Purchase Books on the Integral Yoga
Matagiri has an extensive selection of books by Sri Aurobindo,
The Mother and numerous disciples including Sri Aurobindo's
major works and many rare and out-of print editions. We
list a small selection here, including some new titles and
audio cassettes. Please check back as we increase our selection.
Please call or email for a specific title.
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OVERMAN
The Intermediary Between The Human Being &
The Supramental Being
by Georges Van Vrekhem
189 pp. quality paperback $12.00
"As man arose out of animal, so out of man superman
shall come," said Sri Aurobindo. Overman
is a metaphysical book which dwells upon the evolutionary
vision of Sri Aurobindo and Mother and in particular
her concept of "surhomme" as a transitional being,
the Overman.
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THE ESSENTIAL AUROBINDO
288 pages, paperback 6 x 9 1 / 4 $18.95
Lindisfarne Press has releasedThe Essential
Aurobindo in a new edition. Edited by Robert
McDermott, philosopher and former President of the
California Institute for Integral Studies. He has
written an interesting afterward since the Shocken
edition. Highly recommended as an introduction to
Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Auroville. Ask your
local bookstore to carry at least this book.
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THE SAVITRI LEGEND
by Savitra
with a forward by Robert A. Johnson
224 pp paper $17.95
The book left me in a golden haze. I believe it
will touch the hearts and speak to the souls of
those sincerely seeking to make sense of themselves
and these terribly trying times. -Robert A.
Johnson
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THE SAVITRI LEGEND...a
unique and potent insight probing into the very terms
of our present mortality and future of the body...
-Michael Murphy, cofounder of Esalen Institute, author
of Golf and the Kingdom and The Future of
the Body
The Savitri Legend is a masterpiece of spiritual
adventure. Beautifully and intricately crafted, calling
forth the rich kaleidoscope of sound, sight and psyche
that is India, it is also a weaving of the strangely
interconnected lives of those who would find the soul's
true purpose. Gods and humans, myth and mystery are
the matter of this compelling work. We are reminded
that each of us is living a part of a Greater Life,
reflecting ancient myths in modern themes. Indeed,
the reader is set forth on a spiritual journey of
her own following the brilliant path of the Savitri
legend as it unfolds in us today. This is a work to
be savored as much for its luminous writing as it
is for its spiritual power.
-Jean Houston, Author of A Mythic Life
Other books by Savitra:
Auroville, The First Six Years (out of print)
Auroville, Sun Word Rising
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THE FATE OF TIBET
by Claude Arpi
forward by the Dalai Lama
432 pp hardbound $18.00
This book is an in-depth study of the origins of
the fate of a nation. The newly formed United Nations
granted recognition as 'nation-state' to a number
of small political groupings with no past and no
previous historical existence, yet a two-thousand
year old nation-culture was, almost without an international
whimper, completely erased from the map of Asia.
Friendship at any cost with China led India to the
very brink of war in 1962. Nehru, the idealist,
realized the blunder too late and personally never
recovered from the blow. The one person who could
have rewritten this script, Sardar Patel, died in
December 1950.
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Fifty years later, this 'friendship' with China
remains elusive. Claude begins from the time Buddhism
was introduced in Tibet and studies the evolution
of the Priest-Patron Relationship with the Mongol
Khans and later the Manchu Dynasty. He observes
the effect of the British Empire with its expansionist
policies and its rivalry with the Russians. He looks
at the conservative attitude of the Tibetan clergy
that blocked all the efforts for modernization by
the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, who in his prophetic
Testament, warned his people of the impending avalanche:
"and long and dark shall be the night".
URGENT REQUEST
The Pavilion of Tibetan Culture is the
first building to go up in the International Zone
of Auroville since Bharat Nivas, the Indian Pavilion.
H.H. the Dalai Lama laid the foundation stone and
already a monk-practitioner of Tibetan medicine
is coming to run a monthly clinic for Aurovilians,
the first of numerous activities to take place there.
