The Hermetic Deleuze and The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo

The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : Madurai Today Sri Aurobindo Society: Meeting on 'The yoga of Savitri reading,' 3 Lajapathi Roy Road, Chinna Chokkikulam, 4 p.m..

Message From Sri Maa « Sri Aurobindo Patha Mandir Trust Working on the field of education, health, small scale industry, and spiritual growth of the society. (by SAPMT)

Sri Aurobindo Society  Focus Area Integral Education  "Happy is he who can exchange his qualities with the real qualities of the flowers. Try to cultivate in yourself their refined qualities." The Mother

Flower Exhibition in Mumbai based on ‘The spiritual significance of flowers’  Jan 18-20, 2013; 9:00am-6:00pm Bhavan's College, Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai - 400 058. Sri Aurobindo Society, Mumbai Branch, organized a flower exhibition based on ‘The Spiritual Significance of Flowers’ as given by The Mother. This exhibition was part of a much larger nature festival called ‘Prakruti’, which was organized by Bhavan’s Nature and Adventure Centre (an affiliate of Bhavan’s College, Andheri, Mumbai).

She carries crucified God upon her breast from Savitri 

True, here she is a slave to death and ignorance, but there is the constant aspiration driving things to deathlessness, of knowing the Unknowable. She may have fallen asleep but even then she creates a world. In the march of time what is inconscience after all? just a gigantic pause. The Light that had sent her forth might have been denied to her, yet she continues still though she would meet agony and pain; she carries crucified God upon her breast.

The exchange of vital forces during social interactions Integral ... by Sandeep

Sri Aurobindo: It is not only talk that creates a turmoil – disturbing forces can come in by contact also. There may be restlessness or confusion of consciousness in the person who talks with you to which he does not give expression or is not ...

In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography - Page 502 - Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Rupert Snell - 2001 - Preview - More editions I could not think why Amit would want to throw up a good job to try his luck in cinema; but I didn't want to discourage Bunty, nor, for that matter, was there anything I could do to stop him anyway. While in Madras I visited the Shree Aurobindo Ashram ...

Books on Hinduism - Concepts of Reason and Intuition With Special Reference to Sri Aurobindo, K.C. Bhattacharyya and S. Radhakrishnan Author Bio: Prof. Ramesh Chandra Sinha (1944 )

The great thinkers are fully aware that unless they interpret and formulate the traditional truths in the modern framework of ideas, they would cease to inspire. There seems to be a distinct change in their views concerning man's existence in the world. The book embodies a fresh approach towards critical evaluation of some theories and gives valuable insights. It attempts to make relevant comparisons of the views of Indian thinkers with those of some of the eminent thinkers of the West. In the detailed study of Sri Aurobindo, K.C. Bhattacharyya and S. Radhakrishnan, the author shows, not only a profound grasp of the concepts of Reason and Intuition, but also the admirable understanding of other important metaphysical and religious problems. This book cannot miss the sight of students of philosophy, researchers and scholars. 

What is the Scope of Doctor of philosophy in Sri Aurobindo ... - ignou IGNOU has started the new program in the Doctor of philosophy in Sri Aurobindo studies which is based on evolutionary philosophy. Sri Aurobindo was a great ...

Private Universities that have shown interest in Odisha by Chitta Baral - Based on a list in February 2013. Amity University Amrita Viswa Vidyapitham University ASBM (Asian School of Business Management) University Birla Global University Chicago University to set up a satellite university within Utkal University Campus C V Raman International University Devine Global University by Devine Education Trust, Delhi DRIEMS University Educity in Rourkela by Knowledge [...]

Conscious Complicity at the Crossroads: A Response to Jacob Sherman’s “What’s at Stake in Hermetic Reterritorialization” from An und für sich by joshua ramey

This is not “a way of reading Deleuze.”  It is the excavation of tendencies in Deleuze’s thought, tendencies that are incompletely realized but that point in certain directions, directions Deleuze himself did not, or could not yet take…  At the level of content, there is almost nothing in Deleuze’s work except exceptional, obscure, bizarre, unusual, paradoxical, uncanny, traumatic, visionary, apocalyptically intense realities.  Not only are the artists and their artworks found only at the outlying edges of sense and sensibility, from Masoch’s ordeals to Proust’s involuntary memories to the impossible temporality of Last Year at Marienbad, but even the scientists, historians, and mathematicians Deleuze is devoted to are undeniably fringe, nomadic, heretical characters.  So I simply can’t recognize the idea that Deleuze’s thought is substantively immanentist.

Rather, I would say, his thought is immanentist precisely at a formal or methodological level, and that is the level at which I find it the most problematic. I have always been convinced, by the likes of John Milbank, Philip Goodchild, and François Laruelle (an unholy trinity, that), that it is symptomatic of any attempt at a perfectly, purely, absolutely immanentist system (such as Spinoza’s explicit thought, and to a certain extent Bergson’s) that at the level of methodology it is inadvertently, performatively dualist.  At the level of conceptual presentation, Deleuze is almost hypnotically “dualizing” (not to be confused with Laruelle’s dualysis)…

Giambattista Vico’s famous formula was verum factum:  the true is the made.  Humans can only know with certainty what they make—only the social world, the cultural world, can be known with certainty.  And metaphysical truth, the language of the philosophers, is somehow paradoxically the “rhetoric” of democracy, because its persuasive power derives from an appeal to the putatively universal ability of all to reason.  And yet the very words with which we reason, for Vico, remain ineluctably empowered by their gigantic, heroic genesis in unique experiences of time and place, geography and climate, bodily morphology and systemic affect peculiar to irreducibly local series of experiences…  For me it is Laruelle who has seen this situation, at least formally, with the most clarity, at least among contemporary philosophers. 

