Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The home / ashram of Sri Aurobindo, and his life long and spiritual partner, known reverently only as "The Mother", is still a very sacred site that feels much like the heart of Pondicherry. Both his and her pictures are everywhere in this town, and the ashram itself a silent and very sacred place which people visit en masse, and volumes of their writings are available for purchase at very modest prices.

The Magical Pondicherry of Life of Pi

March 10th 2013
Getting to India involved an intense and variety packed day of travel. It began with a half hour tuk tuk ride to the Colombo airport at 7 a.m., where we eventually boarded a 70 minute flight to Chennai, India, after going through at least four security checks. Once arrived in India, we took a forty minute taxi ride to what we thought would be a bus station for the next leg of our journey. The real ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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