Gandhism as the state religion

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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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. +

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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#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

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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!!+

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

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Movie: The Darkest Hour (2017)

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

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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

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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.
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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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 !

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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

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

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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

Plasim Radar

Lab of Evolution

Yoga Intégral et Défauts Humains (II) -“N’essayez pas d’être vertueux…” - Se rendre compte que tout le monde a des défauts, et donc admettre qu’on en a soi-même aussi, accepter de les voir, quels qu’ils soient, n’est encore qu’un...

Poetry as Socio-proctology

Sen, Hunger & Rothbard's Law - The Economic analysis of hunger calls for only two things- an analysis of who is hungry (demand) and an analysis of who is willing and able to get food to ...

Sri Aurobindo Studies

Isha Upanishad: Summary and Conclusions, Part 1 - The Isha Upanishad confronts the contradictions of human life and thought directly. It is the normal process of the mental consciousness to try to analyze...

enowning

- In-der-Blog-sein RealClear Books on Arendt's *Karl Marx and the Tradition of Political Thought*. It fills in two lacunae in Arendt's work: the intellectu...

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Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry 8 - We reproduce below the seven letters written by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to each other on the subject of their Yoga between 1915 and 1916. They are e...

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India is variety personified - Mirage of a strong state is not a reality. *Making of a strong state is the reality and reality need not get confined to existing or established labels or...

Savitri Era Learning Forum

Aesthetics like nutrition should seek the right-mix - The irony of disowning one's culture The New Indian Express-04-Jun-2019 It is not wise to confuse the treasures of our heritage with the Hindu religion as ...

The Indian Philosophy Blog

Catherine Prueitt hired by the University of British Columbia - Continuing the good news about Canada: Catherine Prueitt has accepted a position in at The University of British Columbia. Congratulations to her and to UBC!

The Immanent Frame

Deepening the “zero-sum binary” - Via Islamic finance, “rites” have increased their power over “rights” in Malaysia.

The Chrysalis

The Anthropocene as Psychodrama - Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted ...

An und für sich

The right-wing reaction is part of the legacy of the fall of the Soviet Union - In Neoliberalism’s Demons, available wherever fine books are sold, I argue that the right-wing reaction is not a necessary outcome of neoliberalism — in pa...

Auro e-Books

Antithesis of Yoga - Antithesis of Yoga is a non-fiction novel about Auroville’s first 25 years. Jocelyn one of the early settlers in Auroville since 1969, chronicles the sto...

[PDF] IMAGINING PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN TEACHING PROFESSION: A STEP TO ENHANCE QUALITY EDUCATION
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 …

[PDF] Aesthetics of Sublime and the Poetry of Charu Sheel Singh
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 …

Not all societies are attempting to solve the same kinds of problems

"Morality as a social technology will take different forms because not all societies are attempting to solve exactly the same kinds of problems under the same kinds of constraints" via @IAI_TV https://t.co/WEd3ZOka3Z

https://twitter.com/OUPPhilosophy/status/1137298277278240768?s=19

I think Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon is an excellent view of objective morality. It reveals the nature of humans and how morality can be achieved.

https://twitter.com/OrthodoxDogmas/status/1137301928889802752?s=19

It’s a thought experiment. As there are only a few characters on tweeter I think I’d describe it as how human behaviour changes from immoral to moral when humans think they are constantly being observed in some way, therefore, cannot get away with rapacious behaviour they’d...

9 June 1946: #Soviet leader Joseph #Stalin issues a secret order to denounce General Georgy #Zhukov, one of the best generals of World War II. #WW2 #WWII https://t.co/Y06z02cGI2

https://twitter.com/URDailyHistory/status/1137591401519050752?s=19

There are some parts of “1984” whose relevance seems never to fade. One is the portrayal of the surveillance state. Another is Newspeak, the abuse of language for political purposes. https://t.co/7o4oPkctKr

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1137510955896778752?s=19

I would add 1925 "Metropolis" by Thea von Harbou. Set in 2026 where a city is run by a society of slave laborers. Fritz Lang made great B&W movie of it in 1927.  The theme is consistent with the concept of "big brother" like control of the masses.

https://twitter.com/a211423/status/1137515027445866497?s=19

If the food we eat, the education we get, the healthcare we receive, the temples we go are regulated by the govt(and these facts are celebrated by the media)why not the news we consume? Are news professionals made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

https://twitter.com/ravithinkz/status/980886325342515200?s=19

All media does from morn to evenin is demand govt regulation & its stricter implmntatn on all other sectors,but not on them @dhanyarajendran

https://twitter.com/ravithinkz/status/640745192761376768?s=19

Sevanti Ninan describes how the Indian media has been changed beyond recognition in the past 5 years, how mainstream media has been delegitimised, how the power of "Whatsapp media" has grown & much more:

