Can one vision really be possible

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum.

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE, OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.

#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Sri Aurobindo is really not easy to understand & even the Vedanta/Vivekananda crowd rarely will take to it. For instance if he wrote about European industrialization being destructive then how would he respond to liberalisation or America. 1)

https://twitter.com/naritachame/status/1169893692825489408?s=19

2) he writes about a future that few RW's would like. They have all benefited greatly from economic liberalisation & he speaks of a world that is even less industrialized than the socialism pattern.

3) his future is based on a methodology of human evolution that is very little spoken about ......... & his India is equidistant from the Nehruvian/Gandhian mould as Hindutva. Perhaps more so from the N/G mould since mentioning ** Bharat Mata** is an anthema in that thought.

"The Indian teacher, once a foot soldier in the freedom struggle and a contributor to nation building in the early years after Independence, now stands relegated to the margins of public life."

Teaching in the time of consumerism https://t.co/XjQVLLBVHd

https://twitter.com/JagdeepChhokar/status/1169894548400553985?s=19

This worthless cockroach (Krishna Kumar) who has chaired a mothballed den like NCERT should take a look at the pale, faded, junk textbooks which his ex-org has inflicted on bright and chirpy kids - these unproducitve maggots draw govt salaries then lecture the public https://t.co/Kfgn8xNfXC

https://twitter.com/learning_pt/status/1169882791841918983?s=19

Can one vision really be possible for such a huge and diverse country, or should we be talking, instead, of many visions, and a diversity of visions?

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https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1169890478747258880?s=19

Yes, they are digging themselves into a very deep hole by trying to claim that Sanskrit is very late entry to India. This is immediately disproved by the monumental astronomical evidence in Sanskrit texts. So they ignore it 😀.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1169890842120577024?s=19

Let it be clear, the DNA and archaeology also shows that India was not some pristine "Aryan" homeland. Indians were a mixed people from the beginning and the link to Iranians is very deep and predates Bronze Age. 1/n https://t.co/1hzfHa5K0S

https://twitter.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1169882353709137921?s=19

Has any genuine anti-AIT claimed that India was a "pristine Aryan homeland"? straw-man argument. 

Swami Dayanand was first one to refute this fiction n this is what he said:

https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1169903646051463174?s=19

किसी संस्कृत ग्रन्थ में वा इतिहास में नहीं लिखा कि आर्य लोग ईरान से आये और यहां के जंगलियों को लड़कर, जय पाके, निकाल के इस देश के राजा हुए। पुनः विदेशियों का लेख माननीय कैसे हो सकता है?

Sagarika Ghose, noted journalist and author, will speak on "Liberty and the Big State"

Manthan Samvaad - Oct 2, 2019. Register at https://t.co/vEKVeU1g92

@Manthan_India @KarvyGrowthHub https://t.co/b46RCjX5eH

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Unlike Hindu chauvinists, reasonable people distinguish between a small number of Islamic militants and ordinary Kashmiris who just happen to be Muslim. Modi’s Kashmir gambit may be popular with Indians, but it’s unlikely to win over the world. [My take] https://t.co/CwbmpWESel

https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1169570342299492352?s=19

Today marks one year anniversary of the historic judgement that read down provisions of #Section377. At #KPMG we believe that the future is #inclusive, which is why we stand with our #LGBTQIA colleagues and strive for equal rights for all!

#HappyAtKPMG #Pride #AlliesForInclusion https://t.co/2zW23iAsLW

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This is perhaps the earliest surviving depiction of the samudramanthana from early gupta or inter-dynastic period. Note dhavantari below vainateya holding an amR^ita-kalasha. Note kAmadhenu and shrI emerging from the churning. While it seems to depict the asura-pakSha, It looks https://t.co/1n3STvK5eL

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A dhanvantari from Sarnath from around the reign of emperor harShavardhana. It is rather remarkable in depicting surgeons & physician performing various procedures. On the left you can see a surgeon performing a colorectal procedure probably for arsharoga. Notable is the evidence evidence for females in the medical profession of the age https://t.co/e8maaVWCcE

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For your #FridayFeeling, #FIIRecommends #TheDoublenessofSexuality by @akhilkatyal.  The book is about same-sex desires that trace how the term 'homosexual' entered the vocabulary of colonial India, and how the term was perceived in colonial and post-colonial India. #Section377 https://t.co/8e1rM2HRtm

https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1169881860920397825?s=19

Many people with 0 idea about genetics or even the broad area of population genetics, write PhD thesis on a very specific area of it.

If their whole knowledge on the issue has come from reading a specific subset, how will they ever know what even to fundamentally disagree with?

https://twitter.com/Shatrubhanja/status/1169879285433110536?s=19

Aryan invasion theory gets a setback from DNA study of 2500 BC Rakhigarhi skeletons - ThePrint's Fatima Khan @khanthefatima reports https://t.co/NTLL6Vl6up

https://twitter.com/ShekharGupta/status/1169876094746419201?s=19

Today is a big day. Two long-awaited genetic studies have been published now – the updated version of the widely-read ‘The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia’ is out in Science, and the first study of a genome from a Harappan site, Rakhigarhi, is out in Cell.

https://twitter.com/tjoseph0010/status/1169735520462626816?s=19

Religious politics in India means the migration of Indo-Europeans into India to many Hindus is like the Theory of Evolution to American evangelicals. If you want context to understand this topsy-turvy take https://t.co/m9ZDHmZNij

https://twitter.com/ShoaibDaniyal/status/1169828530093322240?s=19

Shocking Inequality: Why Billionaires are a Sign of Economic Failure https://t.co/oXfOcT8ssT @maxlawsontin #FightInequality #BeatPoverty https://t.co/cpXUj2RKOP

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“No matter how justified inequalities of wealth may be initially, fortunes can grow beyond any rational justification in terms of social utility.” - @PikettyLeMonde quoted by @maxlawsontin in this interesting piece. https://t.co/mvmrBdB8jD

What a contrast--One Chidambaram of TN --5-11-1872--sold all his wealth /became freedom fighter and ran a ship--arrested by British&spent time in jail-another Chidambaram after 100 years on the earlier Chidambaram birth day spend time in Jail for accumulating illegal assets:)) RT

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The project sees itself as a warning, ‘reminding us that nature, which we so often take for granted, may someday only be found in specially designated spaces, as is already the case with animals in zoos’ https://t.co/jq2mijYZhO

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3 lang policy & talk of link  is a cunning ploy by hindians to force hindi on all. We dont want any hindi. State lang(s) & english enuf for governance, education, services. And we shud learn the language of the land we migrate to. #NoHindiInNonHindiStates #WeDontWantHindiDivas

https://twitter.com/South_Indians/status/1169878561995423745?s=19

In a session titled Stories of our Ancestors, Tony Joseph and Sudipta Sen discussed Mr. Joseph’s latest book, Early Indians: The Story of our Ancestors and Where We Came From. “When you talk about the migration of… https://t.co/azqHEIUr9N

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Nothing seems firm after one year; RW discourse is as confused as ever. Always reacting, ranting, mocking, or outraging; no solid offerings, no publications. That's in the fitness of things perhaps. Even Sri Aurobindo couldn't reach any final conclusions; all his works incomplete https://t.co/Y9fyUWyqCs

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169892033403637760?s=19

Whether some firm theoretical direction precipitates from deliberations at @PondyLitFest with #SriAurobindo in background is not known right now but it had "incredible enthusiasm, joy and vigor" of Pentecostal meeting (Justice, Nature & The Geography of Difference, David Harvey). https://t.co/C0DEmN2d6g

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1031806574501814274?s=19

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (1930)

The Postmodern Condition by JeanFrançois Lyotard (1979)

The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey (1989)

Postmodernity and Its Discontents by Zygmunt Bauman (1997)

Modernity and Its Discontents by Steven B Smith (2016)

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1065686869428494336?s=19

Certain characters we learnt about in the school seem eternal: Gulliver, Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixote, Casablanca, Jim Hawkins, Uncle Tom, etc to which can be added Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bartlebooth, José Arcadio Buendía, and of course, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo).

