Sitar player strings music for the mother on her birthday celebration at Aurobindo ashram
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Sitar player strings music for the mother on her birthday celebration at Aurobindo ashram
Shri Aurobindo Delhi Branch was officially inaugurated on 12 February, 1956, with the Blessings of the Mother. To the great joy and gratitude of spiritual seekers in Northern India, the Mother graciously granted the very first Sacred Relics of Sri Aurobindo to be enshrined here on 5 December, 1957. Since then the Ashram has been growing at a steady pace. The shrine and the Meditation Hall continue to be the centre of life and the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the guiding light. The Love and Blessings of the Master and the Mother and their Grace are always available to their disciples living here.
All live and work here as equals. No distinctions of sex, creed, religion, race, caste or national origin are observed: all are looked upon as souls and children of the Mother. There is no hierarchy of officials and subordinates. All work in association and as a unit under the general supervision of one or more sadhaks.
The doors of the Ashram are open for those who aspire for a higher life, with the trust that their aspiration will not stop merely at having a pious wish for a higher and nobler aim, but will manifest increasingly in the thoughts, the life movements and the physical expressions—which will all be progressively and integrally consecrated to the Divine.
About the Mother - The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on 21 February 1878. An accomplished painter and musician, she began to have spiritual experiences at a very early age. In the beginning of the present century she studied occultism under Theon in Algeria.
In 1914 she came to Pondicherry and at once recognised Sri Aurobindo as the teacher who had been occultly guiding her spiritual development. She helped him start a monthly review Arya, in which most of his major writings, The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Human Cycle etc., appeared between 1914 and 1921. The Mother spent the years of the First World War in France and Japan. She returned to Pondicherry on 24 April 1920 and resumed her collaboration with Sri Aurobindo.
When, on 24 November 1926, Sri Aurobindo withdrew for exclusive pursuit of his spiritual work, the guidance of the spiritual disciples who had gathered around him was entrusted to the Mother. This was the beginning of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, which has since developed into a many-faceted centre of spiritual endeavour and research.
In 1956, the Mother declared that "the manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality." Till her Mahasamadhi on 17 November 1973, the Mother was engrossed in the arduous tapasya of what she called the "yoga of the cells" — working on the gross matter to divinise and supramentalise it ... to discover the path to the Supramental being, the next higher stage in the terrestrial evolution, afte
Source - http://www.sriaurobindoashram.net/
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. It is used in mainly in India and to some extent in neighbouring countries. It is a founded in ancient Iran. The name "Sitar" in Persian means "Sè" (Three) and "Tār" (String Pairs) hence it has the name "Sitar" although a typical sitar used in India has 20-25 strings. It derives its resonance from sympathetic strings, a long hollow neck and a gourd resonating chamber.
Source - Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
Shri Aurobindo Delhi Branch was officially inaugurated on 12 February, 1956, with the Blessings of the Mother. To the great joy and gratitude of spiritual seekers in Northern India, the Mother graciously granted the very first Sacred Relics of Sri Aurobindo to be enshrined here on 5 December, 1957. Since then the Ashram has been growing at a steady pace. The shrine and the Meditation Hall continue to be the centre of life and the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the guiding light. The Love and Blessings of the Master and the Mother and their Grace are always available to their disciples living here.
All live and work here as equals. No distinctions of sex, creed, religion, race, caste or national origin are observed: all are looked upon as souls and children of the Mother. There is no hierarchy of officials and subordinates. All work in association and as a unit under the general supervision of one or more sadhaks.
The doors of the Ashram are open for those who aspire for a higher life, with the trust that their aspiration will not stop merely at having a pious wish for a higher and nobler aim, but will manifest increasingly in the thoughts, the life movements and the physical expressions—which will all be progressively and integrally consecrated to the Divine.
About the Mother - The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on 21 February 1878. An accomplished painter and musician, she began to have spiritual experiences at a very early age. In the beginning of the present century she studied occultism under Theon in Algeria.
In 1914 she came to Pondicherry and at once recognised Sri Aurobindo as the teacher who had been occultly guiding her spiritual development. She helped him start a monthly review Arya, in which most of his major writings, The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Human Cycle etc., appeared between 1914 and 1921. The Mother spent the years of the First World War in France and Japan. She returned to Pondicherry on 24 April 1920 and resumed her collaboration with Sri Aurobindo.
When, on 24 November 1926, Sri Aurobindo withdrew for exclusive pursuit of his spiritual work, the guidance of the spiritual disciples who had gathered around him was entrusted to the Mother. This was the beginning of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, which has since developed into a many-faceted centre of spiritual endeavour and research.
In 1956, the Mother declared that "the manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality." Till her Mahasamadhi on 17 November 1973, the Mother was engrossed in the arduous tapasya of what she called the "yoga of the cells" — working on the gross matter to divinise and supramentalise it ... to discover the path to the Supramental being, the next higher stage in the terrestrial evolution, afte
Source - http://www.sriaurobindoashram.net/
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. It is used in mainly in India and to some extent in neighbouring countries. It is a founded in ancient Iran. The name "Sitar" in Persian means "Sè" (Three) and "Tār" (String Pairs) hence it has the name "Sitar" although a typical sitar used in India has 20-25 strings. It derives its resonance from sympathetic strings, a long hollow neck and a gourd resonating chamber.
Source - Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.