Worldwide 'Utopia' Meets in India to Prepare for 51st Anniversary
Al-Bawaba-20-Feb-2019
A one-of-a-kind experimental community gathered on the outskirts of southern India is preparing to mark its 51st anniversary with a series of activities. Auroville ...
Auroville kicks off series of cultural events to raise funds
The Hindu-12-Feb-2019
Auroville has kicked off a series of fundraiser shows in its pursuit of securing land for a galaxy-shaped universal township with the Matrimandir as its soul.
Discovering the soul of cities
The Hindu-07-Feb-2019
The book thus conveys the complex concept behind the founding of Auroville through the “lived reality” of growing up there. Ms. Sriram, who recently came out ...
Mirra Alfassa: The Mother Of Auroville
Feminism in India (blog)-06-Feb-2019
Mirra Alfassa's quest for spiritual fulfillment inspired her to traverse oceans and seas to reach India which was considered the fountainhead of mysticism, diverse ...
Celebrating the existence of Auroville
Times of India-24-Jan-2019
As part of the 50th anniversary of Auroville, a month-long festival has begun at DakshinaChitra to honour the existence of this universal township that was ...
Kolkata: Auroville Festival – inauguration #Gallery
SocialNews.XYZ-28-Jan-2019
Kolkata: Auroville Foundation Chairman Karan Singh during inauguration of Auroville Festival in Kolkata on Jan 28, 2019. (Photo: IANS). Kolkata: Auroville ...
Alipore Central jail closes down after 109 yrs
The Tribune-20-Feb-2019
It's an end of an era, as the jail had as its prisoners at various times freedom fighters like Sri Aurobindo, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Pandit Jawaharlal ...
Terror calls for a hard martial response. And that should entail no guilt
DailyO-19-Feb-2019
More recently, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, all countered challenges from Christianity and/or Western ideology. In the martial sphere, ...
Bengali Radicalism: Is it suicidal?
Daily Pioneer-15-Feb-2019
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore moulded the philosophy of Hinduism in their own ways, ...
Unity in Diversity
Economic and Political Weekly-01-Feb-2019
In the pre-independence period particularly, M K Gandhi, Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo (to name a few) provided an ontological ground for this principle.
What 'sedition' means in our time
Telegraph India-31-Jan-2019
Like him, Sri Aurobindo and Lala Lajpat Rai, too, were sentenced. Mahatma Gandhi had to face this charge also in 1922 for writing a series of essays ...
Plasim Radar
Fraternity as an Organizing Principle of Society Fails Without Liberty and Equality -The watchwords of the French Revolution, “liberty, equality, fraternity” embody three principles which together provide guidance for the development of hum...
Laws of gender: Parody and resistance in times of scandal - This essay begins with a tale of two cardinals. It’s not the story you’re expecting.
William Carey, Prafulla Chakraborty, and Ram Swarup - The rise of a novel India Millennium Post-20 hours ago Ram Swarup was referring to how with the likes of Sri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak and others, the stru...
Why bother to look at material from South Asia, when there is so much interesting stuff in “our” tradition? - From time to time and never by scholars, I am confronted with some variant of this question: “Why bother to look at material from South Asia, when there is...
Savitri Study Class 24-02 “The Human Mask of God”, pp. 634-637 - Savitri reveals that she has indeed assumed a human mask to redeem earth and humanity. But Death then argues that if she has indeed discovered her soul a...
I won't allow anyone to wash my feet - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar I won't allow anyone to wash my feet and no one should. It's against personal ethics and modern valu...
The English of Savitri Volume 5 - This is the fifth volume of the English of Savitri series based on transcripts of classes led by the author at Savitri Bhavan, in this case from 6 January ...
The Higher Ranges of Consciousness–M.S. Srinivasan - There are many mansions in my Father’s kingdom, said Jesus Christ. Here is a brief outline of the mansions of consciousness beyond the ordinary mentality...
L’Anniversaire de Mère le 21, et le nouveau Darshan qu’Elle m’a donné… -(Traduction en français de l’article précédent) Habituellement je ne prévois aucun évènement extérieur pour un Jour de Darshan, de façon à pouvoir me conce...
Does Śāntideva think bodhisattvas are happy? - A while ago William Edelglass put up a paper for discussion on academia.edu about Śāntideva and happiness. I made some …
Seventy Photographs of the Mother taken on 21 February 1972 - Dear Friends, 21 February 2019 marked the 141th Birth Anniversary of the Mother. As our humble homage to Her, seventy photographs of Her taken on the occas...
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Begun "The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life" by @KevinSimler & @robinhanson
Sounds like it's part one of my favourite genres, evolutionary psychology, & perhaps the junction where that meets economics. Also, is rated well by readers. https://t.co/J6697BqYEj
https://twitter.com/BooksPanda/status/1100437479323242496?s=19
Russell was horrified by Gödel's proof; Whitehead was liberated.
Rather than lamenting Gödel's theorem as a major defeat for philosophy, he happily set the ancient discipline on a new track:
“We thus dismiss deductive logic as a major instrument for metaphysical discussion. Such discussion is concerned with the eliciting of self-evidence.
https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1100451610445017088?s=19
The Failings of Equality as a Principle for the Organisation and Functioning of Society https://t.co/CKvWOR8kRO
Weaknesses and Limitations of Socialism as the Model for Human Society https://t.co/aA2hnAi1FM
One meets so many ek se badhkar ek experts on all topics from war to wc on Twitter that it's intimidating sometimes with a perpetual feeling of inadequacy. Invoking Sri Aurobindo however compensates to some extent be it [Hound of heaven or Dakshina whose function is to discern rightly] https://t.co/9viBDQkDC5
“Positive thinking is supposed to be empowering. But in fact it sets us up against an ideal of ourselves in the face of which we always feel inadequate”
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen on burnout: https://t.co/Dw8LPG8oiY
Democracy entails separation of powers and functions like between civilians and services. People join armed forces not out of patriotism or nationalism but as another job. Thus, trying to whip up sentiments over routine Defence operations and other security matters is anomalous.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1100420578144604160?s=19
Second term for Modi agenda should be separated from Hindutva. Similarly, CHARTER OF HINDU DEMANDS (HCD) should be separated from Hindutva. Hindutva itself should be separated from Hinduism. Hinduism in turn has to be separated from Sri Aurobindo's vision. https://t.co/zY0LyxDF0v
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1100414451243638785?s=19
VIP VAK: Sri Aurobindo knew the Origin of all languages https://t.co/sv9oQ3hg6N [So, if you want to get into the spirit of the Rig Vedic poetry make Sanskrit your mother tongue. It is as simple as that. When you want to read Savitri make English as your native language, ... -RYD]
Marketime: Carey arrived in India in 1793; Sri Aurobindo returned in 1893 https://t.co/w9tv4RFbcW [Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management by Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF)] #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7
Savitri Era Learning Forum: William Carey, Prafulla Chakraborty, & Ram Swarup https://t.co/tMnDRmcL3o - Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director, SELF-SRA102C #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh 201014
#SavitriEra of those who adore,
Om #SriAurobindo & #TheMother
