Savitri Bhavan located in the International Zone of Auroville offers wide range of activities focusing on Savitri and Integral yoga.

December 2018

Exhibitions

Meditations on Savitri

The series of 472 paintings created by the Mother with Huta

from 1961-67 is now on display in the newly extended picture gallery

Sri Aurobindo: A life sketch in photographs

In the upper corridor

Glimpses of the Mother: photographs and texts

In the Square Hall

Films

Mondays 6:30pm

Dec. 3: The Mother on Sri Aurobindo - A film by Sri Aurobindo Ashram from 1992,

re-edited in 2015. Duration: 21:00min.

Dec. 10: Pictures of Sri Aurobindo’s Poems – Part One - A meditative film by Manohar illustrated with paintings by Huta. The poems are read by Huta and accompanied by Sunil’s music. Duration: 37min.

Dec. 17: Pictures of Sri Aurobindo’s Poems – Part Two - This is another beautiful meditative film by Manohar, illustrated with paintings by Huta. The poems are read by Huta and accompanied by music by Sunil. Duration: 41min.

Dec. 24: HOME – the Earth: our home is a miracle and a beauty. This Film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes us more conscious and careful about our beautiful blue home. Duration: 94min

Full Moon Gathering

Saturday, December 22 7.15-8.15pm in front of Sri Aurobindo’s statue

Regular Activities

Sundays 10.30–12 noon: Savitri Study Circle

Mondays, Tuesdays 3-4pm: Psychic Awakening, led by Dr.Jai Singh

Mondays 4.45-6.15pm: Meditations with Hymns of the Rig Veda translated by Sri Aurobindo, led by Nishtha

Tuesdays 9am-12 noon: Introduction to Integral Yoga, led by Ashesh Joshi

Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays 4-5pm: L’Agenda de Mère: listening to recordings with Gangalakshmi

Tuesdays 4.45-5.45pm: Mudra-chi, led by Anandi

Tuesdays 5-6pm: Let us learn Savitri Together (in Tamil), led by Buvana

Tuesdays 5.45-7.15pm: OM Choir (see details below)

Wednesdays 5-6pm: Essays on the Gita, led by Shraddhavan

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

Fridays 3-4pm: Exploring the Bhagavad Gita, led by Dr.Jai Singh

Saturdays 5-6.30pm: Satsang, led by Ashesh Joshi

OM Choir

The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word (Savitri p.310)

In 1961 the Mother gave the adesh to Narad to bring down a new music. She said that one must go far above words and bring down the pure Music. Mother told us to sit in a circle and have no preconceptions as to what we would sing but to be silent and let the music descend into us. The OM Choir aspires to bring down the New Music for the New World in a collective body. We sing only OM, the creative and effectuating Word, after starting with warming-up and voice exercises given by Narad.

Exhibitions, Main Building and Office are open Monday to Saturday 9-5

Library is open Monday to Friday 9-5

The Digital Library can be accessed on request Monday to Saturday 9-4

Everyone is welcome

Vision

The realisation of the Yoga of Knowledge is when one feels that one lives in the wideness of something silent, featureless and universal (called the Self) and all else is seen as only forms and names; the Self is real, nothing else.