Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Augustine, Emerson, Nietzsche, and Sri Aurobindo

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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Seeking some highest self and deepest Reality

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Explorations in Savitri 098 pp 254-256 - Ascending from the soil where creep our days, Earth's consciousness may marry with the Sun, Our mortal life ride on the spirit's wings, Our finite thoughts...

The Great Secret of Life - As we examine the roots of human activity, the drives that propel humanity forward, we begin to see a pattern which Sri Aurobindo has described in the firs...

The Rest of the World, pt. 1: Guest Post by David Kishik - [Editor’s Note: The following is the first part of a guest post by David Kishik, whose The Book of Shem: On Genesis Before Abraham was recently released by...

Favorite Music Videos, 2018 - Here is a rough list of my favorite music videos for 2018. It was complied fairly casually, so I may well have forgotten something. As for the order, the t...

The case for individual teleology - The big problem with the relative lack of philosophical attention given to qualitative individualism is that the ideal has had … Continue reading →

Confirmation, appreciation, or validation - Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and Literature by Ashmita Khasnabish http://t.co/2QWy5fNRXf via @amazon https://twitter.com/Savitr...

A conversation with Yuri Slezkine - As the final installment of the Fall 2018 book forum on *The House of Government*, forum co-curators Sonja Luehrmann and Todd Weir interviewed author Yuri ...

The Bridge of Love - One more love story? Aren’t all love stories alike? Maybe. But this one is different. Pondicherry is a unique place in the world. It has beautiful villas b...

Ramkaran Sharma, 1927-2018 - From Robert P. Goldman on the Indology discussion list comes the sad news of R.K. Sharma’s passing: Sharma was one of the great stalwarts of Sanskrit Studi...

Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene - Notes from a talk I gave at CIIS this past March titled “Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene” Here’s the video of the whole panel: https://youtu.be/...

- In The Atlantic, the spectral presence of Smart Compose. Some might think I’m being histrionic when I say that Gmail’s auto-reply function fills me with *...

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF EXECUTION — M.S. Srinivasan - (Review of the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ramcharan, Business Books) Contemporary management ...

To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude (Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo) - To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo A series of essays written in commemoration of Sri Aurobindo’s passing. The words o...

Death in the forest - *Something had come there conscious, vast and dire.* *Botanical Name**: Gomphrena Globosa* *Common Name**: Globe...

Sri Aurobindo was a universal person - It's futile to try to understand Divine Mother by recounting some of the events from her life spanning nearly a century but even that seems to take many ma...

Remembering Mona Pinto on her 107th Birth Anniversary - Dear Friends, Ethel Anne Lovegrove better known as Mona Pinto (11 November 1911—21 May 2004) came to Pondicherry in January 1937 and married Udar Pinto in ...


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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Sri Aurobindo accepted non-violent passive resistance

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The Creative Wellsprings of Classical, Romantic and Realistic Art-Forms - Sri Aurobindo takes issue with the idea that art which is based on reason and intellectual rules or developed technique represents true classical art; rath...

India is merely a notion and not a nation - Assorted tweets The difficulty is in the fact that for religious people there are things which it is their duty to believe and it is a sin to let the mind...

Sri Aurobindo in Bengal, Part 8 - Sri Aurobindo accepted non-violent passive resistance as a policy, and not as a cramping and crippling principle. Violence can be employed in self-defenc...

Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene - Notes from a talk I gave at CIIS this past March titled “Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene” Here’s the video of the whole panel: https://youtu.be/...

- In The Atlantic, the spectral presence of Smart Compose. Some might think I’m being histrionic when I say that Gmail’s auto-reply function fills me with *...

Blasphemy and “hate spin” campaigns in Indonesia - On May 9, 2017, the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, was convicted of blasphemy in the North Jakarta District Court and sentenced...

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF EXECUTION — M.S. Srinivasan - (Review of the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ramcharan, Business Books) Contemporary management ...

Favorite Movies, 2018 - These are my favorite movies of 2018. I won’t call this a best films list, since there are so many movies I still haven’t seen (for instance, Mandy, Let th...

