A critique of The Kingdom and the Glory -
Tomorrow, I will be giving a masterclass (PDF flyer) at the University of Auckland, where we will be discussing my Crisis and Critique article (PDF) as wel...
The Way of Devotion in the Integral Yoga -
Whether the seeker in the integral path starts from the path of Knowledge, the path of Works or directly with the path of Love and Devotion, he will modify...
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Jürgen Habermas lecture "Heidegger's Overcoming of Occidental Rationalism" at Cornell, September 10, 1984.
Three melodious song offerings -
Three melodious song offerings http://youtu.be/idfj_pJcu6Y annaiyin arulkodai om namo bagavathe!!!!!! Ranjini Jeyaraman 34,630 views Uploaded on Mar 30, 200...
A Student and Pupil of Nature (SH 209 B5C03 pp 404-406) -
Savitri Class in Hindi with Alok Pandey (SH 209, B5C03, pp 404-406) Savitri Book Five : The Book of Love, Canto Three : Satyavan and Savitri, Page – 404...
Blues Love -
[image: 2016_08_07_production_blues_love_dr_john_miek_boomfield_muddy_english_1]Featuring some blues tracks with a note to LOVE - B.B.King, Keb' Mo', Roy B...
The Next Step in Evolution: Superman or a Supermachine – M.S. Srinivasan -
“Good bye Humans: Are we creating the engines of our own demise”… this is the title of a special issue of an Information Technology magazine. Such thinking...
POTENTIALLY A GOOD POST ON UBER ECONOMICS BUT MARRED BY SLOPPY REFERENCES TO THE INVISIBLE HAND -
*Tim O’Reilly, f*ounder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc. posts (4 August) on *Evonomics* HERE “*Why we cannot wait for an Invisible hand. Its Time to Rewrite...
visual studies in Savitri: 1.13 pencil layout from storyboard -
Here the first pencil layout for the page of the running section 1.13.
Religion and politics beyond religious freedom -
[image: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Beyond Religious Freedom]I would like to thank each of the contributors to this series for their generous engagement with ...
Selections par Gangalakshmi – 88 -
[image: 2016_08_03_performance_la_manifestation_supramentale_sur_la_terre_gan_english_1]The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth read by Gangalkshmi in Fre...
New Online Masters Degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness -
CIIS is accepting applications for the Fall 2017 semester for a new online masters degree program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness with concentr...
The root of human miseries and the way to peace. -
To want what the Divine wants in all sincerity is the essential condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries come from the fact that huma...
Storing and hoarding -
Some words glued to pages lying still in self-arrest pleaded silently to me: We must be brought to life at once to caress the clever storm growing stronger...
The trouble with democracy -
The present American election is worth significant attention from a philosophy blog because it is a philosophically interesting one. (This … Continue readi...
A Divine Punishment: Story of a Rare Darshan of Sri Aurobindo by Nirmal Singh Nahar -
Dear Friends, Nirmal Singh Nahar (28 July 1922—3 September 2012) was a journalist and freedom fighter. His father Prithwi Singh Nahar was a noted sadhak, p...
Physical Culture -
*A promise of good health.* *Botanical Name*: Dombeya Xcayeuxii *Common Name*: Pink-ball *Spiritual Significance*: *Conquest over the Greed for Food* *A...
Modernist agenda of Savitri Era Party -
@tweetingsourav @Marut_ @ScorpiusMaximus @MandarSawant184 @CestMoiz History of liberalisation in India starts with V.P. Singh as FM. Evolution acts as a ten...
Being Human (Guest Post) -
I am very pleased to share today some of the photographic work of a talented, not-yet-18 young man, who happens to be my nephew. Pranav is a sensitive, i...
An interview with Shalini Sinha: first in an occasional series -
Inspired by the various interviews with philosophers here and on the Internet at large, I’m starting a series here at the Indian philosophy blog. The goal ...
The Universe of Capitalism -
Michael Flower was kind enough to make me graphs to depict the universe of capitalism that I’ve been developing. I’m still playing around with names for t...
National Education: 78: Subjects for general grounding of children -
Classification by subject is important when one wants to study one or several subjects in depth, once an overall grounding that is useful for everyone has ...
Rakshasas (Demons) and Man -
Disciple: When do the Rakshasas and Asuras get a chance of exploiting men? Sri Aurobindo: When men open themselves to their influence. If we indulge oursel...
A Taste in the Mouth -
O unknowable land of familiar stories your secrets concealed behind invisible masks for us to uncover. A teasing now and […] The post A Taste in the Mout...
