"Babulal Doshi requested me to invite Dhiraj Chavda, a well-known photographer to visit Cuttack, to take photographs of dancers, of temples of Bhubaneswar and Konark." [The Gotipua boy dancers of Odisha who performed as women - SUNIL KOTHARI] @OdiaCulture https://t.co/A6jetEiOeu
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1056273246180433921?s=19
Books of Stephen Hawking, Fukuyama, and Huntington made huge impact before the arrival of Internet but no one can impress to such an extent any more. Old religions and scriptures seem to hold some appeal but only superficially. Hard-nosed seeking of material gains has taken over.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1056215250046017541?s=19
The promises of Science, Social Science, and New Age optimism have wilted. Euphoria generated due to Social Media facilitating networking has evaporated, significantly. No example of any progress of society or principles for betterment of community is in sight. Commerce goes on.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1056221490083880960?s=19
There are any number of intellectuals now steeped in religion and Indian philosophy. Power has enabled them to express enormous optimism about the future. Of course they curse most other countries than India. But they rely on tradition and that is no sure foundation for Evolution
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1056225643409563648?s=19
The author is dead but each text including temple sculpture remind of Freud. Sex is local and contextual and hence all generalised conceptions of occurrence or deterrence are merely suppositions or entertaining conjectures. Culture however is layers of falsehood over naked Nature.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1056254520039215105?s=19
"We think we’re talking about morality, but actually we’re just left with the fragments of morality. What’s been lost is the central idea of human beings as creatures with an inherent end or purpose."
Edward Skidelsky picks the best books on Virtue.
https://t.co/G3zEfoxuPD
Exploring the Meaning of the Concept of Culture in a Society https://t.co/lMvETJoICL
https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1056300884290924550?s=19
Dear men, sign up now. YouToo must become part of #MeToo: Sagarika Ghose Dear Indian men, The #MeToo movement is almost a month old, but many of you are missing in action. In fact, some of you even seem angry, dismissive, increasingly scoffing at… https://t.co/bJvsaQ6i7l https://t.co/WBxXsJckDZ
‘The India of my dreams’ – an eclectic journey of the mind: Part 3: Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi Part Three: The India of my dreams – Attacking the curable cancer of corruption The second item on my wish list would necessarily have to be the issue of… https://t.co/NbwmErf07C https://t.co/77i5DToray
Rta, Satya, Dharma and Runa the four pillars and unique contributions of India to the world says Sandeep Balakrishnan @dharmadispatch at #JaipurDialogues
https://twitter.com/arvindneela/status/1056440444295495680?s=19
Prime Minister Modi spoke of SPM's life having 3 dimensions: "Vidya", "Vitta", "Vikas"... SPM's role as a union minister saw him undertake far reaching initiatives, his stressed on MSMEs, infrastructure, handloom, textile, cottage industry to defence indigenisation 1/2 https://t.co/Od4E0jf8SQ
https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1056240430331953153?s=19
There would have been no West Bengal had #SyamaPrasadMookerjee not intervened & altered the current & course of history. #WestBengal has to rediscover & re-interpret the legacy of SPM & align with a transformative governance vision & action that will see the rise of eastern India https://t.co/wdZhh8PTY0
https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1056243344437854213?s=19
Nivedita had a close friendship with Aurobindo, edited his newspaper Karma Yogin, she was one of the major influences on him. In effect she played a major role in the Bengal Renaissance, helping people financially, giving them the guidance and support.
https://twitter.com/GabbarSanghi/status/1056423396718702592?s=19
Nivedita was in close touch with revolutionaries of the Anushilan Samity, many of whom were inspired by her writings. When Lord Curzon tried to claim the superiority of the West, she exposed how he had resorted to fraud for his own purposes.
Curzon was forced to apologize, after newspapers like Anand Bazar Patrika, carried her statements exposing his duplicity. When Bengal erupted against Curzon's decision to partition in 1905, Nivedita again supported the movement financially, backing the rebels.
......would remain absorbed in perusal of Bankimchandra's novels, Vivekananda's Raja Yoga or Science of Religion, or the Gita, the Puranas or Books on European Philosophy.
----Sri Aurobindo in Tales of Prison Life about books read by #IndianRevolutionaries Alipore Bomb Case https://t.co/nuLUPM0ZFM
https://twitter.com/mtr_ritesh/status/1056263268736688128?s=19
#SriAurobindo by Promode Kumar Sen is not only a biography of the spiritual guru but also an analysis of the Congress party during the independence movement and the Spiritual Yoga developed by Sri Aurobindo.
