Friday, December 27, 2019

India and China are like twin brothers


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Trance and the Waking State - A waking state cannot be called trance, as the word trance refers specially to a condition in which the outer waking state disappears and the conscious...

Could India have gained independence earlier? - There is a theory, based on a misunderstanding, that Viceroy Reading (Rufus Isaacs) was prepared to concede Dominion Status in 1921 in return for an end to...

Favorite science fiction, 2019 - Here are my favorite science fiction novels (or in a few cases, collections of stories) from 2019. As before, I make no pretensions toward completeness or ...

The Standpoint of the Knower of the Eternal - Sri Aurobindo translates Taittiriya Upanishad, Brahmanandavalli, Chapter 9: “The Bliss of the Eternal from which words turn back without attaining and min...

Age of the Double-Bind - Christmas Day is, perhaps, an odd time to reflect on the meaning of “the New Normal”. Or perhaps it is the most appropriate day to reflect on that. As you ...


Merry Christmas.. - Originally posted on Try to get it!: To all Christians all over the planet..I say Merry Christmas…I want to wish you a happy holiday and a happy time..I am...

The Problem of Christmas - I don’t like Christmas. I especially don’t like going home for Christmas. In fact, a couple years ago I cancelled a trip home at the last minute — a dramat...

Process of enlightenment -​​Real unbiased observation based, experientially felt, inner seeking oriented grasping of facts/truths aided by an understanding that enable one to inter...

McMindfulness and Engaged Buddhism: the twin innovations - Ron Purser’s critique of McMindfulness is in line with William Edelglass’s critique of the “happiness turn” in Western Buddhism. Purser and Edelglass are b...

McMindfulness and Engaged Buddhism: the twin innovations - Ron Purser’s critique of McMindfulness is in line with William Edelglass’s critique of the “happiness turn” in Western Buddhism. Purser … Continue reading →

- In Edge, Lee Smolin describes an ontology based on Events. First of all, events. Events are things that happen. Events create other events. In this theory...

performance - As a religious profession, the black Protestant preacher involved artistic performance, the fashioning of dramatic personae, and the cultural authority to ...

Sri Aurobindo enthuses us to be open minded - We are used to the world situation being described in terms of different Nations but that's an illusion. Truth be told, humanity is one with males and fema...

“Two Loves and Other Stories” - This is a book I started writing about 12 years ago. I wrote the first story and it turned out to be a really long story. Then I was busy with other writin...

India and China: A Cross-Cultural Perspective-M.S. Srinivasan - Both in character and geography, India and China are like twin brothers. – Liang Chi Chao,Former President, Universities Association, Peking. … India and C...

Roots of Dharma can be traced to Veda - Interpretations of the Veda Sayanaacharya - Ritualistic Swami Dayananda Saraswati - Etymological Balagangadhar Tilak - Astronomical T Paramashiva Iyer - Geol...

Sonnets of Sri Aurobindo - This book contains all of Sri Aurobindo’s sonnets - the seventy-four sonnets written in Pondicherry between the early 1930s and late 1940s. Free book dow...

Philosophical Rigor - There’s a model of philosophical rigor that denounces all analogies, metaphors, and examples. It is an ancient tradition. Plato, of course, denounces the...

Metaphysics in Process (reflections on Whitehead's system of philosophy) - As best I understand it, in Part IV of Process & Reality, Whitehead attempted to account for how geometrical measurement of the physical world is possible ...

A Rare Photograph of the Mother - Dear Friends, We, at Overman Foundation, try to present before our readers new discoveries related to the lives and works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. ...

Of Life, Mind and Progress - Author: Beloo Mehra, Published in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (8 & 9, Aug-Sept 2019), pp. 5-6 “Western civilisation is proud of its successful modern...

Saturday, December 07, 2019

Plain and Simple 2005-19

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Friday, November 22, 2019

The Mother would open up with Satprem just like a grandmother


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Action of World Forces - You wrote, “I mean by the universe the forces of the world around.” What then is that cosmos which includes not only the forces of this world but also ...

The Spirit Within, Seated In the Heart of Creatures - Sri Aurobindo translates Katha Upanishad, Second Cycle: Third Chapter, Verse 17: “The Purusha, the Spirit within, who is no larger than the finger of a ma...

