Plain & Simple: December 2009

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

University of Human Unity (UHU) and ICIS

Introduction

There is a growing interest in the modern world toward a new possibility of human consciousness to be integrated around a higher center of

consciousness, and in a field of the Humanities for all branches of knowledge to be integrated around One Knowledge. There is a need for a new educational environment, where all major faculties of human consciousness could be studied and exercised in the most comprehensive and intelligible way. University of Human Unity aims at discovering new ways of learning which may result in a tangible change of consciousness.

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ICIS Postgraduate online Programmes In Applied Integral Studies Certified by IGNOU
International Congress in Auroville "Spirituality beyond Religions", 5-8 January 2010
Four Courses of UHU for the Fall Semester 2009 by Rod and Vladimir

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) is ever forthright in his criticism

K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) A Centenary Tribute

The Wonder That is K.D. Sethna Alias Amal Kiran

Science, Materialism, Mysticism

THE ADVENTURE OF THE APOCALYPSE

The English language and the Indian spirit: Correspondence between Kathleen Raine and K. D. Sethna

Talks on Poetry
Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare

Sri Aurobindo and the New Age: Essays in Memory of Kishor Gandhi

The problems of Aryan origins: From an Indian point of view

Sri Aurobindo - the Poet

The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo

The Secret Splendour

India and the World Scene

New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology

The Mother: Past Present Future

The Obscure and the Mysterious

The Indian Spirit and the World's Future (Book review): An article from: International Journal of Humanities and Peace

Karpasa in prehistoric India: A chronological and cultural clue

The poetic genius of Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo, the poet

" Two loves " and " a worthier pen " : The enigmas of Shakespeare's sonnets : an identification through a new approach

ALTAR AND FLAME Poems by Amal Kiran

Amal-Kiran: Poet and Critic

Light and Laughter: Some Talks at Pondicherry

Poems

Teilhard de Chardin and our time

Aspects of Sri Aurobindo

Amal Kiran is ever forthright in his criticism. His hard-hitting rebuttal of Alvares, pointing out how Krishna Chaitanya is ill-versed in Sri Aurobindo, setting right the blatant Rajneeshian misrepresentations of what the Master was and worked at, putting in proper perspective the blurred notions of a so-called purist historian in the context of the adesh received by Sri Aurobindo to go to Pondicherry when one knows that the adesh is always imperative in its character, the strange misgivings of a learned critic that Sri Aurobindo can have “problems in English” vis-à-vis the composition of his epic Savitri — all these are pretty convincingly dealt with by this crusading spiritual journalism.

Aspects of Sri Aurobindo is a rich and rewarding causerie of diverse articles and letters and comments written at different times by the author. Here are studies which are insightful, topics written with “an eye to the wide world of enquiring minds and questing hearts”, showing Amal Kiran to us again as a deep Manishi, an inspired Thinker. A foreign traveller visiting this country once wrote: “India is an individual experience and a universal encounter. There are a countless ways of seeing it, many approaches to it… And always I shall remember the trees of India — the jacaranda in flame, the frangipani, the flowering mango.” Yes, Sri Aurobindo in such many splendours is what the Aspects bring to us. — R. Y. Deshpande (The reviewer is a professor at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry) December 1995