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Dear Friends and Well-wishers of Overman Foundation, Shrimat Anirvan (8 July 1896—31 May 1978) had mastered the Astādhyayi of Pānini at a very early age. After completing his formal education he renounced the world and became Nirvanananda Saraswati. But after a few years he dropped the ochre robes and changed...
Dear Friends and Well-wishers of Overman Foundation, The third “Shrimat Anirvan Memorial Oration” organized by Overman Foundation was held on Saturday, 8 July 2017, at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan (8 Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata 700071). The programme was chaired by Professor Supriyo Bhattacharya, former Head of the Department of Economics, Kalyani University....
Dear Friends and Well-wishers, A Summer Retreat was organized jointly by Overman Foundation and Sri Aurobindo Sakti Centre Trust, Kolkata, from 27th May to 2nd June 2017 at Madhuban, a unit of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch, situated at Talla Ramgarh, Uttarakhand. The retreat began in the afternoon of 27th...
Dear Friends, In the months of May and June 2017, we had published fifty photographs of the Mother’s Darshan of 21 February 1973 as well as the complete video of the same Darshan in the website of Overman Foundation. As the next installment of our special series on the Mother,...
Dear Friends, Apropos of publishing fifty photographs of the Mother’s Darshan of 21 February 1973 in the website of Overman Foundation (see: http://overmanfoundation.org/2017/05/22/fifty-photographs-of-the-mothers-darshan-of-21-february-1973/) on 22 May 2017, we have uploaded the complete video of the Mother’s Darshan of the said date. Interestingly, this same video has been erroneously uploaded in...
Dear Friends, On 21 February 1973, the Mother’s turned ninety-five. In the Darshan Card distributed on that day, she wrote: ‘The more we advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine Presence becomes imperative and indispensable.’ In the evening of 21 February 1973, the Mother gave Darshan...
Title: At the Motrano Retreat—The Book of the Divine Mother Author: R. Y. Deshpande Price: Rs. 525 (Five Hundred and Twenty-five) only. Number of Pages: 416. Distributor: Overman Foundation. The Context God said, “Let there be light and there was light” but seemingly displeased with the pale aura of the light, the Lord...
Dear Friends, Anie Nunnally, President of the Board of East-West Cultural Center, author of The Golden Path and a sincere follower of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, left her body on 25 April 2017 at the age of eighty. An obituary of the late Anie Nunnally penned by Mr. Julian...
Dear Friends, On 7 February 2017, Rathindranath Mukherjee, the eldest grandson of Jatindranath Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin, left his physical sheath at the age of eighty-three. He was an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, from 1948 to 1969 and one of those rare souls who had had the Darshan...
She must have gone to that Surya whom she adored and worshipped. A shy frightened girl she passed the Matriculation at the age of fourteen and joined the Howrah Girls’ College for further studies. It was 1956. That year she had measles before the exam and a special arrangement was...