Read: https://t.co/k7r4wlzhnl

https://twitter.com/TheIndiaForum/status/1137166351196459008?s=19

As a matter of fact, Indian constitution is not secular in any sense of that word and freedom-struggle has not resulted in freedom from state-tyranny. Tyranny just changed hands. https://t.co/cm3rpTVYLP

https://twitter.com/SwapnaUdayana/status/1137591488525692929?s=19

Those who tweet in Hindi or Odia tend to be more prone to wordplay and humour. The same may be true for other local languages. Writing in English on the other hand allows the content to hog the limelight. Or may be English retains this status in India for those who don't speak it

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1137398134550614016?s=19

Koraput : Found a good quote in the T-Shirt of a Tea vendor .: 'I am not arguing but simply trying to explain why I might be right' Impressive .....

https://twitter.com/santakar/status/1137579341527756802?s=19

Just saw Jupiter shining in the sky, the brightest I’ve ever seen it. It made me feel so small, and made our everyday arguments seem so petty

https://twitter.com/MalikAshok/status/1137405096734498816?s=19

Ignorance lies in us in the form of thoughts. That is how it is explicable. Everything that is explicable lies as opposites i.e. like a lawyer you can argue the same thing to opposite conclusions.  So much so ignorance can only be removed by thought process called 'Vichara'.

https://twitter.com/Janamejayan/status/1137527425846456320?s=19

If you realize that the objective world (that includes your body and mind) is the content of your intelligence then you realize that these contents appear and disappear and thus are unreal while your intelligence has always been there as a container with or without the content.

What appears and disappears is timebound and thus unreal whereas that which is eternal i.e. that which has no beginning and no end is timeless and Real.

That intelligence to which all things of the universe is content, know that Intelligence as You, the Self which is one without a second!

Analysis of Isha Upanishad, Knowledge and Ignorance, Part 3 https://t.co/M9Ruqv9sKu

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1137374196701548544?s=19

The authority of a political leader depends on his capacity to feel and express the sentiments of the people who follow him; it does not reside in himself. He holds his position because he is a representative man, not because he is such and such an individual. To take the position that because he has led in the past therefore his word must be law so long as he lives is to ignore the root principles of political life. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga https://t.co/AzyMFyH2QR

https://twitter.com/integralyog/status/1137554692613988352?s=19

Enough of devotion! We now want critical works on Sri Aurobindo's literary output. Of course, nobody shd forget on whom he/she is writing! Can u forget when u r writing on Shakespeare? Like that. Sri Aurobindo is another Lord of the English  language.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1137541369789001728?s=19

He must be placed in a comparative framework. Else the world won't accept his merit. Most in the world r not devotees of Sri Aurobindo.  And our objective will be to make them know him.  Devotion has done enough harm to Sri Aurobindo. Both the devotees n detractors r guilty.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1137596653349683200?s=19

Dada I have not seen one second piece of literature ,not even rishi aurobindo tbh,that combines so many fields or divergent streams of wisdom in the diary of spiritual journey of a common Kolkata man ,only Kolkata can give such literature to the world 

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1137380946011758593?s=19

Ulysses by James Joyce shares a similar pattern in the way of narrative ,but Ulysses borrows from history&mythology,not exactly tantra,Philosophy &science like nigurananda. Btw I realised this now,nigurananda may well be considered a mild 'streams of consciousness' writer 

Gebser's "universal way of looking at things" implies a "Universal Humanity" capable of such holistic and integral perception (*sub specie aeternitatis", as they say). This is Blake's "Albion", and the same is Aurobindo's "supramental consciousness". The same is Iain McGilchrist's "Master" mode of perception/attention.

