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

https://twitter.com/doubtinggaurav/status/1311176474636898304?s=19

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

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.

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.

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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

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.

https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1234654190699450370?s=19

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.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1236619667793309696?s=19

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

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1236239592589635584?s=19

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.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1236626981581512706?s=19

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.

#SriAurobindo

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1234152527442124801?s=19

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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Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar (SELF)

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.

https://twitter.com/Nimai_Swain/status/1234174704820219909?s=19

Everyone else gets a religion, Hindus get only culture.

Everyone else gets a life, Hindus get only a way of life.

https://twitter.com/entropied/status/1236582513100746753?s=19

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..

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1236650491683069954?s=19

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..

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1234150473965326337?s=19

🌾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 -

https://twitter.com/uttrashada/status/1236571238887088129?s=19

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

https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1236492069432102913?s=19

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

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1235723420140068864?s=19

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

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1236680376510083074?s=19

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

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1236678664298749954?s=19

Growing respect for Sri Aurobindo

Brit imperialism had a strong racist component.That CPI was claiming 2 do freedom fight while being directed by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) tells that the Comrades had swallowed the Brit racist theory in full.Colonized minds can only betray https://t.co/XK5yw003As

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1231982740905525248?s=19

The Communist Party of Gr8 Brit (CPGB) was particularly close 2 the Bombay wing of the CPI. A founder member of the CPGB,Shapurji Saklatvala, was 4m the Tata family of Bombay. The Bombay wing dominated CPI thru  the freedom struggle (which CPI betrayed):  https://t.co/XK5yw003As

On the Freudian unconscious...

× Jacques Lacan ~ knowledge which doesn’t know itself

× Zizek ~ symbolically articulated knowledge ignored by subject

× Don Rumsfeld ~ unknown knowns

https://twitter.com/KS1729/status/1232005953983303681?s=19

[kind of extraordinary so many ideas of 20thC trace their origins to Freud's writings]

Freud and an India connection https://t.co/qU58jOUY8c

Two descriptions on how to be...

Christ to apostles:"...be wise as serpents & gentle as doves"

Auden on Freud: "who remembers like the old & is honest like children"

a man studies Freud for forty years, writes a book about him. he begins by relying on these two great experts of the human mind https://t.co/lMndc4akCd

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Savitri Era Party is an attempt to grow awareness about Sri Aurobindo and develop respect towards him. Right now, he is largely unknown; and even for those who know, is to no avail. This is the factual situation and there's no evidence to the contrary. Yet, sudden change possible

Poets and philosophers are remembered in all cultures but language poses a barrier in India. Since Sri Aurobindo wrote in English, he is not easily accepted as their own in any region. But his neutral stand on religion can prove to be the panacea for the present political impasse

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1231933461155504128?s=19

Abnormal level of population in India and its geographical vastness and diversity is inflicting enormous hardship upon its inhabitants. Minor incidents in one corner is keeping its entire population tense. A family splits when it grows too big. So Sovereignty to States is a must.

Huge territory may be satisfactory for immature adolescents but lots of people are put to difficulty due to being uprooted, long travel, away from home, linguistically alienated, or culturally strangulated. Psychological factors must receive attention and deserved consideration.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1231949343265107969?s=19

Marketime: Sri Aurobindo, Pal, Tagore, Gandhi, and Savarkar https://t.co/Yk8Uy6Mcpb @NathTusar

#SriAurobindo's salience https://t.co/upjH4BU1Q1

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Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political - Page 118

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Civilizational unity is not identical to political unity

Civilizational unity is not identical to political unity - Example is Politically disunited Canada and USA coming together to crush Nazis, in defence of Western values. 

Another example: Politically United USSR splitting inspite of strict political unity under KGB

https://twitter.com/freemarkets5/status/1229836414134583296?s=19

My @HarvardHBS living group is blown by case study on Mumbai’s Dabbawallahs. Can’t fathom how they achieve Six Sigma Just In Time supply chain management without using tech. Sometimes we take things around us for granted. Next time I see a Dabbawallah, I will doff my Gandhi cap. https://t.co/nDapWKyMXO

https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal/status/1230336767812726784?s=19

Sir I did my masters from @fore_delhi in 2002 one of top most marketing schools and we did detailed study about mumbai dabbawallah management system then... and also in 2006 when I did my six sigma green belt then also same study was there..so need to upgrade yourself with time

https://twitter.com/SandeepN9NE/status/1230426389406310400?s=19

The perversion of the revolutionaries from fighting the British to becoming British lackeys was done in a very subtle manner by Communists. Tactics used were similar to those used by Sufis to convert Hindus to Islam, as @sarkar_swati @dikgaj and I show. https://t.co/xMMFnhly7f

https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1230291563089035265?s=19

The world has had only half a dozen successful revolutions

and most even of these were very like failures; yet it is by great & noble failures that humanity advances.- 

Sri Aurobindo

https://twitter.com/WelcomeSacar/status/1230357341159084033?s=19

Love has a place in politics, but it is the love for one’s country, for one’s countrymen, for the glory, greatness and happiness of the race, the divine ananda of self-immolation for one’s fellows... the ecstasy of relieving their sufferings, the joy of seeing one’s blood flow for country and freedom, the bliss of union in death with the fathers of the race.