Update: Yale-NUS Hiring - An update on the endowed chair position in “Non-Western philosophy” at Yale-NUS, mentioned in this previous post. The position is for senior faculty, but I...

Paranoid Pedagogy - With horror I didn’t realize what had come out of my mouth until after I said it. Yesterday a student came up to me after class, breathlessly talking abou...

Wealth and its use - Actually one I don't have enough wealth even to park my car for more than a few hours at airport. So, no question of parking wealth in tax havens. Strictly...

The other Gandhi dynasty - Rajmohan Gandhi's biography of his illustrious ancestor contains the following passage which is meant to explain why Gandhi agreed to the Cabinet Mission P...

Bonnitta Roy: Some Else Has Noticed - Bonnitta Roy on the Anthropocene and consciousness mutation. Sounds like someone whose work should be followed.

Today, 46 years ago, Satprem's "most stupendous Experience" by Aryadeep - Today, 46 years ago, Satprem, with whom the Mother would open up just like a grandmother would open u...

Disengaged Buddhism article is published - It’s been a long time in the making, but my article on disengaged Buddhism is finally published. It’s at the … Continue reading →

18.11.19: La “mort” victorieuse de Mère, prédite dans “Savitri” - “Savitri”: La suprême révélation de la Vision de Sri Aurobindo” (signé: La Mère) Il est bien connu que Sri Aurobindo, en écrivant son vaste poème épique...

- Metal interviews artists Kuzma Vostrikov and Ajuan Song, aka Kuzma & Ajuan. *In previous interviews, you state that you’re not surrealists because you are...

Prayers and Meditations (1954 Edition) - 313 prayers and meditations, most of them written between 1912 and 1917. Selected by the Mother from her diaries, these prayers are a record of her spiri...

Directing Attention For Effective Leadership M.S.Srinivasan - Our human organism or consciousness is rich with many faculties and powers. One of the most important among them is … Directing Attention For Effective Le...

spirit - Concepts like “spirit” or “matter” or “body” escape sharp definitions. They are productive precisely because of their indeterminacy. This makes it possible...

Robert Markley on Kim Stanley Robinson - The University of Illinois Press’ series Modern Masters of Science Fiction continues to provide the gold standard for recent science fiction criticism. I h...

Philosophy is a tree. - I don’t know whether I am a poet pretending to philosophize, or a philosopher who happens to rhyme. I am hungry for wisdom’s teaching. Feed me philosophy. ...

Mona Sarkar departs to his heavenly Abode: A Grateful Remembrance by Surendra Singh Chouhan - Dear Friends, Mona Sarkar, the Chief Captain of the Department of Physical Education of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, and author of several books like...

Theology and Continental Philosophy at the AAR - As co-chair of the Theology and Continental Philosophy programming unit, I’m pleased to announce the sessions that we are running this year. A summary of t...

Of Life, Mind and Progress - Author: Beloo Mehra, Published in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (8 & 9, Aug-Sept 2019), pp. 5-6 “Western civilisation is proud of its successful modern...

Computerized fakery intrude onto our reality - Futuristic tweets by @vakibs The fundamental problem with our computing culture is that we glorify the practice of hiding computational resources from use...

Freedom of not believing in anything - Tweets in original by @SavitiEraParty and @NathTusar (September - October, 2019) Sri Aurobindo has written on the significance of Mantra but his unveiling...

Review of Tamil film “’96” - This is a film that was waiting to be made and C. Prem Kumar was the man who actually went ahead and thought of writing this script and directing the film ...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

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Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Luxury of dubai, mysticism of Auroville


Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Deadline for application has been extended till 10th September for #FTII’s Film Appreciation Course at #Auroville with Sudipto Acharyya as the Course Director. For more details, visit - https://t.co/TxFHxJqXwj https://t.co/GXNS9ZJgfI
https://twitter.com/FTIIOfficial/status/1167397250760433666?s=19

We are inviting a small group of committed public intellectuals and research students to spend time with Dr Subhash Kak @subhashkak1 at a retreat over the weekend. Write to us with your profile and statement of purpose at namaste@indic.org.in
@yoginisd @DimpleAtra @ShefVaidya https://t.co/a9K9b4wjxd
https://twitter.com/indictoday/status/1168895519332196352?s=19
Last date for submission of your profile & SOP is September 10, 2019. @IndicAcademy will bear lodging & food costs for all those who will be selected.

