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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Spiritual community in Pondicherry}}<br />
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{{Infobox organisation<br />
|name = Sri Aurobindo Ashram<br>''Ashram de Sri Aurobindo'' <br />
|image = The-Mothers-Symbol.png<br />
|image_size = 150px<br />
|caption = The Mother's symbol<br />
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|map = Entrance to Aurobindo ashram in Pondicherry.JPG <br />
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|map_caption = Entrance to Sri Aurobindo Ashram<br />
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|formation = {{start date and age|1926|11|24|df=yes|p=y}}<br />
|founder = [[Sri Aurobindo]]<br />
|type = Spiritual community<br />
|status = [[Foundation (nonprofit)|Foundation]]<br />
|purpose = [[Religious Studies]], [[meditation]] <br />
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|headquarters = [[Puducherry (city)|Pondicherry]], India (No Branches)<br />
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|main_organ = Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust <br />
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|website = {{URL|http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/|sriaurobindoashram.org}}<br />
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{{Hinduism}} <br />
[[File:புதுச்சேரி.jpg|thumbnail|Sri Aurobindo Ashram]]<br />
[[File:Golconde Ashram.jpeg|thumb|[[Golconde Dormitory]] of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram]]<br />
The '''Sri Aurobindo Ashram''' ([[French language|French]]: ''Ashram de Sri Aurobindo'') is a spiritual community ([[ashram]]) located in [[Pondicherry]], in the Indian territory of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. It was founded by [[Sri Aurobindo]] after he settled in Pondicherry in 1910. On 24 November 1926 turned over control of the ashram to his collaborator [[Mirra Alfassa]].<ref>Sri Aurobindo, ''Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest'' (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2006), p. 9.</ref> It houses the ''[[Samadhi (shrine)|samadhi]]'' of Sri Aurobindo and Mira Alfassa.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pinto |first=Udar |title=Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Samadhi |url=https://sri-aurobindo.co.in/ashram/ashram_samadhi_e.htm |access-date=16 June 2025 |website=SITE OF SRI AUROBINDO & THE MOTHER}}</ref> <br />
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== Governance ==<br />
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The Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust was established in 1955 to administer the community and its assets.{{cn|date=March 2025}}<br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
In compliance with the Central Government's Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust constituted an Internal Complaints Committee in April 2014.<ref name=SAAICC>{{citation|title=Resolution No. 1270|date=7 April 2014| url=http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/regulatory/|access-date=6 January 2016}}</ref><br />
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In 2001, a female member was expelled from the ashram for violating a "mandatory rule".<ref name=menon>{{citation|title=Report of the Enquiry Officer at the High Court of Chennai|date=24 October 2002| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2002_10_menon_enquiry_report.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref> Thereafter she filed charges of sexual harassment against various members. These charges were dismissed by committees and government agencies, all of which found the charges false.<ref name=JMP>{{citation|title=Judgment of The Judicial Magistrate at Pondicherry|date=23 November 2004| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2004-11_judgement_jm_pondicherry.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=FFEO>{{citation|title=Report of the Fact Finding Enquiry Officer (Government of Pondicherry) in the matter of complaints among the residents in Ambabhikshu House and certain other Ashramites|date=10 January 2005| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2005_1_nagaraj_enquiry_report.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=ChargesFalse>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/01/19/stories/2005011902791300.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118160940/http://www.thehindu.com/2005/01/19/stories/2005011902791300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 January 2015|title=Charges against Aurobindo Ashram false|date=19 January 2005|journal=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=14 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=ERNHRC>{{citation|title=Enquiry Report of the National Human Right Commission, New Delhi|date=12 April 2005| url=https://wellwishersofsaa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2005_04_nhrc_report.pdf|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref> The then chairperson of the [[National Commission for Women]] added that there "appeared to be malicious planning behind the complaints".<ref>{{cite news|title=Five Aurobindo ashram inmates defy HC orders|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article186323.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815015522/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article186323.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 August 2014|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=24 July 2010}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Auroville]] (not part of Sri Aurobindo Ashram)<br />
*[[Sri Aurobindo International School]] (not part of Sri Aurobindo Ashram)<br />
*[[The Mother's International School, Delhi]] (not part of Sri Aurobindo Ashram)<br />
*Integral Life (Link to [[Ken Wilber]]; (not part of Sri Aurobindo Ashram)<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* {{official|http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/}}<br />
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