Get your copy of the book now at: https://t.co/DoJdOL9Tyh https://t.co/BAtHPx2c4r
Join us for the Session "Sri Aurobindo's Idea of Spiritual Nationalism-Going beyond European Idea of Nation states" at @mlrlitfest
#MangaluruLitFest https://t.co/f2goHW5PsV
Actually here Sri Aurobindo was answering the charge made against Indians that they were politically incapable and thus were subject to invasions and internal fissures for such a long time.. https://t.co/SGshZn3i1w
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1056066531241582592?s=19
Sri Aurobindo's main argument was that the method of a centralised empire could not truly succeed in India due to her peculiar nature, stressing on a deeper spiritual unity, while yet it seemed the only device possible & thus was attempted again & again.. https://t.co/Z8XgKzBYp5
Actually this is a lesson for all those who constantly lambaste Hindus for their "lack of unity"..Yes there's a coarsening of Hindu mind, but the deeper unity is still there, & the political problems we face are mostly due to the imposition of a foreign political system on India.
Well the arrival of British was one way in which nature attempted to unify India politically, but our own leadership failed us.. Only once Pakistan is dissolved can there be a start of a true Indian federation (Akhand Bharat)..
Mr Hamid Ansari may please refer to Sri Aurobindo's Message on the eve of Independence 15.08.1962
You may got in Sri @_LKAdvani 's Autobiography
#MyCountryMyLife https://t.co/ka2dNMGDpd
https://twitter.com/KrishnaKabeer/status/1056263872795963392?s=19
It starts. @davidfrawleyved on his " How I became a Hindu" #blrlitfest https://t.co/tishC4g7R1
https://twitter.com/Sai_swaroopa/status/1056060044075323392?s=19
Starts talking about his introduction to Hinduism the through Yoga and then the teachings of Adi Sankara, Ramana Maharishi and Sri Aurobindo #blrlitfest
How Left Bastion JNU Plans To Be At The Forefront Of Indic Renaissance Through Its New Sanskrit School https://t.co/qll9RbWfdk via @swarajyamag
Some achievement today. Obtained this set. Finally! 😀 #HistoryOfDharmaShastra #PVKane https://t.co/sJQdsHksyd
https://twitter.com/pranasutra/status/1056109242569187328?s=19
He mentions Harbilas Sarda's 'Superiority of Hindu Civilization'! Sarda brought the single most important act that empowered women of India. #JaipurDialogues https://t.co/KaJWS3gqvD
https://twitter.com/arvindneela/status/1056444480679743489?s=19
Sri Aurobindo on Consciousness and Force: Dissonance in the being https://t.co/uJ8PPcqtES
Interaction with Tara Didi Sourcing Our Oneness Camp, Nainital 2018 https://t.co/evtn59y7Cz
In my opinion the most vicious, communal and crooked people are those who keep bringing up ‘Manusmriti’ as their best attack on Hinduism. A typical Commies tactic. But too obsolete now. https://t.co/1UsSMk1e0e
https://twitter.com/vivekagnihotri/status/1056414980302610432?s=19
Abrahmic holy books are full of verses that go against modern values, yet none cites them. Hindu smritis are not even revealed holy books and are time bound and temporal that can be and have been discarded. Yet a few un-modern versed are cited again and again to shame Hindus
https://twitter.com/UttamKu53315958/status/1056447370664103938?s=19
The One Personality Trait That is Ripping America (And the World) Apart - Scientific American Blog Network https://t.co/9xLltF7bRJ
highly antagonistic leaders can arouse and influence wide swaths of people who score extremely high in this trait through their rhetoric and messaging.
Five lessons an Indian author learned at Europe’s biggest science fiction and fantasy convention https://t.co/alEsLxAEkf https://t.co/D7Hlaneim6
Several weeks ago, Prof. Edward Kelly (University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences) and myself wrote an essay on Scientific American criticizing how recent research on psychedelics has been misinterpreted and misrepresented. Now, six researchers have written a reply to our criticisms, on that same forum. This post is my personal rejoinder: a commentary on, and answer to, their reply. [...]
Our original criticism wasn’t against the psychedelic research itself. I applaud it and believe such research should continue to be funded and even prioritized. It has important applications, as well as important philosophical implications. Our criticism was against the way the research is routinely and repeatedly misinterpreted and misrepresented. The researchers’ reply, in my view, did not meaningfully address our criticisms in this regard. It left the important points unaddressed, created and burned straw men, got lost in semantic games, and even misled its readership by further misrepresenting the experimental results in question (see Section 4 above). If anything, it has made the situation worse. We, as a community, have missed another opportunity to get the facts straight. Instead, we’ve invested time, effort and media space in becoming more entrenched in earlier errors.
