Religious philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

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The Life Divine - Book II : Chapter 17 Para 5 | Study Circle with S.Sivakumar, Sri Aurobindo Society

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Sivakumar: He is the Chairman of Sri Aurobindo Society, Chennai & Sri Aurobindo Society Tamil Nadu State Committee. ... Sivakumar, Sri Aurobindo Society.

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আত্মসংযম থেকে ঈশ্বরচেতনার পথে—শ্রী অরবিন্দের আলোকে গীতা জ্ঞান প্রবাহ শুরু শিলিগুড়িতে নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদক : আত্মসংযম, কর্মযোগ, ধ্যান ও ভক্তির সমন্বয়েই মানুষের অন্তর জাগ্রত হয় এবং জীবন পৌঁছে যায় ঈশ্বরচেতনার দিকে—শ্রী অরবিন্দের ...

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Is India to become a Viswaguru by following the “Grammar of Anarchy”, as Babasaheb Ambedkar termed it, or by resorting to what Sri Aurobindo called “Goonda-raj” ...

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Sri Aurobindo resigned his job in Baroda and moved to Calcutta. For five years, from 1905 to 1910, he shone like a meteor in the political firmament of India.

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Subramania Bharati

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The Rigveda praises the gods. The priest composes beautiful hymns, asks for cattle, sons, victory, rain. The relationship is simple: human below, god above, prayer going upward. The Atharva Veda works differently. Read more ... mid-day.com//news/opinion/…

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In this interview, he traces our current theories of the unconscious, memory systems, and drive theory to their Freudian predecessors, arguing Freud may hold the key to understanding consciousness itself.

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In 1930, the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset published The Revolt of the Masses, a book that still feels uncomfortably prophetic. His central target was not the poor or the working class, but a new kind of human being he called the “mass man”.

The mass man, Ortega argued, is defined by attitude rather than income. He is the ordinary person who is perfectly satisfied with himself, demands nothing higher of his own character or intellect, and yet insists that his mediocrity be treated as a right. He does not defer to excellence, competence, or higher standards. He regards them with suspicion or resentment. What previous ages saw as the privilege of the few - political influence, cultural authority, the right to shape society - the mass man now claims as his due, without any corresponding effort to rise above the average. 

Ortega’s diagnosis remains unsettling because it is not a complaint about poverty or exclusion. It is a warning about self-satisfied mediocrity armed with power. Ortega is not well known but the book is very good. He thought the worst were the intellectual experts and high profile people who had talent and success in one area and got extremely cocky about voicing their opinions about everything else.

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This article examines inclusive education for marginalised communities in India through the philosophy of BR Ambedkar. It reads Ambedkar's ideas alongside Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy, from a Global South perspective.

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FEMINISM CAN ONLY EXIST INSIDE PATRIARCHY. IT COULD NEVER SURVIVE OUTSIDE IT. Feminism doesn’t fight patriarchy. It needs patriarchy to justify its existence. Feminism needs: The police force built by men to protect her right to protest. The laws written by men to give her equal rights. The military of men to keep her country safe so she can complain about men... Feminism is a luxury belief that only exists when men have already made life so safe and comfortable that women can afford to pretend men aren't necessary.

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What many 'right minded' supporters have been cautioning on. SJW had taken over Hindutva and pointing this was seen as being against HIndutva. Issue is that fidelity of Hindutva is itself compromised for SJW and then conformance demands are imposed. Showing Abrahamic danger is only half the story, giving good governance without SJW evil is the other and more critical one and has been for some time now.

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Play as a Theme in Phenomenology

F Chouraqui - Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, 2026

The phenomenological movement’s engagement with the subject of play inherited a
context defined by the confrontation between two positions. The first was
characterized by a deflationary account of play. In this view, play is purely a …

[PDF] Symnoēsis and the Paradox of Superintelligence: Why Digital Minds Need Biological Grounding

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The prevailing paradigm of artificial general intelligence anticipates a runaway,
recursively self-improving superintelligence. This paper challenges that expectation
on structural grounds. It distinguishes raw cognitive processing capacity from a …

