Activities

Savitri Bhavan is open to the public from 9 am to noon and from 2 - 5 pm every day, including Sundays. In addition, evening classes or presentations take place on several evenings each week. A library of books, non-book and audio-visual study materials is being built up to assist students and researchers, and the staff are responding to queries from around the world. Other activities include lectures by guest-speakers; regular study-circles and courses; collection and preparation of study-materials; special events such as study-camps, exhibitions or presentations; and publication of a quarterly journal which is being sent out to addresses all over India and in 35 other countries around the world.

Programme for June & July 2008

Regular courses continues as usual

Sundays 10.30–12am : Savitri Study Circle

5-6pm : Foundations of Indian Culture , led by Kittu Reddy

Mondays and Tuesdays 3–4pm : “Cultivating Concentration”, led by Jai Singh

Tuesdays 5-6pm : Savitri study in Tamil, led by Bhuvana and Sudarshan

Wednesdays 4-5.30pm : “The Upanishads in the Light of Sri Aurobindo”, led by Vladimir

Thursdays 4–5pm : The English of Savitri, led by Shraddhavan

Fridays 5–6.30pm : The Synthesis of Yoga, led by Sraddhalu

Filmshow

Saturday June 14, 5pm

Auroville and the Ideal of Human Unity – an offering for Auroville's 40 th birthday

from the Gnostic Centre, New Delhi (24 mins.)

The Mother : Glimpses of Her Life (18 mins)

New issues of our journals Invocation (English) and Prarthana (Tamil) are now available free on request.

A recorded reading of the whole of Savitri by Shraddhavan is also available in MP3 form as a set of 2 CDs.

A full list of learning materials available from Savitri Bhavan can be seen at the Reception Desk

Reception Desk, Office and Reading Room : Monday to Saturday, 9 – 12, 2 – 5

Everyone is welcome

Publications

In addition to our regular journals Invocation (English) and Prarthana (Tamil), the following publications are now available free on request at the Reception Desk :

Auroville, Integral Yoga, and the Future of Mankind,
by Sraddhalu Ranade

(based on a talk at Savitri Bhavan on 27.08.2006)

Hymn to Anumati, the Divine Grace, by Nishtha

(Original text of Arthava Veda VII.20

with transliteration, English and German translations, and Notes)

Towards a Bibliography of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri

(Interim publication no. 2, April 2007)

The following book is available against a contribution of Rs. 125:

Savitri, The Mother : essays on The Book of Yoga,
by Professor M.V. Seetaraman

A full list of learning materials available from Savitri Bhavan can be seen at the Reception Desk