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February 23, 2019

In the face of Positive thinking we always feel inadequate


Should we really put the Vedic accent marks? These came much much later, long after the Rig Veda, these are post-Panini, 500 BC afterwards. What is necessary is to go back to the way the Rishis themselves might have recited their compositions. Accent marks force you to read the text in a given fixed manner, given fixed manner, robbing it of the subtleness that can be there depending upon each individual's preparation and perception. 
The enunciation carries the weight and consciousness of the reciter. I'll strongly oppose this, putting such marks to the original text. You may like to check my book The First Hymn of Rishi Vamadeva where there is a pretty long discussion about this. Rig Veda must go back to the period of Rig Veda with the intuitive feel for the language. -RYD (Mail group)

Assorted tweets:

Central Univ of Odisha VC Sachidananda Mohanty resigns for personal reasons. He worked with missionary zeal on the university.
A great scholar, educationist and writer, another identity of Dr Mohanty is less known. He is the son of Bidyutprabha Devi, one of the great poets of Odia literature. He 'Khadyotika', which was in our school text remains one of my all time favorites. I can recite it even today It is 'her' Khadyotika
https://twitter.com/OdiaCulture/status/1098823154653413376?s=19

On the auspicious occasion of 141st birthday of the Mother, SAFIC humbly unveils its new digital platform dedicated to the study of Indian scriptures. https://t.co/rMsMu7671N Vedas in the light of Sri Aurobindo.
https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1098421232725155840?s=19
On the auspicious occasion of 141st birthday of the Mother, SAFIC humbly unveils its new website - https://t.co/BkBU4B1X95 - a space dedicated to spreading awareness on Prenatal Education and conscious parenting in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. 

On the auspicious occasion of 141st birthday of the Mother, SAFIC (https://t.co/7eNtTDySdd) humbly unveils its new venture – Renaissance, a monthly e-journal https://t.co/pf188FF04Z
@narendramodi @PrakashJavdekar @mariawirth1 @davidfrawleyved @subhashkak1

An essay on the goals of education as The Mother and Sri Aurobindo defined them. Dr Indra Sen also reflects on the Ashram School students answers to the question ‘What does your soul look like?’ (TEXT) https://t.co/WPrbuA8J6n

In a little over month, my new book, The Idea of the World, will be finally out! It's been years in the making, and I am confident it won't disappoint. This time, it may really change things... But, for now, let me tease you a bit more with a new essay.

“our whole psychological existence is something like this simple sentence, continued since the first awakening of consciousness, interspersed with commas, but never broken by full stops. And consequently, our whole past still exists” -Bergson
https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1099196449688961024?s=19

From Philosopher to Ironman, Part 2: on the training regimen. Read it @Quora now: https://t.co/78oCslKLdD
#Philosophy #IronMan #Swim #bike #run #books #Training #routine #transformation #mind #muscle #morph @PhilosophyMttrs @IRONMANtri #Delhi #sports #Swimming #discipline https://t.co/gnblWmvEd0

Benefits and Failures of the Individualistic Age https://t.co/qwxpCW5Q0W

Cultural Integration Fellowship
The Deep and Beautiful Mystery of The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Robert McDermott, PhD
Sunday, February 24, 2019 @ 11 a.m. 2650 Fulton Street, San Francisco Guests are cordially invited  Free will offering https://t.co/76fBgy9xk5

Human Sciences - #Education beyond education | @justpk  : To be honest, there is no magic mantra to solve the worldly problems, no teacher can teach how to resolve issues of human relations. So what can we do?

Make peace with death | #KalpanaNair : What if we prepare our minds from now that death is gentle and beautiful. No matter what the cause of death or age, death is peaceful | #_Spirituality_ 
https://twitter.com/indiaonthe_move/status/1086034533957328896?s=19

Man possesses a mine of knowledge, abt which he is ignorant. When he cleanses his mind-stuff (chitta) of all past impressions by an intense process of purging, he earns the competence (adhikara) to b able to draw his knowledge from his own infinite reserve

Be like a Sunflower | @varwandkar : Spiritually, a sunflower represents happiness, togetherness and growth. Let us all learn these values and imbibe those in our behaviour. Let us try to be like a sunflower!

