March 28, 2020

Stimulating creativity as a personality asset

A momentous event shouldn't go unnoticed. The Mother arrived in Puducherry on March 29, 1914. It's not a Darshan Day but holds the greatest significance for Indians. All followers are requested to rise to the occasion so that the present crisis is averted. https://t.co/KSnsA1qpUW

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1243703402158116866?s=19

Two thousand years of political theory has been on society and collective life whereas the current crisis has reversed the gaze towards home and family. It has been a neglected area and many loopholes as regards loneliness and neglect need to be addressed. https://t.co/ZXkUpWxvS1

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1243798299968040961?s=19


The Pandemic

The Coronavirus pandemic, raging throughout the world seems to be a dance of Mahakali for reasons best known to Her. While the middle class and the elite have been mainly affected, South Asia holds its breath for if it strikes at the proletariat, the teeming millions staying in shanties and slums, there would be no end to suffering for a long time to come. The government of India has enforced lock-downs, insisted on hand washing, social distancing and early detection of symptoms. That works with the middle class up to a certain level but would have difficulties in overcrowded slums, marginalized people suffering in hordes already from tuberculosis and Adivasis prone to malaria and malnutrition. A many pronged approach working at multiple layers instead of a blanket moratorium is needed. Political Will is needed but can be unproductive if inputs are not considered from diverse strata of a heterogeneous and multicultural society.

Date of Update: 25-Mar-20

http://motsac.org/journals.php

The Institute for Integral Yoga Psychology is a project of MIRRAVISION TRUST, financed by Auroshakti Foundation, a non-profit, public ...

Action-based Activities:

1. The institute will provide counseling and help to public in the light of Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's psychological system both individually and through internet. 

2. The institute will be associated with Mirravision Trust's direct therapeutic activities viz. Healing spaces, Hospitals, Rehabilitation Programs, Specialized clinics.

3. The Institute will also link up with different therapeutic centers throughout the world who are working with Integral, Holistic, Global, Spiritual perspectives of health.

4. The Institute will promote play and games therapy, art therapy, music therapy, psychodrama and other such pursuits aimed at stimulating creativity as a personality asset; to promote positive recreational and entertainment programs that aim at an elevation of consciousness.

5. The Institute will conduct stress management , organizational development and creativity programs for executives, professionals and students with a spiritual and consciousness approach

Our predecessors are stalwart-scholars and yogis who had the vision and foresight of acknowledging the inherent psychological insights in Sri Aurobindo’s thought. This illustrious list begins with the late Prof. Indra Sen, who published as early as 1944 an article entitled “A psychological Appreciation of Sri Aurobindo’s System of Integral Yoga” and culminates in Dr. A. S. Dalal’s landmark publication of “A Greater Psychology” in 2001. Dr. Indra Sen used the term “Integral Psychology” in 1960 to denote Sri Aurobindo’s Psychological system but as Robert Gerard (in 1982) and Ken Wilber (in 2000) have been using the term for other things, the nomenclature “Integral Yoga Psychology” has evolved. Other predecessors include the late Kishore Gandhi who had been using class notes on this theme since 1966 at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, the late Madhusudan Reddy whose book on Integral Yoga Psychology was published in 1988, Jobst Muhling who differentiated conventional Western Psychology from Sri Aurobindo’s psychology in 1960, the late Haridas Chowdhury who with F. Spiegelberg in 1960 published a Commemorative Symposium proceedings where the term “Integral Psychology” was first used, C. R. Goswami who used this term in 1989 and Lloyd Fellows who established an Institute for Integral Psychology in USA during 1970s under the inspiration of Late M. P. Pandit.

http://www.iiyp.net/Predecessors.php

Sri Aurobindo has warned that if mankind did not evolve further in consciousness, a resurgence of a primitive barbarism would be  ...

BETWEEN THE NATURAL AND THE NORMATIVE

Z Stein - … of Integrative Developmental Science: Essays in …, 2020 - books.google.com
The study of human development has long hinged around a discourse about the concept of development. It has been a discourse full of dualities and tensions. What does it mean to say a person develops, as opposed to merely changes? What does it mean to say some skill or …
...

