Saturday, September 25, 2021

Some Hindu practices have become an integral part of European societies

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956) @NathTusar, Director, SELF (2005)

[PDF] Crossover Hinduism and Other Possible Categories When Dealing with Hinduism in Europe

MQ Fibiger - Religions, 2021
… In that article, I explored how some Hindu concepts, such as karma, Hindu
practices, such as yoga, and the use of Ayurvedic medicine have become
an integral part of European societies: from alternative lifestyles and …

[HTML] Comparative Analysis of India and China's Soft Power Diplomacy

S East
… soft power diplomacy much later, the concept rapidly rose to popularity in
the mid-2000s and now acts as an integral part of … also overcome the
weaknesses in their hard power diplomacy [v]. The current administration's …

You read the paper The Psychophysics of Saccidananda - Sri Aurobindo and Vedanta. 


The Psychophysics of Saccidananda - Sri Aurobindo and Vedanta
Shelli Joye
2014, California Institute of Integral Studies Doctoral Paper

The Philosophy of Evolution: Mind and Supermind http://universityofhumanunity.org/bibliodetail.php?biblioid=2374

You read the paper A Turn to Matter: The Thought of Sri Aurobindo, Contemporary Art and Religion

[PDF] Deconstructing the Hailing of “Mother India”

N Gupta - Journal of International Women's Studies, 2021
… The political supremacy was deliberately produced in order to create a religious dichotomy.
Anyone who had his/her faith outside the commandments of “Hindutva” was
de-masculinized and was rendered incapable of serving the mother …

[PDF] THE AFFECTIVE BODY: PLATFORMED PRESENCE AND VIRTUAL EMBODIMENT IN THE POPULIST POLITICS OF NARENDRA MODI

L Bhattacharya - AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
… Research, ed. A Athique and V Parthasarathi. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 3. Basu,
Anustup. Hindutva as Political Monotheism. Duke University Press, 2020. 4. Govil, Nitin,
and Anirban Kapil Baishya. “The Bully in the Pulpit: Autocracy …

[PDF] Religion and Populism in the Global South: Islamist Civilisationism of Pakistan's Imran Khan

K Shakil, I Yilmaz - Religions, 2021
… Since Hinduism itself lacks the grounds to be binary, Hindutva provides the dimensions
for divisive populist civilisationism (Pirbhai 2020). Thus, Hindutva is used in an identitarian
populist style. However, given the geographical realties, BJP has no transitional partners …

[PDF] The Political Asceticism of Mamata Banerjee: Female Populist Leadership in Contemporary India

PR Chaudhury - Politics & Gender, 2021
… The ascent of influential Hindu ascetic gurus such as Swami Ramdev (Bhatia
2011; Gooptu 2016; Longkumar 2018; Reddy 2018) as national icons in
citizens' protests against corruption in the government and the rising appeal …

HTML] Harsha Walia, Border and rule

S Carrim - Journal of Refugee Studies, 2021
… In India, the rise in Hindutva fascism, inextricably linked to the efforts of Modi and his
government, has led to violent uprisings against the Muslim minority in the country and
a rejection of applications from Muslim refugees and migrants (p. 174) …

Dances with laws: from metaphor to methodology

R Taylor - 2021
… including a winking emoji with tongue hanging out, mimed the emoji face,
and in another instance, conducted yoga stretches in … In other words, our bodies
play an integral part in conflict, communication and choice-making'." Gestures …

Negotiating Gaps Between Interpretation and Practice of Cultural Traditions in Bengal Renaissance through the Lens of New Historicism

C Chattopadhyay - CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES …, 2021
… 14. Aurobindo R. The Renaissannce in India and other essays on Indian
Culture. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry, 1997, 39. 15.
Greenblatt S.Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare …

[PDF] Vedic interpretations through the ages: A study on interpretations

PM Mishra
… TV Kapali Sastry from the Aurobindo trend has an impression that, Vedas are not literature
like anything, they have philosophy and it is property of intellectuals … (TV Kapallasastrie's
Commentary), Siddhanjana-I, Dipti Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry 1983.
Sowmya
@404GirlNotFound
Venti thandai finally after craving for this thandai mix which is only available at this Aurobindo Ashram shop - SABDA.

