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Religious charity and the spirit of homo economicus - In this brief essay I connect Gates’s philosophy of giving—along with many other contemporary neoliberal philanthropists—to Protestant traditions and the...

The Gods and the Brahman: The Parable of the Gods, Part 1 - The Vedic Gods represent powers and forces of manifestation in the creation. Agni, Vayu and Indra represent the Material creation, the Vital creation and ...

Nationalism: The Healthy and the Unhealthy - Nationalism, like so much else today, represents something of a paradox. It has healthy and unhealthy aspects corresponding to Gebser’s “life-pole” and “de...

Technology - Most technologies by themselves are a great boon. They facilitate and ease at least some functions of life. Most importantly, in the process they also brea...

Chapter 2. The Influence of Subramania Bharati - The five years, 1910-1914, served the need of my preparation. It should be called a pilgrimage to Sri Aurobindo. Each act of mine, each event of my life ...

Baran Farooqi on Shahid Alam's translation of Ghalib's Ghazal 7 - Prof Baran Farooqi writes in the Hindu of a translation of this Ghazal of Ghalib's by an elderly left wing Pakistani economist based in the USA. ...nobody ...

Footnotes2Plato

Lecture and notes on Part I of Whitehead’s “Process & Reality” - This Fall at CIIS.edu, I’m teaching an online advanced seminar on Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process & Reality. I likely won’t share all my course lectures p...

- The Architect's Newspaper on Hutopia; Heidegger's Hut at the university of Chicago. A scaled-down version of Heidegger’s cabin in Todtnauberg, Germany, fo...

Nussbaum’s revised view of anger - It has taken me far too long to read Martha Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice – long enough … Continue reading →

Non-Duality by Alexis Karpouzos - NON-DUALITY We need a sense of the unity of life and of humans for the sake of human welfare and for the survival of the planet. We need a sense of unity...

It's literally the edge of our collective knowledge - Assorted tweets: We are heading for one party rule. It has nothing to do with Hinduism and everything to do with Muslim appeasement. Nazism in new form....

The importance of being Thich Quang Duc - In the Śikṣā Samuccaya‘s chapter on patient endurance, Śāntideva urges aspiring bodhisattvas to attain a meditative state (samādhi) called the Sarvadharmas...

Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal

Intégral Yoga & Défauts humains (V): le Divin en l’autre, et en tout - Lorsque je suis arrivée en 1972 à Auroville, le nouveau livre d’écrits de Sri Aurobindo que j’ai alors découvert était tout mince, mais il a à nouveau été ...

Remembering Annapurna - She would recite, in a very soothing low voice, almost inaudible to others but her, one of her bhajans whenever she was cooking. Or she would be doing he...

A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life

Distorting Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga – Anirjeet - Peter Heehs and his American supporters at the Archives of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, should be packed off to Donald Trump’s country and made to fe...

The Mystic Pragmatism - M.S.Srinivasan (In this article, some conceptions presented in a workshop at an international conference is examined in the light of a deeper spirit...

Years with my Mentor: K. D. Sethna by Goutam Ghosal - Dear Friends, K. D. Sethna (25.11.1904 — 29.6.2011) was a Parsi sadhak who joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram at the age of twenty-three in December 1927. He was ...

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Vyasa is impartial to all his characters

Methodological issues in the Indo-European debate

M Danino - Journal of Biosciences, 2019

… The list of dissenters, which goes back to the nineteenth century, includes many distinguished names: Mountstuart Elphinstone (in 1841), Swami Vivekananda (1897 onward), Sri Aurobindo (from 1910 to 1914), PT Srinivasa …

Cultural Diplomacy of The Mahabharata: A Case Study of its Application with Special Reference to Modern India

D Mishra - Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management, 2019

… Yoga diplomacy: Narendra Modi's soft power strategy. Foreign Affairs.

Retrieved from https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/india/2015-01-25/yoga-

diplomacy. Mohanty, S. (2008). Sri Aurobindo: A contemporary reader. New …

Epilogue: Bengal Intelligence Officers and the Second World War

M Silvestri - Policing 'Bengali Terrorism'in India and the World, 2019

… Deputy Commissioner JVB Janvrin of the Calcutta Police Special Branch considered it a realistic possibility that Bose had become a sannyasi, and initially suspected that Bose might have traveled to Pondicherry to meet with …

Ethics, Applied Ethics and Indian Theories of Morals

PK Mohapatra - An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics, 2019

… And he who performs his swadharma incurs no sin, (Sri Aurobindo 1928, p. 479; also Sankara 2013, p. 433) even if the consequence of that action turns out to be harmful in any way, whereas he who takes resort to paradharma …

Transnational Revolutionaries and Imperial Surveillance: Bengal Revolutionary Networks Outside India

M Silvestri - Policing 'Bengali Terrorism'in India and the World, 2019

… He sheltered Aurobindo Ghose in 1909 as Ghose fled British India and introduced Rash Behari Bose to the two revolutionaries who would carry out the assassination attempt on Hardinge. He was entrusted with a box of …

The “Bomb Cult” and “Criminal Tribes”: Revolutionaries and the Origins of Police Intelligence in Colonial Bengal

M Silvestri - Policing 'Bengali Terrorism'in India and the World, 2019

… Revolutionary newspapers such as the English-language Bande Mataram , edited by Aurobindo Ghose, and the Bengali Yugantar, edited by his brother Barindra, urged the formation of secret societies and counseled would-be revolutionaries on tactics …

APPLIED PERSPECTIVE ON INDIAN ETHICS.