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1137355423097470976?s=19

What you enter is a kind of oneiric excavation site...a psychological space where our deepest memories of primary form -- marine shapes like prawns or conch shells or fish, lizards, goats, sundry animal and human shapes, faces, bodies, eyes, boats, little architectural details... https://t.co/jmIYdGZcBd

https://twitter.com/kazhugan/status/1137587766546452481?s=19

...all float in a kind of plasmatic medium and slowly morph into each other, or into letters. Real letters, pseudo letters, invented scripts, possible scripts. It's like going back to that part of human history where language itself is forming... https://t.co/T93ZTegUay

...a possible morphology of the human mind in our ancient world. https://t.co/5poj2CDMEj

Darwinian atheism is also a religion

Ha ha. But to tell you the truth, I am FED UP of India being OBSESSED with religion. I cannot fathom this beyond a point. It is a crazy, all-consuming obsession. The real minority are the Darwinian atheists, and no one gives a damn for them. https://t.co/Mlt4d0rmFV

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1112710397700788228?s=19

Sick of religion yes. But you have no choice - you cannot possibly survive with Muslims and Christian converts around you unless you highlight or forego your identity which you never cared for otherwise. It was our Christian neighbors who told my child that she was a Hindu.

https://twitter.com/satyameva27/status/1112747233957416966?s=19

Darwinian atheism is also a religion when is steps out of strict confines of biological research. Eugenics after all is Darwinism applied to social sphere. It doesn't have a pretty history.

https://twitter.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1112726279500062721?s=19

Disagree. What you say is true but it is because of a terrible misreading of Darwinism, and in the domain of Social Darwinism, that ironically Darwin warned against but of course he didn't coin this phrase. Communist atheism is a kind of religion, not Darwinian atheism.

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1112735063718924288?s=19

Darwinian atheism is a religion too as it relies on belief in its various postulates leaving its followers blind when it comes to understanding life and universe. In contrast Sri Aurobindo's Integral evolution theory has a meta framework that explains a lot more.

https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1112742052419256320?s=19

Seriously: read #Aurobindo on #Darwin’s limitations. He gets Darwin totally & then reveals its totally unconscious & flawed construct. BTW, SA insights have great relevance in totally clueless debates re GMO/genetics. @nntaleb should dig into it.

cc @RachelsNews @drvandanashiva

https://twitter.com/PS_009/status/1112740323485204480?s=19

I suggest Ranga Sir to read ‘Hints of self culture’ written by Ghadar fame Lala Hardayal, this classic volume deals with different subjects and how to apply them on human life, @unityarvind Sir has written a great article on this topic of Darwinism by referring this book. https://t.co/HcXgDj7BVE

https://twitter.com/Half_Baaked/status/1112758333574799362?s=19

Sri Aurobindo's musings on the League of Nations prior to its formation https://t.co/2cFME4y3us

https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1112765317082767360?s=19

Science and technology made a steady progress during their lifetime (1872-1973), but The Mother & Sri Aurobindo remained steadfast in their reliance on self-culture for all changes including transformation of the body. Besides, they took enough pains to write to subvert narrative

[The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’s gospel of Divine Life is there enshrined in his vast body of literature. The Teachings of the Mother are there amply explained in her Writings and Talks which are happily growing year by year.] M.P. Pandit Breath of Grace https://t.co/GHKCPefzrv

Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: Books on disciples of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother https://t.co/7ZHCou8IYW By M.P. Pandit, Krishna Chakravarti, Shyam Kumari, Sunayana Panda, and Anie Nunnally: Some must read books for the admirers, followers, and devotees of #SriAurobindo.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1112805596334522368?s=19

Plasim Radar

The Chrysalis

Life Inside the Global Brain: Nationalism and Transnationalism - In a faux pas now become somewhat infamous, a hapless Flat Earther once boasted that they had “members all around the globe”. A good many people were enter...

AuroMaa

Savitri Satsang 088 pp. 154-157 - A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English). The post Savitri Satsang 088 pp. 154-157 appeared first on AuroMaa.

Sri Aurobindo Studies

A True Spiritual Means of Regenerating the Vital Being of Man - The unregenerate vital nature is the cause of much pain and suffering, both for the individual and for the society. The society tries to gain control over...

Poetry as Socio-proctology

Dravid's ten string lyre - Wine's Red Sea un-parted by her Dance or the Muse's Memory is Miriam alone- Chance its own Eleusis. May Dravid's ten string lyre Tune Iyer to Pariah.

enowning

- In Senses of Cinema James Magrini reviews Shawn Loht's *Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience*. It is important to understa...

Overman Foundation

Sri Aurobindo and the Nobel Prize - Dear Friends, Deeply impressed by Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine, Sir Francis Younghusband had nominated Sri Aurobindo’s name for the Nobel Prize in Liter...

The Indian Philosophy Blog

Migration of Richard Marshall’s philosophy interviews to new site - Richard Marshall’s series that interviews contemporary philosophers (including some of our own specialists on India) has moved from 3AM magazine to a new s...

