Savitri Era Learning Forum: 2023

December 31, 2023

The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo challenges all your assumptions

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Religions impose lots of socialisation and collective activity. They also feed a lot of intellectual garbage. Reading the books of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo can liberate one from mythology and superstitions. The Mother passed away fifty years ago in 1973. Knowing her is crucial.

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Political power coupled with religious fervour is spreading false narratives. Universities and the Publishing industry are propagating false philosophies. Savitri Era Learning Forum is the only place where one can find right perspective wrt Sri Aurobindo.

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I have been distributing the correct worldview without leaning towards the Right or the Left. Having worked in the field of knowledge outside the Universities and various ecosystems I don't represent any echochamber. My paper illustrates unique perspective

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While reading hundreds of X posts every day, I profusely thank The Mother & Sri Aurobindo for having given me the right intellectual orientation and conducive circumstances in life. Also I have the satisfaction of not having let their teaching thrown to the wolves for two decades

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Aurora Mirabilis has seen 7645 hits this month. I have been tending a number of such blog-sites since 2005 which contain innumerable links and hints to varieties of knowledge sources. As Director of Savitri Era Learning Forum, I have a bias for Humanities.

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The Mother & Sri Aurobindo stressed on meditation and inner living when Television, Internet, and Mobile phones were not there. In the changed circumstances, Aspiration and Surrender are the best option. Reading their luminous books can provide the right intellectual undergirding

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Modern Western thought is greatly indebted to Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) occupies almost an equivalent position in India. Nietzsche rakes up philosophical and psychological problems while #SriAurobindo solves them in The Life Divine and The Future Poetry.

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From Lenin and Hitler, the world has seen enormous amount of changes during the last one hundred years. Human nature however hasn't transformed much. The spirit of love and harmony isn't easy to be found. All admirers, followers, and devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo unite!

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Some people are fond of speaking against Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Jawaharlal Nehru without whom thinking of modern India is impossible. Savitri Era Party encourages sound historical perspective even though Leftist historians have done enormous harm to the legacy of Sri Aurobindo.

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Politics is the art of selectively manufacturing history by selectively invoking history to claim that history was manufactured. Because impressions, memories and scholarship get tangled in the hurly-burly of social life.

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I don't know what happens in Israel or Palestine. But what has happened after the #IsraelHamasWar is the exposing of the lack of intellectual ability in the Western media. This is a direct fallout of #journalism being reduced to mechanical reportage without sufficient context

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This one looks like a book, it is not. It is an experience. Life Divine by Aurobindo. It will challenge pretty much all your assumptions about consciousness. It also lays out the foundation for Integral Yoga.

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I went through your list. Good stuff. But may I recommend Stanislaw Lem and the Strugatsky brothers? These are a bit slow burning but ultimately much more rewarding than 99.9% of the stuff out there. East Europe elevated Sci fi to literature. A very different evolution.

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May I recommend The Dawn of Everything (book) by Wengrow and Graeber and also Meditations on Molloch by Scott Alexander (blog post) for looking at this question in a deep and nuanced way.

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@SekharB94411996
My new poetry anthology ‘Probably Geranium’ ( Red River) finds a home at Palais De Mahe in Pondy for its release in warmer environs, courtesy the Pondicherry Auroville Poetry Festival.

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I've been reading Schelling's Berlin lectures (tran. Bruce Matthews).

Scientistic naysayers often claim philosophy makes no progress. That's wrong, but it has its own definition. As Schelling said, philosophy advances by generating entirely new problems, never before considered.

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Virtual influencers. A bit like William Gibson's book Idoru. I mention this in my book in progress on the history of AI.

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1741228741391773783?t=MGvPEscN8c0M_449OoPBnA&s=19

No street marches, no woke Cause Celebre, no global outrage. It's almost as if Rohingya lives don't matter. Same with Yazidis, Tibetans, and Uyghur. To be fair, the right are as mindless in their own epistemic tribal ideology as the left.

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This is why I despise the woke left with their double standards. Some commetators pointed out that other "woman" in the chador is actually a guy and that you can tell by the stance. What is it about these fucked up males that makes them so terrified of and hateful towards women?

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not sure degrowth would work. But there’s no question that the capitalist economy needs to be reined in rather than being allowed to commodify all aspects of human and nonhuman life. Culture and politics ought not to be for sale. Economics should meet needs not invent desires.

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November 09, 2023

Sri Aurobindo expounded a profound psychology which recognises spirit, mind, and body as being interdependent

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

14.11.2023_Pt.Barun Pal ji

19 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch. Sri Aurobindo Lane, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110 016. Birth Anniversary of. Pt. Barun Kumar Pal ji. 14.11.23 (Tuesday).