#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga https://t.co/uNhp5XqmT7

https://twitter.com/integralyog/status/1230299924522315776?s=19

A thread from Rosenberg & Birdzell’s “How the West grew rich” (1985):

“..the dominant fact about economic institutions that emerged in Europe after the decline of feudalism is their wholly pragmatic character & their lack of ideological commitment to any economic principle..” 1/n

https://twitter.com/acorn/status/1230338907578875904?s=19

“Neither the Communist Manifesto nor Das Capital employed the term capitalism, although Marx did use it in 1877 in correspondence...its first use in the sense of an economic system was in Better Times, a book by Douai in 1884.” 4/n

“The system that generated Western economic growth evolved before it was recognized as a system or advocated as an ideology...” 2/n

Practice precedes theory. That’s the insight in this.

Theology follows success.

https://twitter.com/sonaliranade/status/1230340442190794753?s=19

Assuming a theory vacuum before a particular date is perhaps not accurate. Darwin's theory of Evolution also begins at the middle alerts Sri Aurobindo and goes on to complete the cycle by incorporating Involution. Rothbard's portrayal of man and purpose of action too is inchoate.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1230426596999385096?s=19

Savitri Era: Self-interest acquires spontaneity, luminosity, and sublimity https://t.co/PXkfRHAk0h @NathTusar Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #SavitriEra #MitraVaruna

Savitri Era: Babaji Maharaj's Ayodhya connection https://t.co/pN0uhTzbr7 @NathTusar

[Auro-Mira Service Society decided to work in Kechla as its field of karmayoga, a necessary component part of the Integral Yoga sadhana of #SriAurobindo and the Mother.] https://t.co/mn1MwNVNZG

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Can one vision really be possible

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum.

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE, OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.

#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Sri Aurobindo is really not easy to understand & even the Vedanta/Vivekananda crowd rarely will take to it. For instance if he wrote about European industrialization being destructive then how would he respond to liberalisation or America. 1)

https://twitter.com/naritachame/status/1169893692825489408?s=19

2) he writes about a future that few RW's would like. They have all benefited greatly from economic liberalisation & he speaks of a world that is even less industrialized than the socialism pattern.

3) his future is based on a methodology of human evolution that is very little spoken about ......... & his India is equidistant from the Nehruvian/Gandhian mould as Hindutva. Perhaps more so from the N/G mould since mentioning ** Bharat Mata** is an anthema in that thought.

"The Indian teacher, once a foot soldier in the freedom struggle and a contributor to nation building in the early years after Independence, now stands relegated to the margins of public life."

Teaching in the time of consumerism https://t.co/XjQVLLBVHd

https://twitter.com/JagdeepChhokar/status/1169894548400553985?s=19

This worthless cockroach (Krishna Kumar) who has chaired a mothballed den like NCERT should take a look at the pale, faded, junk textbooks which his ex-org has inflicted on bright and chirpy kids - these unproducitve maggots draw govt salaries then lecture the public https://t.co/Kfgn8xNfXC

https://twitter.com/learning_pt/status/1169882791841918983?s=19

Can one vision really be possible for such a huge and diverse country, or should we be talking, instead, of many visions, and a diversity of visions?

https://t.co/Mjm5pyHkSu

https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1169890478747258880?s=19

Yes, they are digging themselves into a very deep hole by trying to claim that Sanskrit is very late entry to India. This is immediately disproved by the monumental astronomical evidence in Sanskrit texts. So they ignore it 😀.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1169890842120577024?s=19

Let it be clear, the DNA and archaeology also shows that India was not some pristine "Aryan" homeland. Indians were a mixed people from the beginning and the link to Iranians is very deep and predates Bronze Age. 1/n https://t.co/1hzfHa5K0S

https://twitter.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1169882353709137921?s=19

Has any genuine anti-AIT claimed that India was a "pristine Aryan homeland"? straw-man argument. 

Swami Dayanand was first one to refute this fiction n this is what he said:

https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1169903646051463174?s=19

किसी संस्कृत ग्रन्थ में वा इतिहास में नहीं लिखा कि आर्य लोग ईरान से आये और यहां के जंगलियों को लड़कर, जय पाके, निकाल के इस देश के राजा हुए। पुनः विदेशियों का लेख माननीय कैसे हो सकता है?

Sagarika Ghose, noted journalist and author, will speak on "Liberty and the Big State"

Manthan Samvaad - Oct 2, 2019. Register at https://t.co/vEKVeU1g92

@Manthan_India @KarvyGrowthHub https://t.co/b46RCjX5eH

https://twitter.com/KarvyGrowthHub/status/1169882448810766337?s=19

Unlike Hindu chauvinists, reasonable people distinguish between a small number of Islamic militants and ordinary Kashmiris who just happen to be Muslim. Modi’s Kashmir gambit may be popular with Indians, but it’s unlikely to win over the world. [My take] https://t.co/CwbmpWESel

https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1169570342299492352?s=19

Today marks one year anniversary of the historic judgement that read down provisions of #Section377. At #KPMG we believe that the future is #inclusive, which is why we stand with our #LGBTQIA colleagues and strive for equal rights for all!

