Savitri Bhavan

*Dec 31st 2024, 05:00am

to Jan 1st 2025, 12:00 noon IST*

What can be the best way to usher the new year other than soaking in the mantric words of Sri Aurobindo's *Savitri*.

This Yajna, the akhand path (continuous recital) of *Savitri* will take place live in Savitri Bhavan, Auroville and online on zoom.

Let us all come together and let The Mother and Sri Aurobindo's grace awaken the inner dawn on the occasion of this new year through *Savitri*.

*Below are the links to reserve your slot: (this is mandatory)*

*For online reading on Zoom:*

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XQ-bv7bFZEjWHlAZ1cbu7SP3myly_N8khnpCsT3_UzE/edit?usp=sharing

*For live reading at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville:*

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t4LhTMGdJB7mw3ACKndaKpwTSHT2NGhO/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114832986608767282233&rtpof=true&sd=true

Doing Deeper Body Work in the Light of Savitri’s mantric verses and Huta’s paintingswith Arul Dev - On Saturday’s, January 18th , Febraury 8th and 22nd  2025,    4:00 - 5:00pm, in the Sangam Hall of Savitri Bhavan – All are welcome

What is Deeper Body Work?

This is a labour of love to gently shift our body’s habits and to turn it to be a servitor of the Divine. Our body has a sponging nature, and it absorbs emotions, energies, feelings and even thoughts of others, from the environments we are a part of and stores all its experiences within its cells. We wish to reverse this habit. Mother’s practice within the cells was that the cells themselves were turning upwards and offering themselves to The Lord. We too wish to do this practice and wait for the Divine’s action and Grace. This allows us to be practitioners in the work of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, who continue Their transformational work, in Their subtle bodies, in current time.

Deeper Body Work constitutes of tiny practices that are direct, simple, subtle and experiential. These are done within the body’s sensations, energies, vibrations, movements, emotions and thoughts. The aspiration is also to discover pure substance which is present in the ‘core’ of every cell of our body. Pure substance is where the entanglements absorbed from the world are least and the capacity to directly connect to the Divine and receive the Divine Qualities are the highest.

Source

The Spirit and the Matter have many points of union. We can explore this within our physical and subtle body. To connect our body to the Divine and do our inner practices many Sources have been given in Integral Yoga. The mantric words of Savitri can be read by keeping our connection within the substance of our body and receiving the Divine’s action that acts through Their words. With practice we can connect and wait within our body and whole being for the waves of Divine action to act and settle within. For body work, an actual connection to Divine Consciousness in real time is needed. Huta’s paintings comes as a great aid for this. When we learn to concentrate and be with the painting’s consciousness certain dimensions of Divine Source Consciousness opens Itself to us. 

About Facilitator

Arul Dev has been sharing his inner work through his books ‘Into Great Depth of Your Being’ and ‘The Flame Within’. Post his engineering graduation, for 30 years he has been in the field of training, coaching, inner development, integral education and human resources consulting. In Integral Yoga his deep research is deeper body practices in the light of Mother’s Agenda, Savitri and other works of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. He practices and shares inner work with others for the transformation of entanglements in the body at the level of sensations, energy, emotions, thoughts and memories. The aspiration is to be fully aware of our body in all its cells and open its substance to connect to Divine Qualities, being in a fully receptive state.

Film

Mondays 4pm in the Sangam Hall

December 30: HOME – the Earth: our home is a miracle and a beauty.

The film wakes us up and to become more conscious and careful with our beautiful blue home. Duration: 94min.

January 6: Meditations on Savitri, Book 4 – The Book of Birth and Quest, Canto 1-4:

The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, The Growth of the Flame, The Call to the Quest, The Quest.

Savitri comes down from the transcendent planes and takes birth to take up her unfinished divine task. Duration: 43min.

January 13:  Life After Life : A video documentation based on the research work and book Life After Life by Dr Raymond A. Moody. People who were clinically dead, speak about their out-of-body experiences and how they came back to life. Duration: 59min.

January 20: Our Gratitude : A musical offering specially composed by Shobha Mitra for the centenary of the Mother’s first meeting with Sri Aurobindo on 29 March 1914, performed by the Ashram Choir in the Savitri Bhavan Amphitheatre on 30 March 2014. Duration: 35min.

January 27: Alexandra David Nèel – 1911-1924 Journey through India, China and Tibet

This remarkable woman (1868-1969) was a close friend of the Mother in Paris, and visited Sri Aurobindo in 1911.

The film is in French with English subtitles. Duration: 104min.