Savitri Era Learning Forum: S.K.Chakraborty, Aravindan Neelakandan, and Anurag Banerjee

Aravindan Neelakandan on how India has shaped the thinking of some of the pioneers in science & digital worlds http://t.co/Oxzc1EPVAJ

However, the connections between India and evolution of connectivity goes back to 1920s. In 1929, German physicist Werner Heisenberg, a pioneer of quantum mechanics, spent some time in India as the guest of Rabindranath Tagore. He had long conversations with the poet about science and Indian philosophy. He observed that some of the quantum mechanics ideas that seemed ‘weird’, like interconnectedness (not only is the behaviour of a sub-atomic particle affected by the simple act of being observed, but its behaviour can also affect how another seemingly arbitrary particle far away from the first one behaves) formed the very basis of the Indian spiritual traditions. “After these conversations with Tagore, some of the ideas that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me,” Heisenberg told Fritjof Capra.

यादगार अनुभव है, प्रोफेसर चक्रवर्ती को सुनना

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वेदांत रिसर्च सेंटर ने (रविवार, 4 अप्रैल को आयोजित कार्यक्रम में) प्रोफेसर एसके चक्रवर्ती को रांची न्योता है. पिछले वर्ष उन्होंने आइआइएम से अवकाश ग्रहण किया है. उनके कार्यों से इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ मैनेजमेंट, कलकत्ता को नयी पहचान मिली. पूरी दुनिया में भारतीय मनीषा-परंपरा-आध्यात्मिक मूल्यों की आधुनिक प्रासंगिकता बतानेवाले ज्ञान केंद्र ‘मैनजमेंट सेंटर फार ह्यूमन वैल्यूज’(संक्षेप में एमसीएचवी), आइआइएम कलकत्ता के वह संस्थापक हैं. प्रबंधन के स्तर पर दुनिया की आधुनिक चुनौतियों के भारतीय समाधान की लेबोरेटरी. एक जीवित ॠषि की साकार मूर्त कल्पना. एक ऐसा संस्थान, जो आनेवाली आधुनिक दुनिया-पीढ़ियों की जरूरत बनती जायेगी.

भारतीय विजन, ॠषि परंपरा की ताकत जो पहचानना चाहते हैं, आधुनिक प्रबंधन की अवधारणा, उसकी सीमाएं या भारतीय चिंतन से विकसित उसके वैकल्पिक स्वरूप को जो समझना चाहते हैं, उनके लिए प्रोफेसर चक्रवर्ती का रांची कार्यक्रम एक रेयर अपारचुनिटी (दुर्लभ अवसर) है.

12-13 वर्षों पहले उन्हें पढ़ा. उनके लेखन-चिंतन का गहरा असर हुआ. किसी हद तक जादुई असर. ‘स्टेट्समैन’ में छपे उनके अनेक पुराने लेखों की कतरनें अक्सर उलटता हूं. वर्षों पहले ऑक्सफोर्ड प्रेस से छपी उनकी पुस्तक (1991) ‘मैनेजमेंट बाइ वैल्यूज’ की खास याद है. कलकत्ता से रांची लौटने की ट्रेन छूट रही थी. इसकी प्रति ढूंढ़ने के लिए दुकान-दुकान भटक रहा था. बाद में ऐसे ही ढूंढ़ कर दिल्ली से उनकी पुस्तकें ‘लीडरशिप एंड पावर’ (ऑक्सफोर्ड), ‘मैनेजेरिएल ट्रांसफॉरमेशन बाइ वैल्यूज’ (सेज पब्लिकेशंस), ‘वैल्यूज एंड एथिक्स फार आगनाइजेशन’ (आक्सफोर्ड) मंगवाई. ‘अंगेस्ट द टाइड’ (आक्सफोर्ड) पुस्तक प्रो चक्रवर्ती ने भेंट की.

प्रो चक्रवर्ती के लेख ताजा हवा के झोंके जैसे लगे. बिल्कुल मौलिक विचार. विकास की शुद्ध भारतीय अवधारणा. उन्हें पढ़ते हुए बार-बार प्रो आर्नाल्ड टायनबी की उक्ति याद आयी. स्वतंत्र होने की दहलीज पर भारत खड़ा था. पश्चिमी विकास मॉडल, यूरोपीय-अमेरिकन जीवन शैली-मूल्यों के अंतर्विरोध सामने आ चुके थे.

इस पश्चिमी अध:पतन के बीच टायनबी ने कहा कि संकटग्रस्त दुनिया को पूरब (आशय, भारत से) से रोशनी मिलेगी. पर भारत में गांधी की आभा अस्त होते ही विचारों-मूल्यों के स्तर पर दुनिया को नयी रोशनी-आभा देनेवाला तेज पुंज-लौ मद्धिम होता गया. भारत के लिए आदर्श हो गया ‘टायनबी का संकटग्रस्त यूरोपियन-अमेरिकन जीवन मूल्य. विकास माडल.’ 56 वर्षों तक पश्चिमी राह पर यात्रा के अनुभव साथ हैं. भ्रष्टाचार, भारत का नया जीवन मूल्य है. इसी संस्कृति की उपज. सोचने-समझने-विजन में भारत अपना अनूठापन खो चुका है.

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Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo were formally introduced to each other in 1906 at Calcutta. Soon they became colleagues at the newly formed National College (under the National Council of Education) at Calcutta; while Sri Aurobindo was associated with it as its first Principal and professor of history, Rabindranath served the college as the professor of Bengali. When Sri Aurobindo was arrested for the first time in 1907 for publishing seditious articles against the British Government in the Bande Mataram journal, Rabindranath wrote his famous poem Namaskar (Salutations) acknowledging the former’s profound sacrifice and expressing his own reverence for Sri Aurobindo. After Sri Aurobindo was released from imprisonment due to lack of evidence, Rabindranath paid him a visit at the residence of Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick in Wellington Square. As per reports available, he had embraced Sri Aurobindo and told him with a tender smile: “You have deceived me, Aurobindo Babu.” Sri Aurobindo answered: “Not for long, I assure you.” (Charu Chandra Dutta, My Friend and My Master, Sri Aurobindo Circle, Eight Number, p. 137, 1952)

Sri Aurobindo retired from active politics in 1910 and made Pondicherry the cave of his tapasya where he devoted his time to intense sadhana. There was no direct contact between Rabindranath and him till 1928 when Rabindranath—on his way to Colombo—sent a telegram to Sri Aurobindo and expressed his eagerness to meet the secluded yogi at Pondicherry. It is noteworthy that Sri Aurobindo had withdrawn into complete seclusion after November 1926 and neither did he grant private interviews to individuals nor did he appear before the public except on Darshan days. But he made an exception when he received Rabindranath’s telegram and agreed to meet him. Rabindranath arrived at Pondicherry on 29 May 1928 and was ushered to Sri Aurobindo’s apartments by Nolini Kanta Gupta, the Secretary of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Though Rabindranath spent half an hour in the company of Sri Aurobindo, nothing is known about the talks they had. However, Rabindranath penned his experiences of meeting Sri Aurobindo in two articles in English and Bengali which were published in The Modern Review and Probasi respectively both edited by Ramanananda Chatterjee.

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