"There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility... that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution."

:: George Wald, "Origin, Life and Evolution," Scientific American (1978)


Sincere and humble regards,
Krishna Keshava Das
Serving Assistant

Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute
of Spiritual Culture and Science

March 22, 2020

A.S. Dalal's invaluable contribution to Integral Psychology.

The ‘Auro Ratna Award’ for the year 2019 was presented to Dr. A.S. Dalal for his invaluable contribution in the field of Integral Psychology.

To read the report of the award ceremony and see some of the photographs of the event, kindly click on the following link:

http://overmanfoundation.org/dr-a-s-dalal-awarded-the-auro-ratna-award-for-the-year-2019/

With warm regards,

Anurag Banerjee

Founder,

Overman Foundation.

https://t.co/MAWijhE0Vq  Every issue India is struggling with today was mentioned by Sri Aurobindo 100 yrs ago in his magazine 'Vande Matram ' --Shraddhalu ji from Ashram

https://twitter.com/uttrashada/status/1240946887579947009?s=19

Team led by Chairperson Tara Jauhar of Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Delhi Branch , visited The Honorable Prime Minister on 17.3.2020 to present the proposal for 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo in the year 2022. https://t.co/ghRVg6SnYv
https://twitter.com/SAADelhiBranch/status/1241676823374606336?s=19

@JPNadda 
The Coronavirus in Sri Aurobindo’s Light By François Gautier
https://t.co/6Yayod2N9p
https://twitter.com/fgautier26/status/1241640681505869824?s=19

.@gchikermane offers unusual take on "powering the fight" against  Coronavirus w teachings of Shri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekananda. Relevant read everywhere, esp as India seeks "quietude", "silence", & "stillness" today. #JantaCurfewMarch22 
https://t.co/on5bYC4Zgn via @swarajyamag
https://twitter.com/AmritaNarlikar/status/1241614498055716870?s=19

This handy compilation is three to four decades old but remains neglected. Let's hope both the scientific community and those dealing with Humanities look at it for some bold pointers at this time of crisis. @NathTusar
#SriAurobindo #WorldUnion #FiveDreams
https://t.co/qteHCTeMGk
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1239949601836158977?s=19
Fighting Communism or Hindutva is not the real challenge as the present crisis underscores. Larger Ontological picture is more relevant for which the Yogic insights of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are immensely instructive. Modernity is key but Supraphysical realm matters much more
While it's natural to examine alternative scenarios to understand this viral crisis, it's profitable to study a living experience like Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Besides, Satprem's futuristic books like The Mind of the Cells or Evolution II are highly relevant. https://t.co/VES2fORLAL
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1240575921624498177?s=19
I have been active on the web under the banner of Savitri Era since 2005 but couldn't secure the support of anyone. Those who read Sri Aurobindo feel so knowledgeable that any collective endeavour becomes difficult. Yet, there's scope for unanimity like on forming smaller nations.
Though it's an extraordinary crisis situation, each State declaring a lockdown can be seen as a baby step towards Sovereignty and the Evolutionary intention behind it is unmistakable. Politics and economy undergoing paradigm shift is also inevitable. Sri Aurobindo is at the helm.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1241516148174225415?s=19
While your assessment is not unfounded, philosophical observations tend to be difficult because of their abstract nature. Idea, when germinates, has its own validity and force irrespective of gestation of reaching common folk. That's the general assumption https://t.co/JHSjh01rRR

Mantra from Savitri 
by Sri Aurobindo:
Hers is the mystery the Night conceals;
The spirit’s alchemist energy is hers;
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. ||81.22||
https://t.co/PZna3jkfdj
Let the whole world submit to its power and light to face this worldwide crisis.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1241156299653435393?s=19
Was reminded of the poem Thought the Paraclete by Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/sDyHZclVsy
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1241323418726752256?s=19

