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Prisma |
The Mother's Flower Blessings  |
$8.57 |
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| The Mother had always a close affinity with flowers. She has revealed spiritual significances of over eight hundred flowers from tropical and temperate climates. Flowers established a subtle yet beautiful communication between the Mother and her children of all ages.
In this flower game there are two sets of sixty-four flowers with the comment of the Mother for each one. To play the game you can ask within yourself which flower you would bring to the Mother on a particular day. Then from the... |
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Auroville Press |
Bauhinia - A Tree who wanted to be an Orchid  |
$4.40 |
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| Made with Auroville handmade paper, written and illustrated by an Aurovilian, this coloring book story about a tree commonly seen in Auroville gardens will delight children and adults.
Size 20 cm x 20 cm. 24 pages. |
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Auroville Press |
Bauhinia - L'arbre qui voulait être une orchidée  |
$4.40 |
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| Fabriqué avec du papier d'Auroville fait à la main, ce livre que les enfants aimeront colorier parle d'un arbre rencontré souvent dans les jardins d'Auroville, un arbre aux feuilles en forme de coeur. Taille 20 x 20 cm. 24 pages. |
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Auroville Press |
Marie Curie  |
$5.64 |
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| 'In every particle, atom, molecule, cell of Matter, there lives hidden and works unknown all the omniscience of the eternal and the omnipotence of the infinite.' (Sri Aurobindo) For Marie Curie, the discoverer of radioactivity, science was an adventure, "A scientist in his laboraytory", she said, "is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale." Marie Curie's life recounted in this book reads also like an extraordinary... |
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Auroville Press |
Selected episodes from Raghuvamsam of Kalidasa  |
$4.51 |
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| A few extracts from the poem in Sanskrit from Kalidasa with English translation. The poet describes a number of kings belonging to the House of Raghu, which is the dynasty to which Sri Rama belonged.
Size: 15,2 x 23 cm; 206 pages. |
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Papui and SomethingElse |
The Gunas  |
$4.17 |
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| Type comics book, color book, cover in matt lamination, inside pages glossy paper, soft binding, English language. Illustrations: Emanuele Scanziani. Author: Emanuele Scanziani and Yvelise Vaugeois. Content: One of the many exquisite working models towards self-knowledge and self-mastery provided by the Hindu world-vision is a psychological framework through which one learns to distinguish the various features, “modes” or trends that are governing one’s nature and one’s universe. These... |
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Auroville Publication |
Passage  |
$17.92 |
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| This book is the combined effort of the students and teachers at Last School.An Education for "growth of consciousness and increasing perfectibility".Taking an Art installation, Passage, prepared by a group of teenaged students of Auroville as illustration, Last School presents their educational growth and development. What is revealed is a vivid example of research in action - a seeking into the forms of Free Progress education - an approach The Mother spoke of as "a progress guided by the... |
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Wisdom Splendour |
Introduction to Integral Education  |
$6.76 |
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| An Inspirational Guide.
The present system of education, as widely practised all over the world and in India, has its origins in the Industrial Age in Europe 200 years ago. Its industrial mindset designs schools to be mass-processing factories that take in children as their raw material and churn out certified professionals to fit the needs of a mechanistic society. It ignores the child’s individuality, suppresses creativity and discourages independent thought. Its dehumanising values have... |
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Avipro |
Threshold |
$11.27 |
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| Coming from Bombay and meeting with the Mother, Ajit Rao became one of the early pioneers of the City of Dawn. It remained locked in his soul, as later on he lived for twenty years in Australia and the U.S. His first book of poems “Approaching Auroville” (2008) describes his inner journey back to Auroville.“Threshold” was written after his return, in 2003, at the threshold of a new future. The poems in this book ask to be read in undisturbed silence; to be received in their full impact, in a... |
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Edzard Loesing |
The Reluctant Clairvoyant |
$9.02 |
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| It has been said that the children will lead….Does this strike a chord?Could you imagine that the children will do exactly that with irresistible charm, humor and fun?Equipped with a DNA double helix, in which more up-to-now dormant parts of our genetic code are activated, “enabling” them with loads of new capacities, which the word “paranormal” cannot describe sufficiently? What does science say? More and more of these children are born onto this burdened planet? Could this mean…that the most... |
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Auroville Press |
Nachiketas |
$3.83 |
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| The text of this story is to be found in the Katha Upanishad, and this monograph may be regarded as the most up-to-date introduction to the message of that Upanishad.