Savitri Era
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VIP VAK: Forgotten Keshab vipvak.blogspot.com/2021/09/forgot Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956)
@NathTusar
, Director, SELF (2005), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad-201014 email: tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Savitri Era Learning Forum: Sri Aurobindo’s life-affirming philosophy selforum.blogspot.com/2021/09/sri-au
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Friday, September 3, 2021

The concept of the Ubermenschen was taken by Nietzsche from Renan

Adi Sankara and Aurobindo - Page 32

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Vedre Narayan Karan Reddy · 1992 · ‎Snippet view · ‎More editions
The concept of the Ubermenschen was taken by Nietzsche from Renan. He used this word to explain the heroes of Byron and Shakespeare .

Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual - Issues 44-46 - Page 323

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And it is too late now in the day to start explaining the nature and origin of nationhood ; it was done long ago by Mazzini and by Renan and once for all .

Vishwanath Prasad Varma · 1990 · ‎Preview · ‎More editions
Aurobindo is not comparable to Mazzini in the intensity and range of the latter's political influence . Despite the failure of his early insurrectionary ...

INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT - Page 158

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Aurobindo was influenced by Mazzini's Risorgimento and the Irish patriotic movement. He expressed his feelings for his mother country through poems: Lines ...

Mythic Society (Bangalore, India) · 2001 · ‎Snippet view · ‎More editions
Like Mazzini , Aurobindo believed thet each nation is enstrusted with a mission which it should fulfil . Nation is an eternal entity with a long past out of ...

Sankar Ghose · 1984 · ‎Snippet view
Mazzini thought that the Italians could prove that they were “ all sons of God and ... 159 Aurobindo shared Mazzini's idea of a nation as the radiant and ...

Political Protest in Bengal: Boycott and Terrorism 1905-18 - Page 74

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Hiren Chakrabarti · 1992 · ‎Snippet view
But it is certain that Mazzini's words about the importance of youth in the ... If Aurobindo had not admitted his special debt to Mazzini , 233 one would ...

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But there is nothing definite to show the influence of Mazzini on Sri Aurobindo's theory of nationalism as a religion . After his return from Alipore jail ...





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Monday, August 9, 2021

Sri Aurobindo is the right alternative

 

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Monday, January 18, 2021

Talageri comes at the material from a purely scientific view


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May 7, 2020
Bhai..this book should help a lot...note that Talageri comes at the material from a purely scientific view..like most non sadhaks who approach the Veda..but with background of Sri Aurobindo’s Secret of the Veda and some sadhana one should be able to intuit more...
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Krishna Ramamoorthy
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May 7, 2020
I find the secret of vedas and TalegiriJi's work complementary.

The psychological and historical perspective give a wholsome picture of the vedic age. Sri Aurobindo also encouraged historical study from the vedic literature.
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@kkdr611
 
@Rashtriya2021
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@RaghuveerBelur
Concur with Krishna bhai here...scholars have their utility..but yes, for Sadhana purposes it has to be Master or someone like..Master Rolling on the floor laughing one can clearly know the distinction after a certain stage..a Seer’s word reveals/lives within..the scholar’s word stands there like a dud!
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May 12, 2020
Disappointed face have been at the receiving end of that particular hit many times...and feel his words acutely..all the castes hardly know of the heights which are yet sealed to them, the illusion of superiority and inferiority both obscure equally..
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May 12, 2020
I usually don’t get into this caste squabbles, because neither party is ready to learn and grow..that change must come from within and it will..no amount of tutoring will make the monkey let go off the cookie and free itself..
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May 12, 2020
What will this lot do when Master changes composition of consciousness many times in a single day Rolling on the floor laughing when one’s will is taken away and rendered passive and mute..when no virtue can do alankara to the ego Rolling on the floor laughing and one is surrounded by only the vile and despicable Nerd face
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But ours the privilege unequalled, to stand like Satyakama before our Master and ask, ‘Sir, teach me of the Brahman’. And He wordless queries,’Whereof art thou?’, to which we answer, ‘This I am, this I have become’, without a single conflict quivering within..
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Thread. Master speaks of a spiritual religion that must emerge in the future for a true oneness, not imposed by any limited mental or vital constructions but founded on something deeper, wide and supple to accommodate the spirit’s infinity here below.Down pointing backhand indexFolded hands
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SRI AUROBINDO on spiritual religion