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169908413947531265?s=19

Nothing seems firm after one year; RW discourse is as confused as ever. Always reacting, ranting, mocking, or outraging; no solid offerings, no publications. That's in the fitness of things perhaps. Even Sri Aurobindo couldn't reach any final conclusions; all his works incomplete https://t.co/Y9fyUWyqCs

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169892033403637760?s=19

Sri Aurobindo simply reiterates this argument; doesn't offer any fresh evidence. So, the matter is far from being decided either way.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1169918418809606145?s=19

Savitri Era Open Forum: Nobody cares for my posts; Twitter curbs my big ego https://t.co/FGQaDVOxPB

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE,

OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.

#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar,

Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169876188166115328?s=19

Gole male gole male pirit koro na

Manare Kintu Rakhi - Akshaya Mohanty https://t.co/frphCHl5r5

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169692402073780224?s=19

The more we use the internet, the more we have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing as it has altered our mental habits, writes RASHMI OBEROI #brain #thinking https://t.co/DAREIsoTvQ

https://twitter.com/TheCitizen_in/status/1169915648224284673?s=19

Twitter par gyan dene aur charan vandana karne wale spe location ke IT cell mathadheesh public me baat karne se darte hain. kahi jhooth na pakda jaye. Khud ke pariwar ko promote karne ke liey kisi bhi seema tak ja sakte.

https://twitter.com/_rudraksha/status/1169919867912241157?s=19

Sri Aurobindo's agenda has the potential of capturing power

Assorted tweets collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Sri Aurobindo's essay on 'National Education', published in Vande Matharam,(1910 ) must be called the National manifesto on education and must be displayed in every school/ college/ university.

https://twitter.com/tramakrishna15/status/1166347503333257216?s=19

Sanatan Dharma is not the name of a religion; it is a spiritual prescription for humanity. In its essential purity it is Spiritualism. Sri Aurobindo unveils it n enlarges the concepts in the context of the present n the future.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1166188388581429249?s=19

It is a wonderful thing that political leaders do not bother about Sri Aurobindo! Silence is better than misinterpretation. However, the Force of Sri Aurobindo goes on working in the Ignorance!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1166277975332900864?s=19

We invite you, for your article (1500 words) for ‘New Race’, a journal since 1964. The topics chosen for this quarter’s theme is "Spirituality in Management". So, please share your perspective, experience, views and we would be grateful! kisholoygupta@sacar.in

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Were you present when Aurobindo & Mother died? You're relying on hearsay that's documented without verification & assume it to be fact. I use these documented hearsay accounts but with a fistful of salt knowing how hearsay can be fabricated or misinterpreted by vested interests..

https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1166062049652281345?s=19

The terms "supposedly" & "it's said" are deliberately used to avoid arrogant certitudes...the reports suggest willful negligence lead to Mother's death, while "supposedly" Aurobindo exited frustrated that his supramental aim could not be realized among unregenerates...

https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1166064308792377344?s=19

No. Regardless of what the esoteric meaning of the word might be, the horse sacrifice is a fact. Even Sri Aurobindo said that his theory is not intended to oppose shrauta practice but merely to explore the spiritual dimension of the shruti. https://t.co/TGL6J63pDF

https://twitter.com/tattvajnanarthi/status/1166042350105350145?s=19

I saw that tweet..he only said he will not support..btw, I have asked for learning the Veda but got shut out..🤪 for context..my opening to the Veda came in via Sri Aurobindo’s Secret of the Veda..experiences tumbled in as if it was all waiting..and imagine my condition!

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1166025384762064898?s=19

I would say go through complete works of Swami Vivekananda first..to get a sense of vedantic taxonomy..just a feel for it..then Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem. Then move to Life Divine, then Synthesis of Yoga, Secret of the Veda..

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1166209716751499264?s=19

For some body unfamiliar with Sri A's yoga it would be better to start with Mother's books imo. Sunlight Path? Is a good start..I https://t.co/zmECeM65oT the name from memory. Karma and rebirth of Sri A is a good book. Will give a fresh look at core ideas of Hindus..
https://twitter.com/Sheks65/status/1166214412799107072?s=19

This is the sculpture identified as "Aeon". Aeon is a tetramorph (a fourfold entity) and inscribed on Aeon's body are the 12 signs of the Zodiac -- the one becomes four becomes twelve. Aeon is the totality of the Self, and is strikingly similar to the Mother's Symbol. https://t.co/EcerHSR6uT

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1166005323251048448?s=19

Schizophrenia ran in Aurobindo's family. His mother was a schizophrenic & supposedly committed suicide. All those fantasies Aurobindo had during bouts of mental illness that he gave the grand term "supramental conscious experiences" have been debunked. Consciousness is not stuff.

https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1165972008728813568?s=19

Your interest in The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is welcome. Let's hope your comments provoke Indians to check the facts which are fairly documented. Fiction however have their own validity and utility and must not cease to flow in the tradition of Sri Aurobindo modifying many legends

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166037881585975298?s=19

To know how to wait is to have time on your side, said The Mother; patience, perseverance are key. Skill in works is the sense of an instrument and surrender which turns it into yoga, exhorted Sri Aurobindo. Sound nothing extraordinary but form the cornerstone of Integral yoga.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1165901233028100096?s=19

Studying in any university can't be seen as uniformity. Further, there is no intention or expectation of imposing it. Sri Aurobindo's future vision is competing for survival in the global marketplace of contesting ideas. Drawing inspiration is voluntary. https://t.co/IZr6lIh71U

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166273305176723458?s=19

Many thanks for responding. The question, paradoxically, is who will decide whether it's a loss or a gain. I respect your sentiments but Sri Aurobindo would say otherwise. You are aware of his psychological interpretation of the Veda. He has clearly pointed out about the "loss."

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166078094425198592?s=19

All religions will see their demise, Sri Aurobindo has written clearly, due to growth of intellectuality. Technology and material prosperity will help accelerate the process. So, nothing to be unhappy about such a prospect. He assures a better quality of humanity and harmony.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166071000435286016?s=19

Nothing more atrocious than imposters recommending Vivekananda as an introduction to Sri Aurobindo. So one pollutes his mind and carries that heap of garbage all his life. What Sri Aurobindo encountered in jail is his own exalted imagination of Vivekananda as the latter was dead.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166289264490901504?s=19

Savitri Era Party is firmly against mollycoddling Hindutva or for that matter any kind of anti-Evolutionary agenda. Savitri Era Religion with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as supreme divine manifestation is the only direction towards the future. Those playing subversive games retire

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Thanks for repeating their names and their enduring work. Being concerned with them, even if critically, is also a form of yoga and has transforming effect. Thus your work is better than Marxists who simply ignore him. As regards Auroville, you can pay a visit as a tourist.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1166136601367339008?s=19

All these years, I have not been overwhelmed or intimidated by dominant narratives with the firm belief that Sri Aurobindo's agenda has the potential of capturing power. I'm sure that the fault lines like Lakshmana Rekha or Radha will implode and ramshackle castles will collapse.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166374695228207104?s=19

Savitri Era Open Forum: Freud wasn’t afraid to talk about his thoughts https://t.co/BxCng9B7h3

Assorted tweets collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE

OM SRI AUROBINDO & THE MOTHER

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1165892470447599618?s=19

Trained as a school teacher and having served as one for one year, I think, I continue in the profession here on Twitter. I studied Botany and Agriculture but here I dish out a litany of subjects apart from culture. Overcoming being a philistine or a dilettante is aesthetic yoga.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166021787936669699?s=19

A stunning cultural & intellectual destruction has occurred over last 70 years in India

'R.C. Majumdar for instance, died as recently as 1980. In my limited reading, I didn’t come across a single “mainstream” newspaper or magazine..'

https://t.co/VlXTkCXMZO via @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/HinduLiberty/status/1166351418954924032?s=19

Portraits & Facets of Rootlessness that is the Indian Education System. by Sandeep Balakrishna 

@dharmadispatch  Read: https://t.co/1Uq8ujuKlX  

#quote https://t.co/jrlhRDu3ih

https://twitter.com/_Bhaarat_/status/1166278079502635009?s=19

आरक्षण व जातिवाद औपनिवेशिक षड्यंत्र - शांत प्रकाश जाटव

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https://twitter.com/shantprakash/status/1166311840013373442?s=19

