The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : COIMBATORE TODAY February
24, 2013
Prayers to Divine Mother: Sri
Aurobindo Devotees Trust, Sasibalika Vidya Mandir, R.S. Puram, 9.30
a.m. and Sri Annai Meditation Centre, W7C, Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.
Aurobindo admirer
The Shillong Times - Rajib Roy met American historian Peter Heehs during
his visit to Shillong WHILE GRADUATING in a college in ...
Comment on Sri Aurobindo on synchronicity by mwb6119Mark from Comments for IYSATM Sandeep said: As you too may have
noticed, once you have a spiritual opening, all kinds of experiences tend to
occur and it is not easy to distinguish whether one is interpreting them
correctly or just projecting one’s desires.
There is no single reality that defines the past - Right & Wrong - Times Of India Blog 24 February 2013 Swapan
Dasgupta
There was a time when history was an engagement involving the dead,
the living and the unborn. Today, thanks to the multiplication of isms and the
epidemic of prefixes (post-modernism, post-colonial , neo-liberal , et al), the
story of the human experience has been reduced to conversations involving tiny
groups of ‘professional’ historians. The wider citizenry that should, ideally,
have informed perceptions of their heritage and inheritance have been
disdainfully left out of the process.
The results have been horrible. AnIndia that was in any case
relatively unconcerned with history has become even less so. An enlightened yet
critical view of how our ancestors coped with challenges and uncertainties have
been replaced by either idyllic or prejudicial fantasies. By far the most
damaging contribution has been that of ‘scientific’ history which, thanks to
its impersonal nature and inherent dryness, has virtually killed popular
interest in the past. For the aam aadmi, history has become a Bollywood
hand-me-down.
The results have been horrible. An
This perversion has had two consequences. For some, not least the
political class, the rendering of the past has become an aspect of contemporary
politics — tales to be moulded and presented as facets of a contested nationhood.
To the completely uninitiated, history has become an extension of mythology — a
process that conveniently bypasses chronology and empirical rigour. By
definition, any appreciation of the past involves a great deal of
tentativeness. Yet, if mass reaction is any guide, everything from Shivaji to
Gandhiji has become bound in unflinching certitudes… Viewing history as a
series of certitudes forecloses awkward conclusions. Like the present, there is
no single reality that defines the past, a point to consider the next time we
make it a contemporary battlefield.
Vivekananda’s
doctrine of Maya is not like that of Sankara Pertinence of Vivekananda’s
Apotheosis in Indian Social Diaspora - Dr. Ravindra Kumar – Aug. 29, 2007 - The intuitive mind of Vivekananda has been inspired by the juxtapose
thought and theism of various pantheists and epistemologists.
Remembering Vivekananda -
Frontline AMIYA P. SEN Feb 8, 2013 – Unlike Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda was not a sadhaka, nor did
he possess the philosophical depth or originality of Sri Aurobindo. His most ... 3:23 pm
Vivekananda's doctored
picture of Ramakrishna 13 Jan 2013 - 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
There is darkness below darkness, as if worse
is awaiting the worse, evil for a greater evil. Not a drop of joy, not a ray of
light, not a bit of truth, not a trace of hope is present there. Eye cannot see
anything, but it is only by the perception of the soul one knows the things
that go in that calamitous world, in that city with grimed sooty filthy walls,
in those savage slums of the Night. If there are proud perverted palaces, there
also crowd grey and squalid huts, places full of inhuman and demoniac inhabitants.
Life has achieved in the shadow depths a strange miracle. She is here a strong
and fallen goddess, a drunken empress, a terrible horrendous dreadful Gorgon in
all her monstrous ugliness, with living snakes as her hair, a look at her
turning one into a dead stone. A Medusa may be killed by Perseus but here she
is an immortal, once a royal woman, attired in gold and purple robes, a queen
leaving her palace and now living in a shanty, in a crudely built hut, in a
squalid bouge, bearing her fatal breasts in shameless and uncouth exultation.
She has become a dissolute woman, a harlot,
promiscuous, a vagabond, an adventurous tramp. There on the dark background she
scripts her dramas and her long epics of horror and grimness, of agonies and
hideous deeds. She runs booths of sin and makes good business in night-repairs
beautifying skin and flesh with creams and serums, and stylises body’s lustful
moods and desires. To the goat-like satyr she gives the honey-dripping thyrsus
of a god. Such are her ingenious crafts of monstrosity. Everything that Nature
made is given repulsive twists and unnatural poses. To the dead is expressed
anguish but it is no more than a ritual, a custom, without an element of
genuineness. In the secret Night is abroad only the bestial joy, a monstrous
ecstasy. Anything done only exposes the mystery of Hell.
In a professional setting like a press conference, definitely
inappropriate. Yelling “you’re beautiful, you’re sexy!” at passing women on the
street can never be construed as a compliment. My apologies to legions of what
I’m sure are well meaning men with only pure good intentions… I want to be more
than a piece of meat. I want to be more than something pretty to look at. I
want to inspire respect not lust. And until the day it happens, I will continue
to be over sensitive and I will continue to regard all such ‘compliments’ with
the skepticism they deserve.
Comment on What is wrong with promiscuity? by Mansee from Comments for IYSATM by Mansee - Feb 14, 2013
I also have come across some old pervert men in university and job
alike, but i have also had the chance to meet certain men with lot of self
control and integrity. Similarly for the women, i have known the devoted ones
and also the not-so-controlled ones. (Maybe it is more difficult to find
pervert women as their means of expressions are more restrained than men in
Indian society. Also just think in a traditional society, if a man cheats on
one woman X, it will surely
involve another woman Y.
Now what will you call Y here?).
Women themselves want to be seen as seductive from Savitri Era Learning Forum - The King is dead, long live the King from sunayana.com by Jul 21, 2012
Women themselves want to be seen as seductive and are totally focused on their physical
appearance because that must attract attention. In Rajesh Khanna’s films women
were objects of adoration. India
may have become wealthier than before but crimes against women are in the
headlines every other day.
