Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Sri Aurobindo provides diverse perspectives to sense imperatives


This book is not about Hindu nationalism in power but as a social and political movement and its aim is to encourage a more informed understanding of an idea that will remain relevant in Indian life far beyond victories and defeats in ...

Lavanya Vemsani - 2018 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
(2015), About Savitri. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press. SriAurobindo. (1997a), Essays Divine and Human. ... Visual Piety of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and St. Clare and St. Francis,” Journal of HinduChristian Studies 28:11–32.

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance.

2016 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions

... fascinating and many-faceted characters of the freedom movement—a writer and poet, a revolutionary dreaming of driving the British out of India, and then a famous Hindu mystic. Aurobindo Ghose was born on 15 August 1872 in Calcutta.

Wendy Doniger, ‎Martha C. Nussbaum - 2015 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
Interfaith Council.11 The economic and political clout of the Hindudiaspora notwithstanding, my discussion here will highlight ... A selected list of these various entities includes Shri Aurobindo's Centers;13 Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar ...

It is of Hindu origin, but is also used in other Dharmic religions, such as Buddhism. ... Interestingly enough, as we have seen, Sri Aurobindo (late 1800s and early 1900s) was a political activist for the first part of his adult life, and then a spiritual ...

Plasim Radar

The Mind Behind the Mind, Part 3 - There remain two issues to clear up in a review of the existence of a “mind behind the mind”. The first of these relates to whether the evolution of this ..

Integral Yoga & Human Defects (IV) : What About Psychoanalysis Today ? - I recommend to all those who can read English the great cascade of comments posted yesterday by my psychologist friend Don Salmon who lives in the USA. All...

The Myth of Narcissus and Echo Revisited - Christopher Lasch published his book The Culture of Narcissism in 1979. It has occurred to me to ask just how far this culture of narcissism can actually d...

Mothers of the disappeared in Lebanon - The mothers, through their politics of presence . . . become mediators between the state and the absentee, negotiating the very meaning of state and citi...

Vama Marg is individualistic - Assorted tweets: A sensory sociology of the future: Affect, hope and inventive methodologies, by @rcecoleman https://t.co/2axDb6gOOT https://t.co/RCkvVJx...

Filmy Musings: Amar Prem (and a painting at home) - I have this lovely, vibrant, colourful painting at my home. This water colour titled “Love Blooms” is done by my sister. It looks exquisite in a white si...

“A Theology of Failure” on the Magnificast - I recently went on The Magnificast to talk about my book: you can listen to the episode on Spotify, though it should also be available via your local podca...

A manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works - Your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works.” Sri Aurobindo,...

Kant’s quantitative individualism - This post is not about Indian philosophy until its last paragraph. However, it is a direct response to a comment made here on the IPB, so I thought IPB rea...

Kant’s quantitative individualism - In response to my discussion a while ago of the problems between Buddhism and qualitative individualism, Patrick O’Donnell suggested that … Continue readin...

Sanjukta Paul on Uber - In a previous post, we looked at Sanjukta Paul's theory that 'coordination rights' are created by Law and thus should be allocated in the public interest. ...

The Law of Vital Worlds, pp. 178-179 - Each world is governed by its own inherent and intrinsic law. Its beings and creatures as well as those who act under its influence come under this law a...

Theology of Nature Templeton research proposal, shelved : ( - Several weeks ago, I submitted a proposal for a Templeton Foundation research fellowship called “God and the Book of Nature: Science-engaged Theology of Na...

Companion to ‘The Secret of the Veda’ by Mukund Ainapure - Companion to ‘The Secret of the Veda’ The Companion to The Secret of the Veda is meant as an aid to the systematic study of The Secret of the Veda for th...

- Weimar Republic & the Phenomenology of Being Episode 30 of the Iphigenia Inquiry with Philip Armstrong.

India is variety personified - Mirage of a strong state is not a reality. *Making of a strong state is the reality and reality need not get confined to existing or established labels or...

Geography and nature teach the primacy of diversity - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar Five hundred years back, Copernicus was struggling to prove that planets are revolving around the Sun...

A Series Inspired by India’s Rebirth – 3 - Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (2 & 3), pp. 16-19. Continued from Part ...

Kusum-ben Nagda: In Memoriam by Anurag Banerjee - Dear Friends, On Sunday, 12 May 2019, one of the senior-most inmates of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram community as well as one of its most loved members breathe...

The Nature of Matter in Indian Thought – M S Srinivasan - In our earlier discussions on the nature of matter, we have studied in some details. The discoveries of New Physics in the series of articles, The Nature ...

