Tara Jauhar (born 1936) is a writer and educationist fromDelhi,India who has dedicated her life for disseminating the teachings ofSri Aurobindo who was an Indianphilosopher,yogaguru,poet andnationalist who advocated a philosophy of life based onspiritual evolution. Tara Jauhar is the Chairman of theSri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch which had been founded by her father Surendra Nath Jauhar in the year 1956. In the year 2022, Govt of India honored her with thePadma Shri award for her life long work dedicated to spreading the teachings ofSri Aurobindo.[1]
Tara Jauhar was born in the year 1936 as the third child of Surendra Nath Jauhar and Dayawati. Surendra Nath Jauhar was a freedom fighter who had to suffer imprisonment for 15 months in the Central Jail atMultan during the period of theQuit India Movement.[2] Surendra Nath had been associated with theSri Aurobindo Ashram atPondicherry, India since 1939 and because of this association his children, including Tara Jauhar, were educated and brought up at the Ashram from an early age. In fact Tara Jauhar came to the Ashram in the year 1944 when she was only eight years old. She spent close to 30 years in the Ashram before moving to Delhi.
While at Delhi she worked with her father to found two highly regarded schools in Delhi, namely,The Mother's International School and Mirambika Free Preogress School both located in the campus of the Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch. She also helped establish two retreat centers in the Himalayan region, one named Van Niwas located inNainital,Uttarakhand and the second one, in the Kumaon range of the Himalayas, called Madhuban inRamgarh, Uttarakhand. The Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch is also running the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Vocational Training[3][4]
Overman Foundation, a research institute based inKolkata dedicated to the ideals of Sri Aurobindo andMother conferred the Auro-Ratna Award on Tara Jauhar in the year 2017.[6]
Tara Jauhar has written a few books explaining her experiences withThe Mother the collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name "The Mother".
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