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Among the Great, one of his most popular books, included his interactions with the likes of Rolland, Gandhi, Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo.
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Marg’s latest magazine “The Weight of a Petal: Ars Botanica”, edited by Sita Reddy is now available in select stores and online at http://bit.ly/2VAplCH
The issue attempts to decolonize the botanical art archives in India by inserting the names of hitherto anonymous Indian artists who created works for European and British Company officials.
Essays trace the multilayered histories of botanical art from decorations on architectural edifices in Mughal India to contemporary artists. The creation of botanic gardens, their archives in India and abroad and key collections in museums and universities are highlighted.
There's nothing called love! One of the most useless emotions that envelope a sane mind n turn it to insanity n expectations. Human love is need based. Cut it, scrap it, destroy it, live for duty! For rarely u get similar 'love' in reciprocation.
https://twitter.com/agg_garima/status/1085075772514226181?s=19
Human love is restricting, miserable, brings suffering except for worldly joys like progeny or momentarily physical bliss. Be a witness to it, don't participate. The only true love comes from within, the self, the eashwra!
The male female dichotomy of creation is just that, for creation. It needs to b only that much pleasure. For duty! Very difficult to follow, very difficult to quieten the mind, such is the power of maya n senses!
Takes lifetimes! Need based love is selfish, everybody ends up manipulating it... Of course, includes me. The aham in man can never die, only love in aatman can resolve that aham. I wish to achieve the state beyond aham. Of nothing but silence n bliss!
If love is done expecting reciprocation, its no love. Love is the essence of our existence and a primordial force. Deep introspection may reveal that every emotion incl. haterd is nothing but distorted form of love. Love is existence longing for Union with Divine
https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1085280427781312518?s=19
I agree with last line. Grihasthi needs reciprocation. That's why I called it need based love. It has to be witnessed as duty, is all I wanted to say. The need for sex should not color our minds n choose defeating patterns. That's not love!
https://twitter.com/agg_garima/status/1085372376618070018?s=19
Even worse, the idea of "romantic love" (which arises from "Romance novels" i.e. trashy works written in "Romance" aka Latin languages), according to Peck as a practicing psychologist, is hugely damaging to modern society. https://t.co/TuMaFrhyH5
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Popular ideas about love come from the Xtian obsession with this concept of "love" when they lack the very basic understanding of the way man-buddhi-chitta-ahamkara function. Best to unlearn this nonsense & learn basics from a dharmic POV!
https://twitter.com/tweeptastic/status/1085132561041539073?s=19
Bollywood Rom coms have destroyed mine and previous generations , and made us chase this carrot called love. Instead of educating us about the female nature of hypergamy
https://twitter.com/Twice_Borne/status/1085129863302766594?s=19
Love and romance is billed as this all encompassing feeling that lies above reason and reality. And that is why behaviour displayed due to unhealthy romantic ideals is normalised and often celebrated.
Historically women have been conditioned to aspire to marriage but not men (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie).
Which obviously creates an imbalance where a woman's maiden stature became a trading commodity.
Dating culture has since then evolved. A lot of the variable aspect of dating - meeting someone new, striking a conversation, etc takes place virtually. As our lives increasingly become isolated and saturated, seeking a romantic partnership is another "chore"
https://twitter.com/genderlogindia/status/1085953385537433601?s=19
Partnerships take place between equals. A barely legal adult woman is and cannot be the right partner for a 35 year old.
They aren't on equal footing and as a result the one with the more wealth, status or even life experiences inherently holds more power over the other.
https://twitter.com/genderlogindia/status/1085097640885284864?s=19
In order to understand power dynamics, an important part to keep in context is that toxic masculinity in a hetero-patriarchal structure relies on the possession and demonstration of power - real or supposed.
I've always had a dislike for the uncanny, for the middle ground--this is why I like top 40 & noise music, but hate alt rock, why I like classical instrumentation & synthesizers, but not bullshit like metal that uses symphonic elements.
https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1086407347608698880?s=19
It's why I find reading explicit fascists, conservatives & reactionaries (Schmitt, Strauss, Oakeshott, Gray, Benoist, etc) easier than reading gormless mealy mouthed middle ground cryptos, even as I despise what the explicits say.
But eventually one's meta- & tacit- knowledge improves enough (as a result, in part, of the content & 1st order knowledge) that one begins to see the horizon is vastly larger than what one has learned, and their knowledge/competence is far smaller relatively speaking.
Like I love modernist literature, and I love post-modern literature, but I largely dislike what lies between--the Beat generation, Hippies, literalism, and that which explicitly tries to reject them--the New Sincerity, DFW, anti-kitsch kitsch, etc bc it feels treacly & rote
https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1086418386723266561?s=19
Aristotle & Maimonidies both said that if you suffer from a deficit or a surplus in a virtue/vice, you should over-perform its opposite, bc then you'll end up in the golden middle, but over shoot too much and you alter its domain, and end up failing lol.