Konttho (Bengali Film) review - If you have had a smoker in your family you will appreciate this film more than those who don’t know what it is to see someone destroy himself with cigaret...

24th April Special - Newness of the New World - by Aryadeep - Today, 99 years ago, the Mother returned to Pondicherry for good. As I have often done in the past, I present here certain interesting things to mark the ...

Monthly updates and newsletter articles - From Jan 2019 we will not be updating this blog. Please refer to our website at https://sriaurobindosociety.org.sg/ For newsletters and articles, please r...

Nietzsche or Emerson say to be more individual, Kant tells us to be more universal - Plasim Radar Lab of Evolution Yoga Intégral & Défauts Humains (III): Sri Aurobindo sur la Psychanalyse - NOTE DE SATPREM SUR LE PASSAGE DE “L’AGENDA DE MÈ... 

Sensory inputs turn us into robots -Assorted tweets: Debates prior to Sri Aurobindo must be understood for locating him properly. [Where Nietzsche or Emerson say to be more individual, Kant t... 

Meritocracy makes the successful feel entitled and absolves the greedy of guilt - Basic purpose of Indian Constitution is to orient every person of an ethos transcending narrow boundaries like region or religion. This boils down to an i... 

Vedic mantras were articulated long before the Hindus - The irony of disowning one’s culture It is not wise to confuse the treasures of our heritage with the Hindu religion as it is understood and interpreted to... 

Geography and nature teach the primacy of diversity - Tweets in original by @SavitriEraParty and @NathTusar Five hundred years back, Copernicus was struggling to prove that planets are revolving around the Sun... 

My original contributions to understanding Sri Aurobindo - My original contributions to understanding or interpreting Sri Aurobindo can be summarised under a number of heads: 1) Against Hindutva, Mythology, & Astro... 

Assorted tweets:

14) Hymns 83 - 89 (Verses 909 - 978): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 083 to 089 (including the famous Swasti vachanas or the words of well being); with #SriAurobindo's words on the necessity of establishing a philological basis for His psychological theory https://t.co/fxbAVmm6aH
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1143606243363213312?s=19
15) Hymns 90 - 95 (Verses 979 - 1,067): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 090 to 095 (including a joint prayer to Agni and Soma); with #SriAurobindo's words on the necessity of establishing a philological basis for His psychological theory https://t.co/7qFsoV7oV9
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1143606484317552640?s=19

Pushing a narrative and telling the right thing are two different things. Obviously, people are driven by material gains and no escape from such compulsions. Sri Aurobindo, however, provides diverse perspectives to sense current priorities and imperatives. https://t.co/yA7GHvJTdf
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1143745208053465088?s=19
Savitri Era Open Forum: Sri Aurobindo's vision of a world union of free nations https://t.co/FZVGXuksMJ
Savitri Era Political Action: Sri Aurobindo points out that the real evolutionary force is supramental https://t.co/KV3ZsCsRFz

Friday, June 21, 2019

Vedic mantras were articulated long before the Hindus


The irony of disowning one’s culture
It is not wise to confuse the treasures of our heritage with the Hindu religion as it is understood and interpreted today
05 Jun 2019
The mantra is a synthesis of sound, word and a certain occult power that had been infused into that combination in a remote past when intuitive wisdom and sublime inspiration, not rational mind, ruled our consciousness. We may dismiss the element of occult power. But can we dispute that every sound and word had its effect on us— and the difference in effect due to the intensity of emotion behind the word uttered? The only question that awaits a subjective experience is whether a certain word or sound could be permanently charged with a certain power. But why bother about that if the chanting of Gayatri produced the expected result? We all know that the Vedic mantras were articulated by the legendary Rishis long before the people were called Hindus.
Today’s Hindus cannot—and surely they do not —claim monopoly over them any more than they could claim over Yoga or meditation. These are our nation’s, rather humanity’s heritage. Ayurveda cannot be shunned by the non-Hindus because of its Hindu origin nor the Unani can be dismissed by the Hindus because the medieval Musl...  -Manoj Das
Eminent author and recipient of several awards including the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Email: prof.manojdas@gmail.com

Cinema and the Evolutionary Emotional-Aesthetics of Sri Aurobindo
by Mark Allan Kaplan, Sofia University (USA)
Film Studies • Cinema Studies • Film Aesthetics • Integral Theory • Sri Aurobindo
This is a research report on one of our current research projects exploring the integral-evolutionary theories and approaches of Sri Aurobindo's work.

