Should India be Secular or Hindu? Hindu Human Rights Online ... Ranbir Singh February 17, 2013
Cromwell’s Puritan dictatorship even banned Christmas. Protestantism
emphasised the centrality of text and text alone as the word of god and the
basis of religion. Enlightenment thinkers applied this to all religions. So
when the Orientalists came to India
and tried to categorise the culture, they ignored much of the customs and
traditions in favour of what could specifically be found in texts. This was the
only paradigm that they could use when confronted with a bewildering array of
what became known as Hinduism. So anything in religious text such as Vedas
formed the canon of Hinduism. All else was custom, tradition, tribalism or
culture. It is that thinking
which has lasted until today in defining secularism in India . The
Enlightenment differentiated between sacred and profane, between religion and
culture.
Hegel also considered himself to be an orthodox Christian. The
greatest minds of the following generations – Ludwig Feuerbach, David Strauss,
Marx – did not. They considered themselves Hegelian, yet they were against the
gods… That atheism is at the heart of Marx’s dissertation… Marx turns his focus
to two lesser-known figures, Epicurus and Democritus… The topic of his
dissertation is Epicurus; Democritus’s role is merely to illustrate why
Epicurus is so great… The gods are just as distant in Epicurus’s
explanations; he can look like a precursor of Darwin . And so it was to Epicurus that Marx
turned as an inspiration for his still-developing atheist Hegelianism.
“Tenderness, according to Heidegger, is used by Hölderlin to indicate
the native essence of the Greek: their art of showing, letting appear what
shows itself purely and thereby presences. For the Greeks, what
brings the splendour of the presencing to appearance is the athletic warlike
struggle of heroes (also consider Heraclìtus and Pìndar) and the power of
reflection (die Reflexionskraft) (HEH 166).” P. 414 HEH: Hölderlin's Erde und
Himmel.
The Being behind Hitler Science Of Spirituality Blog on ... By: Martin Sobieroj on
Feb 18, 2013 Source : Mother's
Agenda, 12 January 1965
(Regarding an old "Playground Talk" of March 8, 1951, in
which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and "guided" Hitler: …
As for Sri Aurobindo ...
(you know that there is a place in Russia where they were defeated [ii]), Sri Aurobindo had foreseen the
defeat and had worked the night...
JOSHUA
RAMEY’S ACADEMIC GNOSIS: Non-philosophy is the yoga of philosophy Posted
on February 16, 2013 - Terence
Blake @TPBlake
“Spiritual ordeal” is too one-sided a vision
of spiritual practice, which includes ordeals, but contains also its fair share
of relaxation and hedonic moments. I “see” it as a process psychic and
collective individuation, as Simondon and Stiegler call it. There is no
necessary dualism between philosophy and individuation, and Deleuze is a
shining (in the sense of Dreyfus and Kelly’s ALL THINGS SHINING) example of
their co-existence and superposition.
Gilles Quispel once declared that “Alchemy
is the yoga of Gnosticism”, that is to say the actual experiential and
transformative practice that subtends and is subtended by Gnostic theoretical
creation. One could reformulate this as “Non-philosophy is the yoga of
philosophy”.
Order never comes for free, but always
requires operations, energy, and work precisely because it’s more probable for
anything to be related to anything else, than for anything to maintain
improbable and selective relations to a delimited range of elements in the
order of being. “Onto-cartography” would be the investigation of the
mechanisms by which improbable orders are maintained; and would therefore
include investigations of discursive mechanisms (not surprisingly, the favorite
of the humanities), chronopolotical mechanisms, geographical mechanisms
(geopolitics), and thermopolitical mechanisms. Whenever encountering an
order in the social and political world we should be surprised and ask
ourselves how it maintains itself. In understanding how
it maintains itself, we can begin to devise strategies undermine it where those
negentropic mechanisms are oppressive.
All of this aside, we now see a third
argument against holism. A world in which everything is
related to everything else is identical to the definition of a
highly entropic system. It is a world where no inferences can be made to
other elements precisely because there’s an equal probability of anything being
related to anything else. Such a world would be a world of Brownian
motion, where there was no language, mathematics, ecologies, or social orders,
precisely because all of these orders are orders in which relations between
elements are selective or improbable. As Deleuze said of
Hegel’s categories, the world proposed by holists is a world that is too baggy,
too ill fitted, to get at the real of the world that we, in fact, encounter.
There is the practical mind that involves
itself with the physical and vital levels of existence and works to manage and
utilize them to best advantage; there is also a higher mind of thought and
concept, as well as an aesthetic and an emotional aspect that weave the complex
fabric that we consider to be mental functioning. Sri Aurobindo explains:
“The mental energy divides itself and runs in many directions, has an ascending
scale of the levels of its action, a great variety and ...”
It is not simply the complexity of these
different energies and levels of action that we have to contend with; we also
have to take into account the varying concentration and intensity of the energy
put forth within each of these lines. A weak force will soon be deflected,
drowned out or watered down by the myriad other active forces around it and
with which it needs to contend.
It is here she loses herself into Infinity
the way the crested eagles of thought fly into the sky of the Unknowable… Wherever
he looked, he saw the veiled and seeking Force, she an exiled goddess building
mimic heavens, a Sphinx gazing at the Sun.
Why do some people get angry and mad when you mention
alternative medicine, the mind and the soul? Here's one person that explains it. ... if
that force can be made to work freely, drugs are at once superfluous. Sri
Aurobindo
