Daily prayer:
Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest and we be ready to receive them.
Meaning of logo:
The perfect creation of a new world.
Motto of the school:
No words – acts
What do you know about The Mother
Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), also known as The Mother, was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. Her full name at birth was Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa.[1]
She came to Sri Aurobindo's spiritual retreat on 29 March 1914 in Pondicherry, India. Having to leave Pondicherry during World War I, she spent most of her time in Japan where she met the Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore. Finally she returned to Pondicherry and settled there in 1920. After 24 November 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she founded his ashram (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), with a handful of disciples living around the Master. She became the spiritual guide of the community.
The experiences of the last thirty years of Mother's life were captured in the 13-volume work The Agenda. In those years she attempted the physical transformation of her body in order to become what she felt was the first of a new type of human individual by opening to the Supramental Truth Consciousness, a new power of spirit that Sri Aurobindo had allegedly discovered. Sri Aurobindo considered her an incarnation of the Mother Divine and called her by that name: The Mother. When asked why he called her the Mother, Sri Aurobindo wrote a seminal book The Mother by introduction to the Mother's outstanding personalities, portions and embodiments of her divinity. That's how she came to be known as The Mother.

Mirra Richard, known as the Mother
Aurobindo's close spiritual collaborator, Mirra Richard (b. Alfassa), came to be known as The Mother simply because Aurobindo started to call her by this name.[28]
Mirra was born in Paris on 21 February 1878. In her 20s she studied occultism with Max Theon. She went to Pondicherry on 29 March 1914, finally settling there in 1920. Aurobindo considered her his spiritual equal and collaborator. After 24 November 1926, when Aurobindo retired into seclusion, he left it to her to plan, run and build the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, the community of disciples which had gathered around them. Some time later when families with children joined the ashram, she established and supervised the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education with its experiments in the field of education. When Aurobindo died in 1950, she continued their spiritual work, directed the ashram and guided their disciples.[29][30]
What do you know about Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (Sri Ôrobindo, Bengali: শ্রীঅরবিন্দ) (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950), was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, Maharishi, guru and poet.[2] Sri Aurobindo studied for the Indian civil service at King's College, Cambridge. After returning to India he took up various civil service works under the Maharaja of Baroda and started to involve himself in politics. He was imprisoned by British India for writing articles against British rule. He was released when no evidence was provided. During his stay in the jail he reputedly had mystical and spiritual experiences, after which he moved to Pondicherry, leaving politics for spiritual work.[4][5]
During his stay in Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo evolved a new method of spiritual practice, which he called Integral Yoga. The central theme of his vision was the evolution of human life into a life divine. He believed in a spiritual realisation that not only liberated man but also transformed his nature, enabling a divine life on earth. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa ("The Mother"), he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He died on 5 December 1950 in Pondicherry.[4] He was the first Indian to create a major literary corpus in English.[6]
His main literary works are The Life Divine, which deals with theoretical aspects of Integral Yoga; Synthesis of Yoga, which deals with practical guidance to Integral Yoga; and Savitri, an epic poem which refers to a passage in the Mahabharata, where its characters actualise integral yoga in their lives. His works also include philosophy, poetry, translations and commentaries on the Vedas, Upanishads and the Gita.[4]
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was born in a Bengali Hindu family in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India on 15 August 1872. His father, Krishna Dhan Ghosh, was District Surgeon of Rangapur, Bengal. His mother, Swarnalata Devi, was the daughter of Brahmo religious and social reformer, Rajnarayan Basu. In 1877, Aurobindo and two elder siblings – Manmohan Ghose and Benoybhusan Ghose were send to the Loreto Convent school in Darjeeling. His father was posted at various positions at the Government hospitals in Bengal during this time. His father was believed to be an atheist according to Sri Aurobindo and wanted his sons to study for Indian civil service in England.
Pondicherry[edit]
In Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo completely dedicated himself to his spiritual and philosophical pursuits. In 1914, after four years of secluded yoga, Sri Aurobindo started a philosophical monthly magazine called Arya. A series of works The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on The Gita, The Secret of The Veda, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Upanishads, The Renaissance in India, War and Self-determination, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity and The Future Poetry were published in this magazine. Arya stopped its publication in 1921. Many years later, Aurobindo revised some of these works before they were published in book form.[26]
At the beginning of his stay at Pondicherry, there were few followers, but with time their numbers grew, resulting in the formation of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926.[26] In 1926 he first signed his name as "Sri Aurobindo." Surname seems to have first appeared in print in articles published in Chandernagore in 1920. It did not catch on at that time. He first signed his name Sri Aurobindo in March 1926, but continued to use Sri Aurobindo Ghose for a year or two ..."
For some time afterwards, Sri Aurobindo's main literary output was his voluminous correspondence with his disciples. His letters, most of which were written in the 1930s, numbered in the several thousands. Many were brief comments made in the margins of his disciple's notebooks in answer to their questions and reports of their spiritual practice—others extended to several pages of carefully composed explanations of practical aspects of his teachings. These were later collected and published in book form in three volumes of Letters on Yoga. In the late 1930s, Sri Aurobindo resumed work on a poem he had started earlier—he continued to expand and revise this poem for the rest of his life. It became perhaps his greatest literary achievement, Savitri, an epic spiritual poem in blank verse of approximately 24,000 lines.[27]
Sri Aurobindo left his body on 5 December 1950.[26]

Roopa : TFFS conducts Life skills classes every week for all children upto Class X. Children learn to wash clothes, polish shoes, stitch buttons on shirts, mend torn clothes, remove stains. Senior students also learn to iron clothes. Table manners, first aid, checking blood pressure are also taught. All students learn to prepare some food and wash utensils. Food preparation including non-cooked food like sandwiches, different kinds of drinks like fruit juice and other snacks where the use of a burner is not required. Older children learn to use the burner and cook food or bake delicacies.
Daily prayer of the school:
Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest and we be ready to receive them.

