Auroville radiates out in a plan resembling a spiral nebula

Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World - Page 166, Marisa S. Trubiano - 2010 - 232 pages

Initially, the country seems to offer a lost innocence, an escape for each of the protagonists. It is described as a vantage point from which the characters can see the forthcoming ''end of the West.'' On his trip to Auroville and then ...

Frommer's India - Page 349, Pippa de Bruyn - 2010 - 768 pages

are often better value than what is charged in Delhi and Mumbai, where much of theAuroville and ashram goods are destined. First stop has to be Mission Street to spend at least an hour at ...

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing ... - Page 172, Abhas K. Jha - 2010 - 370 pages

technologies India Auroville Earth Institute, Tamil Nadu, India, http://www.earth-auroville.com Development, training programs, publications, and realization of numerous constructions using earth as building material and integrating ...

Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet - Page 153, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio - 2009 - 243 pages

Auroville, in Tamil Nadu, southern India, is organized around the ... Aurovilleteaches integral yoga, the founding spiritual principle of its dual avatar leadership formed by Mirra Alfassa (also known as "The Mother") and Sri Aurobindo ...

Altered Destinations: Self, Society, and Nation in India - Page 91, Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 214 pages

Sanskrit is taught from childhood not only in the ashram schools, but also atAuroville, the community that the Mother founded. On 11 November 1967, the Mother said, 'Sanskrit! Everyone should learn that. ...

Field guide to environmental engineering for development workers: ... - Page 157, James R. Mihelcic, Lauren M. Fry, Elizabeth A ... - 2009 - 550 pages

Auroville Earth Institute, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India. Further Reading Cedergren, H. (1989). Seepage, drainage, and flownets. Wiley Interscience. New York. Das, Braja M. (2004). Principles of foundation engineering, fifth ed. ...

Permutations of Order: Religion and Law As Contested Sovereignties - Page 104, Thomas G. Kirsch, Bertram Turner - 2009 - 269 pages

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 908-34. Minor, RK 2000. Routinized charisma: The case of Aurobindo and Auroville, in Religion and Public Culture: Encounters and Identities in Modern South India, edited by KE Yandell ...

Roger Anger: Research on Beauty Architecture 19532008, Anupama Kundoo, Roger (CON) Anger - 2009 - 192 pages

A sculptural plasticity and a highly individual take on the Modernist vernacular infuse all of his work; but Anger, who died in 2008, will be remembered for his ambitious master plan for the utopian Indian city of Auroville, ...

Integral ecology: uniting multiple perspectives on the natural world - Page 674 Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Michael E. Zimmerman - 2009 - 796 pages

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Atterton, P., and M. Calarco, eds. 2004. Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought. New York: Continuum. Aurobindo, S. 1973. On Nature. Auroville, India: ...

Humanitarian identity and the political sublime: intervention of a ..., Ashmita Khasnabish - 2009 - 167 pages

Sustainable Homes - Page 12, Ewan McLeish - 2009 - 48 pages ... Auroville ...

Beacons of the Light: 100 Holy People Who Have Shaped the History ..., Marcus Braybrooke - 2009 - 681 pages

Beacons of Light is a priceless and inspiring gift from the good and open heart of one of the global interfaith movement's wisest and most respected leaders, Marcus Braybrooke.

A Doctor in Little Lhasa: One Year in Dharamsala with the Tibetans ... - Page 176 M D Timothy H Holtz, Holtz - 2009 - 232 pages

In mid-spring, I examined a French woman who came to Delek from Auroville, an alternative/spiritual/ecological-centered European community in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. They billed themselves as a "universal town" where ...

Indian States at a Glance 2008-09, Bhandari Laveesh - 2009 - 157 pages

Sri Aurobindo Ashram set up in 1926 by Sri Aurobindo Ghose, one of India's leading philosopher- poets, attracts devotees from all over India and from across the world. A visit to Auroville, 8 kms from the main town, shows the way of the ...

Ecopolis: Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate - Page 594, Paul F. Downton - 2008 - 607 pages

Sullivan, WM 1994 The Dawning of Auroville Auroville Press, Auroville. Sustainable Communities Task Force 2000 Appendix B Case Studies President's Council on Sustainable Development accessed 17 January. Swan, J. 1993 The Power of Place: ...

SELF-SUFFICIENT URBANISM: a Vision of Contraction for the ... - Page 83, Jaime Correa - 2008 - 100 pages

Although they are not in full compliance, these few rural and urban Communities of Interest have the preliminary capacity to illustrate a world yet to come: Auroville, India Alys Beach, USA BedZed, Great Britain Berkley Ecovillage, ...

