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Thanks.
We will miss Arindam da’s frankness and straightforwardness. He was there to correct slightest incorrectness in presentation of Sri
Aurobindo’s Teachings.
Many summers later… Vikram Kapur looks at the many faces
of Corbett’s Nainital. The Hindu July 14, 2012
Nainital
is not just about long-gone British hunters and plainspeople seeking to escape
the summer heat. It is also home to Van Niwas, a branch of the Sri Aurobindo
ashram. The ashram, which was established in 1966, sits high up in the hills
round the city. The road, leading to it, is badly rutted. Yet the bumpy ride
seems worth it, as we drive in through the gates. The thick foliage, the woods,
the silence after the clamour of the city centre… All of it engenders a serene
feeling of calm. I am taken aback to see children playing with a tennis ball.
Youth camps: Dr.
Ramesh Bijlani, from the Delhi
branch of the ashram who is conducting some of the study camps, tells me youth
camps are very much a part of the summer schedule.
Sri
Aurobindo was a firm believer in not neglecting the body, and the main focus of
the youth camps is physical activity such as trekking and rock climbing. “Many
children come with their parents who are attending the study camps,” Dr.
Bijlani says.
The
study camps are meant for adults and are far more spiritual in nature. Dr.
Bijlani is a former medical doctor who taught on the faculty of the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences for nearly 30 years before taking voluntary
retirement in 2005. He has written books on nutrition and yoga. He is
conducting a special camp, meant for allopathic doctors, that focuses on the
relationship between a healthy mind and a healthy body. Twenty doctors have
registered. Over tea he explains why the resistance to the mind-body
relationship is considerably greater in the Indian medical community as opposed
to the West. “They are reluctant to accept anything that is not part of
conventional allopathic training,” he says. “Furthermore, in India we still
live in an age of convention where spirituality is connected with religion.”
LOVE:
the Link Between Earth and Heaven By Ramesh Bijlani on Jul 12,
2012 68 Views 2
responses
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our earth starts from mud and ends in sky, And Love that was once an animal’s
desire, Then a sweet madness in the rapturous heart, An ardent comradeship in
the happy mind, Becomes a wide spiritual yearning’s space. SRI AUROBINDO (In:
Savitri, Book 10, Canto 3, p. 632) Love is the one emotion worth retaining even
when all others have been driven out. Emotions originate in the non-ration.. more »
Is Spirituality Opportunistic? – speaking tree By: Ramesh Bijlani on May
09, 2012 2259 Views 37
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Spiritual
growth is the very purpose of life. Thus, the spiritual viewpoint makes it
possible to use everything that we do, and everything that happens to us in
life, for moving towards the goal of life. As Sri Aurobindo has said, “All life
is yoga”. That does not mean all life, no matter how lived, is yoga. What it
means is that all life gives us an opportunity for the practice of yoga. To
illustrate this point, let us take three major aspects of life – the work that
we do, the people in our lives, and the happenings in our lives…
Seeing
the Divine in all is a part of spiritual growth. Thus, the people whom we
dislike are an opportunity for spiritual growth. Therefore, we should welcome
the Ravana in our life – be it the spouse, the mother-in-law, or the boss!
Obsessive-compulsive spirituality by Dr Ramesh Bijlani 28
Dec 2010 – In this context, Dr Ramesh Bijlani, who is currently affiliated with the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram in Delhi ,
has written a perspicacious article detailing ...
"In
analyses ranging over mythology and paleontology, contemporary technoscience
and phenomenology, Stiegler has developed a highly original philosophy of
technology, the central premise of which is that the human has always been
technological. Drawing on the perspective of French paleontologist Andre
Leroi-Gourhan, who argues for the coincidence of tool use and the appearance of
the human, Stiegler claims that the human can be specified as that being who evolves
through means other than life, through a coupling with the independent
’exterior’ evolution of technological objects. This insistence on the
correlation of the human subject (the ’who’) and the technical object (‘the
what’) informs Stiegler’s rereading of Heidegger"
Indian Political Thought - Page 401 - Urmila
Sharma, S.K.
Sharma - 2001 - 416 pages - Preview Such great men as Sri Aurobindo and MK Gandhi have always made the mistake of
assuming that whatever they achieve in their individual lives can also be
achieved at the collective level. For example, in his concept of basic
education ...
The social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Ram
Nath Sharma - 1980 - 230 pages - SRI AUROBINDO AND MK GANDHI Mass appeal of Gandhi's social
philosophy If we may compare any contemporary Indian social philosopher with
Karl Marx, from the point of view of his influence on the life of the
masses, ...
Trends
In Contemporary Indian Philosophy Of Education A Critical ... - Page 184 -
G.R.
Sharma - 2003 - Preview This spiritual nationalism inspired not only the
aims and ideals but also the detailed outlines of the educational philosophies
of Vivekananda, Dayananda, Sri Aurobindo
and MK Gandhi. Cosmopolitanism is the key note to ...
A
companion to Sanskrit literature: spanning a period of over ... - Page 188
- Sures
Chandra Banerji - 1971 - 729 pages - Preview Of the modern commentators, the chief are BG Tilak,
Sri Aurobindo and MK Gandhi.
[Reprinted from the critical ed. of the Bhisma-parvan of the Mahabharata, ed.
SK Belvalkar, BORI, Poona ,
1945. See. FO Schrader, The Kashmir Recension
of ...
Documents on political thought in modern India: Volume 1 - 1973
- GK Gokhale, BG Tilak, Sri Aurobindo
and MK Gandhi are among the thinkers whose names are important in
this debate. (See Documents 64, 65, 82 to 221 (or the ideas of Gokhale, Tilak
and Gandhi.) Aurobindo Ghosc (as he then was) took the ...
India's development and public policy - Stuart
S. Nagel - 2000 - 201 pages - Aurobindo and MK Gandhi. Before Independence , the reformers worked for the
emancipation of women from the shackles of illogical orthodoxies, blind
superstitions, unhealthy traditions and customs. Their approach was based on an
integral ...
Indian
political thinking in the twentieth century, from Naoroji ... - Angadipuram
Appadorai - 1971 - 189 pages - Sri Aurobindo and MK Gandhi were foremost among the thinkers who
worked out the theoretical conceptions of non-co-operation and passive resistance.
It is not widely known that the theory of civil disobedience had its critics as
well, ...
Participation in the development process: grassroot experiences
- Ganapathy
Palanithurai - 1996 - 201 pages - ... of humanity in the path of evolution in the modern
context.7 Though a galaxy of saints in the East contributed heavily towards
this theory, Sri Aurobindo and MK
Gandhi have been much referred to time and again to explain the
theory.
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