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| | Monday, 22 August 2011 |  Book 2 Canto 3 The Glory and the Fall of Life (page 120 ~ 121). This recording is a sample of a class that is being given by Shraddhavan weekly at Savitri Bhavan. The aim is to help people whose mother tongue is not English, but who have an aspiration to read Savitri with correct pronunciation and rhythm, and with some first understanding of the words and images of Sri Aurobindos revelatory epic. As a side-effect, it is hoped that they can improve their knowledge of the English language.
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| | Tuesday, 03 May 2011 |  A recorded reading of Sri Aurobindo's revelatory epic by Shraddhavan is available on request from Savitri Bhavan in mp3 form on two CDs. Here is a sample : Book Three ‘The Book of the Divine Mother', Canto Two, ‘The Adoration of the Divine Mother'. The Mother, who was Sri Aurobindo's spiritual collaborator said this of Savitri: "... everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. [Continue >>>]
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| | Monday, 02 May 2011 |  On April 16, 2011, at the start of Earth Weekcelebrations in Auroville, Shraddhavan gave a talk on 'Sri Aurobindo's Vision of our Earth and our human role in the fulfilment of her destiny' followed by comments and questions from the audience at Savitri Bhavan.
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| | Friday, 29 April 2011 |  ‘The Human Aspiration' : Book One, Chapter One of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine. In 1913, Sri Aurobindo noted that part of his mission was to restate the truths of the Veda and Vedanta in terms accessible to the modern mind. In The Life Divine, the ancient truths, illumined by his own experience, are made accessible to the human reason. Shraddhavan's readings of the 28 chapters of Book One are available on request from Savitri Bhavan. Here is a sample - the very first chapter.
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| | Monday, 14 March 2011 |  A presentation by Shraddhavan at Savitri Bhavan on May 30, 2009, the Centenary of Sri Aurobindo's Uttarpara Speech. After he was acquitted and released from a year's detention as an undertrial prisoner in the Alipore Bomb Case, Sri Aurobindo was invited to address a public gathering in his honour in the Calcutta suburb of Uttarpara. In his speech he gave a glimpse of the major spiritual experience which came to him during his imprisonment, the experience of the Cosmic Self - which he later characterised as the second of the four pillars of his Integral Yoga.
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| | Tuesday, 08 March 2011 |  Georges Van Vrekhem at Mutation II A Clearing started with main question which his talk revolved around - If the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were avatars, what avatars were they? Where we can place them it the avatar is the Divine incarnated as human being. Sri Aurobindo wrote about two sides of avatar-hood - Divine Consciousness which is omnipotent, and Instrumental Personality. To him Divine Consciousness has put forward Instrumental Personality, and it uses is accordingly to the rules of the game. He also clearly expressed that the Divine when he takes on the burden of terrestiality, takes it fully, seriously without any tricks or pretense. And any one who wants to change Earth nature, must first accept it, in order to change. Georges found that questions if the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were avatars as one of the most tabu questions.
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| | Monday, 21 February 2011 |  The Rainbow Bridge - Sri Aurobindo's Savitri as a mantra for transformation.
Under this title the second Dr. M.V. Nadkarni Memorial Lecture was given by Sonia Dyne at Savitri Bhavan on February 20, 2011. Sonia was associated with Dr. Nadkarni at the Sri Aurobindo Centre in Singpore during the time when he was teaching at the Univeristy there. In her clear voice and perfect English, she shared illuminating insights about Sri Aurobindo's poem and its significance for us, as a Rainbow Bridge that can carry us from our present state towards our higher goal. Read more 69 Mb |
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| | Thursday, 17 February 2011 |  In January 1908 Sri Aurobindo had his first major spiritual experience, which he sometimes referred to as his ‘Nirvana' experience. To mark the Centenary of this event, Shraddhavan gave a talk at Savitri Bhavan, sharing some of Sri Aurobindo's statements about his experience, and connecting them with some remarks of the Mother about Thought Control and some passages in Savitri. Since Sri Aurobindo stated "One cannot be a fully developed mental being if one has not a control of the thoughts ...” these words have a practical application for all of us.
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