1/14 A spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future. By this is not meant what is ordinarily called a universal religion, a system, a thing of creed and intellectual belief and dogma and outward rite.
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Sanatan Bharat
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Aug 1, 2020
Shameful! This is a insult to the Shakt Parampara and Adi Shakti Peeth Kamakhya. 
But remember we know how powerful this Shakti Peeth is. Any insult will not be tolerated by MahaKali https://twitter.com/rmmnagpur/status/1289187841289773058
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Pronam Bharat
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Aug 1, 2020
@kalisbrood
 Up pointing backhand index
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@kalisbrood
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@BharatPronam
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@SanataniBharat
Pathetic..shows how little they know of anything actually..but there is another point here..the Mother is all tolerant but we her children need not be so..then again since we lack that effective Shakti to deploy at will we wail like cowards..gain Shakti first says Master Folded hands
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Pronam Bharat
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@SanataniBharat
Seriously ,I got so angry reading that... Other stupids did make me angry but this got in my nerve Frowning face
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Aug 1, 2020
Anger is good, turn it into tapasya..then a will can wipe these out..
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Arunudoy ভট্টাচার্য
@ArunudoyB
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Jun 15, 2020
Questions for followers of Aurobindo:

1) Why did Kireet Joshi stopped funds from Central Government (Congress) to the Ashram?

2) Why Rishi & the Mother donated to the French National Defense Fund, the Viceroy’s War Fund, and the Madras War Fund during 2nd WW, against Germany?
Arunudoy ভট্টাচার্য
@ArunudoyB
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Jun 15, 2020
Accompanying the 3rd donation was a letter to governor of Madras in which they declared their “entire support for the British people and the Empire in their struggle against the aggression's of the Nazi Reich and our complete sympathy with the cause for which they are fighting.”
Arunudoy ভট্টাচার্য
@ArunudoyB
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Jun 15, 2020
Q2: Point should be kept in mind that Indian Revolutionaries were against Brits & Germany was helping them including BOSE.

Why did he take side of Allies when they were against Japan too & Japan was helping Netaji?

@Auro_Mere
 
@kalisbrood
 
@BharatPronam
 Please help me above Q's.
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Jun 15, 2020
Bhai..what Master looked at was the forces behind the Nazi regime, these he saw to be more detrimental to humanity and hence made it a point to publicly side with Allies in that war. India’s freedom was already foreseen and the stress was not on the immediate circumstances.
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Jun 15, 2020
This is the same Sri Aurobindo who made it his life’s mission to free India through political and revolutionary means. But his inward growth led him to see more clearly behind the words and slogans of nations, bigger forces that determine destinies in an hour.
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This might seem like wordplay, until we ourselves have glimpsed some of these powers behind. So that is my considered view. Of the KJ affair I have no clue, my interests are only in the Master and his Yoga, non-yogic dealings of the Ashram am glad to be ignorant of. Nerd face
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@Auro_Mere
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@BharatPronam
We know if Netaji could make entry thru Imphal, today India would have been Bharat.

Was this the reason to Support Anti German/Japan allies? 

India’s (Jewish) Mother: How Mirra Alfassa went from being a French bohemian to an Indian goddess
India's (Jewish) Mother: How Mirra Alfassa went from being a French bohemian to an Indian goddess
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Jun 15, 2020
Tricky ground bhai. It is my daily living experience that She is the Divine. The opinions of non-yogic minds really can’t help here. The decisions taken when the world was as a cauldron cannot be straightforward. Perhaps Bose might have led us forward, but now we have to lead on.
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May 30, 2020
Skanda can be propitiated, his war-moods felt, eliminating all that is crooked and narrow in us. Shiva as Lord of Yoga can be meditated upon, his immovable peace felt and established in our being. Krishna can be adored, we must see him everywhere, that ‘Sarvavyapi’, (cont)
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May 30, 2020
..seated in the hearts of all things, moving all by their swabhava, the Lord of the Gita must grow tangible to our waking self and be unto us as he was to Arjuna. The two birds of the Mundaka Upanishad are not mere metaphors, they are experiences to be had, we see ourselves..
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..seated high above within, an observer, watching all the sweet and bitter fruits being eaten our lower self. The Upanishads are not parables to please children, they are mighty maps of the numberless soul states discovered by our Seers. Indra is not a mere peddler of lightnings,
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May 30, 2020
As Lord of the Illumined mind he opens vast continents of god knowledge in a single flash. Rudra, the Maruts, Savitr, Ashwins and more..all are conscious powers that can effectuate the divine birth of us, one vastly more luminous than the one we possess now.
Krishna Ramamoorthy
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May 30, 2020
And the vedic agni.... the central divinity of Sri Aurobindo and mother's teaching. The psychic being.
Eagerly awaiting a series from you on the vedic agni.
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May 30, 2020
Yes saar..without the Leader of our Journeys we are headed nowhere! Will make my offering in a few daysFolded hands
Krishna Ramamoorthy
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May 30, 2020
Leader of our journey....a beautiful description. 

