December 27, 2018

To be calm, relaxed, and confident

[PDF] JC Bose's Scientific Inventions Confirmed the Truth of Consciousness
A Mukhopadhyay - IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities), 2018
… that strange life whose truth an Indian scientist has brought to light by rigidly scientific methods, are all movements of consciousness.” Sri Aurobindo confirmed. Introduction … Mother (Spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo) had …

[PDF] THE FRENCH INDIA AND FIRST WORLD WAR
R Velmurugan
… The young Bengal revolutionaries Aurobindo Ghosh made trip from the Tiny settlement of Chandernagore to Pondicherry.2 Besides Aurobindo Ghosh, a number of leaders like Subramania Bharathi, and VVS Aiyar were already taking shelter in Pondicherry …

Dec 10, 2013 - What marks Sri Aurobindo's interpretation of the symbolism of theaswa or horse is a consistency that is carried over into his epic both for an artistic recreation of the Savitri legend as well as for an illustration of the might that comes to a man who has mastered the powers which a horse stands for in Vedic parlance ...

Assorted tweets:

Just in:  Biology and ‘gyana’ of living with a dice-loving God: Samir Shukla As the year is about to get over, it is tempting to look back at it to find out what may make it memorable for the future generations. Trump or Modi may get some faint… https://t.co/XzrWaLaqYi https://t.co/WZBXwv1YRC

"Even though women were often denied a place in the political forum, when it came to religion they had a lot more power than many people are aware of. ” 
Bettany Hughes (@bettanyhughes) delves into priestesses and goddesses in ancient religion. https://t.co/hzdmNpJh7S

"If you don’t know any Kant or Plato or the pre-Socratics, you’re not going to understand a lot of what’s motivating Nietzsche, what he’s reacting against."
Brian Leiter's (@brianleiter) recommendations on Nietzsche https://t.co/q2ejG8fkZQ

"The quality of great literature is that it contains timeless truths. It is like a kaleidoscope – our understanding of the text will change according to the way that we ourselves change."
A #readinglist on Ancient Rome by Tom Holland (@holland_tom) https://t.co/6tT0WRdxuw

“The horse needs the rider to be calm, relaxed and confident because that will transfer through to the horse.”
Mary King MBE, the World Championship winning horse rider, discusses her favourite books on the #equestrian life.
https://t.co/hKlOkBcd5P

An interesting read by @BernardoKastrup about the nature of time. His article hints toward the importance of mindfulness / present-moment-awareness from a slightly different angle than usual: https://t.co/8VVQWb9O0N @NondualScience

Psychologists are of the view that in a poor country like India there is a whole  world of pent up emotions/feelings. Overt display of religiosity during festivals act as a safety valve for the release of these bottled up emotions. If such things are not allowed, ppl could go mad https://t.co/RNXQH2R6hQ
https://twitter.com/indiaonthe_move/status/1077922158473502720?s=19
Some thoughts on why festivals are necessary & important https://t.co/JvUAV1J7Ia

Friend of mine had theory that Indian batsmen are the wristiest in the world because no one masturbates as much as Indian guys and this makes their wrist muscles very strong. This guy also theorized that Indian didn’t produce genuine quicks because Indians don’t eat beef. Discuss
https://twitter.com/IndiaExplained/status/1077796778877960192?s=19

Amol Palekar: India Needs the Ambiguity of Grey, Not the Intolerance of Black & White https://t.co/B8vwIOnVMv via @thewire_in

The Value of Religion and Art to the Human Spirit https://t.co/dT03lDkO8w

From a series of 15 contemplations, written by Indra Sen.
"Ah, to get over being a... https://t.co/Euw8yX1pbU

#ScrollMagazine | Astad Deboo looks back on his 50 years in dance and the time he travelled on a ship with goats https://t.co/D8JTb45EzM https://t.co/QuS2pSR2hD

After being accused of sexual harassment, Suhel Seth gets married to girlfriend Lakshmi Menon https://t.co/qgRykFQN3a

Abhinavagupta — and the loss of India’s intellectual and cultural integrity https://t.co/CMsxVGfDPA via @dna @MakrandParanspe

#_From_The_Archives_ | @SGurumurthy : Patriotism, nationalism, nation and country are not ind­ependent concepts. They are so inter-related that none of them can be comprehended in isolation https://t.co/Z8TZfjXrwU