Author and compiler: Sarita Saraf,
Size: 15.2 x 23 cm, 112 pages, English |
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Auroville Press |
Taittiriya Upanishad |
$4.51 |
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| Amongst the various texts of ancient India, the Taittiriya Upanishad has a special place, as it devotes an entire section to education. In particular one finds there a great message from the teacher Varuna: “The secret of learning lies in the power of concentration in thought.”
Author and compiler: Chitwan Mittal,
Size: 15.2 x 23 cm, 104 pages, English |
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Auroville Press |
Socrates |
$6.31 |
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| This monograph presents the life of Socrates, mainly through the Apology, Phaedo and Crito. It brings out the heroism of Socrates and his total dedication to the search for the Truth.
Author and compiler: Sarita Saraf,
Size: 15.2 x 23 cm, 160 pages, English |
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Auroville Press |
Sri Rama The beloved and Victorious Hero |
$11.27 |
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| Valmiki composed the Ramayana in order to illustrate a heroic leader, who was able to combine in him the virtues of truth, heroism, love and justice. Sri Rama shines out in this great epic as an embodiment of all these virtues.
Author and compiler: Jyoti Madhok,
Size: 15.2 x 23 cm, 338 pages, English |
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Auroville Press |
Sri Krishna in Brindavan |
$9.69 |
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| This book is an anthology of episodes taken from various literary works that depict the episodes connected with Sri Krishna’s exile to Brindavan. This exile is a landmark in the history of Indian religion, considering that the events related there have given birth to the practice and yoga of divine love or Bhakti.
Author and compiler: Jyoti Madhok,
Size: 15.2 x 23 cm, 260 pages, English |
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Auroville Press |
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother |
$8.34 |
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| This book is not a summary of the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother but it is a brief account of the inner heart and core of the task that they undertook and of the main stages of accomplishment.
Authors: Kireet Joshi,
Size: 14 x 21 cm, 288 pages, English |
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Freeland Bookshop |
Research on Beauty/ Recherche sur la Beaute |
$27.05 |
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| A book on Roger Anger, the French architect selected by the Mother to build Auroville. Authored by Anupama Kundoo, the book relates Roger’s professional itinerary from 1953 to 2008, and gives us the opportunity to discover his creative skills under a new light. This 192 pages English & French edition contains more than 200 photos (colors / black & white) and 50 drawings. Published by Jovis Verlag in GermanyHigh quality printingHardcoverDimension: 21.5cm x 27.5cm |
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Auroville Publications |
Awareness through the Body |
$27.96 |
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| Awareness through the Body is a comprehensive curriculum of exercises that aims to raise awareness and enable both children and adults to become conscious of their own perceptions and abilities so that they may become more self-aware, self-directed individuals. It offers ways to discover the existing connections between mind, emotions and the physical body and to integrate these different parts into a more harmonious whole, organised around the inmost centre.
Written by Aloka Marti and Joan... |
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Auroville Press |
Retournements – Les débuts d’Auroville vus de l’intérieur |
$6.20 |
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| Vingt-sept histoires vraies d’hommes et de femmes dont la vie changea radicalement dans les années soixante après être entrés en contact avec la Mère de Pondichéry, et avoir découvert un endroit appelé Auroville où devait se bâtir “la ville dont le monde a besoin”. A l’époque il n’y avait rien sur cette terre désertique et pourtant ces jeunes venus d’un peu partout se sentirent attirés par ce lieu de façon irrésistible. Plus de 40 ans après, ils sont encore à Auroville et se souviennent.... |
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Monique Patenaude |
Made in Auroville, India (French) |
$13.53 |
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| Roman de Monique Patenaude
1968: Lysiane Delambre a dix-huit ans. Entre les massacres de la guerre du Vietnam, les paradis artificiels du LSD des hippies et la course à l’espace des Américains et des Russes, elle cherche un sens à l’absurdité de l’existence humaine. Dans un livre trouvé par hasard sur les étagères d’un restaurant, elle lit: “Ou peut-être trouverons-nous, quand tout les reste aura échoué, cachée en nous, la clé du parfait changement.” Le livre est de Sri... |