Whitman, Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Sri Aurobindo

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The first philosophy blogger http://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2010/02/17/the-first-philosophy-blogger/ … Benjamin’s relationship to the places he visits & then describes. http://thenewinquiry.tumblr.com/post/732876236/walter-benjamin-travel-as-collecting …

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[economic change that is postmodernity and cultural change that is postmodernism are small changes within the overall fabric of capitalism.] Expand

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[The basic problematics of modernity seem to have been more or less established in the nineteenth century.] Amod Lele http://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2013/04/07/must-we-come-to-terms-with-postmodernity/#comment-24656 …

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[The Doctrine of Passive Resistance - Its Necessity SRI AUROBINDO Bande Mataram. 13 April, 1907] defensive resistance http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/sa/01/0023_e.htm …

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[There are certain moral qualities necessary to self-government which have become atrophied by disuse.] SRI AUROBINDO http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/sa/01/0023_e.htm …

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[Whitman, like Nietzsche, is no longer willing to resent the world, to repent for being flesh and blood] M.D. Segall http://www.google.com/gwt/x?source=reader&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffootnotes2plato.com%2F2013%2F04%2F09%2Fimages-of-earth-and-eros-in-walt-whitmans-poetry%2F …

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[Manoj Das Gupta so deftly played the secular card in Peter Heehs issue and now plays with equal mastery the religious card in Relics issue]

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[Is not the Ashram Trust assuming more authority than what it has over other Centres of Sri Aurobindo & the Mother?] http://www.thelivesofsriaurobindo.com/2013/04/the-ashram-trusts-notice-on-sri.html …

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@Panda_Jay Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry has a majority Odia population but no Odia as Trustee. Those protesting are ousted or suppressed

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[the male can fly His trait is to migrate explore and go away She is more acquisitive he distributive Man is a nomad] http://tusarnmohapatra.blogspot.in/2005/11/nomad.html …

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The jubilant 22nd Annual Function of Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre, Saheed Nagar, Bhubaneswar - Orissa Post http://www.orissapost.com/simplicity-shines-at-cultural-event/#.UWPnFhUP47w.twitter …

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@irfhabib [one must not act recklessly out of social defiance or politely out of social conformance.] by Sandeep http://auromere.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/xu-fancheng-%e5%be%90%e6%a2%b5%e6%be%84-a-chinese-disciple-of-sri-aurobindo-and-the-mother/#comment-20613 …

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[Neat vs. Sloppy People essay isn't literal. Britt is using sarcastic humor and hyperboles to get a point across.] http://evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2005/11/neat-people-vs-sloppy-people.html?showComment=1351475516372#c3147466483820111918 …

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After protracted agitations, Odisha was carved out as a separate State in 1936 on the basis of language but the present CM can't speak Odia. Expand

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Anilbaran Roy wrote the book ‘Mother India’

Anurag Banerjee said, March 7, 2013 at 7:05 pm Here is a brief biography of Anilbaran Roy.

Anilbaran Roy (3.7.1890—3.11.1974) was born in the village of Guir in the district of Burdwan in Bengal to Nabakumar Roy and Chandibala Devi. He was a student of Scottish Church College and St. Xavier’s College of Kolkata. He obtained his M.A. degree in English and Philosophy and Bachelor of Law degree from the Calcutta University. He was a remarkable scholar who excelled not only in subjects like Physics and Mathematics but also in languages like Sanskrit, French and German. He worked as a professor in Hetampur College of Birbhum and Christian College of Bankura. In 1921 he resigned from his services and joined the Non-Cooperation Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi. He was also elected as the Secretary of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee. In 1924 he was in charge of the Corporation Elections which was initiated under the New Law. The aforesaid election elevated Chittaranjan Das and Subhash Chandra Bose to the posts of Mayor and Chief Executive respectively. He also played a pivotal role in organizing the Swaraj Party established by Chittaranjan Das and Pandit Motilal Nehru.