What a pity that most of the hindus are not even aware of his significance.
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@kkdr611
Exactly saar, I can’t fathom how the Vedic Rishis even figured all this out, and how Master pulled out their significances like Varaha!! It’s been an aspiration to produce something like a map of the Rig Veda..the actual realisations and movements of each sukta...
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Krishna Ramamoorthy
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Please no "sir", just Krishna is fine.

It will be a great service if you do the map. 

Reading the Rig Vedas before and after reading secret of vedas has a night and day difference. Unfortunately not many books expanding master's works.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Liberalism is an English tradition

What do we mean by "liberal" here
We live in a world of liberal democracies. You want to undo that?
We are all "Liberals" now. Within the confines of a "Liberal" world, we have :conservatives: and "liberals"
Usually when a right winger uses the term "liberal", I'd agree with you in a western context
But in the Indian context, it is more problematic. Because Hindu-Right has never fully embraced Liberal democracy intellectually
So when "liberal" is used, I don't know which one is it
I'd sort of agree on that for much of H-Right's history...
Am sure Vajapayee, Advani, DDU, Shyama Mukherjee were all Pro-liberal democracy
(Contd..)
Last 5-10 years or so, I see new strands on the internet...
A lot of talk of Dharmika polity as an alternative to "liberal democracy"
I am not against it, because I don't understand what it is..
Not fully
So things like - 
"Free and fair elections", "one person one vote", "equal treatment before law"
Are these consistent with Dharmika principles?
I don't think it can be easily reconciled...that's where it gets problematic
Fair...
But notice one thing - how often "Dharma" is invoked in political contexts in our times
I am rather old fashioned - back in 50s/60s, when ppl used Dharma in ordinary discourse, they largely meant "religion"
E.g. Woh Dharmic kism ke aadmi hai (he is a religious sort)
That's how I always related to the term Dharma...
"Dharmic" meant "being religious"
That's how average Indians use it.
But on twitter it is used differently. To invoke a world view that hopes to rival liberal democracy
And if H-Right's end-game is to undo liberal democracy, sever ties with all those "foreign" political ideas, and build an indigenous political framework based on Kautilya, Manu and others, I am not against that
Except that I dont have a clue how that framework will look and feel
@shrikanth_krish

What exactly is liberal about liberal democracy, due process, votes, equality before law, predate liberalism
I understand that, due process etc predate Hobbes and Locke
But rule by consent is also a traditionalist anglo saxon view predating liberalism
Conventionally that is not regarded as liberalism which starts with Hobbes and Locke with individual as frame of reference

Nope...
We are talking of a different type of liberalism here...
"L"iberalism not progressive politics.
It has its genesis with Machiavelli and Hobbes, with the 1688 revolution being an early milestone
Am talking of the intellectual justification of "rule by consent" as opposed to divine right monarchy
Liberalism's origins are in ancient Anglo Saxon kingdoms..
I don't see Liberalism as a radical innovation. But as an English tradition
Intellectually the formulation happens with Hobbes and Locke
But roots lie much before. Otherwise you won't see Magna Carta being celebrated as much
@shrikanth_krish

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Saturday, September 19, 2020

