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....An outer activity as well as an inner change is needed and it must be at once a spiritual, cultural, educational, social and economical action...
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Lakshmi's House at 3, Regent Park, Kolkata, India, is the home of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, a charitable
institution, dedicated to the realisation of its Ideals.
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"We shall call it Lakshmi's House and it will be The home of Grace"
The Mother wrote in February, 1968, with reference to the property at 3, Regent Park,Calcutta.
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"It was destined for the Divine."
The Mother said about Lakshmi's House, in 1968, on being shown a photograph of the occult symbol (left) on the ceiling of the hall in Lakshmi's House
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Lakshmi's House is a temple that houses Sri Aurobindo's relics - a material assurance of Their living Presence and Guidance.
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Collective Meditation is arranged around Sri Aurobindo's Relics twice daily.
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In Lakshmi's House, a special room, called the Darshan Room, seeks to recreate here the physical setting in Sri Aurobindo's Ashram and His room in Pondicherry.
The room is opened for visitors on Darshan Days, to invoke the Master's and The Mother's Presence in silent moments of aspiration.
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Sri Aurobindo's statue in Knowledge
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Afar from the brute noise of clamorous needs
The quieted all-seeking mind could feel,
At rest from its blind outwardness of will,
The unwearied clasp of her mute patient love
And know for a soul the mother of our forms.
- Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
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As if a weapon of the living light,
Erect and lofty like a spear of God.
His figure led the splendour of the morn.
- Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
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"I shall keep my Mother's Home of Grace, if need be, with the last drop of my blood. Don't you know that the Mother Bhagvati has called this house alone The home of Grace? How could you think that I would give it up so long as life remains in me?"
- Pradyot da , when Lakshmi's House was once at a point when it either had to be abandoned or kept up at the cost of a huge sum of money.
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14.Nov.1968 - "Shakti Centre" was started with The Mother's Blessings.
Shakti Centre is the cultural unit of SAIoC. It offers classes in music, dance and painting.
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'Aspiration' is an annual celebration of culture, music and dance and various other aspects of culture.
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Founded in 1979, Health and Healing unit of SAIoC aims at providing Integrated Health Services. This includes health cure, health care and health development.
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The Mother had Herself spelt out the layout for Lakshmi's House, marking out the room meant for the Library after looking at photographs taken by Pradyot da.
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Sri Aurobindo Research Centre was set up in 1996 at SAIoC with the aim of highlighting "Revolutionary work in Bengal" at the turn of the 20th century and Sri Aurobindo's contribution to it.
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A son-et-lumiere exposition on Sri Aurobindo's life, with particular reference to the Indian Freedom Movement in the first decade of the 20th century.
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