Dr. Hedgewar (founder of the R.S.S) met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry -
In January 1920, Dr. L.V. Paranjpe started the Bharat Swayamsevak Mandal. Doctorji [*Dr.* *Hedgewar*] was his chief colleague. Efforts began in the month o...
Spiritual Practicality: The Need of the Moment -
Author: Beloo Mehra Published in Collaboration, Vol. 41 (1), Spring 2016, pp. 9-10 It seems pretty much every month there is some big international con...
An adventure in and around Auroville -
Cycling Around Auroville To explore Auroville on a cycle is a neat thing to do. The many cycle paths, maps are available at the Visitors Centre, take you o...
Postmodern scholars do not actually write to be understood -
- − - [image: Avatar] BR windwheel3 days ago As confusing as the series of articles too, if not more. Rajiv Malhotra is direct and pointed in hi...
Sri Aurobindo had identified patriotism with Kali puja -
Vibha Chaturvedi and Pragati Sahni (eds.): Understanding Ethics R Chandra - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2016 ... Rita—the inexorabl...
Genuine Leftists like the New School's Anwar Shaikh -
Discussion on Swarajyamag 101 comments Islamic State, RSS And The Lazy Intellectualism Of Ramachandra Guha windwheel 4 months ago Guha isn't considered ...
[How to put Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’s abstract guidance into practice? -
[image: Story image for Sri Aurobindo from Latest News From Punjab] Modi yoga drill to divert attention on performance? Latest News From Punjab-10-Jun-2016 T...
How to utilize money to grow spiritually -
A blog reader asked the question – “How to make best utilize one’s savings from a spiritual point of view? Should one take medical insurance, life insuran...
Sri Aurobindo is opening doors to a genuine hermeneutic -
windwheel4 days ago Vivekananda had some remarkable qualities but was very much a product of his time. He did not say anything more egregiously false or fo...
Trying to make a meaningful connection: Keith Hart’s anthropology -
Transcription of an interview with Federico Neiburg and Fernando Rabossi held at the National Museum (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), on May 23rd...
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Hegel threw everything he had to say into the stitched-together The Phenomenology of Spirit -
Gaurav Upadhyay @g_upadhyay 24m24 minutes ago The Jew invented the God-fearing man; India the God-knower and God-lover-Sri Aurobindo http://indiafacts.org...
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The Fated Journey (SH 197 B4C04 pp 378-379) -
Savitri Class in Hindi with Alok Pandey (SH 197) Savitri Book Four : The Book of Birth and Quest, Canto Four : The Quest, Pages 378 – 379 Play / Download (...
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The Bliss of the Eternal From Which Words Turn Back Without Attaining -
“The Bliss of the Eternal from which words turn back without attaining and mind also returneth baffled, who knoweth the Bliss of the Eternal?” Thus begins ...
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Sidelining mythological symbols should form a valid goal -
I read about Schiller's Aesthetics in *A Secular Age* by Charles Taylor and then how Carlyle could have been a bridge between him and Coleridge, elsewhere....
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A more anxious freedom -
[image: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Beyond Religious Freedom]Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's *Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion* is notab...
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Thoughts after spending a year with The Phenomenology of Spirit -
As I’ve often mentioned, I’ve spent the last year working through Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit in an independent study with a student who is a committed...
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Vegetal ontology in Jung -
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground...
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In *The Stone*, Alexander Stern explains things. “A thing,” then, corresponds to a real need we have, to catalog and group together the items of cultural ...
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The ‘aam aadmi’ obsession -
As far back as I can remember I have always had an aversion to the phrase ‘aam aadmi‘, the ‘common man’. Before anyone accuses me of elitism or snobbery, o...
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जातीय आधार पर दी जाने वाली आरक्षण व्यवस्था खत्म की जाये -
विषय – मौजूदा जातिगत आरक्षण व्यवस्था की समीक्षा हेतु ज्ञापन आरक्षित सीट से चुनाव जीते ज्यादातर सांसद या विधायक हर बार आरक्षित सीट से कई-कई दफा चुनाव लड़ते ह...
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RM type discourse has given respectability to anti-Dalit bigots -
*AnnihilationOfCaste* @AnnihilationOfC 10h 10 hours agoUttar Pradesh, India Why insist on English education? Because only then one gets introduced to vast...
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Kolam: Computing and Cosmology within Indian Art (by Shivoham) – Conclusion -
CONTINUED FROM PART 2 Cosmology of the Sacred Kolam Why do Tamil women draw Kolams daily at the threshold of their homes? Why not do something else? Such q...