“Positive thinking is supposed to be empowering. But in fact it sets us up against an ideal of ourselves in the face of which we always feel inadequate” 
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen on burnout: https://t.co/Dw8LPG8oiY

There is a remarkable building in South East India that should be known to more people. It is claimed to contain the world’s largest “optically perfect” glass globe to receive directed sunlight.
Under construction for 37 yrs, it is called the Matrimandir:

"First of all, outside the New Testament, St Augustine is the most influential person in Western Christianity by far. Secondly, he was a wonderful, wonderful writer & a deeply passionate man." https://t.co/RhNxEaUcCH

"A capacious, democratic, culturally-enmeshed, and politically-alert tradition grows from the root of Whitman. A spiritually-attuned, perceptually-focused, inward-looking family of poetry flows from Emily Dickinson." —@PoetryInAmerica host Elisa New https://t.co/Acaf3nTCYA

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: Few persons see all 3: A) Big picture, B) minute details, C) connections among these. But most cant see relationships among: soft power, BIForces, Hinduphobia, atrocity literature, etc. Hence contradiction between jingoism & tamasic lack of specific action
https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1099130102254755841?s=19

A certain class of minds shrink from aggressiveness as if it were a sin. Their temperament forbids them to feel the delight of battle and they look on what they cannot understand as something monstrous and sinful.
#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Gita https://t.co/G5482LzbvU

@davidfrawleyved's 1997 call for intellectual or Bauddhik Kshatriyas still resonates: "An intellectual Kshatriya must not merely be defensive but creative and expansive...based upon deep thought [not] mere rhetoric, character assassination, or slogans." https://t.co/Ge4Niwlt7m
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1098785362724433925?s=19
What is remarkable is that this call was given by @davidfrawleyved some 22 years back, long before today's activists, who mouth this sort of rhetoric without even mentioning this essay of his, let alone reading it. https://t.co/06PzsDGVBp

Since 2009 when Bhagwat took over the reins of the world’s largest cultural organisation, he has shown that @RSSorg means business. Today, no one can doubt his visionary aspiration, not just for his organisation, but for India that is Bharat.https://t.co/EQyfdbeAij @RatanSharda55
https://t.co/EQyfdbeAij On the eve of his 10 years as Sarsanghachalak @RSSorg, an assessment & appreciation: no one has been as quietly influential & effective as Mohan Bhagwatji. Mainstreaming the RSS & internationalising Hindutva may be summed up as his greatest achievements.

Another beautiful piece of music from the creative collaboration of lyricist @drgynaec
 and composer-singer @iammanasr
 A must listen Mu Shikhuchhi Odia | ମୁଁ ଶିଖୁଛି ଓଡ଼ିଆ | https://t.co/jzcVC0g6Cc
https://twitter.com/OdiaCulture/status/1098972622119854080?s=19

We shouldn’t be surprised. Intellectual and financial conflicts combined with downright incompetence are at the very core of the American Heart Association (@American_Heart) cc @bigfatsurprise @drjasonfung @zoeharcombe @ProfTimNoakes @drjamesdinic @drsanjaygupta @drmarkhyman https://t.co/4ZYN32c1Sn

A #review of my #newbook on #autobiography in @Outlookindia by a #philosophy prof from @JindalGlobalUNI 
@TandFIndia @routledgebooks @Routledge_Phil 
Shadowland Of Our Selves https://t.co/A37hHYWD0r

"Quantum electrodynamics is the most successful physical theory humans have  ever devised. It describes the interaction between light and matter, between photons and electrons. That interaction governs absolutely everything around you." (@marcuschown)
https://t.co/KSsKuCqPOH

