Matrimandir : Temple of the Mother
What is Matrimandir?
Matrimandir or Temple of the Mother is a place of Spiritual significance located at the center of Auroville. The construction of this beautiful building and surrounding parks was initiated by The Mother - a close Spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. The Temple as well as the city of Auroville are still under construction. However, I would surely recommend these places to individuals who are interested in Spirituality and would like to know more about Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, and Aurovi...

Sri Aurobindo Ashram Puducherry
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo practiced Integral/Complete Yoga and so do millions of his followers today. He did not want to be called a Guru, neither did he crave for a large number of followers. In fact, he didn't even want the place - where he lived with his disciples, to be called an Ashram. However, human beings find it difficult to understand new concepts and try and bracket things in existing groups. The place where Sri Aurobindo spent a large portion of his life, in Pondicherry, is known as Aurobind...

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Together they built Auroville, an ashram in Southern India (south of Madras). He was the reclusive yogi, she his outward manifestation or shakti. That is: she taught, she organized, she was there for people to related to. He sat in his room and kept up a heavy correspondence on spiritual issues. On this page I've gathered all I've learned about the pair of them.

Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching & Method of Practice
My Review
This is a fascinating book. I'm constantly finding things that are different or the same as Blavatsky's theosophy. Her teachings are my spiritual home base, which doesn't mean I'm not open to other paths - or blind to Blavatsky's defects. The reason though that this book constantly brings me back to her is that Aurobindo covers many of the same topics she did. Their approach differs a lot in places, but their conclusions and methods are in many cases surprisingly similar - though also on occa...