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SIMPLY CHARLIE REVIEW OF MY "ADAM SMITH: A MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND HIS POLITICAL ECONOMY -
The review in *Simply Charlie* of my second book on Adam Smith was partly published on *Lost Legacy* in December 2-15. I publish the full review here today...
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Who stole the jouissance -
The Ineluctable Tragedy of Existing - Larval Subjects . There is something unbearable about the Lacanian teaching; something that makes you want to turn aw...
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Addressing discriminatory traits of Hindu law -
Men, Women and the Nation: Semiotics of Hindu Nationalism Friday 15 April 2016 Mainstream, VOL LIV No 17 New Delhi April 16, 2016 by Navneet Sharma and Prade...
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Savitri Era Party meeting on April 10, 2016 -
*Savitri Era Party* @SavitriEraParty Apr 11 10-Apr-2016, 6.00 PM: A meeting of Savitri Era Party was held in Basai Darapur, Delhi which was also addressed...
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The Ineluctable Tragedy of Existing -
There is something unbearable about the Lacanian teaching; something that makes you want to turn away and flee, or at the very least forget. It is not his...
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Sri Aurobindo was also the quintessential internationalist -
Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. - Savitri Era Ambedkar and Buddhism are double whammy - Savitri Era Party @Sav...
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All scientific evidence points to Aryan migration -
Sudheendra Kulkarni @SudheenKulkarni 17m17 minutes ago AUGUST VOICES: This's my new book about which I'll speak at Islamabad Literature Festival #IsbLF #In...
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The Sage and his idea of India – Anirban Ganguly -
The Pioneer, 14 April 2016 Sri Aurobindo's vision of India had no place for pseudo-secularism, vote-bank politics and repudiation of Bharatiya civilisation...
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Interview with Nicolas Bommarito on Buddhist Ethics -
3:AM Magazine recently featured an interesting interview with Nicolas Bommarito (SUNY Buffalo). Topics include Śāntideva, virtue ethics, and the potential ...
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On making America great again -
In the early 1960s, my father finished his PhD in political science from Cornell. Under the restrictive and racialized American … Continue reading →
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Women have valuable skills such as empathy and a nurturing spirit -
Vedica Opens Admissions for 2016 Business Wire India (press release)-05-Jan-2016 The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women (VSPW) now invites applications for ...
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Schiller, Carlyle, Coleridge, and Charles Taylor -
Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 19h 19 hours ago "Indian Independence was instrumental in realising the unity of mankind." #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #S...
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What is the Supermind – An intuitive understanding. -
Though the supermind is suprarational to our intelligence and its workings occult to our apprehension, it is nothing irrationally mystic, but rather its ex...
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Žižek, Chesbrough, and Sri Aurobindo -
Odia Culture @OdiaCulture Mar 26 46th All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Study Circle Conference to be held btwn 4th -7th April 2016 at Matrubhaban, Cuttack http:...
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Babaji, Prapatti and Utsabananda Samantaray -
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, 12.02.1950 To, Sj Lalit Mohan Ghose, The purpose of your letter was communicated to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. They gi...
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Mirambika Epitaph in the Kalu Sarai Graveyard – by the Wretched Prince -
Here rests her high head under the dirt and dust of my land An evergreen flower killed by me – her own. The fair applauded her rise from humble grains of s...
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Sri Aurobindo's books in Chinese -
The Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore: 2A Starlight Road 01-07, Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society Building (Nearest MRT: Farrer Park), Singapore 217755 P...
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Goodness -
*Modest in appearance, does not make a show but is always ready to be useful. * *Botanical Name*: Lobularia maritima *Common Name: *Sweet Alison, Sweet a...
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Building a Woman-Friendly Work-Place – M.S.Srinivasan -
Where the women are respected, there the gods dwell with delight. – Manu in Manava Dharma Shastra (As the previous article describes vividly, the present c...
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Ramesh Bijlani, Sraddhalu Ranade, and Rajiv Malhotra -
Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi Today - Good Governance [image: Sri Aurobindo from www.goodgovernance.in] www.goodgovernance.in/event_details.php?recNo=39 1....
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Mandala Pottery -
We are very happy to introduce Mandala Pottery on auroville.com! We took some time to find a new potter, who could provide us with their items. Our choice ...
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The Mother’s Interviews with Dr. Indra Sen about the Supramental Manifestation of 29 February 1956 -
The Mother has the concrete experience of the descent of the Supramental Consciousness on Earth on February 29,1956. The Golden Day ‘The lights had been ...
