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Dear Friends, Born as Bernard Enginger on 30 October 1923, Satprem was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. He was released after spending one and a half years in German concentration camp. He visited Pondicherry for the...
Dear Friends, The Mother and her husband Paul Richard had spent three years in Kyoto (in Japan) from 1917 to 1920. During their stay, they had befriended Dr. Kobayashi and his wife Nobuko Kobayashi, who were followers of a certain Dr. Okata who had taught them the mystery of meditation,...
Dear Friends and Well-wishers, Amazing news from West Bengal ! The English Department of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan has been conducting courses on Sri Aurobindo Studies for the last five years with the initiatives of Professor Goutam Ghosal, Professor Debarati Bandyopadhyay, Professor Amrit Sen and others. Apart from teaching poems and prose...
Dear Friends, The Sports Ground of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, was opened by the Mother in 1951. On the opening day of the Sports Ground, there was a grand March Past with music played by the Ashram Brass Band. The Mother would visit the Sports Ground every day during the...
Dear Friends, The Mother arrived at Pondicherry for the first time on 29 March 1914. Eleven months later, on 22 February 1915, she—along with Paul Richard— was compelled to leave Pondicherry due to the outbreak of the First World War. They reached Colombo on the Dupleix of the Messageries Maritimes...
Dear Friends, In December 1967, a large number of miners had visited Pondicherry from the north. For them, a special Darshan of the Mother was arranged on 29 December, that is, exactly fifty years ago. Photographs of this rare Darshan (taken by Ms. Sudha Sundaram) which the Mother granted to...
Dear Friends, Wish you all a Merry Christmas! On 25 December 1929 the Mother had distributed little bunches of the leaves She called ‘New Birth’ to the members of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. This was the earliest reference of Christmas being celebrated in Sri Aurobindo Ashram. In 1944, on the...
Dear Friends, On Wednesday, 13 December 2017, the Aurobindonian community of Pondicherry lost its senior-most member with the passing away of Albert Patel at the age of ninety-four. Albert’s father Ambalal Patel was one of the early disciples of Sri Aurobindo. He came in touch with Sri Aurobindo’s writings at...
Dear Friends, On 17 November 2011, Thursday, Huta D. Hindocha breathed her last. One of the closest disciples of the Mother whose notable publications include The Story of A Soul, White Roses, About Savitri, Mother, You Said So and Salutations, she departed on the very day the Mother had withdrawn...
Dear Friends and Well-wishers, The eighth “Auro-Ratna Award” ceremony was organized on Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at Van Niwas, the Himalayan retreat centre of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch. In this ceremony, Ms. Tara Jauhar, Chairperson, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch, was presented with the “Auro-Ratna Award” for her invaluable...