Creative sleep and transformative death

The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : Coimbatore Today January 6, 2013

Sri Aurobindo Devotees Trust: ‘Prayers to Sriannai’ Sasi balika vidya Mandir, Azad Road, R.S. Puram, 9.30 a.m.; Sri Annai Meditation Centre, WTC Kovaipudur, 4 p.m.

Puducherry prescription: separate buses, overcoats for girls Separate buses for schoolboys and schoolgirls, overcoats for girls, ban on mobile phones on campuses and restricted interaction of girls and boys — these are the steps the Puducherry government has decided on to enforce to prevent harassment of girl students… By reducing contact between boys and girls, it was possible to prevent basic misbehaviour and it would also reduce "temptation," said an Education Department official… The measures drew flak from academicians and activists.

06: This was the Day when Satyavan must die from Savitri Savitri is now ready; she is absolutely calm, that she can now hold the divine force. Immobile in herself, she gathers force.

Yes, this is the day when Satyavan is to die. On this day Savitri is immobile, a luminous vibrant living statue of golden yogic stillness, she knows already that her lover is going to die shortly. She is not disturbed; she is calm and collected, holding the divine power in her soul, holding it in its strength to confront Death at the predestined moment. There is a purpose behind this death, in this particular death, and it is that purpose which is significant. Satyavan has to die if something new has to happen. He has to die to his past in order that the future enters in. If it has to be a new manifestation, he has to set aside his past, shed it away, dissolve it in death. 

He must die to the past; in him the past must die. He the incarnate divine soul has been under the clutch of ignorance and fate—that is the past, and that past must go away, it must vanish. Only when it goes away can things move forward. And it is with it that the work of Savitri is connected. Actually, it may not be Savitri who is seeing the necessity of the death, the death of her husband. It is present elsewhere, present in its timeless logicality and detail. Indeed, ‘must’ has in it all those contents, all those far-reaching implications. The Yogi-Poet has the knowledge of everything, of all the divisions of the endless time. “This was the day when Satyavan must die.” That is the celebration of this transformative death. In it is the golden imperative of the coming day.

The Law of Karma Is More Than a Mechanical Law of Cause and Effect from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

Karma is frequently understood to be a law of cause and effect, but rarely do we dig deeper to understand how this works. This leads to a lot of generalizations that may not be entirely correct when examined more closely. One of these generalizations tends to treat the action of Karma as some kind of automatic cause/effect mechanism such as we see in the laws of physics expounded by the early Western physicists. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” for instance, as well as the mechanical laws of motion, mass and momentum. If it were only that simple!

While we are treating Karma as some kind of mechanism, we also want it to have a moral and ethical component, but we now have something of a conflict. In the physical world, a “cause” may lead to an effect that redounds, not upon the “doer” but on some other party who perhaps was innocent and unaware of the action. For instance, a mountain climber could make a loud sound in a glacier region and trigger an avalanche which buried a number of people, but not the person who instigated it! We can come up with any number of scenarios where “cause and effect” on the physical plane clearly visits its results on others than those undertaking the initiating action.

To understand the complexity of what is intended by the concept of Karma, and its necessary connection to the process of rebirth, we need to step back from the purely mechanical aspects and see it as an implementation mechanism for the evolutionary development that takes place through rebirth to bring about the development of consciousness in a systematic outflowering through Time.

Individual Karma, Collective Karma and Universal Karma from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

For those who hold that there is only an “All-Soul” and no reality to the individual soul, there is clearly no rationale for there being any necessity for rebirth, as the growth, and reaping of consequences at the individual level basically would have no meaning. There would be an “All-Soul” undertaking actions through innumerable forms and beings, and it would not really matter that the consequences would fall on others, or on future generations, rather than the individual carrying out the action.

We actually can see that the action of the individual can and does impact not just the individual undertaking the action, but others, both in the present and in the future. Some religious or philosophical directions have created colorful descriptions around this phenomenon when they speak of the “sins of the father being visited on the sons” down through many generations.

The impact on the individual becomes real, and requires rebirth for its effectuation, if we attribute a reality to the individual soul. The impact on others nevertheless still occurs and becomes what we may describe as something of a “collective Karma”. 

Publication of the second and revised edition of 'The Mother: The Overman Foundation

Written by Anurag Banerjee with a foreword by Dr. Ananda Reddy (Director, Sri Aurobindo Centre of Advanced Research, Pondicherry), the first edition of this ...

Elements of Yoga - Auro e-Books

This book is a compilation of Sri Aurobindo’s replies to elementary questions about Yoga raised by a disciple during the years 1933 to 1936. It was first published in 1953 and reissued in 1956. In 1991 the text was reproduced as the first part of Commentaries on “Elements of Yoga” by the Mother. Elements of Yoga is now being issued independently again in a second edition. Read more

The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin, Rolf Tiedemann - 1999 - Preview - More editions Proust speaks of the "thoroughly alive and creative sleep of the unconscious ... in which the things that barely touch us succeed in carving an impression, in which our hands take hold of the key that turns the lock, the key for which we have sought in vain." [K8,3]