Role of Self-Awareness and Selfless Service in Positive Leadership

V Kumar, B Raj

… Therefore, spiritualists like Sri Aurobindo advise exerting the best efforts, but with
a spirit of surrender to God and without asser tion of ego, as “… Corporate leaders,
such as RK Talwar, former chairman of the State Bank of India and IDBI, applied …

AI Beauty Filters, and Appearance Self‐Esteem: An Empirical Investigation

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The widespread use of beauty filter applications (apps) has empowered people to
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This article looks at how karma, choice, and destiny are connected. It also explains
how the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Bhagavad Gita can help in modern
pastoral and psychiatric care, arguing that both traditions teach people to act with …

Operationalizing Indian Epistemologies in Holistic Education: Pathways of Empathy, Mindfulness, and Compassion in the LIBRE/EMC² Framework

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Holistic education frameworks increasingly emphasize moving beyond academic
outcomes to cultivate the ‘whole person’. The LIBRE/EMC² model—developed in
response to Indian philosophy, National Education Policy 2020, and Sustainable …

[PDF] Everyday Lives, Epochal Histories: Humayun Ahmed's Moddhannya Through New Historicism

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This study examines Moddhannya [, The Noon], a two-part historical novel by
Humayun Ahmed, often considered the most popular Bengali writer of his time,
through the lens of New Historicism. Rather than foregrounding monumental events …

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M Brahmi, H Jain, J Kumar

… Furthermore, Sri Aurobindo’s principle of integral education, which aims to
cultivate the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual being, … Sagesthinkers such
as Tagore, Vivekananda, Osho, and Aurobindo emphasized the role of education in …

8 Philosophical Underpinnings of Yoga Tourism in Contemporary Times

D Chhabra - Religious Heritage and Tourism in South Asia, 2026

… Sri Aurobindo was another pioneer in revitalizing yoga (Miller, 2019; Singleton,
2010). While serving a prison sentence under British rule, he … The well-known
yoga destination, ashram Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir in Nepal was established as a …

16 Sustaining Religious Heritage for Tourism in South Asia

KA Shinde, DJ Timothy - Religious Heritage and Tourism in South Asia, 2026

Religious travel, including pilgrimage in the traditional sense of the term, is often
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It becomes potent by concealing

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Buddhi or the mind of Light, what Sri Aurobindo calls the Luminous Mind 

There is a beautiful poem you may wish to read, Thought the Paraclete by Sri Aurobindo 

How thought rises from manas to buddhi to pure Chitta

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One Truth- One Family- A vision that transcends time. Discover how the Vedas reveal the unity of humanity and the deeper meaning behind these timeless words. Watch now. Discover more in this episode. youtu.be/DQbeYr4W_1Q?si… @AmazingVedas @PariksithSingh @MakrandParanspe

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Sri Aurobindo ke newspaper editorials ka collection :-- 

" BANDE MATARAM " aur " KARMAYOGIN ".

In 2 books ko aap World History ka Summary ya MOST IMPORTANT Glimpses maan sakte ho ??

In books ke according Ancient India me real power Brahmins ke haath me tha, Kshatriya ke nahi.

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General Vishwa Nath Sharma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC (Retd) former Chief of the Army Staff, passed away at 4:10 am in New Delhi today, 31 July 2026. He was 96... His other siblings - Lieutenant General Surindra Nath Sharma served as Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army, and Major Dr Kamla Tewari née Sharma of the Army Medical Corps.

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Om Shanti...his sister Dr Kamla Tewari was married to Maj Gen KK Tewari of Signals. He was Cdr Sigs , 4 Inf Div and was taken PoW by the Chinese in 1962 from Tawang. He was later one of the founding members of the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. Their daughter married the well known Tibetologist, Mr Claude Arpi.

