Monday, July 1, 2019

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
https://t.co/82dCvvw8I5
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.."
https://t.co/xDpTrNcH31
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

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