How an Average Man Lived an Adventurous Life: Includes Lists of ... - Page 290 John Linnemeier - 2008 - 328 pages

When he got to me, I mentioned that I had been to Auroville, among other places. He asked me what the spiritual climate was like in the wake of the death of the "divine mother." This was the name by which the lady who had been in charge ...

The strides of Vishnu: Hindu culture in historical perspective - Page 226, Ariel Glucklich - 2008 - 241 pages

See Ghose Auroville, 208 Austerities, 146, ...

Community, empowerment and sustainable development, John Blewitt - 2008 - 204 pages

being undertaken in Auroville, a 25-year-old intentional community in India, in which countless hours of volunteer work have been used to restore despoiled areas or species. Mills is careful to distinguish between ideas of ...

Creating Peace by Being Peace: The Essene Sevenfold Path - Page 224, Gabriel Cousens - 2008 - 264 pages

CA 94123 Animal Rights International Box 2 14 Planetarium Station New York, NY 10024 Auroville www.auroville.org A universal city in the making in south India Better World Society 11 40 Connecticut Washington, DC 20036 Beyond War ...

Who Are We? - Page 16, Vladimir Megré - 2008 - 264 pages

Auroville was initiated in 1968 by the ... of the founder of the Integral Yoga movement Sri Aurobindo, ... Upon Aurobindo's death in 1950, she succeeded him as spiritual leader, and went on to found the Auroville community in 1968. ...

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ..., Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - 274 pages

Auroville, India: Editions Auroville Press International. Kaviraj, Sudipta (2000), 'Modernity and Politics in India', Daedalus, Vol. ...

Earthrise: the dawning of a new civilization in the 21st century: ... Patrick U. Petit - 2008 - 471 pages

Earthrise The Dawning of a New Civilization in the 21st Century A Compilation of Articles by leading Pioneer Organizations Patrick U. Petit (Ed.) ...

Cities as sustainable ecosystems: principles and practices - Page 178, Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings - 2008 - 284 pages

like Auroville in South India and Nimbin in Australia; small rural ecovillages like Gaia Asociación in Argentina and ...

Urban utopias: the built and social architectures of alternative ... - Page 194, Malcolm Miles - 2008 - 256 pages

(Auroville, 2000: 10) This contrasts with the mix of formality and informality, and varied scale, in the Visitor Centre, ... I end by quoting from the information booklet of the Auroville Building Centre Earth unit: A habitat is much ...

Cross-cultural studies in curriculum: eastern thought, educational ..., Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang - 2008 - 379 pages

After Sri Aurobindo died in 1950, The Mother succeeded him and started building an experimental international city called Auroville to realize his teaching. The experiment is still proceeding in Auroville, which has some schools for ...

Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World - Page 166, Marisa S. Trubiano - 2010 - 232 pages

Initially, the country seems to offer a lost innocence, an escape for each of the protagonists. It is described as a vantage point from which the characters can see the forthcoming ''end of the West.'' On his trip to Auroville and then ...

Sanskrit and other Indian languages Śaśiprabhā Kumāra, Jawaharlal Nehru University ... - 2007 - 222 pages

Indeed, Sanskrit is taught from childhood not only in the Ashram schools, but also atAuroville, the community that the Mother founded. On 11 November 1967, the Mother said: "Sanskrit! Everyone should learn that. ...

Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing ..., Don Salmon, Jan Maslow - 2007 - 407 pages

Based on the writings of Sri Aurobindo, the revolutionary poet and philosopher who founded the independence movement in India later led by Mahatma Ghandi, Yoga Psychology offers an integral vision with radical answers to the questions of ...

The many colors of Hinduism: a thematic-historical introduction - Page 380, Carl Olson - 2007 - 395 pages

Larry D. Shinn, “Auroville: Visionary Images and Social Consequences in a South Indian Utopian Community,” Religious Studies 20/2 (1984) ...

The dictionary of alternatives: utopianism and organization - Page 19, Martin Parker, Valérie Fournier, Patrick Reedy - 2007 - 338 pages

AUROVILLE financial globalization, and its undermining of state sovereignty and citizens' power to determine their own ... Auroville is based on the vision of Indian political leader, scholar, teacher, poet and spiritual visionary Sri ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages

Vladimir Yatsenko is a Sanskrit teacher in Auroville since 1993, working at Savitri Bhavan. He graduated in Sanskrit and General Linguistics from St. Petersburg University in Russia and studied Sanskrit Grammar in Poona University ...