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I knew him personally a fine person. A correction he joined Auroville as a member which had already been founded in 1968

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Join Samsaktabhih, a month-long celebration of Sri Aurobindo’s 154th Birth Anniversary, uniting the community through spirituality, culture, and consciousness. #Auroville #TheMother #SriAurobindo

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The eThics of Yoga and The spiriT of godmen

JS Alter

… Baba Ramdev’s rhetoric of Hindutva nationalism is the antithesis of Gandhian cosmopolitanism,
even though he gestures toward catholic … The competitive structure of the free
market combined with the spirit of Hindutva turns the ultimate goal of yoga—the …

Competition beyond Capitalism

The Ethics of Yoga and the Spirit of Godmen

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836954460 Joseph S. Alter 

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber ([1930] 1958) does not appear to be explicitly concerned with competition. His focus is on the contradiction between religious values and economic interests and how one signifies the other. Nevertheless, his argument hinges on how the idea of salvation, conceptualized in terms of predestination, produces a worldview in which the saved and the damned are winners and losers. This worldview would seem to render competition pointless and meaningless since the elect are chosen by God... 

Sivananda sought to bring yoga down to earth and make it do the work of middle-class social and cultural reform by means of embodied self-development. Sivananda embraced the athleticism of yoga, but then linked postural practice to a spiritual ideal of worldly asceticism.

In this context, the work that competition does to enable self-improvement is materialized and essentialized in a regimented form of public postural practice under the rubric of the Divine Life Society and Sivananda Yoga as a global brand. As in the case of Calvinist worldly asceticism, Sivananda’s yoga is embodied in terms of righteous sociality. It reflects civic responsibility by contributing to middle-class health, well-being, and dedication to the nationalist ideals of Indian freedom and independence. But it does so by fetishizing the power of self-discipline. The materialization of self-discipline in postural practice is dependent on the erasure of the power of complete asocial detachment that is integral to yoga’s philosophical foundation. It is in this sense that ‘enlightened’ godmen in modern India are different from the elect ‘men of God’ whose fetishized wealth and entrepreneurial success reflects a functional synthesis of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

Although both Sivananda and Baba Ramdev fetishize the body and essentialize self-development, Sivananda’s brand of postural practice combines asceticism, athleticism, and competition more easily, it seems, than Baba Ramdev’s hyper, self-centered mode of personal self-development. For Sivananda, the practice of yoga is an end in itself, albeit one that has social significance. For Baba Ramdev, yoga is a means to the end of personal achievement as worldly self-realization. In this way, the performance of yoga invokes the possibility of transcendence. Performing yoga thus becomes a sign of one’s investment in the value of personal self-development—the endless process of trying to become happier, healthier, and more productive.

These are, of course, the core tenets of neoliberal responsibilization. Performed in massive arenas involving hundreds and sometimes thousands of people, Baba Ramdev’s brand of yoga promotes ideology and generates tremendous wealth through advertising. But unlike Sivananda’s appeal to the embodiment of a collective Divine Life Society, it does not build community. It enables those who participate to join in a staged performance of anonymous middle-class modernity, that is, to exercise their individuality and free will in terms of the power of embodied self-realization.

By turning the performance of yoga into a public spectacle, Baba Ramdev draws on the sense of mystery, secrecy, and ineffable wisdom that is a key feature of yoga’s cultural history. All of the early literature on yoga defines its practice in terms of the importance of secrecy and self-isolation. As Svatvarama, the author of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, one of the three most well-known pre-modern texts on postural practice, put it:

11. A Yogi desirous of success should keep the knowledge of Hatha Yoga secret; for it becomes potent by concealing and impotent by exposing. 

12. The Yogi should practice Hatha Yoga in a solitary place being free from … all disturbances. (Svatvarama [1915] 1991: 2)

Twentieth-century reformers have all struggled with the paradoxical nature of these statements and the contradictions that stem from teaching yoga ‘indiscriminately’ to everyone. Like other godmen, Baba Ramdev engages with the power of fetishism that is manifest in postural practice by simultaneously revealing the secret while invoking the power of secrecy itself. Doing yoga with everyone is empowering precisely because the potency of concealment is reflected in the exposed anonymity of the spectacle itself. Each person does the best they can on their own yoga mat. Each embodies the burden of neoliberal self-determination, aiming to become their own best version by competing with themselves in terms defined by the liberating freedom of embodied immortality.