The Strongest Constitution https://t.co/mnmYL5MdaC

https://twitter.com/aakash_ironman/status/1165168409039949825?s=19

Great piece by the ever BRILLIANT @Abhina_Prakash that shows the mirror to the anti-Dalit bigots masquerading as Social Justice Warriors, misogynists masquerading as feminists, islamists masquerading as secular, and imbeciles masquerading as intellectuals. https://t.co/RofwMDUwvN

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1161150969746358273?s=19

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Marx’s statement is one of the most morally resonant lines ever written. Attempts to create such a society without a roadmap is foolish & have led to disasters but the goal is certainly one worth aspiring.

https://twitter.com/kaushikcbasu/status/1166201129816006656?s=19

Might takes precedence over everything. This might encompasses everything: intellect, wealth, nature, culture, and military. The Ideal of the Indian Tradition of Kshatra is Needed in Today’s Democracy https://t.co/tvBZ7Bw3kF

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1166012001413287942?s=19

Find it amusing when some tweeps ask us to write on what they want or what they believe to be the truth. When we refuse, they call us poor researchers. Irony in asking poor researchers to write on what they want is beyond them. And so is basic writing. Typical Sanghis

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1166355810823364609?s=19

[PDF] Bharati and the Art of Translation

S Chelliah, D Litt

… Bharati was fortunate to have Aurobindo's friendship and company. Aurobindo was indeed … Under Aurobindo's influence, Bharati translated the Gita and a chapter from Patanjali into Tamil and hymned the glory and greatness of Mahashakti in poem after poem …

Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism

H Coward - 2019

… have come into supersensuous contact with the Unseen” (Gonda 1963, 247). Sri Aurobindo puts it even more vividly: “The language of the Veda is itself a sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that

[PDF] Optimizing Employee Productivity Through Yoga Practices: Analyzing E൵ectiveness

R Choudhary, A Dubey, D Baghel

… American Yoga Association. (2009). General yoga information. Retrieved January 9, 2009, from http:// www.americanyogaassociation.org/general.html • Aurobindo, S. (1999). The Synthesis of Yoga (5th ed.). Pondicherry …

Everyday Aesthetics and the Indic Goddess Traditions: An Aurobindonian Approach By Anway Mukhopadhyay

Will Durant, Paul Brunton, and Bimal Roy

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Modi govt is in the right track; trying to be true to Constitution even at the risk of diluting many of party bastion. Such a clear headed policy is admittedly daring and admirably refreshing. Many would suspect carrot and stick but from all appearances, intentions seem genuine.

I think, the govt is following a well thought out approach. It has its own experts and analysts and let's rely upon them.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150468410725167106?s=19

Promoting individualism among Indians is necessary by discouraging mythology and symbols of monarchy. Religious practices in a Democracy like election symbols, party flags, taking oath and similar pomp and ceremony should be banished. The very concept of national anthem is flawed.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149380527515791361?s=19

Savitri Era Open Forum: Limits will be set by Him https://t.co/LtB2AjRgj6 @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad-201014 (UP). #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150485938797027328?s=19

At least the Princely states should have remained. Our temples and Sanatana social fabric would have been intact.

https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1150521048602836992?s=19

As long as there were many kingdoms it was difficult to harm or attack Dharma, we were culturally together though separate kingdoms but after being centrally ruled any NGO anywhere in World can question any tradition anywhere in India with PIL in secular SC.

https://twitter.com/Nachiket75/status/1150582227501142016?s=19

Central rule, due to Western concept of multiculturism it has accepted has somehow affected regional Dharmic needs of natives. It reflects in every administrative machinery, with Temples taken over and traditions breaking down or allowed to die. Now they exist only 4 tourism.

Now India has become such that SC worries about native festivals, notwithstanding, festivals of India is central to its values otherwise it becomes like any Abrahamic State. People die everyday just boarding trains, pollution is all year round & meat export is a big industry but SC is worried about Dahi Handi, Diwali crackers & animal sports.

Seeing Congress’s dirty nasty dynasty one has to agree that dynasty of benevolent princely states would have been better than this pseudo democracy of fake surname family owned congress rule

https://twitter.com/sandilraghu/status/1150580794865225730?s=19

The Mughals came to India as conquerors but remained as Indians not colonists. They made India a lot richer not just economically but in the cultural sphere too. Expecting an avalanche of whatsapp facts verified by whatsapp university for stating this. https://t.co/I4lUgmTXIH

https://twitter.com/MehboobaMufti/status/1150346259397431296?s=19

And what about Chola Dynasty, Gupta Dynasty, Maurya Empire, Avanti Kingdom etc?? They had nothing great about them? India was more progressive before them. Parda and Sati Pratha came into being after they started raping women.

https://twitter.com/sweetnyasa/status/1150350449142190086?s=19

History can’t be told in black and white. There are grey shades too. Who made whom richer is debatable as the subjects paid for the Sovereign’s whims too often, with their sweat and blood. Staying on like the Parsees did is appreciable. But not jijiya, nor desecration of temples.

https://twitter.com/drskmahapatra/status/1150497901342158848?s=19

Madhu Kishwar is not alone. Sanghis hate the very mention of Sikhs. 2 years ago HAF had asked California boards to remove the word Sikh to describe Dalip Singh Saund and remove references to Sikh Guru Nanak's opposition to caste system.

https://twitter.com/akdwaaz/status/1150484488188678144?s=19

Everyone has own anxiety against Sikhs. Those who want to glorify Mughals, Afghans, whitewash 1940s, battles with pahadi rajas, resistance to caste, resistance to Arya Samaj, Congress, RSS - all are pissed at existence of Sikhs and want to bury Sikh History or erase it

But as I said, guess what? We are here, we are vocal, we are assertive, we are unapologetic about our history and identity.

No attempt to erase or appropriate Sikhs shall succeed. Not every Sikh is as ignorant and careless as these haters assume

58) Hymns 372 - 377 (Verses 3,780 - 3,805): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 05, Sukta 018 to 023 (including hymns on the fulfillment of the soul); with #SriAurobindo's words on the true psychological significance of Indra https://t.co/EKvcPxjeTv

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1150336342431154176?s=19

Among the crimes committed by Muslim invaders of India, none is more horrendous than the burning and destruction of the world's greatest university at Nalanda. An action that wiped out Buddhism from Bharat. Today's Muslims are not to blame, but they must acknowledge that atrocity

https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1146892259402702855?s=19

Muslim hospitality & Palestinian grace on display as a Christian is kicked out from the Temple Mount by an Islamist. Next time Cdn clerics grovel abt 'inter-faith harmony' to gullible Rabbis & Pastors, show them this sample of their contempt for Christians https://t.co/Gqe5H2gCiu

https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1150481419958915075?s=19

Everytime I see A raja on the speaker chair of LS--I realize how rotten is our democratic system:!!--What next ?--Kani as Chairman of ethics Committee of LS:) RT

https://twitter.com/rvaidya2000/status/1150622469591449600?s=19

The story of the Mahābhārata is gigantic. This section tells in brief the names of the parvas and the story segments contained inside them.