Memories of past lives https://t.co/Sh8z2BnIEz via @IPC
https://twitter.com/singh_shreepal/status/1168941084766085122?s=19

"I thought that Nietzsche meant a sort of thing-in-itself behind the psychological phenomenon… I saw then also that he was producing a concept of the self which was like the Eastern concept; it is an Atman idea (Jung, 'Nietzsche’s Zarathustra,' vol I p391)
https://twitter.com/krumbbumm/status/1168977972063285248?s=19

I suspect, my friends, that we have a long and terrible road ahead of us before people in Europe understand what Gebser or Blake were about, or people in India also understand what Aurobindo was about. But may it happen.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1168962164884983810?s=19

“A new awakening of thought and a fresh dissemination of knowledge are the need of the contemporary world.” https://t.co/94wMLpLQCN #SriAurobindo #TeilhardDeChardin
https://twitter.com/WorldofIdeas/status/1169058333929738240?s=19

Enter a deep reading that is invoked with love and respect for five individuals— Jung, Tolkien, Gebser, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Grab the LAST COPY  of Prophets in our Midst here:https://t.co/6A3j5lfq7A https://t.co/c8CU3SlDdv
https://twitter.com/strattonbooks/status/1169022319622270978?s=19

Well as per #SriAurobindo's description, Ravana is representative of the powers of the vital Ego making its own satisfaction the rule of life. So to ascribe any great virtuous thought as his rule of life would be incoherent..
This letter of His may help :) https://t.co/EpjMuGNvax
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1168910913321218055?s=19

THUS SPOKE THE DIVINE
A Power that lives upon the heights must act,
Bring into life’s closed room the Immortal’s air
And fill the finite with the Infinite.
-Sri Aurobindo (Savitri)
https://twitter.com/mirra21_mala/status/1169067346226319360?s=19

Mental intelligence cannot reach out to Sri Aurobindo's Gita. One must develop the faculty of higher reason, even if intuition is unreachable for him/her. https://t.co/XopHZlKefH
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1168902743941103617?s=19

It is our hope that as the work has begun, so it will continue in the spirit of Nationalism and not only the political circumstances of India be changed but her deeper diseases be cured and by a full evocation of her immense stores of moral and spiritual strength that be accomplished for India which Mazzini could not accomplish for Italy, to place her in the head and forefront of the new world whose birth-throes are now beginning to convulse the Earth.
Sri Aurobindo Karmayogin https://t.co/R3QNAjUvZ0
https://twitter.com/CLINGTOTRUTH/status/1169012791740686337?s=19

God-consciousness is not exclusive of world-consciousness; Nature is not an outcast from Spirit, but its Image, world is not a falsity contradicting Brahman, but the symbol of a divine Existence. (Isha Upanishad) #SriAurobindo
https://twitter.com/RishiHks/status/1169058628285808640?s=19

Sri Aurobindo — Arya – Vol 6. No 2 — September 1919:
A Defense of Indian Culture (A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture) 8 – pp.91-105
LVIII. The Elements of Perfection – pp.79-86
Recent English Poetry (3) – pp.106-114
Karma and Freedom – pp.115-128
Above the Gunas – pp.65-78
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169058640726130688?s=19
Roy Bhaskar wrote many books to explicate reality but towards the end of his life he could spot the spider. Then there was nothing much to explain the web in isolation. However, his followers were aghast; how could he commit such a sacrilege! Publishing industry too was dismayed.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168809659341258752?s=19
Scholarship shouldn't be resented; persons shouldn't be despised. The content should be the focus. What's good must be appreciated; what's flawed or distorted, deliberately or otherwise, needs to be countered. With sufficient caution and due academic humility; by producing fresh.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168954263625768960?s=19
India is at the crossroads. No respect for knowledge; it's fashionable and prestigious to push planted narratives. Decibels are more credible than crucibles of truth. Entire corpus of Sri Aurobindo should have been part of syllabus but Universities are yet to evince any interest.
No national level institution dedicated to Sri Aurobindo studies. As a result, ambivalence persists on his views on several crucial issues. Even a chair somewhere will be able to produce diverse papers to popularise his relevance and break resistance. But, no one with conviction.
Evergreen Essays: Decrease in social infrastructure causes loneliness https://t.co/OpSrzRCCkR
SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE,
OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.
#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar,
Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF)
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168947628618539010?s=19

