March 2018 Newsletter

March 2018 SRI AUROBINDO SOCIETY VOL 32.03 Singapore Permit No. MCI (P) 071/01/2017 NEWSLETTER Satyavan His figure led the splendour of the morn.Botanical Name: Torenia fournieriCommon Name: Wishbone FlowerSpiritual Significance: Krishna’s Play In her divine communion he had grown A foster-child of beauty and solitude, Heir to the centuries of the lonely wise, A brother of the sunshine and the sky, A wanderer communing with depth and marge. - Savitri, Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. Guiding Light of the Month I knew well that none could invoke Thy presence in vain and if in thesincerity of our hearts we commune with Thee through no matter what organism, body or human collectivity, this organism in spite of its ignorance finds its unconsciousness wholly transformed. The Mother, ‘Prayers and Meditations’ March 25, 1914 From the Editor’s DeskThis newsletter edition brings into our fold Freedom’s imperious beauty curved his limbs, The joy of life was on his open face.Satyavan, a significant character in the epic poem His look was a wide daybreak of the gods,Savitri. If not for Satyavan, Savitri’s role would His head was a youthful Rishi’s touched with light,not have been fulfilled. Sri Aurobindo’s use of His body was a lover’s and a king’s.symbolism needs to be reckoned here too. In arecent edition, we examined a little the symbolism These lines glorify the simple and pure soul thatascribed to each of the main characters of the epic Satyavan is. They show us a man in his state ofpoem. While Savitri is the daughter of the Sun, nobility and near-perfection – in his physical, hisLight Supreme, Satyavan, her consort, is the soul mental and his vital too. He was surely a perfectcarrying the divine truth of being but descended match for Savitri. The enlightened Savitri’s heartinto death and ignorance. Divine in his origin, opens the moment Satyavan appears before her andbearer of divinity, there is in Satyavan a Divine recognizes in him her soul-mate. A significantseed waiting to manifest itself in all its splendour partnership (occult perhaps) begins which in thein this human body upon this material earth. beginning was not obvious but as the storySavitri is the Light who subsequently confronts the progresses, we realize the significance of Satyavan indarkness, shadow and ignorance in the guise of this epic. Simple and pure he may be, he is still humanDeath. She stands steadfast in saving the human acting out his humaneness here and falls intosoul from its clutches so that God may reveal ignorance, into the grip of death, that signify these. InHimself. And so is Satyavan saved and brought one way, the relationship between Savitri andback from death to live a higher, illumined life Satyavan serve other purposes than meet the eye. It isupon earth with his soul-mate. a work Savitri takes up for the whole of humanity when she confronts death, wrestles with him and winsSatyavan makes a glorious entry into the epic back the soul of Satyavan and continues her life withpoem and also into Savitri’s life and consciousness him for greater realisations.when he appears, leaving his usual path, onto atract unintended, only to chance upon Savitri as March is a significant month. On the 29th of Marchshe speeds by in her horse-drawn chariot. The 1914, The Mother comes to India for the first time anddescriptions surmising his appearance and nature for the first time, comes face to face with Sriinstantly tell us of his eligibility for one such as Aurobindo in Pondichery. This March, we oberve theSavitri. These lines are a beautiful rendition of the 104th year of this momentous meeting between thegreat soul Satyavan is: two spiritual collaborators. The years to follow saw The Mother and Sri Aurobindo work together inAs if a weapon of the living Light, bringing down the Supramental Light into the earthErect and lofty like a spear of God atmosphere, so that the life on earth may be illumined.His figure led the splendour of the morn. Let us concentrate on this day and offer our gratitudeNoble and clear as the broad peaceful heavensA tablet of young wisdom was his brow; towards all that has materialized for us here through their collaboration.www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 2

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. Savitri, a journey of Love and Light Groves with strange flowers like eyes of gazing nymphs Peered from their secrecy into open space, Boughs whispering to a constancy of light Sheltered a dim and screened felicity, And slowly a supine inconstant breeze Ran like a fleeting sigh of happiness Over slumberous grasses pranked with green and gold. (Savitri)(Photo: Flowers at Darjeeling)www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 3

