Thursday, May 09, 2019

Indian Renaissance was more like the Celtic movement in Ireland


[PDF] Vision, Experience and Experiment in Sri Aurobindo's poems entitled ''Transformation'' and ''The Stone Goddess'' with the special reference of Integral Philosophy.
M Rao - IJELLH (International Journal of English Language …, 2019
Rishi Aurobindo, a great aficionado of nature, an abstruse Indian personality, a sibylline of a new enlightened world, a humanist, a mystic and intangible yogi. He is noted for integral vision of life and spirituality and evolution of human consciousness …
[PDF] The problem with purushamedha in the context of Indological studies
N Yankov
… Under the influence of Dayananda and Sri Aurobindo who first proclaimed the mystic nature of the Vedic rituals other reserachers like Rekha Sinha or Madhav Pandaik Pandit interpret all the gods and demons of the Vedas …

[PDF] Aurobindo's Ideas of Nationalism In The Light of His Integral Philosophy
M Rao - IJELLH (International Journal of English Language …, 2019
… The meaning and implication of nationalism should be analysed before the discussion of Sri Aurobindo's conception of it … Mehta, Surendranath Banerjee, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sri Aurobindo etc …

[PDF] Guide Director, Amity School of Languages, Amity University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
R Singh
… century. This phenomenon was result of the Western impact and the great Renaissance. Sri Aurobindo described Indian Renaissance as “less like the European one and more like the Celtic movement in Ireland” (qtd. in …

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The Indian Ethos to Management - M.S.Srinivasan (A review and a commentary of the book on “Conversations on the Remaking of Managers” by Daniel Albuquerque and Dr.Subash Sharma, IBA Public...

Dr. Aster Patel awarded the “Auro Ratna Award” for the year 2018 - Dear Friends and Well-wishers, The ninth ‘Auro Ratna Award’ ceremony was held on Sunday, 25th November 2018, at the ‘Hall of Harmony’ in Pondicherry; hoste...

The Divine Presence Within, pp. 169-170 - The Divine Presence dwells in all things. It is His touch that makes all things alive and conscious. It is His secret Breath that drives creation unknowi...

- In Medium, anxiety about nothing. The nothing actually turns out to be Being — more accurately an aspect, function or activity that belongs to Being. He s...

The unavoidability of comparisons - What to do with comparisons? They are always risky, insofar as one risks to style oneself as an impartial observer while being in fact part of the discussi...

Adrienne Martin & why philosophy is hopeless - The concept of regret is singularly fecund for Economics and Machine Learning and Game theory and so forth. Utility maximization should be replaced by Regr...

Looking for Signs of Readiness for the Development of a Spiritual Age of Humanity - How shall we know when humanity is ready to move toward a spiritual age that focuses on individual growth in freedom, combined with a sense of universality...

“Single Vision” and the Collapse of Reality - Now I a fourfold vision see, And a fourfold vision is given to me; ‘Tis fourfold in my supreme delight And threefold in soft Beulah’s night And twofold Alw...

I blame the Marvel universe: Sarah Jaffe and Adam Kotsko discuss Star Trek: Discovery - [Each week, Sarah Jaffe — a new Star Trek fan who came to the franchise through Discovery — and Adam Kotsko — a long-time obsessive who has spent way too m...

A Christian covenant in concrete - Memorials are frequent sites of revisionist history, and we could easily say that Sata’s mausoleum is meant to cover up the more unsavory parts of his pe...

Podcast interview on qualitative individualism - Stefani Ruper interviewed me for her video podcast a while ago, and the interview is now live. It focuses on … Continue reading →

Film Review Gully Boy - I am not at all familiar with the rap culture so I started watching the movie without any expectations. But hardly had I been ten minutes into the story I ...

Physics and Freedom - “Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.” -Alfred North Whitehead, The Function o...

Accepting weaknesses helps to cultivate compassion and humility -Who Put the Super in Superhero? Transformation and Heroism as a ... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6343428/ by SL ROSS - ‎2018 - The mere tho...