PK Mohapatra - 2019

Page 1. PK Mohapatra An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics Page 2. An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics Page 3. P. K. Mohapatra An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics Page 4. ISBN 978-981-13-7502-6 ISBN 978-981 …

From Nacionalista Anti-Kabbalistic Polemic to Aryan Kabbalah in the Southern Cone

JP Brown - The Journal of Religion, 2019

Assorted tweets:

Planetary positions on the first day of the Mahabharata War (16 October 5561 BCE) https://t.co/P05LvHcPXU

https://twitter.com/NileshOak/status/1150032186944499712?s=19

By merely retaining the names of the characters, their relationships and the places they roamed around in, if we insert our own words into their mouths, are we not merely using them for the purpose of propaganda? What end is this genre serving then? /END

https://twitter.com/aurvabhrg/status/1149655158038511618?s=19

^ It turns out it was from one of the recent popular authors writings something based on the R. Now, I do accept their artistic freedom of expression and don't want to grudge them that. However, it is important that readers be aware that these modern works are not the rAmAyaNa.

https://twitter.com/blog_supplement/status/1149904587320713216?s=19

On 1 hand you have low encephalization modern H slag go apeshit when we try to read the history presented as is in the itihAsa-s on the other they want they these works rid of the "supernatural". The supernatural is the important part of the epics. For those who approach it as

bhakta-s the supernatural is the necessary ingredient for bhakti. For those who approach it for religious teaching the supernatural is there is teaching things which they would obtain where they able to access the shruti directly. &for those who can approach the shruti directly

it provides an exegesis and an unfolding subtlities that might be difficult to directly apprehend in the old language of the shruti

This whole idea of limiting Kashtriya down to intellectualism is the final funeral ritual these Hindus are celebrating of their own demise. Aurobindo was right about Hindus killing the real Kshatriya as the enemy now is not losing sleep in fear of the 'Intellectual Kshatriya'

https://twitter.com/hhrLondon/status/1149992426955837440?s=19

On July 20, 1969, over half a billion people watched as humans landed on the Moon. Never before had our species trod upon another world—and we’ve visited none since. Now, we’re closer than ever to going back. Look back on 50 years of Apollo: https://t.co/XiwQ48TuYO https://t.co/VpZGHJ2bxg

https://twitter.com/DiscoverMag/status/1150105188398706688?s=19

In his new book on Aryan Invasion debate, Shrikant Taligeri refers to @KalavaiVenkat as "the racist-casteist Hindu activist Kalavai Venkat". Despite my problems with Kalavai, I find this does not belong in a research book.

Emotions --> Ad Hominem --> Book loses credibility https://t.co/qUB32PihXN

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1149996971077148672?s=19

Wonderful article on Bollywood - exposing anti-majority face of this hub of plagiarism, money laundering, terror financing.

https://t.co/jsw6VPXtrd

https://twitter.com/SanjeevSanskrit/status/1150052796734951424?s=19

Indian history texts sanitizing slavery in Delhi sultanate while Vyasa/Valmiki deleted for sanitizing caste in Cal https://t.co/7sjsLDmn7i

https://twitter.com/VamseeJuluri/status/714452552692006912?s=19

But my argument is - religion is nowhere near as harmful to moral philosophy as science or history

Theology has always had a fairly healthy relationship with philosophy

Be it St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas in the West

Be it Badarayana (Vyasa), Patanjali in India

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1148787343266131968?s=19

Hobbes's vision was an outgrowth of what he saw as a dog-eat-dog culture which he generalized to the entire human race. Vyasa expounded Dharma based on what the Purpose of Existence is and came out of sublime Realizations and not foolish reactions to life.

https://twitter.com/HeritageMouse/status/1060100699403382784?s=19

The Four Key Pillars of Sanatana India that Sustains it: @dharmadispatch echoes my thought that stressing too much on individual rights with no reference to India’s culture is leading India to ruin and remorse. Should honour Veda Vyasa and not Hobbes https://t.co/diwXihvaWF

https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1060098934868267008?s=19

The worst disservice to #Draupadi’s stature is relegating her to just a wronged woman forced into polyandry or a helpless lover pining for Karna. Writes @Sai_swaroopa

#Draupadi https://t.co/QArOkOC9fT

https://twitter.com/SheThePeople/status/1094188910241026058?s=19

Again, I thought so too at one time, but Vyasa has described each character thoroughly. We don't need to interpret. It was practically biographical, and Vyasa is impartial to all, so he isn't biased.