The Process of Bringing Harmony and Unification to the Being Centred Around the Spiritual Purpose | Sri Aurobindo Studies

10 hours ago — The aim or purpose comes with the identification with the soul, the psychic being, which is connected to the divine spiritual being that is One and which is ...

Good discussion, though a bit rambling. Inevitable Wars and Illusionary Peace: Sri Aurobindo's Realism

Inevitable Wars and Illusionary Peace Sri Aurobindo's Realism |... Over the ages, there have been several attempts by philosophers to theorise the actual causes ...

Talks on Sri Aurobindo's "Essays on The Gita" by Dr Ananda Reddy - Chapter 8 - YouTube

Talks on Sri Aurobindo's "Essays on The Gita" by Dr Ananda Reddy - Chapter 8 - Part 2 - p 70-71 (18-02-08)

(Sri Aurobindo had granted an interview to a correspondent of The Hindu in early 1915. This interview was quoted in full by Lala Lajpat Rai in his book Young India along with an introduction titled Arabinda Ghosh—Vedantist and Swarajist.)

“But it is equally necessary that we Indians should

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Listen to श्री अरविंद अष्टोत्तर शतनामावली (Sri Aravinda Ashtothara Shatha Namavali) - 108 Names of Sri Aurobindo - by Gangadhar.

Song by Chinmayee Maheshwari.

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Some are of the opinion that the future of the earth is dark but Sri Aurobindo strongly believes that human society is moving towards a brighter destiny. His appeal for the cooperation of all for descent of Supramental consciousness. No need for old customs in this grand journey.

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It gives the impression that Dayananda came after Vivekananda. Overlooking all that happened before the latter is also a blind spot. Ideally, the review should start with Chaitanya.

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From the psychoanalytical perspective, Nitish Kumar said about himself more than what he said by way of advising others. Discussion on sex thoughts in old age is a rarity and should equally draw attention as his reported comments. No one should be prevented to speak his mind.

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Yeah in the discussion one did get the impression that Dayananda came after Vivekananda. Perhaps the discussion could have even started with Ram Mohan Roy to show how Christianity impacted Hindu society & the thoughts of its leaders

Swami Dayananda & Roy's assertion that monotheist thought was present in Hindu texts & polytheism being the corruption of the original thought is perhaps the effect of contact with the missionary

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When you suppress the truth by banning lectures, seminars and discussions, it means you are afraid of free and fair debates to help people decide what is right

You have lost the debate even before it started. When both sides are heard without noise it is a true debate

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1722535708366393752?t=SmOqi2MjQ8Nd9hKNjWN_kQ&s=19

The beauty of Indian democracy is that your social status, caste, privilege and educational qualifications do not determine your ability to be in public life. The voter chooses who he wants to be represented by. Drop the arrogance and petulance @PrashantKishor

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India's Democracy: The Competitive Authoritarian Propensity?

R Mukherji, SH Zarhani - Pacific Affairs, 2023

This paper explains and corroborates the mechanisms by which civic and political spaces opposed to Hindu nationalism have been attacked, especially after the arrival of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government …

“One-Dimensional” Being: Indian Youth Culture and Cyberspace Nationalism

CK Anuranj, A Sircar - The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies, 2023

A deep understanding of the cultural and political dynamics of Indian youth is a matter of critical concern today. This article theoretically analyzes the relationship of Indian youth to the nationalistic discourse in the digital age through the lens of …

[PDF] Book Review of Dwipantarer Katha's The Story of Deportation

S Bhadra - Contemporary Literary Review India, 2023

… Barindra Kumar Ghosh, who happened to be the younger brother of Aurobindo Ghosh (the revolutionary who later on became a spiritualist and started staying in Pondicherry where he had created a religious site which still exists). In this memoir …

[PDF] Global Currents in Local Harbours: Zulfiqar, Re-Orientalism and Otherised Muslims in Bengali Culture

A Chakraborty

… to the contrary, Mukherji’s Zulfiqar becomes aligned with both the discourses of Islamophobia currently rampant in various parts of United States and Europe where the Orientalism has re-asserted its presence with a vengeance and the ideology of …

Vision of an Integrative Indian Psychology

JBP Sinha - Psychological Studies, 2023

… They are integral parts of human functioning. Unlike in the west, they need not be dissolved into a synthesis or resulted in the one … Most people cannot take a straight route, but take the arduous route of yoga and meditation meticulously. They …

[PDF] World Mental Health Day 2023: Increasing awareness of mental health in India & exciting opportunities for the future

S Rej, N Sasi - Indian Journal of Medical Research

… Sri Aurobindo expounded a profound psychology of the mind, which recognizes spirit, mind and body as being interdependent. The different spiritual methods teach the human mind to submit to the Self or God18. In our opinion, today’s mental health …