A Series Inspired by India’s Rebirth – 2 - A series written by Beloo Mehra for Sri Aurobindo's Action, about a young Indian's awakening to the soul of India, to himself.

24th April Special - Newness of the New World - by Aryadeep -Today, 99 years ago, the Mother returned to Pondicherry for good. As I have often done in the past, I present here certain interesting things to mark the ...

24.4.1920: Mother’s Return to Pondichéry - This Darshan Day marks Mother’s return from Japan after WWI, to stay for good in then French ‘Pondichéry’ and start her real collaboration with Sri Aurobin...

Progress - Progress must not be restricted through any qualifying adjectives like linear, cyclical, lateral, people centric and so on. ...

Challenging the Ashram Trust’s Stand on Relics - [*The Notice below has been issued in the name of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust in the January 2017 issue of the Oriya monthly magazine “Navaprakash”, publis...

Voice of the God…प्रभु अपने मुख से गायी… - On the occasion of Ram Navmi (re-sharing an old post) Ram – just the name calms one down. Soothes the nerves and brings tranquility. Imagine what love fo...

Believe in the Vedic Evolutionary ontology of Sri Aurobindo -Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar While it's understandable that electoral politics and its compulsions will dominate the national sce...

The Science of Living - The Science of Living To know oneself and to control oneself An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not fo...

Monday, April 29, 2019

Sri Aurobindo was a symbol of powerful silence as a Yogic recluse


Burning Man and Auroville: Understanding the Human Condition

Fair Observer-15 hours ago
The most successful long-term example is Auroville in South India, over 50 years old, inspired by a Gandhi-like guru named Sri Aurobindo, blessed unanimously ...

Comparative philosophy, best antidote to religious radicalization

Deccan Chronicle-19 hours ago
CHENNAI: Last Easter Sunday,s suicide bombings in Sri Lanka, apart from its ghastly and senseless ... Sri Aurobindo was another genius in comparative perspectives, but he was largely a symbol of powerful silence, as a, Yogic recluse, at his Ashram in Pondicherry. 

Eminent Writer Manoj Das Honoured In Abu Dhabi

Kalinga TV-27-Apr-2019
Currently, Manoj Das teaches English Literature and the Philosophy of SriAurobindo at the Sri Aurobindo International University in Puducherry. Also Read: ...

Of Sangh personalities in power

The Asian Age-21-Apr-2019
... no relation to Sri Aurobindo's vision or Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's definition but whose sants and superstitions are worshipped in peasant huts in the darkest ...

99th anniversary of Mother's arrival celebrated

The Hindu-24-Apr-2019
The 99th anniversary of Mother's final arrival in Puducherry was celebrated with a session of meditation and silent prayer at Sri Aurobindo Ashram on ...

Devotees throng Aurobindo Ashram

United News of India-24-Apr-2019
Puducherry, Apr 24 (UNI) A large number of devotees from all over the country and abroad thronged Sri Aurobindo Ashram here on ...

Visitors throng Aurobindo ashram on Mother's 'arrival day'

Times of India-24-Apr-2019
PUDUCHERRY: Followers thronged Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry on Wednesday to visit the room of revolutionary freedom ...

Event held to commemorate Sri Aurobindo's arrival in UT

The Hindu-04-Apr-2019
According to Dibyendu Goswami, convener of the Trust, Sri Aurobindo landed when the British had launched a prosecution against him for the ...

Plasim Radar

Buddha introduced the superstition of Karma - Biologists like James Shapiro and Lynn Margulis for example bring a further dimension to light, namely, that biological processes inside the cell are far...

A Series Inspired by India’s Rebirth – 2 - A series written by Beloo Mehra for Sri Aurobindo's Action, about a young Indian's awakening to the soul of India, to himself.

Washing of Sri Aurobindo’s Clothes by Chitra Sen - Clothes used personally by Sri Aurobindo or in his service were taken care of by different people who washed, ironed, and when needed, mended them. Sri Aur...