#HappyAtKPMG #Pride #AlliesForInclusion https://t.co/2zW23iAsLW

https://twitter.com/KPMGIndia/status/1169880341416296448?s=19

This is perhaps the earliest surviving depiction of the samudramanthana from early gupta or inter-dynastic period. Note dhavantari below vainateya holding an amR^ita-kalasha. Note kAmadhenu and shrI emerging from the churning. While it seems to depict the asura-pakSha, It looks https://t.co/1n3STvK5eL

https://twitter.com/blog_supplement/status/1169812645735784449?s=19

A dhanvantari from Sarnath from around the reign of emperor harShavardhana. It is rather remarkable in depicting surgeons & physician performing various procedures. On the left you can see a surgeon performing a colorectal procedure probably for arsharoga. Notable is the evidence evidence for females in the medical profession of the age https://t.co/e8maaVWCcE

https://twitter.com/blog_supplement/status/1169815238079893504?s=19

For your #FridayFeeling, #FIIRecommends #TheDoublenessofSexuality by @akhilkatyal.  The book is about same-sex desires that trace how the term 'homosexual' entered the vocabulary of colonial India, and how the term was perceived in colonial and post-colonial India. #Section377 https://t.co/8e1rM2HRtm

https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1169881860920397825?s=19

Many people with 0 idea about genetics or even the broad area of population genetics, write PhD thesis on a very specific area of it.

If their whole knowledge on the issue has come from reading a specific subset, how will they ever know what even to fundamentally disagree with?

https://twitter.com/Shatrubhanja/status/1169879285433110536?s=19

Aryan invasion theory gets a setback from DNA study of 2500 BC Rakhigarhi skeletons - ThePrint's Fatima Khan @khanthefatima reports https://t.co/NTLL6Vl6up

https://twitter.com/ShekharGupta/status/1169876094746419201?s=19

Today is a big day. Two long-awaited genetic studies have been published now – the updated version of the widely-read ‘The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia’ is out in Science, and the first study of a genome from a Harappan site, Rakhigarhi, is out in Cell.

https://twitter.com/tjoseph0010/status/1169735520462626816?s=19

Religious politics in India means the migration of Indo-Europeans into India to many Hindus is like the Theory of Evolution to American evangelicals. If you want context to understand this topsy-turvy take https://t.co/m9ZDHmZNij

https://twitter.com/ShoaibDaniyal/status/1169828530093322240?s=19

Shocking Inequality: Why Billionaires are a Sign of Economic Failure https://t.co/oXfOcT8ssT @maxlawsontin #FightInequality #BeatPoverty https://t.co/cpXUj2RKOP

https://twitter.com/Oxfam/status/1169910184321441792?s=19

“No matter how justified inequalities of wealth may be initially, fortunes can grow beyond any rational justification in terms of social utility.” - @PikettyLeMonde quoted by @maxlawsontin in this interesting piece. https://t.co/mvmrBdB8jD

What a contrast--One Chidambaram of TN --5-11-1872--sold all his wealth /became freedom fighter and ran a ship--arrested by British&spent time in jail-another Chidambaram after 100 years on the earlier Chidambaram birth day spend time in Jail for accumulating illegal assets:)) RT

https://twitter.com/rvaidya2000/status/1169819769769316353?s=19

The project sees itself as a warning, ‘reminding us that nature, which we so often take for granted, may someday only be found in specially designated spaces, as is already the case with animals in zoos’ https://t.co/jq2mijYZhO

https://twitter.com/BasuAshis/status/1169910259416068096?s=19

3 lang policy & talk of link  is a cunning ploy by hindians to force hindi on all. We dont want any hindi. State lang(s) & english enuf for governance, education, services. And we shud learn the language of the land we migrate to. #NoHindiInNonHindiStates #WeDontWantHindiDivas

https://twitter.com/South_Indians/status/1169878561995423745?s=19

In a session titled Stories of our Ancestors, Tony Joseph and Sudipta Sen discussed Mr. Joseph’s latest book, Early Indians: The Story of our Ancestors and Where We Came From. “When you talk about the migration of… https://t.co/azqHEIUr9N

https://twitter.com/mountainechoes/status/1169864235666403328?s=19

Nothing seems firm after one year; RW discourse is as confused as ever. Always reacting, ranting, mocking, or outraging; no solid offerings, no publications. That's in the fitness of things perhaps. Even Sri Aurobindo couldn't reach any final conclusions; all his works incomplete https://t.co/Y9fyUWyqCs

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169892033403637760?s=19

Whether some firm theoretical direction precipitates from deliberations at @PondyLitFest with #SriAurobindo in background is not known right now but it had "incredible enthusiasm, joy and vigor" of Pentecostal meeting (Justice, Nature & The Geography of Difference, David Harvey). https://t.co/C0DEmN2d6g

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1031806574501814274?s=19

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (1930)

The Postmodern Condition by JeanFrançois Lyotard (1979)

The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey (1989)

Postmodernity and Its Discontents by Zygmunt Bauman (1997)

Modernity and Its Discontents by Steven B Smith (2016)

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1065686869428494336?s=19

Certain characters we learnt about in the school seem eternal: Gulliver, Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixote, Casablanca, Jim Hawkins, Uncle Tom, etc to which can be added Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bartlebooth, José Arcadio Buendía, and of course, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo).