Symbols of the Eternal Doctrine: From Shamballa to Paradise - Page 141, Helen Valborg - 2007 - 364 pages

The great minaret of the mosque of Samarra in Iraq is a marvellous spiralling tower reaching towards heaven, and the town of Auroville in South India radiates out in a plan resembling a spiral nebula. The Ionic columns of classical ...

Yoga: an annotated bibliography of works in English, 1981-2005, Daren Callahan - 2007 - 353 pages

The book closes with a discussion of the striking similarities between the Auroville project and Wilber's Integral Institute and calls for open ended discussion, continued research, and experimentation with both systems to find ...

Indian literature in English: critical views - Page 43, Satish Barbuddhe - 2007 - 419 pages

His faith in the ultimate union of the world's peoples remains unshaken, for his ideals have been translated into action through the foundation of not only his Ashram but also Auroville, a symbol of human unity and world amity, ...

Women in religion, Mary Pat Fisher - 2006 - 328 pages

A French woman, she was Aurobindo's great support and companion, and after he died she developed the town of Auroville in India to perpetuate his teachings and to create an international experimental township dedicated to spiritual ...

The After-Death Room: Journey Into Spiritual Activism - Page 91, Michael McColly - 2006 - 262 pages

I head inland to find a bed on solid ground in Auroville, a spiritual community just outside of Pondicherry. Auroville, “the city of dawn,” was founded by Sri Aurobindo, the revolutionary turned mystic poet and philosopher, ...

Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 233, Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - 239 pages

Auroville, India: Auroville Press, 1999. Scholes, Robert, and Richard M. Kain, eds. The Workshop of Daedalus: James Joyce and the Raw Materials for a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Evanston, IL.: Prentice-Hall, 1968. ...

Towards ananda: rethinking Indian art and aesthetics, Shakti Maira - 2006 - 289 pages

no matter how imaginative the architecture, painting or sculpture, has never been easy. But it was still heartening to see this effort in Auroville. ...

Sri Aurobindo and the logic of the infinite: essays for the new ... Rod Hemsell - 2006 - 199 pages

Introduction to the Constitution of India, Brij Kishore Sharma - 2005 - 384 pages

The Act taking over the management of Aurobindo Society was held valid because the Society and Auroville were not religious institutions. The teachings of Shri Aurobindo do not constitute a religion.138 134. M. Ismail Faruqui v. ... 

Religion and law in independent India, Robert D. Baird - 2005 - 518 pages

The Auroville Act, the justices said did not violate either the West Bengal Societies Registration Act or Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution. For our purposes it is the Justices' discussion of the definitions of the categories ...

The other side of belief: interpreting U.G. Krishnamurti, Mukunda Rao - 2005 - 350 pages

Auroville, supposedly an international city, looked incomplete and hopeless, and it seemed to me that any spiritual sadhana in this place, drained of all energy after the death of the Mother, was doomed to fail. ...

On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ..., Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - 323 pages

This lively volume will fascinate anyone interested in the history of American religion as well as those who regard this remarkable place as the epicenter of the human potential movement.The contributors are Catherine L. Albanese, Erik ...

The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, ... - Page 103 Christopher Hugh Partridge - 2005 - 265 pages

conflicting political, psychedelic, cultural and spiritual influences, the East scented it all. This East-oriented eclecticism, often driven by popular culture, is brought out beautifully in the account of the origins of Auroville ...

Auroville: philosophy, performance and power in an international ... Shanti Pillai - 2005  

Auroville architecture: towards new forms for a new consciousness Alan (of Auroville Communication Centre ... - 2004 - 112 pages

Architects of Auroville Peter ...

History, Religion and Culture of India - Page 175, S. Gajrani - 2004 - 232 pages

Auroville have taught the trade to even the illiterates and there has been a transfer of technicalities and the languages simultaneously. Especially, trades like dried flower decorations, scented candles, art pottery, ceramics have ...

Creative social research: rethinking theories and methods, Ananta Kumar Giri - 2004 - 367 pages

Creative Social Research calls for a fundamental reconceptualization and transformation of contemporary research methods in the social sciences.

Murugesu played a lead role in Sri Lanka

Appreciations | The Sunday Leader Velupillai Murugesu

We remember Mr. Murugesu as a trustworthy, capable corporate lawyer.  We also knew of his involvement in spiritual activity.  Unlike in religion where the outward signs of pious worshipers are noticeable, spirituality is an effort at development inwardly. But little would be known of the individual’s endeavours and his inner progress.

