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Wednesday, 08 December 2010 |
 On Saturday, December 4, Georges van Vrekhem’s talk was on “Sri Aurobindo’s Descent into Death”. Georges recounted that soon after the Second World War, the world, in Sri Aurobindo’s words, was “worse than worst”. In fact, Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s work was in jeopardy -- and it was not his intention “to give his sanction to another fiasco”. This is one of the most dramatic episodes in spiritual history and the history of humankind, documented hour-by-hour and commented upon by the Mother herself. Georges explained Sri Aurobindo’s voluntary descent into death, only six years later, the manifestation of the Supermind with its enormous future consequences.
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by Karthik and Anitha
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010 |
 Georges Van Vrekhem, an old-time Aurovillian and a Belgian journalist, poet and playwright, gave the first talk in a series of four on November 15, Saturday, at the Savitri Bhavan. Introduced as an authority on Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, Georges’s topic was “2012 and 1956”. He said he was intrigued by all the hype around 2012, when the fourth cycle of the Mayan calendar comes to an end. Georges analyzed if the world would come to an end in 2012 or if on December 21, 2012, all at once, a major change would take place when everyone would be spiritually transformed. He also made a connection with February 29, 1956, when the manifestation of the “super mind” took place.
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by Andrea and Andie
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 |
 In the Gita, Sri Krishna shows himself to Arjun "brighter than a thousand suns",
but then also as Time the Devourer. The Integral Yoga is a constant battle
the hostile forces, as we see in the examples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
themselves. And "none will reach heaven who has not gone through hell", as we
read in "Savitri". Listen in for the fourth of Georges van Vrekhem's talks.
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by Andrea and Andie
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010 |
 The great Change is taking place now. If a new species has to come about, it has
to happen through a series of miracles. The first ones must be the psychic and
spiritual realizations - followed by ... the unexpected. It might be more practical to
see our task of transitory beings as a preparation for the unexpected than as an
expectation of an overmental or supramental realization. But, despite our
ignorance, our dedicated effort is essential (as is Auroville) in the present
turnabout. Our yoga is not for ourselves, but for humanity. Listen in for the third of Georges van Vrekhem's talks.
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Thursday, 04 November 2010 |
 Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, as he wrote himself, was an adventure into the unknown. The story of his explorations, discoveries and realizations is spellbinding, from heights to greater heights and from depths to deeper depths For it was also the story of a continuous and decisive confrontation with the hostile forces. His and the Mother's joint effort unfolded against the background of world history.
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by Andi and Andrea
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010 |
 Sunday morning, September 26 Georges Van Vrekhem, a well-known author and exponent on Integral Yoga, began a series of four talks in Town Hall. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have talked about the "archetype" as the idea of terrestrial evolution (which is also the origin of the four varnas). The Mother has seen it and talked about it to Sri Aurobindo, who confirmed her vision. If this is true, it is the explanation of the human form, therefore of the forms gradually created by the evolution and leading up to the human, and the fundamental shape of the supramental being. Mystics in the past have seen the same, and some of them, in the Gnostic tradition, have called the archetype Adam Kadmon. Listen in for the full first talk.
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 |
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 On Saturday the 3rd of April in Bharat Nivas dr. Karan Singh had a speech at the occasion of the centenary since Sri Aurobindo arrived to Pondicherry. As the speaker noted Sri Aurobindo teachings provide many answers to many question, for a man to achieve inner peace, for each human being need to realize the oneness in all, and elevate the consciousness of himself.
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by Andrea
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Friday, 02 April 2010 |
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 On Saturday 27th March, CIC Group of Bharat Nivas had invited some 50 people from Auroville to commemorate at a simple function the Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival at Pondicherry in 1910. The participants were requested to share their feelings in this regard. The atmosphere was filled with the presence of Sri Aurobindo and Mother, and was very sublime and deep. The gathering took place under the Peepal tree in the Bhatar Nivas compound.
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