Existentialism is a qualitative individualism - My first post on qualitative individualism attracted several helpful comments, possibly drawn here by a link from Daily Nous. A … Continue reading →

L’Action de Sri Aurobindo continue… - (Traduction française de l’article précédent, ‘Sri Aurobindo’s Continued Action’) Carte-Message de l’Ashram pour ce Jour de Darshan commémorant le décès de...

Symbolic meaning of Veda is lynchpin to disperse lynch mobs - Tweets by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar Nehru-bhakts were euphoric about him last month but don't have even a word to say regarding Sri Aurobindo. This d...

Coffee Break Conference in Oxford: Updated program - The new program of the CBC 2019 is particularly appealing and can be downloaded here (as for the flyer) and here (as for the program itself).

To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude (Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo) - To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo A series of essays written in commemoration of Sri Aurobindo’s passing. The words o...

Altizer as I knew him: A tribute by Ted Jennings - [Note: Ted Jennings shared this text with a circle of friends who are mourning the recent death of Thomas J.J. Altizer. It is published here with his permi...

Death in the forest - *Something had come there conscious, vast and dire.* *Botanical Name**: Gomphrena Globosa* *Common Name**: Globe...

Remembering Mona Pinto on her 107th Birth Anniversary - Dear Friends, Ethel Anne Lovegrove better known as Mona Pinto (11 November 1911—21 May 2004) came to Pondicherry in January 1937 and married Udar Pinto in ...

Film Review: Projapoti Biskut - Bengali cinema is now in such an interesting phase that I watch out for any recent releases and I am often pleasantly surprised by the content. This film i...

Hare Krishna - A special offering for Krishna Janamashtami — my humble attempt to capture in photographs a few expressions of the Divinity and the Divine Personality of ...

Material Time - I’m slowly walking along the isthmus in Svaerholt, Norway. My legs are tired from climbing hills and mountains and I can’t move any faster through the gra...

When it Hurts - When you dig and dig some more to find out why something bothers you so much, it hurts. When you discover, or at least you think you have discovered, the...

Goddess Kali and the Big Destructions of Nature - Behind all the destructions - the big destructions of Nature - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the human destructions - wars, r...

Non-essence of Mirambika - What has befallen the world? Those who utter MC, BC to punctuate their speech nonsense now beseech Hot Pants to preserve Mirambika’s Essence! And she a fum...

Sterlite Protests: Development hits minority roadblock - The recent Sterlite protests in Tamil Nadu that eventually led to the closure of the factory should serve as a warning

UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON

The Sanskrit word for algorithm: Vṛtti वृत्ति - *Red Mandala, by the Flickr user GarlandCannon. A fine illustration of the swirling nature of Vṛttis, and of how they are recursively composed of each ot...

Deconstructing Peter Heehs – by a Zombified Disciple - *Peter Heehs was born & educated in USA (*says his bio-data on the inside cover of his *India’s Freedom Struggle*, OUP, 1988). In 1971, at the age of 22, h...



Many of Sri Aurobindo's ideas pertain to his times when the thoughts of Nietzsche, Myers, or Bergson et al were dominant. His synthetic philosophy, therefore, has an edge over traditional Hindu systems and ethical prescriptions. So beware of Westphobia, myopia, and provincialism.

[In many ways Nietzsche, as a philosopher, can be said to inaugurate the modern age.] [The tension between Hegel and Nietzsche, or that between historicism and individual will is a constant and living dialog in Sri Aurobindo] -Debashish Banerji https://t.co/X3BoDN1A5A #FiveDreams

Professional proficiency doesn't equip one to choose between metaphysical systems and it's prudent, therefore, to rely upon some credible endorsement. India is fortunate to have Sri Aurobindo, with impeccable credentials, for such a requirement https://t.co/AVLPB3tKL3 #FiveDreams

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Sunday, November 25, 2018

30 books are banned in India

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Friday, November 23, 2018

Aster Patel to be felicitated with Auro-Ratna award

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Nikos Kazantzakis, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Zygmunt Bauman - From refusing to give information on how close to 30 books were banned in independent India and how those bans were never revoked, the Ministry finally rel...