He was introduced to Sri Aurobindo’s works during the peak of his political career. In 1924 he was arrested and imprisoned at the Alipore Central Jail and Berhampore Central Jail respectively. After his release from prison in 1926 he left for Pondicherry following the instruction of Sri Aurobindo and spent 40 years in Sri Aurobindo Ashram during which he engrossed himself in the Integral Yoga. He was acclaimed as the best exponent of the Gita as interpreted by Sri Aurobindo. ‘The Message of the Gita’ edited by him was taught at the University of Cambridge. In 1935 as a mark of protest against a defamatory book penned by Miss Mayo he wrote the book ‘Mother India’ with Sri Aurobindo’s approval. His other notable works include ‘Srimad Bhagavat Gita’, ‘Gitar Bani’, ‘Purushottam Sri Aurobindo’, ‘Sri Aurobindo O Bartaman Jagat’, ‘Songs from the Soul’, ‘India’s Mission in the World’, ‘Sri Aurobindo and the New Age’, ‘World Crisis’, etc. He also translated Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Essays on the Gita’, ‘Uttarpara Speech’ and ‘Yoga and Its Objects’ into Bengali.

In 1966 he returned to Bengal to spread the message of Sri Aurobindo after spending forty years in the Ashram. He worked to abolish the partition of India and unite the nation on the lines of provincial self-government as preached by Sri Aurobindo. He started the publication of a Bengali weekly named ‘Swarnayug’ and an English monthly named ‘Light of India’ and edited both the journals. He also established the ‘Sarva Sewak Sangha’ to spread the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. [Courtesy: Dr. Sailendra Laha: email: sailendralaha@yahoo.com] Reply - March 8, 2013 at 1:24 AM 

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Sri Aurobindo wrote to Anilbaran Roy to ... 19 Feb 2013 Anilbaran Roy (1890—1974), the renowned leader of the Congress Party. Having made a name for himself as a brilliant professor of philosophy, he joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921. When Chittaranjan Das was ...

Meghnad Saha's debate with Anilbaran Roy - Savitri Era Learning ... 28 Sep 2007 Saha's debate with Anilbaran Roy has been reprinted in Santimay ... ried on a long and acrimonious debate in 1938/9 with a certain Anilbaran Roy on ... Abstract Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 2002 ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Prof. Anil Baran Roy 29 Jul 2007  During the Non Cooperation Movement, he had established propinquity with the renowned professor and patriot Anil Baran Roy. The latter inspired Ramkinkar to make portraits of Chittaranjan, Arabindo Ghosh and M.K. ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Partition of India never did any good to ... 2 Feb 2013 The poets and disciples of Sri Aurobindo who thus represent a special trend are Nirodbaran, K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), Anil Baran Roy, Nolini Kanta Gupta, Arjava, Amrita, Prithwi Singh Nahar, Sudhananda Bharati, Panjalal, ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Five Dreams and five Indias The Overman Foundation has published the entire set of conversations with Sri Aurobindo that were recorded by Anilbaran Roy. These talks cover a wide spectrum of issues (symbols, occultism, karma, politics) and were ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Sri Aurobindo saw the salvation of the ... 25 Jul 2010 Sri Aurobindo and the new age Anilbaran Roy - 1940 - 170 pages. It is the proper business of seers ... The world crisis: Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future Anilbaran Roy- 1947 - 156 pages. Sri Aurobindo saw what very few ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Anil, Amal, Nirod, Dilip 20 Jan 2006 (From a short poem in Bengali by Anilbaran Roy and translated by Sri Aurobindo.) Amal: I used to beg the Mother to put her hands repeatedly on my chest. I said, "Open me up her. Open me up here." And she used to put her ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Nikolai Berdyaev 13 Oct 2005 [Anilbaran Roy ~108]. Nikolai Berdyaev regarded himself as a religious metaphysician, and even as a Christian philosopher, although hardly an orthodox one, since he believed all orthodoxy incompatible with the freedom of ...

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Why Sri Aurobindo's influence tends to ... 19 May 2012 Sri Aurobindo and the new age Anilbaran Roy - 1940 - 170 pages - ... has been due chiefly to the philosophical outlook of the Indians. That is why Sri Aurobindo gave so much importance to philosophy in the ...