[HTML] Confucian Models of Ideal Society Practiced Through" Inner Sage, Outer King"(Neisheng Waiwang) in Chinese Philosophy
MP Daily - 2019
… Then I will investigate definitions and practices of Integralism from the Indian philosophic tradition of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which have many similarities to Integralism in Chinese philosophy. I proceed with examples taken from contemporary scholars …

Decolonizing Marriage and the Family: The Lives and Letters of Ida, Benoy, and Indira Sarkar
J Namakkal - Journal of Women's History, 2019
… and one-time leader of the Indian National Congress Annie Besant; the Irish nationalist and follower of Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble); and the French spiritualist and companion to the nationalist freedom …

Next week I will be at The Science of Consciousness in Interlaken, where I will present the ideas from my paper "The Self-Referential Aspect of Consciousness": https://philpeople.org/profiles/cosmin-visan
If anyone will be around too, I will enjoy debating issues about consciousness. https://www.tsc2019-interlaken.ch/
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http://niyogibooksindia.com/blog/the-concept-behind-the-hindu-gods-an-analysis-based-on-aurobindos-interpretations-of-the-rig-vedic-gods/

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18520783/harvard-economics-chetty

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/13/jerome-bruner-myth-identity-creativity/

Seth Farber, PhD NYC www.sethHfarber.com
THE MESSAGE OF SRI AUROBINDO: GOD, ROMANTIC LOVE, AND PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY

Assorted tweets:

Links between Vedas, Upanishads, Tantra and Puranas | Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother https://t.co/lk24mKTASI
https://twitter.com/h_santhosh/status/1141668418892062720?s=19

Dear all friends / relatives / members, we, Maa Sri Aurobindo whatsapp group members consecrate the rain compilation video for Collective Meditation (as per Ashram timings Mon-Tue-Wed-Fri 7.25 pm to 7.50 pm &... https://t.co/tQNH7IgONH
https://twitter.com/Balajeearavind/status/1141641055080779777?s=19

The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self-Help Scammer of All Time https://t.co/POZmWbvBaY
https://twitter.com/DrMariosAdamou/status/1141771528280903682?s=19

A must read!! Wake up...and smell the fraud. 
Opinion: The disturbing irrationalism of Jaggi Vasudev https://t.co/2R4eaG4bpW via @scroll_in
https://twitter.com/DeShobhaa/status/1141578589646667776?s=19

I recommend this fine essay by @MrSamratX on "the foolish attempt to recast India as a homogenous Western-style nation, and to recast fluid Hinduism itself in a rigid Abrahamic way"; with this caveat--the attempt is not foolish, but malign: 
https://t.co/IzvPvCjucG
https://twitter.com/Ram_Guha/status/1141689931472855041?s=19

This inexplicable and seemingly contradictory nature of shiva in different ages and texts is an endless source of fascination & awe. //End
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1057492808238596096?s=19

🤣🤣🤣 Unintentional am sure..Sri Aurobindo says if the Vedic Rishis were afraid of anything, it was of Rudra..their approach to Him was always in supplication, a raw uncompromising power, impatient..the Primordial Bull, Male, Un-tameable..May He gaze on us mercifully
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1141369232526995456?s=19

Hey @Bhaktirassagar This guy Debashish Banerji is saying Rudra is an outsider God, who visited like a storm to attack the settlers & hence hymns to appease him in Rigveda. I Think this points to Āryan Invasion. Chk from @28.30 https://t.co/bAHgDbta58
https://twitter.com/Nag_J1/status/1138669394056187904?s=19

"These are the most revealing body of letters after John Keats' and perhaps more important for the future of criticism."
 V. K. Gokak on Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Literature.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1141383819091513345?s=19

Princeton's "New Directions in Indian and Comparative Philosophy" series are now online. Please feel free to share the link: http://bit.ly/NDICPprinceton

Yep! Gender bias creeping into scientific research in botany, primate studies, biological anthropology, shows scientific methods & theories are not immune from cultural bias. 
https://t.co/9FkwckXt40
https://twitter.com/Shudraism/status/1141409978424516608?s=19

Policing the beats: The criminalisation of UK drill and grime music by the London Metropolitan Police @lfatsis https://t.co/0pIaATZ8iF https://t.co/9d7UUBGL00
https://twitter.com/TheSocReview/status/1141767775855230976?s=19

‘Won’t allow chanting of religious slogans in Parliament’: Speaker Om Birla | india news | Hindustan. Better late than never.. This shd b keep up and any violation dealt with severely  https://t.co/DOJol6fyQb
https://twitter.com/ksvenu247/status/1141767118708531200?s=19