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169908413947531265?s=19

Nothing seems firm after one year; RW discourse is as confused as ever. Always reacting, ranting, mocking, or outraging; no solid offerings, no publications. That's in the fitness of things perhaps. Even Sri Aurobindo couldn't reach any final conclusions; all his works incomplete https://t.co/Y9fyUWyqCs

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169892033403637760?s=19

Sri Aurobindo simply reiterates this argument; doesn't offer any fresh evidence. So, the matter is far from being decided either way.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1169918418809606145?s=19

Savitri Era Open Forum: Nobody cares for my posts; Twitter curbs my big ego https://t.co/FGQaDVOxPB

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE,

OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.

#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar,

Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169876188166115328?s=19

Gole male gole male pirit koro na

Manare Kintu Rakhi - Akshaya Mohanty https://t.co/frphCHl5r5

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169692402073780224?s=19

The more we use the internet, the more we have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing as it has altered our mental habits, writes RASHMI OBEROI #brain #thinking https://t.co/DAREIsoTvQ

https://twitter.com/TheCitizen_in/status/1169915648224284673?s=19

Twitter par gyan dene aur charan vandana karne wale spe location ke IT cell mathadheesh public me baat karne se darte hain. kahi jhooth na pakda jaye. Khud ke pariwar ko promote karne ke liey kisi bhi seema tak ja sakte.

https://twitter.com/_rudraksha/status/1169919867912241157?s=19

Sri Aurobindo's agenda has the potential of capturing power

Assorted tweets collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Sri Aurobindo's essay on 'National Education', published in Vande Matharam,(1910 ) must be called the National manifesto on education and must be displayed in every school/ college/ university.

https://twitter.com/tramakrishna15/status/1166347503333257216?s=19

Sanatan Dharma is not the name of a religion; it is a spiritual prescription for humanity. In its essential purity it is Spiritualism. Sri Aurobindo unveils it n enlarges the concepts in the context of the present n the future.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1166188388581429249?s=19

It is a wonderful thing that political leaders do not bother about Sri Aurobindo! Silence is better than misinterpretation. However, the Force of Sri Aurobindo goes on working in the Ignorance!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1166277975332900864?s=19

We invite you, for your article (1500 words) for ‘New Race’, a journal since 1964. The topics chosen for this quarter’s theme is "Spirituality in Management". So, please share your perspective, experience, views and we would be grateful! kisholoygupta@sacar.in

https://twitter.com/SACAR_IN/status/1166190071076118529?s=19

Were you present when Aurobindo & Mother died? You're relying on hearsay that's documented without verification & assume it to be fact. I use these documented hearsay accounts but with a fistful of salt knowing how hearsay can be fabricated or misinterpreted by vested interests..

https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1166062049652281345?s=19

The terms "supposedly" & "it's said" are deliberately used to avoid arrogant certitudes...the reports suggest willful negligence lead to Mother's death, while "supposedly" Aurobindo exited frustrated that his supramental aim could not be realized among unregenerates...

https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1166064308792377344?s=19

No. Regardless of what the esoteric meaning of the word might be, the horse sacrifice is a fact. Even Sri Aurobindo said that his theory is not intended to oppose shrauta practice but merely to explore the spiritual dimension of the shruti. https://t.co/TGL6J63pDF

https://twitter.com/tattvajnanarthi/status/1166042350105350145?s=19

I saw that tweet..he only said he will not support..btw, I have asked for learning the Veda but got shut out..🤪 for context..my opening to the Veda came in via Sri Aurobindo’s Secret of the Veda..experiences tumbled in as if it was all waiting..and imagine my condition!

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1166025384762064898?s=19

I would say go through complete works of Swami Vivekananda first..to get a sense of vedantic taxonomy..just a feel for it..then Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem. Then move to Life Divine, then Synthesis of Yoga, Secret of the Veda..

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1166209716751499264?s=19

For some body unfamiliar with Sri A's yoga it would be better to start with Mother's books imo. Sunlight Path? Is a good start..I https://t.co/zmECeM65oT the name from memory. Karma and rebirth of Sri A is a good book. Will give a fresh look at core ideas of Hindus..
https://twitter.com/Sheks65/status/1166214412799107072?s=19

This is the sculpture identified as "Aeon". Aeon is a tetramorph (a fourfold entity) and inscribed on Aeon's body are the 12 signs of the Zodiac -- the one becomes four becomes twelve. Aeon is the totality of the Self, and is strikingly similar to the Mother's Symbol. https://t.co/EcerHSR6uT

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1166005323251048448?s=19

Schizophrenia ran in Aurobindo's family. His mother was a schizophrenic & supposedly committed suicide. All those fantasies Aurobindo had during bouts of mental illness that he gave the grand term "supramental conscious experiences" have been debunked. Consciousness is not stuff.

https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1165972008728813568?s=19

Your interest in The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is welcome. Let's hope your comments provoke Indians to check the facts which are fairly documented. Fiction however have their own validity and utility and must not cease to flow in the tradition of Sri Aurobindo modifying many legends

