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Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Mother met Sri Aurobindo in dream in 1904

135th birth anniversary of 'The Mother' celebrated - The Economic ...

People thronged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram today and offered prayers on the occasion of the 135th birth anniversary of 'The Mother'.

Devotees from across country throng Aurobindo Ashram

Thousands of devotees from all over the country and abroad today thronged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on the 135th birth anniversary of the mother, the principal ...

Message for Mother’s Birthday 21st Feb – Mother from Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles

The Mahashakti: Darshan Message 2013 (The Divine Mother's ... by Tridev Acharya

She pratices yoga and always sees visions Sri Aurobindo at the age of 4 .... The Mother ... This is the Collection of the Mother n Sri Aurobindo... Jai Meera Jai...

The Founder Of Auroville Speakingtree.in

The Mother Born in 1878 on 21 February in Paris, The Mother who met Sri Aurobindo in dream in 1904 while she was just 26 ... The Mother helped Sri Aurobindo to introduce The 'Arya', the magazine in which Aurobindo's major works were published as The Synthesis of Yoga and The ...

I am with you on all levels, on all planes | IndiaPost by ghanshyam I am with you on all levels, on all planes February 20, 2013

It is now long since Sri Aurobindo has put up everywhere in the Ashram this reminder that you all know: “Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you, because she is, indeed, always present.” This is not a mere phrase, not simply words, ...

The Light of the Supreme : Savitri Yajna at Shalwa Woods

21 февраля 2013 года День рождения Матери Послание из Ашрама Шри Ауробиндо в Пондичери ко дню Даршана

THE MOTHER, MY SAVIOUR Speakingtree.in By: Ramesh Bijlani on Feb 20, 2013

I know what is right,

And yet keep going wrong.

I am fickle and my will is weak,

Yet I aspire to scale the peak.

I have a vital that compels,

And a mental that calculates.

Heritage Hotels in India: Pondicherry: 'The French Riviera' of the East by Jennifer Fay

Another name that is synonymous with this city is Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It is a very well known ashram in India which is visited by thousands of spiritual seekers from all over the world. So if you are on a trip to Pondicherry to get away from the ...

A doctor's frank impressions of The Mother « Vamanan's Sight by vamanan81

One of the very interesting publications I have read on the Mother (whose birth anniversary falls on Feb. 21, today) is by Dr. D.B. Bisht, a former department head of JIPMER and Director General of Health Services.

His ‘Mother and Me’ is a booklet of 48 pages, but brims with rare insights into the personality of the Mother. Dr. Bisht is a doctor and a level-headed man of a scientific disposition. He has even treated the Mother medically. His views are therefore very valuable. He reveals, for example, that he has had a fascination for owls but kept it under wraps because the bird was considered to be unlucky by some. He experienced a great relief when the Mother revealed that she too shared his enthusiasm for owls!

Dr. Bisht found out early, even before he began to treat the Mother, that her heart beat irregularly… Sri Aurobindo and the Mother spoke of a divine life in a divine body, but it was the doctor's job to point out to Mother that her physical body was more than showing the signs of aging. ''The only way to delay this degenerative process is to ...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Goal of liberation can be reached within everyday life

Philosophy as Spiritual Ordeal from Pagan Metaphysics by Paul Reid-Bowen

I would strongly suggest that you consider looking at Joshua Ramey’s new book The Hermetic Deleuze… While a lot of my earlier years were spent reading esotericism, gnosticism, hermeticism and occultism, I have been incrementally distancing my philosophical self from such potential contaminants to reason for twenty years now. And this is despite teaching both philosophy and contemporary incarnations of such esoteric traditions at university. I only started to forcefully question the viability and value of this bracketing quite recently: Posted by Paul Reid-Bowen at 13:38

Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood - Christine Deftereos - gives the reader an insight into a novel aspect of Nandy. The author insists that Ashis Nandy is not merely a self-described political psychologist; he is also an intellectual street fighter who comes face to face with the psychology of politics and the politics of psychology, thus affirming why this intellectual is one of the most original and confronting Indian thinkers of his generation. The main features of this book are its original reading and the authentic use of the psychoanalytic theory to characterise and demonstrate the importance of psychoanalysis in Nandy's work. Read More...

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False - Amazon.com

Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such.

Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic.