Plain & Simple: Books by Anilbaran Roy -Books › "Anilbaran Roy"

1. The Message of the Gita by Anilbaran Roy (Paperback - Jan 1993) 7 Used & new from $5.99 Other Editions: Hardcover
2. The Gita by Aurobindo and Anilbaran Roy (Paperback - 1954) 1 Used & new from $14.95
3. La Bhagavad-Gîtâ : Extraits des essais sur la Gîta by Aurobindo Ghose and Anilbaran Roy 3 Used & new from $19.58 Mass Market Paperback - Jan 1, 1970
4. Khaddar under search-light, by Anilbaran Roy (1929)
5. Sri Aurobindo and the new age by Anilbaran Roy (1965)
6. The Bengal famine and its lessons by Anilbaran Roy (1945)
7. The world crisis: Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future by Anilbaran Roy (1947)
8. The illusion of the Charka by Anilbaran Roy (1929)
9. Mother India by Anilbaran Roy (1965)
10. India's mission in the world by Anilbaran Roy (1965)

Posted by Tusar N. Mohapatra at 2:30 pm Saturday, September 29, 2007

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo advocate the most enlightening path

The Mother’s stance on gender The Mother’s stance on gender, for instance, can be seen in stark contrast to the cacophony that we hear these days by the harebrained.

Office bearers of Sri Aurobindo Society should quit Ashram Machiavelli decoupled power from faith and Montesquieu pleaded for separation of powers. Adam Smith sought to keep commerce free from all encumbrances. 

Ambivalence mires Sri Aurobindo Ambivalence pertaining to Sri Aurobindo in the public mind persists for a plethora of reasons. Bengal renaissance is a lengthy and complex subject

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo: 1893 – 1973 Sri Aurobindo returned to India in 1893 and this is the 120^th year. The Mother passed away in 1973 and that is 40 years back.

Ashram doesn't own the teachings of Sri Aurobindo Numerically, the members of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry are a miniscule among the devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo

The sovereignty of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are Supreme Divine. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. There is no further scope to argue about this 

Purity and prosperity The tag, “a realised person” has a great value in India. The person is understood to be acting directly under the light of his Self or Spirit Economic paradigm of Sri Aurobindo Ashram needs scrutiny All said and done, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry today represents a lived reality that is unparalleled anywhere in the world. Bankim’s Anandamath

A case for Integral Education Religion is a collective affair with a liberal sprinkling of festivals. Celebrations, obviously, are happy and colourful occasions

Savitri Era entering the tent Mike is right. “Just put up some pictures of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother in your house” and that’s the first ritual. But wait! Reverse the order

Heehs can easily say to err is human “The intersection of religion and nationalism remains an unresolved issue,” wrote Mohanty in Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader (Rutledge: 2008 & Rimina’s first assignment)

Sri Aurobindo advocates a religious ethos for nationalism Tweets 23 Dec - @satyamevajayate Reciting Savitri and reading The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo is perhaps the best means for spreading sanity and harmony. 23 Dec - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty May the youth of my country follow the words of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo instead of chasing quick-fix solutions in Rajpath and India Gate.

Savitri Era Religious Fraternity It appears that I am the only one so far in favour of Savitri Era Religion. Founding a new religion is not an easy task RC is right in catching discrepancies in The Mother's utterances, but he must understand the balancing act she had to perform in the face of multi-pronged resistances. 

No online evaluation of experiences But how all the Heehs’ hounds so uniformly accede to Das Gupta’s divine right to rule for ever is something beyond comprehension.

Auroville is sinking into paranoia of insecurity and aloofness The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, in their role in history, stand for human unity… Appointment of an Odia trustee is being resisted tooth and nail. 

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo infuse a thought revolution Tweets 1h - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have inaugurated a new epoch to break free from the shackles of the past and its prohibitions.

Integral Yoga is no uniform potion But non-linear Integral Yoga Ontology and its spiral evolution paradigm is more prone to post-modernist rapprochement with tentativeness, contingency, and uncertainty of interpretation. 

This formula offers a new light of hope, change & a chance of greater bonding

Anirban said...

Tusarji, great, you have pulled out the 'magic formula' from the Master & have succinctly & attractively presented it to a much confused &, searching & divided polity! 'Unity, Mutuality & Harmony' are indeed the combination that can work wonders today & is the formula that is much required & which can work a way out from all impasse at all levels. Unfortunately nobody seems to realise & attempt to work it out in our national affairs today.

This formula, I believe, must be adopted & promoted by the Savitri Era Party & must in a sense represent its refreshing uniqueness today. Sixty years after independence, when most in public life are taking stands & formulating positions inspired by exclusivity, divisiveness, intolerance & creating a near constant state of dis-harmony & thus splintering further our polity, this formula offers a new light of hope, change & a chance of greater bonding. I am certain that if adopted by the Savitri Era Party it will have an appeal to all especially the youth & be an instant hit! It is relevant in international relations & needs application at that level too.

