Category Archives: News
EP feedback, FAMC to Trustees
FAMC informs Trustees and Executives, that timely submission of balance sheets is critical for Auroville and deeply affects our relationship with the Auroville Foundation and the Government of India in general.
On Saturday 8th of July Damien passed away in the morning in Canberra, Australia surrounded by his sons Misha, Ry and Peter. Our love and sympathy go out to Damien's family and Paula,
Today at 5pm at New Colors (Edayanchavady)we are invited to attend A Grand Opening of "The Mother Kindergarten" (A real kindergarten in a garden)
The Proskills Cooking Program La Cuisine - Season 2 Auroville one year Introduction to Cooking for the youths of Auroville (15 to 25). Introduction presentation will be Thursday the 13th of July in PTDC kitchen at 2:30 pm
Absence of love and fellow-feeling is not necessary for nearness to the Divine; on the contrary , a sense of closeness and oneness with others is apart of the divine consciousness into which the sadhak enters by nearness to the Divine and the feeling of oneness with the Divine. ...In this yoga the feeling of unity with others, love, universal joy and Ananda are an essential part of the liberation and perfection which are the aim of the sadhana.
SRI AUROBINDO, On Yoga. II, tome I. part II, 8.
SAVI Putluck, Kick Boxing
he Auroville Basketball Family invites us to a state level basketball tournament on 1st and 2nd of July at New Creations Sprots Ground.
Friday 30 June at 6.30pm at Unity Pavilion Food Fun Friends - a SAVI putluck.
On Sunday 2 July 2017 at SAWCHU building Bharat Nivas between 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm. Kick boxing and Karate presentation and invitation to classes fro all, regardless sex or age.
"There is a domain far above the mind which we could call the world of Harmony and, if you can reach there, you will find the root of all harmony that has been manifested in whatever form upon earth. For instance, there is a certain line of music, consisting of a few supreme notes, that was behind the productions of two artists who came one after another - one a concerto of Bach, another a concerto of Beethoven. The two are not alike on paper and differ to the but in their essence they are the same. One and the same vibration of consciousness, one wave of significant harmony touched both these artists. Beethoven caught a larger part, but in him it was more mixed with the inventions and interpolations of his mind; Bach received less, but what he seized of it was purer. The vibration was that of victorious emergence of consciousness, consciousness tearing itself out of unconsciousness in a triumphant uprising and birth.
The Mother
Celebrate International Yoga Day
Youth Link invites us to celebrate International Yoga Day with events in Savitri Bhavan, and Matrimandir, starting with sun salutations at 5.15am at MM amphitheater....followed by Sanskrit Mantra Chanting at Savitri Bhavan, at 8.30am Exhibition of words of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Integral Yoga & Book Release: An Introduction to the Integral Yoga...at 6pm Yoga Dance Performance & Mudra Chi Collective Practice, at MM Fountain...
Ilaignarkal Education Centre is planning to organize A DAY LONG YOGA SESSION from 9 a.m. to 6 pm. without break (akanda yoga/thodar yoga).
At any given time there will be a few students concentrating on yoga exercises. This programme will be guided by Ms. N. Janaki and B. Anandou, yoga teachers of our school.
Sustainable Livelihood Institute (SLI) celebrates the International Yoga Day with the following activities . Yoga Session at SLI campus : 8.15 to 9.00 a.m
Karma Yogaperfection at work is a definition of yoga- A discussion.
10 a.m to 11 a.m- All are welcome .
Session on Yoga for rural community members: 11 a.m. 12 noon.
On Monday,19th June 4-5 pm we are invited to a Presentation at SLI. On re-design training process For Rural Development Institutes of Tamil Nadu Government..
One can progress through mediation, but through work provided it is done in the right spirit one can progress ten times more.
The Words of The Mother, Vol. 14 A discovery in Morocco points to the oldest Homosapiens fossils found so far. An international team of researchers uncovered 300,000 year-old fossil bones of Homo sapiens, a find tha is approximately 100,000 older than any other previously discovered Homosapiens fossils.The discovery, reported in two papers published June 8, 2017 in the journal Nature (here and here), was made at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco.