The Immanent Frame

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! - Don’t you love the word “debunk”? Its cheerfully aggressive sound is inseparable from its sense. The second syllable, bunk!, seems to leap down from the La...

An und für sich

Ecotheological Pathways (Inner Animalities Book Event) - This response is from Elizabeth Pyne, who is currently an instructor at Fordham University’s London Centre. Her research engages various intersections betw...

Savitri Era Learning Forum

Sri Aurobindo considered the conquest of death to be essential - What is now known as Hinduism was the multiculturalism before the capital M Multiculti of today. What held it together were certain Dharmic values of mutu...

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Process of learning - Any subject for that matter must proceed with a conceptual or real framework which one must imitate or reproduce. Then, follow it up with individual impro...

Integral Musings | Towards a Holistic Vision

Inner Feelings and Relationships – M.S. Srinivasan - (Harmonious relationship is one of the major aims of collective living. What is the main factor which can bring this harmony to our communal life? It is ...

Love of All Wisdom

On new translations in Indian philosophy - One of the immediate frustrations one faces in teaching Indian philosophy is that good translations are sorely lacking, certainly into … Continue reading 

Footnotes2Plato

From pedagogy to cosmology with A. N. Whitehead - A student in my course this semester asked a great question recently: “How is Whitehead’s cosmology related to his pedagogy?” Many commentators find it str...

Savitri Era

Believe in the Vedic Evolutionary ontology of Sri Aurobindo - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar While it's understandable that electoral politics and its compulsions will dominate the national sce...

Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal

Revisiting a Book about 12 Women - Some posts must be re-blogged…this is one of them. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, I revisit and re-post this after adding a few more re...

matriwords

Hampi Continues to Live – Part 2 - Continued from Part 1 A Walk on Hemakuta Hilltop We began exploration of Hampi at the Sasivekalu Ganesha Temple, located on the Hemkuta Hill. As the st...

Auro e-Books

The Science of Living - The Science of Living To know oneself and to control oneself An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not fo...

Feel Philosophy

Rousseau's readers learned to expect no verification - "What I most disliked about Harvard was that smug assumptions were too often treated as substitutes for evidence or logic. The idea seemed to be that if w...

Aurora Mirabilis

Sri Aurobindo's theo-political reconfiguration of Hinduism - The Making of an Avatar: Reading Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950) | Wolfers | Religions of South Asia - Equinox eBooks Publishing - Equinox Publishing https...

Plain & Simple

Impossible to overestimate the importance of Sri Aurobindo - Tusar Nath MohapatraJanuary 18, 2017 8:13 PM [emotions are directly tied to our actions... Emotions, then, are creative.] https://qz.com/887524/forget-sto...

Tusar Nath Mohapatra

My original contributions to understanding Sri Aurobindo - My original contributions to understanding or interpreting Sri Aurobindo can be summarised under a number of heads: 1) Against Hindutva, Mythology, & Astro...

Marketime

Physics is the key for prosperity - As India enters elite space league with 'Mission Shakti' A-SAT the, here's why it's is a gamechanger for the nation #IndiaSpaceSuperPower https://t.co/MBeNS..

Sovereignty for the States of Pakistan and India

The Collectivist Mystique and the Rise of the Totalitarian State https://t.co/Tv6nH0DMWo

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1101455834142384129?s=19

Read the genesis of Swadeshi as a weapon of mass movement - through the genius of Aurobindo Ghosh. He was a remarkable mind.  https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU

Heard of Bepin Chandra Pal ? The leader of the extremist faction of Indian National Congress. He played a major role in reversing the partition of Bengal along with Aurobindo Ghosh. He was a Hindu Bengali from Sylhet who worked towards freedom from Calcutta https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1101475388423852033?s=19

Boycott of foreign goods was the cornerstone of the Non Cooperation Movement of Gandhi. It was devised as a devastating tool of mass movement by Aurobindo Ghosh in 1905. The concept recurred in Indic ethos locally in several places long back. Read:  https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU

In a few years in which he was active politically, Aurobindo Ghosh galvanized the freedom movement and left inspirational, logical writings that inspired an entire generation of revolutionaries after him. He was the pioneer of the freedom movement  https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU

Hindu Bengali revolutionaries pursued the British everywhere within and outside India. What Aurobindo Ghosh started, Subhas Chandra Bose finished. We write how they helped organize revolutionary efforts in deep South India. Read  https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU

And Gandhi Ji was an out & out British & big business stooge, racist and misogynist, as we have argued in series of our articles on him. But yes statement of fact - Marwaris, Gujaratis supported Gandhi Ji with all their money power https://t.co/c636xTMEhS

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Read how the genius of Aurobindo Ghosh wove together the entire set of civil disobedience tools that the Indian civilisation possessed into a mass movement that would ultimately force the British to capitulate on the Partition of Bengal. https://t.co/nMOvB15B1U

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The story of young Indu Bhushan Roy hanging himself in his cell because he refused to, any longer, be subjected to barbaric treatment; the valiant and irrepressible Ullaskar Dutt turning insane because of extreme torture and insult; and the intellectually alive and sensitive Upendranath Banerjee, among others, tied to the kolulike cattle and forced to turn the oil press; and the likes of Ram Rakha, Baba Prithvi Singh, Trailokyanath Chakravarty, Barindra Kumar Ghose, Bhai Parmanand, all of whom endured extreme hardship, are chapters that need repeated recounting. By: Anirban Ganguly January 17, 2019: Articles

http://www.anirbanganguly.in/2019/01/17/modi-must-get-credit-for-mainstreaming-the-nationalist-narrative/

[My great-great-grandfather, Upendra Nath Banerjee, was a revolutionary in the group that Sri Aurobindo led. He was one of the principal members, along with Sri Aurobindo’s younger brother, Barindra Kumar Ghosh.] By Dr. Anirban Ganguly @anirbanganguly https://t.co/5YRZIdGeD3

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Key Note address on 'Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Higher Education in Bengal' by Dr @anirbanganguly, Director, @spmrfoundation in Vidyasagar Hall, organised by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata. https://t.co/dsx932VAHX

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Landed in Dhaka, looking forward to addressing students at the historic Dhaka University this evening...India's vision of the neighbourhood driven by PM Modi's vision of a shared zone of prosperity is the way forward...recalcitrant nations will fall by the wayside... #NewIndia

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People appreciate spirituality from a practical angle | Auroville https://t.co/UkUZcnrzOe [Govt. of India appointed Dr K. Parameswaran, Associate Professor of Law and Dean of Gujarat National Law University in Gandhinagar as Member of the Governing Board of Auroville Foundation.]

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9.6.71 "The disappearance of Pakistan is inevitable; it should have already happened but human ignorance has delayed it." 18.12.71 Agenda

"I’ve seen how. It won’t be done through a battle: the different parts of Pakistan will demand separation. There are five of them." The Mother https://t.co/nI7HLU261Y

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24) Resolving disputes in Calcutta:

In 1903, #SriAurobindo took one month's leave from 22nd Feb. onward. The reason for the leave was to patch up the differences that had arisen b/w Jatin & Barin at Calcutta.

Barin & others were not too happy with Jatin's disciplinarian nature: https://t.co/JOyx4mztKY

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1101479522560544769?s=19

Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: Twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother https://t.co/0J7GITlsOb 1. Sincerity 2. Humility 3. Gratitude 4. Perseverance 5. Aspiration 6. Receptivity 7. Progress 8. Courage 9. Goodness 10. Generosity 11. Equality 12. Peace #Auroville

Two notable polyglots were Indian Philosopher Sri Aurobindo and former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who knew over 10 languages each. https://t.co/MohL9Rkh6I

https://twitter.com/TheStatesmanLtd/status/1101424449314803713?s=19

Aurora Mirabilis: Sri Aurobindo was an unparalleled genius and visionary https://t.co/n3xkOgAGPN @NathTusar Tusar Nath Mohapatra, SELF, #SavitriEra #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh #MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #Auroville 51st anniversary

When Sri Aurobindo, Tilak, and others were fighting against British rule, it wasn't against Christianity or conversion but Savarkar and Golwalkar were able to create a mass antipathy against Islam. So much so that the Mandir issue is less for a home for Ram than hounding Muslims.

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There's no threat to anyone living in a free country like India but whenever Hindu unity or pride is invoked it's invariably directed against Islam if not Muslims apart from mobilising votes or funds. The States of Pakistan as well as India being granted Sovereignty is the answer

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1101422496111362048?s=19

Savitri Era Open Forum: The single most intellectually gifted freedom fighter is Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/aqnYqqNSiW [Dawn Fire - Visit https://t.co/0RdlRtsHka to watch recording, made on 28th Feb, 2019, of Amphitheater dawnfire gathering for celebrating Auroville birthday.]

53. In brief unlike Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi had passionately rejected the British project of Westernizing India.