As it finds expression in a range of different contexts that involve various forms of power—spiritual, mystical, material, physical, and metaphysical—an examination of yoga as competition shows how these forms overlap and intersect in ways that productively complicate simplistic, universalizing assumptions about winning and losing, profit and loss, success and failure. A consideration of how power is embodied in the practice of yoga shows how a dynamic of fetishism provides a critical perspective on the work that competition does in the context of secular and religious nationalism. The embodiment of ‘enlightened’ worldly asceticism also brings into focus the work that competition does within the differing ideological frameworks of free market neoliberalism on the one hand and planned economic development oriented toward collective welfare on the other.

Joseph S. Alter is the Director of the Asian Studies Center and a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. His research focuses on environmental health, the globalization of Asian medical knowledge, and the cultural history of yoga’s development within the institutionalized structure of Nature Cure in contemporary India. He is currently studying the way in which yoga and Nature Cure establish an ‘ecology of the body’ within the rubric of public health. His publications include Yoga in Modern India (2004), Moral Materialism (2011), and the edited volume Capturing the Ineffable (2020, with Phi... 

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The Life Divine - Book II : Chapter 17 Para 2 Study Circle with S.Sivakumar, Sri Aurobindo Society

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By understanding the Veda one understands the yoga of Sri Aurobindo

By understanding the yoga of Sri Aurobindo one understands the Veda

Both have an integral पूर्ण approach; all aspects of life, even the physical, are embraced and celebrated as Yoga

The Yoga is advaitic in conception and tantrik in execution for both

The world is not an illusion to either but a fit and worthy manifestation of the Truth

Both see man as a hero, one who can ascend the highest heights and become immortal by realizing the Truth-Consciousness, ऋत-चित्

One may see Sri Aurobindo as a modern Rishi in the Vedic lineage, as an affirmation of life and human existence in our collective evolution to the Truth and greatest possibility

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Trika Śaivism didn't originate in Kashmir, nor was it first expounded by Abhinavagupta. The Trika is an ancient Śaiva turned Kaula tradition spanning multiple geographies... Abhinavagupta reformulated many aspects of the earlier Trika tradition and brilliantly synthesized it with his previous training (initiation) in the Kālīkrama to develop his unique and unprecedented understanding of the Trika Śaiva darśana.

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The lost Greek epics that covered much of the narrative missing in Iliad and Odyssey, including the sack of Troy, and the death of Achilles

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strange thing though is that the angry face/viral vulgarity people did not seem like the majority of protestors to me (on my feed at least) and I was struck actually by the joyous and playful nature of the slogans/posters (mocking for failures / inaction is fine i think).

it was an explosion of creativity, critique, and crassness all in one i suppose. challenge is that each of us might well be seeing different feeds/samples making it hard to get a representative sense.

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There was anger not just against the police, not just the government, not just the state - but against Modi himself. The fires of people's anger had reached Big Brother himself.

He was personally singled out for criticism. And not just criticism, but outright ridicule and mockery. People were chanting slogans against him, defacing his posters, and making hilarious and insulting memes about him personally. His carefully constructed decade-old cult of personality was cracking under the pressure.

This is likely one of the main factors that really tipped the balance. You have the right to criticize anyone you want, but criticizing the Supreme Leader is what really takes the cake. And achieves results.

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Many slogans been raised at the protest. Some are creative, some are even vulgar. But there is one that is the most psychologically devastating. Imagine spending many thousands of Crores in PR to project urself as a strong leader and being called Chappan Inch ka Chhota Bandar

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Hugs generate mockery and laughter. Vertical reels generate mockery and laughter. 56-inch machismo generates mockery and laughter. Even a little hyperbole generates mockery and laughter... What's a man supposed to do then?!

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There is a SC court judgment authorizing the construction of a illegal temple in ayodhya and no one has any issue with it. I agree - whatever replaces bjp will only be worse because everyone has given up on course correction in law which stabilizes society.

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Education cultivates ideas backed by reason and evidence and critical attitude to both. The right-wing govt feeds on post-truth distrust of scientific ideas. It ultimately wins arguments by force. So, it can’t build or sustain a proper education system.

