There are aspects of Sri Aurobindo's thought that forms the genealogy and patrimony of political Hindutva

I read Sri Aurobindo's complete works for my M.A. thesis
by Rich on Sun 16 Apr 2006 10:22 PM PDT Permanent Link Author: Jyotirmaya Sharma: asst. editor of the Times of India, a past lecturer at Oxford and Delhi, current member of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, etc, etc.The book: Hindutva, Exploring the idea of Hindu Nationalism Published by: Viking Penguin© Jyotirmaya Sharma, 2003 Science, Culture & Integral Yoga

Response by Jyotirmaya Sharma on Mon 21 Aug 2006 01:34 PDT Profile Permanent Link I have taught philosophy for long years, have first language proficiency in Sanskrit, I know my texts.

by Jyotirmaya on Mon 21 Aug 2006 12:15 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link Let me tell you a thing or two about what you call my unbalanced treatment of Aurobindo. I read Sri Aurobindo's complete works for my M.A. thesis, which was supervised by an Aurobindo devotee. He remains a friend even today and we disagree on Aurobindo. My former supervisor also remains a staunch devotee.

by Jyotirmaya on Tue 22 Aug 2006 10:46 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link In my book, I have never even indirectly imputed that Aurobindo Ghosh was a Hindutva votary. The book is about the ideas that went into making of political Hindutva. In other words, it is about genealogy of ideas, rather than suggesting that so and so was a Hindutva votary or any such nonsense. Moreover, the book contains attributions not only to the Bande Mataram period but takes the story upto India's independence and Sri Aurobindo passing on.

There are two things being conflated here. One is my inadequate research, a charge not even worthy of rejection. The second is my perspective, which I am more than happy for people to disagree with. But it is a perspective, not a `misunderstanding' as you suggest. Since, I do not think that philosophical texts ought to be hostage to a single understanding or interpretation. As for his continuing engagement with `otherness' and modernity, I have dealt with it exhaustively, within the parameters of my perspective...

In the case of Sri Aurobindo, all I have suggested in the book is that whether it was the period of revolutionary terrorism or the period as a Maharshi in Pondicherry, there are aspects of Sri Aurobindo's thought that forms the genealogy and patrimony of political Hindutva as we know it today. It simply cannot be dismissed as a simple instance of appropriation, which is the line Mr. Peter Heehs also tends to take. Whether Hinduism is not fossilised, or whether it is an evolving cultural/spiritual corpus or not, this is a subject which I shall try to have my say in a book published next year. 4:14 PM

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Sri Aurobindo favored an eclectic, basically Vedantic Hinduism as 'the basis of the future world-religion'

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One should however not lose sight of the fact that the similarities between the freedom-movement-era religious nationalism and contemporary Hindu right wing nationalism "are superficial while the points of difference are deep," as Heehs writes in this outstanding biography of Sri Aurobindo."

Aurobindo favored an eclectic, basically Vedantic Hinduism, which he believed to be universal and 'the basis of the future world-religion.' But this 'wider Hinduism' was something that embraced 'Science and faith, Theism, Christianity, Mahomedanism and Buddhism and yet is none of these.' " (p. 99)

"The Hindu nation-builder," Sri Aurobindo wrote "shall not seek to superimpose his own ideals and methods on his Mohamedan brother, nor shall the Mohamedan, the Buddhist, or the Christian, seek to obliterate the essential characteristics of the Hindu culture and Hindu race." (Quoted in Heehs, p. 101)

Sri Aurobindo saw the interaction of Hindu and Muslim culture in India as an opportunity for the development of "a greater spiritual principle and formation which could reconcile the two or a political patriotism surmounting the religious struggle and uniting the two communities." (Quoted in Heehs, p. 118)

Those who believe that Sri Aurobindo turned more exclusively towards Hinduism in the later part of his life, might wish to consider his letter of November 1932 quoted by Heehs's in his study titled Nationalism, Religion, and Beyond (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005, pp. 354-5):

