auroville Manuela Schliessner
Birth is a blue print for the rest of the life, if we invest in a
peaceful gentle birth, we invest in the future life that lies ahead of this
person. If a birth is full of trauma the person needs to work on removing the
obstacles during his whole life. The Art of Midwifery is to guide by being
still, pure presence, observing and guiding through the Heart, with as less as
possible medical interventions; to support women in their authentic feminine
power and to reconnect to their own strength and authenticity.
AIR 1968 Auroville Inauguration from Auroville Radio by contact@aurovilleradio.org (Andrea
& Amanda)
Listen to an inspiring piece of broadcasting history as Mother
announces the inauguration of Auroville live across India on 28 February 1968. The
recording was made with Mother sitting in Pondicherry
while 5000 founding members of Auroville conducted the inauguration ceremony
nearby at the Matrimandir Amphitheater. Thanks to All India Radio, her reading
of the original Charter of Auroville in French was broadcast live to the
amphitheater, as well as across India ,
while soil representing 124 nations and 23 Indian states was placed in the
ground.
Additional
remarks made by Sri Aurobindo regarding the first two predictions seen
above
Sri Aurobindo explained that when something is decided in the higher
plane, the decision may be communicated to men who are fit to receive it. Thus
when living in Alipur Jail he himself got definite prophecy about the war of
1914. Mirra [the Mother] received such a prophecy about the Chinese revolution.
Then he referred to a vision he saw at the time of the last European war. Two
eagles were trying to go through a mountain pass and a strong gale was blowing
against them and above that scene he saw the words 1931. This was not a
definite prophecy as before but Sri Aurobindo interpreted it in this manner:
the two eagles obviously referred to Austria
and Germany and the whole
scene represented a cataclysm of which obviously the European war was the
beginning; it would end in 1931 by the dissolution of the British empire and
the eventual liberation of India .
This was not a definite prophecy but only Sri Aurobindo’s interpretation of the
vision he saw.
Comment on Conversations with Sri Aurobindo recorded by
Anilbaran Roy, Part 3 by Anurag Banerjee Sri Aurobindo’s speech on l5th
August 1926 as recorded by A.B. Purani
But we have attached a special importance to this day and it is
justified if we live in the light of the Truth it symbolises. For this day we
can fix a mark in the stage in the individual and general progress. It is a day
which ought to be a day of consecration, of self-examination and a preparation
for future advance, if possible, for the reception of a special Power which
would carry on the work of advance. This can only be done in each individually
if he takes up the true attitude and lives on that day under the right
conditions. That was what I meant when I spoke the other day. It is we who can
make it a decisive day in this sense, and it is we who can help to fulfill it.
This interview truly reveals the thoughts of Sri Aurobindo. Though,
strictly speaking, I am not follower of Sri Aurobindo but am greatly influenced
by the way he has amalgamated philosophy, psychology and science into
spirituality on one hand and sociology, religion and nationalism on the other
hand particularly at macro level in his spiritual thoughts. I feel convinced
that while pursuing my studies in application of Quantum Physics, Non-local
Reality and Genetics I must have further in-depth understanding of Sri
Aurobindo’s thoughts. Virender Ghai, Gurgaon
The
Power of Habit: Why We Do
What We Do, and How to Change -
Page 217 - Charles
Duhigg - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Social habits are what fill streets with protesters who may not
know one another, who might be marching for different reasons, but who are all
moving in the same direction. Social
habits are why some initiatives become world-changing ... How Movements Happen from The Tao of Wealth by Sreekanth
Husserl’s famous battle cry calls thinking to return to the ‘things
themselves’, that which is given, or that which presences and is present. Yet,
this very challenge, the question of presence, has drawn quite different
responses from those thinkers who have engaged with the inheritance of
phenomenology. Now more than ever, phenomenology must contend with a scientific
world view which describes the world by that which is withheld and yet
underpins all that is given.
Latour’s 4th Gifford – “The Anthropocene and the Destruction of
the Image of the Globe” from Footnotes to Plato by Matthew David Segall
Latour prefers a geostorical connective tissue woven out of “loops” to
the historical-spherical project of globalization. Spheres, “from Plato to
Nato,” have disconnected us from the local, narrative knowledges of the Earth
Community. In the rush toward “global thinking,” Man has tried to unify too
quickly what should have been composed slowly, taking great care to follow the
networks, the feedback loops, that tie us to this planet and her uncanny life.
This work of composition is not simply cognitive (i.e., scientific), but also
affective (i.e., political).
Gaia has no central control station. She is not an all-seeing sphere,
but a complex assemblage whose life is precariously composed by an indefinite
multiplicity of chemical, microbial, and, increasingly, human teloi.
She is not a unified actor; Her agency is fully distributed, which is why her
face is so frightening.
Tweets 5 hrs - Steven
Shaviro @shaviro
I have the same experience reading Laruelle as I do reading Schelling: amazing
formulations emerge in the midst of stuff I just can't parse.
Review
– English Vinglish from sunayana.com I am a bit disappointed that, at all the
glittering award ceremonies that took place recently, English Vinglish did not
receive more awards. In my eyes this was by far the best film that was produced
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