This is why brinksmanship leads to war, by the way, and its always why small fights between romantic couples can blister into all out conflicts.
The battle of the Vedic Gods and Titans is a perpetual conflict between Day and Night for the possession of the triple world of heaven, mid-air and earth and for the liberation or bondage of the mind, life and body of the human being, his mortality or his immortality.
It is waged by the Powers of a supreme Truth and Lords of a supreme Light against dark Powers who struggle to maintain the foundation of this falsehood in which we dwell and the iron walls of these hundred fortified cities of the Ignorance.
#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Vedas
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Cover by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (Original by Dhananjay Satpathy from AIR, Cuttack Sajafula for August 1969. Bana mayuri mo bayasi denare by Bhubaneswari Mishra was companion number besides the duet Jhumuku jhuma. Related: Bana hansi go pagala by Bhikari Bal) https://t.co/Ho90ySC3M2
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1084079804117368832?s=19
Ei desha ei mati, mamatamayi maa'ti. Serendipity
Regional Songs in Oriya and Telugu, NCAA: ISO 16363 Certified Trusted Digital Repository. https://t.co/T89XPa1u4G
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1086312041520852992?s=19
One thing that caught my attention is the old gramorecord by EMI -Gopalakushna Padabali.. Manasija Manamohana,Uthilu Ede Begi,Ae Ghana Dina Eka,Sangini re, Shyama Ku Juhaar,Munha Munhi Kishora,Ki Naada re,Jala Anee Jae, Shyama Apabada,Kadamba Bane etc @OdiaCulture @pattaprateek https://t.co/krTkDoR9zO
https://twitter.com/TaraniTrotter/status/1051693197875798017?s=19
A stalwart of Indian classical music who contributed immensely to Odia culture -Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi . Although I happened to discover him quite late but I was blessed enough to listen to his song in this lifetime . https://t.co/xHxC0cgDeQ
@kansenclub #indianmusic
https://twitter.com/mallika_sudhir/status/1028489859269361664?s=19
Two decades of the 21st century have confirmed utter groundlessness of all branches of human knowledge. Eulogising ancient texts and tradition, therefore, is fraught with hazards. Religious zeal needs to be re-evaluated so that younger generation musters courage to shed blinkers.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1083057380907114496?s=19
The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have created a vast web of words in which one may immerse for years for aesthetic and intellectual pleasure. But it's necessary to remember that they are just indications and not a full-scale unveiling of the mystery of creation as the time hasn't come.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1083181913207115776?s=19
For success, both Democracy and Spirituality depend upon a set of normatives supposedly opposite to human nature. Such a tension is beyond the power of human manipulation or collective motivation since imagining any nice play sans evil or vice is an irony. https://t.co/6FL5GiBb98
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1085454144679436288?s=19
Misgivings on Modi's performance has ensued an introspection on core Hindutva leading to tolerance of a healthy ambivalence. It also coincides with reexamination of Bengal renaissance, upon due scholarly apparatus, with the potential of Sri Aurobindo receiving deserved attention.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1085052710553042946?s=19
Many are eager to stress on the Indian aspect of Sri Aurobindo but his admiration for the intuitive faculties displayed by Keats, Shelley, and Coleridge forms the bedrock of his creative output. That also drives his political stance on Nationalism later dovetailing to Life Divine
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1085043957338230784?s=19
Some Hindutva handles seem to be eternally gung-ho on shastra, dharma, karma, and similar regimen. Apart from delegitimising rituals, The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, thankfully, have altered received wisdom on ontological frameworks like power of stars, kundalini, or karma theory etc
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1083532035602305024?s=19
Those aware of Writing the Self: Diaries, Memoirs, and the History of the Self by Peter Heehs, may now relish a fresh arrival. A Philosophy of Autobiography: Body & Text by Aakash Singh Rathore probes Nietzsche, Maya Angelou, Hemingway, Elie Wiesel, Daya Pawar, Kamala Das, et al.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1085801152015462406?s=19
Intellectual genealogy of Sri Aurobindo can be traced reliably by a competent scholar delineating his debts to his predecessors and contemporaries but The Mother reminds that he signifies action. It should always be remembered, therefore, that every tiny event is pointing at him.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1086325930824556544?s=19
The 2018 Issue (Vol. 41, 1-2) of JCLA is dedicated to the loving memory of PROF. JOHN HOSPERS (1918-2011) on his Birth Centenary. He was a Member of the Editorial Board of JCLA for a long time & contributed one of his finest essays, ‘Art and Morality’ for its first issue (1978). https://t.co/esWT2wBdZM
https://twitter.com/jclasukla/status/1084022340940324864?s=19
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