Enlightenment thinkers (& modernists) think history, hence progress, is linear. But history is cyclical, and progress is spiral (ratcheting up to new & improved cycles). Thinking progress is an illusion is the same, but opposite error of the people you are critiquing.
https://twitter.com/haig/status/1056372717929132032?s=19
Human nature must progress as well, agreed, but how can it if people like Gray and those who keep quoting him deny the very notion to begin with. FWIW, the science & engineering of human nature is what spirituality is all about (esoteric, don't confuse w/ exoteric institutions)
It's not about fully controlling anything, as the ancients said, it's about adhering to nature's flow and building the proper vessels for it's unfolding & expression. And, as a spiritual transhumanist, I don't think core human nature can be bound to a static conception of it.
Ya, the term is problematic, I dont like most modern materialistic techno-fetish transhumanism either, I should specify as integral-transhumanist, integral more in the Sri Aurobindo sense than Wilber, but I like both, if that means anything to you. ;)
https://twitter.com/haig/status/1056386536533516288?s=19
No scripture including Vedas can be understood by common man. Even commentators interpret them as per their own understanding which is never perfect. I understood them when I re-read them after enlightenment. Spiritual matters can't be understood w/o 1st hand experience. Thread..
It is necessary to understand the spiritual part of scriptures by all. You can get a hint of it in Aurobindo's work on part of RigVeda in English. (I don't remember exact name of the book. I read it in his complete works.)
Everything one needs to know about spirituality is summed up in my pinned tweets. Rest is the method of meditation to learn.
Normally people think that all religions & even all Sanskrit scriptures contain different teachings. But other than their historical & philosophical contents, the spiritual teachings in all r same.
https://twitter.com/DrPrabuddhaGhan/status/1056432088075792384?s=19
#Religion is one. All #prophets taught same religion in different words. Ppl follow inessentials leaving aside the #core of their #teachings
https://twitter.com/DrPrabuddhaGhan/status/875919785372069888?s=19
Hindus r inhuman in nature, do antireligious activities in name of religion, illegal activities in name of nationalism, & call themselves #sanskaari(cultured), religious & nationalists.
If I quote scriptures & say they will be destroyed by Kalki, they will call me #antinational.
https://twitter.com/DrPrabuddhaGhan/status/1056399756426006528?s=19
Hindus, if possible, will revive all their old #Traditions, eg. Human_sacrifice, Sati, Thuggery etc, but not the spiritual religion of sages described in all scriptures. Because by nature they love hatred, violence, cruelty, cheating etc, not true religion. They are not humans.
The Mother: Those who still believe in gods can certainly continue to worship them if they feel like it-- but they must know that this creed and this worship has nothing to do with the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and no connection whatever with the Supramental Realisation.
https://twitter.com/pkghosh50/status/1056385911829581824?s=19
8 hours ago - His book, The Myth of The Aryan Invasion, one of many on the subject, has been taken from his own study of Vedanta through Sri Aurobindo, Sri Paramahamsa ...
19 hours ago - In that course, with absolute sincerity I was introducing the young learners to a wide spectrum of ideas, from Vivekananda's Practical Vedanta to Sri Aurobindo's
It was not always easy. Ambedkarites did not always feel happy when I referred to Gandhi; nor did the Marxists like the idea of referring to Vivekananda or Aurobindo in the class (in fact, the leftist student I just referred to thought that I was taking a ‘rightist’ turn by including select readings from the collected works of Vivekananda and Aurobindo).
Symposium in Memory of XuFancheng
Youth Ki Awaaz-25-Oct-2018
He had the opportunity to study at Shantiniketan, and learn Indian philosophy and wisdom under Sri Aurobindo and Ms. Mirra Alfasa (the Mother).
Sri Aurobindo and India's Rebirth by Michel Danino: Review
Free Press Journal-20-Oct-2018
The above incident mentioned on page number 164 of Sri Aurobindo and India's Rebirth edited by Padma Shri Michel Danino, French-born Indian author and ...
Religion
Times Herald-Record-25-Oct-2018
Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center: 1218 Wittenberg Road. Reading and meditation, 9 a.m. Sat. Readings are chosen from the writings of Indian philosopher Sri .
Madurai Today
The Hindu (press release)-26-Oct-2018
Sri Aurobindo Study Forum: Discourse on Sri Aurobindo's 'Life Divine' by ...
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