The Last Embodied Darshan – Amal Kiran - November 24 is known as the Day of Victory, for, on it, Sri Aurobindo had the experience which promised complete fulfilment of his vision. It is signific...

The Intellect as the Intermediary Between the Higher and Lower Powers of Consciousness - The unique position held by the intellectual reason in the evolutionary process is defined by its ability to not only focus on and impact the outer life of...

Clarification of my relationship with Zero Books - Since Angela Nagle, author of the Zero Books title Kill All Normies, has begun writing anti-immigration columns in pro-Trump publications, I thought it wou...

- In Deseret News, what students need to learn, St. John's College version. So the premise of the school is that human beings do better if they understand h...

Proximate enigmas - I’m delighted—and daunted!—for this chance at engaging the rich discussions of this forum. Nothing I say in this short space can be adequate to their depth...

NDPR review of Jonardon Ganeri’s Attention, Not Self - Review by Sebastian Watzl, University of Oslo Why should we study the philosophical ideas of someone who lived many centuries ago, in a far-away part of th...

Whitehead’s Quantum of Explanation: Thinking with Auxier and Herstein - “Our central idea is that concrete existence explains the abstract aspects of experience and not vice-versa.” -Auxier and Herstein “So long as necessity is...

18.11.1973: Getting a Double Darshan from the Divine Mother - Of course, like probably every disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, on every November 17th for the full day I keep my inner focus, in utter gratitude,...

The Mother Abides – Final Reflections - The Mother Abides Final Reflections (1973–1983) by Nolini Kanta Gupta These thoughts and reminiscences of Nolini Kanta Gupta were written or spoken during ...

The Other Side of the Wind - Quick impressions after seeing The Other Side of the Wind for the first time. I think it might be interesting to see The Other Side of the Wind as a late-c...

Living on Less Than $1 A Day – M.S. Srinivasan - (Review of the book Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Penguin Books) Poverty is a subject of great interest to economists and there is a...

The Finding of the Soul - *Her feet upon a couchant lion’**s **back.* *Botanical Name**: Sansevieria* *Common Name**: Bowstring Hemp* *Spiritual Significance: Joy of Spirituality* ...

The "Self" Sri Aurobindo talked about may be illusory - Recently I came across this wonderful site which can quench the thirst for knowledge by way of discussing five books like Joe Henricho of the ‘collective b...

Hare Krishna - A special offering for Krishna Janamashtami — my humble attempt to capture in photographs a few expressions of the Divinity and the Divine Personality of ...

Material Time - I’m slowly walking along the isthmus in Svaerholt, Norway. My legs are tired from climbing hills and mountains and I can’t move any faster through the gra...

When it Hurts - When you dig and dig some more to find out why something bothers you so much, it hurts. When you discover, or at least you think you have discovered, the...

Goddess Kali and the Big Destructions of Nature - Behind all the destructions - the big destructions of Nature - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the human destructions - wars, r...

Non-essence of Mirambika - What has befallen the world? Those who utter MC, BC to punctuate their speech nonsense now beseech Hot Pants to preserve Mirambika’s Essence! And she a fum...

UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON

Welcome to the new website of Overman Foundation - Dear Friend and Well-wishers, On 29 March 2017, Overman Foundation completed its seventh year of existence. In the past seven years, we have worked to crea...

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 On Sunday 25th November at 10.30am at Hall of Harmony is Sri Aurobinod Ashram , one of the pioneers and pillars of Auroville, Dr. Aster Patel, is going to be felicitated with the Auro-Ratna award at the Hall of Harmony, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry in the presence of managing trustee Manoj Dasgupta and other prominent disciples.

The birth of qualitative individualism - What is remarkable about the ideal of qualitative individualism is that it is so pervasive yet so rarely thought about … Continue reading →


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Thursday, June 01, 2017

Yoga and the Evolution of Man

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18 hours ago - Thursdays 4-5pm: English of Savitri, led by Shraddhavan. Fridays 3-4 pm: Exploring the Bhagavad Gita, led by Dr. Jai Singh. Fridays 5.30-7.00pm: Meditations with Hymns of the Rig Veda translated by Sri ...