But funds are urgently needed to complete the first
phase. Please specify your
donation for the "Pavilion of Tibetan Culture".
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BEYOND THE HUMAN SPECIES
The Life and Work of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother
(Paragon House, 1998) by Georges Van Vrekhem.
Forward by Dr. Karan Singh. $34.95
Indian HarperCollins edition paperback edition
$18. 548 pages, including six pages of photos and
extensive references.
Many consider this to be the most important book
on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to be published
in the West since The Adventure of Consciousness.
Includes interesting historical, philosophical and
spiritual perspectives combined with thorough research
from the source material including Mother's Agenda.
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THE BHAGAVAD GITA
Translation and commentary by Sri Aurobindo
469 pp paper $17.95
Includes Sanskrit verses, English translation and
extensive commentary primarily from Essays on
the Gita, along with Appendix and References.
The argument of the Gita resolves itself into three
great steps by which action rises out of the human
into the divine plane leaving the bondage of the
lower for the liberty of a higher law. First, by
the renunciation of desire and a perfect equality
works have to be done as a sacrifice by man as the
doer, a sacrifice to a deity who is the supreme
and only Self though by him not yet realized in
his own being. This is the initial step. Secondly,
not only the desire of the fruit, but the claim
to be the doer of works has to be renounced in the
realization of Self as the equal, the inactive,
the immutable principle and of all works as simply
the operation of universal Force, of the Nature-Soul,
Prakriti, the unequal, active, mutable power. Lastly,
the supreme Self has to be seen as the supreme Purusha
governing this Prakriti, of whom the soul in Nature
is a partial manifestation, by whom all works are
directed in a perfect transcendence, through Nature.
To Him love and adoration and the sacrifice of works
have to be offered; the whole being has to be surrendered
to Him and the whole consciousness raised up to
dwell in this divine consciousness so that the human
soul may share in His divine transcendence of Nature
and of His works and act in a perfect spiritual
liberty.
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THE INTEGRAL YOGA
Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice.
Collected Letters of Sri Aurobindo
401 pp. paper $18
Notes, Glossary of Names and Terms
An excellent introduction to Sri Aurobindo's thought
with excerpts of letters to disciples. Topics include
"The Integral Yoga and Other Systems of Yoga and
Philosophy", "Planes of Consciousness and Parts
of the Being", "Experiences and Realizations", "Difficulties
in Transforming the Nature" and much more.
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ESSENTIAL WRITINGS OF SRI AUROBINDO
edited by Peter Heehs
388 pp paper $26
Preface, Introduction, Notes, Appendix, Further
Reading, Chronology, Glossary
An excellent compilation of Sri Aurobindo's writing
divided into six parts: Nationalism and Beyond,
The Indian Tradition and the Future, The Individual
- Society - Humanity, The Evolution of Consciousness,
Yoga and Life, Poetry of the Spirit. All excerpts
are introduced and all selections are complete pieces
(essays, letters or poems) or main divisions of
longer works.
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FLOWERS AND THEIR MESSAGES
by The Mother
Black and White pen and ink illustrations, one color
plate. 309 pp paper $19.95
References, Glossary of Flowers, Glossary of Philosophical
and Psychological Terms
Contains more than 800 flowers arranged alphabetically
by botanical name with significances given by the
Mother and many quotes from Sri Aurobindo. Alphabetical
indexes of common names and spiritual names are
listed at the back for easy reference.
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MIND OF THE CELLS
by Satprem
231 pp paper $14
Could it be that life's raw material, the
cell, conceals a power of consciousness of a "vibratory
mode" that would make obsolete all our cerebral
means and our dead-end devices? A "mind of the
cells" that will open up new energy sources to
us, new means of communication, a new power to
handle Matter: a new biology and new consciousness
that will enable us to meet the challenge of a
species on its way to self-destruction.
-Satprem
Culled from his extensive conversations with
The Mother, as chronicled in the 13 volume Agenda,
Satprem documents the progress of her inner journey,
her own yoga of the body. Numerous quotes from
the Agenda are referenced throughout the
book.
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