Become free from the legal morality imposed by the British

SN Balgangadhara should be compulsory reading for Indian lawyers and judges. Unless and until they know how we are different from the ones they imitate they can never be useful to Indians ! 
https://t.co/wGzeTbEPuZ
@sankrant
https://twitter.com/Rohits_17/status/1307211405247098880?s=19
Ideas like essential practice, atheism, “purpose of ritual”, superstition etc do not work in the Indian context at all. That is why every attempt by the government to “savage natives” creates more social conflict and corrupts our public discourse. Time to look inwards. @PMOIndia
Ex: In India society learns through mimetic learning. Stories are representational and contain a set of propositions. That is why stories play such an important role in the lives of children who grow up listening to these stories. But what function can stories play in learning ?
But then how do we decide which stories are fit for learning and which are not ? How does the instructional authority come about ? Social, political or economic position has never determined instructional authority in India unlike say in the west or the Islamic world.
Stories are exemplars that are units of mimetic learning. Meaning that exemplars create new action. Just like ideas generate new ideas, actions can inspire new actions. This is the function of stories and that is why they are used as a tool of learning in India. This is profound
All exemplars are context bound. S.N.B writes that “the context dependence of an action is what makes it fertile in different contexts” Hence this kind of learning produces more individual actions, inspired actions and as a consequence novel actions that lead to knowledge.
That is why Ramayan, Mahabharat, the stories of Chanakya, Mahavir, Buddha, Adi Shankara, Rajendra Chola, Kharvel, Etc still are popular among people. They are all exemplars of learning and hence generate new action while people use a discriminatory criteria to decide how to act
Truschke recently made contradictory claims about history ! That is because she does not know what history is nor is there a definition of “history” per se ! She furthers the agenda of those who pay her. Classic case of Varna Sankara ! 
https://t.co/zWc5jUhq7A
How to read Indian texts :
https://t.co/e92ekX2v76 (7 part video series of a workshop held in Kuvempu in Karnataka) ! 
Stop reading interpretations. First read the texts in Sanskrit or preferrably in your mother tongue.

Nice thread on the western rule based systems of law vs. the Indian story based systems of justice. Good explanation of the work of SN Balagangadhara, on how and why justice is denied in India.
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1307242905900285952?s=19
This is my short essay on the same point. I don’t know when India will ever become free from this legal morality imposed by the British, and adjudicated in the colonial English language.
https://t.co/XHgM3aBDuq
From a computer science and AI perspective, western systems of law and morality are like rule-based AI expert systems, whereas the Indian model of justice is like training a neural network through examples (stories). The second model is context-aware and generalizes better.
Rule based expert systems are completely overturned in AI through learning based systems. It is only a matter of time that they are similarly overturned in the domain of legal code. Stories are far better methods for both communicating and interpreting justice, than legal code.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Savitri Era Party pursues human unity

The open letter by some prominent intellectuals  in @Harpers does make sense.

It is an appeal to all, and not just Trump & his friends, to not stifle free speech under some or the other pretext.
Free speech is the lifeblood of democracy. 
https://t.co/u88KyGmE42
https://twitter.com/CholericCleric/status/1280688188135276544?s=19

"I think it is very natural for everyone to want to see their ancestors and their nation as heroic. And if you can’t do heroic, then the move is to see yourself and your nation as a victim."
Sound familiar? 
https://t.co/AbsKkogwEc
https://twitter.com/peterheehs/status/1280830663201980416?s=19

Don't read lte tetter read this from @OsitaNwanevu  https://t.co/TUJh8jHOXJ
https://twitter.com/TheSamhita/status/1280837214268727297?s=19

The Roman historian Tacitus, on life under the deadening weight of tyranny https://t.co/IDRGH3rHBu
https://twitter.com/WarOnTheRocks/status/1280149549311569921?s=19

Ridiculous & shocking that @INCIndia is forcing its party members to wear RFID tags & tracking their movements. Immoral & unethical surveillance of cadres by leadership of #Congress
https://twitter.com/rvp/status/1280787027869331456?s=19

As poets, academics, journalists, authors, students, and assorted other dissenters are jailed across India, we must at least lend them a ear. Priya Ramani reads letters, poetry, books & notes from prison.
https://t.co/BrDA6dEqwm
https://twitter.com/samar11/status/1280766238201835520?s=19

Unmasking Freedom - Israel Shamir  -https://t.co/owWpQVlS44 via @vijayvaani
https://twitter.com/vijayvaani/status/1280699500491796480?s=19


