Plasim Radar
1.2 From “Prayers and Meditations”: January 19, 1914 -
"In Thee, by Thee, all is transfigured and glorified; in Thee is found the key to all mysteries and all powers. But one can attain Thee only if one no lo...
Integral Spirituality -
In The Christian Future, or the modern mind outrun (1946) Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy made his argument for what we might call “integral spirituality”, and as ...
The God of the Dinosaurs -
The* prosopou* whose peachy cheeks Ockam's razor reveals on the happy Occasion Of Weber's wedding of Science as Calling & Politics as Vocation Is what? Ga...
The Successive Levels of Realisation Through the Process of Meditation -
Sri Aurobindo translates Katha Upanishad, First Cycle: Third Chapter, Verses 13-15: “Let the wise man restrain speech in his mind and mind in Self, and kn...
Shelter: Between Thing and Thought-Thing -
On Thursday I found myself sitting in my office with a very bright student who is now taking his second course with me. He sat down and looked at me very ...
The wisdom of serenity -
There are probably few people in the English-speaking world unfamiliar with the Serenity Prayer. In its best-known form this prayer … Continue reading →
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...
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left -
For those of us in the United States, Gandhi’s birthday is also an opportunity to reflect on how lessons from Gandhi’s organizing in South Africa and in ...
Notes on Reading ‘Abhaya’ in the Light of Sri Aurobindo -
“I revere Krishna today as one of the first architects of a unified India. Yes, I believe he did exist in the obscure history of India…. Abhaya has b...
South Asian philosophy on twitter — and how to persuade your colleagues that there is philosophy in South Asia -
You might have noticed it already (since I am well-known for being a late adapter), but there are now several scholars of South Asian philosophy on twitter...
Divine Mereology, or Why Black Holes are Pores in God’s Face -
Thinking and driving…about the evolution of matter, life, and mind.
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 ...
Sue Burke, Interference -
Sue Burke’s new science fiction novel Interference is the sequel to her previous book Semiosis. That book introduced us to Pax, a superhabitable Earth-like...
Preparing for the Miraculous by Georges Van Vrekhem -
Preparing for the Miraculous is a series of ten talks given by Georges Van Vrekhem in Auroville covering a wide range of subjects, examined from the Auro...
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In the WSJ, Stephen Miller on ‘Fuzzy-Profound’ Words. Contemporary intellectual life, Saul Bellow implies in “Herzog” (1964), is filled with fuzzy-profoun...
The Myth and Meaning of Originality – M.S Srinivasan -
(Is there something like original thinking? This article examines the truth and illusion behind the concept and the belief) The Meaning of Originality What...
Economic trends -
Modern economics is too complex to be subjected to over simplistic narratives or single term labels or definitions.Actually fundamentals of economics of ...
Miraculous & Extremely Fragile: A Theology of Failure Book Event response -
In my book, I argue that for Žižek there is a difference between love according to desire, which is ‘to believe in a false vision of purity and perfection’...
Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo A Propos a Gujarati Translation of Maurice Magre’s Impressions of Sri Aurobindo Ashram -
Dear Friends, Apropos of the translation of Maurice Magre’s article on Sri Aurobindo Ashram which was published in two installments in the website of Overm...
Art Appreciation with Sri Aurobindo -
The decluttering and reorganising continues on this space…. ***** Sometime back at the suggestion of a friend, I had expanded and revised an old blog post ...
Better to say that it is unknown -
Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF) IMO this is unlikely. If you read Aurobindo's view on the development ...