[A Critical Inference of Sri Aurobindo’s The Blue Bird
1. Parkavi, II M.A English Literature, MSUC College, Nagalapuram, Tamil Nadu
2. S. Loganayagi, II M.A English Literature, MSUC College, Nagalapuram, Tamil Nadu] Jan 2020–Vol 2, Issue I - LITERARY DRUID https://t.co/3si2C9WQx6
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1240737638761422848?s=19
[Value of Humanities: The Statesman
Fundamental questions of who we are and how we ought to live still remain rather puzzling. Humanities can alone furnish the answers and solutions. (The writer is Assistant Professor in English, PW Mahavidyalaya, Nadia).] https://t.co/lQkaohdyQq

439. As Sri Aurobindo would remind us, ‘We can no longer enshrine the Veda in the folds of an ignorant reverence or guard it by a pious self-deceit.  The keynote of philosophy is the quest for truth, although the same truth may be articulated in a variety of ways.
https://twitter.com/Janamejayan/status/1241020887584903172?s=19
459. In conclusion, let us listen to Gustave Flaubert here.  He expresses with rare power the sense of infinite vistas and receding horizons in the following beautiful passage:-
460. “Superficial, limited creatures, rash, featherbrained souls demand a conclusion from everything; they want to know the purpose of life and the dimensions of the infinite.
461. Picking up a handful of sand in their poor, puny grasp, they say to the ocean, ‘I shall now count the grains on your shores.’  But, when the sand slips through their fingers and the sum proves long, they stamp and burst into tears.
462.  Do you know what we should do on that shore? Either kneel down or walk.”
463. No great genius has ever come to final conclusion, no, not ever the Holy Scriptures.  The final conclusion is that there can be no final conclusion.
464. The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.  That is why we value vinaya, and vidyaa.  Sankara and those like him teach us both to kneel and walk – to kneel with vinaya, humility  and walk with Vidyaa. Knowledge.

Radical Democratic Party.
M N Roy hailed from the family of Brahmins who were priests, large family made his father to look into another avenues.
MN Roy had his schooling at Arbelia, Kodalia & College at National College of Shri Aurobindo & later finished his Engineering at
https://twitter.com/Sheshapatangi/status/1241246563671756801?s=19

Social distancing can be disorienting. Isolation is one of the worst penal punishments. U can help urself in these times by fostering a dog or cat from a shelter. Fostering is a temporary commitment-giving him home while the shelter tries 2 locate a permanent home 4 him.
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1241700426287808512?s=19

Finished the eighth chapter of Shreekanthacharitam.  This is a description of the various flowering plants in Kashmir, especially those that blossom in spring. I suspect these flowers were all utilised in pooja of Shiva and/or Parvati.
https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1241709849026514944?s=19

March 18, 2020

Half-revealed stuff of the old days

Kovind, not Covid, did it

Telegraph India-21 hours ago
President Ram Nath Kovind handed a Rajya Sabha nomination to Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Monday evening, four months after he retired as ...

Bengal based Telegraph displays hate for Dalits, equates ...

OpIndia-11 hours ago
Kovind, not Covid, did it', the headline read. Covid-19 is a pandemic, a coronavirus disease which has impacted lakhs of people globally as of ...

Comparing President Kovind to Covid-19 is direspectful to Dalits

India Today-48 minutes ago
The headline Kovind, not Covid did it is extremely disturbing. advertisement. Guru Prakash: Patna; March 18 ...

Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for ...

Vox-3 hours ago
New York's governor stressed the overall health risk of coronavirus remains low; however, concern lies with vulnerable populations, such as ...

The Coronavirus Crisis Is Showing Us How to Live Online

The New York Times-6 hours ago
First, there were the hyperactive group texts, which started up last week with dozens of messages a day from friends about the latest coronavirus ...

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes ...

STAT-4 hours ago
As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data. By John P.A. Ioannidis. March 17, 2020. coronavirus testing A nurse ...