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. A Veda-knower of the unwritten bookAs Savitri's \"high carven car\" winds its way through the wilderness on this day of predestination,she spies beyond the road deep recesses and groves and even catches the accents of speech: Sweet like desires enamoured and unseen, Cry answering to low insistent cry.A \"single path, shot thin and arrowlike\" seems to lead into the half-hidden bowers of peace, andwhile following it, suddenly he appears, .. .against the forest verge Inset twixt green relief and golden ray. As if a weapon of the living Light, Erect and lofty like a spear of God His figure led the splendour of the morn.He is like \"a wide daybreak of the gods\", his body—albeit a youthful rishi's—is \"a lover's and aking's\". Destiny had sent him here to be the \"foster-child of beauty and solitude\", and he has grownin strength of limb and transparent lucidity of soul, mastering all knowledge and finding repose inthe Spirit.This day of all days, Satyavan has—as if out to keep an appointment—strayed from his customarypaths and gravitated towards the \"forest's flowering verge\", and there the vision of beauty, the divineshock of love, overwhelms him. At first Savitri from her car gazes vaguely about her, drinking inthe loveliness of the place, and seeing him too, though not with particular intent; but presently hervision settles on him, the magic recognition takes place, and all is changed. Is he the genius of thespot? He looks \"a king of life outlined in delicate air\".184 But the mere thinking faculty soonabdicates its function, waves of sudden ecstasy beat upon her, she is caught in a \"mystic tumult fromher depths\", she is smitten by the arrows of pain and desire, the birth-pangs of a great new emotionthrow her into convulsion, and at last she flings open the doors of her soul to this splendorous Sun.Their eyes meet, and the great alchemy works:Then trembling with the mystic shock her heartMoved in her breast and cried out like a birdWho hears his mate upon a neighbouring bough.The reins of the horses are drawn instantaneously back, the chariot stands \"like an arrested wind\";and Satyavan, now alerted into attention,...looked out from his soul's doorsAnd felt the enchantment of her liquid voiceFill his youth's purple ambiance and enduredThe haunting miracle of a perfect face.Is this a new divinity undreamt of before? Satyavan misses his moorings and flounders \"as in fire\";he is lost, another has seized him entire; even in the mere \"sight's embrace\", infinity merges withinfinity. As dazed Satyavan dares Savitri's eyes:He met in her regard his future's gaze,A promise and a presence and a fire,Saw an embodiment of aeonic dreams,...www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 4

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018.No chance or new meeting is this, though it seems such to be; nor aliens nor strangers are they, butsoulmates since the beginning of things, and now awakening into a new recognition of each otherby the roseate dawn of love. Love is a spiraling phenomenon, its base is on earth and earthy, its crown is in the highestheavens; its power has a uniform potency, though the effects may differ at different points of thespiral. At the lower reaches, there are not wanting debasing and corrupting influences that cheapenand poison love. But in its essential movement and in its proper field, \"Love is a glory from eternity'ssphere\". None is really dead to love, but each waits \"like an unopened flower\" for the destinedmoment of unfolding. Love is the \"child-god\" who variously accomplishes the blaze oftransfigurement in which man and woman run into mutual recognition, and each exclaims: Behold the one For whom my life has waited long unfilled, Behold the sudden sovereign of my days.There is marvellous communion between heart and heart, limb and limb, and all the world seems tobe charged with the beauty of heaven. Such a moment has come to Satyavan and Savitri: Attracted as in heaven star by star, They wondered at each other and rejoiced And wove affinity in a silent gaze. A moment passed that was eternity's ray, An hour began, the matrix of new Time.(“Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A study of the cosmic epic”, Dr. Premanandakumar, Sri AurobindoAshram Trust, Puducherry) The Mother says… On TruthOur life ought to be governed by the Love for Truth and the thirst for Light. *Let the light of Truth be born upon earth from today and for ever. *Let the flower of Truth blossom within you. *Let us all work with a growing sincerity for the manifestation of the Divine Truth.Be more eager for truth than for success. * *The Divine’s Will is that the mind should know and He says, “Awake and be conscious of theTruth.” - The Mother www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 5

