The time has come for the application of spirituality in life. What better source is there for this than the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? It is therefore heartening to know that an attempt is being made to bring the thought and consciousness of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother into the daily and mundane activities of life. My best wishes to the Overman [Foundation] for this endeavour.
Prof. Kittu Reddy,
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Dear Anurag,
Let your award “Auro Ratna” dazzle the world with “Aro Ratnas”
Affectionately Yours
Krishna-di
(Krishna Chakravarti)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Dear Anurag,
I pray to the Mother for the success of your organisation and invoke Her Blessings for the launch on 29th March, 2010.
With good wishes and regards
Manojda
(Manoj Das Gupta)
Managing Trustee,
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry.
My dear Anurag,
Your endeavour to establish “OVERMAN FOUNDATION” to research and conduct workshops on Integral Management and social unity in the light of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother is a laudable effort…
I pray to the Divine for continued success of your efforts and hope that it will be a living and kicking organisation to spread teachings of the Greatest Sage of our time, Sri Aurobindo, among the humanity…
With Greetings and best wishes.
Yours sincerely
Nirmal Nahar
Founder-Trustee,
Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata
Dear Shri Anuraag Banerjee:
I am delighted about the blossoming of Overman Foundation to take the message of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to widening circles and thus help our society evolve into a better one. Sri Aurobindo’s message is very much the need of the hour. Whether it is corruption in the body politic or cultural suicides or external and internal terrorism, life appears to be very dark right now. To help us overcome the shadow within and bravely face the challenges without, we have no better leader than Sri Aurobindo. The Mother has rightly said that he has given us the assurance about the beauty of the future, a message thoughtfully distributed to celebrate the 4th of April. Hence Overman Foundation will be playing a very significant role for our nation as well as the entire humanity. With prayers to the Divine Mother for your Foundation to realise all that Sri Aurobindo asked for in ‘Rose of God’,
Sincerely
Dr. Prema Nandakumar
Dear Shri Anuraag:
I am delighted to know about the Overman Foundation. It is exactly like Sri Aurobindo and the Mother launching Arya, defiantly as it were, as the war-clouds were gathering over Europe. Today we are once again in almost the same position. Especially, within India, almost every inch of territory is getting hauled up by one or other disturbance and terror. The objectives of the Overman Foundation are laudable and necessary for our times. You will be taking the message of Sri Aurobiundo to a wider audience and that is always a definite message of divine possibilities. We need to conserve and sustain this hope in the future and not be taken in by the newspaper reports that paint a Doomsday scenario.I was delighted when the 4th April special message-card contained the Mother’s words:
“Sri Aurobindo came to tell the world of the beauty of the future that must be realised.
He came to give not a hope but a certitude of splendour towards which the world moves.The world is not an unfortunate accident, it is a marvel which moves towards its expression.
The world needs the certitude of the beauty of the future. And Sri Aurobindo has given that assurance.”
With prayers to the Divine Mother for a purposive and divinity-laden future for Overman Foundation,
Sincerely
Dr. Prema Nandakumar
I send my very best wishes to the Overman Foundation and all those dedicating their efforts to it.
May the Foundation contribute to the spreading of the Aurobindian knowledge and spirit in India.
Georges Van Vrekhem, Auroville
Dear Anurag Banerjee,
Thank you for informing me about the timely creation of the Overman Foundation.
Quite deliberately I insist on the adverb timely. A few years ago, in one of my discussions with Pandit Ravi Shankar, I raised the question about the decreasing degree of efficiency of our mantras; Panditji sighed and admitted that – too often repeated – they seem to be wearing out. From that point of view, I sense that – fortunately for us -, Sri Aurobindo’s vision and the Mother’s impetus have added a new significance and an extraordinary vitality to our hoary past, capable of leading humanity to its doomed transformation till the ultimate establishment of the Life Divine.
Having chosen the glorious task of furthering this mission, you have, indeed, been chosen by this mission.
As such, I wish you to shine, not for yourself, but for the love of our spiritual Guides.
Warm regards.
Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee, Paris
Dear Anurag,
Aspire to become worthy instruments for the Divine’s actions.
Wishing you every success in all your endeavours,
Affectionately,
Robi-da
(Robi Ganguly)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Dear brother Anurag:
“May Mother’s & Sri Aurobindo’s, Love, Light & Joy be always your constant guide.”
I was, am so touched with the project you have launched… My spirit united more with thine in relation to the quest…
I recall the project Mother set out in the early 70’s Sri Aurobindo’s action, where She wanted the world to know openly the works of our beloved Papa. And as I met Mama many, many times, She always insisted on harmony, between us, respect, love and joy in doing the work… I am still in love with the project and contribute in my, again, limited way, Spain, Mexico, U.S.A. India and myself.
I can see the work taking shape…WOW!