Savitri Satsang 091 pp. 160-162 - A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English). The post Savitri Satsang 091 pp. 160-162 appeared first on AuroMaa.

The Brain Initiative is right on schedule - Right on schedule: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neurophilosophy/201904/five-years-how-fares-the-brain-initiative For more context, read my Specu...

There is only name and form - I now begin my responses to Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad on the thought of Buddhaghosa. Let me first reiterate a point I made early on: what I refuse is the int...

There is only name and form - I now begin my responses to Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad on the thought of Buddhaghosa. Let me first reiterate a point I … Continue reading →

A Necessary Stage in Humanity’s Spiritual Development - One of the principal characteristics, and one could say, principle flaws, in human development is impatience. We see something and we want to achieve it n...

The Seer - Some of you may be familiar with the works of Carlos Castaneda, although they are controversial and many find them incredible (in the sense of unbelievable...

Meredith Martin on Macaulay & India - Meredith Martin, a distinguished academic at Princeton, writes- It isn’t the centrality of Macaulay’s poems in the late-Victorian canon and their absence ...

- Jean-Luc Nancy on naked openness. [T]he nude does not elude or suppress chaos. First matter continues to come from it or reenter it. In a certain way, the...

Materialist enchantments - I was recently asked to respond to Paul Cloke, Christopher Baker, Callum Sutherland and Andrew Williams’ really interesting new book, Geographies of Postse...

24th April Special - Newness of the New World - by Aryadeep - Today, 99 years ago, the Mother returned to Pondicherry for good. As I have often done in the past, I present here certain interesting things to mark the ...

24.4.1920: Mother’s Return to Pondichéry - This Darshan Day marks Mother’s return from Japan after WWI, to stay for good in then French ‘Pondichéry’ and start her real collaboration with Sri Aurobin...

Progress - Progress must not be restricted through any qualifying adjectives like linear, cyclical, lateral, people centric and so on. ...

Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others - In this forum prompted by Emily Ogden’s *Credulity*, Susan Lepselter’s *The Resonance of Unseen Things*, Pamela Klassen’s *The Story of Radio Mind*, and ...

Challenging the Ashram Trust’s Stand on Relics - [*The Notice below has been issued in the name of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust in the January 2017 issue of the Oriya monthly magazine “Navaprakash”, publis...

Voice of the God…प्रभु अपने मुख से गायी… - On the occasion of Ram Navmi (re-sharing an old post) Ram – just the name calms one down. Soothes the nerves and brings tranquility. Imagine what love fo...

Reinventing the Stock Exchange – M.S. Srinivasan - Stock Market is a great pillar of modern business. But is this august institution contributing positively to the health of the economy and society? The a...

Believe in the Vedic Evolutionary ontology of Sri Aurobindo - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar While it's understandable that electoral politics and its compulsions will dominate the national sce...

The Science of Living - The Science of Living To know oneself and to control oneself An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not fo...

Monthly updates and newsletter articles - From Jan 2019 we will not be updating this blog. Please refer to our website at https://sriaurobindosociety.org.sg/ For newsletters and articles, please r...

Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Savitri Era Party has this priority of removing castes from Indian Constitution


Many would readily express their opposition to castes but no political party is willing to take steps in that direction. Savitri Era Party has this priority of removing castes from Indian Constitution so that all citizens attain equality after so many decades of the Independence.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1113070664964038657?s=19
The ritualistic and obscurantist image of the Veda has undergone a makeover in the hands of Sri Aurobindo. The real meaning of the Varna system or the castes has been revealed by him overturning the birth-based conception to an aptitude-linked one. So discrimination need to stop.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1113076443720802305?s=19

Bhavani Bharati: A Clarion Call For Self-Awakening

Pune365.com (press release) (blog)-8 hours ago
... her Samadhi sthal Bharat Natya Mandir where fellow dance Guru Anjali Bagal staged an hour long dance musical on Sri Aurobindo'spoem Bhavani Bharati.

Heritage Xperiential Learning School launches its Early Learning ...