We need a new psychology which can offer support for the human mind to reach a perfected state. #WhenTheSoulHeals #spirituality #psychology #selfgrowth #selfhelp #author #spiritualawakening #TheMother #SriAurobindo #books #BookBoost https://t.co/1xxPTscmSQ
https://twitter.com/pulkitsharma82/status/1167805128751157248?s=19

How could a bunch of outsiders openly publish that they wanted to create a revolution in India and get away with it? To learn more about how the rights of everyday citizens were squelched overnight by the government, read “Auroville – A Dream Hijacked. #politics #democracy https://t.co/AID4fBpxbB
https://twitter.com/truthcourage/status/1168072650402385921?s=19

On August 26th we had Rita Dias in the studio telling us about her past and future productions and her discovery of Auroville. During the interview you can listen to some songs recorded in Portugal and a song composed specifically for Auroville https://t.co/k4uotrfRnL
https://twitter.com/AurovilleRadio/status/1166640588768198656?s=19

From my recent solo piano/music theatre performance at CRIPA Auditorium in Auroville. A wonderful and appreciative audience! https://t.co/xspzjpfkoc
https://twitter.com/themajolly/status/1168445074826350593?s=19

The great Babylon is not the catholic, evangelical or adventist system, but a city near the Euphrates in the chaldean region where the first babylon was; and it will have the luxury of dubai, the mysticism of auroville and the commerce/influence of ee.uu | Jer 51, Ez 38, rev 17
https://twitter.com/GenerationFGod/status/1168698986645139467?s=19

The Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19. By David Hardiman
S Gupta - Journal of Social History, 2019
… dialogue. Hardiman situates Gandhian nonviolence in a longer genealogy, illuminating its connec- tions with Aurobindo Ghose's “Doctrine of Passive Resistance,” scripted at the time of the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal. Located 

[PDF] A STUDY ON THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF COOPERATIVE SPINNING MILLS IN KERALA
P Francis - Paripex-Indian Journal Of Research, 2019
… of affair. REFERENCES BOOKS- 1- Aurobindo Sri, 1993. Essays on Gita , pondicherry Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust press. 2- Bentham, j., 1977. labour and Repose in Clayre A. (ed.), Oxford, oxford University press. 3- Davison …

5 From Spiritualism to a New Paradigm in Tourism: Spiritual Tourism and Motivations
Ö Güzel, A Sariyildiz - Spiritual and Religious Tourism: Motivations and …, 2019
… In a study of spiritual tourism experience by Sharpley and Sundaram (2005) in Auroville and Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2 it turned out that some of the participants were not visiting India simply for spiritualism, but also for 'curiosity, seeing touristic places or learning yoga' …

A Mindful Inquiry into the Meaning of Individual Inspiration in a Period of Personal Challenge
T Azarova - 2019
Page 1. A MINDFUL INQUIRY INTO THE MEANING OF INDIVIDUAL
INSPIRATION IN A PERIOD OF PERSONAL CHALLENGE A dissertation
submitted by TETYANA AZAROVA to FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY …

On their own, can gene, protein or enzyme and so on found in a cell regulate anything? You can get the convincing answer for this question by putting those element on a Petri dish. Stone carving chisel and hammer (gene, protein or enzyme and so on) cannot do any regulative action by their own. It is the artificer (cell) which is responsible for all those controlled actions that we find in a cell.
The mindless accumulation of knowledge on genetics to gain some academic/financial benefits without considering the role of sentient nature of cell cannot help us in our attempt to understand life. All those studies which simply ignore the concept of self (or soul) are simply wild goose chasing. Thanking you. Sincerely,
Bhakti Niskama Shanta
Like genes, the electro-dynamic fields also on their own cannot achieve any useful functions. Electro-dynamic fields on their own cannot correct the errors during DNA replication. A sentient agent is necessary to use the electro-dynamic fields in a useful manner. That is the main point that we are discussing on this thread. Thanking you. Sincerely,
Bhakti Niskama Shanta 
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/Online_Sadhu_Sanga/2071131695.2753087.1566333253611%40mail.yahoo.com
Sripad Puri Maharaja also highlighted that in modern science due to our over reliance on materialistic view of reality we do not see the Reality as an organic whole. Thus, we do not worry so much about the purpose of the thing that we observe. 
A nose in the body (organic whole) does not exist without any purpose and similarly the Sun in the Solar System does not exist without a purpose. Like a nose in the body cannot be seen as a randomly protruding portion of the face in the process of embryological development, similar the Sun in Solar system also cannot be seen as a mere random event in the developing solar system. 
Due their over reliance on physical sciences, scientists have only tried to understand the reality from the view point of determinism and when they seriously fail in that attempt, they come up with the argument that the world is full of random happenings. The artifacts of abstractions that we see in modern science in the form of different theories are nothing but a representation of serious distortion of true reality. This framework in modern science can only be seen as an essential step in the struggle for knowledge by an egocentric approach which inherently ignores the organic interconnectedness of whole reality. However, to advance beyond this impasse we have to adopt a more receptive atmosphere in science for an organic concept of reality where everything can be seen with respect to the purpose of the center of the organic whole and not in isolation.  Thanking you. Sincerely,
Bhakti Niskama Shanta

