Debashish, Thank you for highlighting the social dimension to Integral Yoga/Education. I hadn't fully grasped the import of this point when I first read your essay, & I fully agree with the need for it as well as with your point below: "I believe it is the disappearance from view of this social dimension and its replacement with an exclusively psychological dimension which has something to do with the lack of contemporary relevance of the ashram implementation of the Integral Yoga. Of course, this point needs elaboration, but it may suffice to state it here as a door to further questioning or reflection." Very briefly, as time prevents me from a deeper reflection, I believe that the emphasis on finding and acting from one's psychic being has perhaps led to an over-emphasis on individual psychological growth at the cost of engaging fully with the social dimension (and the human unity aspect) of the yoga particularly in the context of a globalized world. Even Auroville doesn't sufficiently engage with this social aspect. On a tangential note, as a graduate from Western academies (with their Enlightenment bias), I'd like to point out that a secular worldview provides to the enquiring individual/student the freedom to seek and question all forms of knowledge & the assumptions on which they are based. I am not privileging Western academia, but merely pointing out how I have experienced more freedom in developing my worldview in this context than while living in Integral Yoga communities. As you well know (and I look forward to the proceedings of the conference on religion & fundamentalism) a spiritual path as liberating as Integral Yoga can also, in the minds of the practitioners, collapse into a religion with prescribed do's & don'ts. More later. In dialogue, Bindu