Forty years ago the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was not known in Sri Lanka except in a cursory way by a very few. Murugesu was responsible for the transformation of the Sri Aurobindo Society in Sri Lanka, from a social organisation to a solid base of a spiritual centre.

1972 was the birth centenary of Sri Aurobindo. The main Society in Pondicherry, at Mother’s behest, opened many branches in various states of India and in numerous other countries.  I was in Pondy for the centenary and was fortunate to have been given the responsibility of carrying Mother’s hand written blessing for the Sri Lankan Society that was being activated.  There were colourful characters taking a leading part in the Sri Lankan Society who wanted the patronage of politicians and people in high places to take leading roles in the committee.  The colourful start was deemed to fail and it did not take long for the inevitable. However, a few people kept the lamp lit and had meetings at their homes.

Much later, Mr. Murugesu played a lead role to transform the Society from a pseudo spiritual organisation to a vibrant living centre and gradually the Society took shape.

The Sri Aurobindo Centre in Sri Lanka was opened on February 21, 2001. Mr. Murugesu was solely responsible for the construction of the imposing building where the current society is located. He never took credit for it but said it is ‘Mother’s Grace’. The sincere devotion and tireless work of Mr. Murugesu not only brought about this magnificent edifice but he started an educational centre for students, a children play place, library, Hatha Yoga classes, had talks on Savitri during Satsang evenings and regular meditation.
Sraddhalu Ranade a nephew of Sri Pandit, who travels widely lecturing on Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s teachings visited Sri Lanka during the opening of the Centre on Murugesu’s invitation and lectured in our new premises. By his attitude and commitment, Mr. Murugesu illustrated that he practised the philosophy he believed.

The force of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo is firmly established in the Centre and their presence is felt more palpably after the placement of Sri Aurobindo’s relics a few years ago. When the Spiritual consciousness descends on you inside the Centre’s meditation halls, there is a silent prayer of thank you that goes to him. Thank you, Mr. Murugesu. Trustee of the Sri Aurobindo Centre (Sri Lanka) Posted by sanjeewa on May 9th, 2010 and filed under Appreciations. 

Empower the youth with the different aspects of Sri Auribindo's thought

The Hindu : Metro Plus Hyderabad - Profiles : All life is yoga Monday, May 03, 2010 Sri Aurobindo Society, Hyderabad, celebrating its centenary this year, is an oasis of peace

All life is yoga The Hindu May 2, 2010 PADMINI B. PATELL

You could have passed the busy Musheerabad crossroads numerous times and missed the Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, inconspicuously tucked away much like an oasis in a dessert. This centre, founded in 1972 by Dadaji, a direct disciple of Sri Aurobindo, houses Hyderabad's Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS). Once inside the greenery and quiet provide a peaceful ambience with a Samadi , a tranquil meditation hall and a library rich in the works of the great poet, philosopher and revolutionary mystic.

SAS, started with the intention of spreading the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and Mother, is open to all and one of six centres in A.P. One of the key thoughts of Sri Aurobindo is that ‘man is an evolutionary being' and that ‘mind is not the last summit' and that ‘all life is yoga'. This is a path of affirmative spirituality that accepts all facets of life and focuses on transforming and sublimating them. Hence all activities of SAS are geared towards evolution of consciousness.

The Bhavan is abuzz on dharshan days which are special days in the year when the premises is tastefully decorated and activities such as meditations, lectures and video screenings are held. SAS has a Women's Wing that trains women and girls from less privileged backgrounds in tailoring and embroidery and conducts art workshops for children. Counselling for women and parents of special children is also undertaken on appointment.

The youth wing holds weekly readings of Sri Aurobindo's works and enlightening discussions in English and Telugu focus on helping individuals face everyday challenges. Workshops for the youth are held both at the Society and at educational institutions. “It is our aim to empower the youth with the different aspects of Sri Auribindo's thought that are strikingly relevant to the various dimensions of our life and society today,” says Srinivas Mulugu, youth activities coordinator.

It was on April 4, 1910 that Sri Aurobindo reached the city of Pondicherry from Calcutta, a significant journey that was prompted by an Inner calling. To mark this event Centenary celebrations are being held through the year worldwide. The first of the events at Hyderabad was the play ‘Tryst with God' staged to an appreciative audience on Sunday by students of the Sri Aurobindo International School.

SAS invites people from all walks of life to benefit from the valuable teachings of Sri Aurobindo and welcomes volunteers to join in their work. For information call 2761 5401, email smulugu@gmail.com to register for adult and youth camps.