AUM TAT SAT is a collective offering from Know Your Rhythm. Co-created as an experiment in performing arts as collective Integral Yoga at the sacred space of Amphitheatre and Matrimandir, AUM TAT SAT brings together 50 artists from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, Europe, Russia & USA including 30 musicians and vocalists.
The choreography is led by senior Odissi dancers Madhumita Patnaik (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), Devamista Patnaik (Auroville) and contemporary dancer, Grace Citadelia (Auroville). Arnab Chowdhury served AUM TAT SAT as composer and script writer.
We are grateful towards Their Grace for this grand experience of Collaboration, a key element of Integral Yoga.
Initiated by Arnab Chowdhury, AUM TAT SAT (ALL THAT IS TRUTH) emerged across 3 years from a quest to know and practice the mantra AUM TAT SAT. The mantra appears at the end of each of the chapters of Bhagavad Gita. It is a 3 act exploration in the form of an Indian ballet based on Sri Aurobindo’s visionary experience and interpretation of AUM TAT SAT across His Works including ‘Essays on the Gita’, ‘Record on Yoga’.
Mantras from The Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, along with orchestral raga based music accompany the dance movments. The dance itself includes movements from the Indian classical dance form Odissi, contemporary dance, yoga asanas and kalaripayattu, the ancient form of Indian martial arts. All converge at the end, pointing towards Sri Aurobindo’s Mantra ‘OM TAT SAT Jyotir Aravinda’.
AUM TAT SAT is an offering for Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary. It was performed at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Sri Aurobindo Ashram on 25th August and at the Auroville Amphitheatre at Matrimandir Gardens, on August 30th, 2023.
Our film is based on the performance offered at Amphitheatre, Matrimandir, Auroville.
We are sharing a lovely article about this as well, from East India Story. Click on the link or go to East India and search for Arnab.
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Arnab serves Sri Aurobindo Ashram as researcher, as senior faculty at Sustainable Livelihood Institute at Auroville. Professionally, he serves evolution-centered initiatives as composer, researcher, trainer and therapist.
He studied at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Ashram school) and later taught there. Arnab’s grandmother Chabbi Bishnu Chowdhury (nee Ghosh) grew up in the ancestral house of Ghosh family of Sri Aurobindo at Connogore, near Calcutta.
Arnab Bishnu Chowdhury is a 3rd generation member of a family of Indian Classical musicians based out of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He founded Know Your Rhythm, a training program which helps seekers discover their rhythm in life. Know Your Rhythm is also an international network of artists and therapists.