ABA Journal - Feb 1962 - Page 155 Vol. 48, No. 2 - Magazine - Full view Lawyers are now frequently called upon to make decisions in business matters, and businessmen must often decide a course of action that has distinct legal implications. by Stuart T. Saunders, President, Norfolk and Western Railway Co.

In his stimulating book, The Uses of the Past, Herbert Muller emphasizes the importance of values in these words: “Our business as rational beings is not to argue for what is going to be but to strive for what ought to be . . .” It is this pursuit of truth in the face of ultimate uncertainty that establishes the essential dignity and grandeur of man. All our hopes for the future depend upon this quest, and we, as judges, lawyers and businessmen, must see to it that human idealism remains the well-spring of our civilization.

Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Routledge India: 2008

Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical PraxisEdited by Kailash Baral, R. Radhakrishnan, Routledge India: 2009

Indian Political Thought: A Reader Edited by Aakash Singh and Silika Mohapatra (Routledge, December 2009)

Reading Hegel: The Introductions by G.W.F. Hegel (edited and introduced by Aakash Singh and Rimina Mohapatra)

Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence (Topics in Historical Philosophy) by Levi R. Bryant, 2008
Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) by Steven Shaviro, 2009

Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille and Literary Theory by Steven Shaviro, 1990
After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux (Author), Ray Brassier (Translator), Alain Badiou(Introduction), 2008
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton, 2009
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West by Mark Lilla

Consciousness and Its Transformation, Matthijs Cornelissen (Ed.), 2001
The Quarrel of Reason With Itself: Essays on Hamann, Michaelis, Lessing, Nietzsche

Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's the Life Divine: Covering Book One, ... - Page 141 - Santosh Krinsky - 2012 - Preview - More editions ... principle in action here brings us beyond the idea of “mutual devouring”, and thus, is the next evolutionary phase beyond a pure darwinian “survival of the fittest. ...reference: Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Chapter 21, The Ascent of Life, pg.

Evolution, Religion and the Unknown God - Georges Van Vrekhem - 2012 - Besides, what is nowadays generally labelled as Darwinism hardly resembles what Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species, but is the result of scientific developments at times considered anti-Darwinian. This book narrates the relevant events in ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 262 - Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview ... and Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga claims that the goal of liberation can be reached within everyday life (Sri Aurobindo, ... The metatheory might be given a similar status as the (Darwinian) theory of evolution, or its aspect more relevant here ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 482 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions ... 134, 135, 149; Aurobindo visits after his marriage, 54; bomb experiments near, 153 Deshpande, Keshav Ganesh, 60; ... 203, 271, 277; conscious, 274; Darwinian, 6; human being a middle (transitional) term in, 352; of poetry, 304; spiritual, 6, ...

Science, Spirituality And The Modernization Of India - Page 162 - Makarand Paranjape - 2008 - Preview The genius of Charles Darwin pervaded the scientific West in the 1890s. Europe was gripped by the theory of evolution during the formative years of Sri Aurobindo's personality. When he returned to India in 1892 to take up his assignment at ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 4 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - and enriched in Sri Aurobindo's theory of involution and evolution. "Theories of Evolution and Sri Aurobindo" by Kireet Joshi covers the following three themes: (1) Darwin and other proponents of evolutionary theories, (2) The evolution in ...

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion - Page 292 - Jeffrey J. Kripal - 2007 - Preview - More editions we like, two bodies, for as Darwin sees in a dream and notes in his secret diaries, even a book may be thought of as a ... involution and evolution that is eerily similar to that of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine (with the divine embodying itself as ...

Joint Programme in Sri Aurobindo Studies by IGNOU and SACAR

Saturday, February 02, 2013

Sri Aurobindo envisions a Supramental future

Are we facing an evolutionary crisis? The Hindu February 2, 2013 MANOJ DAS

According to Sri Aurobindo, “At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny; for a stage has been reached in which the human mind has achieved in certain directions an enormous development while in others it stands arrested and bewildered and can no longer find its way.” Sri Aurobindo envisions a future when the mind could be transformed into a Supramental gnosis…

To a professor who was logically convinced of Sri Aurobindo’s vision but wondered if the ugly man of today could really grow into something beautiful, a rustic school teacher told, “If a wonder like the lotus could bloom out of mud with the Sun’s Grace, why cant out of our muddy mind bloom the Supramental with the Divine’s Grace? We may replace Divine’s Grace with Evolutionary thrust, if we please.

Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Delhi Branch - Camps

Sri Aurobindo Ashram -Delhi Branch founded on 12 Feb 1956. The Mother had once called the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry a veritable laboratory to ...

Welcome to 'Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture'

S A K S I is a Spiritual movement. The aim is to spread the message of Veda and Sri Aurobindo, which imparts awareness to lead a beautiful, harmonious, creative...

Sri Aurobindo Society, Hyderabad

We welcome you to the Sri Aurobindo Society, Hyderabad, (Musheerabad X Roads) which was founded in 1972 by ...

Savitri Era Devotees

(M.P. Pandit 'Yoga in Sri Aurobindo's Epic 'Savitri', published by Dipti... In his dissertation, Chanel goes farther: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother 'may from many ...

Sleep-learning and the Upanishads | Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo …

And in this passage from The Letters on Yoga , he elucidates on the manner in which the human consciousness navigates the recondite “dream worlds”: Ordinarily when one sleeps a complex phenomenon happens.

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Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication, New Delhi, India. 1252 likes ·

Satprem e-House of Mother's Agenda

There he discovered Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and their “new evolution”. He resigned from the civil service, and went in search of adventure in French...

Satprem relates that on 19 May 1973, six months before The Mother’s death he was barred admission to her room, the beginning of a serious falling out between the Ashram leadership and himself. Moreover, Satprem and his followers believe there is evidence in the recorded audiotapes that the Mother did not actually die but rather entered a “cataleptic trance” or state of suspended animation in which there would not even be a detectable heartbeat.

Omkarnath Bharadwaj has left a new comment on "Sri Anirvan and Ekalavya": Savitri Era at 4:58 pm, February 02, 2013 Dear Sir

I want to know In which year Sri Anirvan ji visited Pondicherry & met the Mother

Regards Omkarnath Bharadwaj

Savitri Era - Spinning mythology - Ashis Nandy had mauled the memory of Sri Aurobindo like a bull in a china shop which Savita Singh has now ably countered by juxtaposing the hermeneutical reading of J.L. Mehta.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Savitri Era Learning Forum for communicative action

1m - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty One-stop blog for curing all theoretical confusion and muddled thinking just a click away at Savitri Era Learning Forum - Posted by Tusar N. Mohapatra Location: Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India - CV of an average Indian

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Truth of greatness thrust upon the Ashram Trust

Letter of Kittu Reddy, Ranganath Raghavan & Sumita Kandpal to Manoj Das Gupta on 28 May, 2010 Before we proceed, we wish to present these self-evident propositions: ...

b) The Sri Aurobindo Ashram has been founded by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and its roots are deeply imbedded in an eternal Truth. Any administration or management, which is temporary, ever-changing, can never be its true representative. Therefore a clear distinction must be made between the two entities, between the Truth that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stand for on one side, and the administration and trustees on the other side. They must never be confused and a false identification must not be claimed. Today, many inmates are confused between loyalty to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo on one side and the Ashram Trust on the other. This is a disturbing trend which can be disastrous for the Ashram and for the spiritual life of its inmates.

c) The SAAT is a public body, subject to the laws of the land. It is open for examination by any national official body having authority to do so. There can be no claim for privacy and secrecy of views, actions or decisions. Everything must be open, transparent and frank, and any enquiry should be respected and answered clearly with conviction.

Having these points in view, we would like to state the following: ...

18. We believe that the Trustees of the Ashram are as human and vulnerable to ignorance and error as any other Ashramite or human being. In decisions that affect the entire community, they are answerable to all the inmates. They cannot take decisions in secrecy. As Trustees, your first responsibility is to serve the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and the Ashram community as a whole.

Max Theon and Mirra Alfassa in an Aurobindo biography | History of ... 29 Dec 2010

The collision of Eastern and Western spiritualities in the 19^th and 20^th centuries is nowhere more vividly illustrated than in the life of Mirra Alfassa. Heehs places her in context of the life of Aurobindo Ghosh, the Bengali philosopher and yogi in whose ashram she spent the last half of a long life. Mirra is important to the Church of Light for an association that preceded her travels to India; she is by far the most celebrated disciple of Max Theon, spiritual guide of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor… The extent to which Aurobindo’s spiritual mission was influenced by Mirra’s former association with Theon is not readily discernable from the Heehs biography, but until Theon’s teachings are better understood no historian will be able to appraise their impact.