Mahābhārata and its Place in Indian Culture – Part 2 https://t.co/GdQ3eEIFSZ

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1150444993946869760?s=19

Mandra: The Music of Raja Saheb and Ramkumari's Samskara https://t.co/FWPPBRktg6

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1150623089983512576?s=19

(Thread) Incestuous thoughts in Hindu literature

https://twitter.com/AnaMyID/status/954288867611312129?s=19

Yama and Yami are the Adam and Eve of Aryan mythology

In the Iranian branch the twin siblings consummate their incest. In the Indo-Aryan/Rigvedic branch they don't. Enter Manu. (Puranic Flood/Creation Myth similar to Sumerian Gilgamesh and Semitic Noah..) https://t.co/wsopFnDA8J

https://twitter.com/AnaMyID/status/955809451683934210?s=19

1st tirthankar of jainism was born in era when humans gave birth to a twins who consummated as a couple. He is also supposed to be the 1st one who married a lone female out of compassion, when her natural partner died. Thus, the pioneer of polygamy.

https://twitter.com/speedmister007/status/955819027741339653?s=19

Forgot to add, 1st 'Widow Remarriage' in the below tweet.

https://t.co/ZgoFl257UR

Of all the narratives found in different religions, the jaina version sounds practical. No angry god, no garden, no forbidden fruit, no curses, no rivers, no floods. All characters are simply humans. Female is not inferior. As straight as it gets.

https://twitter.com/speedmister007/status/955830154911105024?s=19

This is the President of the United States essentially telling 4 elected representatives of ‘colour’ that they don’t belong in the US and they should ‘go back where they came from’. A lesson to all of us on how slippery this slope can be. https://t.co/kIoN2fEiNb

https://twitter.com/vikramchandra/status/1150636670435364864?s=19

An interesting piece in @Jansatta on our book #AmitShah & the March of #BJP... feels good to see the growing interest in the book & in the #BJP's history & evolution: 

https://t.co/WTbv7dRu7W

https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1150625026036469761?s=19

selling PSU and 100% FDIs are right track? Government is unable to provide jobs unemployees and left them for private jobs. Sri Aurobindo and Mother taught for self reliance and self sufficient in all fields. Our economy and polices are directionless and rudderless

https://twitter.com/sathya_adv/status/1150463111163346944?s=19

Now, AI to decode Gandhian literature ⁦@narendramodi⁩ ⁦@nsitharaman⁩  May kindly also consider similar project for Words of #SriAurobindo Who wrote on many subjects than any Indian till to date! @Auro https://t.co/2UewcwtJsw

https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1150581537303420928?s=19

@Auro_Mere You’re kindly requested to comment on use of AI in creating ‘Auropaedia’on the lines of Gandhipaedia approved by Govt of @AuroSociety @mirra21_mala @JayaBhatter @iamchamanjmu @lopamudra_adak @auroviryavaan @arvindkumar15 @DhruvalKhurana @ArpanAgarwal3 @DrSJaishankar

May I request @Auro_Mere  to throw some💡 in the words of the Mother on the African continent about the Falsehood still lurking there & efforts of #SriAurobindo to bring there 💡!! Indians on the West coast are well versed with the situation there & can help a lot  @DrSJaishankar

This endless supply of  "white women" is fed by Anthropology research. It has told them that Hindus with inferiority complex are vulnerable to being swept off their feet. @AudreyTruschke @Voice_For_India https://t.co/SNTQvsiqTA

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1150600601408958464?s=19

Who are the Hellenes? Some perspective would apply equally to Bharath..and by consequence who can call themselves bharatiya..not withstanding the IoI contortions that has gripped our nation for last half century or so.. https://t.co/sktUWHpgwQ

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1150614463390744576?s=19

How do you distinguish between intellectual curiosity, a superficial emotional dependence and genuine bhakti? Some lines of discrimination one could employ https://t.co/D4qCiojOuA

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1150617651267248133?s=19

Problem with literalists. Yet they accuse others of fundamentalism. 

This what happens when someone thinks that the infinite Brahman killed a tiger or killed an elephant for clothing. https://t.co/LBc2GarN6g

https://twitter.com/pinakasena/status/1150465904804814849?s=19

There is enough economic evidence, from GDP data to travelogues that call out the economic degradation and cultural and literary destruction and genocide committed by Mughal barbarians. Its like saying Hitler made Jews richer economically and culturally. https://t.co/dBkZjbRdSi

https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1150511598106079232?s=19

There are 15 Muslim majority countries that will execute you for being gay, 12 that will execute you for leaving Islam, Sharia countries that practice gender apartheid and imprison women for not covering their hair...but Muslims are so concerned only about Palestinians in Israel https://t.co/1TnrZI3uB6

https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx/status/1150453018417958912?s=19

@PMOIndia these sentiments are very common among madarsa trained Muslim youth in India.They do believe that they are born to rule us.Their contempt & sexual aggression addressed directly at @BJP4India & @RSSorg leaders.Generous scholarships & other carrots won't cure this mindset https://t.co/W1KVg3G3ng

https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1150225418806423553?s=19

Dear Hindu friends lend me your ears: Changing food habits is 1st step in destroying our culture-Islamisation of India is taking place-#HalalMeat evrywhere is step-1/Beef eating is step-2Already kerala/TN/NE&many other states plus plenty of youngsters in this step-2-Resist BothRT

https://twitter.com/rvaidya2000/status/1150432065935904768?s=19

“Just 19” - Such prolonged infantilization (male or female) is a rather serious deficiency in our outlook.

On a lighter note, reminding Hindus to watch Chapelle’s “How Old is 15 Really” bit. 😀 https://t.co/o3PjgxD04o

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1150449503767371776?s=19

Islamic occupation of India and subsequent Jihadi Mughal rulers destroyed India beyond repair selling millions of Hindus to slave markets, destroying every single temple in North India, looting the cities and burning down every center of learning https://t.co/pDOeVyBti3

https://twitter.com/LegalKant/status/1150403821467774977?s=19

This is why American Historian and Pulitzer-Prize Winning Writer Will Durant wrote that 

"We can never know, from looking at India today, what grandeur and beauty she once possessed"

Sadly we have failed to reclaim and expand on our lost heritage

https://t.co/xrZ8kuPT2w

https://twitter.com/LegalKant/status/1124224354458439680?s=19

This is another book from my dad's collection - The Inner Reality by Paul Brunton. Brunton was a British journalist who later became a Yogi. 

@avatans @AbhinavAgarwal @IndicAcademy @indictoday https://t.co/t6CsfmqmQl

https://twitter.com/IndicBookClub/status/1148421556646895616?s=19

If I could re-read 5 books all over again, I’d choose:-

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

2. The Odyssey by Homer

3. A search in secret Egypt by Paul Brunton

4. The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

5. Roots by Alex Haley

What's yours?

given a #6, I'd choose "Caravans" by James A Michener

Terrific read! Paul Brunton cris-crosses the country (circa 1930s) looking to meet Yogis / mystics and learn their well-kept secret eastern methods of self-discovery. https://t.co/ruK9g3Qlap

https://twitter.com/ravsriram/status/1141749773839376384?s=19

I am an atheist Bahujan Radical Marxist. No, I am.not irked by all relugions. And why should you be bothered about what Islamophobes or Sanghis say? It isn't Islam which is lynching people and wreaking havoc in India. https://t.co/cbmBAwuXJH

https://twitter.com/NilimDutta/status/1150654972880494592?s=19

last week @aarambhindia participated in the workshop 'Understanding the approach of raising gender equitable boys' conducted by by @ecfindia.

We talked about #GenderNorms, #HumanRights, #GenderBasedViolence, #Masculinities and steps to make a gender equitable society. https://t.co/KpEHv5a4Ox

https://twitter.com/aarambhindia/status/1150642542825709569?s=19

#A2R continues to be the key focus in #bizhumanrights discourse @EU_in_India, support to #HRDs is very important, says Friedrike Tschampa. @OxfamIndia @ProfSuryaDeva @BizHRAsia @sociopreneur @TriRadhaKrish @AmitabhBehar https://t.co/PKwYyhmXyU

https://twitter.com/hkaur0304/status/1149619633046999040?s=19

Its time India invested heavily in elder care and support. It makes sense socially and economically. Women often carry the burden of caring for the sick and elderly which is not acknowledged or monetised and prevents them from working outside. @INBreakthrough @CGTNOfficial https://t.co/PgQ5tL0Li3

https://twitter.com/MenonSunitA/status/1149647699005722624?s=19

Glad that Chinese & Japanese speak up on cultural appropriation: https://t.co/0LrgcyVJYy

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1150618186129129472?s=19

"White people and whiteness are the center of the Trump presidency. His primary concern is to defend, protect and promote it," writes @CharlesMBlow. "All that threatens it must be attacked and assaulted." https://t.co/Xl2tbdLSo2

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1150567190581694466?s=19

#BimalRoy is famous for his romantic-realist melodramas that took on important social issues while still being entertaining.