Subjective Well-Being: Introduction and Conceptual Frameworks

T Bhatnagar - Subjective Well-Being in the Indian Context: Concept …, 2023

This chapter discusses the introductory and conceptual understanding of subjective well-being (SWB). The field of SWB research has evolved and matured with a lot of work done globally as well as in India. India is a vast and diverse country. It is …

[PDF] Journey of Resilience and Social Transformation: Resonant Voice of Dalits in the Select Works of Rajarao and Rohinton Mistry

RK Goswami - Eduzone: International Peer Reviewed/Refereed …, 2023

Dalit literature has emerged as a potent literary movement to challenge ‘skewed’societal norms and confront deep rooted prejudices coupled with caste-based discrimination. The Dalit literature genre is replete with tales of unspeakable atrocities …

[HTML] Crossroads for Organizations: Time, Space, and People

G Shanahan, S Dahlman, E Husted

As a field of research, organization and management studies has always been concerned with alternatives. From Follett’s (1918) seminal work on neighbourhood groups and Selznick’s (1949) account of grassroots organizing to Rothschild-Whitt’s (1978) …

Thai Massage: Therapeutic Uses and Benefits

RT Baht

… It has always been an integral part of Thai culture and has found a place in both traditional medicine and the daily life of the Thai people. … , energy balancing, stretching techniques and yoga-like body movements. The recipient is guided …

[PDF] “Hum Kaagaz Nahi Dikhayenge”(“We won't show our papers”): The Narratives of Bodies and Belongings at the Anti-CAA Shaheen Bagh Protests 2019-20

K Bhatia - Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 2023

… In this case, therefore, this historically minoritarian status has been utilised by the Hindutva fascists, who ‘used the democratic route to assume power’, to question the Muslim peoples’ rights to claim India as their homeland. (Hameed 2020, 33) The …

Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?

M Tadros, C Shutt - World Development, 2024

… Hindu religious leaders, including those who have been influenced by Hindutva teachings. These leaders have now engaged in efforts to … Shah’s description above highlights that powerholders’ advancement of Hindutva is all encompassing …

[PDF] An Evaluative Study of Political Thinking of BR Ambedkar: A Critical Underpinning

I Aditya

… of consolidation of dalit- bahujan power particularly against the Hindutva forces representing Brahman-Bania nexus with the global capital. These forces which form the core of the Hindutva have now realized that their ‘soft Hindutva’ is no more …

[PDF] Interfaith dialogue in India: Its need and challenges

NU Islam - Journal of Language, Literature, Social and Cultural …, 2023

… The emergence of Hindutva as a key counter-ideology in recent years has served as a catalyst for the escalation of India's secularism debate. Hindutva ideology, often known as religious nationalism or Hindu nationalism, is a nationalist ideology that …

[PDF] Where next for feminist foreign policy on countering anti-gender backlash?

A Khan, E Tant, J Michalko - 2023

… In response to critiques of such erosion of rights and freedoms, the Indian government defends its Hindutva policies in anti-colonial terms. This use of religion and culture appeals ‘to disenfranchised or alienated groups in times of economic …

[HTML] Orchestrating self-empowerment in tribal India: Debt bondage, land rights, and the strategic uses of spirituality

P Mader - World Development, 2024

… For these reasons, in an India increasingly divided into separate tribes by Hindutva politics, finding ways for Adivasis to challenge … rangers, police, army, mining companies, informal moneylenders, MFIs, traders, Hindutva activists, and …

[PDF] Selfish Agendas, Transcendent Justifications: Examining the traditions of violence and peace/peacebuilding within Hinduism in India.

SR KUMAR

Religion has often been called upon to stand trial for the massacre of the masses. For as long as human civilization has existed, people have always sought to engage in violence against a perceived enemy for the protection of life, rights and justice. Yet …

October 07, 2023

The myth of Helen is practiced in Rodogune by Sri Aurobindo

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

[PDF] Indian Management: New Routes to Corporate Culture

N Chatterjee

… While the work done by Daniel Albuquerque in 2009 revolves around the principles of consciousness largely based on the philosophy propagated by Sri Aurobindo, influenced by the Indian Ethos Himadri Barman articulated on value

Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges

A Olivier, MJ Lamola, J Sands - 2023

… In this regard, Husserl shares much with the East Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo and the Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani. Both argue, contra Heidegger, that the ontological investment in Being actually evades, elides, and …

[PDF] Role of Bhagwat Gita in Life Management

MK Trivedi - Intersections of Faith and Culture: American Journal of …, 2023

… [68] Aurobindo described the text as a synthesis of various Yogas. The Indologist Robert Minor, and others,[web 1] in contrast, state that the Gita is "more clearly defined as a synthesis of Vedanta, Yoga and Samkhya" philosophies of Hinduism.[69] …

Rabindranath Tagore Myths and Modernity: A Socio-Cultural Study of Selected Plays