The team noted that the fossils reveal a complex evolutionary history of mankind that likely involved the entire African continent. Professor Jean-Jacques Hublin is a a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Hublin said in a statement:We used to think that there was a cradle of mankind 200,000 years ago in east Africa, but our new data reveal that Homo sapiens spread across the entire African continent around 300,000 years ago.
R.I.P. Tekeste!
In the very early hours of morning 6th of June our Ethiopian friend and brother Tekeste B.G. Kidan Zerhanes quietly left his body in his flat in Courage, with his great-nephew at his side Funeral will take place on .Friday, 8.30am, at Adventures burial grounds.~ follow the flowers Thank you, Tekeste, for your crucial persistence and drive. http://www.aurovilleradio.org/africa-house-in-making/ The Auroville Council and the Working Committee inform us on daily operations at Entry Service Water Group says : " So saving water is critical. It is NOT the time to plant anything new. It is NOT the time to refill your massive swimming pools. It is NOT the time to water the roads, as much as it helps to keep the dust down. It is NOT the time to water your lawns, or keep your ornamental gardens lush and green. It IS the time to prioritize your water usage, and have honest conversations within your communities about water usage in communal spaces. It IS the time to save water in every possible way, and to encourage respectfully others in the community to do the same." http://www.aurovilleradio.org/water-crisis/#.WTqfGJJ94cA We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are That already in our secret nature. Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga
New GB Memebers, Art Narratives
The Working Committtee informs us on new Governing Board members, saying that they
have been informed that the following persons have been nominated as members of the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation:
1. Dr. Prema Nandkumar
2. Prof. Sachindanand Mohanty
3. Dr. Anirban Ganguly
4. Dr. Nirima Oza
The notification of the Government of India dated June 29, 2017. The term of office is 4 years.
Rainbow Swan Gymnastics Studio Invites interested children - girls aged 5 1/2 to 7, boys 6 to 12 To attend the audition for the 2017-18 school year on Saturday, July 15th, in New Creation Gymnasium.
Kala Kendra Bharat Nivas - Pavilion of India In collaboration with Dustudio Auroville & Leaf (Landscape and Environment Advancement Foundation) Presents Tracing Narratives Tracing landscape narratives in India A traveling exhibition From 07 - 23 July, 2017 9 am till 5 pm daily . Opening on Friday 7th at 5pm.
You are invited to attend A Grand Opening of "The Mother Kindergarten" (A real kindergarten in a garden) At New Colors (Edayanchavady) On Monday, July 10th, 2017 From 5 pm.
Beyond words, above thoughts the flame of an intense aspiration must always burn, steady and bright. My love and blessings are with you.
The Mother
Entry, Basketball and Aikido
The Auroville Basketball Family is inviting us to the Pudhucherry state level basketball tournament at New Creation sports ground, jointly organized by LOTUS and FRATERNITY basketball clubs on the following dates: 23, 24, 25, 26 & 30 June and 1, 2 July 2017 from 6:30 am till 8:30 am and from 4:00pm till 8:30 pm.
Friday 30 June - 6.30pm to 9pm Unity Pavilion FOOD FUN FRIENDS* A Savi POTLUCK .
Aikido Children Classes at Budonak in Dehashakti restarting on Wednesday 5 July and/or Monday 10th for TLC students.Please:Timings per age group:- 7-10 years old: Monday & Wednesday 4 to 5.00 pm- 11-15 years old: Monday 5 to 6.00 pm or Wednesday same time.
If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, tentacles of Nature to forbid the turning away of our feet from less ordinary pastures.
Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms
Fund-raiser for Angeli, Yoga Day
On Monday,19th June 4-5 pm we are invited to a Presentation at SLI. On re-design training process For Rural Development Institutes of Tamil Nadu Government..
International Yoga Day, Auroville, organized by Youth link includes whole Wedensday events, starting at 5.15am with Meditation & Surya Namaskar at Matrimandir Amphitheatre...
On June 24th - June 25th at : Unity Pavilion and Upasana Design Studio - DESI COTTON WORKSHOP AT UPASANA or Importance of growing local cotton seed varieties.