Tune in at 3:05PM on the FM Gold channel as we take a look back at his life & works in our presentation #RadioReel https://t.co/j0EqJf337S

https://twitter.com/AkashvaniAIR/status/1150654289473228800?s=19

Modi government has identified 115 most backward districts in the country and endeavours to put them on the aspirational path. The programme has shown remarkable results, using evidence-based data. Read.https://t.co/AFTvOThPzH

https://twitter.com/amitmalviya/status/1150658870911463424?s=19

A very good summary,  in this Hindi article, of the last days of the last Hindu empire in what's now Afghanistan who fought valiantly against the invading Muslims and the account of the unimaginable violence they unleashed upon our ancestors https://t.co/oS011V9rXw

https://twitter.com/Shakra_Kulish/status/1067669963450793984?s=19

Savitri Era Learning Forum: It's literally the edge of our collective knowledge https://t.co/fjqkMiEAZ4 @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150463428227584000?s=19

Gandhism as the state religion

Assorted tweets:

https://t.co/tHs29hZxYn Sri Aurobindo's idea of "Bharata Shakti" still resonates in rising India; was it prescient as the title of the inaugural @PondyLitFest 2018 months before @narendramodi 2.0? @IndicAcademy @lalitaurodhan @ParthaHariharan @ajitdatta @AloPal @psitsgayatri

https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1147436058453278720?s=19

Every year we organise one or two exhibitions on diverse topics related to Indian Culture and Sanskrit. Here is a list of some of our recent exhibitions. https://t.co/k27KQw8WCl

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1147391198857969664?s=19

Gandhism as the state religion continues to be sponsored by the government at public expenditure.

INC is the Nehruvian Congress

BJP is the Gandhian Congress

That’s almost all the difference that really seems to have remained at the motivation/ideology level. https://t.co/AM1IVCD8XA

https://twitter.com/bhAratenduH/status/1147278209580503040?s=19

Totally misplaced priority! If at all India needs a "pedia" then it should be of Sri Aurobindo or Vivekanand. Gandhi Ji was a political person, so his ideology. Spiritual & philosophical guidance much better provided by above two. @narendramodi

@sankrant https://t.co/3J8LbzZ26y

https://twitter.com/AjaiTewari/status/1147434274028572673?s=19

modi finished the VHP, Bajrang Dal, & kattar Hindu organisations in Guj. He cut the stature & power of Pravin Togadia ji.

Thus he created a society of helpless dhimmi Hindus who would be easy prey to wily antiHindus.

Mahatma No 2!

https://t.co/2YvfX78lVk https://t.co/b2lun1KCNp

https://twitter.com/vijayadhwaja/status/1147166015404425216?s=19

The four desires driving all human behavior – Bertrand Russell's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech https://t.co/nvKPO540Md

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1147234698415857664?s=19

Many Hindutva supporters are against Modi now but unfortunately they never realise their own lapses. No one took up corruption and cronyism by the govt. They never display sympathy for human rights issues. No concern for resolving the Scheduled castes problem. Focus should change.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147314848876773376?s=19

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have time and again reminded that all past religions are suffering from serious impairment and will dissolve. Yet some of their followers avail every opportunity to express allegiance to gods and goddesses. Private beliefs shouldn't be imposed on others

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147185681795436546?s=19

While examining civilisations Sri Aurobindo, like Foucault, didn't rely upon the linear method. Instead he employs a searching eye to grasp the spirit of the age and explains its Evolutionary advantage. It seems that his third dream of #WorldUnion is going to have a breakthrough.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147363039009656832?s=19

Living in an age of management and technology we take implementation for granted but the Lila bug has other plans. Sri Aurobindo has emphasised upon personal effort but possible failure is also part of the game. Evolutionary intention behind expectations going awry, most crucial.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147347882455908352?s=19

Consistent demands for liberating the temples from govt clutches is staple in Twitter but no one seems to have given any thought to the nature of an alternative form of administration. The miserable state of affairs of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and Auroville should be a lesson.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147518724401848322?s=19

Umpteen streams of spiritual practices and rituals are part of Indian tradition which form a living museum. Romanticising them or their thumbnail sketches may have some aesthetic aspect but following the guidance of Sri Aurobindo in all matters esoteric should be a safer course.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147527749952606209?s=19

Sri Aurobindo used to read a lot at one point but when he started writing he wasn't in the midst of books. Moreover he was writing on several matters at a time. Therefore, there are scant references in his works and scholars are tearing their hair out over genealogy of his ideas.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147535897908269059?s=19

Aurora Mirabilis: Understanding, collaborating, and improving https://t.co/D6SKnlhPWP

@NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147174507062284288?s=19

Japanese methods of persuasion are far more effective, according to Sri Aurobindo! They come with smile and hidden knife!

https://twitter.com/murlignosis/status/1147175740955172864?s=19

I think your opposition may be assuming an intelligence that isn't there. Also the crowd or mass has no real doing or 'will ' but obeys purely mechanical laws. Aurobindo advised Gandhi his effort could produce nothing in the longer term.

https://twitter.com/onlyredherrings/status/1147208989463236608?s=19

I think to see that my efforts are 'futile' can be progress that leads me to Wisdom 'far away from the beaten tracks of humans'.  (see Parmenides). I must first know that I cannot 'do' anything.

The fact that I don't see dramatic progress as a direct result of my personal efforts doesn't mean my efforts are futile. I am part of a process of change; I don't see it as trying to accomplish the impossible but trying to accelerate the inevitable.

https://twitter.com/SteveTiger999/status/1147213401732653056?s=19

I don't worry too much about what I can do... unless trying my best IS doing. As in many other aspects of life, I am concerned with following a path, not computing the distance between my current location to the end of the path.

This is a really thoughtful piece on why the world needs more critics and reviewers of color: https://t.co/O46j7pRjXo

https://twitter.com/oinkness/status/1147272589749997568?s=19

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1147318309202776064?s=19

36) Hymns 228 - 234 (Verses 2,378 - 2,435): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 02, Sukta 037 to 043 (including rare hymns to Kapinjala); with #SriAurobindo's evaluation of Sayana's commentary on the Vedas

(End of Mandala 02) https://t.co/Rr2Xxu5x7l

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1147216833935622144?s=19

Absolutely. RY DESHPANDE is the greatest living Savitri scholar in the planet. Beyond compare.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1147318309202776064?s=19

Professor Mini Chandran of IIT KANPUR has done plenty of work on Sri Aurobindo's translation theory. Quality research. Hats off to her.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1147495407292833792?s=19

A candidate from Pondicherry came to do PhD in NIT Goa on Tagore n Sri Aurobindo as ecocritics. Totally uninitiated in ecocriticism, she was using mahashakti, adyashakti, parabrahma etc, which have nothing to do with Ecology! Embarrassing n insulting a benign guide she left NIT.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1147537312764461058?s=19

I don't consider myself to be worthy enough of even being called an aurobindo disciple, or IY follower, but whatever little exposure of Rishi I have got, I felt that His mind is an artwork of absolute fluidity, the flow of ideas are like a never ending stream of bliss https://t.co/yHACavTb8E

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1147487171600760833?s=19

Now how on earth do u intolerant IY folks merge ur path of rigidity with this kind of fluidity in rishi aurobindo ad infinitum, it just fails me :) anyway, All the more glories to ur endeavours and ur sadhna

For those discussing the quality of Indian news channels on my TL, @SandeepBhusha10's The Indian Newsroom is a good read. He talks about the total sidelining of reporters and what that has done to news broadcasting. My review..https://t.co/VJ7dnCyAcf https://t.co/4jfy3IeuRp

https://twitter.com/vanitakohlik/status/1147051303769497600?s=19

Do we have #freewill? New Article this week: The Illusion of Free Will https://t.co/JI2tOxJI04 #philosophie #philosophy #psychology #determinism #neuroscience

https://twitter.com/LarryGMaguire/status/1147527642536714242?s=19

Time, Place, and Change

Mitali Pati Wong - The Changing World of Contemporary South Asian …, 2019

… poetry in India from the post-independence period onward resulted in the neglect of a significant amount of earlier socially engaged poetry that did not fit the mold for critics such as Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (1992) who stated …

Give courage to others

Assorted tweets:

Sri Aurobindo: Bharat’s True Swaraj - https://t.co/Ebx1BFCFVG via @hindupost

https://twitter.com/pranasutra/status/1145570250655580160?s=19

Pleasantly surprised by The Ballad of the Sun and the Earth in #RaavanEnemyOfAryavarta by @authoramish https://t.co/aA1crM13zD

https://twitter.com/DimpleAtra/status/1145472423241879557?s=19

And we have #Sabarimala in #RaavanEnemyOfAryavarta #SwamiyeSharanamAyyappa @IchBinGorg,@Sai_swaroopa and @ShefVaidya, Reading this portion reminded me of your interview with @authoramish https://t.co/XaeQoEF0L5

Position held by other AchAryas too. As an aside Ramanuja anticipates Paley's watchmaker argument and refutes centuries before Paley.

https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1145569366311751680?s=19

Naiyyayikas claim existence of Ishvara can be logically proved. They use pot-maker pot analogy. Exact same watchmaker argument. "You come across a a watch in a heath. You know someone dropped it there. At least one watchmaker made it and it didn't come about naturally"

In modern terms "intelligent design". You see the world and it's intricate design. Hence an intelligent designer should have been a cause. 

