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 May 2008

REGULAR COURSES

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 4:30–5:15 pm: “Commentaries on the Dhammapada” The Mother's recorded talks ( details below )

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

THE MOTHER'S RECORDED TALKS

“Commentaries on the Dhammapada”

Tuesday at 4.30 pm

The Mother's reading of verses of the Dhammapada and her commentaries on them in French. A transcript in French with an English translation is provided.

06.05.2008
Miscellany - The true victory must be won in life itself. You must know how to live alone with the Eternal and Infinite in the midst of all circumstances.

Niraya (Hell) - The true sense of Niraya is that particular kind of atmosphere which one creates around oneself when one acts in contradiction.

13.05.2008
Leasure – If you truly want to follow the path and practise yoga, you must do it because it is an imperative need of your being, because you cannot be happy in any other way.

Craving - Weeds are the bane of the fields; desires the bane of mankind.

20.05.2008
The Bhikkhu – Always be kind and you will be free from suffering, always be contented and happy, and you will radiate your quiet happiness. All the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to a sour judgment.

27.05.2008
The Brahmin – There is a deep trust in the divine Grace, a total surrender to the divine Will, an integral adhesion to the divine Plan which makes one do the thing to be done without concern for the result. That is the perfect liberation.

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

Reception desk and office : Monday to Saturday, 9 – 12, 2 – 5

Reading Room : Monday to Saturday, 9 – 12, 3 – 6

Everyone is welcome