What's New on the Website?

• November 21, 2000
  • Completed the link to 14 new color-photos of Mother added on the Russian site of Igor Savenkov at that page.
  • Added a page for 4 Paintings and montages on Sri Aurobindo and Mother by Harald Dastis, a German painter and poet, devoted to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, now living in Troyes - France.
  • Added as a Christmas action on many pages two buttons "Click to Donate Free", one for the Child Survival Program (Vitamin A), the other for the Hunger Site. Please, use them and donate. It is free for you and helps greatly. Many thanks!
  
        
  
• November 17, 2000
  • Added Photo-montage November 17, 2000 Mother: The Change after the Supramental Descent (JPG 37 Kb/GIF 184 Kb) with a link to Her talk on that topic on October 3, 1956.(below)
  • Added The Mother: From "Entretiens - Questions and Answers (1956)"
    • 3 October 1956 (first part): Nature, Combinations and Supramental [= The change after the Supramental Descent] (18 Kb)
• November 14, 2000
  • Added Come into Their rooms!
    3 JPG photos: Sri Aurobindo's room (41 Kb); Sri Aurobindo's armchair in His room (42 Kb); Mother in Her room, hearing music (29 Kb) With MSIE : Fullscreen (and back) = F 11
  • Added Nirodbaran's Page to the Disciples-page. In homage for Nirodbaran's 97th birthday on November 17, 2000. That page contains references to pages already on site (see below November 5 & 9) and also:
    • From "Memorable Contacts with the Mother"
      • Excerpts from "Memorable Contacts with the Mother" - file found on the Web - reorganised by Bernard Bernard's note: Not having the book, I could not control the text (17 Kb)
        Remarks of Nirodbaran - Words of the Mother - Words of Sri Aurobindo
      • Link to "One word about discipline" (in the Journal "Collaboration" - Summer 1997 - Online edition) (External site) (09 Kb)
      • Link to a little interview in "Pondicherry News" online - Nr 35 - 15 August 1999 (External link) (60 Kb)
        
      • An article: "Who is Sri Aurobindo?" (07 Kb) - formerly published in "Jyoti" Nr 3 (1999) - the online journal of the Sri Aurobindo Center EWCC - Los Angeles [no longer available, they keep only the current issue on the site]
  • Added a link to 17 color-photos (+ 1 BW) of Mother added on the Russian site of Igor Savenkov at that page

• November 13, 2000
  • Update of Sri Aurobindo's poems with 19 more sonnets on yogic and spiritual experiences in the Sonnets-section of the Poems page.
• November 10, 2000
  • Added The Mother: Entretiens - Questions and Answers (1957-1958)
    • 1 January 1958: Nature announces her collaboration (30 October 1957) (12 Kb)
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: Seven drafts on Supramental Yoga and for "The Path" (from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts - from 1928-1929 to late 1930's) (19 Kb)
    
• November 9, 2000
  • Sri Aurobindo's Major Teaching: The Spiritual Evolution: ( = The last 6 chapters of "The Life Divine") (written in 1939-1940)
    • You can download the fulltext of the 6 chapters zipped in TXT-format (182 Kb) or formatted police Arial RTF-Format (191 Kb) Use the RIGHT button of your mouse.
  • Added Nirodbaran: from "12 Years with Sri Aurobindo" with a photo of Nirodbaran in 1999 on each page.
    • Agreement of the Mother to Nirodbaran's book on Sri Aurobindo (scanned manuscript) (50 Kb)
    • Nirodbaran's Foreword (07 Kb)
      
    • Chapter 2 - The Recovery (47 Kb) [ =Sri Aurobindo corrects "The Life Divine" and adds numerous chapters "The Spiritual Evolution", for that text see above or here]
      
    • Nirodbaran's important Postscript (09 Kb)
      
• November 5, 2000
  • Added Nirodbaran: from "12 Years with Sri Aurobindo" - Chapter 1: The Unexpected [= Sri Aurobindo's accident on 23/24 November 1938] (40 Kb) with a photo of Nirodbaran in 1999.
  • Added Sri Aurobindo in correspondence with Nirodbaran: A formerly unpublished letter on "Vital Interchange" (May 3, 1938) (11 Kb)
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: Letters from "On The Mother" (1929/1932 to1937/1945) That book has 12 sections
    • From Section 1: The Mother and the Purpose of Her Embodiment (08 Kb)
      - Who is the Mother? - Recognition of the Mother's divinity
    • From Section 2: Aspects and Powers of the Mother (19 Kb)
      - Explanation of some terms in "The Mother": 1) Falsehood and Ignorance 2) Powers and Appearances 3) Powers and Personalities 4) Emanations 5) Gods 6) Presence 7) The Transcendent Mother / Adya Shakti / The Divine Mother / The Mother and the Ishwara / The Divine Mother in the Gita, the Tantra and the Integral Yoga
    • From Section 5: Opening and Surrender to the Mother
      • The necessary effort - No tamasic surrender (08 Kb)
        
