Sunday, July 14, 2019

Vyasa is impartial to all his characters


Methodological issues in the Indo-European debate
M Danino - Journal of Biosciences, 2019
… The list of dissenters, which goes back to the nineteenth century, includes many distinguished names: Mountstuart Elphinstone (in 1841), Swami Vivekananda (1897 onward), Sri Aurobindo (from 1910 to 1914), PT Srinivasa …

Cultural Diplomacy of The Mahabharata: A Case Study of its Application with Special Reference to Modern India
D Mishra - Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management, 2019
… Yoga diplomacy: Narendra Modi's soft power strategy. Foreign Affairs.
Retrieved from https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/india/2015-01-25/yoga-
diplomacy. Mohanty, S. (2008). Sri Aurobindo: A contemporary reader. New …

Epilogue: Bengal Intelligence Officers and the Second World War
M Silvestri - Policing 'Bengali Terrorism'in India and the World, 2019
… Deputy Commissioner JVB Janvrin of the Calcutta Police Special Branch considered it a realistic possibility that Bose had become a sannyasi, and initially suspected that Bose might have traveled to Pondicherry to meet with …

Ethics, Applied Ethics and Indian Theories of Morals
PK Mohapatra - An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics, 2019
… And he who performs his swadharma incurs no sin, (Sri Aurobindo 1928, p. 479; also Sankara 2013, p. 433) even if the consequence of that action turns out to be harmful in any way, whereas he who takes resort to paradharma …

Transnational Revolutionaries and Imperial Surveillance: Bengal Revolutionary Networks Outside India
M Silvestri - Policing 'Bengali Terrorism'in India and the World, 2019
… He sheltered Aurobindo Ghose in 1909 as Ghose fled British India and introduced Rash Behari Bose to the two revolutionaries who would carry out the assassination attempt on Hardinge. He was entrusted with a box of …

The “Bomb Cult” and “Criminal Tribes”: Revolutionaries and the Origins of Police Intelligence in Colonial Bengal
M Silvestri - Policing 'Bengali Terrorism'in India and the World, 2019
… Revolutionary newspapers such as the English-language Bande Mataram , edited by Aurobindo Ghose, and the Bengali Yugantar, edited by his brother Barindra, urged the formation of secret societies and counseled would-be revolutionaries on tactics …
APPLIED PERSPECTIVE ON INDIAN ETHICS.
PK Mohapatra - 2019
Page 1. PK Mohapatra An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics Page 2. An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics Page 3. P. K. Mohapatra An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics Page 4. ISBN 978-981-13-7502-6 ISBN 978-981 …

From Nacionalista Anti-Kabbalistic Polemic to Aryan Kabbalah in the Southern Cone
JP Brown - The Journal of Religion, 2019

Assorted tweets:

Planetary positions on the first day of the Mahabharata War (16 October 5561 BCE) https://t.co/P05LvHcPXU
https://twitter.com/NileshOak/status/1150032186944499712?s=19

By merely retaining the names of the characters, their relationships and the places they roamed around in, if we insert our own words into their mouths, are we not merely using them for the purpose of propaganda? What end is this genre serving then? /END
https://twitter.com/aurvabhrg/status/1149655158038511618?s=19

^ It turns out it was from one of the recent popular authors writings something based on the R. Now, I do accept their artistic freedom of expression and don't want to grudge them that. However, it is important that readers be aware that these modern works are not the rAmAyaNa.
https://twitter.com/blog_supplement/status/1149904587320713216?s=19
On 1 hand you have low encephalization modern H slag go apeshit when we try to read the history presented as is in the itihAsa-s on the other they want they these works rid of the "supernatural". The supernatural is the important part of the epics. For those who approach it as
bhakta-s the supernatural is the necessary ingredient for bhakti. For those who approach it for religious teaching the supernatural is there is teaching things which they would obtain where they able to access the shruti directly. &for those who can approach the shruti directly
it provides an exegesis and an unfolding subtlities that might be difficult to directly apprehend in the old language of the shruti

This whole idea of limiting Kashtriya down to intellectualism is the final funeral ritual these Hindus are celebrating of their own demise. Aurobindo was right about Hindus killing the real Kshatriya as the enemy now is not losing sleep in fear of the 'Intellectual Kshatriya'
https://twitter.com/hhrLondon/status/1149992426955837440?s=19

On July 20, 1969, over half a billion people watched as humans landed on the Moon. Never before had our species trod upon another world—and we’ve visited none since. Now, we’re closer than ever to going back.  Look back on 50 years of Apollo: https://t.co/XiwQ48TuYO https://t.co/VpZGHJ2bxg
https://twitter.com/DiscoverMag/status/1150105188398706688?s=19

