Heidegger’s philosophy lacked a sense of divine transcendence

• Sri Aurobindo Studies

  The Creation of Time - Sri Aurobindo translates Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Chapter One, Section 2, Verse 4: “He desired, ‘Let a second self be born to me.’ He by mind had interc...
• enowning

  - In Front Porch Republic Jess Russell looks for lost saints. It is precisely because Heidegger’s philosophy lacked a sense of divine transcendence and a mo...
• AuroMaa

  COMING SOON: The 26th Savitri Study Camp - Savitri Study Camp No. 26 will be held from Feb. 22 to 28, 2020 at the Sri Aurobindo Society Beach Office, Pondicherry. The post COMING SOON: The 26th Sa...
• Larval Subjects .

  Flat Ontology, Questions, and Assemblages - I’ve been having a lengthy discussion with a very good friend about normativity and how we go about determining values. One of the things that keeps coming...
• Poetry as Socio-proctology

  Pranab Bardhan and Liberal Democracy's assless chaps. - India is not a Liberal Democracy. It is a Secular, Socialist, Republic. Its Constitution gives the Union of India substantial powers to curb any threat to ...
• The Indian Philosophy Blog

  Bādha from hermeneutics to epistemology - The chapter on epistemology (tarkapāda) is the first chapter in the basic text of Mīmāṃsā, the Mīmāṃsāsūtra, but was presumably the last one added to the M...
• Love of All Wisdom

  Does the kammatic/nibbanic distinction fit the facts? - How helpful is Melford Spiro’s kammatic/nibbanic distinction in describing Buddhism? It can be tempting to line it up too closely … Continue reading →
• Savitri Era

  Blame it on the nature of politics - Hatred brigade includes many followers of Sri Aurobindo which is absurd but valid in a Democracy. Each person is a prisoner of his own circumstances, backg...
• AurovilleRadioTV

  Art for Land – String Quartet concert - On 2nd February we recorded an amazing performance held by the Auroville String quartet in Unity Pavilion. The quartet (Holger violin, Benjamin 2nd violin...
• The Immanent Frame

  media - Media: what a messy, capacious, contentious term, in all the ways Raymond Williams described for *Keywords*. Slipping across material substrate, technologi...
• the red pill <.>

  The role of music in society - Sacred imagery: Human body as Veena - a musical instrument What we hold to be the highest ideals in life also dictate what we do in the humdrum of everyday...
• An und für sich

  Reading the Qur’an: Repeated Reminders - [This semester, I am blogging my course on the Qur’an. You can see my previous post here and the whole series here.] We have now entered into what I consid...
• The Chrysalis

  Pleasure and Pain in an Apocalyptic Age - The pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain is part of the utilitarian creed that has characterised the Modern Age and the pursuit of the self-intere...
• Overman Foundation

  “Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?”—A Talk by Dr. Alok Pandey - Dear Friends and Well-wishers, The seventh Subhash Kumar Mukherjee Memorial Oration, organized by Overman Foundation, was held on Friday, 20th December 201...
• Savitri Era Learning Forum

  Twilight of modern mind - - Savitri Era Devotees OM Is The Eternal Brahman - The Mandukya Upanishad, while relatively short, is focused entirely on an in depth examina...
• Savitri Era Devotees

  OM Is The Eternal Brahman - The Mandukya Upanishad, while relatively short, is focused entirely on an in depth examination of OM, in both its esoteric and its outward significance. O...
• matriwords

  Hampi Continues to Live – Part 7 - Continued from Part 6 Chakratirtha, Tungabhadra River and Kodandarama temple (Photos by Suhas Mehra, text by Beloo Mehra) Not far from Vittala temple, a ...
• Footnotes2Plato

  Thoughts on William James, Pure Experience, and Materialism - Idealism and panpsychism seem to me to make easy friends in the debate against materialism. They both affirm that consciousness or experience or mind in so...
• Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal

  Of India’s Destiny and Indian Painting - Going through the pictures of some of my personal favourite paintings representing various Indian schools and traditions, including some by famous Indian a...
• Auro e-Books

  Bengali Writings by Sri Aurobindo (translated into English) - Most of the pieces in Bengali were written by Sri Aurobindo in 1909 and 1910 for Dharma, a Calcutta weekly he edited at that time; the material consists ...