President to visit Auroville on August 8 to participate in month-long birth anniversary celebrations of Sri Aurobindo

President Droupadi Murmu is scheduled to visit Auroville on August 8 to participate in the month-long birth anniversary celebrations of Sri Aurobindo. Ms. Murmu is expected to visit the Matrimandir, address the plenary of a day-long conference on ‘Aspiring for the Supermind at the City of Consciousness’, and attend a concert by Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam.

President Droupadi Murmu is scheduled to visit Auroville on August 8 to participate in the month-long birth anniversary celebrations of Sri Aurobindo.

Ms. Murmu is expected to visit the Matrimandir, address the plenary of a day-long conference on ‘Aspiring for the Supermind at the City of Consciousness’, and attend a concert by Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam.

Tamil Nadu Governor and Auroville Foundation chairman R.N. Ravi, Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, member of Auroville governing board, are expected to address the gathering.

Briefing reporters, Jayanti Ravi, Secretary, Auroville Foundation, said the conference would be spread over three sessions that would focus on various dimensions of Sri Aurobindo’s teachings and writings. The conference would feature scholars from Auroville, Sri Aurobindo Society, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and various national and international centres who would share their experience and understanding of the concept of the supermind.

One of the sessions is devoted to understanding the essence of the Supermind as expatiated in the teachings/writings of Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual collaborator The Mother, who founded the universal township 55 years ago.

The supermind, in Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of integral yoga, represented the dynamic manifestation of the absolute, the intermediary between the spirit and the manifest world which enables the transformation of the common being to an enlightened soul.

Another session, “Attaining the Supermind” will explore the continuum of efforts in the city of Auroville to manifest these higher concepts across all aspects of living — education and research, art and culture, city planning and architecture, economy, farming, health and wellness.