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. Flowers Speak… Krishna's Ananda Manifold, abundant, and so full of charm In her divine communion he had grown A foster-child of beauty and solitude, Heir to the centuries of the lonely wise, A brother of the sunshine and the sky, A wanderer communing with depth and marge. Krishna's Light in the Mind A charming way of becoming intelligent. A Veda-knower of the unwritten book Perusing the mystic scripture of her forms, He had caught her hierophant significances, Her sphered immense imaginations learned, Taught by sublimities of stream and wood And voices of the sun and star and flame And chant of the magic singers on the boughs And the dumb teaching of four-footed things. Radha's Consciousness Symbolises perfect attachment to the Divine. And Satyavan looked out from his soul’s doors And felt the enchantment of her liquid voice Fill his youth’s purple ambience and endured The haunting miracle of a perfect face. Mastered by the honey of a strange flower-mouth, Drawn to soul-spaces opening round a brow, He turned to the vision like a sea to the moon And suffered a dream of beauty and of change, Discovered the aureole round a mortal’s head, Adored a new divinity in things.*Flowers and Messages, The Mother.*Savitri, Sri Aurobindowww.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 6

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. RainbowAccording to Sri Aurobindo the rainbow is: Sign of Peace and Deliverance. I have gathered my dreams in a silver air Sri Aurobindo Between the gold and the blue And wrapped them softly and left them there, My jewelled dreams of you. I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge Marrying the soil to the sky And sow in this dancing planet midge The moods of infinity.(Pictures of Sri Aurobindo’s poems, Havyavahana Trust, Puducherry)www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 7

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. The Mother on music Music brought down celestial yearnings, song Held the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths, Linking the human with the cosmic cry; (Savitri) ***What is there \"behind\" the external form of music?Music is a means of expressing certain thoughts, feelings, emotions, aspirations. There is even a region whereall these movements exist and from there, as they are brought down, they take a musical form. One who is avery good composer, with some inspiration, will produce very beautiful music, for he is a good musician. Abad musician may also have a very high inspiration; he may receive something which is good, but as hepossesses no musical capacity, what he produces is terribly commonplace, ordinary, uninteresting. But if yougo beyond, if you reach just the place where there is this origin of music ̶ of the idea and emotion andinspiration ̶ if you reach there, you can taste these things without being in the least troubled by the forms; thecommonplace musical form can be linked up again with that, because that was the inspiration of the writerof the music. Naturally, there are cases where there is no inspiration, where the origin is merely a kind ofmechanical music. It is not always interesting in every case. But what I mean is that there is an inner conditionin which the external form is not the most important thing; it is the origin of the music, the inspiration frombeyond, which is important; it is not purely the sounds, it is what the sounds express. ***What is the cause of the great difference between European and Indian music? Is it the origin or theexpression?It is both but in an inverse sense. This very high inspiration comes only rarely in Europeanmusic; rare also is a psychic origin, very rare. Either it comes from high above or it is vital. The expressionis almost always, except in a few rare cases, a vital expression ̶ interesting, powerful. Most often, the originis purely vital. Sometimes it comes from the very heights, then it is wonderful. Sometimes it is psychic,particularly in what has been religious music, but this is not very frequent.Indian music, when there are good musicians, has almost always a psychic origin; for example, the ragashave a psychic origin, they come from the psychic. The inspiration does not often come from above. ButIndian music is very rarely embodied in a strong vital. It has rather an inner and intimate origin. I have hearda great deal of Indian music, a great deal; I have rarely heard Indian music having vital strength, very rarely;perhaps not more than four or five times. But very often I have heard Indian music having a psychic origin,it translates itself almost directly into the physical. And truly one must then concentrate, and as it is ̶ how toput it? ̶ very tenuous, very subtle, as there are none of those intense vital vibrations, one can easily glidewithin it and climb back to the psychic origin of the music. It has that effect upon you, it is a kind of ecstatictrance, as from an intoxication. It makes you enter a little into trance. Then if you listen well and let yourselfgo, you move on and glide, glide into a psychic consciousness. But if you remain only in the externalconsciousness, the music is so tenuous that there is no response from the vital, it leaves you altogether flat.Sometimes, there was a vital force, then it became quite good.... I myself like this music very much, this kindof theme developing into a play. The theme is essentially very musical: and then it is developed withvariations, innumerable variations, and it is always the same theme which is developed in one way or another.In Europe there were musicians who were truly musicians and they too had the thing: Bach had it, he used todo the same sort of thing, Mozart had it, his music was purely musical, he had no intention of expressing anyother thing, it was music for music’s sake. But this manner of taking a certain number of notes in a certainrelation (they are like almost infinite variations), personally I find it wonderful to put you in repose, and youenter deep within yourself. And then, if you are ready, it gives you the psychic consciousness: something thatmakes you withdraw from the external consciousness, which makes you enter elsewhere, enter within. - The Mother(Questions and Answers, The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry)www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 8