#Terrorism #Hinduism #Hindu
 https://t.co/RgCceY8NeL via @dailyo_
@Avatans : Generations of Indians, by now, have been fed half-cooked concepts of ‘Ahimsa Paramo Dharma’ and ‘Vasudaiva Kutumbakam’ — without providing any contextual explanation, be it from the Shashtras or Dharma https://t.co/4QIBJmYV03

“Daphne du Maurier is often incorrectly categorised as a romantic novelist, dismissed as just a bestseller” https://t.co/GHEQNizbxx
“If you situate Impressionism as an art of relaxation or bourgeois comfortable life, you’re making a fairly profound mistake.”
@AndrewGrahamDix on his favourite art books: https://t.co/jKa5KEWunu

"In the history of psychiatry, of psychotherapy, of psychology, mental health generally, depression is notoriously elastic."
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen breaks down the science and psychology behind burnout, work and exhaustion: https://t.co/Dw8LPG8oiY

Life, for Sri Aurobindo, is the mutual commerce connecting matter & mind in the manifest universe, an “intermediate energizing of conscious being [that] liberates into sensitive action & reaction a form of the creative force of existence which was working subconsciently or
https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1098335462182203392?s=19

15) Welcoming Barin in Baroda:
Barindra Kumar, #SriAurobindo's youngest brother, would suddenly turn up in Baroda in 1901, just a few months after Sri Aurobindo's marriage
One with a romantic imagination, he would keep pestering his 'Sejda' for supporting his ever new ventures: https://t.co/smOzPpj8vn
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1098261226084360192?s=19

SRI AUROBINDO ON THE MOTHER
The Mother first met Sri Aurobindo in the year 1914. After their meeting, Sri Aurobindo said that he had never seen anywhere a self-surrender so absolute and unreserved as that of the Mother. 
#SriAurobindo #TheMother #IntegralYoga #Puducherry #Love https://t.co/5fBYK4P4di

Sri Aurobindo's Mantra "Om Anandamayi Chaitanyamayi" by Jagjit Singh https://t.co/b6okG0oJgn via @YouTube

Three madnesses, Four interventions, and Five Dreams define the life of Sri Aurobindo so perfectly and why he relied upon the Sixth sense.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/318637493249519616?s=19

Because religion is just as biological as sex.
https://t.co/XQ5zmgN6fD https://t.co/bCNtOjZpiz

Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2019 https://t.co/ubaghQjmi7
https://twitter.com/jclasukla/status/1099199251161133056?s=19

Interacting with, conducting #writingworkshops for Dalit women leaders and activists - navigating language barriers, crossing pain, finding humour together etc ..
What is the feeling that overwhelms at those times ? 
@rumlolarum https://t.co/hdq7wye86p
https://twitter.com/genderlogindia/status/1099317303869464577?s=19

The greatest weakness of Indian electoral politics, as practised within the Westminster model adopted at independence, is the reward it offers for the politics of exclusion.
https://t.co/Wv9vYXYFp6

"I strongly believe we should impose a temporary moratorium on illustrating stories about global warming with stock pictures of sad polar bears. I mean, polar bears are nice to have around (in theory), but few of us will personally feel their loss." https://t.co/2CNf7aCqgC






References:

[PDF] HOPE as a Framework for the Positive Organisation
M Zirkler - LEADERSHIP, 2019
… In: Gallagher, Matthew W./Lopez, Shane J. (2017): The Oxford Handbook of Hope. Online Edition. Sri Aurobindo/The Mother
(2011/1956): On Education. 11. Edition. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Pondicherry …

E-Corporate Governance for Long Term Sustainability: An Empirical Evaluation of Shareholders' Perspective
JP Sharma, S Kanojia - Management Today, 2018
IndianJournals.com - Gateway to access, disperse and preserve knowledge!


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