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166037881585975298?s=19

To know how to wait is to have time on your side, said The Mother; patience, perseverance are key. Skill in works is the sense of an instrument and surrender which turns it into yoga, exhorted Sri Aurobindo. Sound nothing extraordinary but form the cornerstone of Integral yoga.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1165901233028100096?s=19

Studying in any university can't be seen as uniformity. Further, there is no intention or expectation of imposing it. Sri Aurobindo's future vision is competing for survival in the global marketplace of contesting ideas. Drawing inspiration is voluntary. https://t.co/IZr6lIh71U

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166273305176723458?s=19

Many thanks for responding. The question, paradoxically, is who will decide whether it's a loss or a gain. I respect your sentiments but Sri Aurobindo would say otherwise. You are aware of his psychological interpretation of the Veda. He has clearly pointed out about the "loss."

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166078094425198592?s=19

All religions will see their demise, Sri Aurobindo has written clearly, due to growth of intellectuality. Technology and material prosperity will help accelerate the process. So, nothing to be unhappy about such a prospect. He assures a better quality of humanity and harmony.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166071000435286016?s=19

Nothing more atrocious than imposters recommending Vivekananda as an introduction to Sri Aurobindo. So one pollutes his mind and carries that heap of garbage all his life. What Sri Aurobindo encountered in jail is his own exalted imagination of Vivekananda as the latter was dead.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166289264490901504?s=19

Savitri Era Party is firmly against mollycoddling Hindutva or for that matter any kind of anti-Evolutionary agenda. Savitri Era Religion with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as supreme divine manifestation is the only direction towards the future. Those playing subversive games retire

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166292212298051590?s=19

Thanks for repeating their names and their enduring work. Being concerned with them, even if critically, is also a form of yoga and has transforming effect. Thus your work is better than Marxists who simply ignore him. As regards Auroville, you can pay a visit as a tourist.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1166136601367339008?s=19

All these years, I have not been overwhelmed or intimidated by dominant narratives with the firm belief that Sri Aurobindo's agenda has the potential of capturing power. I'm sure that the fault lines like Lakshmana Rekha or Radha will implode and ramshackle castles will collapse.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166374695228207104?s=19

Savitri Era Open Forum: Freud wasn’t afraid to talk about his thoughts https://t.co/BxCng9B7h3

Assorted tweets collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE

OM SRI AUROBINDO & THE MOTHER

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1165892470447599618?s=19

Trained as a school teacher and having served as one for one year, I think, I continue in the profession here on Twitter. I studied Botany and Agriculture but here I dish out a litany of subjects apart from culture. Overcoming being a philistine or a dilettante is aesthetic yoga.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1166021787936669699?s=19

A stunning cultural & intellectual destruction has occurred over last 70 years in India

'R.C. Majumdar for instance, died as recently as 1980. In my limited reading, I didn’t come across a single “mainstream” newspaper or magazine..'

https://t.co/VlXTkCXMZO via @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/HinduLiberty/status/1166351418954924032?s=19

Portraits & Facets of Rootlessness that is the Indian Education System. by Sandeep Balakrishna 

@dharmadispatch  Read: https://t.co/1Uq8ujuKlX  

#quote https://t.co/jrlhRDu3ih

https://twitter.com/_Bhaarat_/status/1166278079502635009?s=19

आरक्षण व जातिवाद औपनिवेशिक षड्यंत्र - शांत प्रकाश जाटव

https://t.co/xm3VoSOyNt

https://twitter.com/shantprakash/status/1166311840013373442?s=19

The Strongest Constitution https://t.co/mnmYL5MdaC

https://twitter.com/aakash_ironman/status/1165168409039949825?s=19

Great piece by the ever BRILLIANT @Abhina_Prakash that shows the mirror to the anti-Dalit bigots masquerading as Social Justice Warriors, misogynists masquerading as feminists, islamists masquerading as secular, and imbeciles masquerading as intellectuals. https://t.co/RofwMDUwvN

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1161150969746358273?s=19

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Marx’s statement is one of the most morally resonant lines ever written. Attempts to create such a society without a roadmap is foolish & have led to disasters but the goal is certainly one worth aspiring.

https://twitter.com/kaushikcbasu/status/1166201129816006656?s=19

Might takes precedence over everything. This might encompasses everything: intellect, wealth, nature, culture, and military. The Ideal of the Indian Tradition of Kshatra is Needed in Today’s Democracy https://t.co/tvBZ7Bw3kF

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1166012001413287942?s=19

Find it amusing when some tweeps ask us to write on what they want or what they believe to be the truth. When we refuse, they call us poor researchers. Irony in asking poor researchers to write on what they want is beyond them. And so is basic writing. Typical Sanghis

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1166355810823364609?s=19

[PDF] Bharati and the Art of Translation

S Chelliah, D Litt

… Bharati was fortunate to have Aurobindo's friendship and company. Aurobindo was indeed … Under Aurobindo's influence, Bharati translated the Gita and a chapter from Patanjali into Tamil and hymned the glory and greatness of Mahashakti in poem after poem …

Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism

H Coward - 2019

… have come into supersensuous contact with the Unseen” (Gonda 1963, 247). Sri Aurobindo puts it even more vividly: “The language of the Veda is itself a sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that

[PDF] Optimizing Employee Productivity Through Yoga Practices: Analyzing E൵ectiveness

R Choudhary, A Dubey, D Baghel

… American Yoga Association. (2009). General yoga information. Retrieved January 9, 2009, from http:// www.americanyogaassociation.org/general.html • Aurobindo, S. (1999). The Synthesis of Yoga (5th ed.). Pondicherry …

Everyday Aesthetics and the Indic Goddess Traditions: An Aurobindonian Approach By Anway Mukhopadhyay

Will Durant, Paul Brunton, and Bimal Roy

Assorted tweets:

Modi govt is in the right track; trying to be true to Constitution even at the risk of diluting many of party bastion. Such a clear headed policy is admittedly daring and admirably refreshing. Many would suspect carrot and stick but from all appearances, intentions seem genuine.

I think, the govt is following a well thought out approach. It has its own experts and analysts and let's rely upon them.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150468410725167106?s=19

Promoting individualism among Indians is necessary by discouraging mythology and symbols of monarchy. Religious practices in a Democracy like election symbols, party flags, taking oath and similar pomp and ceremony should be banished. The very concept of national anthem is flawed.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149380527515791361?s=19

Savitri Era Open Forum: Limits will be set by Him https://t.co/LtB2AjRgj6 @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad-201014 (UP). #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150485938797027328?s=19

At least the Princely states should have remained. Our temples and Sanatana social fabric would have been intact.

https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1150521048602836992?s=19

As long as there were many kingdoms it was difficult to harm or attack Dharma, we were culturally together though separate kingdoms but after being centrally ruled any NGO anywhere in World can question any tradition anywhere in India with PIL in secular SC.

https://twitter.com/Nachiket75/status/1150582227501142016?s=19

Central rule, due to Western concept of multiculturism it has accepted has somehow affected regional Dharmic needs of natives. It reflects in every administrative machinery, with Temples taken over and traditions breaking down or allowed to die. Now they exist only 4 tourism.

Now India has become such that SC worries about native festivals, notwithstanding, festivals of India is central to its values otherwise it becomes like any Abrahamic State. People die everyday just boarding trains, pollution is all year round & meat export is a big industry but SC is worried about Dahi Handi, Diwali crackers & animal sports.

Seeing Congress’s dirty nasty dynasty one has to agree that dynasty of benevolent princely states would have been better than this pseudo democracy of fake surname family owned congress rule

https://twitter.com/sandilraghu/status/1150580794865225730?s=19

The Mughals came to India as conquerors but remained as Indians not colonists. They made India a lot richer not just economically but in the cultural sphere too. Expecting an avalanche of whatsapp facts verified by whatsapp university for stating this. https://t.co/I4lUgmTXIH

https://twitter.com/MehboobaMufti/status/1150346259397431296?s=19

And what about Chola Dynasty, Gupta Dynasty, Maurya Empire, Avanti Kingdom etc?? They had nothing great about them? India was more progressive before them. Parda and Sati Pratha came into being after they started raping women.

https://twitter.com/sweetnyasa/status/1150350449142190086?s=19

History can’t be told in black and white. There are grey shades too. Who made whom richer is debatable as the subjects paid for the Sovereign’s whims too often, with their sweat and blood. Staying on like the Parsees did is appreciable. But not jijiya, nor desecration of temples.

https://twitter.com/drskmahapatra/status/1150497901342158848?s=19

Madhu Kishwar is not alone. Sanghis hate the very mention of Sikhs. 2 years ago HAF had asked California boards to remove the word Sikh to describe Dalip Singh Saund and remove references to Sikh Guru Nanak's opposition to caste system.

https://twitter.com/akdwaaz/status/1150484488188678144?s=19

Everyone has own anxiety against Sikhs. Those who want to glorify Mughals, Afghans, whitewash 1940s, battles with pahadi rajas, resistance to caste, resistance to Arya Samaj, Congress, RSS - all are pissed at existence of Sikhs and want to bury Sikh History or erase it

But as I said, guess what? We are here, we are vocal, we are assertive, we are unapologetic about our history and identity.

No attempt to erase or appropriate Sikhs shall succeed. Not every Sikh is as ignorant and careless as these haters assume

58) Hymns 372 - 377 (Verses 3,780 - 3,805): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 05, Sukta 018 to 023 (including hymns on the fulfillment of the soul); with #SriAurobindo's words on the true psychological significance of Indra https://t.co/EKvcPxjeTv

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1150336342431154176?s=19

Among the crimes committed by Muslim invaders of India, none is more horrendous than the burning and destruction of the world's greatest university at Nalanda. An action that wiped out Buddhism from Bharat. Today's Muslims are not to blame, but they must acknowledge that atrocity

https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1146892259402702855?s=19

Muslim hospitality & Palestinian grace on display as a Christian is kicked out from the Temple Mount by an Islamist. Next time Cdn clerics grovel abt 'inter-faith harmony' to gullible Rabbis & Pastors, show them this sample of their contempt for Christians https://t.co/Gqe5H2gCiu

https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1150481419958915075?s=19

Everytime I see A raja on the speaker chair of LS--I realize how rotten is our democratic system:!!--What next ?--Kani as Chairman of ethics Committee of LS:) RT

https://twitter.com/rvaidya2000/status/1150622469591449600?s=19

The story of the Mahābhārata is gigantic. This section tells in brief the names of the parvas and the story segments contained inside them.