Krishna’s Flute Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018.Krishna, the cowherd, the stealer of our hearts, - SandhyaKrishna, the lover of peacocks, of Radha,A silvery flute he holds, sweetly, on his soft palms.When he feels rapturous,When he wants his Radha to dance,He plays music, a music of love, of Ras leela.He holds his flute close to him,His lips embrace the wood….Wonder how it tastes?His breath flows into the flute…Wonder how it feels?His fingers move over the holes…Wonder how they touch?And out flows the music,From his breath, out of his self.And it reaches me, reaches my ears,Carrying the sweetness of his lips,Carrying the feeling of his breath,Carrying the warmth of his hands,It reaches me and flows as a river,Deep into my soul, deep into my hearts. January-February Sunday Activities at the Centre - A glimpseJanuary 21st – The future poetryWe continued our exploration of the Rhythm and Movement. THE MANTRA, poetic expression ofthe deepest spiritual reality, is only possible when three highest intensities of poetic speech meetand become indissolubly one, a highest intensity of rhythmic movement, a highest intensity ofinterwoven verbal form and thought-substance, of style, and a highest intensity of the soul’s visionof truth. All great poetry comes about by a unison of these three elements. Jared explained metre(Matra) with lots of examples for us to practice through reading aloud.January 28th – Self dynamising meditation using Savitri and Huta paintingsWe continued our self-dynamising meditation viewing the Huta Paintings of Book 3, Canto 3 (‘TheBook of the Divine Mother’, ‘The House of the Spirit and New Creation’) along with Mother’sorgan music and Her Voice. We tried to weave using the threads of the last seven months of glimpsesinto a Spiritual fabric. This canto provided us the perfect framework of Cosmic and Terrestrialcreation using the cosmos’ seed of integral knowledge of One Self, the Heartbeats of the One Soulrepresenting the great world rhythms and the all conscious Light. The great world-rhythms were heart-beats of one Soul, To feel was a flame-discovery of God, All mind was a single harp of many strings,www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 9

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. All life a song of many meeting lives; For worlds were many, but the Self was one. This knowledge now was made a cosmos’ seed: This seed was cased in the safety of the Light, It needed not a sheath of Ignorance.February 11th – Hansaveena performance by Shri V RamananShri Ramanan is a devotee of our Mother and Master. Hansaveena was conceptualized and broughtto reality by Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravishankar whose senior disciple was Pandit Barun Kumar Pal.Ramanan has followed the Gurukula system as a senior disciple under Pandit Barun Kumar Pal.Shri. Ramanan has performed at several prestigious venues and festivals, including the Indian SlideGuitar Festival, The India Habitat Centre, The George Harrison Festival at the Ravi Shankar Centreand the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Mr. Ramanan has also founded a performing arts school, SadhanaSchool of Music, Dance and Arts, which has over 60 students training in various Indian and WesternArt forms.It was a mystical evening of musical delight. Mdm Jayalakshmi as the facilitator provided the neededsupport on behalf of our Society and shared a short clip of the performance to our members as it wasprogressing.A Self-Dynamising Meditation on Savitri Mantra based on ‘The Essence of Poetry’‘The Essence of Poetry’ is the Chapter II in our Master’s divine work ‘The Future Poetry’.He explores the grand possibility of poetry - the discovery of a closer approximation to what wemight call the Mantra in poetry, that rhythmic speech which, as the Veda puts it, rises at once fromthe heart of the seer and from the distant home of the Truth — the discovery of the Word, the Divinemovement, the form of thought proper to the reality. It is accomplished through the stress of soul-vison (Soul-idea, soul of emotion for the delight of the soul and embodied Truth of life or Truth ofNature) behind the surface view of words; it is a spiritual excitement of rhythmic voyage of self-discovery among the magic islands of form and name in the inner and outer worlds. It is the greaterTruth and its delight and beauty it is seeking. It is true joy for ever with beauty which is Truth andTruth-beauty supporting each other in ever increasing fashion.“There is perhaps a truth in the Vedic idea that the Spirit of creation framed all the movements ofthe world by chandas (The study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit), in certain fixed rhythms ofthe formative Word, and it is because they are faithful to the cosmic metres that the basic world-movements unchangingly endure. A balanced harmony maintained by a system of subtle recurrencesis the foundation of immortality in created things, and metrical movement is nothing else thancreative sound grown conscious of this secret of its own powers.”It is a Divine Delight exploring the rhythm, the imagery, the ideas and the spiritual power packed insome of the sample passages of Savitri through meditating on the Essence of Poetry. It is still a longway for us to comprehend our Master’s Savitri Mantra – The poetic expression of the deepestspiritual reality through the unison of the highest intensities of the Rhythm, the Style and the Soul’svision of Truth exactly reflecting the conception, perception and the sensation of the occasion;however, every step we take is a progress in our infinite journey of delight exposing every timesome of the subtle and immaterial elements even to the experienced devotees – truly packed withinfinite possibilities and in infinite dimensions as Jananam of Brahma - who is Sarvam, Anantam,Gnanam and Anandam – who is the Creator, the Creation and the Movement of Creation. Thisunending infinite scope is bewildering to terrestrial ordinary beings; in addition, the dualities of ourwww.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 10

