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…
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.
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.
A video recorded in Los Angeles, USA - Recitation and Interpretation of the first canto of Book 1 in Savitri, names "The Symbol Dawn", by Dr Debashish Banerji
A video recording of a talk by Dr Debashish Banerji, in Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham, Lodi, CA, USA. This theme is based on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri.
Dr Debashish Banerji conducted a series of Skype classes on The Life Divine (Book 2, Part One) with two sessions including readings and discussions per month. These sessions were organized by the Center for the Promotion of Indian Sacred Culture (CPISC). Please see below the audio recordings.
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 There exists also an unpublished translation of the first verse, to which Sri Aurobindo has added a detailed explanation of the main terms that occur therein.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.”
A talk (downloadable mp3 audio) by Debashish Banerji, invited by a radio channel based in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California.
Click to play a small portion of 1984 new year meditation music and 1994 new year meditation music. Or download from the Ashram website by clicking
Individual: One's first reference to a "person" is oneself. That is where the world starts being real. An agnostic asks himself/herself, "Let me start from scratch. Do I exist? Wait a second, if I don't, then how do I know that the world exists? Is there anything at all which is concrete, indestructible, unconditionally actual, real?" The answer is not known and life becomes compelled to pretend, a compromise, a flow of…