Brother: To work in villages, towns is just fantastic!
BUT, Please don’t forget some of our brothers with poor souls that need help…Let there be Delight, and Gratitude in whatever way we choose to serve THEM.
At THEIR service and of truth…Your thankful brother…
Mali
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Dear Anurag,
As I received your email, I came across the following lines from ‘Savitri’ which seem so appropriate for the work you are proposing to do –
“Man must overcome or miss his higher fate.
This is the inner war without escape”
One feels very happy that you are inspired to commit yourself to this work.
As we move ahead on this journey – with affection,
Aster
(Dr. Aster Patel)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Dear Anurag,
Congratulations for starting the organisation!
Best wishes!
Raman
(Raman Reddy)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Dear Anurag,
I pray to the Mother to help you in your noble aim.
Shyam Kumari
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Since the turn of the previous century we are living in an age of synthesis. It is an age when all the dichotomies and paradoxes of human nature, the inner and outer contradictions of life that have vexed and besieged man are being brought in close contact with each other to confront and resolve their apparent conflicts. Apparent, because in the depths of creation there is always a unity and the need for harmony is much more instinct in Nature than the tendency towards disintegration and disorder. So also on the luminous peaks of our inner consciousness there burns a Light in which all our dire debates cease and the contradictions are healed as each tendency and movement of Nature finds its true place in the total scheme of things. But here, upon earth and more so with the advent of the mental consciousness and its full development in man the division, disharmony and disorder have reached enormous proportions.
What is the way out of this impasse? Certainly not to fall back to the animal harmony for that would be retrogression. The advent of mind has meant an increasing complexity and awareness whereas the animal life is sustained by a spontaneous, albeit simple and unconscious harmony. The only way out is to emerge out of the limited and limiting, divided and dividing consciousness of the mind into a higher, greater, vaster consciousness that would at once be the most direct, true and spontaneous expression of our inmost soul. That such a consciousness beyond Mind exists is an ancient discovery of many a sages, seers and mystics in each age of mankind. That man can enter into such a higher and vaster consciousness and take his station there and act from there has also been preached as an ideal, even if achieved and practiced by a few, right from the Vedic ages or perhaps even before. But that this vaster, greater Truth can be brought down to earth and made the chief moving Force of man and normal in its operation upon earth, is something that has not been envisaged or attempted before the coming of Sri Aurobindo. Not only did Sri Aurobindo envisage this Ideal of bringing the spiritual and Supramental into the material and the earthly life of man but He also prepared the earth for its reception and advent. Through His own example He showed us the way and gave the path of Integral Yoga to man for this greater Becoming and self-exceeding. Above all He left for us His Influence vibrating in the earth atmosphere and through his luminous writings left for man a rarest treasure whose priceless value yet can save the world.
It is only natural that in times to come more and more centres of this New Light brought down to earth by the heroic tapasya of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, will emerge and spread as powerful waves and carry this creation one more step forward, the crucial step that would take man beyond the frontiers of Ignorance into the native home of Truth and Light. Surely, the Overman Foundation is one such strong wave arising from the Supramental seas that is increasingly spreading its Influence upon earth. I am sure this Foundation inspired directly by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is already Blessed by Their Grace that is always and abundantly available with all who are ready and aspire to collaborate in this work of terrestrial transformation that has been initiated and is being led and guided by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. My very best prayers that may the foundation fulfil the goal, the ideal that has given birth to it and serve the great purpose for which it has come into existence. To close with some luminous and prophetic lines from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri:
This earth shall stir with impulses sublime,
Humanity awake to deepest self,
Nature the hidden godhead recognise.
Even the many shall some answer make
And bear the splendour of the Divine’s rush
And his impetuous knock at unseen doors.
A heavenlier passion shall upheave men’s lives,
Their mind shall share in the ineffable gleam,
Their heart shall feel the ecstasy and the fire.
Earth’s bodies shall be conscious of a soul;
Mortality’s bondslaves shall unloose their bonds,
Mere men into spiritual beings grow
And see awake the dumb divinity.
Intuitive beams shall touch the nature’s peaks,
A revelation stir the nature’s depths;
The Truth shall be the leader of their lives,
Truth shall dictate their thought and speech and act,
They shall feel themselves lifted nearer to the sky,
As if a little lower than the gods.
For knowledge shall pour down in radiant streams
And even darkened mind quiver with new life
And kindle and burn with the Ideal’s fire
And turn to escape from mortal ignorance.
The frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede,
More and more souls shall enter into light,
Dr. Alok Pandey
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
I am glad to know that the newly launched ‘Overman Foundation’ seeks to work towards spreading the evolutionary vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in the towns and villages of West Bengal. I send the members of the Foundation my warm greetings and good wishes in achieving their commendable objectives.