This is scary. As scary as influence of American soft power in Indian security establishment which @BharatKarnad talks about in detail in his latest book 'Staggering Forward'. https://t.co/x9GupxRQOU
https://twitter.com/haryannvi/status/1078168216000548865?s=19

This week I wrote a column about the increasing, all-consuming fakeness of the internet https://t.co/ZKzciFinDm

Barkha Dutt was the first Indian newsperson to speak with a natural accent in English instead of that haw haw Anglophile accent (of which the worst example is Karan Thapar) & transformed newscasting.Wish we also had good cricket commentators who spoke in their own natural accents
https://twitter.com/IndiaExplained/status/1078178162750644227?s=19

I to always say, leader follower relationship is that of mental slavery. Hence no leader vanguard Icon or god. Basically they are same. #BanEVM
https://twitter.com/deepakbhx/status/1078176979663302657?s=19

The whole history of Evolution and hereditary traits form human behaviour which changes with one's age. One learns from different teachers and leaders throughout his or her life and hence any sense of autonomy is false and smacks of arrogance. Reading Sri Aurobindo is the answer.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1078187129241427968?s=19

It's no secret that writers, artists, and intellectuals need a measure of financial as well as political protection for carrying on their creative pursuit unhindered. But if they mortgage their conscience by sacrificing all parameters of objectivity, then ethical standards suffer
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1078304129032761345?s=19

India is a British legacy, an anomaly. Linguistic States are real Nations which must get liberation for people's self-determination
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/790200975646597121?s=19

Sri Aurobindo on Consciousness and Force: Disharmony between and within each plane of Consciousness https://t.co/uJ8PPcqtES

THE TIGER AND THE DEER, a poem by Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/LUvfAbugI5

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The album “India And Her Future” is a compilation of spoken words, hymns and devotional songs based on the ...


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Longings for The Mother (7): Mother, You were Mother, but we were not Children -Ah, to get over being a grown-up, responsible, anxious, apprehensive, calculating, important, ‘wise’, was a relief — a real relief. And to be a simple li...

The Value of Religion and Art to the Human Spirit - For most people, the vast majority of our time, and the primary focus of our attention, is spent on material needs and desires and human relationships, in ...

Catherine Keller: The Cosmopolitical Entanglements of Process-Relational Theology -In what follows, I offer some reflections on the feminist process theologian Catherine Keller’s book Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planeta...

The Rest of the World, pt. 2: Guest Post by David Kishik - [Editor’s Note: The following is the first part of a guest post by David Kishik, whose The Book of Shem: On Genesis Before Abraham was recently released by...

Progress, Poverty, Liberty, Markets & the State - Such a relief to hear @piyushgoyal espouse balanced views on religion and community based issues. I hope we have more like him who are open minded and deve...

Favorite Music Videos, 2018 - Here is a rough list of my favorite music videos for 2018. It was complied fairly casually, so I may well have forgotten something. As for the order, the t...

The case for individual teleology - The big problem with the relative lack of philosophical attention given to qualitative individualism is that the ideal has had … Continue reading →

A conversation with Yuri Slezkine - As the final installment of the Fall 2018 book forum on *The House of Government*, forum co-curators Sonja Luehrmann and Todd Weir interviewed author Yuri ...

The Bridge of Love - One more love story? Aren’t all love stories alike? Maybe. But this one is different. Pondicherry is a unique place in the world. It has beautiful villas b...

Ramkaran Sharma, 1927-2018 - From Robert P. Goldman on the Indology discussion list comes the sad news of R.K. Sharma’s passing: Sharma was one of the great stalwarts of Sanskrit Studi...

- In The Atlantic, the spectral presence of Smart Compose. Some might think I’m being histrionic when I say that Gmail’s auto-reply function fills me with *...

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF EXECUTION — M.S. Srinivasan - (Review of the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ramcharan, Business Books) Contemporary management ...

To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude (Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo) - To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo A series of essays written in commemoration of Sri Aurobindo’s passing. The words o...

Death in the forest - *Something had come there conscious, vast and dire.* *Botanical Name**: Gomphrena Globosa* *Common Name**: Globe...

Sri Aurobindo was a universal person - It's futile to try to understand Divine Mother by recounting some of the events from her life spanning nearly a century but even that seems to take many ma...

Remembering Mona Pinto on her 107th Birth Anniversary - Dear Friends, Ethel Anne Lovegrove better known as Mona Pinto (11 November 1911—21 May 2004) came to Pondicherry in January 1937 and married Udar Pinto in ...

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