Showing posts with label Sri Aurobindo. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Mother met Sri Aurobindo in dream in 1904

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

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 ...


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 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, ...


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

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.

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 ...

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

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...
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)
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
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 SanyalKrishna RoyJadavpur 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 ...

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

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...

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

(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 ...

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.

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

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 

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.

The collision of Eastern and Western spiritualities in the 19th and 20th 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’s20th 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.

SELF: Father-image of Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo giving balanceand fulfilment
rainbOwther: Sri Aurobindo’s theory of a spiritualisedEthics