        
• October 24, 2000
  • Added numerous links and sections on the Links to Websites Page: Reviews On-Line (from Centers or disciples), Auroville Journals, Websites where you can buy books of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and disciples, Spécial copinage / / Buddy Special.
• October 23, 2000
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: From "Letters on Yoga"
    From Part 1
    • Section 5: Planes and Parts of the Being There are 13 sub-sections [Titles are mine]
      • 3 of 13: Supermind - Overmind - Intuition (fulltext - Html - 25 Kb)
      • 4 of 13: The Central Being (1) Jiva or Jivatman (fulltext - Html - 60 Kb)
      • 5 of 13: The Central Being (2) Psychic Being or Soul ( fulltext - Html - 51 Kb)
        
• October 17 & 18, 2000
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: From "Letters on Yoga"
    From Part 1
    • Section 5: Planes and Parts of the Being There are 13 sub-sections [Titles are mine]
      • 1 of 13: Consciousness (fulltext - Html - 20 Kb) and
        Version française: La Conscience (texte intégral - 25 K)
      • 2 of 13: Sat-Chit-Ananda and Gradations of Planes (fulltext - Html - 50 Kb)
        
• October 7, 2000
  • Added Pavitra: Une causerie aux élèves de l'école de l'Ashram [en fait une autobiographie] (44 Kb) (en Français seulement / French only)
• September 26, 2000
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: Rules and Regulations of the Ashram (December 1, 1929) (09 Kb)
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: "The Mother" (1927-1928)
    You can download the full text in RTF (Arial, 54 Kb) or RTF-zipped (19 Kb)
• September 25, 2000
  • Added Satprem's Biography in Georges van Vrekhem's Book "Beyond the Human Species" (internal) (13 Kb) and a short notice (with photo and a link to complementary information) on van Vrekhem.
  • Added On Pavitra and on Pavitra's Death by Mother (45 Kb)
    from Mother's Agenda 17, 21 and 28 May 1969 (with an experience of Pavitra) (tape-recorded talks)
  • Added a photo of Pavitra on Pavitra's page and in his texts
  • Added Link to 11 color-photos of The Mother and 2 drawings of her in big format on the Website of the German translation of the Agenda. Begin with that link and continue by clicking on the little numbers above on the screen, representing the volumes.
• September 22, 2000
  • Added from The Mother: Entretiens - Questions and Answers 1955
    • 18 May 1955: (35 Kb)
      Comments on "The Problem of Woman"
      Gender of the Supreme Mother, the gods and goddesses
      Origin of gods and goddesses (and of sex)
      What is Nature?
      Beings on other worlds - Mother sees a flying saucer
      Travels on other worlds by occult means
  • Added a color-photo of Satprem (found on a Russian Website in Russian!) on the Satprem Photo-and-Voice Page
  • Added a scan-photo (reduced) of the original letter in Satprem's handwriting (67 Kb) to A recent letter (1999) (HTML 10 Kb) (Internal) Bilingual English-French
  • Added Link to a Compilation of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on Music: (External) (50 Kb)
    The Mother on Music: Music - Essentially a Spiritual Art Behind the External Form of Music Different Origins of Inspiration European and Indian Music About Some Musicians How to Listen to Music The Best Sound
    Sri Aurobindo on Music: Is Music Superior to Other Arts? Importance of Music in Education Musical Excellence and General Culture Difference Between a Song and a Poem Can Music be Admitted as a Part of Life of Yoga?
    
• September 21, 2000
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: A Preface on National Education (Nov-Dec 1920 & January 1921) (internal) (29 Kb)
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: South Indian Vaishnava Poetry = on Tamil poets: Andal - Nammalwar (May & July 1915) (internal) (14 Kb) with a link to an article on the Tamil poet and friend of Sri Aurobindo Subramanya Bharati. (external link, 14 Kb - also here a page of TamilNation as a starting page, most in Tamil)
  • Added from Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of Yoga - Part 4 The Yoga of Self-Perfection
    • Chapter 25: Towards The Supramental Time Vision (January 1921) (53 Kb)
      = Current chapter of the YSP studied by the Synthesis Study Group (for subscribing, write "subscribe" in the body, not in the subject)
      
    • Appendix or Chapter 26: The Supramental Time Consciousness (unpublished - January 1921) (13 Kb)
  • Added the portrait of A.B. Purani on the Siddhi-Day Page