March 23, 2019

Life is more than a calculus of pain and pleasure


Assorted tweets for general information:

Do whatever you like to education but never forget the contributions of pioneers like Ram Mohan Roy, Keshub Chunder Sen, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee for whom India is what it is today. The Evolutionary arrow should guide policy and not blind idiocy.

Sri Aurobindo's Bengali writings (Dharma: 1909-10) contain many of his ideas in concise form that were expanded or commented upon later (Arya: 1914-21). This volume is a must read as consummation of intellectual ferment of the past one hundred years.

The Spirit of Indian Nationalism Bipin Chandra Pal - 1910
https://t.co/TdBwbTeaZT
Memories of My Life and Times - Volume 1
Bipin Chandra Pal - 1932 https://t.co/atP61lc7yZ
Soul of India Bipin Chandra Pal - 2012
The Soul of India is a comparison of Indian and western thought,...

[After the untimely demise of C.R. Das, Anilbaran became the undisputed leader of Congress in Bengal. Sri Aurobindo wrote to him asking him to leave politics and pursue the path of yoga at Puducherry. Anilbaran was not willing Sri Aurobindo flatly refused] https://t.co/BAhhQcFtOs

[The speeches Pal and Aurobindo gave in Uttarpara after their release from Buxar jail and Alipore jail in 1909 were certainly different in tenor from Surendranath Banerjea's Uttarpara speech on Mazzini in 1876] - Sugata Bose - 2017 - The Nation as Mother https://t.co/w4IxU6XlvD

“Books don’t have to be right to be great. Greatness is often the result of very creative and intelligent mistakes.”
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on global history: https://t.co/YRmIlchfp4
https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1109103690013503488?s=19

Taking all of human history (if not life itself) -- North, South, East, West -- as our own autobiography, that is integral or "universal history". The meaning of the Atman or the Anthropic Principle could not be otherwise.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1109111225353465856?s=19
this sense of accepting the entire history of the Earth as also being one's own autobiography is not only Nietzsche's "Be true to the Earth!" but the essence of Rumi's poem "When Was I Less by Dying?" https://t.co/1mVURFWwcY
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1109115091197353984?s=19
This is what Yeats' ominous poem signifies -- the breakdown of the mandala of being. The Falconer and the Falcon of the poem correspond to Aurobindo's "Sovereign and his Minister", and to McGilchrist's Master and Emissary modes of consciousness respectively.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108803016231137283?s=19
I haven't done this yet, but you might find it interesting to compare Rosenstock-Huessy's "Twelve Tones of the Spirit" to those of The Mother. Rosenstock-Huessy's essay appears as Chapter VI in his book *I Am An Impure Thinker*, available online at https://t.co/CtpcVaecJE
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108815938873446401?s=19
Revealingly, the antithesis of the "symbolic" is the "diabolic". The former means "to bring together", while the latter means "to toss obstacles in the way". The cognate terms would be "integration" and "segregation" correspondingly, or the integrative and disintegrative forces

Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF): Henri Bortoft, Iain McGilchrist, and Rosenstock-Huessy https://t.co/k7nLW45Z5V @NathTusar #SriAurobindo #WorldUnion #FiveDreams
Twelve Qualities of The Mother in relation to Sadhana on the Individual and Collective level https://t.co/r7Z8aybMq8

[The Twelve Qualities of The Mother
The twelve petals of the Mother’s symbol represent the following twelve powers of the Mother manifested for her work https://t.co/r7Z8aybMq8
Working with the Twelve Qualities in Organisation–An Article by Jaya - Working for Peace and Human Unity]

[every time I look at Sri Aurobindo’s symbol and remember who He & the Mother really are, not just Yogis or Gurus, Saints or Mystics, but the progenitors of a whole new Divine World, here to initiate and give birth to a perfect creation that shall fulfill] https://t.co/xWa1rIw9xO

Chaudhuri's *Evolution of Integral Consciousness* though, was only a primer or introductory to the integral. It was quite short, but very rich, as I recall it. Must read that again I think.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108389742268289026?s=19

Jeffrey Kripal's "gnostic" scholar comes to mind (from the Serpents Gift) as a new wave of scholar-practitioners entering the field of culture-building and knowledge building. Never easy, of course...
https://twitter.com/jdj_writes/status/1108357759777599494?s=19

This is why liberalism often ends up coupling to ideas like eugenics & evolutionary psychology, which, in effect, argue that people can’t change, their abilities & desires are innate & unalterable (That this Actually contradicts ordinal utility usually passes right over them)
The Walrasian model tended to focus on selection incentives. The game theory model focuses on direct incentives. The Marshallian & classical models focused on a mix. Psychology focuses on the habituating incentives.
Without institutions, metrics & technologies, no action of any type, let alone social action, is possible, desirable etc. at the end of the day these 3 are the ‘last instance’, so to speak.
https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1108802919212769280?s=19

[life is more than a calculus of pain and pleasure and something big is at stake. Why is it that most people in life don’t commit suicide when things are difficult? – it is more than a paltry happiness or unhappiness, however important those things are.] https://t.co/tgOrQvJats
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1107386157296345088?s=19

“If it tempts you so much, try it in spite of my prohibition. But take note: I am powerful. And I am only the most lowly gatekeeper. But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other. I can’t endure even one glimpse of the third.”
https://twitter.com/hashiyaarai/status/1107911135641174016?s=19

[Théon symbol - the Lotus in the Six-Pointed Star
In fact, the Mother designed Sri Aurobindo's symbol directly from Théon's, making only minor changes in the proportions of the central square - Mother's Agenda, vol 3, p.454]. https://t.co/6cHzw57fNt
https://t.co/xWa1rIey9e

Do you think that entire field of linguistics exists to prove that someone moved into India and that's the sole reason that they study languages? You think their is no link between any languages?
Not really their is a considerable body of research on Sanskrit in west, maybe not it being oldest but I do get your concern what I am saying is linguists shouldn’t be dismissed in their entirety as just being bunch of European supremacist that’s far too reactionary view.
https://twitter.com/AakashS98579231/status/1106760132308946944?s=19

Anyone can see the link. No need for linguists who have made up fake theories for 200 years - fiddling with links to create non existent languages like "proto Indo Iranian" simply to cook up an invasion/migration movement of language from Europe side to India. 
I believe you have not been exposed to the vicious polemic that modern linguists employ against anyone who points out fallacies in their assumptions. You sound like a science guy to me, like I am. You use the language of a science man. Even that is alas, going nowadays
Here is a comprehensive list of articles so far: Sorry. Don't mean to impose: https://t.co/ulnL0z0Hbc
https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/1106764874082742272?s=19

[As Savitri is essentially an end-stopped pentametric blank verse composition, the obvious choice in defining the elements falls on taking its lines as these ABCs... Ghana Recitation is already a rich orchestra of heard and unheard notes,] by R.Y. Deshpande https://t.co/Rw7poP2AWC

Savitri Era: No need for any temple, ritual, or learning Sanskrit https://t.co/YXkZ8ZxE3H
Authentic worldview and appropriate guidance: @NathTusar Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. January 22, 1956) #TheMother #SriAurobindo #WorldUnion
No means to produce evidence https://t.co/tZU9i5QE9q

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