2. Do not tell them that their school is not your first choice.

Q1. Can you tell me about your child in brief?
She is very sharp, very good in grasping things. She has a very good memory and remembers well. We observe that she is very helpful and responsible and takes care of her brother and other young children well. We feel that she will be very creative. Immediately after lunch every day, she completes her assignment and starts working on her hobby which is coloring.

2.Why did you select our school? Hmm… Q11. Why do you want to put your child in our school? Why do you want your child to study at Future Foundation
I want my daughter to study in a school which will teach her to be independent. One who is independent adapts well and succeeds. I feel that the pedagogy of TFFS based on themes, projects and seminars; role-plays and debates; involvement in School's Club activities will teach my daughter to be independent. For example, the life skills classes will be a small but great beginning for to become independent.
3. What do you want your child to become?
We will not impose any particular career choice on my daughter and will grant her freedom to pursue the career she wishes. However, we would be very happy if she chooses the path less travelled and becomes a renowned painter or a chess champion or an astronaut.
6. Why are you changing the school from already a branded school?
12. How will you as a parent contribute to the child's growth?

Q4. What do you expect out of the school? / role of a school in child’s life / 4. What do you expect the school to provide to your child?

We expect that TFFS will make her a knowledgeable and responsible student and will prepare her well for her higher studies.

Q6. How much importance do you give to the school in building a child’s career?
A school is the foundation of a child’s life. The values and culture imbibed in her by the school is life long and will stay with her forever. That is the reason why we give primary importance to the school in building her career.
Q14. Who will be taking homework of the child?
Usually she handles alone. And we will always be there with her when she find any difficulty in answering any question.
Q24. What is your opinion about Co_ed?
We prefer that she studies in a co-ed school because she definitely has to meet and interact with a lot of males in her future life and her career also. Moreover, limiting herself to female friends is like limiting oneself in educating further and we are sure she will learn a lot of things from her male friends as well.

Q28. Who will attend PTA?
Usually we both will attend. But since I am working in a project site oriented company, I will be required to travel outstation on a frequent basis. Moreover, I am pursuing my higher education from which requires me to travel a week every month. If I am in station, we both will attend the PTA.
Q32. What are your child’s interest / hobbies?
She likes coloring, writing, cycling and playing with her brother.
Q35. What activities do you do with your child?
We help her in studying, we guide her while she is coloring, we go out cycling and we also watch Chota Bheem with her.
Q37. Do you think a housewife makes a better mother than a working mom?
Not really. We feel that working mom can also take care of her children as well as a home maker. Even I am planning to re-start working after a couple of years.
Q47. How much weightage would you give to home and school in bringing up your child?
We would give equal weightage to the school and home in bringing her up.
Q49. How will you contribute to the school?
With my experience in the media industry, I can be part for publicizing events happening in the FF school.
As a training faculty, I can take personality development training sessions to the students of the FF school.
Q50. Which is your next option after this school?
We have not decided about it yet. We have been focusing on TFFS from the beginning itself and in case we are not successful, we will discuss and decide later.

Mirra Richard[edit] Auroville[edit]

The Matrimandir, a golden metallic sphere in the center of Auroville town.
In the mid-1960s The Mother personally guided the founding of Auroville, an international township endorsed by UNESCO to further human unity in Tamil Nadu, near the Pondicherry border, which was to be a place "where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities." It was inaugurated in 1968 in a ceremony in which representatives of 121 nations and all the states of India placed a handful of their soil in an urn near the center of the city. Auroville continues to develop and currently has approximately 2,100 members from 43 countries, though the majority consists of Indians, French, and Germans.[31]
The Life Divine[edit]
The Life Divine is Sri Aurobindo's major philosophical opus. It combines a synthesis of western thought and eastern spirituality with Sri Aurobindo's own original insights. The Life Divine covers topics such as the human aspiration, why it remains unfulfilled, the individual's divided nature, the nature of the divine reality, how the universe emerged from a divine source (aka Involution), the role of Supermind in the creation/involutionary process, the nature and methods of evolution from matter to spirit, the means of overcoming our divided nature through higher consciousness, the nature and boundaries of human ignorance, the transformation from our divided nature into a supernature, and the emergence of a gnostic supramental being and a divine life on earth.
Yogic philosophy[edit]
Sri Aurobindo calls his yoga as integral yoga, and according to Sri Aurobindo most ways of other yoga are paths to beyond of human existence and towards reaching spirit as a final objective and away from normal life. Sri Aurobindo's philosophy aims at ascending to the spirit and again descending to normal existence to transform it.
According to Sri Aurobindo mind is the highest term reached in the path of evolution till now but has not yet reached its highest potency and calls current mind as an ignorance seeking truth, but he also states that even though the human being is treading in ignorance there is in every human being a possibility of divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo states that there is a possibility to open oneself to higher divine consciousness which would reveal one's true self, remain in constant union of divine and bring down a higher force (which he names as superamental force) which would transform mind, life and body. To realise the above has been the main objectives of Sri Aurobindo's yoga.[33]
Savitri[edit]
Sri Aurobindo not only expressed his spiritual thought and vision in intricate metaphysical reasoning and in phenomenological terms, but also in poetry. Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is Sri Aurobindo's epic poem in 12 books, 24,000 lines an analogy referring to a story of 'Savitri and Satyavan' from the Mahabharata. Where the characters go through the evolutionary process including bringing upon the divinity into earth transforming it spiritually.[35]