Someone gave my papa her photo when he was in 5 th Std , that was the day , automatically he was accepted by mother . And when my papa was studying in baroda , SA ashram is 5 min from there and he started going , and champakdada used to be there , kamla baa was also there
https://twitter.com/DhruvalKhurana/status/1141663568183451648?s=19

Are sexual perversion and criminal conduct important qualifications necessary to become a ‘Liberal’ hero? https://t.co/07a8nEPl2y
https://twitter.com/patnaik_r/status/1141782778574327808?s=19

Marriage is an institution largely for women. Men would be happy to shoot & scoot, leaving the woman holding the baby.
"Feminism" is a handmaiden of patriarchy, creating a rush of single mothers struggling in Western society.
"Be progressive" is the modern man's seduction line https://t.co/hKRXvehQ1D
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1141257666733363201?s=19
The problem arises because Western thought is unable to transcend binaries. From the god vs satan archetype it creates Christian vs heathen, men vs women, bourgeois vs proletariat, Right vs Left and so on. It never reaches the non-dual nor understand Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah.
Is there a scientific study on the impact of inbreeding on Muslim communities? Are there disproportional birth defects?
Was Allah not aware of the problems from this when he made it halal in the Book. https://t.co/aziKAn9yz0
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1141571164633874432?s=19

Brilliant piece on how Shri R.C. Majumdar was hounded for his dedication to truthfully telling the Story of India by @dharmadispatch https://t.co/u9bEjYFRi5
https://twitter.com/aashishchaturv/status/1141727785460781056?s=19

"Thus despite repeated calls for the working class to liberate itself, Marx did not believe that work makes us free – nor that the society of work expands the scope of human possibility." - @AaronBastani 
Fully Automated Luxury Communism is 40% off! https://t.co/WzHBP5QQUa https://t.co/yZCCCy59Lp

https://twitter.com/VersoBooks/status/1141771445783138305?s=19

There is something inhuman about characters who always operate at the maximum pitch of experience https://t.co/UGz7fJlSiM
https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1141776250735878144?s=19

A must read, and not just for those of us nearing or just passing 50!  @arthurbrooks nails the misgivings of aging & our own relevance— and contextualizes it in Hindu philosophy. Well done. @HinduAmerican https://t.co/UCbSRK5f5L
https://twitter.com/aseemrshukla/status/1141779355317743617?s=19

"Taking a ‘social perspective’ on the organism does not simply mean describing the activities of cells in social terms." Dr Jonathan Birch discusses social behaviour in the natural world #philosophyofscience https://t.co/c6Aq8onT2t
https://twitter.com/OUPPhilosophy/status/1141775262457090048?s=19

Marketime: Only Sri Aurobindo remains relevant for the future https://t.co/jjXQJPduHI

Plasim Radar

Other Than the Known, Above the Unknown - The Rishis of the Vedic Age explored the origin of conscious awareness which they experienced. Clearly the mind, the vital force and physical existence we...

- Weimar Republic & the Phenomenology of Being Episode 30 of the Iphigenia Inquiry with Philip Armstrong.

Amartya Sen's views in 1959 compared to 2019 - Back in 1959, Amartya Sen explained why he thought India should pursue a Socialist path. Remarkably, he still makes the same flawed assumptions now as he d...

Voice of the Eternal Ecstasy, pp. 612-614 (SH 301) - Savitri reveals the greater Truth, the Truth of Love that descends into creation to save it from the clutch of Ignorance and Death. The post Voice of the...

Adorno and the Origins of “Never Again” - Ever since then candidate Trump began calling for mass deportations and religious bans, comparisons to the Third Reich have consistently been made. While m...

Circulating publicness and public circulation - How is publicness—the realization of publicity—itself mediated, circulated, and received?

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Sri Aurobindo is the last word on human behaviour and collective psychology


Assorted tweets:

Remember here the story of Purani ji Who wanted Assurance from #sriaurobindo about independence of 🇮🇳! SA assured him !! When he repeated the Q. ,SA became serious & looked @ the 🌌& said in stern voice :It’s decreed ..
Again SA Had Promised about Politics & it Shall be Done!!!
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1139018167320231936?s=19

& administration to my great-grandfather.' One advice that Sri Aurobindo is said to have given to Shah's family elders was that a 'a king should always try to take decisions that benefit the masses & not individuals.' 'The chair in which Sri Aurobindo had sat when he visited our https://t.co/DXpwzPurqd
https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1139000805405601797?s=19
home is still preserved. My grandfather, had told me once that a great personality had once occupied that seat & that we had to preserve it for posterity. I have preserved it, it remains intact..." 
And Goebbel's heirs in India, say he vandalized #Vidyasagar's bust!! https://t.co/SGzuAYtN7f