Ramanuja's refutation is thus (loosely paraphrasing): a pot may imply a pot maker but a cart implies a different person - the cart maker.

Infinite categories. Hence infinite creator Gods which is absurd for naiyyayikas who set out to prove single creator God.

https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1145574507505078272?s=19

Start with tarkasangraha before outraging. Not translations but from a practitioner. I did from a vidvan from Tirupati. Without basics no use in discussing further.

https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1145571596377026561?s=19

Its absurd to go into historicity of Ramayana and Mahabharat। All those dating today simply cherry pick from texts. 

Hardly any common hindu cares for dating. Most involved in these acts simply want to impress the academia. ऐसे करके कुछ difference आयेगा?

https://twitter.com/Aadii009/status/1145359670187397120?s=19

Wen I said this, many took it in wrong way. Historicity of Rama or Pandvas doesn't matter. But one must not shy away from countering wrong translations, fake narratives of west,fake dates of their compositions. But remember your faith is not dependent solely on it. https://t.co/H8sUbkMbuh

https://twitter.com/Aadii009/status/1145535453510033408?s=19

We have nothing to do with date of राम or महाभारत। We need such studies only to counter fake narratives set up by west. Even if राम never existed historically, the तत्व  various राम चरितs propagate has been lived and experienced by ancestors. That तत्व is goal. +

https://twitter.com/Aadii009/status/1139227542362025984?s=19

That तत्व today can be preserved if we preserve the tradition, the temples, the principle of shruti as expounded by परंपरा। If we love our civilisation, we should unapologetically preserve them, without pandering to the west. 

But rise above शूकर मुख mentality of historians.

https://twitter.com/Aadii009/status/1139228448650457088?s=19

हमारे पूर्वजो Dating करने वालों को, खुदाई करने वालो को शूकर कहते थे। 

भूमि खोद खोद के कुछ नहीं मिलेगा। और परंपरा से शास्त्र अध्ययन को शुक मुखी विद्या कहते थे, जिससे तत्व ज्ञान हो जाये

https://twitter.com/Aadii009/status/1145356186633428993?s=19

People should realize that it was known even in the days of Aryabhatta etc that such things in the Puranas were inaccurate, and see how H of the time dealt with them rather than seeking to emulate Ms and Xtians.

https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1145536864226402304?s=19

I just want to say one thing in response to this: https://t.co/IaqJt5zrjl

This is what I’m trying to get at. 

Setting aside literal for another interpretation /=/ Disregarding the text. Believing in a literal interpretation /=/ superior piety/shraddhA

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145559756980936705?s=19

If you want to believe that, no problem at all. I’m just saying that the opposite perspective also comes from a place of deep piety; from the mouths of great AcAryas & mUlashAstras. I think it is wrong to imply that believing in a literal version makes one more pious than them.

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145518250454728705?s=19

I can't help it if a matter is highly complex and involves many nuances/subtleties, and you don't wish to see that. https://t.co/geidjkazPU

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145403411203907586?s=19

My language will change if some people stop trolling others for expressing different opinions or wanting to read & think. It is evident that some people take immense pride in philistinism. Not a problem. They should refrain from discussions & spare others their wisdom. https://t.co/nqq3Vh1OLr

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145406293558960128?s=19

Poor @Dauhshanti was getting trolled by low-IQ, hare-brained pests. Hence my comment.

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145278250865741824?s=19

India has acted like the pious and chaste Sati and Savitri. Geopolitics and diplomacy are not the place to practise chastity and piety – it is a place where nations use guile, deception and Vish Kanyas – the Indian equivalent of honey traps https://t.co/38lfRaigOQ

https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1145559706087260160?s=19

Following In Rome's Footsteps: Moral Decay, Rising Inequality https://t.co/2hDnUDkUmp

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1145338708910120961?s=19

Hobbes noted the BASIS for human equality: no human being, no matter how virtuous, gifted, talented, rich, or anything else, cannot be killed by another human being, who is armed. 

We can all be violently killed. THEREFORE we are all fundamentally EQUAL.

https://twitter.com/EveKeneinan/status/1145532164802588673?s=19

Treating a religion as if it were a foreign loyalty, and its adherent as if it disqualifies them for government positions, is a Marxist-Leninist tactic that led to persecution of all religions under Stalin.

Anti-Tulsi hate has led to smearing an American Muslim org as loyal to Assad, American Hindu orgs as loyal to Modi, a Bhakti Yoga organization as if its founder is a Bond villain, and now, as if health food stores & Yoga are spreading mind-control contagions. Ppl are being crazy.

https://twitter.com/girlyGRRRL/status/1145472710979407872?s=19

Total social fact is a technical term from Mauss- I strongly encourage you to read Mauss, he is a delightful thinker. https://t.co/Eo5Qr3Mut2

https://twitter.com/achakrava/status/1145370563583438849?s=19

No. We don't get to relativize away caste violence. As I tell me students, white supremacy has nothing on brahminical varna ideology or the material oppression of caste on either longevity or the continued lack of stigma In India.

As long as politics remains driven by divisive cultural topics, like religion and jingoism, reforms that improve the quality of everyday life and create opportunities shall gain a backseat. The youngsters have the most to lose. 2/3 https://t.co/B9wH0LnOeq

https://twitter.com/PrateekRaj_/status/1145466143966056448?s=19

अपूर्वानंद लिखते है-आज़ादी के पहले वंदेमातरम देशभक्ति का प्रतीक था।आज दूसरों पर अत्याचार का प्रतीक बना दिया गया है।कैसे गाने के लिये बाध्य कर सकते हैं? 

@BJP4India @AmitShah @asadowaisi @INCIndia @PrabhuChawla #VandeMataram #MobLynching #TabrezAnsari

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https://twitter.com/ashutosh83B/status/1145537016265707520?s=19

A note on one aspect of haoma ritual: Prelude to crushing of hom twigs:

The context is this: The zaotar priest (hota) has purified the haoma twigs (soma) and beginning the ceremony of preparing the haoma juice and filtering it. Metallic mortar (hAvana) and pestle (lAle) is used

https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1145512228939948032?s=19

to crush the twigs after sprinkling with zaotra (hotra) water. Now, before the actual crushing, the zaotar performs this ceremony. He recites "aêtat dim vîspanãm mazishtem dazdyâi ahûmca" and touches the stone slab with lower end of the pestle. With ""ratûmca ýim ahurem mazdãm"

Deewaar: The Classic Cinematic Textbook Celebrating the Worst of Nehruvian Secularism and Communism: Part 2 https://t.co/KL8YmKiMRx via @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/ranganaathan/status/1145586753564106752?s=19

#ZairaWasim quitting her career for religion is no different from the countless others who quit their careers to join Aurobindo ashram, Hare Krishna, Osho, Sri Sri & many other babas & ashrams. But those others are called enlightened and lauded! #Islamophobia

https://twitter.com/gsurya/status/1145577597767704576?s=19

Show me a single post from anyone calling out industrialists who give up everything for Jainism, Aurobindo etc

https://twitter.com/gsurya/status/1145579592863899649?s=19

transformation. He called it the "the Shadow". 