The potential that Burr found is a force related to the primal streak,  the development of the notochord, then the neural tube then the CNS - and obviously this being the axis, it has to do with chakras etc. But it is not the only principle manifesting in the body - a more primal one is pulsation. My thesis includes this and I am working on a paper now which I hope will make some of these concepts and their functions clearer. The soul for me is not the body, but is expressing itself through a body. Self-realisation is about this. 
Warm regards Tina 
Tina LIndhard

One leading example is Michael Behe, author of three books which strongly argue for intelligent design behind evolution, of which two (The Edge of Evolution and Darwin Devolves) strongly support common descent, even to the point of giving several arguments for it.  This makes Behe especially dangerous to the cause of atheistic materialism. 
Peter Nyikos 

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31.8.2019: The Pachamama Ceremony in Auroville – also for the Amazon forests - This last Saturday, just two days ago, on 31st of August, I was glad to participate in an event organized as usual by Anandi, a long time Aurovilian and pe...

Maskin on Arrow's Impossible Social Choice - E.S Maskin writes- Arrow's first paper in this field was “A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare” (Arrow 1950), which he then expanded into the cele...

Savitri Satsang 107, pp. 186-187 - A weekly sharing on Savitri by Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English). The post Savitri Satsang 107, pp. 186-187 appeared first on AuroMaa.

Don’t give a paper - Studies of Indian philosophy often rightly call attention to the varied genres in which they are composed: the sparse pith of the Yoga Sūtras, Śaṅkara’s ex...

Don’t give a paper - Studies of Indian philosophy often rightly call attention to the varied genres in which they are composed: the sparse pith … Continue reading

Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo would have remained moribund without Heehs imbroglio - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar: The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have written many things and the responsibility is theirs. Direct discip...

A Few Notes on My Early Years by Amal Kiran - Dear Friends, K. D. Sethna (25.11.1904 — 29.6.2011) was a Parsi sadhak who joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram at the age of twenty-three in December 1927. He was ...

German romanticism, American transcendentalism, and Bengal Renaissance - Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams Narad's Arrival at Madra. By RY Des...

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF since 2005)

Assorted tweets Collated by @NathTusar Director #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams

Thank you @thekiranbedi Ma'am for encouraging us and especially the children of Unmesha camp with your inspiring words. It was our honour and privilege to welcome you this morning. We are very grateful for your gracious presence at the program today. https://t.co/JczBa4CZP9
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1164453991561826305?s=19

On August 20th at Unity Pavilion it took place a meeting to hear thoughts, concerns and intentions related to the selection of Working Group members and other topics. https://t.co/sO59S9cHKW
https://twitter.com/AurovilleRadio/status/1164439837622951936?s=19
General Meeting about selection of Working Groups #2. Listen at:https://t.co/HpaeNauCQR https://t.co/6acQDetOx3
https://twitter.com/AurovilleRadio/status/1164439840881926145?s=19

Today, we are celebrating the first anniversary of Upword. It's been a very exciting year. We received tremendous support from our followers. We thank each and every Upword follower- thank you very much. Keep showering your love and support.
#EducateEmpower https://t.co/MoAAJnxSBz
https://twitter.com/upword_/status/1164442377307734016?s=19

