Working for the Mother or Meditating on Her?
These selections from Sri Aurobindo’s letters highlight the necessity of work in Integral Yoga and guide us on how to open to the Mother’s force.
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Power of Concentration for Enhancing Productivity
The author examines some key challenges with workers’ concentration in the corporate context and sheds light on developing a greater concentration.
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Sri Aurobindo on the Mother’s Force in Work and Action
Sri Aurobindo answers the disciples’ questions about how to open to receive the Mother’s force and become a perfect instrument for her work.
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A Lesson in Humility and Dissolving the Egoism of the Doer
Shobha Mitra narrates how she learned an important lesson from the Mother on cultivating humility and dissolving personal egoism of the doer of works.
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Integral Yoga at Work (Book Review and Meet the Author)
In addition to a review of Larry Seidlitz’s book ‘Integral Yoga at Work’, a recording of an online interaction with the author is also featured here.
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Work as Worship: Are You Able to Do That?
Given that different inner attitudes and aspirations motivate individuals to work, the author speaks of five evolutionary stages, with ‘Work as Worship’ as the highest stage.
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The Tunnel – A Zen Story
This brief commentary on a Zen story is a selection from the author’s forthcoming book titled ‘An Oak Tree in the Garden – Exploring the World of Zen’.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretation of Indian Culture: The Mahabharata – 1
With this issue we begin serialising Dr. Prema Nandkumar’s essay focusing on the Mahabharata in the light of Sri Aurobindo.
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“To know oneself and to control oneself”
Building upon the previous issue’s theme of Conscious Parenting, this issue explores the theme – ‘Education for the New Age.’ Starting with September 2021, this new series of 12 issues is inspired by the famous line of Sri Aurobindo – “All Life is Yoga” and aims to dive deep into the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and other senior sadhaks to seek a few pearls of wisdom which can guide us to work toward a true renaissance of India.
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Why a New Education for Future: Words of the Mother
With the advent of supramental consciousness, how do we understand the central aim of education – Know Thyself? What type of education will prepare future generations for the new consciousness and new world?
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A True Education for India’s Future: Words of the Mother
In these passages the Mother points to some fundamentals of education which is forward-looking and essential for building a new India.
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Spirituality in Education: A Few Fundamentals
Read here a few essential clarifications from the Mother and Sri Aurobindo concerning meaningful integration of spirituality in educational context.
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A Teacher has to be a Yogi
This article highlights a new dimension of consciousness that deeply effects the quality of interaction between the teacher and pupil.
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Sri Aurobindo on Education for Character Development
Values cannot be imposed through textbooks. Teachers and parents must serve as living examples. Rich stories can also expose children to higher ideals.
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Dealing with Undesirable Influences and Tendencies in Children
The Mother gives a few fundamentals for how teachers could facilitate impulse-control in children, particularly the impulses of violence and sex.
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What Matters is the Consciousness with Which You Teach
We have selected a few passages from the Mother’s correspondence with the teachers at Ashram school (SAICE) which are relevant for all educational contexts.
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Insights from Indian Psychology for Personality Development of the Learner
The author zooms in on a few key insights from Indian understanding of human personality and its perfection which must form the basis of education.
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Back to Basics, Lessons for the Future – 1
When rethinking education for India of tomorrow, it is critical to know the fundamentals which formed the basis of our educational heritage.
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Back to Basics, Lessons for the Future – 2
Given the great value our ancients placed on brahmacharya as a system of human energy management, it is no wonder that we find a long history of physical education in ancient India, far more ancient than Greece.
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Back to Basics, Lessons for the Future – 3
Rethinking our education in the light of the essential principles of education emphasised in Indian culture will bring greater harmony in the Indian mind.
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