Friday, July 31, 2026

Anandamath, Animal Farm, and Garam Coat

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Buddhi or the mind of Light, what Sri Aurobindo calls the Luminous Mind 

There is a beautiful poem you may wish to read, Thought the Paraclete by Sri Aurobindo 

How thought rises from manas to buddhi to pure Chitta

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I am not BJP. Nor Congress. Neither Sanghi nor Communist. Neither Left nor Right. Neither socialist nor capitalist. Neither liberal nor conservative. Neither Dalit nor Brahmin. Neither Jain, Buddhist nor Hindu. Neither Punjabi, Odia nor Ladakhi.

I am all of these, and more. Beyond all “isms”. I take the best from everything and leave the rest.

We diminish ourselves the moment we squeeze our infinite selves into man made buckets. Our deepest identity is not political, social, religious or ideological. It is consciousness itself.

चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम्।

Chidānandarūpaḥ Śivo'ham Śivo'ham.

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Becca Tarnas is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Today, we talk about the uncanny intersection between Jung and Tolkien. It’s a wild ride covering psychedelics, consciousness, the “internal world”, psychoanalysis, and symbols. Link in reply

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Animal Farm was in our syllabus when I was studying English Literature from RD University. I have always loved literature & totally believe that if one has to get an idea about the lives & times of any era, study the literature of that period. I did not absorb Animal Farm deeply until I read it again many years later. Trying to read it now all over again. Literature always provides perspective. 

George Orwell has exposed the twisted human mind and handled the subjects of leadership, greed, power play, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, surveillance state, social structure, politics, justice and such themes expertly in his gripping tales. 

Time to re-read the classics Animal Farm & 1984. 

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This looks like an important book from @ChandhokeNeera - on what made the Hindi cinema we all fondly look at even today.

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