The accusation that Jews have a “dual loyalty” — that they are not to be trusted because their true allegiance is to their religion, rather than to the country in which they live — dates back thousands of years. https://t.co/ygiAVImTdd
https://twitter.com/kunalmajumder/status/1164361761039896577?s=19

Watch this, and also read @BradStone's fascinating book, "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon"
https://t.co/luzVy7A5yO https://t.co/lcj7UxdLMz
https://twitter.com/AbhinavAgarwal/status/1164452657433436160?s=19

During the freedom struggle everybody wrote huge volumes of literature to inspire the natives. Tilak also did, some were inspiring some were below par. There were many like him. But nobody should be above criticism. If people can criticize Dayanand Saraswati why not Tilak?
https://twitter.com/nandighosha/status/1164365366673338368?s=19

And equated salvation and moksha? 🤣🤣🤣 this is why the ancients had a rigorous way of testing aspirants before revealing the sacred path..without that everyone with a keyboard and internet becomes an Yogi, Rishi and Brahmarishi in a single tweet..
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1164375542847561728?s=19
And what are you even saying? As one who is living out the process of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga your statement is just silly...
Don’t need to take either extreme..all can be and has been integrated..the Vedic vision of ‘Sons of Heaven, by Body of the Earth’ has been given a fresh and new impetus by Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga...check out if you haven’t yet..
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1164206112209428480?s=19
Sir..of course I didn’t know your specific inclination...hence mentioned..if She has stepped in then it’s a complete conquest..and the dichotomy would not arise at all..🙏

24) Conscious Nights: The Mother's OBEs during the night started getting accompanied by sleepwalking, but not of the ordinary kind, She would write poems during these sleepwalking sessions!
In Her sleep She would meet several 'teachers', including one whom She called 'Krishna': https://t.co/obZk51diFB
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1106871641470980097?s=19
29) Memories of the Past: One common misconception about the Mother and #SriAurobindo is that they were such or such person in their past life, for the WHOLE of that life; which is not true.
The Mother cleared this while narrating an experience of Hers from when She was ~18/19: https://t.co/wlgnzCavKP
Could you provide a source sir? I believe these are Mother's words as reported by the disciples (like Champaklal, Udar).. It is more likely that Mother's words meant something else than what was construed by them..
The quote I have is from Agenda of May 10, 1969: https://t.co/T4dK7T4SES
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1092463978054205440?s=19
1st, #SriAurobindo never mentioned it directly, It was the disciples who inferred these conclusions based on their own understanding
2nd, To someone who is a Hindu and believes in incarnations and Vibhutis, the idea wouldn't be weird at all!
I don't think that the Mother said that sir.. However to us, both were Avatars and Mother confirms the fact multiple times :)
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1164399350346207232?s=19
Yes sir, She called the being in Her vision Krishna which was later revealed to be #SriAurovindo. But the two Avatars may have had followed completely different psychic lines
https://t.co/DQWZLVIZ15
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1164405832294920192?s=19
Of course Sri Aurobindo never made a difference between Himself and Krishna in the Sadhana, and after 1926 there was another type of relation which one can go on at length about :)
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1164406703871279104?s=19

That's what I stick to too. Takes enough to battle inner foes, to even bother about outer ones, especially those who are this inconsequential.
https://twitter.com/ArpanAgarwal3/status/1164445390512332801?s=19

It is a genuine challenge to read #SriAurobindo no doubt.
Easier to start with correspondence and talks.
They have shorter sentences, are more personal and humorous.
These run into 4/5 volumes easily.
As a teenager, I relished the Master's plays and short stories.
https://twitter.com/paroksham/status/1164241909612568576?s=19

Have you checked out the video recordings of several informative talks on our prenatal education related website? Two new resources added recently:
1) षड्भावाज्जायते जीवो प्रकृतिश्च तदाश्रिता
2) Importance of Rajaswala Paricharya in Supraja Janma
https://t.co/Bx0dXTMfDX
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1164170287513919488?s=19

Any attempt towards restoring the past in its outward features and fit it to the modern system of life and education will be failure. Better to focus on the fundamental principles which are for all time and to discover a still more effective discipline to replace the old one.
https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1163965693521383424?s=19
The stupidity is taking the literal outer sense varuni as wine... suraa, vaarunii, soma are synoymous with amrita and ananda...one can not just forget the symbolisim behind it and translate it the way one wishes.
https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1163754494246580227?s=19
Self-conquest is the very law of the Aryan culture. Attainment of Self-perfection, indeed, is the aim of that Self-conquest. The Self-perfected Arya is Arhat. What a profound meaning of the word Arya explained by Sri Aurobindo!
https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1163031234039046144?s=19