D Deore

… Sri Aurobindo successfully explored his views on nationalism through the Greek myth of the play. The dramatist depicts the framework of Indian political scene of pre-independence period. The myth of Helen is practiced in Rodogune by Sri Aurobindo. This is …

[PDF] Phoneme and Mental and Supramental Vibrations

N Kumar - European Journal of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, 2023

… Such a vision of Sri Aurobindo who is the precursor of a new order of existence, to use his own terminology, the ‘Supramental’, the … In fact, the above mentioned vision of Sri Aurobindo provides a scientific thought and vision to the world of …

[PDF] SPACELESS SELF' IN SAVITRI: THE ETERNAL SELF OF SUPRAMENTAL MAN IN SRI AUROBINDO'S EPIC 'SAVITRI

K Nikhil - European Journal of Literary Studies, 2023

… ’ (1979: 281), says Sri Aurobindo in one of his letters on yoga. It is to be noted here that ‘evolution’ in Sri Aurobindo is not what we find in the realm of Biological Sciences, to be specific, in JeanBaptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. In Sri …

[PDF] Philosophy Of Nationalism In Sri Aurobindo's Bande Mataram

AP Jani - Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture, 2023

… Sri Aurobindo was indeed a versatile genius. Aurobindo is known as Sri Aurobindo in which ‘Sri’ means beauty of divinity. He had the divine qualities which … Much has been written about the philosophy of nationalism but Sri Aurobindo …

[PDF] India's Scheduled Caste list must be religion-neutral. Muslims, Christians are also Dalit

KA Ansari - The Print, 2023

… The critical Hindu reformist voices—Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, MK Gandhi, VD Savarkar, and so on—argued against a birth-based varna (caste) order and almost without exception understood …

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S Friedman, A Nandy - Decolonisation: From Revolution to Evolution, 2023

… the most articulate ideologue of the British Raj, and the Indian nationalist and spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo. His purpose is to contrast Kipling's cultural essentialism with Sri Aurobindo's syncretic and inclusive alternative. Kipling serves …

Place, Spirituality, and Wellness in the East and the West: Exploring Psychological Mechanisms of the Legendary Gyanganj

J Basu - Place, Spirituality, and Well-Being: A Global and …, 2023

… Borrowing from the perspective of the Indian Yogi Sri Aurobindo, the authors critique Freud’s notion that religion is a kind of neurotic coping mechanism. Furthermore, they argued in favor of in-depth research into spirituality and mental …

[HTML] Governing with a lockdown beard: the COVID-19 crisis as a laboratory

D Landau, N Rageth - Gurus and Media: Sound, image, machine, text and the …, 2023

… Other figures, such as Vivekananda and Aurobindo, used the capital they accumulated through their religious activities to influence the sphere of politics. Gandhi is harder to categorise, as it seems his political and spiritual activities …

[PDF] 24 THE STUDY ON EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS OF AROBINDO GHOSH: CONTEXT AND RELEVANCE IN PRESENT SCENARIO

P Bhaduri - EXPLORING NEW HORIZONS

… The guiding principal of the philosophy of the education of Sri Aurobindo was the awaking of man as a spiritual being. According to him real education is that which provides a free and creative environment to the child by developing his interest …

Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati 'The Martin Luther of India'

A SHARMA - 2023

… In the words of a famous Indian spiritualist, poet and revolutionary, Aurobindo Ghosh; “He was a mass of bare and puissant granite.” … · Aurobindo Ghosh

[PDF] Existential Angst in Charu Sheel Singh's Terracotta Flames

DK Singh

… Besides extending the tradition of meditational poetry as found in Upnishads, Tagore and Aurobindo, it explores the process of one‘s wrestling with life in which one knowingly or unknowingly invents a way to make one‘s own identity for a …

[PDF] Bhai Vir Singh's Sundri: A semiotic reclamation of native meanings and imagination

H Kaur, A Singh - Sikh Formations, 2023

… The unity of life and its spirit was an important theme touched upon by contemporary thinkers of Bhai Vir Singh including Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. It is through Creative Unity (Tagore’s term) that the essence of Sundri …

[PDF] Rise of Terrorism in Indian Freedom Movement

R Ramanujam, S Nagaraj

… Khudiram Bose attempt on the life of the Bengal Presidency Magistrate Kingsford on 30April 1908 at Muzaffarpur and the arrest of terrorist group including Aurobindo Ghose dealt a death blow to terrorist activities. Aurobindo’s ambition of an open …

[PDF] Nationalism within the Ummah: A Discussion of Atatürk in the Works of Kazi Nazrul Islam

BUHS Mohammad - BRIQ Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly, 2023

… 2 Khudiram was one of India’s youngest freedom fighters, and in the early 1900s, it was the public speeches of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita which prompted him to join the freedom struggle. It is said that in 1908, Khudiram joined the …