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February 17, 2013

Critics like Sri Aurobindo and Coomarswamy didn’t treat cinema under culture

The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : coimbatore today RELIGION

Prayers to Sri Annai: Sri Aurobindo Devotees Trust, Sais Balika Vidya Mandir, Azad Road, 9.30 a.m.; Sri Annai Meditation Centre, W7C, Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.

Saturday, 16 February 2013 - Sri Aurobindo's Rourkela School According to Sri Aurobindo's Vision. And the target of the school is to make student forward towards the New Era By putting them into the practice of Integral...

The Nightingale of Sri Aurobindo's Rourkela School, Sector-5, Odisha - Mrs Bandana Mohanty An instrument of Divine's field of Music

Court Order in Radhikaranjan's Case ― Sridharan

The following are the main passages of the Court Order given by the 2nd Additional Munsif of the Puducherry Court in Radhikaranjan’s case. An oral order was given on 5 December, 2012 followed by a written order on 8 February, 2013 restraining the Ashram Trustees from stopping Radhikaranjan’s classes in the Ashram School.

Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 4D by Shiva Vangara

The craftsman and the craft grown inly one. Achieve perfection by the magic throb. And passion of their close identity. Savitri Sri Aurobindo.

A Mind not limited by external sense from Savitri

Affirming the beauty and splendour of her law she claims life as her natural domain. Beauty and Art awake the joy which sleeps in all things made. A mighty victory or a mighty fall, a throne in heaven or a pit in hell find justification in the fact that something is got done, something lived. No wonder, it is the soul which is the ground for Matter, it is the cause of Matter. On inner values is prepared the plan. This world’s apparent sensible design becomes vibrant. Here is a mind which is not limited by senses, powers that are not seen come out in front and reveal their faces. The occult is no more occult, and all becomes palpable and obvious.

Critical Estimate of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh's Contribution to Indian ... - Ardhendu De

The ultimate realization: Aurobindo’s philosophical and mystical glow is through an integral view of man, Nature and will change the face of the world. In Savitri, his masterpiece he succeeds to a great extent in expressing hoist mystic experiences and yogic realizations. Aurobindo arrives at the conclusion that releases for bondage and changer with the secret knowledge, the soul a chives a complete spiritual transformation Savior is cast for minutely cosmic role of struggle and redemption, and is the incarnation of Divine mother. Savitri is both the response and the resulting transformation. Conclusion: Sri Aurobindo is a skillful craftsman in the use of blank verse and felicity in poetic expression. His grand and mystic style in poetic works are ample testimony of his stupendous achievements.

Kancha Ilaiah: Even if 10% dalit children got English education, India would change from Opinion, Editorial, Columnists and Reviews The Times of India Kancha Ilaiah is a political scientist, writer and dalit activist.

Sample Chapter for Aravamudan, S.: Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language Srinivas Aravamudan Book Description - Endorsements - Table of Contents - Adobe Acrobat PDF format Introduction - Imbued with a knowledge of objective sciences by English education, our people will be able to comprehend subjective truths. --Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Anandamath

Katju speaks the 'unpleasant truth': 90% of Indians are fools Firstpost - The 90% - Indian Express Mon Apr 09 2012, Markandey Katju - The unpleasant truth: 90 per cent of Indians are fools…

In our shastras it is written: "Satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat, na bruyat satyam apriyam." It means, "Speak the truth, speak the pleasant, but do not speak the unpleasant truth." I wish to rectify this. The country's situation today requires that we say "Bruyat satyam apriyam", i.e. "Speak the unpleasant truth".

Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood - Christine Deftereos - gives the reader an insight into a novel aspect of Nandy. The author insists that Ashis Nandy is not merely a self-described political psychologist; he is also an intellectual street fighter who comes face to face with the psychology of politics and the politics of psychology, thus affirming why this intellectual is one of the most original and confronting Indian thinkers of his generation. The main features of this book are its original reading and the authentic use of the psychoanalytic theory to characterise and demonstrate the importance of psychoanalysis in Nandy's work. Read More...

Narratives Of Indian Cinema - Page 26 - Manju Jain - 2009 - Preview impress upon filmmakers the need to make films with powerful social and educational themes. even critics of this time like aurobindo ghosh and ananda Coomarswamy, who wrote extensively about art and culture, made little attempt either to treat cinema as a rich and varied register of popular culture or to understand the new regime of aesthetics that it had inaugurated.

Colonial Displacements: Nationalist Longing and Identity Among ... - Page 191 - Paromita Biswas - 2008 - Preview As scholars such as Peter van der Veer and others have argued, this investment by male nationalists of the figure of the woman with superior strength, for instance Aurobindo or Bankim's portrayal of the nation as the mother goddess, was a ...