So if he says X is bad, then X is bad and end of discussion.

https://twitter.com/yaajushi/status/1021827137664241664?s=19

Calling out applicants for a 9-month fellowship programme designed exclusively for college students with the objective of making young people aware about self, society and democracy in everyday life. Interested?

https://twitter.com/PRIA_India/status/1149915020244869120?s=19

Click here to apply for PRIA’s Youth N Democracy Fellowship Programme

https://t.co/C6Lw1dL046 https://t.co/u4Ca5jouc7

Sri Aurobindo's approach to Tantra by Prema Nandkumar https://t.co/mL923pm1NF @sriaurobindo27a #Spirituality

https://twitter.com/esamskritiindia/status/1150035689045520384?s=19

57) Hymns 366 - 371 (Verses 3,747 - 3,779): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 05, Sukta 012 to 017 (including hymns on man's aspiration & its relation with Agni); with #SriAurobindo's words on the incoherence of the naturalistic interpretation of Indra https://t.co/vWk9sVOWLk

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1150208906280353792?s=19

https://t.co/U1dFiKs3fX Very interesting. More so as @studio_ata and her team restored the whole town of Chandernagore. The town from where #SriAurobindo set sail for Pondy in 1910. Felt very nice reading about your creativity Smt. Aishwarya Tipnis.

https://twitter.com/RaghuveerBelur/status/1150012627537391616?s=19

Of course, poetry has turned a lot inward in the last 30 years. Not just in English but also in the vernaculars. There is no call for us to be frustrated as such a big turn will always be slow. RYD must be wishing us to be more quick n deliberate.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1148244768968728577?s=19

Another 15 August coming: a turning point in human history. US and Europe wake up to Sri Aurobindo. Bengal doesn't know yet who Sri Aurobindo is! Pity !

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1150235673732849666?s=19

Sri Aurobindo has pointed out large scale interpolations in Mahabharata and Gita but he himself can be accused of "propaganda" in many of his poems including Savitri. So where to draw the Lakshmanarekha is a ticklish issue. Even Savitri has interpolations. https://t.co/lJ745UznJe

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150266488088981504?s=19

Marketime: Equanimity, detached critical judgement, and ruminative engagement https://t.co/Ohh8fIxH2Y @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Indirapuram, Ghaziabad-201014 (UP) #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149973429681999872?s=19

Plasim Radar

Mortal Life and the Pursuit of Immortality, Part 1 - The fundamental experience and existential question faced by every human being is that we are mortal and we are born, live and struggle through our lives, ...

The Land - Canada’s famous Group of Seven landscape painters revealed through their art a certain sensibility, awe, and reverence for the landscape and the wilderness...

What is Education? - What is Education? The very concept and culmination of the need based literacy and multitude of technical skill programs , primarily and pred...

Message of the Future (HH 106) - What does the future has in store for us? Certain events in our recent times may well indicate to us the working of the New Consciousness and the coming ...

- In-der-Blog-sein 25 Years Later on Legion S3E3. Not for nothing, Martin Heidegger—whose most famous work is Being and Time—is name dropped by Charles’ th...

Judges, lawyers, politics: Religion still divides Malaysia - *Constituting Religion* is an immensely valuable work, as it shows the extent to which the Malaysian state apparatus has contributed to a warped concepti...

Latin university motto is similar to Chinese tattoo - Assorted tweets: "Education" policies have always been & will be about mass literacy. It's about numbers & creating future "workforce". Hence, Govts shoul...

Verse 100 of Bhratrhari's Niti Shataka - Because Brahma, serpentining the stars, yet is Becoming's yolk of the egg of its own cosmically thrown pot & all our Beloving's decimal avatars are, Vish...

Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal

Remembering Annapurna - She would recite, in a very soothing low voice, almost inaudible to others but her, one of her bhajans whenever she was cooking. Or she would be doing he...

A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life

The Mystic Pragmatism - M.S.Srinivasan (In this article, some conceptions presented in a workshop at an international conference is examined in the light of a deeper spirit...

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Start off your savitri era tour

Assorted tweets:

Devotees and admirers of Sri Aurobindo: Deport Peter Heehs and his supporters from India - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/jMmRngiQGd via @ChangeOrg_India

https://twitter.com/TlosaE/status/1148610549346783233?s=19

when time permits will try to share the fun on how political activists and "humanities" academics stretch and shrink "labels" as per opportunity, agenda and degree of shamelessness/hypocrisy they r comfortable with: but for a start use of "fascist/Nazi" will be good to explore!🤣

https://twitter.com/dikgaj/status/1148622980035022848?s=19

There is an attempt to differentiate Sangham and Bhakthi/post-Bhakthi Tamizh societies - appreciating the former as secular and the latter as 'Brahminical' and blaming it for all social problems today. A thorough study of the truth. https://t.co/FbdxoWvLCh via @swarajyamag

https://twitter.com/arvindneela/status/1148481162886561792?s=19

Excellent post in tamizh by @sundarrajachola on the state of dharma in TN. Tamizh Hindus need to read this. https://t.co/kaxHXijRa4

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1148288512296226816?s=19

Supreme Life of our Life, Part 4: Prana, the Universal Energy https://t.co/09CPlSoB72

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1148618271022866433?s=19

46) Hymns 297 - 302 (Verses 3,053 - 3,149): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 04, Sukta 001 to 006 (including Vamadeva's hymns to Agni); with #SriAurobindo's words on how the psychological significance of Agni is missed out in the purely ritual interpretations of the Veda https://t.co/WOsCjx2KfF

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1148623558605541376?s=19

What do u get when u combine the love of a Mother, a True Guru & the Supreme Divine, all in one human form?