Acres for Auroville is happy to inform all its friends and donors that campaign donations have helped the Land Board in meeting the cost of the recent land purchase and exchange that brought 10.37 new acres in the immediate Greenbelt of Auroville at the end of May.
Angelis fabulous fundraiser! Sunday the 18th of June at 4:00 -6-30 pm at Mukta, Auroson, Amara and Millas House in Certitude to raise funds fro Angeli's further education. You may contribute on FS# (10) 3432 .
Consciousness is not only power of awareness of self and things, it is or has also adynamic and creative energy .It can determine its own reactions or abstain from reactions; it can not only answer to forces, but create or put out from itself forces. Consciousness is Chit but also Chit Shakti.
SABCL Vol 22 page 234 , Sri Aurobindo
Schools Reopens, O - Blood
Water Group informs us that in an effort to conserve our dwindling water resources in the City Centre, has asked Auroville Water Service to stop filling tankers from the City Centre. Water should be sourced from more abundant areas in Auroville, however, drinking water absolutely takes priority. The next step in water conservation is to ask all construction sites to supply their water via tankers (again filled outside of the City Centre).
Bharat Nivas' first Newsletter for the community at large.
The Auroville Library will resume its usual timings starting July 1st.
9 am to 12:30 pm and 2 pm to 4:30 pm - Monday to Saturday
No evening opening hours.
Dehashakti Physical Education Needs Volunteers to inspire children... committed VOLUNTEERS to help 3 afternoons minimum, or best - all 5 afternoons (Monday to Friday) 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm.
From AVHS - Auroculture suffered a fall in the late afternoon of yesterday and broke her left hip. She was taken to Sri Sai Krupa Hospital on Cuddalore Road where she would be operated . The hospital requires one blood donor of the 0-negative type to come forward.
Absence of love and fellow-feeling is not necessary for nearness to the Divine; on the contrary , a sense of closeness and oneness with others is apart of the divine consciousness into which the sadhak enters by nearness to the Divine and the feeling of oneness with the Divine. ...In this yoga the feeling of unity with others, love, universal joy and Ananda are an essential part of the liberation and perfection which are the aim of the sadhana.
SRI AUROBINDO, On Yoga. II, tome I. part II, 8.
Baskeball Tournament, Aikido
23, 24, 25, 26 & 30 June and 1, 2 July 2017 from 6:30 am till 8:30 am and from 4:00pm till 8:30 pm Pudhucherry state level basketball tournament in Auroville at New Creation Sports Ground. The Auroville Basketball Family is organizing this event jointly with LOTUS and FRATERNITY basketball clubs from Pondicherry.
All are cordially invited to come watch the hair-splitting, nail-biting action!
Date: June 24th - June 25th 2017Venue : Unity Pavilion and Upasana Design StudioDESI COTTON WORKSHOP AT UPASANA or Importance of growing local cotton seed varieties.
Saturday the 24th of June at 5.30pm at Kamban Kalai Arangam (Pondy) Classical Indian dance (Bharatanatyam) performance by 7 dancers (aged 7 to 11) of one of the best Bharatnatyam School in Pondy, Ezhilar Kalaikoodam (whose guru, Sumati Sundar, used to teach in Auroville)
The surest way towards this integral fulfilment is to find the
Master of the secret who dwells within us, open ourselves constantly
to the divine Power which is also the divine Wisdom and
Love and trust to it to effect the conversion.
- Sri Aurobindo
Letter of IAC to Community
In today's news awe are featuring Letter from IAC members to the community - saying that a new Governing Board for the Auroville Foundation is in the process ofbeing nominated. They are all delighted that Dr. Karan Singh will continue as the Chairman of the
new Board. As is the practice, a new IAC will also be constituted soon thereafter and they felt this might be an appropriate time to write to us and share a few thoughts.
IAC are Mark Tully Vishakha Desai Shaunaka Rishi Das Kabir Shaik Julian Lines
We have another 2 days left for feedback on new Entry Policy .
On Monday,19th June 4-5 pm we are invited to a Presentation at SLI. On re-design training process For Rural Development Institutes of Tamil Nadu Government..
You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die.
Don Miguel Ruiz