April 26, 2025

Kierkegaard, Gadamer, and Sri Aurobindo

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

From a series of lectures by Ambalal Balkrishna Purani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Recorded in 1962 at the Crescent Moon Ranch, Sedona, Arizona, USA.
This is the first talk of the 3 day online workshop - The Freedom of self-forgetfulness - in the light of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, organised by NAMAH, ...
11 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo and The Mother never gave any outer (or even inner conditions) for chanting Their Names or the mantras. Even Sri Krishna does not give any such ...
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4 hours ago — 238 / Sri Aurobindo: Initial Years: 1872-1879 · 239 / Sri Aurobindo: Life of Preparation at Baroda: 1893-1906 · 240 / Sri Aurobindo: Political Life: 1902-1910 ...
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16 hours ago — In my case, it was the vision of Sri Aurobindo, and I embraced an evolutionary perspective. So it wasn't Hinduism as such that I was interested in; I was more ...
21 hours ago — He also got me involved with Auroville, Puducherry, to help them use geospatial technology in projects. Dr Rangan was versatile, with his expertise ...
Explore the stunning architecture of Savithri Bhavan in Auroville! Discover its unique design and the vision behind this incredible space.
Sri Aurobindo firmly rejected the divisions created by the colonisers, especially those based on religion, and warned us not to accept them as permanent or ...

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A trailblazer in Dalit literature, Bama Faustina Susairaj, popularly known as Bama, offers an unvarnished depiction of the social and cultural struggles that the Dalit community in India faces. Bama was born into a caste that was marginalized in …

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Rajan - Journal of Dharma Studies, 2025
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This article describes a religious belief, based on folklore but arising within Hindu culture, that has evolved over the last three decades in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It describes how this belief is spreading in North-West India and has moved closer to …

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… are the most important monographs from the era for our purposes, each demonstrating both … post-war ideologues including Francis Parker Yockey, Savitri Devi, and Julius Evola, who in … today, especially given the role Savitri Devi played …

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U Singh - Journal of East-West Thought (JET) ISSN (O): 2168 …, 2025
In this paper I aim to present a wide-ranging and sustained examination of Kierkegaard’s thought especially with reference to his oeuvre—Fear and Trembling. Paradox and absurd in its semantic content would exclude reason. Kierkegaard’s …

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[A Modern KuruKṣetrA? VAiṣṇAVisM, nAtionAlisM, And the second World WAr
Jon Chapple
if Krishna Prem, by birth a Briton,... weakly in favor of the Allied cause, his spiritual contemporary, fellow Kingsman and guru to Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo...]

For Bahujan youth, fluency in pop culture is a survival skill and a strategy for self-respect. Education isn’t enough; real opportunity is in acquiring cultural shorthand, writes @Balram1801. Artwork by Siddhesh Gautam

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