Sri Aurobindo on Islam by ned Jun 13, 2008

Another article that’s worth reading is ‘Sri Aurobindo and Hinduism’ by Peter Heehs, published in the last issue of Anti-Matters, which also demonstrates that although Sri Aurobindo was inspired by the Vedantic scriptures, he never considered himself an exoteric “Hindu” per se (he grew up an atheist).

Meeting Peter Heehs by ned Dec 13, 2007

Peter Heehs is also the author of a paper entitled The uses of Sri Aurobindo: mascot, whipping boy, or what?, and a wonderful little book called Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism. In both the paper and the book, he thoroughly investigates all the allegations of Sri Aurobindo having been an “extremist” or a “Hindu supremacist” and shows that they simply do not hold water.

Monday, November 19, 2012

The Treaty of Cession (1962) Fifty Years Later

Pondicherry and France Auroville Radio

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the dejure transfer of the French Establishments in India to the Union of India (August 1962), the Pavillon de France à Auroville and the Central University of Pondicherry (Centre for European Studies) are organizing a two-day seminar on the theme The Treaty of Cession (1962) Fifty Years Later, Pondicherry and France.

Whatever the appearance we must bear, Whatever our strong ills and present fate, When nothing we can see but drift and bale, A mighty Guidance leads us still through all. Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

Mamata to visit Chandernagore via waterway The Statesman 19 November 2012 KOLKATA, 19 NOV:

To avoiding traffic congestion and assess the potential for developing Chandernagore as a tourist spot, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will use the river to reach the city tomorrow.

Devotees of Sri Aurobindo from all over the globe visit the place where Sri Aurobindo stayed in the house of Motilal Roy after being acquitted in the Alipore bomb case.

Close associates of Sri Aurobindo including Sister Nivedita got the news that the British were planning to arrest him once again. She persuaded Sri Aurobindo to leave the city and Sri Aurobindo left for Chandernagore in a boat.

A Nightmarish Legacy from Centre Right India by Sandeep Balakrishna

Nehru was India’s20^th Century Tughlaq. Over the last four days, I’ve been thinking of a term to characterize independent India’s first Prime Minister and this is the closest and the most accurate I could think of. Other Suggestions are welcome. The parallels are so stark and evident that I cursed myself for not noticing them earlier. India was a playground on which Nehru played out his numerous self-designed sports—except that every single sport he designed ended up grievously wounding if not killing the actual players who merely happened to be the citizens of India. Not too unlike Tughlaq. And not too unlike Tughlaq, Nehru was full of ideas. To our eternal misfortune, this Nabob of Cluelessness, like Tughlaq, had the power to, and implemented those ideas whose rightful place is in the world of fantasy. Like Tughlaq, Nehru’s unrivalled cluelessness was only complemented by his incurable megalomania. Tughlaq at least lived in a time when the Royal Ego was a desired qualification in a ruler.

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Sri Aurobindo ignored Bose's charges

SELF: Bose openly attacked the philosophies of Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo

SELF: Sri Aurobindo understood Gandhi's experience as inferior

SELF: Father-image of Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo giving balanceand fulfilment

SELF: Sri Aurobindo referred to the inadequacy of Vivekananda's work as compared with his enormous influence

SELF: Both Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo deny the diversity of sex and gender in their constructions of democracy

SELF: Tilak, Gandhi, and Sri Aurobindo also illustrate a dilemma

SELF: The integrative theme is central for Sri Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan

SELF: Non-violence was not an absolute imperative for Sri Aurobindo

SELF: Sri Aurobindo denounced Ravi Varma for his preoccupation with the external world

SELF: Sri Aurobindo has turned the whole corpus of prevailing motivational theories upside down

rainbOwther: Sri Aurobindo’s theory of a spiritualisedEthics

Sunday, November 18, 2012

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CV of an average Indian Posted by Tusar N. Mohapatra at 1:33 PM Thursday, November 01, 2012

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This message is generated randomly from a collection of short written statements taken from the notes, letters, and messages of The Mother. The process of generating the guidance is the electronic equivalent of randomly looking up a book to receive an indication or answer.