"It is news to me that I have excluded Mahomedans from the Yoga. I have not done it any more than I have excluded Europeans or Christians. As for giving up one's past, if that means giving up the outer forms of the old religions, it is done as much by the Hindus here [in his Ashram in Pondicherry] as by the Mahomedans.... What is kept of Hinduism is Vedanta and Yoga in which Hinduism is one with Sufism of Islam and with the Christian mystics. But even here it is not Vedanta and Yoga in their traditional limits (their past), but widened and rid of many ideas that are peculiar to the Hindus. If I have used Sanskrit terms and figures, it is because I know them and do not know Persian and Arabic. I have not the slightest objection to anyone here drawing inspiration from Islamic sources if they agree with the Truth as Sufism agrees with it. On the other hand I have not the slightest objection to Hinduism being broken to pieces and disappearing from the face of the earth, if that is Divine Will. I have no attachment to past forms; what is Truth will always remain; the Truth alone matters." ULRICH MOHRHOFF PUDUCHERRY INDIA 12:02 PM

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Science, Culture, Politics, Religion and Integral Yoga

Fundamentalism in Integral Yoga - New Website Announcement
by Debashish on Thu 16 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT Permanent Link
Dear SCIY readers,

Because Sraddhalu Ranade and Alok Pandey have been invited to the US for the AUM conference this year, we wish to place certain facts about them before those who may be considering support or sponsorship of these peopleor their projects. These facts concern their involvement in what we regard as promotion of religious fundamentalism, censorship, distortion of truth, and defiance of Ashram rules and authority carried out by Ranade and Pandey recently, so that you may assess any possible support for them. To make people aware of the misleading activities of Ranade, Pandey, and others, and to increase awareness of an unfortunate growing trend among some who claim to be followers of Sri Aurobindo, a website, has been started http://www.iyfundamentalism.info.

In May 2008, Peter Heehs, a well-known historian and long-standing member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, published a detailed biography of Sri Aurobindo, titled "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" (Columbia University Press).

Heehs has written acclaimed scholarly books and articles on Sri Aurobindo, India's freedom struggle, and other subjects, and has worked in the Ashram Archives since its inception in 1973. "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" has been very well-received in the US both by academic readers and reviewers and by followers of Sri Aurobindo. As a result, the message of Sri Aurobindo, most urgently relevant to the world today is entering the academic mainstream.

Since September 2008, however, a few persons from India have begun a full-fledged campaign against the book and its author, claiming that it offends religious sentiments, and calling for the book to be withdrawn from publication and all future editions to be banned. In addition they have pressed for the author to be removed from his post at the Archives and expelled from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. They have succeeded so far in dislodging Heehs from his irreplaceable work at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives (where he was one of the main editors of the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo); suspending publication of the Indian edition of the book; and fostering widespread ill-will and hatred that has even resulted in violence. The movement against the author has created an atmosphere of spiritual intolerance that has cast a shadow on the Ashram, threatens to polarize the Integral Yoga community, and distort the legacy of Sri Aurobindo, who sought to establish harmony in the world.

Ranade and Pandey have been among the main architects and leaders of this continuing campaign to oust Heehs. Their activities have included the sending of emails and letters to a large number of people, most of whom have not read Heehs’s work. These emails contain demonstrable distortions of the original text, false insinuations against the author, and fabricated conspiracy theories. Viewed more broadly, these emails and letters represent a fundamentalist approach to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, which includes a campaign promoting censorship of the book.

In the website http://www.iyfundamentalism.info we present, among other content, the widely circulated original letters by the leaders of the movement against the book and its author, with explanatory annotations. You may read Ranade’s charges and Pandey’s letters at this site by going to the Annotated Documents and the Further Documents sections. Ranade in one of his first letters denouncing the book urged his audience to work toward banning the book in India. There is good reason to believe that Ranade is behind a Writ Petition submitted to the High Court of Orissa in the name of Gitanjali Bhattacharya, the wife of Ranade's school classmate and friend Jayant Bhattacharya. This writ is intended to block the publication of Heehs's book in India. All substantive portions of this Writ are taken bodily from an email written by Ranade in September 2008. It is most likely that the rest of the Writ also is the work of Ranade.

There have also been two criminal cases initiated against Heehs in district courts in Orissa related to the banning of the book, intended merely to impede the publication of its Indian version, and to harass its author. The first one was deliberately launched in the remote and conservative Keonjhar District, best known as the site of the brutal murder of the Australian Graham Staines and his two young children by members of the Bajrang Dal, a Hindu fundamentalist group, in 1999.

