Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sri Aurobindo Ashram Sri Aurobindo Ashram is divine abode of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.Located at Pondicherry, with branches across India
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For years after his arrival in Pondicherry in 1910, Sri Aurobindo was unwilling to speak of his household as an Ashram. Not that the term would have been inappropriate, for an Ashram is simply "the house or houses of a Teacher or Master of spiritual philosophy in which he receives and lodges those who come to him for the teaching and practice."* It is true that in the early days Sri Aurobindo took

no disciples as such. He once wrote, "With the three or four young men who accompanied me or joined me in Pondicherry, I had at first the relation of friends and companions rather than of a Guru and disciples; it was on the ground of politics I had come to know them and not on the spiritual ground. Afterwards only there was a gradual development of spiritual relations." But even as more and more aspirants gathered around Sri Aurobindo specifically to practise yoga under his direction, the grouping remained informal, and was not referred to as an "ashram". It was only after the Mother finally settled in Pondicherry in 1920 that an attempt was made at collective organisation. "The number of disciples then showed a tendency to increase rather rapidly." And as thus "the Ashram began to develop, it fell to the Mother to organise it." She had to see to the outward lives of the disciples, whose "numbers began so much to increase that it was thought necessary to make an arrangement for lodging those who came, and houses were bought and rented according to need forthe purpose. Arrangements [also] had to be made for the maintenance, repair, rebuilding of houses, for the service of food and for decent living and hygiene" and so forth. At the same time the guidance of the disciples' inner lives began progressively to pass into the Mother's hands, so that, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion on 24 November 1926, "the whole material and spiritual charge" of what had now come to be called Sri Aurobindo's ashram "devolved on her". It was in this way that "the Ashram was founded or rather founded itself in 1926", the informal grouping of seekers taking "the form of an ashram more from the wish of the sadhaks who desired to entrust their whole inner and outer life to the Mother than from any intention or plan of hers or of Sri Aurobindo's". The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is thus more a spontaneous growth than a deliberate creation.

Today's Darshan-Main gate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
25/12/2025

Today's Darshan-
Main gate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry

24/11/2025

Siddhi Day- November 24, 2025
Dining Hall Decoration

Darshan Card - November 24, 2025On the Darshan day of 24th November, we celebrate the anniversary of the descent of the ...
24/11/2025

Darshan Card - November 24, 2025

On the Darshan day of 24th November, we celebrate the anniversary of the descent of the Overmental Consciousness and the founding of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The Card distributed in Sri Aurobindo Society on 24th November this year contains this message of Sri Aurobindo.

“Our presence, force, peace, love are always
with you. That is a thing you must realise
and learn to keep the consciousness of it. If
you do that, all the rest is of minor
importance (your difficulties, the old nature
etc.) and will be set right in due time.”

CWSA 32: 105 Sri Aurobindo

Darshan Card - November 17, 2023The Mother left her physical body on 17th November 1973. The Card distributed in Sri Aur...
19/11/2023

Darshan Card - November 17, 2023

The Mother left her physical body on 17th November 1973. The Card distributed in Sri Aurobindo Society on 17th November this year, contains this message on Faith given by Sri Aurobindo.

“Do not allow any outward circumstance to shake the faith in you; for nothing gives greater strength than this faith to go through and arrive at the goal. Knowledge and tapasya,whatever their force, have a less sustaining power- faith is the strongest staff for the journey.
The protection is there over you and the watchful love of the Mother. Rely upon it and let your being open more and more to it- then it will repel attacks and always uphold you.”
-Sri Aurobindo
(CWSA 32 : 309)

https://youtu.be/ztVsJbiQpXc
16/08/2023

https://youtu.be/ztVsJbiQpXc

This Mantra was written by Sri Aurobindo in 1927. We offer It as an offering for His 150th birth anniversary.Vocal & music composition: Arnab Bishnu Chowdhur...

‘Written words are pale and lifeless things when one has to express the feelings raised by superb music and seem hardly ...
12/05/2023

‘Written words are pale and lifeless things when one has to express the feelings raised by superb music and seem hardly to mean anything – not being able to convey what is beyond word and mere mental form...”
These are the words of Sri Aurobindo on music and it is needless to describe the immense peace and calmness that envelops one’s soul on listening to Divine music.

Yeh Meri Puja ke Kshan Hai - Madhavi Chandolikar Yeh meri puja ke kshan hai

Bonne Fete Auroville February 28, 2023
28/02/2023

Bonne Fete Auroville February 28, 2023

Darshan Card - February 21, 2023On 21st February 2023, we celebrate the Birth Anniversary of The Mother. A card contain...
28/02/2023

Darshan Card - February 21, 2023

On 21st February 2023, we celebrate the Birth Anniversary of The Mother. A card containing a beautiful picture of the Mother and this message of The Mother was distributed in Sri Aurobindo Ashram on this occasion.

We are at one of these “Hours of
God”, when the old bases get shaken,
and there is a great confusion; but it
is a wonderful opportunity for those
who want to leap forward, the
possibility of progress is exceptional.

Will you not be of those who take
advantage of it?”

The Mother
(CWM 12:279)

Message given by The Mother on 1 April 1971.

Darshan Card - January 1, 2023Bonne Année! A Happy New Year!A card containing the following message from The Mother, was...
06/01/2023

Darshan Card - January 1, 2023

Bonne Année! A Happy New Year!

A card containing the following message from The Mother, was distributed in Sri Aurobindo Society on 1st January 2023.

“The world is fighting for its spiritual life menaced by the rush of hostile and undivine forces.
Lord, we aspire to be Thy valiant warriors so that
Thy glory may manifest upon the earth.”

The Mother

Sri Aurobindo's Mahasamadhi DayDarshan Card- December 5, 2022
05/12/2022

Sri Aurobindo's Mahasamadhi Day
Darshan Card- December 5, 2022

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Pondicherry
605001

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Tuesday 8am - 12pm
Wednesday 8am - 12pm
2pm - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 12pm
Friday 2pm - 12pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 8am - 12pm

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