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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, 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...

Dear Friends, On Friday, 3 March 2017, the Aurobindonian community of Pondicherry lost a bright jewel with the passing away of Ratna Chakrabarti at the age of seventy-five. The word “Ratna” means jewel and she, indeed, lived up to her name. Born in Kolkata on 28 July 1941 to Santosh...

Dear Friends, Sri Aurobindo has described the Mother as the one who ‘is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the...

Dear Friends, Maurice Schumann (10 April 1911—9 February 1998) was a French politician, journalist and author. He was also an inspirational radio spokesman of General Charles de Gaulle and the French Resistance in broadcasts to Nazi-ruled France from London during the Second World War. He was the Minister of Foreign...

Dear Friends, During the early years of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, children were not allowed to live in the Ashram. In the early 1940s, when a number of families were admitted to the Ashram, the Mother decided to open a school to provide education to the children who had come with...

Dear Friends, On 5 December 1950 at 1:26 a.m., Sri Aurobindo the “Colonist from Immortality” had left his physical sheath as a supreme act of sacrifice for the sake of mankind. To quote the words of the Mother: “Sri Aurobindo was not compelled to leave his body, he chose to...