On the occasion of the Mother's Birthday, an evening performance was
held at the Matrimandir amphitheater. Passages were read from Savitri
"Book of the Divine Mother" and "The Book of Birth and
Quest", accompanied by the flute and tanpura.
21st of February important day in Auroville's life, FoodLink takes a
gift economy's aspect to celebrate this day. Based on the joy of giving, food
shopping is an exchange. Farmers bring their productions, vegetable, fruits,
milk .... and people pay the price that they can afford. A different way to
estimate value of goods, in a typically Aurovilian way of living. This happened
in "Pour Tous" next to solar kitchen, finishing at 3 pm.
10,000 visitors thronged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Over 10,000 visitors are expected to
have crossed the portals of the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram, to have a ...
A mass meditation was held at Sri
Aurobindo Ashram to mark the 135th birth anniversary of the Mother here on
Thursday. Devotees from the country as well as...
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talk on 'Matter - man's last spiritual frontier' by Bhaskara Reddy.
MOTHER´S BIRTHDAY AT AUROBINDO (Colonel Nirmal Mahajan, EME, Retd) 21 Feb, was
Mother’s 135th birthday
It was celebrated with all the fervor, enthusiasm at the Aurobindo
Ashram, Rajpur Road .
The Prayer hall was packed to capacity with the devotees who had come to pay
homage to Mother. Madhu Anjali, energetic Vice Chairperson of Aurbindo Ashram,
had splendidly decked up the whole place with marigold flowers. Flurry of white
flowers at the entrance add to the ambiance of Ashram. As always, as per the
tradition, the program started with meditation and reading of a page of epic,
“Savitri” (written by Sri Aurobindo). Later Kiran Sood, Principal of M.K.P (PG)
Collage, gave a thought provoking talk on Mother, which the knowledgeable
audience heard in pin drop silence. Kiran is a regular speaker and has in-depth
knowledge of spiritual matters…
Special message received from Pondicherry
was distributed to all. It read, “There is a sacred fire that burns in the
heart and envelops the whole being; it is Agni, who illumines and purifies all.
I kindle that fire in you each time that you ask me for some progress; but it
destroys nothing but falsehood and obscurity.” The Mother
20 boys and girls of Jaswant
Modern School Jaswant
Modern School
As the human mind develops beyond its first focus on purely vital
success and fulfillment, we see the next stage as the attempt to abstract out
of the life experience some basic principles or rules which get framed into the
concept of “right”, which became in the ancient Indian philosophy, the concept
known as “Dharma”. We see here a more characteristically mental framework
developing an independence from the needs for vital success in life, and a
corresponding attempt to control life based on these abstract principles…
We see here a real transition from the non-moral law of the vital
world, and the first mental developments focused on supporting and achieving
success in the world of life and action, to a more purely mental framework that
seeks to modify life, and impose itself regardless of the vital desires and
fulfillments. Of course, this starts out as a mixed action still highly colored
by the desires, demands and needs of the vital being of man, and thus, the
ideals and goals set in this initial stage are very much vital goals.
The term noosphere was originally coined by Teilhard de Chardin the
Jesuit anthropologist. However it was Vernadsky integrated the emergence of
noosphere with the evolutionary history of the planet… His book ‘The Biosphere’
was published in Russian in 1926 and in French in 1929. With 150 pages and
unassuming cover, the book’s importance was not understood fully outside a
small minority of inter-disciplinary scientists dealing with eco-systems… In
1960, in the centennial year of the publication of ‘Origin of Species’, Sir
Julian Huxley coined the term ‘psycho-social evolution’ to characterize the
nature of evolution after the advent of humans. Huxley also strongly felt the
need for a psychosocial science for guiding this post-biological evolution…
But what makes Vivekananda more relevant to the study of noosphere is
the way he shuns the pseudo-science of social Darwinism. This is a remarkable
stand because at that time the most of the Western world was under the sway of
Herbert Spencer – applying the ‘survival of the fittest’ to human societies,
justifying enslaving of non-western societies, colonial exploitation, racism
and elimination of mentally challenged individuals in the name of the science
of eugenics… He saw in evolution an underlying unity of all life rejecting
spontaneous creation with an external factor like God and he also inferred that
with the advent of human mind and unity of humanity, a new phase in evolution
has commenced… In fact Vernadsky seeing mind as an important factor in
planetary geo-bio evolution gets a premonition in Vivekananda’s thought, though
in a much larger canvas… Vernadsky in his last days was deeply attracted by the
works of Swami Vivekananda. And this year sees the 150th birth anniversary of
both Swami Vivekananda and Vernadsky.
A central thread running through his work is an unusually strong
commitment to the soundness of the ordinary human being’s judgments, and a
concern to fend off attempts, by philosophers and policy-makers, to replace
those judgments with the supposedly better “systems” invented by intellectuals…
Perhaps taking a cue from David Hume’s skepticism about the capacity of
philosophy to replace the judgments of common life, Smith is suspicious of
philosophy as conducted from a foundationalist standpoint, outside the modes of
thought and practice it examines. Instead, he maps common life from within,
correcting it where necessary with its own tools rather than trying either to
justify or to criticize it from an external standpoint. He aims indeed to break
down the distinction between theoretical and ordinary thought. This
intellectual project is not unconnected with his political interest in
guaranteeing to ordinary individuals the “natural liberty” to act in accordance
with their own judgments.
Polanyi suffers from ideological blindness. He has a political point of view that denies
the very evidence he quotes!
There are other equally great figures who are less famous, but who
deserve to be known and remembered. Among them is Arumuga Navalar (1822 – 1879)
who is regarded as the “father” of modern day Tamil prose and an architect of
Hindu destiny in Eelam (Sri Lanka) is the most prominent member…
The school he established was modeled along the lines of the
Protestant school he had studied in since he felt that the traditional Tamil
schools were inadequate for facing the missionary onslaught which he saw as
shiva’s way of chastising the Tamils and awakening them to their own heritage… By
1850 he had managed to set up the printing press and began publishing religious
texts and texts like Bala Patam (Children’s Lessons) for the Shaiva school
children… To put it simply, Arumuga Navalar created an awakening among the Sri
Lankan Tamils and set the standards for modern day Tamil prose; what Swami
Dayananda and his Arya Samaj had achieved in North India in stemming
conversions, Arumuga Navalar achieved in Eelam.
Zanjeer -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1973 Hindi film
At a time, when India was suffering from corruption, low economic growth
etc, and the common man was left with frustration and anger over the system, Hindi Cinema turned
violent and aggressive. Reflecting the anger of the masses, Amitabh
Bachchan became the new hero, who had the courage to fight against the
wrong and maintaining moral values at the same time… Reflective of
"the tumultuous politics of the early 70s" in India, Deewaar (1975 film)
was a ground-breaking work. It was one of a few films which established
Bachchan as the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema. ~ How do movies affect yoga practice?