Mahābhārata and its Place in Indian Culture – Part 2 https://t.co/GdQ3eEIFSZ

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1150444993946869760?s=19

Mandra: The Music of Raja Saheb and Ramkumari's Samskara https://t.co/FWPPBRktg6

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1150623089983512576?s=19

(Thread) Incestuous thoughts in Hindu literature

https://twitter.com/AnaMyID/status/954288867611312129?s=19

Yama and Yami are the Adam and Eve of Aryan mythology

In the Iranian branch the twin siblings consummate their incest. In the Indo-Aryan/Rigvedic branch they don't. Enter Manu. (Puranic Flood/Creation Myth similar to Sumerian Gilgamesh and Semitic Noah..) https://t.co/wsopFnDA8J

https://twitter.com/AnaMyID/status/955809451683934210?s=19

1st tirthankar of jainism was born in era when humans gave birth to a twins who consummated as a couple. He is also supposed to be the 1st one who married a lone female out of compassion, when her natural partner died. Thus, the pioneer of polygamy.

https://twitter.com/speedmister007/status/955819027741339653?s=19

Forgot to add, 1st 'Widow Remarriage' in the below tweet.

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Of all the narratives found in different religions, the jaina version sounds practical. No angry god, no garden, no forbidden fruit, no curses, no rivers, no floods. All characters are simply humans. Female is not inferior. As straight as it gets.

https://twitter.com/speedmister007/status/955830154911105024?s=19

This is the President of the United States essentially telling 4 elected representatives of ‘colour’ that they don’t belong in the US and they should ‘go back where they came from’. A lesson to all of us on how slippery this slope can be. https://t.co/kIoN2fEiNb

https://twitter.com/vikramchandra/status/1150636670435364864?s=19

An interesting piece in @Jansatta on our book #AmitShah & the March of #BJP... feels good to see the growing interest in the book & in the #BJP's history & evolution: 

https://t.co/WTbv7dRu7W

https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1150625026036469761?s=19

selling PSU and 100% FDIs are right track? Government is unable to provide jobs unemployees and left them for private jobs. Sri Aurobindo and Mother taught for self reliance and self sufficient in all fields. Our economy and polices are directionless and rudderless

https://twitter.com/sathya_adv/status/1150463111163346944?s=19

Now, AI to decode Gandhian literature ⁦@narendramodi⁩ ⁦@nsitharaman⁩  May kindly also consider similar project for Words of #SriAurobindo Who wrote on many subjects than any Indian till to date! @Auro https://t.co/2UewcwtJsw

https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1150581537303420928?s=19

@Auro_Mere You’re kindly requested to comment on use of AI in creating ‘Auropaedia’on the lines of Gandhipaedia approved by Govt of @AuroSociety @mirra21_mala @JayaBhatter @iamchamanjmu @lopamudra_adak @auroviryavaan @arvindkumar15 @DhruvalKhurana @ArpanAgarwal3 @DrSJaishankar

May I request @Auro_Mere  to throw some💡 in the words of the Mother on the African continent about the Falsehood still lurking there & efforts of #SriAurobindo to bring there 💡!! Indians on the West coast are well versed with the situation there & can help a lot  @DrSJaishankar

This endless supply of  "white women" is fed by Anthropology research. It has told them that Hindus with inferiority complex are vulnerable to being swept off their feet. @AudreyTruschke @Voice_For_India https://t.co/SNTQvsiqTA

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1150600601408958464?s=19

Who are the Hellenes? Some perspective would apply equally to Bharath..and by consequence who can call themselves bharatiya..not withstanding the IoI contortions that has gripped our nation for last half century or so.. https://t.co/sktUWHpgwQ

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1150614463390744576?s=19

How do you distinguish between intellectual curiosity, a superficial emotional dependence and genuine bhakti? Some lines of discrimination one could employ https://t.co/D4qCiojOuA

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1150617651267248133?s=19

Problem with literalists. Yet they accuse others of fundamentalism. 

This what happens when someone thinks that the infinite Brahman killed a tiger or killed an elephant for clothing. https://t.co/LBc2GarN6g

https://twitter.com/pinakasena/status/1150465904804814849?s=19

There is enough economic evidence, from GDP data to travelogues that call out the economic degradation and cultural and literary destruction and genocide committed by Mughal barbarians. Its like saying Hitler made Jews richer economically and culturally. https://t.co/dBkZjbRdSi

https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1150511598106079232?s=19

There are 15 Muslim majority countries that will execute you for being gay, 12 that will execute you for leaving Islam, Sharia countries that practice gender apartheid and imprison women for not covering their hair...but Muslims are so concerned only about Palestinians in Israel https://t.co/1TnrZI3uB6

https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx/status/1150453018417958912?s=19

@PMOIndia these sentiments are very common among madarsa trained Muslim youth in India.They do believe that they are born to rule us.Their contempt & sexual aggression addressed directly at @BJP4India & @RSSorg leaders.Generous scholarships & other carrots won't cure this mindset https://t.co/W1KVg3G3ng

https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1150225418806423553?s=19

Dear Hindu friends lend me your ears: Changing food habits is 1st step in destroying our culture-Islamisation of India is taking place-#HalalMeat evrywhere is step-1/Beef eating is step-2Already kerala/TN/NE&many other states plus plenty of youngsters in this step-2-Resist BothRT

https://twitter.com/rvaidya2000/status/1150432065935904768?s=19

“Just 19” - Such prolonged infantilization (male or female) is a rather serious deficiency in our outlook.