India Education Diary-21 hours ago
... Montessori and the tenets of renowned philosophers, educators and pedagogy like J Krishnamurti, The Mother, Sri Aurobindo, Rudolf Steiner, Loris Mallaguzi, ...

“Nyay” or nay? Why we must say no to Congress's jumla

DNA India-29-Mar-2019
That resonant word, not only redeployed by Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, but earlier by Lokmanya Tilak and Dadabhai Naoroji, provided not just the ...

The dream of a Vishwa Guru

Daily Pioneer-28-Mar-2019
Swami Vivekananda, Tagore and Sri Aurobindo showed how international relationships could indeed be given a sound cultural knowledge and spiritual base to ...

Repressed Histories Shed Light on the Right-Wing's Growth in Bengal

The Wire-18-Mar-2019
Between 1857 and 1947, bhadralok nationalism, as many scholars have argued, drew inspiration from Sri Aurobindo's political vision – one that identified the ...

From Vivekananda to Aurobindo, no one's idea of Hinduism matched ...

Scroll.in-17-Mar-2019
If Bal Gangadhar Tilak used religion and the Ganesh festival to mobilise Indian masses, then Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo believed that the country ...

Struggle to further the idea of a new India

The New Indian Express-16-Mar-2019
It is a struggle between those —to borrow a description from the late philosopher and Sri Aurobindo scholar Amal Kiran—who believe that “nationalism, to be the ...

Inside story of Govt. takeover of Auroville, unedifying to Aurobindo

Deccan Chronicle-10-Mar-2019
Kireet Joshi, distinguished scholar-philosopher and a former IAS officer who had been living in Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry for long years, later an ...

Journalism and the Media's Crisis of Credibility in an Age of Strident ...

The Wire-09-Mar-2019
This was succinctly expressed by Sri Aurobindo in his famous Uttarpara speech of May 30, 1909: 'I say no longer that nationalism is a creed, a religion, a faith; ...

Yoga established as a series of principles to shape communities

The Sunday Guardian-09-Mar-2019
The three converging paths of karma, jnana and bhakti traced by Sri Krishna in the ... including Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, ...

Mamata's photo among 'legends of Bengal' sparks row

Sify News-07-Mar-2019
Sri Aurobindo, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Sri Jatin Da could not find a place in this tableau of "Famous Bengali Legends" but @MamataOfficial put herself ...

I have built a successful business that has a strong value system at its ...

CRN.in-07-Mar-2019
Rumi, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Parthasarthy are my favorite philosophers of yore, who constantly motivate me to look for a deeper meaning in ...

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- Symposium “The Other Beginning? History and Modernity in Heidegger’s *Beiträge*”, Bloomington, Indiana, Friday, April 12, 2019. With William McNeill, Krzy...

Spirituality and the True Position of the Body, Life and Mind - In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo describes the usual answers that address the issues of the significance of life and how it should be approached. The “ma...

Eucharistic Animals and Hope for Earth (Inner Animalities Book Event) - This post was written by Jay Emerson Johnson. Jay is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture and Academic Director of the Ignite Institute ...

Life Inside the Global Brain: Nationalism and Transnationalism - In a faux pas now become somewhat infamous, a hapless Flat Earther once boasted that they had “members all around the globe”. A good many people were enter...

Savitri Satsang 088 pp. 154-157 - A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English). The post Savitri Satsang 088 pp. 154-157 appeared first on AuroMaa.

Dravid's ten string lyre - Wine's Red Sea un-parted by her Dance or the Muse's Memory is Miriam alone- Chance its own Eleusis. May Dravid's ten string lyre Tune Iyer to Pariah.

Sri Aurobindo and the Nobel Prize - Dear Friends, Deeply impressed by Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine, Sir Francis Younghusband had nominated Sri Aurobindo’s name for the Nobel Prize in Liter...

Migration of Richard Marshall’s philosophy interviews to new site - Richard Marshall’s series that interviews contemporary philosophers (including some of our own specialists on India) has moved from 3AM magazine to a new s...