I also don't like to suggest yoga/dhyana as a cure except fpr myself and a limited number of others I know, because these are subjective processes. I can't know how well they even understand these and or how well they do these./3

https://twitter.com/ArpanAgarwal3/status/1145522747440676864?s=19

The July 2019 issue of #Renaissance with its special theme of prenatal education is now up! Features lots of insights from Indian cultural and psycho-spiritual perspectives on topics related to fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and reproductive health. https://t.co/EidsZMGRP0

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1145407741525135360?s=19

Sri Aurobindo's thoughts seems to have been heavily influenced by Western philosophers. Ultimately what Wilber attempts to do is provide a meta-view of general truths.

You should also note that Spiral Dynamics came from the empirical observations of Professor Clare Graves.

https://twitter.com/BaljitSL/status/1145313717611048962?s=19

Remember here the three madnesses of #SriAurobindo which He had communicated to His wife !1 dream was that If God is there I should be able to See Him with OPEN 👀!And He Realised It !!

That’s the power of the Mother & #IntegralYoga !! With v little Devotion 1 can see God in vision!!+

https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1145595316126793728?s=19

"Whosoever is courageous can give courage to others, just as the flame of one candle can light another" - The Mother

https://t.co/HxH2vELuQL 

Movie: The Darkest Hour (2017)

Churchill's Speech - "We shall never surrender.."

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https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1010897467875909632?s=19

27) Hymns 167 - 172 (Verses 1,798 - 1,840): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 167 to 172 (including the colloquy of Indra and Agastya) with #SriAurobindo's words on some distinctive features of Vedic Sanskrit https://t.co/TCNS7PbVOh

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1145404152169635840?s=19

Writings of Sri Aurobindo bring to mind
Poets, philosophers, and prophets:
Homer, Heraclitus, Plato, Plotinus,
Dante, Goethe, Milton, Blake,
Vico, Herder, Fichte, Mazzini,
Hegel, Nietzsche, Bergson, James,
Teilhard, Jung, Assagioli, Alexander,
Whitehead, Steiner, Gebser, Wilber.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1108294175055740928?s=19

Sri Aurobindo points out that the real evolutionary force is supramental

What yoga can teach us

The Hindu-20-Jun-2019 ... Murli Manohar Joshi

When Darwin discovered the process of evolution, a series of new philosophies came to be developed. But none of these philosophies has the thoroughness of the evolutionary philosophy of Indian sages that bridges the gulfs between matter and life, and life and mind, and of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of evolution from mind to supermind. In fact, he reverses the entire process of evolution and points out that the real evolutionary force is not material but supramental in character, and that matter itself is nothing but a mode of the supermind. He thus bridges, like the Vedic rishis, the three great oceans of existence — the inconscient, conscient, and superconscient. This is extremely refreshing, and one feels a kind of rejuvenation of thought and life.

I can see clearly the interconnection between Sri Aurobindo’s vision of a world union of free nations, the vision of a spiritualised society, and the vision of integral humanism based on a holistic vision of universe. I feel that probably a new alternative of the present moulds of thought is now being built in the world.

Assorted tweets:

Today is the Jayanti of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee the man who composed Vande Mataram, one of the greatest Indian writers of the modern era, noted for his strong female characters, and inspired the Bengali Renaissance. https://t.co/nN2Yv1mVCy

https://twitter.com/GabbarSanghi/status/1011825833722331136?s=19

One of the features of Bankim Da's novels, has been the very strong women characters in them. Be it Kapalakundala, Durgesh Nandini, Devi Chaudharani or Kalyani in Anandamath, he created some of the most memorable women characters in Indian literature.

India has great diversity in language and culture. This attempt, to impose one particular national language is going to stir the hornet’s nest among other linguistic groups. The unity of our people based on the rich diversity in language and culture will only be disrupted by this https://t.co/AgHLpK8lbG

https://twitter.com/SitaramYechury/status/1143470203101208583?s=19

Parties & govts have lost expertise in public management; too busy acquiring/enjoying power, too little ability to govern/improve things. Endless committees have become substitutes to sound Policy. Yashpal, TSR, Kasturirangan, Punchi, ARC, Malimath etc .. no change/improvement.

https://twitter.com/JP_LOKSATTA/status/1143720927428894720?s=19

We are a third world country with educated fools . There’s no way we can advance in a major way. Democracy is not for a foolish country like ours.

https://twitter.com/flyingsaucerr/status/1143725807736672263?s=19

Jai Sri Ram was the battle cry against invading armies and the mantra of India’s Independence Movement. Nehru rejected it, the Communists demonized it, now Mamata Banerjee in Bengal is making it into a crime, and the Rahul Congress is demeaning devotion to Ram as communal.

https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1143710269702467584?s=19

On 44th Anniversary of the Emergency in India, How RSS Betrayed the Anti-emergency Struggle https://t.co/zUWXnhaLia

https://twitter.com/paranjoygt/status/1143718372456034304?s=19

Democracy Subverted: A story of Indiras Emergency writes @ask0704 https://t.co/fvchBGQYMf

https://twitter.com/myindmakers/status/1143367976109953026?s=19

The Other side of 15th August- The horrors of partition that we must never forget https://t.co/seGVvjvlFq

https://twitter.com/myindmakers/status/1142703830963933186?s=19

Congress in its present shape and form cannot hope to resurrect itself https://t.co/MKxm8iGgBl

https://twitter.com/myindmakers/status/1142703957371838465?s=19

Namaste, Media Narrative is very tough to build and sustain. If you see the kind of mainstream stereotypes that are churned out by the Hasan Minhaz’s of the world, we are facing an uphill battle on correcting numerous prejudices against India and its... https://t.co/tTHgeYnv42

https://twitter.com/pburavalli/status/1143742398251634688?s=19

Pushing a narrative and telling the right thing are two different things. Obviously, people are driven by material gains and no escape from such compulsions. Sri Aurobindo, however, provides diverse perspectives to sense current priorities and imperatives. https://t.co/yA7GHvJTdf

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1143745208053465088?s=19

Many so-called 'normal' crime incidents are actually not 'secular' but rather rooted in scriptural injunctions of supremacist ideologies. Recently there has been a huge upsurge in the recorded number of such incidents, says Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay https://t.co/chAa973pQL

https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1143477266195734528?s=19

Are men even capable of seeing a woman beyond her physical beauty? Are women even capable of seeing men beyond superficialities like good English, good money and polished manners? We're genetically doomed to be shallow

https://twitter.com/DOCTORATLARGE/status/1143709287329488898?s=19

Yes and yes. It happens aplenty.

Having said that, people indeed are largely predisposed to prefer what's neatly apparent than pursue the hidden, for it is effortfully taxing.

https://twitter.com/souviksatpathy/status/1143716476353859584?s=19

Use your words carefully.. you influence many .. not genetically but culturally :- know enough to not corrupt the creation but the mind of one’s of his kinds !

https://twitter.com/MendonAshutosh/status/1143713889978343424?s=19

From the Archive; How To Develop The Creative Mindset Developing The Creative Mindset

The creative mind is a moving, expanding, contracting thing. And to develop a creative https://t.co/CqXoKV2stS #amwriting #humanperformance https://t.co/EKHwjMhUQG

https://twitter.com/LarryGMaguire/status/1143724526905282561?s=19

Uncover the #Mysteries in #Management with this intriguing research https://t.co/SzyQ7g3nl2  #IIMA #VikalpaJournal #Management @IIMAhmedabad  @vikalpaiima https://t.co/CzytW76QFg

https://twitter.com/SAGEPubIndia/status/1143729232952082432?s=19

When a person goes out of their way to make you feel comfortable and serve you promptly despite their job not paying them well, a tip can mean a lot more than a thank you. Writes @yamini_pb #wednesdaythoughts https://t.co/WM8PVRWKWs

https://twitter.com/SheThePeopleTV/status/1143724530478669824?s=19

Progress is lovely : Aldous Huxley. The world in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is not focused on family, love, and success - but instead focused around industry, economy, and technologic growth and improvement. The citizens are not concerned with themselves as individuals; they

Have been conditioned to see the world as a collective and technologically oriented. Medical advancement & educational standardisation prevail. The novel is a dangerously accurate prophesy of technology’s capacity to dominate society, and how this domination is silently changing the goals, moralities, and values of our culture.