Absolute Bliss. #Mother https://t.co/gOWI4D7G5x

https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1148608168123162624?s=19

Eventually u end up listening, but not my direct suggestions, rather only after the same are duly attested and verified by others anyway Didi, start off Ur savitri era tour, don't try to understand with intellect, just immerse in the bliss of the word flow, it's like a mantra

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1148477936560816128?s=19

South Indian brahmins are evidently better rooted in the traditional scriptures and rituals whereas Hindi heartland hoi polloi are at peace with Hanuman chalisa. Yet, the former struggle so much to display a 'more loyal than the king' style when it comes to the Hindutva ideology.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148500687346515968?s=19

Message has gone out that Naveen Patnaik is invincible and yet the future is uncertain, or rather pregnant with possibilities. Both Congress and BJP are struggling to erect a safe ideological scaffolding. Putting Sri Aurobindo on pedestal is the right recipe for reaping dividends

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148481920780492800?s=19

They are all past paradigms; Sri Aurobindo represents the future. Following him can enable Indians to rise above all forms factionalism, sectarianism, and parochialism. He has analysed all these 100 years back in the ARYA magazine. His #FiveDreams and #WorldUnion are real agenda.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1148490581640790016?s=19

Both modernity and postmodernism are essential in our task of consigning all past religions and rituals to museums. Texts of course will circulate but sans reference will lose relevance and adherence. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo will rule on merit. It's Evolutionary inevitability.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148623975062237184?s=19

Religions are accumulated culture marketed for commercial purposes with political patronage. They are also a means, says Sri Aurobindo, for elevating human consciousness, at times. This transcendental aspect needs to be a priority by relegating mythology and rituals to oblivion.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148651235156942848?s=19

If one reads Sri Aurobindo, then s/he can fathom the significance of Evolution. Why the Westerners came to India? Why Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, and others went overseas? Recognising inevitability of #WorldUnion and redundancy of Hindutva needed.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148643982919888896?s=19

Feel Philosophy: English of Sri Aurobindo seems like some secret tantric language https://t.co/GMJ4ced7lS @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Indirapuram, Ghaziabad (U.P.). #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148487601155796993?s=19

Plasim Radar

An Upsurge Towards Higher Things, p.182 - In this realm we find life turning towards higher and greater things than mere earthly existence or survival of the body. The post An Upsurge Towards Hig...

Supreme Life of Our Life, Part 3: Prana Provides Energy for the Operations of Mind - Prana is not simply a physical energy in the body. It is also the energy that operates in the mind. Swami Vivekananda described this subtler form of Pran...

How Art Reveals a Shift in Our Sensibilities: A Tale of Two Cities - Let’s take a moment, following up on the previous post, to examine the graphic that accompanies the article from Science Alert explaining “entangled times”...

Haha Huhu to you, Sanjay Subhramanyam - Sanjay Subhramaniyam has long been a* bete noire* of mine. He is bright and hardworking and from a bright and patriotic family. On the surface, his writin...

Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal

Remembering Annapurna - She would recite, in a very soothing low voice, almost inaudible to others but her, one of her bhajans whenever she was cooking. Or she would be doing he...

A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life

Conversion and demographic anxieties - For readers interested in Islamic law and society, and especially for those who might not have thought that Malaysia is in the company of Iran and Saudi ...

The Mystic Pragmatism - M.S.Srinivasan (In this article, some conceptions presented in a workshop at an international conference is examined in the light of a deeper spirit...

Shift the attention from the past and focus on the future - Assorted tweets: Few know the greatness of Maharishi Aurobindo! He had predicted much in advance that India would gain independence on 15 August 1947, as ...

- The Martin Heidegger Blues Gonna obscure you too.

Monday, July 01, 2019

Welcome to Peter Heehs 2.0 at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives

Assorted tweets:

We are starting a new initiative of inviting guest curators who will tweet about the books they like, add them to the site and also engage with other book lovers. This week we are happy to invite Ajay Sudame @Pakodewallah

https://twitter.com/IndicBookClub/status/1145586516095148032?s=19

Welcome to the 11th session of #LearnSamskritam. In this session I will be explaining the various types of secondary or derived verbal bases (व्युत्पन्न-धातु vyutpanna-dhātu) with examples. 11/1

https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1145112788152360960?s=19

SAFIC is going to post many interesting and amazing facts about Sanskrit and Indian culture. To be updated please follow us.

