Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Tue 20 Feb 2007 03:20 PM PST
Thousands to throng Aurobindo ashram on Wednesday
Tuesday February 20 2007 13:56 IST
PTI
PUDUCHERRY:
Thousands of people from across the country are expected to visit the
Aurobindo ashram here on Wednesday on the 129th birth anniversary of
its co-founder late Mirra Alfassa, better known as the ‘mother’.
All
necessary arrangements were being made for the convenience of the
devotees who would throng the premises, ashram sources said here on
Tuesday.
When Sri Aurobindo founded the ashram in November 1926,
he entrusted its full material and spiritual charge to the Paris-born
Alfassa. She became the leader of the community after Aurobindo’s death
in 1950 and passed away in 1973.
The devotees would be allowed
to meditate at the Samadhis of the mother and Sri Aurobindo for
half-an-hour from 6 am, the sources said.
The management of the ashram has erected special shamianas outside the premises to enable devotees to gather and come in a queue for dharshan inside the premises.
There
would be programmes like march past by the children of the
international centre of education of the ashram later in the day.
A
team of four member’s of the Auroville International Advisory Council
would also visit the ashram on Wednesday to pay homage to the mother
and Sri Aurobindo.
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