Monday, March 28, 2016

February 29: Sixtieth anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation


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Jan 1, 2012 - [No-one reads Plotinus today. And in the last few posts, I've worked to explain some of why this is. Strange historical accidents of various sorts ...

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May 2, 2010 - For both of them, Patanjali and Plotinus, transcending the human consciousness is the highest state; but for Sri Aurobindo remaining in the ...

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Jun 4, 2012 - The meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy Sisir Kumar Maitra - 1956 - 451 pages - The central idea of the double ...
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Dec 31, 2006 - Instead of the orienting generalizations of knowledge, the reader is often told what famous writers say. Wilber makes statements of fact and ...

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Jan 1, 2007 - Influenced by thinkers such as Plotinus, Schelling, and Aurobindo, Wilber maintains that humankind is one aspect of the evolutionary ...

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Again on the existence of a separate Yogasūtra - As most readers know, Philipp Maas (elaborating on a short article by Johannes Bronkhorst) has claimed that it is highly probable that an independent Yogas...

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- In-der-Blog-sein environmental critique revisits the quadruple object. A philosopher, a biologist, a rhetorician, and an anthropologist walk into a bar t...

Fight over Sanskrit is proving why India was divided into small kingdoms - Being born and brought up in a village in Odisha, I have a fair amount of first hand knowledge on an agrarian as well as non-egalitarian society; its perva...

Light reading that does not challenge the reader - Where bad literature makes good reading - A professor and students in an English course at Juniata College discuss what makes a book ‘crap’ By Bill Schackn...

An aesthetic of extremes - Vikram Chandra’s Geek Sublime might be the most popular book in a Western language ever to deal with Indian aesthetic … Continue reading →

Comparing the Methodology of the Gnosis With the Reasoning Intellect - The reasoning intellect begins its process by a process of observation of external facts through the sense-organs. From these facts, it applies the faculti...

Sedition trials of Tilak, V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, and Aurobindo Ghose - Aurora Mirabilis April 2016 Conference at Matrubhaban, Cuttack, Odisha - MATRUBHABAN, SRI AUROBINDO MARG, CUTTACK - 753 013 Tel : (0671) 2344338, 9437023407...

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Who is the ideal insider? What is Philosophy’s proper home? - [PDF] Sri Aurobindo's Yogic Discovery of the 'One Original Language'of Mankind: A Linguistic Exploration N Kumar - Theory and Practice in Language Studies, ...

The Collaboration of Nature by Richard Pearson - *Editor's note* "A new world is born". The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have worked ceaselessly to bring a new consciousness on earth, - the Supramental or ...

A little birdie told me… - “Of course, miracles do happen; but it is unwise to expect them.” -Alfred North Whitehead That bird knows more than you think, Bernie.

Aurobindo the socialist and Aurobindo the mystic - Ranjan Mitter speaking to children on the Mother's 138th ... [image: Video for Sri Aurobindo]▶ 17:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGU3VZmT_40 Uploaded by ...

How to destroy a state - Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in a low-turnout off-year election in 2015, against the uninspiring Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn, who had s...

Sri Aurobindo was certainly not for the Disintegration of India – by Raman Reddy -Secular intellectuals obfuscate the obvious, by which I mean, they use every intellectual argument to undermine what is pretty obvious to the common man. O...

The Answer of the Gods (SH 194 B4C03 pp 372-373) - Savitri Class in Hindi with Alok Pandey (SH 194) Savitri Book Four : The Book of Birth and Quest, Canto Three : The Call to the Quest, Pages 372 – 373 Play...

Inner Light for the Intellect - Last month, my young nephew who is now in the last year of his high school came to visit me for a few days. And in one of our conversations about his studi...

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The Spiritual Dimension - The spiritual dimension, though included in the WHO definition of health, defies any simple understanding. It evokes different images determined […] The...


Absorbing technology takes time; Laws are essentially codified ethics - K Sankaran - Value Chain Blindness: This Time in Higher Education K Sankaran Long ago during early 1950s, the per capita economic incomes of India and Korea...

Democracy and the secular predicament - [image: Saba Mahmood | Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report]In the United States, the Middle East is almost always presented as a probl...

Art as discovery of one's deeper self - [PDF] CULTURAL HERITAGE IS ART OF INDIA B Singh Aurobindo Ghosh pointed out that “All Indian art is a throwing out of a positive thoughtful self-vision crea...

George Eliot and Virginia Woolf are more courageous than their women characters -Women of character in literature By Madhurantakam Narendra | THE HANS INDIA | Mar 20, 2016 But there are some Vasanthasena in ‘Mrichakatika’ may be arguably ...

Sri Aurobindo Society, Noida and The Gnostic Centre - INVITATIONS: Programmes on Saturday, 19th March, 2016 from: SAS n Dear Member, Invitations for the following programmes on Saturday, 19th March,2016 are at...

History of Auroville edited by Gilles Guigan - The history of Auroville - Mother's known words in their context www.auroville.org/contents/3981 Mar 18, 2016 - Books 1 to 3 February 2016 version Edited by ...

Writing is one way to reduce chaos to order - Savitri Era Political Action There are over one billion migrants today - 1. http://fb.me/89bTXYJrs Today, the popular perception of Aurobindo’s life is divi...

There are over one billion migrants today - 1. http://fb.me/89bTXYJrs Today, the popular perception of Aurobindo’s life is divided. The early political firebrand and later mystic are seen as separate...