Remarkable times! Aurobindo's "Age of Subjectivism" in full swing along with "collapse of reality". The "return of the repressed" means, the contents of the human collective unconscious are rushing out chaotically into the object front via "projection" (including the Shadow).
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1138779472134639618?s=19
Upshot: loss of discernment between the subjective and objective, the fantastical (and phantasmagoric) and the "real" -- a kind of solipsism and pandaemonium of the affects (and archetypes). Neal Gabler's *Life the Movie* and Andersen's *Fantasyland* explore this very thing.
"The Land without a king" was the Grail Legend's symbolic fear of a pandaemonium of the affects (Gebser's "chaotic emotion") through loss of the vital or guiding centre -- The "land" was the soul, and the "king" was only the archetypal symbol of this vital centre called "Self".

There is a collective element which is definitely about more and more opening to Their influence. The transformation is happening even now, does not depend on our volitions..His formula accounts for all falsehood/ignorance. So unstoppable. With, without or inspite, work goes on.
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1135574675315052544?s=19
Evolution is because there is a Power that involuted itself into manifestation, beginning with the arch opposite phenomena of Inconscience, and raised itself up through subconscient and then matter, life, mind and all layers above. A something can’t emerge from nothing.
Life emerges from matter not by a random assembly of molecules in a fruitful combination. Life is because it must have been immanent in matter. The tree resides in the humble seed. Our view of matter is incomplete. The stone is numberless atoms furiously insisting not to budge.
Sri Aurobindo declares the evolutionary curve cannot end with a half-baked end like man..a higher version is possible, the lone goal of the Rishi can be a collective aim too, the aim of a divine matter and its consequences is a natural next step of the evolutionary impulse.
Welcome. Of course Master takes a much profounder view of the entire evolutionary phenomena...am not familiar with the other approaches you mention, so can’t comment comparatively..
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1138742029238714368?s=19

🧘‍♀️& its quality depends upon the individuals meditating & their aspiration !11 is an ideal no.  suggested by #SriAurobindo & the Mother !! All life is Yoga , a Principle given by SA is the best in Present situation & repeating the 👍Name is Best🧘‍♀️! @Auro_Mere
kindly contribute! https://t.co/oD7d9ydRsu
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1135560847068213248?s=19
💖has a beautiful qualification! It doesn’t requires any qualifications!! Any fool can 💖 the Mother, me included & the Mother is sooo compassionate that She Accepts Who 💖Her Blindly on Priority!! #SriAurobindo — Faith has to be blind! & I believe in each & every word ✍️ by Them
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1138306468996739072?s=19
Exactly! #SriAurobindo used to say He had never seen b/f the Surrender & Humility which the Mother possessed! In Her 1st meeting She Surrendered Totally b/f SA!
Humility now seemed  too proud a state ..
#Savitri
Above line gives a hint about how a follower of SA should be !🙏
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1138814542631145472?s=19
Humility is the prime Base of Integral Yoga & the word ‘humility’should have been coined keeping in mind #SriAurobindo !Earlier  I’ve shared an incident in which SA would request His disciples in the most humble way to post a letter! Wish I could have a fraction of His humility!
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1138810138574360576?s=19

Hey @Bhaktirassagar This guy Debashish Banerji is saying Rudra is an outsider God, who visited like a storm to attack the settlers & hence hymns to appease him in Rigveda. I Think this points to Āryan Invasion.
Chk from @28.30
https://t.co/bAHgDbta58
https://twitter.com/Nag_J1/status/1138669394056187904?s=19

Not an expert, but my feeling is that Odisha can't be understood without linking it to Egypt and Indonesia. Interpreting language and culture in isolation would be an error. Overdose of hubris around any deity, or even political figure, can distort an objective search for truth.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1138675466028498945?s=19
Sri Aurobindo, and not Goel or Shourie, is the last word on human behaviour and collective psychology. Reading him can orient one in the Vedic Evolutionary vision for the mankind and liberate from ill effects of parochialism. Recognising the true teacher of the nation is the key.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1139055242421579776?s=19
Forming a Hindu Party and capturing power are two different objectives. BJP opted for the latter through many compromises and will continue to do so. Clinging to a definite ideology is not practical since issues lose relevance with time. Art of the possible is the best definition
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1138846390048526336?s=19
Modern schooling practice of confining students in classrooms deprives them of the joy of labour or creative physical endeavour. Subjects we teach at school have become outdated in the Internet age. Abolishing the prevailing syllabus and evaluation system is the only sane option.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1138696899643371520?s=19