Hinduism post Bengal Renaissance is an adulterated religion and puritans have every right to restore the original ethos. Hindutva unfortunately aims at political supremacy by neglecting this. But the Evolutionary arrow as perceived by Sri Aurobindo moves in the opposite direction
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1163023522626600960?s=19
Many don't know that Sri Aurobindo was a Christian and The Mother, a Jew. So, there is nothing unusual about their Western connection. Besides, their collaboration in bringing out ARYA in August 1914 was meant for integration of East and West by elbowing out Theosophical Society.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1164428004279214080?s=19
Any admirer of Sri Aurobindo has to go through a prolonged phase of exploring Homer, Heraclitus, Plotinus, Dante, Goethe,  Fichte, Blake, Nietzsche, Spencer, et al in order to develop an integral understanding of him. Those who suffer from West-phobia must shed their inferiority complex.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1164432246645784577?s=19
Marketime: Past poems are given new life in Savitri https://t.co/CGaqUTB08C Collated by @NathTusar Director #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1164074813419225088?s=19
I'm confused, whether "Amazon is burning" or "Amazon is building its largest campus in India" https://t.co/pCqdDm61uD https://t.co/baxvDujau7
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1164456830614949888?s=19

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Asian historicism before Protestantism - We are surely familiar with the pattern by now: members of an Asian tradition are concerned about supposed corruptions in … Continue reading →

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Friday, August 16, 2019

What is the origin, nature, and process of life?

57) Arya: #SriAurobindo & the Richards collaborated to launch 'Arya'; its 1st issue came out on His 42nd birth anniversary. Its launch was announced on 21 Jun, which a century later has become #InternationalYogaDay! During Her stay, Mother got to witness His incomparable power: https://t.co/tr2yNwT1Ej
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1118938351896289280?s=19
With the above, we conclude the study of the Rig-Veda based on #SriAurobindo's commentary, written for His journal 'Arya'.
Today marks the 105th anniversary of Arya's first publication (15 Aug 1914). #DarshanDay #IndependenceDayIndia (End) https://t.co/Rs0GkY0lap
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1162067830348455936?s=19

British started revolutionaries like mad dogs. Many were arrested. That started the Tirunelveli Conspiracy case. Revolutionary Venktesh Iyer and Dharmaraj Iyer killed themselves so british couldn't capture them. This revolutionary phase ended for now.
Among others Bholanath Chattopadhyay and Sohanlal Pathak were revolutionaries who tried to start a revolution in Burma. Later Rasbehari Bose, Sachindranath Sanyal will bring it to North India. Will write about that  later.
Now coming back to Bengal. Revolutionaries decided that Kingsford  should die. Jadugopal Mukherjee in his memoir has written that it was decided by Aurobindo Ghosh, Charu Dutta & Subodh Mallick. Anyway, first attempt was sending a bomb-book to Kingsford. However Kingsford...
https://twitter.com/From_Himalaya/status/1162032544633610241?s=19

Today, on Sri Aurobindo's birthday, gave final shape to my paper "The Force behind the Indian Renaissance and Crucial Significance of Auroville Emergence". It will be published in a book on Sri Aurobindo's philosophy by Bloomsbury. Thank you, Debidatta and Mandakini Lucien-Brun.
https://twitter.com/PactAuroville/status/1162027195075710978?s=19

Sir, I had worked in Puducherry from Gujarat as Dev Secy-cum-Collector. People still remember my Dev work. Sri Aurobindo was not there, but I had the privilege of meeting the Mother almost every week-gave land to Auroville. Sri Aurobindo,after resigning from ICS, worked in BARODA.
https://twitter.com/drgsundaram/status/1162071748096843777?s=19