There are quite a few who do not believe in The Mother - Peter Heehs and Jeffrey Kripal -- by Alok Pandey Note that the central thesis of this group is that mystics have two sets of practices -- one that is person...

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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Aurobindo the socialist and Aurobindo the mystic

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The Brahmanas contain numerous misinterpretations, due to this linguistic change, some of which were characterised by Sri Aurobindo as "grotesque nonsense.
Arya Samaj and Aurobindo movements
In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, some reformers like Swami Dayananda Saraswati – founder of the Arya Samaj, Sri Aurobindo – founder of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, discussed the Vedas, including the Rig veda, for their philosophies. Dayananda, stated Reverend John Robson, was an iconoclast and willing to join with Christians to destroy all idols in India.[85] According to Robson, Dayanand believed "there was no errors in the Vedas (including the Rigveda), and if anyone showed him an error, he would maintain that it was a corruption added later".[85]
Dayananda and Aurobindo interpret the Vedic scholars had a monotheistic conception.[86] Aurobindo attempted to interpret hymns to Agni in the Rigveda as mystical.[86] He claimed that the Vedic hymns were a quest after a higher truth, define the perfect right (Rta), conceive life in terms of a struggle between the forces of light and darkness, and assert the ultimate reality of an everconscient existence.[86]

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Sri Aurobindo[edit]
In his 1971 book Evolution in Religion, Zaehner discusses Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950), a modern Hindu spiritual teacher, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin(1881-1955), a French palaeontologist and Jesuit visionary.[106] Zaehner discusses each, and appraises their religious innovations.[107]
Aurobindo at age seven was sent to England for education, eventually studying western classics at Cambridge University. On his return to Bengal in India, he studied its ancient literature in Sanskrit. He later became a political orator with a spiritual dimension, a prominent leader for Indian independence. In prison in 1908 he had a religious experience. Relocating to the then French port of Pondicherry, he became a yogin and Hindu sage. Sri Aurobindo's writings reinterpret Hindu traditions.[108] Radhakrishnan, later President of India, praised him.[109] "As a poet, philosopher, and mystic, Sri Aurobindo occupies a place of the highest eminence in the history of modern India."[110]
Aurobindo, Zaehner wrote, "could not accept the Vedanta in its classic non-dualist formulation, for in England he had come to accept Darwinism and Bergson's creative evolution." If the One being was "totally static" as previously understood "then there could be no room for evolution, creativity, or development of any kind." Instead, "the One though absolutely self sufficient unto itself, must also be the source... of progressive, evolutionary change." Aurobindo's Purna Yoga contemplated that its adherents, as leaders of society, would achieve a progressive ascent that culminated in a mystic reunion with the One.[111][112] "It must be remembered that there is Aurobindo the socialist and Aurobindo the mystic."[113]

August. 1907 in the 'Bande Mataram Sedition Case'. ... Tagore was in Bolpur, at his Santiniketan Ashram, when the news of Sri Aurobindo's arrest reached him... 
Rabindranath wrapped his two hands around Sri Aurobindo and held him in a warm embrace. The poet's eyes were moist. He said in half-jest: "Ki Mashai! Amai phanki dilen!" (What, Sir! How you have deceived me!). [He had written a poem: 'Namashkar' in anticipation of Sri Aurobindo's incarceration]. Sri Aurobindo laughed and replied in English: "Not for long".

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Friday, March 18, 2016

Kireet Joshi, S.P. Singh, and Neeltje Huppes

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From Our Correspondent Saturday, August 8, 1998

KURUKSHETRA, Aug 7 — Kurukshetra University today began its new academic session with a seminar on "The philosophy and yoga of Sri Aurobindo" to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of great Indian philosopher.
The seminar was sponsored by the Haryana Government and organised by the Department of English. The Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Dr M.L. Ranga presided.
In his presidential remarks, Dr Ranga emphasised the relevance of the teachings in the Gita and those propounded by the great philosopher, Sri Aurobindo.
Dr Ranga said the humanitarian approach espoused by Sri Aurobindo was the only solution to the social problems confronting the nation. He called upon the audience to endeavour to emulate the great philosopher's spirit of nationalism and present his thought in simple terms for the benefit of the young generation. Sri Aurobindo's approach was a fine synthesis of the teachings in the Gita and the humanitarianism of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi.
Prof Kireet Joshi, president, Dharam Hinduja International Centre of India Research, deliberated on Sri Aurobindo's contribution to yoga and his synthesis of different systems of yoga called supermental yoga which was to him a mode of life rather than a system of thought.
In his keynote address, Dr S.P. Singh, Director, Dharam Hinduja International Centre of India Research, drew the attention of the audience towards Sri Aurobindo's Vedanta which sought to provide not personal salvation alone but salvation for the entire human race.
A large number of participants from various colleges and universities attended the seminar. Other distinguished scholars included Dr Shyam Asnani, Head, Department of English, H.P. University, Dr D.S. Mishra, Head, Department of English, Sardar Patel University. Dr S.D. Sharma, Chairman, Department of English Kurukshetra University, welcomed the Chief guest and other distinguished participants. Dr S.K. Sharma, Reader, Department of English, talked about the significance of the subject of the seminar. Dean, Arts and Languages, Kurukshetra University. Dr S.L. Paul, proposed a vote of thanks.
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