On a lighter note, reminding Hindus to watch Chapelle’s “How Old is 15 Really” bit. 😀 https://t.co/o3PjgxD04o

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1150449503767371776?s=19

Islamic occupation of India and subsequent Jihadi Mughal rulers destroyed India beyond repair selling millions of Hindus to slave markets, destroying every single temple in North India, looting the cities and burning down every center of learning https://t.co/pDOeVyBti3

https://twitter.com/LegalKant/status/1150403821467774977?s=19

This is why American Historian and Pulitzer-Prize Winning Writer Will Durant wrote that 

"We can never know, from looking at India today, what grandeur and beauty she once possessed"

Sadly we have failed to reclaim and expand on our lost heritage

https://t.co/xrZ8kuPT2w

https://twitter.com/LegalKant/status/1124224354458439680?s=19

This is another book from my dad's collection - The Inner Reality by Paul Brunton. Brunton was a British journalist who later became a Yogi. 

@avatans @AbhinavAgarwal @IndicAcademy @indictoday https://t.co/t6CsfmqmQl

https://twitter.com/IndicBookClub/status/1148421556646895616?s=19

If I could re-read 5 books all over again, I’d choose:-

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

2. The Odyssey by Homer

3. A search in secret Egypt by Paul Brunton

4. The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

5. Roots by Alex Haley

What's yours?

given a #6, I'd choose "Caravans" by James A Michener

Terrific read! Paul Brunton cris-crosses the country (circa 1930s) looking to meet Yogis / mystics and learn their well-kept secret eastern methods of self-discovery. https://t.co/ruK9g3Qlap

https://twitter.com/ravsriram/status/1141749773839376384?s=19

I am an atheist Bahujan Radical Marxist. No, I am.not irked by all relugions. And why should you be bothered about what Islamophobes or Sanghis say? It isn't Islam which is lynching people and wreaking havoc in India. https://t.co/cbmBAwuXJH

https://twitter.com/NilimDutta/status/1150654972880494592?s=19

last week @aarambhindia participated in the workshop 'Understanding the approach of raising gender equitable boys' conducted by by @ecfindia.

We talked about #GenderNorms, #HumanRights, #GenderBasedViolence, #Masculinities and steps to make a gender equitable society. https://t.co/KpEHv5a4Ox

https://twitter.com/aarambhindia/status/1150642542825709569?s=19

#A2R continues to be the key focus in #bizhumanrights discourse @EU_in_India, support to #HRDs is very important, says Friedrike Tschampa. @OxfamIndia @ProfSuryaDeva @BizHRAsia @sociopreneur @TriRadhaKrish @AmitabhBehar https://t.co/PKwYyhmXyU

https://twitter.com/hkaur0304/status/1149619633046999040?s=19

Its time India invested heavily in elder care and support. It makes sense socially and economically. Women often carry the burden of caring for the sick and elderly which is not acknowledged or monetised and prevents them from working outside. @INBreakthrough @CGTNOfficial https://t.co/PgQ5tL0Li3

https://twitter.com/MenonSunitA/status/1149647699005722624?s=19

Glad that Chinese & Japanese speak up on cultural appropriation: https://t.co/0LrgcyVJYy

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1150618186129129472?s=19

"White people and whiteness are the center of the Trump presidency. His primary concern is to defend, protect and promote it," writes @CharlesMBlow. "All that threatens it must be attacked and assaulted." https://t.co/Xl2tbdLSo2

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1150567190581694466?s=19

#BimalRoy is famous for his romantic-realist melodramas that took on important social issues while still being entertaining.

Tune in at 3:05PM on the FM Gold channel as we take a look back at his life & works in our presentation #RadioReel https://t.co/j0EqJf337S

https://twitter.com/AkashvaniAIR/status/1150654289473228800?s=19

Modi government has identified 115 most backward districts in the country and endeavours to put them on the aspirational path. The programme has shown remarkable results, using evidence-based data. Read.https://t.co/AFTvOThPzH

https://twitter.com/amitmalviya/status/1150658870911463424?s=19

A very good summary,  in this Hindi article, of the last days of the last Hindu empire in what's now Afghanistan who fought valiantly against the invading Muslims and the account of the unimaginable violence they unleashed upon our ancestors https://t.co/oS011V9rXw

https://twitter.com/Shakra_Kulish/status/1067669963450793984?s=19

Savitri Era Learning Forum: It's literally the edge of our collective knowledge https://t.co/fjqkMiEAZ4 @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150463428227584000?s=19