Let us see some of the effects seen among those who study & think within a Xtian space. It doesn't matter if they actually converted. It doesn't matter if they remain Hindu or grew up to become an atheist or secular-humanist)+
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1138745781681188864?s=19
1. Their fundamental language about religion revolves around a singular 'God'; not gods. Polytheism is generally seen as backward by those remaining Hindus as well as atheists. Even those who become atheists see a Xtian monotheism as the benchmark for what religion should be.
2. Rituals are generally framed as backward/regressive or unenlightened or unimportant.+
3. The Xtian template of religion becomes a deep-seated prism/prior through which all religious issues are understood: for eg. the idea that a religion must be creedal & uniform; diverse spaces within a religion are immediately presupposed as discriminatory & problematized.
Too many people advance this line of argument that "I am an atheist now; xtian schools didn't affect me". Wonder what they will say when they see the state of religion/attitudes towards the divine in countries where protestantism predominates: US, Europe. Some links follow:
The extent to which modern atheism is really a product of Protestantism:
1. https://t.co/NB6dyPtZYZ
2. https://t.co/QP9g3AjbSB
4. Conception of sin & judgement: I have, personally, heard from at least two Hindus about how the idea of forgiveness for sins (with sins not affecting salvation at all) is appealing, in contrast to the Hindu idea of personal responsibility (with consequences).++
4. Cont'd: The sharp increase in what a traditional Hindu would perceive as moral degeneracy in these countries, and the breakdown of rules, roles & responsibilities, is rather telling. //End
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1138734987379761152?s=19

Women in sex work do not exist outside the paradigms of society. They are unequivocally part of the world we all live in and deserve equal rights. 
We partnered with @INBreakthrough to present the stories of two former women in sex work. #HumanRights4All #WeCount #HealthForAll https://t.co/9DAl2SNk5i
https://twitter.com/AllianceinIndia/status/1138388246499512320?s=19

@tarshingo Sexuality education should begin at home which is the safest zone for children growing up. Parents should facilitate conversations around consent & comfort with everyday examples & should create an environment where children feel comfortable sharing their feelings.
https://twitter.com/RightsPratigya/status/1138708041283489793?s=19

At TARSHI, we believe that parents can be effective educators for young people on sexuality in a way that is keeping with their intellectual, emotional & physical devp. The Yellow Book is based on our yrs of experience talking abt #sexuality with a variety of people. #TARSHIchats https://t.co/kndrVebGPE
https://twitter.com/tarshingo/status/1138708763588739072?s=19

What happens when you realize that your mental illness is not like a long lasting flu but a condition that you will continue to have lifelong? 
Po the Panda, an anonymous writer writes about coming to terms with this feeling. https://t.co/9pf4LcEqsH
https://twitter.com/mentalhealthind/status/1138708726288748544?s=19

Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction author, Susan Blackmore, discusses ten things you should know about consciousness in this short YouTube video. https://t.co/WbjN7VgtZe
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Can a popular writer be a great writer? Very rare. But yes, Ruskin Bond! Unparalleled sensitivity n command over language! Bond writes a prose of "superior" clarity. A Nature priest greater than any of the post-1950 writers.
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In Bengali 3 Banerjees. Sharadindu. Manik who wrote better Novels than Tagore, sold high causing envy among peers. Bibhuti too. Popular yet great, like Rafi.
Then came decadence. Samaresh Bose exception, talented and popular but can't be ranked among those 3.
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"From Nagamandala to Marriage Album, Fire and Rain to The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, history, myth, desire, sexuality, anger, hunger, greed and middle-class realities were all topics and subjects that formed part of #GirishKarnad's creative oeuvre." https://t.co/KiMcNNgXuE
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ନାଟକୀୟତା ବର୍ତ୍ତମାନ ରାଜନୀତିର ଏକ ଅଭିନ୍ନ ଅଙ୍ଗ । ମଞ୍ଚରୁ କଳାକାର ଯେପରି ମାଇକଜୋନରେ ରହେ,ଲୟକୁ ଦୃତ-ମଧ୍ୟମ-ବିଳମ୍ବିତ କରେ,ସ୍ଵରକୁ କର୍କଶ ଅବା ସୁଲଳିତ କରେ,ମୁଦ୍ରା ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନ କରେ, ଅଭିବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ବଦଳାଏ,ଚରିତ୍ର ଅନୁକୂଳ ବସ୍ତ୍ର ପିନ୍ଧେ, ଦର୍ଶକ ସହିତ ସମ୍ବାଦ କରେ, ଇତ୍ୟାଦି ନାଟ୍ୟକଳାକୁ ରାଜନେତା ବି ଖୁବ ନିପୁଣତାର ସହିତ କରେ ।
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I have ignored the vast literature—Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault, Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, and others—that propagates the second option. Moreover, the second option grants salience to just one form of inquiry, namely, the literary one; after spending a life in analytic philosophy and in admiration of physics, one develops a visceral discomfort with any proclamation that fails to uphold their value. But the association with the formal does not prevent me to shift to the literary mode whenever needed.] Posted by Nirmalangshu Mukherji