One must guard against Unity turning into uniformity - it leads to stagnation & eventual death, you have sounded the warning from the Master on that front & we'll all do well to pay heed to it. Greater world unity can come about through a preserved & protected diverse difference & not through an imposed uniformity. 4:45 PM, August 25, 2007

International terrorism is clearly a suicidally anti-evolutionary force

Anirban said...

Tusarji, I must admit that I am at a loss to understand what this statement means -Terrorism is part of the same circuit as free market & capitalism- may be you could shed some light on it publicly. I feel the writer has missed the whole burden, purport, warnings & chilling consequences & effects of international terrorism that we are witnessing today in this country & the world at large.

It has to be clearly understood that there have always been active on the international plane as much as on the individual plane forces that are anti-evolutionary, regressive & others which are evolutionary & progressive. International terrorism is clearly a suicidally anti-evolutionary force & its executive-hordes wish to impose a uniformly regressive & medieval system of life on the whole globe - a uniform talibanisation of the multi-racial, multi-cultural composition of the present human civilisation. I think it stretching things too far & thin to equate free market & capitalist system with terrorism which complete the regressive loop, I hope i have understood it right with my limited knowledge of situations & terms.

Free market & capitalism with all their short-comings & negative fall-outs must today be looked at as progressive forces which have to be wisely encouraged & supported & spread so that cesspools of stagnation & deprivation which are one of the factors which give rise to alienation, segregation & as a result terrorism are eradicated. These are instruments which have to be used for this purpose & not be lumped & tied to a regressive loop.

As to the Islam debate, I have not had the time to read it in full, but nevertheless I would like to make some points here:

* All religion need to evolve & develop a greater spirit of tolerance & work towards developing & preserving a 'multiple unity' & that is the only way forward if all have to survive & grow. Islam is no exception to this & it has to evolve a greater power of tolerance, understanding & assimilation, other religions too must also be equally forthcoming on this aspect. The one's that have always had these over ages must be careful not to lose them in spite of extreme provocation & circumstances, because a preservation of assimilation & tolerance & deeper understanding is the only hope for a way jointly-forward & one of the most effective way of tackling the scourge of terrorism today.

* But it would be worthwhile to debate also why most of those spearheading world terrorism today are doing so in the name of Islam & what could be the possible factors that drive some of the best educated & placed Muslims to enlist themselves in the ranks of the international terrorists? Remember the Indian Muslim from Bangalore who had the best of western education, was not deprived, was well placed & well-off & yet was motivated enough to ram a jeep at an airport terminal in the country that had allowed him to live & thrive on its soil. These are issue which need to be looked dispassionately & analysed & unraveled & international terrorism must not be treated just as any other subject & clubbed-looped with other issues, it is too serious today to be treated like this, it is the force that requires to be understood in its proper perspective & then resolutely tackled transcending borders, beliefs & cultures.

* It is also to be observed that these terrorists do not bat an eyelid- to blow up a mosque full of praying faithfuls, doesn't this show that there must be a deeper angle to the thing? Therefore I suggest, that to treat terrorists & international terrorism as a subject apart today would be the best rational approach.

* Prof Kittu Reddy is not representative of the voice of the current elders of the Ashram, it would be unfair to equate his views with that of all the elders of the Ashram. He is respected & has his views to which he is entitled & which happens to be given by him in his personal capacity & not in the official capacity of the Ashram. This must be clearly kept in mind whenever a debate is initiated.

* Lastly I think it is too childish, especially for a Sri Aurobindonean, to say that the Battle of Kurukshetra was a war fought only between Hindus, it is not only brushing aside the whole of The Master's views on that event but also missing out the whole deeper symbolism & content of it. For us, we need to look at the Battle of Kurukshetra with the deeper understanding & vision that the Master bestows upon us & from there derive our strength, our balance, our guidance & our swadharma, in short to look upon it to discover the eternal guiding spirit & not with a 'pedestrian journalistic outlook.'

* And finally I would recommend the writer to read, if he has not already, two pieces of the Master, 'Social Reform' & 'Hinduism & The Mission of India', it will give him a right Sri Aurobindonean perpspective on deeper Hinduism & its essential & true mission in India & for the world. Thank you for the opportunity to say these things! 11:33 AM, August 25, 2007