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Getaway from passionate nature and partisanship

[balawrites: Warring Sexes

Mirra is not too proud of the capabilities of women. She is wary of their weaknesses too that also get exposed by the first world war. She wants women to extricate themselves from the grip of emotions and sentimentality if they want to succeed in their position. Of course women are capable of love and humility and abstain from brutality and vulgarity. However they must getaway from passionate nature and partisanship to sustain themselves as successful administrators. Mirra appeals to the world to include women to achieve more. Women are for the interior and men for the exterior shall no longer be fructifying. The sexes must be put together for a sustainable progression. The hostility between the sexes must be put aside in the obsolete category... Posted by BALA at 4:31 AM] kkk

Tweets [Rajmohan Srinivas ‏@yrskmohan "Sources of Poetry" by Aurobindo is a masterpiece. Yet not many modern poets even heard about it. @Back2Vedas @SangeetaRG]

[10h vamanan ‏@vamanan81 Y Peter Heeh's Lives of Aurobindo is so many lies on Aurobindo. http://cidif.go1.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1197:the-lives-of-sri-aurobindo-by-peter-heehs&catid=43:livres-et-publications&Itemid=5 …]

1h inpondy ‏@PondyTweets @OliviaCummings8 The Sri Aurobindo Ashram has regular yoga asana classes from 645 to 830 every morning in its Ayurvedic Section. View conversation

[Sanjeev Sabhlok says: November 3, 2012 at 7:16 am You’ve understood nothing about me as well, young man. I too oppose crony capitalism. There is no such thing as “democratic socialism”. Either you oppose state control or you want it. Aurobindo opposed state control over our lives. Period.]

[5h - Sanjeev Sabhlok ‏@sabhlok @SavitriEraParty @hguptapolicy Thanks. Can I see your party's manifesto on economic policy and governance? Retweeted by Savitri Era Party View conversation]

[3h - Jaideep A. Prabhu ‏@orsoraggiante @SavitriEraParty Agreed. Spontaneous order is a fundamental principle of liberalism. @an4rky @sabhlok @hguptapolicy Retweeted by Savitri Era Party View conversation]

CV of an average Indian Posted by Tusar N. Mohapatra at 1:33 PM Thursday, November 01, 2012

[Robert E. Wilkinson - 7:01 PM, August 13, 2009 The only option is to deny the facts and idealize the beloved out of all proportion. Tusar Mohapatra has provided us with an unmistakable example of this view when he writes: […]

This is a classic example of someone taking their own unfounded hagiographic inflation to extremes. What is most revealing is Tusar’s desire to get away from all formulation, mythic or otherwise which allows him to believe whatever fantasy he likes without the inconvenience of having to deal with proof of his claims and the facts that support them. He does so by putting them “up there” on the Transcendent heights beyond the reach and explanation of mortal man. This is a perfect example of how devotees with no yogic experience and realization attempt to turn this epochal spiritual work into a Religion. What remains are un-provable pronouncements about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother solely derived from Tusar’s subjective devotional fervor. His hopes are pinned on the ‘years to come’ and any fellow disillusioned Aurobindonians who might rally to his flag.

In a work characterized by objective knowledge and precision, this kind of unqualified ‘new age’ response is simply unacceptable. By placing Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on incomparable, unreachable Transcendent heights, Tusar believes that he is doing them a service but in fact, as we have discussed in this paper, he is contradicting the very purpose they came to achieve. If joining the top of the ladder to the bottom is the whole secret of realization and the work of the Avatar, Tusar has just yanked the ladder out from under them and made their stated evolutionary goal of the divinization of matter a virtual impossibility.]

[Cf. (SCIY) rich 8:21 AM Sunday, October 29, 2006]

Monday, November 05, 2012

Within the four walls of the Ashram and its affiliates

[Fifth Letter of the Bengaluru Study Circle to the Trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram from Critique of The Lives

It is not just any academician, scholar, historian or litterateur, however eminent, who can be trusted to judge a biography of a Yogi because the intellect needs to be tempered for the purpose by certain inner sensibilities. In other words scholarship must be accompanied by humility and genuine reverence for things spiritual. Both in the Ashram and outside we have such people who combine in themselves scholarship, devotion and even sadhana. Many of them have already made known their specific objections to the Book in question. They cannot be just wished away because they do know more than anyone what they are talking when it comes to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

And yet the Trustees have chosen to ignore them and instead given misplaced importance to the views of an intellectual class who are either ignorant or altogether refractory. This is a gross error on their part that needs to be undone immediately through serious dialogue…