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! - Don’t you love the word “debunk”? Its cheerfully aggressive sound is inseparable from its sense. The second syllable, bunk!, seems to leap down from the La...

Sri Aurobindo considered the conquest of death to be essential - What is now known as Hinduism was the multiculturalism before the capital M Multiculti of today. What held it together were certain Dharmic values of mutu...

Process of learning - Any subject for that matter must proceed with a conceptual or real framework which one must imitate or reproduce. Then, follow it up with individual impro...

Inner Feelings and Relationships – M.S. Srinivasan - (Harmonious relationship is one of the major aims of collective living. What is the main factor which can bring this harmony to our communal life? It is ...

On new translations in Indian philosophy - One of the immediate frustrations one faces in teaching Indian philosophy is that good translations are sorely lacking, certainly into … Continue reading →

From pedagogy to cosmology with A. N. Whitehead - A student in my course this semester asked a great question recently: “How is Whitehead’s cosmology related to his pedagogy?” Many commentators find it str...

Believe in the Vedic Evolutionary ontology of Sri Aurobindo - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar While it's understandable that electoral politics and its compulsions will dominate the national sce...

Revisiting a Book about 12 Women - Some posts must be re-blogged…this is one of them. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, I revisit and re-post this after adding a few more re...

Hampi Continues to Live – Part 2 - Continued from Part 1 A Walk on Hemakuta Hilltop We began exploration of Hampi at the Sasivekalu Ganesha Temple, located on the Hemkuta Hill. As the st...

The Science of Living - The Science of Living To know oneself and to control oneself An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not fo...

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Impossible to overestimate the importance of Sri Aurobindo


[emotions are directly tied to our actions... Emotions, then, are creative.] https://qz.com/887524/forget-stoicism-a-leading-philosopher-explains-why-we-shouldnt-try-to-control-our-emotions/

Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management - Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) Ghaziabad https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7

Harnessing Western Philosophy for Self-Management
TN Mohapatra - SAMSMRITI SAMS Journal 10 (2), 16-17 2016
Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management
TN Mohapatra - Nitte Management Review 9 (2), 1-18 2015
#MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #WorldUnion #SAVITRI

Many RW handles like @sanjeevsanyal @followsanjeev @dharmadispatch apart from @esamskritiindia @IndiaFactsOrg @Pragyata_ @prekshaajournal etc. deal with religion but Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) has been disseminating an Integral view on Sri Aurobindo since 2005. @NathTusar

Tusar Nath Mohapatra: My original contributions to understanding Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/Wkttxi0IMC #SriAurobindo #WorldUnion #Odisha #SavitriEra @NathTusar

Marketime: Physics is the key for prosperity https://t.co/xgiz3tZxZr by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 [Your Google+ account is going away on 2 April 2019. Downloading content may take time, so get started] https://t.co/GvRJ7aF3yu

Savitri Era Open Forum: Sheer brilliance & ingenuity of Sri Aurobindo's writings https://t.co/IHS2vw3tKQ @NathTusar

Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Those owing allegiance to any of the present crop of religions can't obviously claim admission to Savitri Era Religion and hence it's better to make the choice early without indulging in self-deception, any further.

The difference between Aurobindo's *Age of Subjectivism* and Jensen's *Dream Society* is that Aurobindo seeks to give meaningful structure to the Age of Subjectivism, while Jensen merely seeks to mine and exploit our ignorance of it.

I would add Michael Emmet Brady to the albeit slowly growing list of modern economists who are waking up to myths of the invisible hand within their subject as presented by the majority of their colleagues across the world. POSTED BY GAVIN KENNEDY https://t.co/c8s8pKQq0z

Reading good books expands our worldview. Sharing some books that are part of my collection or on my wishlist which might be interesting for people with an #Indic worldview.  #recommendedbooks #Indianbooks Please follow thread:

I believe it is impossible to overestimate the importance of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for the history, the future and salvation of humanity. Aurobindo was the most highly advanced product of humanity's spiritual evolution--avatar or not. 
Seth Farber, PhD www.sethHfarber.com
THE MESSAGE OF SRI AUROBINDO: GOD, ROMANTIC LOVE, AND PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY.  I also argue that Aurobindonians should support the highly advanced anti-aging endeavors of scientists. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1262266937254270/  https://sethfarber.blogspot.com/

Journeying towards a Multi-Paradigmatic Transformative Research Program: An East-West Symbiosis
BC Luitel - Research as Transformative Learning for Sustainable …, 2019… Associated with the writing of the integral philosopher Ken Wilber (2007), and arising from the Upanisadic notion of liberation as going beyond the conditioning of the mundane (Sri Aurobindo, 1970), postformality, as a radical …

[PDF] Understanding Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Views on Nationalism
I TIRKEY - 2019… [5] Chatterjee, Partha, 'Nationalist Discourse and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse', Zed Books, London, 1993. [6] Mukherjee, Haridas, and Uma Mukherjee, Sri Aurobindo's Political Thought (1893-1908), Calcutta, 1968 …

[PDF] JAYANTA MAHAPATRA'S POETRY AS NOTHING BUT POETRY OF SELF-EXPLORATION AND SELF-DISCOVERY WITH RICHEST USE OF SYMBOLS, MYTHS …
SFFW Sheela
… Swami Ramatirtha, Swami Vivekananda. It also brings out the intense patriotism and political awakening because of the poetical works of Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu and Hon Chattopadhyaya. So modern poetry becomes …

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Sukhatme vs Mahalanobis - There was a time when India was at the forefront of Statistical, in particular Sampling, theory and practice. Yet, it followed very foolish policies and pr...

Explorations in Savitri 115, pp. 290-293 - All grew to all kindred and self and near; The intimacy of God was everywhere, No veil was felt, no brute barrier inert, Distance could not divide, Time co...

Inner Feelings and Relationships – M.S. Srinivasan - (Harmonious relationship is one of the major aims of collective living. What is the main factor which can bring this harmony to our communal life? It is ...

Guilty Pleasures - Last summer, I decided to treat myself on my birthday and get an NES Classic Edition. This miniature gaming system returns us to the world of the original ...

How much should you explain in an article? - Suppose you spent a long time (weeks, months, perhaps even years) understanding a complicated topic. You then write an article or a book about it. Where sh...

From Invisible Hand to Global Brain - A very large aspect of the post-modern condition is the eclipse of purely objective measures and standards of truth and their displacement by almost exclus...

Signs and Consequences of the Failure of Religion to Focus on Spiritual Development- The wellspring and essence of religion is the spiritual experience, the opening of the inner life of the individual to the deeper significance and meaning ...

- In NDPR Frank Schalow reviews Saulius Geniusas and Paul Fairfield's *Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes*. Heidegger devises a strategy tha...

On new translations in Indian philosophy - One of the immediate frustrations one faces in teaching Indian philosophy is that good translations are sorely lacking, certainly into … Continue reading →

Socrates, Diogenes, Newton, and Voltaire - Book recommendations collated from Twitter: "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values" by Robert M. Pirsig "Tao Te Ching" by Lao ...

Modernity’s residues - In Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845), a dying man undergoes mesmeric treatment in the hopes that if he expires while en...

From pedagogy to cosmology with A. N. Whitehead - A student in my course this semester asked a great question recently: “How is Whitehead’s cosmology related to his pedagogy?” Many commentators find it str...

Real scholarship - Real scholarship which requires constant learning it would be better the eject all forms of hidden agenda and preconception. Nothing wrong in any agenda dr...

Believe in the Vedic Evolutionary ontology of Sri Aurobindo - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar While it's understandable that electoral politics and its compulsions will dominate the national sce...

Revisiting a Book about 12 Women - Some posts must be re-blogged…this is one of them. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, I revisit and re-post this after adding a few more re...

Hampi Continues to Live – Part 2 - Continued from Part 1 A Walk on Hemakuta Hilltop We began exploration of Hampi at the Sasivekalu Ganesha Temple, located on the Hemkuta Hill. As the st...