'Photos of the Gods': The Printed Image and Political Struggle in ... - Page 100 - Chris Pinney - 2004 - Preview - More editions A key element in Peter van der Veer's study of what he calls 'religious nationalism', is the claim that it is the result of the ... reference for religious nationalists today: the translation above, by Shri Aurobindo, is taken from the Bharatiya Janata ... Beyond appearances?: visual practices and ideologies in modern India - Page 142 - Sumathi Ramaswamy - 2003

Religious Freedom in India: Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion - Page 105 - Goldie Osuri - 2012 - Preview - More editions open reading that Vasudevan calls for (which redirects Phalke's cinema towards a Gandhian desire for the ... ... framework of Hindu nationalism” through the institution of canonical texts such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata in print literature as discussed by Peter van der Veer (2001). van der Veer argues, for example, that “it was Aurobindo's idea, in his Foundations of Indian Culture, that the Mahabharata and the Ramayana constitute the essence of...

Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia - Page 84 Peter Van Der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann - 1999 - Preview - More editions Perspectives on Europe and Asia Peter Van Der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann ... notion of primordial Indian racial qualities, and also in the thought of Gandhi's precursors, notably Aurobindo, who conceived of nationality as a more spiritual force but ...

The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Page 209 Jacob Copeman, Aya Ikegame - 2012 - Preview - More editions Cosmopolitan spirituality in Rishikesh Aravamudan identifies Guru English as the most recognizable form of South Asian cosmopolitanism and Aurobindo as not only the first modern guru but one who ... 2002:10, see also van der Veer 2002b). 9:03 pm

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Partition of India never did any good to anybody

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February 15, 2013

Not a lonely self-glorification, the East-West dichotomy has to be transcended

Religion and Beyond By: Ramesh Bijlani on Feb 14, 2013 7 Responses Every religion has four basic components…

Religion is good as a gateway to spirituality, but no religion is good enough as the ultimate anchor. That is why, religion has been called the kindergarten of spirituality. Or, as Swami Vivekananda said, any religion is good enough to be born in; no religion is good enough to die in. Having said that, the overall effect of religions on mankind, however, has been positive, in spite of the divisions and even violence that they have occasionally triggered. Acknowledgement: I am happy to acknowledge the insight into the four aspects of religions that I gained from Prof. V.G. Bhide.

Sri Aurobindo: A Forward-Looking Traditionalist by Peter Heehs - Talk delivered by Peter Heehs at a National Conference sponsored by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Samsthan, New Delhi, and the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Indian Culture, Shillong, February 2012 - Free download Choose a format to download

It was not until a decade after his return from England that the focus of Sri Aurobindo’s attention shifted from literary to spiritual works. Around 1902 he began his long engagement with the Upanishads, striving to bring out the majesty of Upanishadic language in English translations, … Sri Aurobindo never gave a final form to his philological investigations, because his research into the origins of language led him to the Rig Veda, and he soon became deeply absorbed in the study of this most ancient of Indian texts…

Sri Aurobindo was convinced of the greatness of the Indian tradition, but his appreciation of the Indian past looked forward to an even greater future… The old as well as the new had to be creatively appropriated, becoming transformed into something that was stronger and richer than the constituent materials. It is in the light of this assimilative appropriation that we have to view Sri Aurobindo’s approach to efforts of “the Indian spiritual mind” to recover its past and move towards its future. On the one hand he encouraged the study of India’s past achievements in religion, literature, art, polity, and so forth. On the other hand he discouraged the “revival of orthodox conservatism” as being superficial, sentimental and out of “touch with the great facts and forces of life.” Modern Indians, he wrote, had to “look upon all that our past contains with new eyes” in order “to recover something of their ancient sense” but at the same time “bring out of them a new light which gives to the old truths fresh aspects and therefore novel potentialities of creation and evolution.”

Pride in the accomplishments of the Indian soul should not take the form of what he called an “unthinking cultural Chauvinism which holds that whatever we have is good for us because it is Indian or even that whatever is in India is best, because it is the creation of the Rishis.” What India needed was not a lonely self-glorification, but “a unity with the rest of mankind, in which we shall maintain our spiritual and our outer independence.” The East-West dichotomy had to be transcended, he said, for “from the view of the evolutionary future, European and Indian civilisation at their best have only been half achievements, infant dawns pointing to the mature sunlight that is to come.”

Meghalaya Guardian ePaper Inspired by Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, he made India his home. GUARDIAN NEWS BUREAU SHILLONG, Feb 14:

Peter Heehs, an American historian living in Puducherry who writes on modern Indian history, Indian spirituality and religion was in town recently to attend the national seminar on “interrelation between Sanskrit and Indian culture with special reference to Sri Aurobindo” organized by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi and city based Sri Aurobindo Institute of Indian Culture at its campus. On Wednesday, he addressed a select audience at the city- based Asian Confluence – an initiative to promote an open space for creating a better understanding of the North Eastern region of India. It is a space for cultural and intellectual exchange that can act as a hub for civil society initiatives and the brainchild of former Shillong parliamentarian Dr BB Dutta’s son, Sabyasachi Dutta.

