Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo Spiritual Events Info ... Spiritual Event on Speaking Tree By: Ramesh Bijlani on Jan 13,
2013
A talk highlighting the landmark role Swami Vivekananda played in
creating a receptivity for ancient Indian wisdom in the West, and how other
spiritual masters have continued the work. Ramesh Bijlani Date: Jan 13, 2013 Time:10:00
am to 11:30 am Venue: Meditation Hall, SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM -- DELHI
BRANCH, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi
110 016. Entry through Gate No. 6. Phone: 011-2656-7863, E-mail: aurobindo@vsnl.com
Harisharan Walia 09:02 am Swami Vivekanada believed in vedantic philosophy of Brahma satyam
jagat mithya, where as Shri Aurbindo saw the gross Sagun changing world and the
subtle unchangig Nirguna Brahma as two layers/aspects of God. Both believed in
service of the universe. Please elaborate what are their views on Gyan, Karma
and Bhakti, Karma-Akarma- Vikarma.
Auroville is an experimental city, located a few miles out of town,
that grew out of the Sri Aurobindo ashram
that dominates social and educational life in Pondi.
Swami Vivekananda's connection to Puducherry The Hindu KAVITA
KISHORE PUDUCHERRY, January 12, 2013 With the 150th birth anniversary
of the philosopher providing a fitting backdrop, Kavita Kishore explores the
threads that link him to Puducherry
When Swami Vivekananda travelled from Kanyakumari to Chennai, it is
said that he stopped in Puducherry for a few days. According to popular belief,
he is said to have stayed in the house on Vysial Street that Sri Aurobindo and
Subramania Bharathiyar occupied when they first came to the town…
According to Aurobindonian Scholar, Prema Nandakumar, since Swami
Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo were born only nine years apart, they were almost
contemporaries. Swami Vivekananda was the inspiration for the Vande Mataram
movement that a young Sri Aurobindo and several of his contemporaries
participated in. When Sri Aurobindo was imprisoned in Alipore Jail from 1908 to
1909 in the Alipur Bomb Case, he read the Bhagavat Gita and other spiritual
books to gain higher consciousness. It was then that Swami Vivekananda played a
role in his achievement of spirituality, she said… Vivekananda’s influence was
felt all over India at the
time, especially in Bengal . So, it is not
surprising that he played a role in Sri Aurobindo’s rise to spirituality as
well…
Although the route that Swami Vivekananda’s spirituality took was
different from that of Sri Aurobindo, there are some similarities between their
philosophies, including the importance given to Indian culture, the dedication
to social service and education and tolerance of all religions, said Ms.
Nandakumar.
Jyotirmaya
Sharma busts many myths around Swami Vivekananda From: Outlook Magazine, 21
January 2013 Interview ‘His Inclusiveness Is A Powerful Myth’ Vivekananda comes across as a Hindu supremacist, and not so much a social
reformist - Satish Padmanabhan Interviews Jyotirmaya Sharma
In his third book in the quartet on Hindu identity and self-images, academic-author Jyotirmaya Sharma busts many myths around Swami Vivekananda. He comes across as a Hindu supremacist, and not so much a social reformist. Excerpts from an interview with Satish Padmanabhan: …
In his third book in the quartet on Hindu identity and self-images, academic-author Jyotirmaya Sharma busts many myths around Swami Vivekananda. He comes across as a Hindu supremacist, and not so much a social reformist. Excerpts from an interview with Satish Padmanabhan: …
This book, like the previous two (Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of
Hindu Nationalism and Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India ), is an
attempt to delineate a genealogy of Hindu identity. In this context,
Vivekananda provides the most influential restatement of Hinduism. His
religious nationalism is the decisive influence behind Hindu nationalism. Also,
unlike many writers, I do not distinguish between Hinduism and Hindutva. For
me, Hindutva is merely the politically dominant face of Hinduism today…
This idea of his inclusiveness and liberality is a powerful shared
myth in our country but entirely based on a limited, partial reading of his
works. Forget Islam and Christianity, Vivekananda wasn't particularly generous
towards many sects and schools of thought within Hinduism.
Book Excerpt: Cosmic Love and Human Empathy: Swami
Vivekananda's Restatement of Religion (Jyotirmaya Sharma) from Communalism Watch by c-info
Vivekananda, more than anyone else, helped construct the elements that
constituted this carefully edited, censored and wilfully misleading version of
his master’s ‘catholicity’. He used it to mean what he thought was
Ramakrishna’s tolerance, generosity and inclusiveness in relation to other
faiths while carefully glossing over the sources and influences that produced
this ‘catholicity’. The continued use of the term has had a longevity
independent of Vivekananda’s remoulding of Ramakrishna from a “religious
ecstatic to a religious eclectic”, and continues to be used even to this day by
perceptive and critical readers of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda story…
Vivekananda’s interpretation of Ramakrishna is a simultaneous act of
fidelity and distortion… In 1896, Vivekananda gave two lectures in America and England on Ramakrishna. At the
outset, he confesses that he speaks on behalf of his Master, but the errors in interpreting
the message are entirely his own. The bare bones of Ramakrishna’s message are
all there, beginning with renunciation, devotion, love, and ending with
Ramakrishna’s love of all sects and religions. But the moment one unravels the
details, a very carefully doctored picture emerges.
