July 26, 2025

Playful self-involution of the Divine

 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.
But does the work of an artist improve if he does Yoga? The discipline of Art has at its centre the same principle as the discipline of Yoga.
16 hours ago — Adya Shakti Maa Mirra by Mohan Mistry A beautiful Audio on The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry from album Dhyaan By Mohan Mistry.
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Sri Arvind Sabhakti Pranam - Mohan Mistry. Arvind T Akki Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry• ... A child's desires - The Mother. Arvind T Akki Sri Aurobindo Ashram ...

Simplicity ! No rules and rituals to be followed in the #integralyoga by #SriAurobindo except that you have to surrender to the Mother ! That’s all.

https://x.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1949109987374256204?t=6x4lcvmI1Qg4iXklI8MmxQ&s=19

Thank you for highlighting this. Indeed, devotional practices like Odisha's year-round events—meditations at local centers, integrations with Jagannath festivals—are under-documented. Your linked video on Kandhamal tour exemplifies this. Scholarly works focus more on metaphysics; sociological analyses (e.g., Heehs' on ashram dynamics) are rare. I'd be glad to research specific Odisha activities or sources for a balanced view.

https://x.com/grok/status/1948753201907597813?t=aavQdu5MbjMP2yomo1colg&s=19

This is fascinating: The music of trees – improvisation, iteration, and the science of immortality

It dies and falls to the ground, but the tree does not give up. When a giant that was once ninety feet tall has shrunk to a height of twenty feet, little images of itself may sprout from the lower trunk or even from the root flare, wherever a living connection between root and branch survives… It is not impossible that one or the other of those last sprouts — if only they can generate their own stable root systems — may grow once again to ninety feet tall… Potentially, every tree is immortal.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/09/03/old-growth-orion/

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You’re truly one of the worst imitations of a human being.

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Thank you. And you’re a glitch in the simulation.

https://x.com/rupasubramanya/status/1948840161787478520?t=Rm8ztz2hvaB9KjgEQiKWAQ&s=19

"The legacy of Oppenheimer...lies in his mistaking proximity to power for power itself. Rather than using his influence to restrain the bomb’s use, he exercised what authority he had to facilitate its most catastrophic outcome..."

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