Even
the most careful observation we can make of the physical world fails to show us
the action of free will. While an innate and extremely precise and powerful
intelligence clearly has developed the material world, everything seems to be
acting under very specific laws. There is no room for any kind of innovative
and unscripted action in the material field.
With
the development of the life energy, as Sri Aurobindo points out, we begin to
see some other principles of action emerge. We begin to see options,
opportunities and a process of selection which seems to be less bound to
inflexible and unchanging laws.
The
development of the mental energy provides a further impetus to the concept of
free will… This essential response of the mind to the opportunities for
development is not necessarily a solution to the question of free will versus a
larger determinism, but it provides us with the sense of intuition that may
represent the working of a greater Truth beyond the limits that the mind can
effectively grasp, and provides us substance for our further review in this
direction.
The
point is that today we need to find the will to believe a little, to affirm a
little, and to commit a little. Marx called for “the ruthless critique of
all existing things”, yet that stance has today become the most reactionary and
ineffectual position at all. In the absence of daring to affirm certain
things as real and true, we leave all intact as it is. Only where we
abandon our foundationalist, obsessional assumptions, our desire to have the
truth before we pursue the truth, our intoxication with epistemology, will we
be able to move beyond this paralysis.
Multiple Book Discussion on Wednesday, 12 December 2012 from Taylor & Francis India Blog by Taylor & Francis
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Routledge
India Originals organised
a multiple book discussion in collaboration with International Research
Network on Religion and Democracy on Wednesday, 12 December 2012, at
the R. K. Khanna Tennis Complex, New
Delhi . 40 participants graced the occasion.
‘The Maoist Movement in India: Perspectives and
Counterperspectives’ book launch on 11th December 2012 from Taylor & Francis India Blog by Taylor & Francis
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We
successfully launched ‘The Maoist
Movement in India : Perspectives
and Counter perspectives’ edited by Santosh Paul on Tuesday, 11th December
2012 at The India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi . The event was attended by more than 50 people
which included professors, academicians, social workers, policy makers,
bureaucrats and friends.
The
launch was chaired by Dr. Shashank S Sinha: Publishing Director,
Routledge India India
It
would be hard for any reader now to keep up just with Indian novels,
or books on Indian history, or Indian narrative non-fiction, let alone books
from all these diverse fields. My list is no more than a small, very personal
selection of the many high-quality new books published in India over the
last two years…
I
read it twice. The book is an elegant and unpartisan meditations on one of the
great issues of our age: markets and their limits, and offers a roadway to
rescuing free-market thinking from its more fanatical adherents. Chapter 1 of
the book is here; you couldn't improve your brain more for an investment of Rs. 303. Basu's Twitter feed is
consistently good reading too.
I
have crossed out "turned Rishi" because that suggests an old formula
of the past, and the future poet should exceed all past formulas. -Sri
Aurobindo (5.2.1934, CWSA: LPA.27.218)
+
+ +
Saying
a mantra of the old gods puts you under the influence and into the orbit of
precisely that which resists the new truth... and lead(s) astray those who are
not sincere enough to want ONE SINGLE THING: the new world. -Satprem (Mother's
Agenda: 4.344)
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