Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Western rationality clearly stands under the Upanishadic golden lid

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Founded by Mira Alfassa, known as “the Mother”, companion of the yogi Sri Aurobindo, close to Pondichéry, Auroville is a space of dreams where the goal is ...
In The Life Divine and elsewhere Sri Aurobindo argues that humankind as an entity is not the last rung in the evolutionary scale, but can evolve spiritually ...
He was one of the founding members of Jugantar, a revolutionary outfit in Bengal. Barindra Ghosh was a younger brother of Arabindo Ghose (aka Sri Aurobindo) ...
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Sri Aurobindo has outlined this very succinctly in this chapter:]
philippe on Issues of inclusion v exclusion in Auroville Recent Comments by philippe  in reply to Rod Last Updated: May 19, 2011
Western rationality clearly stands under the upanishadic golden lid, it is not rationality that has to be removed but the lid we are dying under. The discovery and the opening up of the lid is the historical force that has destined India to be the leader .
Rationality cannot combat the pseudo, the twisting, the distorted, av is facing. It cannot even identify clearly the enemy. Here is the struggle : pseudo AV vs un-distorted AV. I do not think people need to be protected against any mass paranoiac psychosis, they rather need protection against soul’s assassination. Philippe Auroire.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Mangesh Nadkarni was a student of Prof. V.K. Gokak


I wanted to spread the message of spiritual leader, Sri Aurobindo and I have done it,” he said. He went on this expedition as part of the 'Prayer, ...
It was not a mere coincidence that the Rabindra Jayanti was held at Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Both Tagore (1861-1941) and Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) were ...
But all will not be lost if the teachings and works of the recent Spiritual Masters like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Ramana Maharishi are ...
Sri Aurobindo wrote: What, you ask, was the beginning of it all? And it is this... Existence that multiplied itself, for sheer delight of being. ...
During his college career, Nadkarni was a student of professor V.K. Gokak who influenced Nadkarni towards Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. Mangesh earned. ...
Book Lore M. K. Naik.
Among those who wrote in English outside England, we have Sri Aurobindo (India) and Patrick White (Australia). The general impression left on the reader's ...
4 - Fourth Dimension Inc. - Towards Integral Management
The author is a Research Associate at Sri Aurobindo Society and on the editorial board of Fourth Dimension Inc. His major areas of interest are Management ...
Sri Aurobindo and the Freedom of India. THE - ekNazar.com
The members of this society took an oath for the freedom of India. ... Mirra Richard—who was to be the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram—came to Pondicherry on ...
http://artcritique.wordpress.com/ Rabindranath Tagore’s Paintings: The Fundamental Dynamics of a Polysemic Descent of Consciousness and the Coplanar States of Being and Existence

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Stockhausen discovered Sri Aurobindo in 1968



German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is known for his ground-breaking contribution to Electronic Music, might have committed suicide after splitting from his wife, if it weren't for his reading of the biography of Bengali guru Sri Aurobindo, which is when the composition Aus Den Sieben Tagen came to him.



Stockhausen discovered the writings of Sri Aurobindo in May of 1968 and it is in these writings that he found clarification of his own individual philosophy. In the preface to Mantra, Stockhausen quotes Aurobindo who says that music like the mantra comes from the ‘overmind’: For anyone who has the capacity to enter more and more consciously into relation with the higher planes – poet, writer, artist – it is quite evident, perceptible, that after a certain level of consciousness it is no longer it is no longer ideas that one sees and tries to translate. One hears. There are literally vibrations or waves, rhythms which lay hold of the speaker, invade him, then clothe themselves with words and ideas or with music, colours, in their descent. But the word or the idea, the music, the colour, is a result, a secondary effect: they just give body to the impervious vibration

In Stimmung the swinging periodicities of repeated syllabic patterns conveys this feeling of impervious vibration that Aurobido talks of. This statement of Aurobindo equally holds true for Stimmung as it expresses an important aspect of Stockhausen’s thinking on music. Jonathan Cott writes:
Stockhausen has attempted to mediate between Eastern and Western musical traditions. His Development of a new time dimension, his exploration of sounds in space, his meditation of statistical and deterministic elements, his revelation how one can transubstantiate one musical parameter into another, and his presentation in his compositions of the process of these changes are all in the service of an integrating conception of art and life

Stockhausen surrounds himself with a close circle of devotees, many of whom share his enthusiasm for the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo: both his current "wives" - he is not legally married to either - are Aurobindo disciples, and his second wife, Mary Bauermeister, believes that these eastern philosophies have given her powers of astral projection which she uses to monitor Karlheinz's marital infidelities.