The Science of Living - The Science of Living To know oneself and to control oneself An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not fo...

L’Anniversaire de Mère le 21, et le nouveau Darshan qu’Elle m’a donné… -(Traduction en français de l’article précédent) Habituellement je ne prévois aucun évènement extérieur pour un Jour de Darshan, de façon à pouvoir me conce...

Seventy Photographs of the Mother taken on 21 February 1972 - Dear Friends, 21 February 2019 marked the 141th Birth Anniversary of the Mother. As our humble homage to Her, seventy photographs of Her taken on the occas...

Monthly updates and newsletter articles - From Jan 2019 we will not be updating this blog. Please refer to our website at https://sriaurobindosociety.org.sg/ For newsletters and articles, please r...

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

English of Savitri series by Shraddhavan

Worldwide 'Utopia' Meets in India to Prepare for 51st Anniversary

Al-Bawaba-20-Feb-2019
A one-of-a-kind experimental community gathered on the outskirts of southern India is preparing to mark its 51st anniversary with a series of activities. Auroville ...

Auroville kicks off series of cultural events to raise funds

The Hindu-12-Feb-2019
Auroville has kicked off a series of fundraiser shows in its pursuit of securing land for a galaxy-shaped universal township with the Matrimandir as its soul.

Discovering the soul of cities

The Hindu-07-Feb-2019
The book thus conveys the complex concept behind the founding of Auroville through the “lived reality” of growing up there. Ms. Sriram, who recently came out ...

Mirra Alfassa: The Mother Of Auroville

Feminism in India (blog)-06-Feb-2019
Mirra Alfassa's quest for spiritual fulfillment inspired her to traverse oceans and seas to reach India which was considered the fountainhead of mysticism, diverse ...

Celebrating the existence of Auroville

Times of India-24-Jan-2019
As part of the 50th anniversary of Auroville, a month-long festival has begun at DakshinaChitra to honour the existence of this universal township that was ...

Kolkata: Auroville Festival – inauguration #Gallery

SocialNews.XYZ-28-Jan-2019
Kolkata: Auroville Foundation Chairman Karan Singh during inauguration of Auroville Festival in Kolkata on Jan 28, 2019. (Photo: IANS). Kolkata: Auroville ...

Alipore Central jail closes down after 109 yrs

The Tribune-20-Feb-2019
It's an end of an era, as the jail had as its prisoners at various times freedom fighters like Sri Aurobindo, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Pandit Jawaharlal ...

Terror calls for a hard martial response. And that should entail no guilt

DailyO-19-Feb-2019
More recently, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, all countered challenges from Christianity and/or Western ideology. In the martial sphere, ...

Bengali Radicalism: Is it suicidal?

Daily Pioneer-15-Feb-2019
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore moulded the philosophy of Hinduism in their own ways, ...

Unity in Diversity

Economic and Political Weekly-01-Feb-2019
In the pre-independence period particularly, M K Gandhi, Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo (to name a few) provided an ontological ground for this principle.

What 'sedition' means in our time

Telegraph India-31-Jan-2019
Like him, Sri Aurobindo and Lala Lajpat Rai, too, were sentenced. Mahatma Gandhi had to face this charge also in 1922 for writing a series of essays ...

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Fraternity as an Organizing Principle of Society Fails Without Liberty and Equality -The watchwords of the French Revolution, “liberty, equality, fraternity” embody three principles which together provide guidance for the development of hum...

Laws of gender: Parody and resistance in times of scandal - This essay begins with a tale of two cardinals. It’s not the story you’re expecting.

William Carey, Prafulla Chakraborty, and Ram Swarup - The rise of a novel India Millennium Post-20 hours ago Ram Swarup was referring to how with the likes of Sri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak and others, the stru...

Why bother to look at material from South Asia, when there is so much interesting stuff in “our” tradition? - From time to time and never by scholars, I am confronted with some variant of this question: “Why bother to look at material from South Asia, when there is...