Misc. References:

A Turn to Matter: The Thought of Sri Aurobindo, Contemporary Art and Religion

[PDF] INDIA'S DAUGHTERS: SOME INSIGHTS FROM THE PAST
B MEHRA - 2020 … “The greatness of the ideals of the past is a promise of greater ideals for the future.” (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol … accomplishment and, lastly, by its power of survival, renovation and adaptation to new phases of the …

11 Prolegomenon to the study of science and religion
D Raina - Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe, 2020
D Raina - Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe, 2020 - books.google.com
For some time now a group of Jesuit seminarians and scientists in India have been running a quasi-academy or forum to debate the developments in the sciences and their impact on the religious life. As happens with academies and fora for such discussion and debates, the … 

New Horizons in Transformational Leadership: A Vedāntic Perspective on Values-Based Leadership
S Dhiman, V Kumar - New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change, 2020 … Law of Sacrifice. The law of sacrifice is the eternal law. Sufi mystic Gurdjieff states that “nature is full of mysteries and we have to pay price for its revealing.” “Where sacrifice is not willingly given, Nature exacts it by force, she satisfies …

The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland's Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for...
Swami Medhananda (Ayon Maharaj) 2017, History of European Ideas 43.5 (2017), pp. 474-493

[PDF] Decolonizing Pedagogy by Appropriating Yoga. The Role of White Women in the Search for Social Justice within Higher Education
LL Douglass - Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education …, 2020 … Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishers, Inc. Dalal, AS (2001). Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga (2nd edition ed.). Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ahram Press Dewey, J. (1944). Democracy and Education: An introduction to the Philosophy of Education …

The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society: On the Side of Life in Spite of
AK Giri, I Marquez - 2020 … 56 6. A Preface to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali in the Ukrainian Translation..... 66 7. Sri Aurobindo and Indian Nationalism..... 69 8. Sri Aurobindo's Works: An Acquaintance in Dimension …

[PDF] Gyanodaya
A FERRER, S KATHURIA, S DALAL, S SHUKLA… … Page 5. 4 Albert Ferrer Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Swami Yogananda, until the contemporary teachings of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. We should also mention the great spiritual poet from Bengal, R. Tagore, and the eminent philosopher, S. Radhakrishnan …

[PDF] Lala Laljpat Rai and Simon Commission
SS Hundal - Studies in Indian Place Names, 2020
… contributed to a self-less service to the nation. Lajpat Rai belonged to that period of our history, when people like Aurobindo, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal had come to see the basic faults in the “Moderate” …

… in sacred texts of both religions, and medieval links are often tantalizingly disguised. It has been only since the middle of the twentieth century–the era of the Holocaust …
N Katz - The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious …, 2020 … The first important figure of the era was Sigmund Feninger (1901–1994), a secular Jew from Hanau, Germany, who converted to Buddhism, took the dharma-name Nyan- aponika, and joined a monastery in … Hitler's Priestess …

SPIRITUALITY AS A POTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL (PSYCAP) TOOL FOR FACING ACADEMIC STUDENTS IN ACCOUNTING STUDENTS
W Komalasari, A Kurniawan - TSARWATICA (Islamic Economic, Accounting, and …, 2020 … Bruce WM (2000), “Public Administrator Attitudes About Spirituality: An Exploratory Study”,
American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 460-472. Sri Aurobindo (1997), An Introduction to True Spirituality, p. 13, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry …

[PDF] Forms and Techniques employed by Indian Writers in their spiritual literary works: A Piece of Research work.
G Imayavaramban … Most of them sprang from Bengal. Among those writers Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, J. Krishnamurti stand out … In their literary output long song sequences and lengthy poems are not infrequent, like Tagore's Gitanjali …

[PDF] Moral, Art and Aesthetic Education
A SEN … Some of them are the experiments in: Tagore's Santiniketan; the Ramkrishna Mission residential schools; the Pondicherry ashram' of Sri Aurobindo; the Gandhian schools and the Krishnamurty foundation schools; the Satya Sai Institution: and so on …

[PDF] HERITAGE OF ENGLISH POETRY WRITTEN BY WOMEN POETS OF THE POST-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD
MN Rana - Studies in Indian Place Names, 2020 … This becomes the trend for the poetry. On observing at pre independence poetry, we meet the stalwart figures of Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, and the like who despite their deep patriotic concerns wrote poems evincing their focus on the matters of soul, God or ultimate truth …

Chinese Renaissance, Other Renaissances
G Zhou - Remembering May Fourth, 2020

PROBLEM OF GENDER IN THE PHILOSOPHY.
A Xakimov - Theoretical & Applied Science, 2019 … Social and interpersonal relationships need to be built on a new set of priorities, ideals. They were called Sri Aurobindo "mental relations". Perhaps it is difficult to eliminate discrimination without forming a common spiritual intimacy …