Ironically, Ranade has been representing himself at large as a spokesperson and champion of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, when in fact, he has long been in conflict with the Ashram Trust and has challenged the Managing Trustee and other administrators of the Ashram using unconscionable language. Ranade, Pandey and their cohorts do not, in fact, have the support or sympathy of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust in the activities outlined above. In regard to Heehs biography, we three (who have each been devoted to Sri Aurobindo’s teaching for several decades), have not found any reasonable support for the assertions made by Ranade and Pandey that the book insults Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, or their legacy in any way. We sincerely feel that it is important for you to take the time to inform yourself accurately regarding the activities of Ranade and Pandey.

We believe their actions should be a matter of grave concern to those who care about the work of Sri Aurobindo, his ashram and civil and spiritual society in general. Their activities and those of their supporters will be detailed at http://www.iyfundamentalism.info, and in other public forums, including but not limited to websites, journals, newsletters, books and conferences. It is hoped that at least in the US, which stands for freedom of speech and expression and for religious tolerance, democracy and pluralism, such rampant obscurantism and dangerous attitudes will be met with unambiguous discouragement.

Sincerely, David Hutchinson (dbhutchinson@ ucdavis.edu) Debashish Banerji (debbanerji@yahoo. com) Rich Carlson (rcarlson@olypen. com) Print Article Keywords: SriAurobindo, IntegralYoga, Fundamentalism, AUMConference, American Science, Culture and Integral Yoga

Delusions that created civilisation

The Man of Public Spirit Praised by Adam Smith from Adam Smith's Lost Legacy by Gavin Kennedy
I was asked recently by a correspondent if I knew of anything written by Adam Smith on ‘public spirit’. I replied: It depends of what is meant by 'public spirit'. I assume it is something to do with acting in a manner that has public welfare benefits. Adam Smith addressed this possibility in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). To understand Smith’s idea, you should read the whole of chapter 1 in Book IV, in which he discusses the role of 'beauty' in relation to 'utility', and asserts that the beauty of a contrivance is more valued than its utility (which he claimed, uncharacteristically, as his original development of an idea from David Hume). First, he sets out his proposition that the ‘fitness’ of a contrivance is valued more than the ‘very end...

This leads him to discuss the parable of the 'poor man's son whom heaven in its anger has fired with ambition', who is driven to work hard to become rich because he imagines the rich have the means to happiness. It also covers the rich landlord who surveys his fields and feels good, even though he cannot eat any more than poor man.

Having noted the significance of these delusions, Smith describes their social implications: these are the delusions that created civilisation.

He then turns to the ‘public spirited’ man and discusses what drives such a man; Smith asserts a driver is his admiration for the workings of a great society, which incentivised him to devote his time and his own money to improving society in some manner to make it even better. And it is appropriate that they should do so. It is not all down to a stark choice between that perennial antipathy of private enterprise versus public spending. There are additional sources of enterprise that are significant today.

Individuals can be affected by a sense of public spirit to bring about improvements in what private and public spending has done, so far, on their own. Apart from foundations that disperse funds to what they consider worthy ends and charities that mobilise resources to fill gaps in current provision, there are publicly-spirited individuals who make donations to selected objectives or take the initiative to undertake beneficial public projects on their own account. All these, and others, are well within the ambit of Smithian political economy for commercial societies.

Sri Aurobindo's writings on the future society

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Man's attempts to develop the perfect society have failed because the approach has been external and cosmetic, employing outer institutions and machinery.
The only true solution, according to Sri Aurobindo, is to bring forward the spiritual dimension in man and establish, in the individual as well as the collectivity, its direct governance over the physical, vital and mental life of humanity.
Focussing on this theme, this monograph is a collection of excerpts from Sri Aurobindo's writings on the future society with appropriate editorial comments inserted by the compiler.

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An Exploration into an Integral Approach to Knowledge

From 15 September 2007 to 15 December 2007 a varied group of people (from Auroville and Pondicherry) came together to create a series of workshops for the purpose of clarifying the vision of the University of Human Unity (UHU) and to discover integral approaches to knowledge.
The workshops were basically categorized under six approaches to knowledge including; the Linguistic, the Philosophical, the Psychological, the Scientific, the Artistic and the Sociological approach.
What follows are brief excerpts from each of these sessions with links to the complete audio files of each. Introductory Overview of the Integral Approach to Knowledge - Rod (15/9)