In his interaction with the specially invited guests, Heehs said that he came to India at the age of 22 and made Pondicherry his home for over 40 years now. He has authored several books and is being acclaimed as an outstanding authority of Sri Aurobindo and Divine Mother’s vision, thought etc. “Having coming here 40 years ago, India has become a place where I live and work whereas my family ( his brothers) is cantered in USA,” he said. He was born in Illinois, Chicago and grew up in Philadelphia and also spent most of his boyhood in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey before coming here. His father was from St Louis and mother from California.

When his father was transferred to Philadelphia region that was when he developed first sort of interests about India and came across Indian spiritual gurus besides Ravi Shankar and his music. He was in college then when a thought about what is the purpose of this life, the ideal of Vedanta and general spiritual thinking caught his thinking. He came to know about the Indian Cultural Centre in New York and got associated with it where the in- charge, a French lady came to India and met Morarji Desai and dedicated herself as India’s ambassador as she was more influenced by Sri Aurobindo and Raman Maharshi. “I ended up with this organization and got interested in reading about Sri Aurobindo and thought why not go that place and went straight to Pondicherry and then got kind of fit in and was given a work in a literary activity to set up the archive of Sri Aurobindo’s works,” he said.

Working at this archive was a learning process for him as he was involved in identifying and sequencing the personal manuscripts of Sri Aurobindo from which he had got the opportunity to have a close look into the life of this great Yogi. “We made sequence of the books and his personal manuscripts and discovered that like Bhabani Bharati, which was talked upon largely in the seminar, there were many other works that were lying unpublished,” he said. The quality of Sri Aurobindo that took this historian by surprise was that he (Aurobindo) started a monthly journal Arya of which all the 64 pages he used to write in immaculate texts as he had greater fluency in writing English besides he was simultaneously working on various other disciplines, such as, The Life Divine, The Future Poetry, Translation of Vedas, The Ideal of Human Unity and more as all these are different subject works in addition to the 64 page monthly journal. “He was incredible,” said Heehs.

Heehs also replied questions put up by the visiting guests, such as, why institutions tend to drift away after the departure of the founding fathers besides whether Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda had any inspirational relationship between them. There was also questions regarding his book “The Lives of Sri Aurobindo” which created a controversy and furore in the country as there was a demand that the historian should leave the country with protests in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, too.

Heehs also shared his experience meeting with the Divine Mother for a couple of times as meeting with the mother was very restricted. “I would exaggerate if I say that there was a huge feeling or change in me thereafter but certainly there was something as I dedicated my life to that of Sri Aurobindo and Mother,” he said.

The Hindu : Opinion Op-Ed : All the perfumes of Arabia February 15, 2013 MARKANDEY KATJU

To call the killings of Muslims in 2002 a spontaneous reaction reminds one of Kristallnacht in Germany in November 1938, when the entire Jewish community in Germany was attacked, many killed, their synagogues burnt, shops vandalised after a German diplomat in Paris was shot dead by a Jewish youth whose family had been persecuted by the Nazis. It was claimed by the Nazi government that this was only a ‘spontaneous’ reaction, but in fact it was planned and executed by the Nazi authorities using fanatic mobs.

In terms of historical evolution, India is broadly a country of immigrants and consequently, it is a land of tremendous diversity. Hence, the only policy which can hold it together and put it on the path of progress is secularism — equal respect and treatment to all communities and sects. This was the policy of the great Emperor Akbar, which was followed by our founding fathers (Pandit Nehru and his colleagues) who gave us a secular Constitution. Unless we follow this policy, our country cannot survive for one day, because it has so much diversity, so many religions, castes, languages, ethnic groups.

India, therefore, does not belong to Hindus alone; it belongs equally to Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Parsees, Jains etc. Also, it is not only Hindus who can live in India as first-rate citizens while others have to live as second or third rate citizens. All are first-rate citizens here. The killing of thousands of Muslims and other atrocities on them in Gujarat in 2002 can never be forgotten or forgiven. All the perfumes in Arabia cannot wash away the stain on Mr. Modi in this connection.

It is said by his supporters that Mr. Modi had no hand in the killings, and it is also said that he had not been found guilty by any court of law. I do not want to comment on our judiciary, but I certainly do not buy the story that Mr. Modi had no hand in the events of 2002. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat at the time when horrible events happened on such a large scale. Can it be believed that he had no hand in them? At least I find this impossible to believe… I appeal to the people of India to consider all this if they are really concerned about the nation’s future. Otherwise they may make the same mistake which the Germans made in 1933. (Markandey Katju, a former judge of the Supreme Court, is Chairman of the Press Council of India)

“Is wealth a value?” from Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen

By Ronald Dworkin (pdf). Every economist (and many others) should read this article. And his classic two-part article on “What is Equality?” is here and here.

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