We continue to add more resources for those interested in Ancient Indian perspectives on prenatal education. Two new videos have been released today. See the link below.

https://t.co/Bx0dXU3R2x https://t.co/9LhPnfrYY4

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1143510935098843137?s=19

We are looking for short articles, poems, book reviews, interviews, etc. related to significance of Sanskrit for the resurgence of Indian culture. For Sanskrit submissions, also include an English translation. Deadline: July 15, 2019

Submission policy: https://t.co/BxBSXKlFIv

The July 2019 issue of #Renaissance with its special theme of prenatal education is now up! Features lots of insights from Indian cultural and psycho-spiritual perspectives on topics related to fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and reproductive health. https://t.co/EidsZMGRP0

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1145407741525135360?s=19

You can read a summary of some of the main sessions here - https://t.co/jKMjWUdjtz - https://t.co/CghQr3QLYT

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1145623590907367425?s=19

You can also read a few selected papers here - https://t.co/53dZZi0F0C

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1145623711774588928?s=19

A brilliant essay on sexuality &fertility from a deeper Ayurvedic perspective, summary of papers presented at a national seminar on conscious conception, pregnancy, reproductive health, Review of @nkgrock book on menstruation and lots more. Check it out! https://t.co/8LsU2c5wWA

https://twitter.com/beloome/status/1145532276362661888?s=19

The physical manifestation of The Gnostic centre began with the laying of this foundation stone @ Delhi, India https://t.co/kzGNaprbly

https://twitter.com/Gnostic_Centre/status/1142670708251746304?s=19

Engage in Self-development completely IN YOUR OWN TIME - https://t.co/5ixovpElJZ https://t.co/3lmsf9ZdAc

Explorations into New Creation of the Self - Enrol at elearn@gnosticcentre.com - https://t.co/Bb4WRZvxTx https://t.co/ytz5dM8yBr

Engage online in Tools for Empowering Relationships - https://t.co/VcYWdSWktU https://t.co/r9RszRGHIT

New Creation of the Self & Empowering Relationships - https://t.co/D1BnK26eKd

https://twitter.com/Gnostic_Centre/status/1135060494333698049?s=19

For Two new courses on INTEGRAL HEALTH, PART ONE AND TWO.

Check our website: https://t.co/7zh2dHXQl3.

https://twitter.com/WelcomeSacar/status/1116585116053020673?s=19

Part-1-Talk by Dr. Ananda Reddy on 20-23 Dec'2018 (Living Within Camp-49) 'MAKE YOUR DESTINY': https://t.co/1Aa3AQujqt via @YouTube

Part-2-Talk by Dr. Ananda Reddy on 20-23 Dec'2018 (Living Within Camp-49) 'MAKE YOUR DESTINY': https://t.co/k5KFLW27lH via @YouTube

https://twitter.com/SACARSADA183/status/1082510637677400064?s=19

"The Four Necessary Functions of Active Consciousness" -- Aurobindo explains what Blake means by "fourfold vision" and his mythology of the "four Zoas" of "Albion divided fourfold". Probably close, too, to Jung's four psychological functions/types.

https://t.co/xcMo3BJLrf

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1145708521758965760?s=19

The Interviews Blog : ‘It’s possible to be an atheist and practise a religion; many religions get along quite well without gods’ https://t.co/qlDXHcCvLL

https://twitter.com/peterheehs/status/1145531321357176832?s=19

My new book Spirituality without God looks really great!

Thanks @BloomsburyAcad !

Get it here https://t.co/VCfe3BrkzW or from your favourite online merchant https://t.co/X7LTGGCkA7

https://twitter.com/peterheehs/status/1061890964237611009?s=19

Peter Heehs the vilifier of Sri Aurobindo is back in business at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives. Has the Ashram Trust lost is head? Read https://t.co/mx43yOOEFw

https://twitter.com/TlosaE/status/1145698890043101186?s=19

No spiritual travail can yet beat this account, it has converged so many ideas, theories, wisdoms with the practical, reachable and Comprehensible yogic experience 'autobiography of a yogi' may come close, but cant outshine this humble kolkatan in clarity and transparency :) https://t.co/FsgeK3cbF6

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1145581512135364608?s=19

That depth of thinking, multiple lines of thought running parallel to each other,yet all of it being a single man's humble endeavour to understand the essence of tantra,very few literature on earth can match him there higher worlds revealed by a common man, born on streets.

Yeah well said dada I tried to get this taste in other literature, all fell short, be it autobiography of a yogi, or literature as written by Sri Aurobindo. elaboration of the same theory, be it in kalighat or up there in amarnath,finally merging onto authors own yogic sadhna.

Beautiful thread bhai, Sri Aurobindo has a solution to all the prevailing states of mind and consciousness

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1145523274241024000?s=19

Divine Realm by Swami Apurvananda. Pl read, has been written with much devotion. I just started reading yesterday & today early morning had a beautiful dream of Yogis & Sanyasis. A superconscious dream. https://t.co/oVckwLktNk

https://twitter.com/BharatPronam/status/1145535908629794816?s=19

Lethal Mohit, I thought #SriAurobindo with that Deep Oceanic eyes was sooo Compassionate, but no He's a Hard Task Master 🤣🤣🤣

https://twitter.com/BharatPronam/status/1145587648129458176?s=19

Yes yes..visions can happen at various levels of consciousness..usually subconscious because the external mental mind is silent then, so easier for Divine to penetrate...