In his new book on Aryan Invasion debate, Shrikant Taligeri refers to @KalavaiVenkat as "the racist-casteist Hindu activist Kalavai Venkat". Despite my problems with Kalavai, I find this does not belong in a research book.
Emotions --> Ad Hominem --> Book loses credibility https://t.co/qUB32PihXN
https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1149996971077148672?s=19


Wonderful article on Bollywood - exposing anti-majority face of this hub of plagiarism, money laundering, terror financing.
https://t.co/jsw6VPXtrd
https://twitter.com/SanjeevSanskrit/status/1150052796734951424?s=19

Indian history texts sanitizing slavery in Delhi sultanate while  Vyasa/Valmiki deleted for sanitizing caste in Cal https://t.co/7sjsLDmn7i
https://twitter.com/VamseeJuluri/status/714452552692006912?s=19


But my argument is - religion is nowhere near as harmful to moral philosophy as science or history
Theology has always had a fairly healthy relationship with philosophy
Be it St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas in the West
Be it Badarayana (Vyasa), Patanjali in India
https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1148787343266131968?s=19

Hobbes's vision was an outgrowth of what he saw as a dog-eat-dog culture which he generalized to the entire human race. Vyasa expounded Dharma based on what the Purpose of Existence is and came out of sublime Realizations and not foolish reactions to life.
https://twitter.com/HeritageMouse/status/1060100699403382784?s=19

The Four Key Pillars of Sanatana India that Sustains it: @dharmadispatch echoes my thought that stressing too much on individual rights with no reference to India’s culture is leading India to ruin and remorse. Should honour Veda Vyasa and not Hobbes https://t.co/diwXihvaWF
https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1060098934868267008?s=19


The worst disservice to #Draupadi’s stature is relegating her to just a wronged woman forced into polyandry or a helpless lover pining for Karna. Writes @Sai_swaroopa 
#Draupadi https://t.co/QArOkOC9fT
https://twitter.com/SheThePeople/status/1094188910241026058?s=19



Again, I thought so too at one time, but Vyasa has described each character thoroughly. We don't need to interpret. It was practically biographical, and Vyasa is impartial to all, so he isn't biased.
So if he says X is bad, then X is bad and end of discussion.
https://twitter.com/yaajushi/status/1021827137664241664?s=19




Calling out applicants for a 9-month fellowship programme designed exclusively for college students with the objective of making young people aware about self, society and democracy in everyday life. Interested?
https://twitter.com/PRIA_India/status/1149915020244869120?s=19
Click here to apply for PRIA’s Youth N Democracy Fellowship Programme
https://t.co/C6Lw1dL046 https://t.co/u4Ca5jouc7

Sri Aurobindo's approach to Tantra by Prema Nandkumar https://t.co/mL923pm1NF @sriaurobindo27a #Spirituality
https://twitter.com/esamskritiindia/status/1150035689045520384?s=19


57) Hymns 366 - 371 (Verses 3,747 - 3,779): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 05, Sukta 012 to 017 (including hymns on man's aspiration & its relation with Agni); with #SriAurobindo's words on the incoherence of the naturalistic interpretation of Indra https://t.co/vWk9sVOWLk
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1150208906280353792?s=19

https://t.co/U1dFiKs3fX Very interesting. More so as @studio_ata and her team restored the whole town of Chandernagore. The town from where #SriAurobindo set sail for Pondy in 1910. Felt very nice reading about your creativity Smt. Aishwarya Tipnis.
https://twitter.com/RaghuveerBelur/status/1150012627537391616?s=19


Of course, poetry has turned a lot inward in the last 30 years. Not just in English but also in the vernaculars. There is no call for us to be frustrated as such a big turn will always be slow. RYD must be wishing us to be more quick n deliberate.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1148244768968728577?s=19
Another 15 August coming: a turning point in human history. US and Europe wake up to Sri Aurobindo. Bengal doesn't know yet who Sri Aurobindo is! Pity !
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1150235673732849666?s=19

Sri Aurobindo has pointed out large scale interpolations in Mahabharata and Gita but he himself can be accused of "propaganda" in many of his poems including Savitri. So where to draw the Lakshmanarekha is a ticklish issue. Even Savitri has interpolations. https://t.co/lJ745UznJe
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150266488088981504?s=19
Marketime: Equanimity, detached critical judgement, and ruminative engagement https://t.co/Ohh8fIxH2Y @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Indirapuram, Ghaziabad-201014 (UP) #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149973429681999872?s=19

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