There was no artificial divide between spiritual and secular knowledge in ancient India; the pursuit of knowledge in ancient India included a deeper intuitive way of knowing in addition to rational and scientific ways. Discovering by intuition and developing by logic was the way.
- The Healing Energies of Love (TE 348) - The talk was addressed to a group of medical doctors in Rourkela. It deals with the healing potential of the energy of love within us. The post The Heali...
- சமஸ்கிருதம் கற்றலும் நம் கலாச்சாரத்தின் மதிப்பும் (பகுதி 1) - [மைலாப்பூரிலுள்ள *Madras Sanskrit College* நிறுவனர் தினத்தன்று 26 பெப்ரவரி 1940 அன்று ஆற்றிய உரையிலிருந்து] இன்றைய நிகழ்வுளில் பங்கேற்று, இக்கல்வி நிறுவனத்...
- Fieldwork in translation: Reflections on positionality and distance in Cairo - This reflection was born out of an encounter between two researchers working on the same urban space in Cairo, a neighborhood called Shubra, known for its ...
- Psychedelics Today podcast on Consciousness, Capitalism, and Philosophy - I had a great conversation with Joe Moore of Psychedelics Today a couple months back, and the podcast was just released today. Have a listen. In this episo...
- Distinguishing the Realisation of the Atman and the Higher Planes of Consciousness - When an individual begins the spiritual quest, there can be considerable confusion about different directions, objectives and methods of attainment. In man...
- Ethics as interpersonal action-guiding - indranil mukherjee @PhoenixIndranil · Aug 1 Replying to @patralekha2011 Thought so...but still.....hope u have also got books on Sri Aurobindo's writings. ...
- Pankaj Mishra waxing Brazilian wroth - The always irate Pankaj Mishra writes in Blomberg- *Two decades ago, a Goldman Sachs executive *coined* the label BRICs to describe four big emerging natio...
- professional anarchists - Like urban naxals we have professional anarchists and Anti-national addicts. All their perverted perspectives emanate from a petrified ideology which ...
- Democracy, Evolution, and descent of the Supramental - Savitri Era @SavitriEra · 1h Knowledge of Sanskrit isn´t required for understanding the Veda. Memorising or recitation of mantras is also not necessary....
- The Sigālovāda’s vicious mean - The Sigālovāda Sutta might be my least favourite sutta in the Pali Canon. There is relatively little that the Pali texts say on “ethics” in a modern Wester...
- The Sigālovāda’s vicious mean - The Sigālovāda Sutta might be my least favourite sutta in the Pali Canon. There is relatively little that the Pali … Continue reading →
- Vedakosha Vibhaaga – Origin, organization and propagation of Vedic knowledge - The Vedas and the knowledge contained in them was deciphered by rishis and passed on in the guru-shishya tradition. The post Vedakosha Vibhaaga – Origin,...
- Audible Weed Walk – ep.52 “What sets the wild plants apart?” - *What sets the wild plants apart?* - Why do we refer to some plants as wild and other naturally growing ones are not? From time immemorial human beings h...
- Three Hundred and Thirty Photographs of the Mother with Udar Pinto - Dear Friends, Born as Lawrence Marshal Pinto (24 April 1907—7 December 2001), Udar — renamed by Sri Aurobindo in April 1938 — had his early education at St...
- A Sabbath Rest - I am tired. I recognize that I’m privileged, that I don’t have kids, that we were able to keep our jobs, etc., etc. But I’m still tired. I lived through a ...
- A Series Inspired by India’s Rebirth – 14 - Author: Beloo Mehra (2020). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 51 (4), April 2020, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM...
- ऋतश्री, the True Beauty – Prayer - Originally posted on matriwords: The theme for this edition of ऋतश्री is – Prayer. Prayer is one of the most common practices we have to connect with the D...
- The Truth That Sets Free - Hello again. I hope you’re all faring well. Today, I’ld like to return to an earlier topic discussed in The Chrysalis, and that is the relationship between...
- Jour de Darshan 24.04.21 - A nouveau Jour de Darshan en ce mois d’avril : non seulement c’est le 4 avril 1910 que Sri Aurobindo est arrive a Pondicherry, mais dix ans plus tard, en 1...
- Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland - Here is my review of Rivers Solomon’s new novel, Sorrowland. The book will be published on May 4th. I received an advance copy, courtesy of NetGalley, in r...
- Companion to “Vedic and Philological Studies” (Vol.4) by Mukund Ainapure - Companion Series is meant as an aid to the systematic study of the major works on the Veda by Sri Aurobindo for those interested in the mystical interpre...
- Inner Awakening of the Collectivity – M.S. Srinivasan - A collectivity, like a nation, community or an organisation is a living human organism with an inner and outer being. … Inner Awakening of the Collectivit...
- Review of Bengali film “Punascha” (2014) - While everyone is speaking of Soumitra Chatterjee’s Apu in Satyajit Ray’s “Apur Sansar” I am going to talk to you about Soumitra’s film “Punascha” which is...
- Grundfragen der Philosophie - Martin Heidegger Grundfragen der Philosophie GA 45 Table of Contents
- The bell on the dancer's anklet / Siri siri muvva - These are the translated lyrics of the song "Śivapūjaku chigurinchina sirisirimuvvā" from the Telugu film "Swarṇakamalam" (Golden Lotus). Alternative st...
- India’s handling of the Corona crisis is the best in the World - COVID-19: Is India testing enough? Myth vs Truth There is a lot of cry in the media, specially the western
- A World is Ending - My article on the pandemic in the journal Identities can be found here.