It was an honour to innaugrate  exhibition conceived and designed by SAFIC in the memory of Shri Aurobindo and Indian Freedom Movement . @AUROSAFIC Some pictures i am attaching . I request students and staff to kindly visit and take inspiration . Dates 15th to 25th August 2019. https://t.co/jgyksOEzWj https://t.co/UAa8WcZCC0
https://twitter.com/GurmeetSinghVC/status/1162025859609350144?s=19

twitter blocks or suspends the accts if Capt.Ajit Vadakayil's blog link are being post, censorship at its best. 
Search google for -- "SANATANA DHARMA , HINDUISM EXHUMED AND RESURRECTED - CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL"
any specific search you always use "vadakayil" as postfix or prefix.
https://twitter.com/JUDGEisDHARMA/status/1162087973841620992?s=19
It was Woodrow Wilson who revealed the Bagha Jatin conspiracy to Rothschild. It was US President Wilson who signed Rothschild’s Federal Reserve Bank of USA into life. 
Aurobindo had a plea bargain with Rothschild—I scratch your back, you scratch my back—quid pro quo—

In the early phases Sri Aurobindo was a nationalist but under the influence of Meira (Myra) Alfassa, the Mother/a Kabbalist Jew, he turned his efforts to unifying the world through a nebulous supramental force of consciousness that would usher in a new immortal species. He failed
https://twitter.com/SopherMoshe/status/1162055646516326400?s=19

When I first read this years bak my hair stood on end. Even the victory day of WW2, which Sri Aurobindo called the Mother's War, and in which They fought alongside the Allies, is called VJ  day, almost exactly "VIJAY" day. At our center we always celebrate 15th as Vijay Divas 🙂
https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1162053201966882816?s=19

If you want to understand the tectonic shift that revolutionary in #SriAurobindo brought to the collective mindset of the greatest stalwarts of freedom movement, read the PDF of the newspaper he started with Tillak. Here's some testimonials  #VandeMataram #IndependenceDayIndia https://t.co/fJ0YZ1qZs6
https://twitter.com/Diff_View/status/1162019021371260928?s=19
Those who wanted to know more about #SriAurobindo, those who are uninitiated and don't have time to read his biographies, here's an article that covers many stages of his life in brief :-) https://t.co/e2NLdhkowk #IndependenceDayIndia #Freedom72 #VandeMataram #Spirituality
https://twitter.com/Diff_View/status/1162038247855280128?s=19
On the birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, the seer, the Rishi who showed the path of light and spirituality to the world here's an extraordinary account of his aura. Read about Kapali Shastri meeting Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/kiuTciteds #IndependenceDayIndia #Freedom72

[PDF] Woman and Water Kindred by Nature
A Mukhopadhyay - IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities), 2019
… thought-mind. Their ray was extended horizontally; there was something above, there was something below.” (Sri Aurobindo 101) Explanation … is the first seed of what afterwards appears as the sense-mind. (Sri Aurobindo 101-02) “The …

Teaching Ethics to Future Managers: Encouraging and Discouraging Impulses
D Saini - South Asian Journal of Business and Management …, 2019
Nowadays, management institutions are including an ethics course in their curriculum globally, which is focused upon inculcating the value set in an individual. Therefore, it makes an important poi...

[PDF] Charkha: Symbol of Identity, Swadeshi and Swaraj Past and Present
G SRIVASTAVA, B PANDEY
Charkha: Symbol of Identity, Swadeshi and Swaraj Past and Present GOURI SRIVASTAVA*1 AND BHARTI PANDEY2 Department of Education in Social Sciences National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri …

[PDF] EFFECT OF MEDITATION ON ACHIEVEMENT, ATTENTION & MEMORY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
NK Das
… among the ancient ones while in the modern times Sri Aurobindo, Swami Yogananda, Swami Shivananda Saraswati, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Nirmala Devi, Mata Amruta Anandamayee, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Sri Sri …

Abstractions of intent: How a psychobiography grapples with the fluidity of truth
RF Mullen - New trends in psychobiography, 2019
… Ghose, A. (2006). The life divine. Pondicherry, India: Śri Aurobindo Ashram. Google Scholar. Hosinski, TE (1993). Stubborn fact and creative advance: An introduction to the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. New York: Rowman 

[PDF] The MLE Teacher: An Agent of Change or a Means to an End?
U Bedamatta
… IV, p. 183). Sri Aurobindo sees the teacher as one who can lift the disciple to a higher state of being. '…the wise teacher will not … He will seek to awaken much more than to instruct…' (Sri Aurobindo, 1972, p.60). Stories of the …

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