54. But he had rejected the intellectual premises of much of Western civilization first.

71. The British systematized us as 'Hindus', let us worship our own gods, but in our own caste traditions and not Vedic traditions (they totally discouraged Sanskrit learning) and systematized and guaranteed the caste status.

https://twitter.com/Janamejayan/status/1100778339227312128?s=19

78. The secular successors to the British took this to a higher degree and under Mandal commission perfected the 'class' grouping into Forward castes, Backward Castes, Other Backward Castes, Most Backward Castes and Scheduled Castes.

Marketime: Sri Aurobindo coalesced native ideas into devastating tools of mass movements https://t.co/3khhAJRGvx @NathTusar Tusar Nath Mohapatra, SELF, #SavitriEra #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh #MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #Auroville

Let Modi be the last PM of India and get Nobel Prize for granting Sovereign status to the States by dissolving the Centre.

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Granting Sovereignty to the States to manage their own affairs, including Foreign affairs, is the most appropriate solution to all problems the country is facing today. People must prepare for this futuristic measure by abdicating the grand narrative of an unusually large nation.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1100799462488854528?s=19

Plain & Simple:English of Savitri series by Shraddhavan https://t.co/g5XlLitEwl [Mirra Alfassa's quest for spiritual fulfillment inspired her to traverse oceans and seas to reach India which was considered the fountainhead of mysticism] https://t.co/kEMwuXgS22 #Auroville #Savitri

One meets so many ek se badhkar ek experts on all topics from war to wc on Twitter that it's intimidating sometimes with a perpetual feeling of inadequacy. Invoking Sri Aurobindo however compensates to some extent [hound of heaven or Dakshina whose function is to discern rightly] https://t.co/9viBDQkDC5

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It is absurd that religions - which have no idea about evolution, tectonic plates, or in fact anything at all - are still influential.

https://twitter.com/sabhlok/status/1101408932642250752?s=19

While Modi brigade is drum-beating about #Abhinandancomingback nobody is willing to even acknowledge the greatest population bomb that is exploding within India with EVERY political party, including "Hindu" BJP, helping to accelerate the spreading of the cancer. https://t.co/e2TSdEtbiA

https://twitter.com/viryavaan/status/1101496801100730369?s=19

Semitic Christianity is but a siamese twin of Islam. The Enlightenment that modern West is truly built upon has in it the power to overcome Islam though, just like it did Christianity. https://t.co/kEcdLaSzmi

https://twitter.com/viryavaan/status/1101500816744165376?s=19

So, you are seeing some virtue in secularism? And what's the roadmap? Islam will pervade Europe before being annihilated? Seems interesting. And, the riddle of "a child shall destroy her" remains! @singh_shreepal #SriAurobindo

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1101511503268634624?s=19

[Conversations hold a lot of power. They make intentions clear, establish bonds between you and others, and can make or break a first impression when you meet someone new; can make you seem smart, foolish, warm, distant, bold, shy, or anything in between.] https://t.co/TNvKn3Rmt5

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1101405860423716871?s=19

What is the nature of human existence in the world? What should philosophy be concerned with as a discipline? Philosopher Simon Critchley introduces us to the landscape of continental philosophy (via @fivebooksphil) https://t.co/wEofnxb8fZ

https://twitter.com/IAI_TV/status/1101418658738434048?s=19

From gene therapy to frozen corpses, some scientists are starting to think death might be reversible. But Heidegger famously thought life's transience gave it meaning. Does our fear of death prevent us from living fully? https://t.co/b6x8fRlEd4

https://twitter.com/IAI_TV/status/1101457809340690433?s=19

Physicists have gathered evidence that space-time can behave like a fluid. Is space not as immaterial as we thought? @skdh examines the evidence https://t.co/wIGQb9DXul

https://twitter.com/IAI_TV/status/1100855842075639808?s=19

“Exposing the legacy of patriarchy and white supremacy is the undergirding impulse of my work”

@Princeton Professor @imaniperry, this year's winner of the @PENamerican Prize for Biography, on African American History. #readinglist https://t.co/ZxGOi9wjef

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1101493556101947392?s=19

ANNOUNCING: Swadeshi Indology Conference in Bangalore on how Carnatic music is being secularized & Christianized. 

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"Robert Goldman vs. Gita Press" - Nityanand Misra

Robert Goldman is considered the most prestigious Sanskrit scholar of the past 50 years in the Western academy. This is the first part of a 3-part series in which Nityanand Misra dissects Goldman's translations of Ramayana.