Nirmalangshu Mukherji · 2017 · Science
Science, Philosophy, and Common Life Nirmalangshu Mukherji ... One could think of some of the novels and plays of Sartre, poetry of Sri Aurobindo, 'metaphysical' poetry of Donne, some later poetry of Tagore ...
Literature and Common Life
N Mukherji - Reflections on Human Inquiry, 2017
... One could think of some of the novels and plays of Sartre, poetry of Sri Aurobindo, 'metaphysical' poetry of Donne, some later poetry of Tagore, some of the fiction by Milan Kundera, Kamal Kumar Majumdar, and the like. (B) ...
https://selforum.blogspot.com/2017/12/sartre-sri-aurobindo-donne-tagore-milan.html

Jitendra Nath Mohanty: A Phenomenological Vedāntin
GR Ricci - The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North …, 2019
… When we read in his autobiography that in his undergraduate years he was
drawn to the metaphysics of Sri Aurobindo and puzzled over whether the
world and finite individuals are real from the point of view of ultimate …
Provincializing Progress: Developmentalism and Anti-Imperialism in Colonial India
IS Marwah - Polity, 2019
On the Buddhist Thought of Tamaki Kōshirō
M Takemura - The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, 2019
… In 1965 he collected his studies on modern Indian thought, for example,
Ramakrishna (1836–1886), Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950), and Rabindranath
Tagore (1861–1941), to author The Formation of Modern Indian Thought …

Are Schools “Ready for Children”? Assumptions and Ground Realities
S Bhattacharjea - Early Childhood Education and School Readiness in …, 2019
… In India, this basic principle has been articulated in different ways, for example, in Gandhi's belief in “correlated teaching” that would draw on the child's environment for ways of exploring topics or concepts, or in Aurobindo's model …
Governance and Leadership for Achieving Higher Quality in School Education: A Study of Sikkim
N Mythili - Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2019
Studies related to governance and leadership contributing to quality are rare in education.
Sikkim has been chosen for this study to fill the gap. The article a...
What Works for School Readiness? Understanding Quality in Preschool Education
AB Chaudhary, V Kaul - Early Childhood Education and School Readiness in …, 2019
… In this process, it states that it is guided by some Indian thinkers like Gandhi, Tagore, Aurobindo, Gijubhai Badekha, and Tarabai Modak who were the first to conceptualize a child-centered approach for the care and education of young children (NCFECCE, 2014) …
[PDF] “Thou Wast Not Born for Death”: Unravelling the Imprint of Folklore on Mainstream Literature
Z Hussain, B Mishra - IJELLH (International Journal of English Language …, 2019
… snatching her husband from the claws of Yama, the messenger of Death.
Savitri and Satyavan … and folk lore as sub stream literature. It goes without
saying that despite the advances of science and technology in an era of …
[PDF] Sri Aurobindo: The Spiritual and the Aesthetic
J Nair - IJELLH (International Journal of English Language …, 2019
… Thus one should say that Sri Aurobindo has started from the beginnings and his philosophy is the Dawn of a new era in Vedic interpretations … And in his great epic Savitri, A Legend and a Symbol he has demonstrated how to reach the final …
[HTML] Wayang–Javanese Puppet Theater
DKA Suroto
… Original shadow play incorporated Brahmanism and Buddhism, and maybe even Shivaism (religion of Java in that era), but the oldest Javanese shadow play chose plots form Old Javanese or Malayo-Plynesian myths … 2017. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Savitri, Afrilia …
[HTML] Gaurav Kalra| DUJES Volume 27| 2019 Issue
G Kalra
… It has been consolidated through various oral and textualized narratives. One can cite an instance from the life of KM Munshi, when he with one of his friends went to meet Aurobindo Ghosh, who was officiating as the principal of the Baroda College at that time …
[PDF] Swami Vivekananda: Philosophy of Education
S Singh, D Singh, N Noida
… google. co. in 8. 4 Pani, SP and Pattnaik, SK Vivekananda, Aurobindo and
Gandhi on Education, New Delhi: Anmol Publications PVT. LTD., 2006, pp.
59-60. 9. Pani, SP and Pattnaik, SK Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Gandhi …
[PDF] Synthesizing Tradition and Modernity: The Relevance of Swami Vivekananda in Present Times
R Tiwari
… toleration, but of sympathy. Urged by such as intense feeling of patriotism, Swami Vivekananda worked to propound the foundation of a spiri- tual theory of nationalism which was later advocated by Aurobindo Ghosh. He wrote “Race 
[PDF] Dr AS Dasan< dasanmysore@ gmail. com
DD Robert, G from Mysore
… INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH - I BRITISH LITERATURE - II Semester I Core
Hours: 05 Credits: 04 Page 8. 8 Sri Aurobindo Indian Culture Jawaharlal
Nehru The Panorama of India's Past (from The Discovery of India) Unit III …
[PDF] Nation, Nationalism & National Integration: A Perspective of Swami Vivekananda
G Sachdeva, S Sharma
… Each nation has a theme: ev- erything else is secondary. India's theme is
religion. Social reform and everything else are secondary'. He worked to
build the foundations of a religious theory of nationalism which was later …
[PDF] Becoming integral educators for sustainable futures: A human-decentred design approach to teacher development in an independent secondary school
NM Winter-Simat - 2019
Page 1. BECOMING INTEGRAL EDUCATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES: A
HUMAN-DECENTRED DESIGN APPROACH TO TEACHER DEVELOPMENT IN AN
INDEPENDENT SECONDARY SCHOOL Nikolas Michael Winter-Simat BA, AF HEA 

Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures
AK Giri - 2019
… struggled for dignity and justice. He then heard the call of a dif- ferent related vocation of transformation and joined Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in their spiritual laboratory, Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Das has been teaching there …
ABHINIVEŚA: PĀTAÑJALA-YOGA ON DEATH AND LIFE
D Raveh - Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali: Translation …, 2019
… I am, I love, I see, I act, I will.”(Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol) 2 PRELUDE:
IT'SA SUBTLE MATTER The question what happens after death, whether there is some continuation, existence, afterlife, heaven or hell, punar-janma, is perpetually open …
Intervening on the Indian Renaissance, or a User's Guide to the Dreary Sands of Dead Habit
BA Hatcher - Sophia, 2019
… The authors write with clarity and enthusiasm, bringing to life a universe of modern Indian thought. Whether thinking about Rammohun Roy, Aurobindo Ghosh, or Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, the sincerity and capaciousness of their approach is evident …
[PDF] Ramayana in the Light of Sri Aurobindo
S Mishra
Sri Aurobindo meticulously studied the whole of the Ramayana and the
Mahabharata, and wrote several hundred pages on the greatness of these two epics. In these pages he has dealt with the creative genius of Valmiki and Vyasa and the …
[PDF] THE MAZE OF MYSTICISM IN SRI AUROBINDO.
A Kumari, DK Sharma
In the firmament of Indian thoughts and literature, Sri Aurobindo was a profound yogi, a mystic and an aesthetician shining brightly and spreading his peculiar light. His yogic experiences were firmly rooted in the Upanishads and the age old Indian …
[PDF] THE ELEMENT OF MYSTIC SYMBOLISM IN SRI AUROBINDO GHOSH AND WILLIAM BLAKE
S Kaur, A Kumari, DK Sharma
Sri Aurobindo and William Blake both of them are the examples of the finest poets of their respective eras. Both were born and brought up in entirely different cultures, and they had different beliefs. Aurobindo and Blake had visions and spiritual …
ACTIVITY, CESSATION, AND A RETURN TO ORIGINS IN THE YOGA SŪTRA
CK Chapple - Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali: Translation …, 2019
[PDF] REFLECTION OF INDIAN CULTURE AND ETHOS IN RABINDRANATH TAGORE'S PLAYS: A STUDY IN MYTHS
MKB Aute
… through myths legends, historical events and day to day happening. Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo Ghosh, Girish Karnad, TP Kailasam, Badal Sircar, and Uma Parameshwaran are among the Indian English dramatist who have made a frequent use of Indian …
[PDF] RABINDRANATH TAGORE'S LITERARY SKILL IN PROJECTING GANDHIAN PHILOSOPHICAL AND HUMANISTIC IDEOLOGY IN HIS SHORT STORY WORLD: AN …
S Chelliah, C Ramya
… conscience and convert him to the way of love” (P 257). To conclude, next only to Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, Tagore has been the supreme inspiration to millions in modern India and he had the enduring the heart to feel the pulse of …

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