Tweets 16h - Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy
To be fair to Jyotirmaya Sharma, he has always held that Rishi
Aurobindo & Swami Vivekananda as spiritual progenitors of Hindutva project
23h - Pritish Nandy @PritishNandy Nice to see
Swami Vivekananda back in the news. Time to rediscover Sri Aurobindo.
21h - Anil Kumar Gupta @anilguptarsd @PritishNandy Sri Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary
will fall in 2022. Enough time to make grand preparations for rediscover him. Start
now.
23h - Pacifist @iHindu - @PritishNandy sir, request
you to share your thoughts on Sri Aurobindo. Please. View
conversation
23h - jagdish sharma @ivorysharma - @PritishNandy You are a master
communicator. Please start with yourself writing about the philosophy and
thoughts of Sri Aurobindo & Sri Ma
11 Jan - Gautam
Chikermane @gchikermane
And Peter Heehs on 'Roots, trunk, branches & seeds: Similarities and
differences in SV's and Sri Aurobindo's approach to Vedanta and Yoga.'
Having penned all this appreciative remarks, one has to admit and
point out the presence of a just few flaws in the
book. We feel as if we are reading just a recorded history—the evocative fire
of aspirational afflatus is missing at some points. The author seems to get
lost in the quagmire of facts and figures in his enthusiasm to offer
information and more informations. However, dedication and devotion of
the author overrule all these minor errors and we have the
privilege and joy to read through the book—The Book of The Divine Mother.
Comment on Predictions of Sri Aurobindo by nizken More cents from me then…. Start in this order: 1. The Mother 2. Synthesis of Yoga 3. Letters on Yoga (vol. 2) 4. The Agenda
You don’t have to finish everything in them nor does it have to be in
a linear cover-to-cover fashion. Just my recommendations although many other
books like Essays on Gita are also quite fascinating.
“Jason: a book that tells most about the particular changes he and the
Mother aimed at inaugurating in the mind and body of humanity?”
Are you referring to the supramental consciousness ? If not, then
Nizken’s recommendations are fine. Otherwise, check out the Life Divine and
the Mother’s Agenda.
Sri Aurobindo added 12 new chapters to the Life Divine in
the 1940s and these represent his final detailed notes on the subject. A
discussion of the changes he made can be read at the end of the book in the
section entitled “Note on the Text” (CWSA vol 21-22, pages 1109-1117). The last
two chapters “Gnostic Being” and “Divine Life” are especially relevant. On page
1004, he says power of intuition will increase in the immediate future : “A
freer play of intuition and sympathy and understanding would enter into human
life, a clearer sense of the truth of self and things and a more enlightened
dealing with the opportunities and difficulties of existence”.
There are also some conversations with disciples, where he cautioned
against over-interpreting the consequences of the supramental change. Cats and
dogs won’t change, for instance… Georges van Vrekhem, who passed away recently,
has aggregated a lot of this material in his books. See his website http://www.beyondman.org
l think satprems books cover it a lot, especially ‘On The Way To
Suparmanhood’ which is meantioned in the Agenda, l believe a Power was given to
this book by the Mother and SA [as said in Agenda] and SA seemed to be writing
it through Satprem.
Science advances and works within a “paradigm” as written by Thomas
Kuhn. The materialistic clockwork mechanistic paradigm that Don Salmon talks
about has been overthrown by the work in quantum mechanics by Einstein/de
Broglie etc but yes it does persist to a large degree in the public mind. I
think Thomas Kuhn’s book (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) would be the
best way to visualize and understand these scientific paradigms and how they
are overthrown by scientific ‘revolutions.’ Another great book which I found
very helpful and short was What is this thing called Science written by A.F.
Chalmers. Thomas Kuhn after Karl Popper probably gave us the basic framework in
which to understand the history and progress of science of past 300 years.
Sri Aurobindo’s view of rebirth takes issue with the near-exclusive
concentration laid upon the concept in the traditional viewpoint. This
traditional viewpoint looks upon life on the earth as some kind of short-term
interlude, with the goal being to return to the original source and therein to
dissolve ourselves. The entire focus then revolves around individual salvation.
It is, however, impossible to understand the larger significance of the
manifestation and evolution of the world and all the other beings in the world
from a viewpoint that starts with this level of fragmentation. This has led
many to consider the world to be an illusion. Sri Aurobindo integrates the
evolutionary development of the individual with the universal manifestation.
Hymns to the Mystic Fire_Volume-11 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram Home E-Library
Works Of Sri Aurobindo English Sabcl
The
integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 342 Ram Shankar Misra - 1957 - It is true that Sri Aurobindo's integral view of
Reality cannot be said to be perfectly original. The transcendence and immanence of the Absolute or
Brahman has been advocated in the Upanisads and the different systems of the
Vedanta.
Political
Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose
- Volume 11 - Page 336 - Verinder
Grover - 1993 - Preview
Unlike Christianity, Hinduism did not find it difficult to assimilate Darwinian
ideas, because from the beginning Vedanta viewed God as both transcendent and immanent in nature. Aurobindo could easily spiritualise
the concept of evolution and ...