What life is - Speaking Tree

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6 hours ago - Sri Aurobindo calls the psychic, “the less negative door to the Divine.” What does he mean by “ less negative”? In the traditional yogas, you try to go out of the manifestation to reach the unmanifest ...

A Meaningful Insight On Indian Intellectualism - India Opines

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15 hours ago - While pondering over this question, I made a mental list of all those whom our society now routinely ... Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, Guru Nanak, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath ...

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 ... Jamshedpur: Sri Aurobindo Society, Jamshedpur branch, celebrated its foundation day at Kadma on Monday .

Whether machines can attain consciousness - Elaborating upon education sector, she recalled views of late nationalist and philosopher Sri Aurobindo. "The great son of India, saw national education as...

Finitude and Philosophy - Finitude and Philosophy Sadhu-Sanga mulls over consciousness From pigs to piano, quantum and qualia Taking a tour from Turing to Penrose and Rosen Leibniz t...

Complexity of Sri Aurobindo’s ideas challenges the intellect - AuroMaa Integral Yoga and Other Paths (Part 1) – A conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in 2014 (Part 1). The post Integral Yoga and Other Paths...

Compulsion of some to grab Sri Aurobindo as Hindutva icon - - matriwords Sambhavami Yuge Yuge – Part 2 - CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In this part 2 of our special photo-feature the focus is on a few selected ...

Savitri Era affairs: Introduction - Introduction Rescuing Sri Aurobindo from dubious representations A very important article written on Feb 17, 2017 by Raman Reddy has been posted two months...

Sri Aurobindo anticipated present day human rights discourse - Debating Vivekananda: A Reader ed. by A. Raghuramaraju DT McGetchin - Philosophy East and West, 2017 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/656848/summary *Reviewed by...

In struggles we can very well come together and aid each other - Hegel's philosophy is hardly obscure. The vast literature on Hegel that exists and continues to rapidly expand, especially in recent times, speaks to the r...

Spirit within is the true guide to health and healing - Veda of the Body - SABDA - Sri Aurobindo Ashram sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org › bookinfo About Veda of the Body. ... Drawing inspiration from the vision of th...

Science is ontology free - priyedarshi jetli Apr 27, 2017 Dear Jonathan, Thanks for the clarity of your writing. I am not a physicist but as a working scientist you have clarified th...

Dine dine chaturi - Dine Dine Chaturi - Odissi Chhanda, Anuja Mishra, Chhanda Festival [Published on 1 Jun 2016 Dine Dine Chaturi, an excerpt, called as chhanda (roughly synonym...

Reading The Life Divine will change your life - BOSTON: MIT scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can take still images and generate short videos to simulate what happens ne...

Odia Film Songs (List Two) - Odia Film Songs (List Two) 83. Anuraga Kkk 1980 *Anuraga* (1980) - Ka pada sabada suni - Suna mora bandhu - Ja ja ja ja re fula rasia - Mage melani jebe -...

Dinanath Pathy's swansong Ganjam - [image: Story image for pathi from The New Indian Express] Artist, author and art historian, Dinanath Pathi passes away The New Indian Express-28-Aug-2016 BH...

Odia film song videos are not available - Lights, camera, action@80 – The Telegraph http://www.telegraphindia.com › story_82593 April 28, 2016 – Odia film industry turns 80 on Thursday. … with only...

Soubhagyabati - Soubhagyabati 1997 Soubhagyabati [image: Still from Soubhagyabati featuring Mihir & Priyanka] Still from Soubhagyabati featuring Mihir & Priyanka *Release...

The lines of The Life Divine are steeped in the illumination of the Veda - Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Ahab, a synonym for Aham (‘I’) To adapt a meme attributed to Whitehead: if European philosophy amounts to a footnoting of Plat...

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo integrate religious diversity - Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Nihilistic Buddhist thought is a threat to Savitri Era The dominant political sentiment might be alluding to a war prevailing be...

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