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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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

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