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1145387275305418752?s=19

This aphorism was definitely not listed in T&C of Integral Yoga..if it was then in some microscopic font am sure...🤓 He has this wonderful trap set..first comes as Krishna the Beloved..and we fall..then comes the Charioteer goading to action while remaking us inside out!

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1145563021420318720?s=19

Conditions? What conditions? I thought we turn up and He embraces us first and then allocates some work, preferably one involving visual contact with Him..and of course He rewards us with some of His light and joy and power...and ideally effaces all we are here below 😎

What a brutal demolition of expectations not even few moments of lotus eating 🙃 can’t trust Him any more...will go to Mother 🤓

Haha.. But there are too many lotus-eaters out here sir.. Reminds me of a conversation that #SriAurobindo had with a disciple :) https://t.co/j9uIv1LDlW

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1145579065077669888?s=19

Sri Aurobindo: Bharat’s True Swaraj - https://t.co/Ebx1BFCFVG via @hindupost

Plasim Radar

The Four Necessary Functions of Active Consciousness - The Vedic Rishis spent considerable effort understanding and describing the functions of mind, and Sri Aurobindo has clearly enunciated their terminology a...

The Practice of Mindfulness - “Mindfulness” is, ostensibly, the antidote to mindlessness, and to robopathy and the zombie. Although this is the intent, mindfulness often does not seem t...

Branko Milanovic on inequality - *Prof. Branko Milanovic wrote this in the Guardian a couple of years ago-* I am asked this question very often: why should we care about inequality? Ther...

A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life

Peter Heehs Reinstated as Head of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives – Anirjeet - Is the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust in Pondicherry bent upon destroying the spiritual legacy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? If not, how do you explain the...

Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...

- Madhouse News interviews Diego Fusaro about his new book *La notte del mondo*. QUESTION. Explain to me, please, why we are in a dark night, at what point ...

伊莎書 - 伊莎書天竺古稱十《奧義書》者，首《伊莎》。至今集百零八或百二十《奧義書》者，亦首《伊莎》。『伊莎』者，精神也。取頌之初二字名書，與中國古詩之例合。全書寥寥十八頌。室利·阿羅頻多（一八七二——一九五〇）疏釋，亦止此簡約一卷，而韋檀多學之菁華皆攝。有此一卷，即是書古今餘家注疏皆不可問。梵文簡古，非雅言不足以達...

India lives a glorious variety and not a debatable diversity - Why India does not need a media narrative lexicon defined ‘Secularism’ or any lessons on nurturing diversity from media ? 1. Let media be frank eno...

Q & A Session with Dr Alok Pandey in Sydney - On being guided to avoid Guided Meditations. Turning to the Mother. Approaching the Highest via different deities. Only first 14 minutes are captured on v...

Savitri Era Devotees

Five Videos of the Mother - Five Videos of the Mother June 28, 2019 / 0 Dear Friends, We are taking the opportunity of sharing with you five videos of the Mother which have been upl...

Not concerned with evaluation of evidence - Assorted tweets: The Mughals were an integral part of India – so why are they being labelled foreigners? https://t.co/I5Gd0dZS7X [Replug] https://t.co/Lt...

Constituting religion: From South Asia to Malaysia - At the start of his outstanding new book, *Constituting Religion*, Tamir Moustafa explains that initially his ambition extended beyond Malaysia to a comp...

Savitri Era Religious Fraternity

Integral Yoga & Human Defects (IV) : What About Psychoanalysis Today ? - I recommend to all those who can read English the great cascade of comments posted yesterday by my psychologist friend Don Salmon who lives in the USA. All...

A sense of cohesion having communal goals - Assorted tweets: God can only be known by symbols because in its ultimate reality it defies logic and exceeds perception – Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/O9jl...

Marketime

Allegiance to the constitution concept is flawed - Assorted tweets: Best book, in my modest opinion, about D-Day is Antony Beevor's masterpiece D-Day. [As Dutchman I read it in the Dutch translation.] https...

Feel Philosophy

Fighting against fascists is no less fascist - Assorted tweets: https://t.co/c1ei3UElpw Rare Video of The Mother Playing Long Tennis @SAADelhiBranch https://twitter.com/SAADelhiBranch/status/114451905...

Aurora Mirabilis

Sri Aurobindo provides diverse perspectives to sense imperatives -Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=935305530X Swapan Dasgupta - 2019 - ‎Preview This ...

Plain & Simple

Nietzsche or Emerson say to be more individual, Kant tells us to be more universal - Plasim Radar Lab of Evolution Yoga Intégral & Défauts Humains (III): Sri Aurobindo sur la Psychanalyse - NOTE DE SATPREM SUR LE PASSAGE DE “L’AGENDA DE MÈ...

Geography and nature teach the primacy of diversity - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar Five hundred years back, Copernicus was struggling to prove that planets are revolving around the Sun...

Tusar Nath Mohapatra

My original contributions to understanding Sri Aurobindo - My original contributions to understanding or interpreting Sri Aurobindo can be summarised under a number of heads: 1) Against Hindutva, Mythology, & Astro...