There has to be only one guiding principle for all of us in this important matter and it is axiomatic: The Ashram is by the Devotees, of the Devotees and for the Devotees… Every sadhak is precious because he represents the soul of the Ashram in his own individual way. A dialogue started on a note of trust and good will would be a noble gesture from your side, a gesture not so much out of magnanimity as out of wisdom, a gesture out of our deep commitment to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

It must be kept in mind that as devotees and sadhaks within the Ashram or outside, all of us are answerable first and foremost to ourselves, our conscience, our loyalty and Bhakthi towards our Guru rather than to any human being however exalted and eminent he might be, inside the country or outside… Thanking You, Sincerely yours, for SRI AUROBINDO STUDY CIRCLE Vaishali Ganapati Bhandari 30 October 2012 The above letter has been signed by forty more members of the Bengaluru Study Circle.]

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Any elephant in its heart is afraid of mice

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Our visitors might be wondering about copyright on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Works. There are different opinions represented by different organisations and individuals. Here is official status on copyright from Copyright Department of Sri Aurobindo Ashram:

The copyright of those works of Sri Aurobindo that were published during His lifetime have expired in India and some other parts of the world. The copyright in most works that have been published posthumously continue to exist.
The copyright of the Mother’s works published in Her lifetime expires only in 2033.
In the case of compilations (e.g. ‘The Bhagavad Gita: Text, Translation and Commentary’), the totality of the specific individual editorial acts of selection and arrangement gives rise to a distinct copyright in the compilation per se, which is independent of the copyright in the underlying works which may have expired

Works that are still in copyright many not be put up for download by any party, even ‘registered visitors’, irrespective of whether profit is involved. Picaboo! Books are back! Posted on 11/07/2012 Cheerio! Vladnesh

Sunday, July 08, 2012

Gods are not Hindu; they are cosmic powers

Re: A Hindu View of Christian Yoga—by Rajiv Malhotra

by ned on Wed 29 Dec 2010 08:02 PM IST Permanent Link

Really fantastic discussion going on here! Just wanted to say that it made my heart sing, especially some of the ideas posted by Govind.

by Sandeep on Thu 30 Dec 2010 01:19 AM IST Permanent Link

It would be splendid if Govind would oblige us by distilling his insights into an article.

by Sandeep on Mon 27 Dec 2010 05:08 AM IST Permanent Link

1) One of the reasons other religious people shun or modify Yoga is because they are repelled by the prospect of worshiping "pagan" Hindu Gods. The book could explain that Gods are not Hindu; they are cosmic powers which always existed even before sages in India discovered them just as gravity existed before Newton discovered it. We can provide quotes by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on this topic.
2) The caste system is a gross distortion of the original intent of division based on personalities. RYD has covered it here on the Mirror and here as well

by Govind on Sun 02 Jan 2011 12:21 AM IST Permanent Link

I think this is a very important point but I would say rather that the God of Jesus is different from the god that is today worshiped in his name.

The Theme of Cross in Savitri (6) from Savitri by admin

The Integral Yoga in the Upanishads (Vividha Rachana, 1955) Sri Aurobindo

The true aim, the true realisation is the unfolding of the Brahman, its self-manifestation, the visible diffusion of the Power of the Divine, the Lila of His Knowledge and Ananda, not in a few great souls, but in everybody in the nation and the entire humanity. We see the first form and stage of this knowledge and this sadhana in the Rigveda, the earliest characters inscribed on the Stupa near the entrance to the temple of the Aryan dharma at the beginning of history. We cannot say with certainty that it finds expression for the first time in the Rigveda, because even the Rishis of the Rigveda admit that those who were before them, the early ancestors of the Aryan race, ‘the primeval fathers of the human race’, had discovered this path of truth and immortality for the later man.

They also say that the new Rishis were only following the path which had been shown to them by the ancient Rishis. We find that the mantra of the Rigveda is the echo of the words of the ‘fathers’, of the Divine speech they uttered; consequently, the form of the dharma that we see in the Rigveda can be said to be its earliest form… We find that effort in the Gita, the Tantras and the Puranas; each of them has been successful to a certain extent; many new experiences have been gained but no longer do we find in them the comprehensiveness of the Vedas and the Upanishads. WRITINGS IN BENGALI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH 1:02 PM

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