[PDF] Use of Yoga in Theatre Artist's Training: A Study
CB Kanase - Studies in Indian Place Names, 2020 … Yoga has spread all over the world by the teachings of great personalities like Swami Shivananda, Shri T.Krishnamacharya, Swami Kuvalayananda, Shri Yogendara, Swami Rama, Sri Aurobindo, Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, Acharya Rajanish, Pattabhijois, BKS …

Queer Diasporic Practice of a Muslim Traveler: Syed Mujtaba Ali's Chacha Kahini
K Manjapra - How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making, 2020 … 1972. New lamps for old [1893]. In Complete works, vol. 1, 5–56. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library.Google Scholar. Gopinath, Gayatri. 2005. Impossible desires: Queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures …

[DOC] Guidance and Counselling in Teacher Education
PK Dhal … This is a valuable quotation for teachers in the World. We have had inspiration from the great 'Rishis' like Valmiki, Vasistha, Viswamitra, Vyasa, Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and from the great teachers as Socrates …

15. Religion as Conceptual Scaffolding for Architecture
P Scriver, J Nash - Religion Matters: The Contemporary Relevance of … … At the time of India's Independence, the former freedom fighter-turned-mystic, Sri Aurobindo, had proposed that Pondicherry be declared an 'international city' in which Indian spiritual philosophy could nurture a new post-national form of global community …

Assorted tweets:

Jit Mukherjee @iridines
Dr faustus European mind is far more yogic than her Indian counterpart, society & religion do not represent yoga, individualism or inversion towards own self is the very first step, that Europe has taken & nurtured through last few centuries. India remains lost in very first stair.
twitter.com/nilanjanmaitra…

Goutam Ghosal @GoutamGhosal3
One can't be a follower of d new yoga n at the same time constantly go back to the past, to half-revealed stuff of d old days. That which is eternal is only to be taken from the past-- the other temporal stuff fall away by an evolutionary push towards the future.

This handy compilation is three to four decades old but remains neglected. Let's hope both the scientific community and those dealing with Humanities look at it for some bold pointers at this time of crisis. @NathTusar
#SriAurobindo #WorldUnion #FiveDreams
https://t.co/qteHCTeMGk
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1239949601836158977?s=19
Praying is the most contentious aspect since different gods and goddesses look absurd against the backdrop of a monistic virus. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo thought about all these aspects more than a century ago but educated Indians don't bother to listen to them. That's alarming!
Ultimately, it's about understanding oneself; one has to start somewhere. Sri Aurobindo enacted a Gita like situation in Kolkata but the real war he fought was against Hitler in Puducherry. Thus nationalism is not his final motive; its Evolution, and how it can tackle even virus.
Put well but your focus seems to be on the performer whereas my emphasis was on the sensibilities expected of the audience, i.e., each one of us. It's incumbent upon us to judge critically and impartially. Even a simple mention may amount to injustice to another. So no mean task.
Scores of metaphysical frameworks, theological formulations, or contesting ontologies. Myopic worldviews of science add to the woe of which people are helpless prisoners. Thankfully Sri Aurobindo provides the most stable picture of the world and a secure Evolutionary future of it.
Events unfolding and the story unrolling while watching a film feels normal but the truth is that every bit of it has been executed in advance. Life similarly is not a spontaneous or random movement as it appears superficially, writes Tusar Nath Mohapatra. https://t.co/AIw0G5KrMD
Integral yoga is about Evolution and not merely personal experience or salvation. Social dimensions of Integral yoga derive from the Vedic focus on Sangha, Samhita being a derivative. Sri Aurobindo (Bhawani Mandir) taking cue from Bhabani Pathak (Devi Chaudhurani) not improbable.
[Unlike Anandamath, he put together an alternate government in place, led by an ideal leader, steeped in Indian values, directly supported by the people.] -Wikipedia https://t.co/u89vjqsqhh

Absurd trolleys
by Amod Lele
It appears that the trolley problem is, as they say, having a moment. Possibly due to its newfound relevance to autonomous cars and other robots – a relevance that would have been entirely science-fictional when Philippa Foot formulated the modern version of the problem in 1967 – it is now making multiple appearances in popular culture. In that respect it is a notable counterpoint to the claim I made years ago that analytic philosophy doesn't make for good visual media.