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The great Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa famously tells the story of the Buddha’s father, the king, who tried to keep his son as an heir rather than a monk by isolating him from all the bad things in the world. Of course the king’s plan doesn’t work: the Buddha-to-be sneaks out and sees an old man, a sick man and a dead man, reminding him that these fates will come to a king as surely as anyone else, and so he renounces the world and becomes a monk. The story shows us that there always remains a gap between what is and what should be: we will always face sad facts like illness and death. That gap is bad, it is always with us, and that is unfortunate; it is just the way things are, whether we like it or not. It provides a need and an impetus for us to improve our minds, to escape the suffering that comes from craving in the face of those sad facts.

A very different take on that gap comes from Jacobin senior editor Alex Caring-Lobel in the Springer Handbook of Mindfulness, which collects over thirty essays objecting to the modern mindfulness movemennt. These essays take particular objection to David Gelles’s claim that “stress emanates from a mismatch between our expectation of how things should be and the way things are”.

https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2026/07/the-gap-is-not-glorious/

[PDF] Constructing Cultural Nationalism: Ideology, Popular Culture, and the Strategic Use of Knowledge and Entertainment

RI Biju

… of Hindutva from Ratnagiri Jail in 1921, a text published in 1923. As Janaki Bakhle,
in her seminal 2024 study Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva, incisively observes,
this work constituted a critical epistemic rupture in the genealogy of Hindu …

[HTML] Writing Against History/Memory. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Language, and Regional Print Media in Assam

M Deka - South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2026

This article links linguistic nationalism and print media by inspecting narratives from
four newspapers popular in Assam, a northeast Indian state, at the time when
spontaneous mobilizations against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 …

Politics of Love: Fearsome Alliance of Hindu Women and Muslim Men

S Sharma - Violence Against Women, 2026

… of the Hindu right-wing, as well as during participant observations at events of
Hindutva organizations, was the use of fear. On all occasions, my … It also helped
disseminate Hindutva ideologies to the public and mobilize public support. To …

[HTML] Friday essay: Bollywood helped make me–now, it projects Modi's Indian nationalism

V Mishra - The Conversation, 2026

… Yet in both films, a Hindutva cultural unity of the nation is endorsed. … In
extending and embracing a new Hindutva triumphalism, and internalising it, the new
hegemony of Bollywood is complete. The joys of Empire Theatre are now no more …

Hinduism Among Eco-spirituality, Online Pujas, and Interreligious Engagement

B Fraioli - Religious Green Innovations: Technologies …, 2026

… The category of militant Hindu environmentalists sometimes blends Hindu
nationalism ( Hindutva) with ecological concerns. Their perspective may include
cultural protectionism, sacred groves, cow protection (gau raksha) , and anti-Western …

[PDF] Affordance folklore: Truth, community and visibility during Sri Lanka's Internet shutdowns

C Ryder - New Media & Society, 2026

… Given Kashmir is a separatist state almost entirely composed of Kashmiri Muslims,
the Indian government’s decision to target this specific region and ethnic group with
Internet shutdowns appears to reflect the sectarian Hindutva politics of the ruling …

Historical revisionism in contemporary India: an analysis of the Mann Ki Baat broadcasts

A Phadnis, A Priyadarshi, S Mishra - Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 2026

Following success in the 2014 national elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
initiated a novel communication programme called Mann Ki Baat (MKB), which
constituted monthly speeches broadcast over the radio. The content of the speeches …

[PDF] Men and Masculinities in the Global South

J Loureiro

… The first section highlights thematic shifts in the field, beginning in the 1990s,
when “Indian masculinity” gained prominence as a response to the rise of Hindutva
ideology. Subsequent decades saw the inclusion of caste, sexuality, class, and …

[PDF] Reclaiming the Past: Filipino Social Sciences and the Global Struggle Against Authoritarian Historical Myths

JC Punongbayan

This paper examines how Filipino social scientists have responded to the
resurgence of Marcos-era authoritarian myths and disinformation, set against a
global rise of democratic backsliding and authoritarian revisionism. Drawing on …

Reflections on Peace Studies and Education

JS Moolakkattu - Building Peace: Reflections of Eminent Educators …, 2026

… But recent events suggest that the type of Hinduism represented by its modern
proponents, known as Hindutva, imitates the same Abrahamic religions. This is in
contrast to the Hinduism that Gandhi advocated. Gandhi created a view of religion …