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Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sri Aurobindo on the Ashram

 

Ashram main building

LOCATION

Library House

PHOTOGRAPHS

Meditation House

 

Secretariat

 

Rosary House

 

► Sri Aurobindo's rooms

 

The Mother's rooms

 

Samadhi

 

Location

From 25 October 1922 till 7 February 1927 Sri Aurobindo lived at the Library House. His room was on the first floor, on the south-east corner. This room named as ‘Siddhi Room’.

 

From 7 February 1927 Sri Aurobindo lived at the Meditation House. His room was at the first floor and looked to north.

No

Function | The Mother's Symbol Names

1-1

Bathroom | Integral Purity

1-2

Sri Aurobindo's room | Supreme Manifestation upon earth

1-3

Sitting room | Krishna's Ananda

2-1

Central Hall | Perfect Creation

2-2

Dressing room | Divine's Love

3-1

Staircase from the ground floor — upper flight | Spiritual Intensity

3-2

Meditation Hall upstairs | Purified Worship

3-3

Darshan room | Divine Consciousness

Photographs

A. SIDDHI  ROOM  IN  THE  LIBRARY  HOUSE

A1. Perhaps, when Sri Aurobindo lived here (1922-1927)

A2. Photographs after 1927

B. SRI AUROBINDO'S ROOM  IN  THE  MEDITATION HOUSE

B1. Sri Aurobindo in his room

B2. Interior and things in Sri Aurobindo's Room

B2. Perhaps, when Sri Aurobindo lived here (1927-1950)

B3. Photographs after 1950

A1. Siddhi Room
perhaps, when Sri Aurobindo
lived here (1922-27)

Library House

1922 — 1929

PHOTO ID: 00012

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.36.

Panorama of the south side

1922 — 1929

PHOTO ID: 00004

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.13.

North side in 1922-29

1922 — 1929

PHOTO ID: 00013

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.38.

Mother on a roof of Meditation House (middle part, west wing — M.P. Pandit office in 1993)

1926 — 1929

PHOTO ID: 00015

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.42.

A2. Siddhi Room
Photographs after 1927

1949

PHOTO ID: 00001

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.3.

16 January 2006

PHOTO ID: 00097

1922 — 1929

PHOTO ID: 00002

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.8.

1975

PHOTO ID: 00003

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.11.

Old Secretariat Demolished

1931

PHOTO ID: 00024

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.79,

Balcony Block under construction

Circa September 1929

PHOTO ID: 00020

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, pp.70-71.

B1. Sri Aurobindo in his room
in Meditation House

1950

B2. Interior and things
in Sri Aurobindo's room
in Meditation House

 

 

B3. Sri Aurobindo's room in Meditation House
when Sri Aurobindo lived here (1927-1950)

1922 — 1929

PHOTO ID: 00010

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.22,

1931

PHOTO ID: 00028

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.83,

The Mother with disciples in front of the main gate of Old Secretariat

Circa October 1930

PHOTO ID: 00023

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.74,

Circa October 1930

PHOTO ID: 00008

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.18.

Prosperity Block under construction

1932 — 1934

PHOTO ID: 00035

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.87,

1947 — 1948

PHOTO ID: 00055

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.122.

B4. Sri Aurobindo's room in Meditation House
Photographs after 1950

2005

PHOTO ID: 00011

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.23,

1958 — 1962

PHOTO ID: 00043

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.93.

September 1955

PHOTO ID: 00056

SOURCE: ‘Sri Aurobindo Ashram: The Story of the Main Building’.- 1st ed.- Pondicherry.- 2008, p.123.

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