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Sri Aurobindo and the Future of India by Debashish Banerji

SRI AUROBINDO AND THE FUTURE OF INDIA (Based on a talk given at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi on August 15, 2008) Five Dreams Sri Aurobindo was born on August 15, 1872 and on the same day in 1947 India achieved her freedom from British rule. On that occasion Sri Aurobindo wrote out a message to the new nation which was read out over the radio. This message outlined five dreams of…

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Fritjof Capra meets Debashish Banerji

The physicist Fritjof Capra (the author of the famous book The Tao of Physics liked by Werner Heisenberg) - meets Dr Debashish Banerji, the director of East-West Psychology, CIIS, San Francisco (https://www.ciis.edu/) - to discuss the possibility of collaboration of CIIS with his institute.

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Now Evolution has to become Conscious

Excerpts from the film, "Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's vision of Supramental Consciousness and how Haridas Chaudhuri brought it to the West" produced by Alan Baiss and directed and written by Mark Kitchell.

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Matrimandir Auroville

A video with a tour in Matrimandir, Auroville, the city of Dawn. This presentation is very meditative as Matrimandir itself is meant to be a Concentration Center.

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Sri Aurobindo on Meditation

What exactly is meant by meditation in Yoga? And what should be its objects? The difficulty our correspondent finds is in an apparent conflict of authorities, as sometimes meditation is recommended in the form of a concentrated succession of thoughts on a single subject, sometimes in the exclusive concentration of the mind on a single image, word or idea, a fixed contemplation rather than meditation. The choice between these two methods and others, for there are others, depends on the object we have in view in Yoga.

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Rig Veda Hymn to Agni

Sri Aurobindo has translated this opening hymn of the Rig-Veda several times over many years. There exists also an unpublished translation of the first verse, to which Sri Aurobindo has added a detailed explanation of the main terms that occur therein. “I seek with adoration the God-Will, divine priest of the sacrifice placed in front, sacrificer in the seasons, offerer of the oblation, who most ordains the ecstasy.”

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Dalai Lama at the University of Southern California, 3rd May 2011

In his characteristic maroon and yellow wrappings, but sporting on his head a red cap with USC written on it, the Dalai Lama came in with a group of USC academics – a teacher of Zen Buddhism, a professor of law working at the intersection of ethics and consciousness, a neuro-biologist, a social psychologist and a novelist Pico Iyer. The Lama also had an interpreter who sat next to him. Iyer who has been a close associate of the Dalai Lama for the last several years, was moderating the discussion.

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What constitutes an individual? (Mother vs Descartes)

When the vast majority of people say “I”, it is a part of them, of their feeling, their body, their thought, indifferently, which speaks; it is something that always changes. Therefore, their “I” is innumerable, or the “I” always varies. What is the constant thing therein?... The psychic being, evidently. For, to be constant a thing must first be immortal. Otherwise it cannot be constant.

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