EVENTS

 

 

Regular Events
Weekly studies in the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother collective meditations, and monthly special events.
 
Saturday, April 8, 8pm- 10 pm
Music concert - sitar-sarod duet by a most rare brother-sister team from Calcutta, the city of Sri Aurobindo's birth -Reena and Rajeeb Chakraborty. Rajeeb and Reena were introduced to Indian Classical Music from a tender age by their father, Shri Robi Chakraborty, an eminent exponent of the Senia Maihar gharana. Reena took to the sitar and Rajeeb to the sarod. They have never looked back since then, Rajeeb going on to earn his Master's degree in music and both of them to play individually and together in major festivals and concert venues all over India and abroad. They will be accompanied on tabla by Shri Subhen Chatterjee, also from Calcutta, who has been responsible for bringing many eminent musicians to the Center and to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry..
 
Sunday, April 23, 4:00 pm - 6 :00 pm
 
The Mother's Final Arrival at Pondicherry - an invocation of the special power of this day when the Mother joined Sri Aurobindo permanently to work towards the manifestation of the supramental on earth, thus establishing the conjunction of the Ishwara-Shakti, the Two-in-One necessary for this manifestation. Readings, chants, songs and meditation.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Monday, May 1, 8 pm - 9:30 pm
Birthday of the Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles - Our usual "On Education" study period will be devoted to an invocation of the founding of the East-West Cultural Center by Jyotipriya on this day in 1953. There will be a display of archival material pertaining to Jyotipriya and a collective meditation at 9:30 pm.
 
 
Sunday, May 14, 4:30 pm - 7 pm
Music Concert - Two of the most spiritually transporting classical vocalists of India, the brothers Pandits Rajan and Sajan Mishra will be performing afternoon Ragas for the Center on the theme of Shiva-Shakti. The Mishra brothers hail from Benares in India, where Jyotipriya went to study Sanskrit and where she was blest with the discovery of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Jyotipriya's birthday falls on May 16, and hence this recital will also be a tribute to Jyotipriya.
 
 
June 13th - June 26th
Visit by Prof. Mangesh Nadkarni, eminent scholar of Savitri, Sri Aurobindo's mantric epic on the supramental intervention. Prof. Nadkarni will give several talks on subjects related to Savitri and other aspects of the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.