Plasim Radar

The Birth of All Forms and Creatures - Sri Aurobindo translates Shwetashwatara Upanishad, Chapter Five, Verse 2: “He being One entereth upon womb and womb, yea, upon all forms of being and upon...

Giorgio Agamben: “Clarifications” - Translator’s Note: Giorgio Agamben asked me to translate this brief essay, which serves as an indirect response to the controversy surrounding his article ...

Satyanarayana Hedge on Ghalib 39.1 - *Veritas est Adaequatio intellectus et rei, *is a grievous but gravid truth- it imposes a heavy labor but it produces something novel and uniquely invaluab...

Fixed duties require less care in their performance than optional ones (Maṇḍana’s view) - Maṇḍana reforms Mīmāṃsā philosophy of action and deontic by saying that one undertakes actions only because one believes them to be the means to a desired ...

An Interview by Maggi Lidchi - Q: What was Mother’s room like? A: It was like walking into a different world; it was like being suspended half way between heaven and earth because of h...

Mirra Alfassa of Aurobindo Ashram had terrible Flu (like Coronavirus) in Japan in 1919 - I will tell you a story. I do not know whether I have already told it to you, but I am going to tell you now for it will give you an illustration. I was in...

Absurd trolleys - It appears that the trolley problem is, as they say, having a moment. Possibly due to its newfound relevance to … Continue reading →

Coming to Terms with Enantiodromia - Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell Enantiodromia is a term coined by Carl Jung in homage to the Greek philos...

Grammar must not be stumbling block - However, such nuanced grammar rules are neither taught nor insisted upon nowadays in the wordless age of icons. Besides, these...

human - It is the dream of modern secular law to occupy all of the space of law—as a universal language—that is, to thoroughly comprehend, to transparently express...

Rosso Agenda – La nave sopramentale (in italiano) 12 - ROSSO AGENDA PASSI SCELTI DALL’ AGENDA DI MERE La nave sopramentale Vol. I Pag. 156-162 “Mi trovavo su un’immensa nave….grande come una città. E’ il luogo ...

A Series Inspired by India’s Rebirth – 6 - Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (6), pp. 8-11 CONTINUED FROM Part 5 When...

- "God After Metaphysics: Heidegger, Aquinas, and the Future of Natural Theology" by Justin Gable.

Violence against Women: Problem and the Remedy – M.S.Srinivasan - One of the most distressing condition at present in India is the violence against woman in various forms, from sexual … Violence against Women: Problem and...

Film review: ‘Thappad’ - I assume that by now everyone who wanted to see this film has already seen it and that those who haven’t seen the film are not going to see it. So I am not...

Sanskrit texts don't contain self-evident truth - We have seen three phases in the course of the last sixty years. 1. Socialism will bring equality and freedom from exploitation 2. Market will force freedom ...

The Great World-Mother - Once during his Baroda years, Sri Aurobindo visited a Kali temple on the bank of the Narmada river. Recounting that visit, he later said: “With my European...

Idealism and panpsychism make easy friends - Plasim Radar Poetry as Socio-proctology Jason Stanley on Trump's India visit - Jason Stanley writes in the Guardian- In the early 20th century, the US depl...

Companion to “Hymns to the Mystic Fire” (Vol.2) by Mukund Ainapure - Companion to 'Hymns to the Mystic Fire' is meant as an aid to the systematic study of Hymns to the Mystic Fire (Volume 16 – The Complete Works of Sri Aur...

The Speech of Sir Samuel Hoare after declaration of the decision of creating a separate Orissa Province - The date, 24th December 1932, is a golden letter day in the history of modern Odisha. As part of the Third Round Table Conference in Britain, as part of th...

Seven makers of the Ratha - Published on 2 Jul 2019 in OrissaPOST Every year for the Ratha Jatra, three huge rathas or chariots are made by artisans in Puri. While being huge structur...