Le Centre Sri Aurobindo is a bookstore, meditation centre and spiritual learning community dedicated to diffuse the teachings of the Centre’s namesake, renowned Indian philosopher, yogi and guru, Sri Aurobindo, and his successor, Mirra Alfasa, known more commonly as The Mother.
“Sri Aurobindo was a great yogi, a visionary who did a lot of work for the liberation of India before Gandhi’s time, who spent time in prison, where he discovered Krishna,” elaborates Bernadette Boudreau, one of the centre’s volunteer administrators. “After his liberation he sought refuge in Pondicherry, in the south of India, where he founded an ashram and wrote prolifically on Integral Yoga, which is a more psychological type of yoga. The Mother maintained and elaborated on his work after his death, bestowing his teachings to disciples in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He dedicated his life to try to bring what he termed the ‘supramental consciousness’ to earth. We are all mental beings, but in terms of Man’s evolutionary journey, we are intended to attain a supramental state, in which we are one with the universe.”
