Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Rig Veda 1.1.1 The Secret of Secrets
Let me share with you the understanding that opened my heart. It came from the Mother, Pondicherry, with elegant simplicity
Agni is Divine Love
That is it. No other intellectual explanation or acrobatics. It is that little flame within that is always free of all our limitations. Yes, it is tiny because we have never tended to it. But it is pure, Agni Pavaka, and it can burn away all impurities
It is always rising upwards this Agni. Through all my sorrows and failures, my regrets and disenchantments
It is the Divine within, that quiet still voice, the inconceivable concept where my mind finally gives up all its great achievements and surrenders everything
But it can grow into the universe. If I nourish it with all my offerings. For everything is its doing. All belongs to it
It is the Psychic, the chaitya purusha, the true antara atma. It is my soul that in its minuteness holds all my bodies together
How do I find it? Through stillness, through gentle harmony, through gratitude, through that quiet love that is behind my deepest feelings. Behind all the pain it holds me together, unfailing, unfazed, loyal, that which may never be injured
But it is there. Unmistakably alive, staring right in your face, your eyes, but unseen, but unobtrusive. The most important nothing in the world. It has no use except to bear witness to the Truth. Agni
https://x.com/AmazingVedas/status/2091493442148872237
On our Mother's Day special for Singh Talks, Dr. Pariksith Singh and Dr. Makarand R. Paranjape discuss the teachings of Mirra Alfassa or the Mother.
https://youtu.be/vIcUiVcT_OM?si=duAMcp5rAL-t2_ei
Sri Aurobindo was not merely a philosopher, but a darshnic—a seer rooted in direct spiritual realization. In this video,@PariksithSingh explores why this distinction matters and how it reveals the depth of Aurobindo’s vision. youtu.be/EULGXa6CCqg?si… @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas
https://x.com/sriaurobindochr/status/2091510775651377577
Mahashakti is more than cosmic energy—it is the force of creation, consciousness, and transformation within us. Explore its profound power with @PariksithSingh & @MakrandParanspe youtu.be/s3TvABVHRr0?si… @AmazingVedas
https://x.com/sriaurobindochr/status/2090783224670908850
Let's get out of constant obsession with 'this caste, that caste'. Caste is well past it's expiry date. It's the will of the Divine Mother that humans group under stable nation-states. Any sect, tradition, spiritual or social institution still clinging hard to caste will erode.
https://x.com/Shiva_Uvacha/status/2091417987547021399
Remembering Professor Sumit Sarkar: The Irreverent Historian Who Disdained Tidy Narratives
by Rabikar Gupta countercurrents.org/2026/08/rememb…
Sumit Sarkar, who died on August 13 at the age of 87, was among the most influential historians of modern India. His scholarship challenged simplified accounts of nationalism and examined the competing forces, social groups and popular movements that shaped the freedom struggle. From The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal to Modern India, 1885–1947 and Modern Times, Sarkar continually revised his own interpretations as historical questions changed. He brought the same skeptical method to his teaching, public activism and political engagement. This remembrance by Rabikar Gupta reflects on Sarkar’s intellectual legacy, his commitment to historical inquiry, and his opposition to Hindutva.
https://x.com/Countercurrents/status/2091514155916263874
Is it possible to find creativity and novelty in a world where everything feels like a copy of a copy? With the assumption that the laws of physics remain constant always and everywhere, it can feel like there is little room for the radically novel or new. Philosopher Victoria Trumbull argues that consciousness is where creativity and novelty can thrive, and the possible can become real. In a universe driven by laws, consciousness is the creative factor. Tap to read more. iai.tv/articles/consc…
https://x.com/IAI_TV/status/2091480616319553739
Ghazala Jamil’s new book, 'What to do with Political Unhappiness' is a thoughtful manual for ethical survival in difficult times. It offers a framework for living ethically and persevering with idealism and hope @hashiyaarai
https://x.com/sasmester/status/2091397524615835732
I grew up with such an insufferable sense of entitlement that I expected the best to automatically come to me. And this, despite my parents drilling the ideas of class privilege, inequality, and injustice into my head. It is impossible to escape one's social construction.
https://x.com/Aunindyo2023/status/2091385013476671796
What is selfishness? Who is selfish?
by Ranganayakamma countercurrents.org/2026/08/what-i…
Ranganayakamma challenges the idea that selfishness is primarily a matter of individual human nature. She argues that any serious discussion of selfishness must examine the social relations through which labour is organised and exploited. Drawing on Buddha, Ambedkar and Marx, she distinguishes personal morality from the structural inequalities embedded in caste, class, property and labour relations. The article questions whether calls for self-examination and moral transformation can lead to social revolution without a clear understanding of class relations and revolutionary theory. It ultimately argues that human attitudes and ideas are shaped significantly by the material and labour relations within society.
https://x.com/Countercurrents/status/2091449732334019047
I wrote about how we mechanised our consciousness by shifting from a biphasic mode of sleep to a mono-phasic one for @EngelsbergIdeas. From dreaming as a portal into deeper forms of consciousness, we turned it into a mere residue of our waking lives.
https://x.com/gar_i_ma/status/2090722753976627243
I’ve been told this essay has helped people — a parachute easing the descent into embodied attention on difficult feelings. An editor reworked my unpolished prose, so perhaps it now reads with greater clarity and emotional legibility. May it benefit.
A Simple Practice for Meeting and Metabolizing Difficult Emotions
How to turn toward disturbance with kindness, attend to sensations, stay present with aliveness, and give feelings space without demanding resolution. "Anxiety is an evolutionary alarm detecting pure openness — the ungraspable torrent of raw aliveness. The freefall of adult life that has no reliable handholds or reference points."
https://x.com/techgnostic/status/2091254761400205686
Interesting exploration of the differences between the two comic book series that did not release in the same time period (Tintin started in 1929, while Asterix & Obelix started in 1959) but most Indians experienced both at the same time while growing up... and hence, there has always been a discussion about which is better :) This piece has some interesting observations on that topic.
PS: There is a larger criticism on the Tintin series owing to colonialist and stereotypical viewpoints of Black Africans common in 1930s Belgium, though Hergé later acknowledged these flaws, noting they mirrored the prejudices of his society at the time.
https://x.com/beastoftraal/status/2091382549889364008
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