Two RW experts were debating US politics yesterday but the reality is otherwise. Political and cultural chasm is too wide to be wished away. Chinese scenario, on the other hand, is much nearer in spite of the present hostilities. Geographical contiguity has many other advantages.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1279085920373764097?s=19
At this point when a pandemic is obdurate, the humanity must stand as one. The human race is one in spite of conflicts between govts. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo stand for harmony and peace and not agression. Those who portray Sri Aurobindo in their pet muscular image are mistaken.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1280354856205598725?s=19
It's not very difficult to perceive that there is Democracy and transparency deficit at present but this is not the time to critically examine the govt. Hunger for optics and political mileage will always be there but then they are part of the package. jingoism too is undesirable
The Ideal of Human Unity is most pertinent at the moment. #COVID19 is also forcing local autonomy which may lead to Sovereignty to the States of India. #WorldUnion too can take a definite shape. Savitri Era Religion will play an important role in this wide-ranging transformation.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1280674895869833216?s=19

First codification; then implementation. First laying down the tenets and then following them. Thus be it Quality or Dharma, the blueprint is essential for building. Domain knowledge, therefore, is crucial; respecting it essential. This is the lesson number One of Dharma practice https://t.co/XAXTE5irXJ
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1272786045797494785?s=19

Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF): Free speech is the lifeblood of Democracy https://t.co/yf9TS2duFJ
"Optimism bias" makes one think one is excluded from potential negative effects.
Assorted Tweets collated by @NathTusar #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion Also at @ElymentsApp https://t.co/BCsFfR01Sp
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Sunday, March 8, 2020

The Human Cycle has solutions to present problems

Sir, the Asura has to be fought and in fact Mother Sri Aurobindo fought the bloodiest war to stop him. When the Mother duped Hitler into Eastern campaign it resulted in the greatest number of deaths & atrocities that have yet to be equaled in annals of warfare.
https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1235244627378266114?s=19
Even now China has been able to control the Coronavirus by extreme & brutal measures which, if it had not implemented, would have resulted in millions others suffering worldwide... there is no escaping the law of force. Any attempt to prematurely circumvent will only boomerang.
I can tell u 1 thing coming from a Westernized background  that the more I encounter the traditions & forms & practices of the giant body of Hindu traditions be it Yoga, ayurveda, veda, devalaya, mantra, even Varna the more I find powers & truths beyond limitations of modernity.
I do not therefore today judge Hindu traditions from a modern pov but vice-versa. I do not deny there is a great utility in all that modernity bestows but its value is infinitesimal compared to the hidden intuitive pearls that litter the whole Hindu civilizational complex.
With due respect the village is hardly the acme of Indian civilization. That sounds more like Gandhian idealism which romanticized the village. I am not talking abt village but all the various cultural artifacts & treasures, too numerous to enumerate, some which i cited earlier.
Yes the main question is WHAT is going to be stabilized? If he is simply providing a corruption-free poorly-performing Hindu-averse secular socialist Congress-ideology govt then he is STABILIZING and PERPETUATING the very problem he was elected to change in the first place.
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This wud be suicidal for both BJP & India. BJP is not merely a secular Cong clone. Its sole purpose for existence is the liberation of the Hindu nation from the parasitical & life-stealing secular Leftism bent upon de-Hinduizing & destroying it even if it means Islamizing it.
Yes in the play of forces Modi has part to play his & others of us have ours to play too. The role that Modi inhabits, the power that is in his hands is too great to be allowed to go waste. As Arjuna had his choice NOT to do his dharma Modi has too. That is why he must be opposed.
Not at all subjective. Not in the least. The prblm is that the subjective obscures us from the objective. We r too full, too crammed with all the material that has been pumped into our brains which gives us a false sense of "knowledge". This "subjectivitiy" is what veils our view
Agreed on the faith part. Only thru Grace of Mother Sri Aurobindo I have w/out asking experienced 1st hand a fraction of the verities encapsulated & transmitted to us in form of traditions. Only then I realized that the mental "knowledge" I had was the actual unseeing ignorance.

