Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Aravindaya

The Mother had opened a shop called SAASCO  (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Central Sales Organisation) in Pondicherry to sell products made by Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust was later recognised as a Public Charitable Trust and was given exemption u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961 and therefore, can not carry out any commercial activity.

Adan Pradan Trust is a Business Charitable Trust and has also been given exemption u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961 but can carry out commercial activities. Adan Pradan means Mutual Exchange. Adan Pradan Trust was started by a Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust for the benefit of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. .

The business wing of Adan Pradan Trust is Mirra Enterprise. Mirra Enterprise has setup two eCommerce websites, one named SACSO (Sri Aurobindo Central Sales Organisation) Online and one named SAMA (Sri Aurobindo Marketing Agency) Online  and would like to carry forward this vision of the Mother to have sales outlets to sell the products made by the units associated with Sri Aurobindo Ashram and also by artisans in and around Pondicherry.

Bank Details

Sri Aurobindo Central Sales Organisation
Savings Account Number:- 110177719690
IFCS Code:- CNRB0000927
BIC / SWIFT:- CNRBINBBBFD

Canara Bank
Muthialpet Puducherry Branch
Pondicherry – 605001

UPI ID: sacso2026@cnrb
email: sacso.online@gmail.com

About

Sri Aurobindo Central Sales Organisation (SACSO) is a unit of Mirra Enterprise. Mirra Enterprise is the business wing of Adan Pradan Trust. Adan Pradan Trust is a Business Charitable Organisation associated with Sri Aurobindo Ashram – a spiritual institution, established by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in the early quarter of the last century. It is located in Pondicherry, a small coastal town, a hundred and sixty kilometres south of Chennai in India.

On the 29th February, 1992, Adan Pradan Trust was started with a Declaration of Trust, by a Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust for the benefit of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry with late Mr. R. K Talwar, ex-chairman of State Bank of India, as the Managing Trustee and another two members of Sri Aurobindo Ashram as Trustees.

It is a charitable institution and not a profit making body. The primary beneficiary of the trust is Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. It was started for exporting products manufactured by the units of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Harpagon Workshop Trust.  

The Mother

The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on 21 February 1878. A pupil at the Academie Julian, she became an accomplished artist, and also excelled as a pianist and writer. Interested in occultism, she visited Tlemcen, Algeria, in 1905 and l906 to study with the adept Max Theon and his wife. Her primary interest, …

SABDA

The Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department publishes the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and works by disciples on their life and teachings, in over 15 languages. The Publication Department’s distribution unit is Sri Aurobindo Books Distribution Agency (SABDA). Apart from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram publications, SABDA also distributes books of other publishers with …

Contact

SACSO Online, a unit of
ADAN PRADAN TRUST
No.56, Manakula Vinayagar Koil Street,
Next to Atelier Workshop,
Near Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Pondicherry – 605 001

Email addresses:
sacso.online@gmail.com
adanpradan@gmail.com