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The Mother’s Interviews with Dr. Indra Sen about the Supramental Manifestation of 29 February 1956 -
Dear Friends, Dr. Indra Sen (13 May 1903—14 March 1994) was a noted scholar, author and educationist who obtained his Master’s degree in Philosophy and Psy...
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The Collaboration of Nature by Richard Pearson -
*Editor's note* "A new world is born". The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have worked ceaselessly to bring a new consciousness on earth, - the Supramental or ...
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The Spiritual Dimension -
The spiritual dimension, though included in the WHO definition of health, defies any simple understanding. It evokes different images determined […] The...
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Art as discovery of one's deeper self -
[PDF] CULTURAL HERITAGE IS ART OF INDIA B Singh Aurobindo Ghosh pointed out that “All Indian art is a throwing out of a positive thoughtful self-vision crea...
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Anandamath -
Anandamath is a Bengali novel, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee about Sannyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century, it is considered one of the most imp...
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Affect/Emotion -
This is a general statement, nothing really new. I was writing it in another context, realized I didn’t need it, decided to post it here. Affect theorists ...
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Narad's Page (Richard Eggenberger)—A Life with Flowers: Intimacy with the Divine – (Part 4) -
To conclude this series on “Intimacy with the Divine” we have our last species and it is one of great beauty. Mother has named it “Intimacy with Universal N...
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Messages: 21 February 2016 Darshan Day Message -
Concentrate in the heart. Enter into it; go within and deep and far, as far as you can. Gather all the strings of your consciousness that are spread abroad, ...
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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...
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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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SC on ‘Proxy PILs’ used as instruments of intimidation -
We have been repeatedly exposing the unscrupulous and malicious ploys adopted by anti-Ashram elements like Raman Reddy, Sraddhalu Ranade, R.Y. Deshpande an...
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Ambedkar and Buddhism are double whammy - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty Apr 11 10-Apr-2016, 6.00 PM: A meeting of Savitri Era Party was held in Basai Darapur, Delhi which was also addressed b...
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Did I miss a birthday? - I almost missed my blog’s birthday. It was quite late in the evening that I remembered that my blog completed three years yesterday. Not only that, I remem...
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Bliss and the Vital Consciousness - The force of the divine Ananda can manifest directly through the vital consciousness, without the individual first being raised up to the native plane of t...
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Nobel prize and the Magsaysay may well be rewards for doing the West's bidding - Mario da Penha @mlechchha Apr 13 Instructive that the two axes of scholarly discussion which so irks these #Hindutva orgs. are #caste and #sexuality. http...
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Competing inequalities - [image: Saba Mahmood | Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report]Saba Mahmood’s *Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report* i...
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Kolam:Computing and Cosmology within Indian Art (by Shivoham) – Part 2 -CONTINUED FROM PART 1 History of Kolam Creating paintings on a natural surface has a really ancient history in India, as evidenced by the Bhimbetka fresc...
The Sage and his idea of India – Anirban Ganguly - The Pioneer, 14 April 2016 Sri Aurobindo's vision of India had no place for pseudo-secularism, vote-bank politics and repudiation of Bharatiya civilisation...
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The Journey (SH 196 B4C04 pp 375-378) - Savitri Class in Hindi with Alok Pandey (SH 196) Savitri Book Four : The Book of Birth and Quest, Canto Four : The Quest, Pages 375 – 378 Play / Download (...
The Rotten Carcass Economy - My bookstore takes National Poetry Month pretty seriously. One of our traditions is a daily poetry reading throughout April. I’m linking to this one in par...
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- *Badiou Studies* get Sokaled. Selected morsels: Neutrality has no ontological status; it is the *Impensé* of the metaphysical quest for ontologies (in the...
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Visual Art in Savitri: 1.4 intermediate step - Again i would like to share one of the intermediate phases of this ||1.4|| passage.Because they have their own appeal even out of the context.
Caroline Schelling on Birth & Death by Stuart Dean - Of the many letters Caroline wrote to her lifelong friend Luise, one of the most intense (the 57th Letter) dates from seven years after the 4th Letter dis...
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Interview with Nicolas Bommarito on Buddhist Ethics - 3:AM Magazine recently featured an interesting interview with Nicolas Bommarito (SUNY Buffalo). Topics include Śāntideva, virtue ethics, and the potential ...
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On making America great again - In the early 1960s, my father finished his PhD in political science from Cornell. Under the restrictive and racialized American … Continue reading →
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Women have valuable skills such as empathy and a nurturing spirit - Vedica Opens Admissions for 2016 Business Wire India (press release)-05-Jan-2016 The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women (VSPW) now invites applications for ...