I didn't know my gender, caste, race, religion, region, language, nationality, or blood type when I was born nor had any hand in choosing them. Yet, social existence depends so much upon them and their ossification. The Mother is a symbol for transcending all these constructions.
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Efforts of the last seventy years have evaporated. Why? It's not easy to diagnose and therefore it's likely to fester. Sri Aurobindo talked about these a hundred years back. The Human Cycle is a classic which has solutions to many problems of the present. https://t.co/258htdcrnn
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Not enough to be proud of Konark temple alone. How to build the future is very important. There are professionals and experts but there is a lack of thinkers. All have a responsibility to build a hatred-free society. #SriAurobindo helps in the growth of all aspects of personality.
Please look around you. The level of education may have increased to some extent, but ignorance is spreading. Everyone is ready to bow before tradition and worship superstition. Prosperity has made people inactive, the brain lazy. #SriAurobindo is the cure for all these diseases.
Sounds rhetorical but this is the crux of the problem, especially, after advent of Hindutva and its harnessing for capturing power. That it won't introduce a slew of anomalies is to be naive. In Sri Aurobindo's writings we don't find this dichotomy but now one has to be cautious.
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Agree wholeheartedly and I apply whatever little I understand of Humanities when I write here. My opinion doesn't match with anyone else but I'm helpless about it. So, don't worry, no one is taking my words seriously; at least there's no evidence of it till now.
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Savitri Era: Sanskrit texts don't contain self-evident truth https://t.co/MOEduRHsek
#SavitriEra of those who adore
Om #SriAurobindo & #TheMother
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Sri Aurobindo considers Nation-ego as false subjectivism, which thrusts one's superiority in the name of national pride. The Nation-soul, is true subjectivism, which attempts to capture one's traditional heritage and values not as compensation for real or imagined injuries.
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Everyone else gets a religion, Hindus get only culture.
Everyone else gets a life, Hindus get only a way of life.
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Every great movement is born from the cauldron of forces that can’t be controlled entirely..for each idealist and strategists there will be a hundred hotheads on ground..against the prevailing cult like liberal and desert narratives hindus are bound to break a few eggs.
And to follow Sri Aurobindo is not given to the meek or the lazy..individuals and society must have attempted and exhausted their lesser ideals..the Arjuna moment of despair for a newer ideal must emerge organically..for thus alone will the new light take deep roots...
A premature caution, a too eager morality is what Arjuna fell for, and what the Godhead reasoned and absolved him of..a timid sword arm withheld by morality is a double whammy..which is what Hindus have been reduced by/to..the Kshatriya in us must relearn power and honour first..
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Sir, please desist. What you are saying goes against the very foundational edict of the Gita...it adharma has infested neighbours or friends or even family then it has to be dealt with...you just don’t seem to know what forces you are aiding..stop please...
Proves you neither understand Gita not even the rudimentary of sadhana...may the Divine save those who value your words..and no, Auroville is not a superfluous feel good venture initiated by the Mother..it’s a mighty leap into the future meant for heroes of Spirit..
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🌾Sri Aurobindo wrote in his letter to his wife Mrinalini that he had three madnesses . First ,all his knowledge ,genius and material possessions were God's These hd to be returned to God after providing  for the family . Second he wanted to see God .He hd realized that what -
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that what the Hindu religion had said was true . Third he looked upon his country as the Mother . He worshipped Her as the Mother . He asked what a son would do if a DEMON sat on his mother's breast and started sucking Her blood -Sri Aurobindo 🙏🚩🙏🚩

India is a rare nation in which the country itself is worshipped as the Divine Mother, Bharat Mata, Vande Mataram. This worship of Mother India goes back thousands of years, long before any nation states existed. #InternationalWomensDay
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This is how Sri Aurobindo retains the incantatory rhythm of Sanskrit in his English. The rhetoric used in the passage has a technical name: Anaphora. The repetition of a word at the start of a line or sentence or a cluster of clauses.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal3/status/1236483894603419648?s=19

Dr faustus🙏🙏European mind is far more yogic than her Indian counterpart, society & religion do not represent yoga, individualism or inversion towards own self is the very first step, that Europe has taken & nurtured through last few centuries. India remains lost in very first stair. https://t.co/Ev9G73ZoJE
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All of us in our paksha need do our research properly or stop using the word 'only' willy-nilly if one is using it without due diligence https://t.co/QAguMN4uSg
https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1236690844226330625?s=19

One of the misleading things I find in many pop sci books is the presumption of incrementalism -- that the addition of a new dimension to the cosmic picture is simply an extension of the old cosmic picture by addition. No. It's a transformation of the entire *Gestalt*.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1236685506018074624?s=19
Just so that we are clear about the sources of this structure, it's Rene Descartes' own method symbolised, which is also perspectivising https://t.co/45vhw8yPEU
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This strange (and absurd) logo, more than anything, expresses what is defective about the modern triangulating logic and triadic consciousness structure (the perspectival or mental-rational). https://t.co/nvl02CxKTy
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