Monday, June 24, 2019

Nietzsche or Emerson say to be more individual, Kant tells us to be more universal

Plasim Radar

A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life

Yoga Intégral & Défauts Humains (III): Sri Aurobindo sur la Psychanalyse - NOTE DE SATPREM SUR LE PASSAGE DE “L’AGENDA DE MÈRE” CITÉ DANS L’ARTICLE PRÉCÉDENT: 3 Lorsque nous avons publié partiellement cette conversation dans le Bu...

A manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works - Your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works.” Sri Aurobindo,...

Kant’s quantitative individualism - This post is not about Indian philosophy until its last paragraph. However, it is a direct response to a comment made here on the IPB, so I thought IPB rea...

Kant’s quantitative individualism - In response to my discussion a while ago of the problems between Buddhism and qualitative individualism, Patrick O’Donnell suggested that … Continue readin...

Reactionary and Revolutionary Predilections in an Age of Transition - So the previous posting on Jean Gebser and the reactionary mind generated a bit of discussion about the nature of reaction in the context of present polari...

Sanjukta Paul on Uber - In a previous post, we looked at Sanjukta Paul's theory that 'coordination rights' are created by Law and thus should be allocated in the public interest. ...

The Mind Behind the Mind, Part 1 - We find it impossible to account for the rise of the mental consciousness when we start from the position that the universe began as dead matter that someh...

The Law of Vital Worlds, pp. 178-179 - Each world is governed by its own inherent and intrinsic law. Its beings and creatures as well as those who act under its influence come under this law a...

Footnotes2Plato

Theology of Nature Templeton research proposal, shelved : ( - Several weeks ago, I submitted a proposal for a Templeton Foundation research fellowship called “God and the Book of Nature: Science-engaged Theology of Na...

Companion to ‘The Secret of the Veda’ by Mukund Ainapure - Companion to ‘The Secret of the Veda’ The Companion to The Secret of the Veda is meant as an aid to the systematic study of The Secret of the Veda for th...

Mansplaining religion - While the hot cases [in Malaysia] differ in their details from those in the United States, the structure of the story is familiar. A clash between commun...

- Weimar Republic & the Phenomenology of Being Episode 30 of the Iphigenia Inquiry with Philip Armstrong.

An und für sich

Adorno and the Origins of “Never Again” - Ever since then candidate Trump began calling for mass deportations and religious bans, comparisons to the Third Reich have consistently been made. While m...

India is variety personified - Mirage of a strong state is not a reality. *Making of a strong state is the reality and reality need not get confined to existing or established labels or...

Feel Philosophy

Sensory inputs turn us into robots -Assorted tweets: Debates prior to Sri Aurobindo must be understood for locating him properly. [Where Nietzsche or Emerson say to be more individual, Kant t...

Marketime

Meritocracy makes the successful feel entitled and absolves the greedy of guilt - Basic purpose of Indian Constitution is to orient every person of an ethos transcending narrow boundaries like region or religion. This boils down to an i...

Aurora Mirabilis

Vedic mantras were articulated long before the Hindus - The irony of disowning one’s culture It is not wise to confuse the treasures of our heritage with the Hindu religion as it is understood and interpreted to...

Plain & Simple

A non-fiction novel about Auroville -Aurora Mirabilis Sri Aurobindo is the last word on human behaviour and collective psychology - Assorted tweets: Remember here the story of Purani ji Who wa...

Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Assorted tweets:

Feel Philosophy: Sensory inputs turn us into robots https://t.co/M26GLZHVUA https://t.co/uPzOX7eOFn

Evergreen Essays: Cricket, chess, or tennis: see life through the learning lens https://t.co/1Lurcy1qEX

Savitri Era Party: Savitri Era Party is the right alternative to Hindutva https://t.co/BB8PLCpZxl

Rainbow & the Other: Chemical and evolutionary basis for love https://t.co/tyQa7rBDsv

the Orchid and the rOse: Bringing Sri Aurobindo's knowledge to the forefront https://t.co/6J55615TIY

Feel Philosophy: There is no yoga; you make your own path https://t.co/weRQKi1XqS

Aurora Mirabilis: Vedic mantras were articulated long before the Hindus https://t.co/BehBw0gfSK

Marketime: Only Sri Aurobindo remains relevant for the future https://t.co/jjXQJPduHI

Savitri Era Open Forum: Sri Aurobindo’s Shakespeare criticism is unmatched https://t.co/GgiccKjWJJ

Savitri Era Political Action: Savitri Era to replace all other religions https://t.co/tLKzA15ibm

Marketime: Even when one is deep into Sri Aurobindo one loses balance https://t.co/bSRswKffws

Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: A practical and effective means of coming out of the present chaos https://t.co/QeDsDrpm7j

VIP VAK: Even in retirement Sri Aurobindo was more active https://t.co/tgmdO0p3Fu

Evergreen Essays: One must crawl before one can walk https://t.co/xg0WgFQgFc

Plain & Simple: A non-fiction novel about Auroville https://t.co/CqBX0uqINP

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Aesthetics like nutrition should seek the right-mix https://t.co/yO1kstnTKy

