Shraddhavan (Savitri Bhavan)
On 19th July 2022, our sister Shraddhavan of Savitri Bhavan left her body in the Sri Aurobindo’s Nursing Home. She was 80 years old.
Early Life
In November 1970 Shraddhavan came to Pondicherry and met the Mother who accepted her for Auroville. "Shraddhavan" is the Sanskrit name given in June 1972 by the Mother to an English woman who joined Auroville in 1970. After studying English Language and Literature at Bristol University in the UK, she travelled extensively in Europe, Asia and Australia before coming to Auroville, where she lived ever since, played the role as an educator, translator, editor and writer. Several of her poems, stories, essays and book reviews have been published in the Ashram journal Mother India as well as in Heritage magazine.
Shraddhavan has been with us since 1971 and was the initiative taker of Savitri Bhavan and its main guiding force.
Since August 1999 she had been the Project Coordinator of Savitri Bhavan, a centre of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother Studies which is a unit of SAIIER (Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research). She edited the Savitri Bhavan’s journal, Invocation: study notes on Savitri and led study courses on Savitri and The Life Divine.
Our gratitude and prayers go with her.
OM~
Shree Krishna, Himself has pronounced the term ‘Shraddhavan’ (Adorer) while narrating the Bhagavad Gita.
‘The one who performs Bhakti is a Bhakta. However, we must not forget that the one who remains within the Devotion Sentience (Bhaktibhav Chaitanya) is the real Bhakta that is – the ‘Shraddhavan’.