Dr. Karan Singh,
President,
I.C.C.R.
Dear Anurag,
I, in my humble way, wish the newly formed organization a great success. Let your work spread, like a ripple in a lake, in an ever widening circle, touching every nook and corner of Bengal…
We wish you ‘un grand succès’
Yours affectionately,
Noren da
(Noren Singh Nahar)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Dear Anurag,
Thank you for your mail about the Overman foundation.
I wish you all success in your endeavour.
Love and good wishes,
Shobha-di
(Shobha Mitra)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Dear Anurag,
I fully support the aims and objectives of The ‘Overman Foundation.’ I believe the subjects of Integral Management and Social Unity, which the foundation has taken up based on the ideals and guidance of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, will become increasingly important in solving humanity’s problems. Other activities of the foundation, such as recognizing the contributions of Aurobindonian scholars and workers, and research on and dissemination of the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, are also highly commendable and useful endeavors. The efforts of the foundation in these directions will surely be successful as long as it remembers and maintains its high spiritual aim of realizing and expressing the Divine in human life.
Warm regards,
Larry
(Dr. Larry Seidlitz)
Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research, Pondicherry
Dear Anurag,
With regard to the Overman Foundation I would like to say that you have my full support for this great cause. I am very happy to learn about the noble aims and objectives of the Overman Foundation. There was a time when Bengal used to be at the forefront of all great movements that shaped the destiny of India. Unfortunately it is not so now. Therefore it is now imperative to spread the teachings of Sri Aurobindo among the simple, unsophisticated people of rural Bengal and awaken their latent inner possibilities so that Bengal may once again contribute to the future glory of Mother India. My ardent prayers and best wishes are always with you for your success in this great endeavour.
With lots of love,
Gauri-di
(Gauri Pinto)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Dear Anurag, Friends and Staff of Overman Foundation,
Congratulations to you on the wonderful creation of your organization and its Website.
I laud your efforts in launching Overman Foundation and your site in order to bring the Light of The Master and the Mother to a worldwide audience.
I am not a scholar trained in the spiritual texts of India, so will not be presenting a scholarly and intellectual paper from that standpoint. Perhaps, in any case, we have had enough of so much talk and are now seeking the confirmation of that deep spiritual experience and inner growth that will assist in moving us ever forward on the path.
From the outset, when I first began to read your postings, I was moved by what I felt had profoundly resonated from within my soul as a result. The research you have carried out, never before seen photos that you have uncovered, keeping us updated on important events and activities, biographies on those great sadhaks who have gone before us who had devoted their lives to the Integral Yoga, has been a most uplifting and heart-felt inspiration.
The high ideals you represent, lack of any apparent political agenda, and the purity and sincerity of your offerings will assure that all readers will be held close to the essence of Their Message and all that They have sacrificed for the future of mankind for the certainty of the manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness.
May your work continue to be blest by Them and may the New Year 2011 bring you many new and uplifting experiences.
In Their Light,
Anie Nunnally,
President,
Board of Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles
I agree wholeheartedly with the aims and objectives of the Overman Foundation.
I am most impressed by the sincerity and dedication of the Foundation ably led by Mr Anurag Banerjee. Congratulations!
The best way we can remain true to the World Vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother is to constantly remain in touch with their writings.
I am very grateful to the Overman Foundation for sharing with us rare writings and photographs of the Master , The Mother and their chosen disciples.
Happy New Year 2011!
Dr. Sachidananda Mohanty
Professor
Department of English,
University of Hyderabad
In these turbulent days when humanity is forced to come face to face with its collective difficulties, its lust for power, its greed, its misuse of the money force, its despoiling and mismanagement of the earth and her resources, and all its lower desires, we are most fortunate to have foundations such as the Overman Foundation devoted to the highest ideals, as given by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, to help guide us towards the truth that is within ourselves and the New World being created by the Supramental at work in our midst.
I applaud the sincere effort and aspiration of Anurag Banerjee and his Overman Foundation to keep before us the ideals and the path of the Integral Yoga so that we may see in time, in the words of Sri Aurobindo, “This earthly life become the life divine.”
Narad (Richard Eggenberger)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Opened your website, I fully welcome and appreciate your efforts in bringing the teachings of the master and the mother in day-today life of those, who are sincerely seeking for a real/true value, and for those who are still grooping in the dark. In West Bengal, the birth place of Sri Aurobindo, where the dark forces are in full swing, it’s the right time to spread the teachings of Sri Aurobindo to the level of common man, I hope as time pass, there will be a change of attitude, as well people can slowly get rid of Communist Maya, it’s like an octopus net. Collective prayer/meditation for a particular cause can be done regularly on a fixed time so that it can have effects on the minds of people.
Thanking you
yours sincerely
Suryanarayana
26 April 2011
A very informative blog which also carries clarity.