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018.terrestrial world make searching of the essence as looking for needle in a hay stack. The Grace ofour Divine Mother makes this discovery for progress easier through our consecration and surrender.Below is a picture reflecting our humble self-dynamising meditation attempt to contemplate on theessence of poetry highlighted above – through a deep dive into the ocean of Savitri to catch a fewpearls to make a garland as our offering to our Divine Mother. Of course, it is a small crude step inour journey through the infinite golden path of delight requiring further purification, liberation,consecration and surrender. It is not just the canto or story line or passage but also beyond to get asclose as possible to the transcendent Truth beauty and the beauty of Truth involved.Here is the Mother’s quote on self-dynamising meditation: “… Everyone has his own mode ofmeditation. But if one wants the meditation to be dynamic, one must have an aspiration for progressand the meditation must be done to help and fulfil this aspiration for progress. Then it becomesdynamic” Mother Q&A 1956This deep meditation can lead us to a feeling of flame discovery of God: Savitri in Her ‘all powerfuland all encompassing’ state as experienced and expressed to touch our emotions, feelings and sensesby our Master: Out of the infinitudes all came to her, Into the infinitudes sentient she spread, Infinity was her own natural home. Nowhere she dwelt, her spirit was everywhere, The distant constellations wheeled round her; Earth saw her born, all worlds were her colonies, The greater worlds of life and mind were hers; All Nature reproduced her in its lines,www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 11

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. Its movements were large copies of her own. She was the single self of all these selves, She was in them and they were all in her.Book VII “The Book of Yoga”, Canto VII “The Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness\"Deeper dive into Savitri can reveal Beauty of Knowledge behind the ignorance surrounding our life,Delight of Truth hiding behind falsehood and Love of Goodwill behind the apparent evil.The above pictorial representation brings to our inner vision a sense of being inside the Matrimandiraccompanied by the Sound of Divine music, the mystic air of formless forms, the Light ofconsciousness, the water of Life and the Earth of Life forms realised. It is as if the Symbol of SriAurobindo at the centre is coming to Life powered by Sat and Chit for the Divine Ananda throughthe magic of our Mother’s Divine Love and Light thus creating the Beauty of multiplicity aroundus. - Ramadoss PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH 2018 DATE TIME DETAILS4th Mar 2018 8 AM Monthly Morning Walk* 6 PM Sunday 6 PM Meditation and Concentration with Mother’s Organ Music 4th Mar 2018 Thematic Study Circle Part I: 6 PM The Future Poetry Sunday11th Mar 2018 4 PM Thematic Study Circle Part II The Future Poetry Sunday 6 PM Youth Programme:18th Mar 2018 Sri Aurobindo and Science Fiction Sunday Savitri Circle25th Mar 2018 Sunday25th Mar 2018 Sunday* Please see below for details.www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 12