Aurora Mirabilis: Sri Aurobindo is the last word on human behaviour and collective psychology https://t.co/V8RgM5489S

the Orchid and the rOse: Much-needed respite from certainty and triumphalism https://t.co/u5NnxA16Q7

Savitri Era Open Forum: Each narrative needs some corrective https://t.co/4eRT7vsbYU

Feel Philosophy: Do not pause to ask why https://t.co/R6WKT4bmTE

Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: Yoga includes Rasa; Aesthetics is beyond morality https://t.co/IOUBt8woOA

Savitri Era Political Action: Not all societies are attempting to solve the same kinds of problems https://t.co/CRDVR8O7HR

Savitri Era: Geography and nature teach the primacy of diversity https://t.co/wwTPZIyQuy

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Fiction says nothing concrete; it does not deliver clear judgements https://t.co/liWlPq4unx

Marketime: Electoral victory is not ideological victory https://t.co/pinJ2hQQ4y

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

https://t.co/35A274GeOu

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Friday, June 14, 2019

A non-fiction novel about Auroville

Aurora Mirabilis

Sri Aurobindo is the last word on human behaviour and collective psychology - Assorted tweets: Remember here the story of Purani ji Who wanted Assurance from #sriaurobindo about independence ! SA assured him !! When he repea...

Feel Philosophy

Do not pause to ask why - Plasim Radar AuroMaa Savitri Satsang 097 pp. 169-171 - A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English). The post Savitri Sat...

Marketime

Electoral victory is not ideological victory - Cultures which buried their dead with objects have an advantage in proving their cultural claim on their ancestral land: Hindus who cremated have only thei...

Plain & Simple

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 Integ...

Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Plasim Radar

Aesthetics like nutrition should seek the right-mix - The irony of disowning one's culture The New Indian Express-04-Jun-2019 It is not wise to confuse the treasures of our heritage with the Hindu religion as ...

Mechanical Mind - The useless mechanical mind is very active, while the useful recording mind has fallen silent; it can’t do any thinking or even note down the experienc...

Prabhat Patnaik puerile Theory of Money - Why does paper money have value? The answer is because it is legal tender. You discharge your contractual obligations and pay your taxes by using it. Your ...

Catherine Prueitt hired by the University of British Columbia - Continuing the good news about Canada: Catherine Prueitt has accepted a position in at The University of British Columbia. Congratulations to her and to UBC!

- On the claim of science. For Heidegger, “each supposition is always already grounded in a certain kind of *acceptio*. Only when the presence of something ...

Isha Upanishad: the Methods of Realisation, Part 4, the Human Standpoint and the Link to the Divine Standpoint - The description of seven ‘worlds’ or states of consciousness, in the Vedic terminology includes 3 in a higher hemisphere, and 3 in a lower hemisphere, and ...

Deepening the “zero-sum binary” - Via Islamic finance, “rites” have increased their power over “rights” in Malaysia.

The Anthropocene as Psychodrama - Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted ...

An und für sich

The right-wing reaction is part of the legacy of the fall of the Soviet Union - In Neoliberalism’s Demons, available wherever fine books are sold, I argue that the right-wing reaction is not a necessary outcome of neoliberalism — in pa...

Antithesis of Yoga - Antithesis of Yoga is a non-fiction novel about Auroville’s first 25 years. Jocelyn one of the early settlers in Auroville since 1969, chronicles the sto...

A Sellarsian solution for the self? - The conflict between Buddhism and qualitative individualism is a major difficulty for my own philosophy. In addressing that conflict, there … Continue read...

Gobalisation over Isolationism - Some sane leaders amid power mongering and passion whipping political schemers. 1. Isolationism and xenophobia are extensions of bossy insolence of racia...

matriwords

A Series Inspired by India’s Rebirth – 3 - Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (2 & 3), pp. 16-19. Continued from Part ...

Kusum-ben Nagda: In Memoriam by Anurag Banerjee - Dear Friends, On Sunday, 12 May 2019, one of the senior-most inmates of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram community as well as one of its most loved members breathe...

A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life

The Nature of Matter in Indian Thought – M S Srinivasan - In our earlier discussions on the nature of matter, we have studied in some details. The discoveries of New Physics in the series of articles, The Nature ...

Footnotes2Plato

Burning Man and the Seeds of a New Story - Mission at Tenth special supplement Vol. 7, 274-279 (2018) “Carnival of Consciousness: Practice as Research in Black Rock City” A Submission by Matthew T. ...

Sunayana Panda

Konttho (Bengali Film) review - If you have had a smoker in your family you will appreciate this film more than those who don’t know what it is to see someone destroy himself with cigaret...

"Deliberate Distortions of Sri Aurobindo's Life and Yoga" edited by Raman Reddy - *CLICK HERE FOR READING PDF*

Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal

Unearthing the Path: A Photo-Essay - In my ongoing ‘decluttering’ journey, I have decided to clean my blog as well. I have started a process of sorting through old blogs and will be keeping on...

Savitri Era Devotees

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 ...