Hariharan
20 January 2011
CONGRATS – Anurag, please keep up the great work! Hope this is widely circulated, read and appreciated!
Anirban Ganguly
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Would love to forever get updated, outstanding blog! .
Thanks for your updates.
It is all inspirational and aspirational at the same time ..wonderful ..Please keep it up
Surendra
It is good to see young people taking interest in Sri Aurobindo’s vision ammidst the chaotic scene in the physical-material world. However, Sri Aurobindo has written it all for the guidance of genuine sadhaks– and to do sadhana is the main persuit of a seeker; spreading to many intellectually based messages or writings creates a mixture which becomes a detour rather than the straight path. Sri aurobindo was obviously inspired by the Bhagvad Gita and the Tantra tradition, it becomes sort of mandatory to follow the Yoga of the Gita in order to join in with Integral Yoga, which is taken over by the Divine Mother after a certain stage. It is important to do sadhana, till one reaches a stage where one can share the fruits and the experiences with each other in a very spiritually pragmatic way, which is what is to be an Aurobindonian.
Tulsi Bhandari
Mother has a terrific worker in Anurag!
Aryadeep
Dear Anurag,
I have just came across overman foundation website. It’s pleasant surprise to see ur dedication n interest for “Auro work”
I am follower of Shri Aurobindo from last 10 years. My observation says that young entrants are very less in “Auro system”
Auro ashrams and centre are every where in india but activity and participation is very less.
I happy to see that you are filling this information gap at your end.
Very nice & touchy photo gallery !
Congratulations & all the best
Regards,
Hemendrasinh Rathod
Vapi, Gujarat
Dear Anurag,
overman foundation is doing unique work. I always admire the rare
photographs sent and research done by your foundation.
Narendra
Mumbai
Dear Anuragji,
Thank you for your effort to spread Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’s message. This is the only way to save the country from the illusion of so called progress.
Affectionately
Gadadhar Mishra
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Dear Anurag,
I really find the newsfeed from Overman Foundation so inspiring…all kinds of valuable information and insights and photographs….thanks for spreading the Divine Love and Grace of our Lord…
Love,
Beloo
found your blog on Google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
keep spreading SRI AUROBINDO teachings. Let the light spread across the globe -Mrig uncle.
This blog is great. I realy like it!
Thank u very much. Your messages are heart uplifting and very cheerful. best wishes from an old man of 88 years who is a hero worshipper of Sri Aurobindo & Mother.
Krishna Swami
May I be permitted to expand fully this good wishes of Dr. Karan singh:
“I am glad to know that the newly launched ‘Overman Foundation’ seeks to work towards spreading the evolutionary vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in the towns and villages of West Bengal.” :
I hope, the scope of work of the Foundation would get widened to include especially first the other half part, East Bengol, of Bangla Cultural Unit and then the whole World for realising the work for which the Kaki Avatar, Sri Aurobindo-The Mother, Sri Auromere, “condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass through the portals of the birth that is death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light, Joy and Truth (Supramental) and eternal life.”
Chandrakant P. Patel
The Mother’s Study and Guidance Center
34215, Mimosa Terrace,
Fremont, CA 94555, U.S.A
Ph: [R] (510) 493-7917; [Cell]: 510-579-8493;
Email Id. chandrakantpatel1@yahoo.com
Dear Anuraag jee,
Your effort towards expressing the hidden part of the progressive
manifestation of the Divinity of Mirra and its full blossoming into
the Divine Mother through an inner identification with That who She
really always was and is….very impressive to all who loves the
Mother.
Thanks for your sincere effort.
With regards,
Hemant Barik
Sri Aurobindo Yoga Sadhna Kendra
Dear Sir, we have neither money nor energy due old age to see such beautiful things. Only Sri Aurobindo’s & Mother’s blessings keep us going. Thanks to sri Anurag Banerjee we get to know great treasures.
Krishnasamy age 89+ with best wishes and a Prayer to Lord Sri Krishna to make sri Banerjee HIS INSTRUMENT.
Krishna Swamy
Dear Anurag,
Always research and more research, interesting, illuminating research.
Sometimes I do feel all these should have been published in “Mother India.” Anyway someone is doing the wonder works and giving us the joy. And that should be enough. The Master will himself choose his channels. Congratulations.
With admiration and love. Good Luck.
Dhanavanti
Appreciating the commitment you put into your site and in depth information you provide.
It’s nice to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same old rehashed material.
Fantastic read!
Dear Anurag,
My heartiest compliments to Overman Foundation on its 10th anniversary today, 29th March 2020.
March on, dear brother, your efforts have not been in vain. We are on the verge of seeing a new dawn as humanity lurches from one disaster to another. Hope springs eternal with the blessings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
Together we will see better days ahead.
With love and best wishes,
Sudipto Choudhury