JNU and HCU incidents underscore ideological vacuum - Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. - Feel Philosophy Schiller, Carlyle, Coleridge, and Charles Taylor - Savitri Era Pa...
Schiller, Carlyle, Coleridge, and Charles Taylor - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 19h 19 hours ago "Indian Independence was instrumental in realising the unity of mankind." #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #S...
Spiritual anarchism, rational enlightenment, and pagan religion - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 16h16 hours ago Ghaziabad, India Cuttack 07-Apr-16 (6.30-8.30 pm) Recitation: Bandita Ray, Education in India: CH. Nira...
What is the Supermind – An intuitive understanding. - Though the supermind is suprarational to our intelligence and its workings occult to our apprehension, it is nothing irrationally mystic, but rather its ex...
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Žižek, Chesbrough, and Sri Aurobindo - Odia Culture @OdiaCulture Mar 26 46th All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Study Circle Conference to be held btwn 4th -7th April 2016 at Matrubhaban, Cuttack http:...
Babaji, Prapatti and Utsabananda Samantaray - Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, 12.02.1950 To, Sj Lalit Mohan Ghose, The purpose of your letter was communicated to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. They gi...
Prapatti: Need to enter politics for reforming it - [PDF] 46th All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Women Study Circle ... www.motherorissa.com/Files/Events/April_Conf_Pgm_2016.pdf 46th All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Study Circ...
Mirambika Epitaph in the Kalu Sarai Graveyard – by the Wretched Prince - Here rests her high head under the dirt and dust of my land An evergreen flower killed by me – her own. The fair applauded her rise from humble grains of s...
Sri Aurobindo's books in Chinese - The Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore: 2A Starlight Road 01-07, Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society Building (Nearest MRT: Farrer Park), Singapore 217755 P...
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Goodness - *Modest in appearance, does not make a show but is always ready to be useful. * *Botanical Name*: Lobularia maritima *Common Name: *Sweet Alison, Sweet a...
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Building a Woman-Friendly Work-Place – M.S.Srinivasan - Where the women are respected, there the gods dwell with delight. – Manu in Manava Dharma Shastra (As the previous article describes vividly, the present c...
Haeckel, Golwalkar, and Ganeri - Jonardon Ganeri, “Why philosophy must go global” Andrew Nicholson at The Indian Philosophy Blog - 3 hours ago Jonardon Ganeri of NYU gave a lecture at Stony ...
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Ramesh Bijlani, Sraddhalu Ranade, and Rajiv Malhotra - Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi Today - Good Governance [image: Sri Aurobindo from www.goodgovernance.in] www.goodgovernance.in/event_details.php?recNo=39 1....
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श्रीअरविन्द के राजनैतिक विचारों और क्रियाकलाप के तीन पक्ष थे - आर्यावर्त: विद्यार्थी जी के 85 वाॅ वलिदान ... [image: महर्षि अरविन्द from www.liveaaryaavart.com] www.liveaaryaavart.com/.../ganesh-shank... 1. Transla...
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Mandala Pottery - We are very happy to introduce Mandala Pottery on auroville.com! We took some time to find a new potter, who could provide us with their items. Our choice ...
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The Mother’s Interviews with Dr. Indra Sen about the Supramental Manifestation of 29 February 1956 - The Mother has the concrete experience of the descent of the Supramental Consciousness on Earth on February 29,1956. The Golden Day ‘The lights had been ...
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The Mother’s Interviews with Dr. Indra Sen about the Supramental Manifestation of 29 February 1956 - Dear Friends, Dr. Indra Sen (13 May 1903—14 March 1994) was a noted scholar, author and educationist who obtained his Master’s degree in Philosophy and Psy...
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Light reading that does not challenge the reader - Where bad literature makes good reading - A professor and students in an English course at Juniata College discuss what makes a book ‘crap’ By Bill Schackn...
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The Collaboration of Nature by Richard Pearson - *Editor's note* "A new world is born". The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have worked ceaselessly to bring a new consciousness on earth, - the Supramental or ...
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The Spiritual Dimension - The spiritual dimension, though included in the WHO definition of health, defies any simple understanding. It evokes different images determined […] The...
Art as discovery of one's deeper self - [PDF] CULTURAL HERITAGE IS ART OF INDIA B Singh Aurobindo Ghosh pointed out that “All Indian art is a throwing out of a positive thoughtful self-vision crea...
