Even the smallest meanest work became A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament.
June 30, 2006
Idea of a separate conscious self is false
We live and develop in a primate body
June 29, 2006
"String theory" is no theory at all
Sri S.K. Das: Free Internet Lessons on Vedic Scriptures
Brahman, the Ground or the Ain Sof
June 28, 2006
New and superior means and powers
The world of pure Matter is neutral, irresponsible
June 27, 2006
Sattwa is purity, light and illumination
Quantum tantrums by a non-conformist
June 26, 2006
World Union is the next in the list
v When the possibility was so great as the birth of the Supramental being, the utmost He could do was to win the wars for humanity.
v Is there such a best available now for the unconscious aspirant?
v Before Sri Aurobindo came, there was no quest in the mind of humanity. The dark ages continued in effect. If anything was there, it was groping, sometimes fumbling. No one knew what to aim for.
v Though we are unconscious, we have before us in writing what to do, what to aspire for. He has left us those blueprints.
v His final goal was the birth of the supramental being. Before that, He speaks of India becoming the Guru of the world. World union is the next in the list.
v His Force is working for world union in the subtle plane.
v The European union which He spoke of in 1916 has become a reality.
v If we have the knowledge that world union is possible, being unconscious, can we work for it? If so, is it to be overt or covert?
v He successfully worked for Peace. As His Force is working for other goals, our working for Prosperity is possible, in my view. motherservice.org
Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of integralism
- It takes into account the whole of reality as it reveals itself to the uplooking / inlooking human mind.
- It is also integrative as it leaves no grade of experience behind once another experience comes by. The lower is taken up and integrated into the higher, the smaller into the larger.
Sri Aurobindo did not arrive at his philosophy by a sudden revelation. His was a steady growth of consciousness with dimension adding itself to dimension. Though he started as an agnostic, he turned out to be a passionate minstrel of God, a prophet of the message of life divine for humans, a revolutionary who initiated radical departures from the established traditions not only in the sphere of politics and social structure, but also in the practice of spiritual life and philosophical thought. Sri Aurobindo's philosophy continues to shape the lives and minds of human beings in various ways, at different levels. SAKSI
SAKSI is a Spiritual movement
June 25, 2006
Highest level of critical scholarship
- When psychoanalysis was criticized, critics were labelled "sexually repressed".
- When Marxism was criticized, people were told they had the wrong "class consciousness".
- When Integralism is criticized, we are diagnosed as being infected with the "Mean Green Meme".
- Can't anyone see the circularity in these closed, ideological systems?
- Isn't this type of thinking incredibly...boring?
I could go on and on, but Michel Bauwens, Matthew Dallman, Geoff Falk, Frank Visser and others have already done an excellent job of criticizing Ken Wilber. I just can't take the man seriously anymore. He strikes me as immature and childish, hardly someone who purportedly goes into nirvikalpa samadhi in a matter of seconds (for that matter, half the so-called spiritual gurus out there have feet of clay -- just go check out the landscape for yourself). Personally, if I were in his position, I would give up this notion of an "Integral Institute" or whatever entirely. The whole idea is stupid and cultic. Does anyone ever say, oh, let's set up a Rationalist University? Or an Existentialist University? Of course not. An academic institution is a place where you are supposed to have as many different views as possible. That is the point. Intellectual, academic and cultural exchange...
Aspiration-Rejection-Surrender
June 24, 2006
Dance to remember, calculate and plan
Sri Aurobindo: Reunification of two streams
Seers hid the Mysteries in symbolic stories
Something that you know exist
June 23, 2006
Kalatattvakosa
General Editor : Kapila Vatsyayan IGNCA
The articles on the terms, written on the basis of the cards, do not claim to give a complete history of the concept, which would not be possible at the present stage of indological research.However, they can show the stages through which a concept has travelled, from the Vedas with their ramifications in the speculative, physical, ritual and mythological/narrative fields, from Buddhist and Jain sources, through Vedangas or ancient sciences, the various Sastras, Puranas, Tantras, Darsanas, etc. till its crystallisation in the different arts. The relation between the conceptual background and the manifestation in the arts will be the main focus of the articles. The arts occupy an intermediate position and hence mediate between metaphysics and physics, between spirituality and science; e.g., a stupa or temple represents a whole metaphysical conception, and at the same time its building required the technical science of architecture and engineering. An interdisciplinary approach is thus indispensable.
The Tantric dictum: Sarvam Sarvatmakam, everything is related to the totality (or: every detail is related to the whole), serves as a kind of magic key to unravel these concepts. As for possible schemes of interpretation, which may be obvious or implicit, the Indian tradition itself offers sufficient categories. The various schemes of two or three levels of understanding reality can be applied here: the Vedic division in Adhibhuta (physical), Adhidaiva (divine) and Adhyatma (human, spiritual); the pervasive conception of the three dimensions of Sthula (gross, physical), Suksma (subtle, psychic) and Para (transcendent); the differentiation in the manifest and the unmanifest (Vyakta, Avyakta and Vyaktavyakta), and others serve as a hermeneutical basis. Depending on the context, the starting point may be physical/scientific or metaphysical/conceptual, but other dimensions are not excluded. Unidimensional or one-sided interpretations are eschewed. Kalakosa Kalatattvakosa -> List of Books Kalamulasastra Kalasamalocana
Power of speculative thinking
- firstly, the equations of physics are more fundamental than the individual phenomena which they describe. This of course is to be expected.
- But secondly, going beyond this, one finds that the symmetries of the equations are more basic than the equations themselves!
In Dirac’s words, "both relativity and quantum theory seem to show that transformations are of more fundamental importance than equations". So the ‘stuff’ out of which one imagines nature to be made, and the principles underlying our understanding, get more and more refined...
June 21, 2006
Mindfulness
Humanism and Terror
June 19, 2006
Badiou lectures on truth
Religion can triumph over materialism
The Human Cycle & the Global Society
Sri Aurobindo and hermeneutics
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