The democracy of individual growth and personal spirituality is eliminated. technology can both create distractions and communicate forms of propaganda, enabling small groups of people who are most powerful to control society and limit freedom.

https://twitter.com/HimjaParekh/status/1143729034192273408?s=19

Astronauts aboard the @Space_Station photographed a spectacular plume of ash rising from the Raikoke volcano in the Kuril islands near Asia on June 22. Monitoring volcanic eruptions helps us understand how they affect aviation and climate. More: https://t.co/uHWsGcv9i6 https://t.co/Wf4rAjH9cG

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1143684307120197632?s=19

@Swamy39 Huawei is powerful Chinese organisation with links to another Anti CIA powerful lobby. We must support it in solidarity to fair international practices. Sooner or later, we've to collaborate our blood brother China to maintain peace in south Asia https://t.co/EBxm3bI1Kh

https://twitter.com/TheRohtakite/status/1129173244898975744?s=19

Not a quandary for nationalists---It is true though that Huawei is like X Ray into our cyber security and data processing, but make deal if China is favourable on our disputes and on Pakistan issues-- which better than what US will offer in other dimensions.

https://twitter.com/Swamy39/status/1143729457057845248?s=19

"JP also confided in me that (RSS chief) Balasaheb Deoras, AB Vajpayee and LK Advani had pledged that they would ensure Jana Sangh members will sever their ties with RSS within six months of the new party being formed." - M G Devasahaym

https://t.co/wvpEiYGsJo

https://twitter.com/sanjayuvacha/status/1143731397456101376?s=19

Savitri Era to replace all other religions

Assorted tweets:

There is no prestige in climbing Everest anymore. The farce of scaling a false honour is in the heart of many futile pursuits. Prestige becomes worthless when a society becomes so fair anyone can achieve it. My column https://t.co/U9zfxBx66L

https://twitter.com/manujosephsan/status/1140477877596463104?s=19

Prestige in India migrates the moment there are equal opportunities to achieve it. But millions are unaware that prestige is not prestigious anymore and they suffer those sham doctorates; those phoney novels; those dreary entrance exams.

https://twitter.com/manujosephsan/status/1140479435038023680?s=19

Sri Aurobindo said, India is not suited for a centralised governance like Europe, one state power monitoring the country, instead smaller units taking control of things. We are more of a culture where people can live freely, express freely, grow freely.

https://twitter.com/Drunkenmystic/status/1140467844234170368?s=19

I believe that size alone shouldn't be d driving factor. Cultural &  linguistic homogeneity with minimal viability check could be the deciding factors so that our richness, diversity and vitality of culture is maintained. Eg. Splitting TN into 3 areas makes sense but no further.

https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1140096773723058177?s=19

Thondai is too small to be a viable contributor to culture of overall region. Just like Pondicherry hasn't added any  cultural value (whatever uniqueness there was due to Sri Aurobindo ashram / Auroville and French influence) and is mismanaged.

5. We are oppressed with an Iron clad secular socialist constitution that cannot be changed of this fundamental character even by parliament.  We cannot save Dharma without overthrowing this constitution.  All political parties, Congress, BJP et al swear by this constitution.

https://twitter.com/Janamejayan/status/1131940172378071040?s=19

One that comes to mind is Sri Aurobindo's very short piece, 'Philosophy', where he begins by contrasting 'the knowledge which a man of intellect prefers' to 'a more active and mundane curiosity'. It's in the collection Essays Divine and Human, but may also be published elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/AbiralCP/status/1140116575665545216?s=19

Dada, one small correction. ".... Perhaps the only way of making Mahomedans harmless is to make them lose their fanatic faith in their religion." #SriAurobindo These are the exact words.

https://twitter.com/RaghuveerBelur/status/1140158829612552192?s=19

Sri @RaghuveerBelur, I took the reference from 'The Concept of Hindu Nation' by Abhas Chatterjee. After seeing your tweet, I consult online edn of 'Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo' by AB Purani https://t.co/BCyku0JaCs 

Many thanks to u 4 pointing out the error in my tweet.

https://twitter.com/Saunak31/status/1140313592421502976?s=19

Sri Aurobindo was well conversant with major schools of Indian philosophy and mythology. So undertaking fresh comparison is pointless. Even comparative studies with Western thinkers by S.K. Maitra is not very fruitful. Postmodernism is the only area which challenges Sri Aurobindo

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1140302856068534274?s=19

The life and mythology around The Mother & Sri Aurobindo has Hitler as a key figure like any epic and this new religion is to replace all other religions. Understanding this basic fact is necessary for right appreciation of their work. Those clinging to Hindutva need to wake up.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1140512091150831618?s=19

Beyond a point this sort of quantum physics reads the same as theology to me, and I mean that in the sense that both are damn interesting: https://t.co/u1VxSNG2e7

https://twitter.com/RohanV/status/1140500708241731584?s=19

“Man ‘re-creates,’ ‘discovers’ God in himself & out of himself, simply because God has ‘created’, has ‘discovered’ him so. He discovers the God he wants & needs, because he has been made a ‘God-wanting’ & a ‘God-needing’ creature.”

-Panikkar, Religion & Religions p77

https://twitter.com/krumbbumm/status/1140362090894385152?s=19

There are some interesting connections here to what Kripal calls the “Filter Thesis”

Finally finished @rchops book, The Virtual Hindu Rashtr! He explains the fundamentals of hindutva and then speaks in detail about early internet companies which help spread this disease, gender politics, subdugation of mintories, social media, media houses n a lot more.

https://twitter.com/dontgivashiz/status/1140500808129290240?s=19

He supports his arguments with a lot of references like a true academic. Also draws parallels between Modi's govt, historical events and other global developments. What a great read!

Markets do not run by the principle of one person one vote, but by voting rights proportional to one’s ownership of capital. This principle is leaching into democracies: @vargheseKgeorge writes on India, Hindutva & the invisible hand of market (national). https://t.co/v2YBr7ANtf

https://twitter.com/johnstanly/status/1140496430982844416?s=19

Elements of national pride, incl anthem, army, instns, even cricket will be equated with govt, or worse Hindutva, or the BJP and worst still the duo of Modi and Shah. Failings of opp. govts will be exaggerated whereas failings of this regime will be suppressed from public view.

https://twitter.com/UniversityOfHu1/status/1140490967792812033?s=19

Why are the oppn falling for the “we are at fault, time for soul searching” agenda, planted so meticulously by the Sanghis? Isn’t it time that the oppn took over from the liberal voices and started asking qns of the govt? Isn’t it time that they started ground level uprising?

https://twitter.com/UniversityOfHu1/status/1140490986558111746?s=19

"Under Modi-II," Ram Madhav writes, metaphorically rubbing his hands with relish, "the remnants of that cartel need to be discarded from the country's academic, cultural and intellectual landscape." https://t.co/3iknbFdc6k
https://twitter.com/MikeDwyerMike/status/1139808707213053952?s=19

Good 'transformative' leadership does not beat about the bush or resort to doublespeak and thus need not take defensive postures and resort to subterfuges.

It must be driven by the fearless courage of its convictions in the cause. It must play straight with people. @PMOIndia

That's why a game should be treated as a game. And not a war. Win some, lose some, the better team won today. No need to go all Ghalib over it bro. Cheers :) https://t.co/KXczUnicer

https://twitter.com/IndianPrism/status/1140304584952274944?s=19

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses  

Happy #Bloomsday2019 ☘️💚 https://t.co/OKmE2c2ivr

https://twitter.com/barcalloreop60/status/1140017787412328448?s=19

"Kundera suggests that slowness opens the way to wisdom, memory, sensuality and humanity. A slower world, he seems to be saying, would be a better place."

@carlhonore on books that explore the idea of slow living, from Milan Kundera to Bertrand Russell https://t.co/xig7SwiM4j

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1140201100504702976?s=19

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R Beniwal
… Truth be told, the educators need to form the hearts of the understudies instead of their brains. About the moral obligations of the educator, Sri Aurobindo says, "The instructor isn't a teacher or slave driver; he is a partner and guide …

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I Mishra
… very essence of Indianess. On the whole, he succeeds in projecting true Indianness which has been suspected, deleted and declared obsolete in Indian poetic tradition after Sri Aurobindo and Tagore. WORKS CITED Aikant …