Date: Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018.Time: March 2018 Morning Walk – NO. 391Walk Venue:Meeting Point: Sunday, 4th February 2018 8:00 A.M. sharp for warm up exercise. We shall proceed with the walk by 8.20 AM without waiting for anyone. Pasir Ris Park Car Park C in Pasir Ris Park This Car Park can be accessed from Pasir Ris Drive 3 -> Pasir Ris Green-> Car Park. This car park is walkable distance from Pasir Ris MRT.Contact No: Mr S.Ramanathan (9138 5130)Hosts:RSVP: Mr. Anand K Venkat & Family, Block 71, Pasir Ris Grove, #07-19, LIVIA,Directions to Singapore 518025.Host Residence: Tel: 86126067 (Anand), 93397950 (Sheetal), 67199790 (Landline) Email ID: [email protected]; [email protected] By Car: Elias Road Exit at TPE if coming from PIE/Airport direction towards Pasir Ris->Take 3 B Exit (Pasir Ris 8) which leads to Pasir Ris Drive 1-> Take the 1st Left on to Pasir Ris Grove for Car Entrance into LIVIA (last apartment on the road). From TPE towards Changi Direction or coming from IKEA (Tampines Avenue 10) into TPE. At TPE take Exit 3C which leads to Pasir Ris Drive 1. -> Take the 1st Left on to Pasir Ris Grove for Car Entrance into LIVIA (last apartment on the road). BY MRT/BUS: From Pasir Ris MRT 403 & 3. Alight opposite to Block 515. 89,53 are other buses which come to this bus stops.Note: All are encouraged to attend the Walk. Those, however, who are not able to join the Walk,the hosts would be very happy that they directly come and join in the brunch by 10:15 AM. Prayersand meditation will commence sharp at 10.30 A.M. All are requested to be punctual. PREVIEW OF FORTHCOMING SUNDAY MORNING WALKSWALK NO DATE PLACE HOST 392 1/4/18 Bishan Park Mr C Krishnamurthy & Family 393 6/5/18 394 3/6/18 East Coast Park Mr Ashok Patel & Family 395 1/7/18 TBA Mr Anand Patel & Family TBA Mr Sanjay Mehta & Familywww.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 13

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore. March 2018. Along the Way… February Walk Review (walk no 390)Walk venue for February walk was at East Coast Park.Since I had missed the walk for the past 3 months, I very much longed to be with my SAS friendsand enjoy the walk. I was not disappointed, since many of them joined the walk. The weather wasalso very friendly.Mother Nature never fails to enthral us, even when we experience her beauty every day!When I saw the vast sea and the sky, I remembered Mother answering one of the sadhak’s questionas to how to widen our consciousness. She said that to get out of our limited thought, will andconsciousness, we have to think of the endless vastness of the ocean and the sky, how they stretcheout far and far in all directions. We are just a tiny point floating in the infinite space between theplanets! This will broaden our self from the closed shell of our ego. Hence this is also a kind ofmeditation.It was really great of Nisha and Ashish to host this month’s walk, with Ashish’s wedding just a fewdays away! It was a great joy to meet her mother, sister and uncle who are here to attend the wedding.Both Sri Krishnamurthy & Sri Ramanathan chanted Bhagya Suktam and Shree Suktham, and SriKiran Sule chanted passages from Savitri as a blessing prayer to Ashish and Mallika.The brunch was superb! We were treated to the most delightful dishes cooked by our dear Nisha’smother, bringing the original pure taste of Bharata in every dish.Our Sincere thanks to Nisha and her dear family for the beautiful morning they gifted us! Jayalakshmi ANNOUNCEMENTS Membership Renewal for 2018 & Subscription to AIM For 2018, Annual Members need to pay SGD 60 as their membership subscription to the Society. Those subscribing to the All India Magazine will need to pay an additional SGD 30 for the magazine. Please send a cheque payable to \"Sri Aurobindo Society\" and post it to the Treasurer, Anand Patel at the following address: Anand Patel Treasurer – Sri Aurobindo Society Block 3, Tanah Merah Kechil Road, # 02-05, The Tanah Merah, Singapore 466664 You may also physically pay it to him in cash or by passing a cheque to a committee member and letting Anand Patel know, during our activities. Printed and Published by The Sri Aurobindo Society of Singapore 2A Starlight Road 01-07, Singapore 217755.Saurab: 86559940 or [email protected]; Sanjay: 98750767 or [email protected]; Email: [email protected] Visit our website at: www.sriaurobindosociety.org.sgwww.sriaurobindosociety.org.sg 14