Friday, November 23, 2018

Humanity gropes at the foot of the Aurobindonian​ Himalaya

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Fertile is a forest at the edges of Auroville, a spiritual community in southern India that I grew up a town away from. It was shrouded, then, ...

Aurora Mirabilis

Nikos Kazantzakis, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Zygmunt Bauman - From refusing to give information on how close to 30 books were banned in independent India and how those bans were never revoked, the Ministry finally rel...

The Last Embodied Darshan – Amal Kiran - November 24 is known as the Day of Victory, for, on it, Sri Aurobindo had the experience which promised complete fulfilment of his vision. It is signific... One elbow resting on the arm of his seat, one hand placed upon his thigh, the whole body a picture of powerful ease, he sat gazing out as if towards glorious horizons for humanity that humanity itself could not yet vision from its grope at the foot of the Aurobindonian Himalaya. 

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18.11.1973: Getting a Double Darshan from the Divine Mother - Of course, like probably every disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, on every November 17th for the full day I keep my inner focus, in utter gratitude,...

The Mother Abides – Final Reflections - The Mother Abides Final Reflections (1973–1983) by Nolini Kanta Gupta These thoughts and reminiscences of Nolini Kanta Gupta were written or spoken during ...

Remembering Mona Pinto on her 107th Birth Anniversary - Dear Friends, Ethel Anne Lovegrove better known as Mona Pinto (11 November 1911—21 May 2004) came to Pondicherry in January 1937 and married Udar Pinto in ...

Living on Less Than $1 A Day – M.S. Srinivasan - (Review of the book Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Penguin Books) Poverty is a subject of great interest to economists and there is a...

The Finding of the Soul - *Her feet upon a couchant lion’**s **back.* *Botanical Name**: Sansevieria* *Common Name**: Bowstring Hemp* *Spiritual Significance: Joy of Spirituality* ...

The "Self" Sri Aurobindo talked about may be illusory - Recently I came across this wonderful site which can quench the thirst for knowledge by way of discussing five books like Joe Henricho of the ‘collective b...

Hare Krishna - A special offering for Krishna Janamashtami — my humble attempt to capture in photographs a few expressions of the Divinity and the Divine Personality of ...

When it Hurts - When you dig and dig some more to find out why something bothers you so much, it hurts. When you discover, or at least you think you have discovered, the...

Goddess Kali and the Big Destructions of Nature - Behind all the destructions - the big destructions of Nature - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the human destructions - wars, r...

Non-essence of Mirambika - What has befallen the world? Those who utter MC, BC to punctuate their speech nonsense now beseech Hot Pants to preserve Mirambika’s Essence! And she a fum...

Deconstructing Peter Heehs – by a Zombified Disciple - *Peter Heehs was born & educated in USA (*says his bio-data on the inside cover of his *India’s Freedom Struggle*, OUP, 1988). In 1971, at the age of 22, h...

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