Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)
Once Kunhi Kannan Nair wrote a letter to Aurobindo asking permission to bring along his ten-year-old son Unnikrishnan. Children were not allowed in th... Read more at: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/the-worlds-of-a-political-traveller-kp-unnikrishnan-s-life-stories-1.8243444
The Romila Thapar Saga: All the Oxygen of the World Won’t Revive a Fossil
Very true, a fossil who wrote fake history driven by extreme leftist ideology! Big shame, we were fooled.
India's Deobandi Taliban rebuffed by non-violent Jain Muni on its own stage. Jain scholar warns Maulana Madni against concocting false history to usurp India's identity and whitewash brutal Islamic invasion. Madni had called Islam the original religion of India. Do watch.
A friend who constantly keeps saying he is a commie at heart read this and called now. He is not only blown over by this book but also wishes someone like avargal becomes the CM of Tamil Nadu soon!
Maybe all those useless Commies should read this!
People are waking up today... I said years ago.. that Modi, BJP, RSS are junking Hindus and Hindus to create a "Composite India/Indian" that has elements of Chrislam but completely junks Hindu culture & heritage as garbage... Glad some are waking up..
Unfortunately original Modi also cease to exist …what we have now is average thookiya appeaser and caste dividing politician ..no better than Lalu or Mulayam ..in fact worse
The last year was replete with examples of world leaders trading away human rights obligations and accountability for abusers in exchange for short-term political wins.
'A dog with a bone in its mouth can’t bark': Arun Shourie on mainstream media thewire.in/government/aru
The best books by Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh is a prizewinning Indian novelist whose books have been recommended many times on Five Books.
Sylvia Plath died #OnThisDay in 1963. “To me, this is Plath’s gift and her duty: to record, no matter what the cost to self”
on Plath's work. fivebooks.com/best-books/syl …
The best books on The Sublime
Philosopher Robert Clewis talks us through the landmark studies of the sublime, and makes some recommendations for those seeking introductory books on the subject.
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots ...whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." Hannah Arendt. on Arendt.
"In fact, just thinking happy thoughts is quite dangerous a lot of the time."
Professor Elaine Fox, one of the world’s leading experimental psychologists, picks the five best books on optimism.
Modern living is an ethical minefield. How should we behave? We have a very extensive range of interviews (curated by ) with some of the world's most eminent philosophers discussing books on contemporary morality
Marx's style. His polemical and literary temperament — suffused with irony, mockery, critique — cannot be walled off from his social theory
We take “getting lost in a book” to be a good thing. For Petrarch, the voracious reader was an intellectually malnourished, overstimulated junkie
"Our country is not a thing of mere physical locality. It consists, in large measure, in the ancient order into which we are born... The place that determines our duty to our country is a social, civil relation."
Edmund Burke
“Our language, our music and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centred, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives. One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is ‘me’.”
⁃Sir Roger Scruton
“Looking at those great works of western man and remembering all that he’s achieved in philosophy, poetry, science, law making, it does seem hard to believe that European civilisation can ever vanish. And yet, you know, it has happened once.”
- Sir Kenneth Clark
Replying to
“What is civilisation? I don’t know, I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet, but I think I can recognise it when I see it…”
- Sir Kenneth Clark
“I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction, I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta… I believe in courtesy - the ritual by which we avoid hurting other peoples feelings by satisfying our own egos.”
- Sir Kenneth Clark
“Western civilisation has been a series of rebirths… it’s lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.”
- Sir Kenneth Clark
Replying to
It's perhaps of some interest that about 100 years before Sir Kenneth offered this opinion, British historians (largely prompted, perhaps, by Carlyle) were exalting the Germanic barbarians for replacing what they considered "Roman decadence" with their "free institutions."
What Technique or Practice Is Prescribed in the Integral Yoga?
New Episode! "Calmness Belongs to the Strong — Quietude Is the Basis of True Power"
This episode is also available as a blog post: sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/cal…
Player links & show notes: podpage.com/sri-aurobindo- via
Savitri Era Party: Lifting the ugly baseline of society savitrieraparty.blogspot.com/2023/02/liftin
Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion, and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: Sri Aurobindo showed that the root sounds are shared
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Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006) and Savitri Era Party
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
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