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The Origin of Living Beings, Part Three–the Divisions of Time - Sri Aurobindo translates Prashna Upanishad, First Question, Verses 9-13: “The year also is that Eternal Father and of the year there are two paths, the no...
Thomas T Hills & Shamanism vs Lying - Professor Thomas T Hills has a brief article in Aeon asking 'what good is Shamanism?'. He thinks it has to do with catastrophic risk. My own view is that t...
A Buddhism very different than the one we think we know - Weterners who have studied Buddhist philosophy and ethics, even when we have done so at length, are often thrown for … Continue reading →
A Buddhism very different than the one we think we know - Weterners who have studied Buddhist philosophy and ethics, even when we have done so at length, are often thrown for a loop when we read the Mahāvaṃsa. Thi...
- Lecture at Central Saint Martins on Martin Heidegger's "The Thing".
Bengali Writings by Sri Aurobindo (translated into English) - Most of the pieces in Bengali were written by Sri Aurobindo in 1909 and 1910 for Dharma, a Calcutta weekly he edited at that time; the material consists ...
Guidance in Life: To Correct One’s Defects - As soon as one begins doing yoga or purifying one-self, there are always these hostile forces which come to disturb our work. They are amazing and find m...
Human Nature and the Climate Crisis - While it is somewhat true that the climate crisis is the most serious problem that the planet presently confronts, it is probably truer to say that the mos...
The higher one rises, the farther one is pulled down - “Evolution does not move higher and higher...
Mitra, Varuna, and Sarama - No compulsion for slogging for a PhD degree, no need for publishing in peer-reviewed journals, no scope for post-publication discussion or review articles,...
economy - When I was growing up, not far from New York City’s Bowery, which in those days was lined with soup kitchens and flophouses, my daily walk to elementary sc...
Seeking stops when ..... - Seeking and/or searching for meanings stop not only when we presume we know but also when we try to freeze the process through some of the following:- r...
Yoga of Works: Practioners’ Experiences – M.S.Srinivasan - (A review and a commentary of the book Integral Yoga At Works, A Study of Practioners’ Experiences working in Four … Yoga of Works: Practioners’ Experience...
Reading the Qur’an: Background work - [This semester, I am blogging my course on the Qur’an. You can see my previous post here and the whole series here.] The first week or so of my course (syl...
The Inner Significance of Becoming An Ashramite and Receiving the Ashram “Prosperity”—A Talk given by Nolini Kanta Gupta - Dear Friends, Nolini Kanta Gupta (13.1.1889—7.2.1984) was an active participant in the Swadeshi and national education movements from the tender age of six...
How to invite intuitive knowledge - Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist but is best known for his philosophy on human evolution and Integral Yoga.[87] Although Sri Aurobindo was familiar...
Charles Soule, ANYONE - Charles Soule’s recent science fiction novel Anyone was published in 2019, but I only got around to reading it in early 2020. If I had read it in time, I w...
Hampi Continues to Live – Part 6 - Continued from Part 5 Raghunatha Temple and Malyavanta Hill One of the lesser-known but most beautiful places to visit in Hampi is the Raghunatha templ...
New Year 2020: the Message Card - Photos from Manoj Choudhary’s post Posted here with my thanks also to Kanayalal Bakraniya who relayed it all on his Facebook Timeline.
“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...
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...
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