Savitri Study Class 24-02 “The Human Mask of God”, pp. 634-637 - Savitri reveals that she has indeed assumed a human mask to redeem earth and humanity. But Death then argues that if she has indeed discovered her soul a...

I won't allow anyone to wash my feet - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar I won't allow anyone to wash my feet and no one should. It's against personal ethics and modern valu...

The English of Savitri Volume 5 - This is the fifth volume of the English of Savitri series based on transcripts of classes led by the author at Savitri Bhavan, in this case from 6 January ...

The Higher Ranges of Consciousness–M.S. Srinivasan - There are many mansions in my Father’s kingdom, said Jesus Christ. Here is a brief outline of the mansions of consciousness beyond the ordinary mentality...

L’Anniversaire de Mère le 21, et le nouveau Darshan qu’Elle m’a donné… -(Traduction en français de l’article précédent) Habituellement je ne prévois aucun évènement extérieur pour un Jour de Darshan, de façon à pouvoir me conce...

Does Śāntideva think bodhisattvas are happy? - A while ago William Edelglass put up a paper for discussion on academia.edu about Śāntideva and happiness. I made some … 

Seventy Photographs of the Mother taken on 21 February 1972 - Dear Friends, 21 February 2019 marked the 141th Birth Anniversary of the Mother. As our humble homage to Her, seventy photographs of Her taken on the occas...

Assorted tweets:

Begun "The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life" by @KevinSimler & @robinhanson
Sounds like it's part one of my favourite genres, evolutionary psychology, & perhaps the junction where that meets economics. Also, is rated well by readers. https://t.co/J6697BqYEj
https://twitter.com/BooksPanda/status/1100437479323242496?s=19

Russell was horrified by Gödel's proof; Whitehead was liberated.
Rather than lamenting Gödel's theorem as a major defeat for philosophy, he happily set the ancient discipline on a new track: 
“We thus dismiss deductive logic as a major instrument for metaphysical discussion. Such discussion is concerned with the eliciting of self-evidence.
https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1100451610445017088?s=19

The Failings of Equality as a Principle for the Organisation and Functioning of Society https://t.co/CKvWOR8kRO
Weaknesses and Limitations of Socialism as the Model for Human Society https://t.co/aA2hnAi1FM

One meets so many ek se badhkar ek experts on all topics from war to wc on Twitter that it's intimidating sometimes with a perpetual feeling of inadequacy. Invoking Sri Aurobindo however compensates to some extent be it [Hound of heaven or Dakshina whose function is to discern rightly] https://t.co/9viBDQkDC5

“Positive thinking is supposed to be empowering. But in fact it sets us up against an ideal of ourselves in the face of which we always feel inadequate” 
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen on burnout: https://t.co/Dw8LPG8oiY

Democracy entails separation of powers and functions like between civilians and services. People join armed forces not out of patriotism or nationalism but as another job. Thus, trying to whip up sentiments over routine Defence operations and other security matters is anomalous.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1100420578144604160?s=19

Second term for Modi agenda should be separated from Hindutva. Similarly, CHARTER OF HINDU DEMANDS (HCD) should be separated from Hindutva. Hindutva itself should be separated from Hinduism. Hinduism in turn has to be separated from Sri Aurobindo's vision. https://t.co/zY0LyxDF0v
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1100414451243638785?s=19

VIP VAK: Sri Aurobindo knew the Origin of all languages https://t.co/sv9oQ3hg6N [So, if you want to get into the spirit of the Rig Vedic poetry make Sanskrit your mother tongue. It is as simple as that. When you want to read Savitri make English as your native language, ... -RYD]

Marketime: Carey arrived in India in 1793; Sri Aurobindo returned in 1893 https://t.co/w9tv4RFbcW [Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management by Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF)] #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7

Savitri Era Learning Forum: William Carey, Prafulla Chakraborty, & Ram Swarup https://t.co/tMnDRmcL3o - Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director, SELF-SRA102C #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh 201014 
#SavitriEra of those who adore,
Om #SriAurobindo & #TheMother