Never trust a man who dyes his hair

Tweets 21 hrs - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [in defending ethical revaluation while ... advocating compassionate giving and the prevention of wrongdoing, Śāntideva remains consistent.] 22 hrs [Latour may be a bit flippant at times, but his point is certainly not to “do everything he can to deny enchantment"] http://footnotes2plato.com/2013/03/10/reflections-on-latour-tarnas-and-the-misenchantment-of-the-world … 22 hrs [By contrast, others’ wrongdoing is beneficial to us, because it can help produce patient endurance.] #Śāntideva http://loveofallwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lele-dissertation.pdf … 22 hrs [Property & personal relationships, things we would normally take as goods, are actually harmful to our flourishing, because of attachment.] 22 hrs [Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva - A dissertation by Amod Jayant Lele] http://loveofallwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lele-dissertation.pdf … (pdf) - http://loveofallwisdom.com/2013/03/why-you-can-read-my-dissertation-on-this-site/ … 23 hrs [Towards a Spiritual Aesthetics of the Environment: Quality, Space, and Being in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, ISLE Vol.18, Issue 2, Spring 2011] 24 hrs [Those who are other-focused are happier... Happier people are more successful — and that’s causal, not correlative.] http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/09/what-6-steps-should-be-guiding-your-career/ … Mar 11 - doubtinggaurav ‏@doubtinggaurav Never trust a man who dyes his hair.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party Mar 11 - Harsh Madhok ‏@hmadhok It is our desire to cling to the past while grabbing at the future which has made the present too complicated.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  Mar 11 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty At SELF our slogan is "Be Selfish" ... Judgment failures occur as a result, and our vigil for "Self-interest" skids. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2008/08/one-should-have-nose-for-what-is-good.html … Mar 11 [Smith said humans have the power of reasoning... Self-interest is far more complex than rationality.] -Gavin Kennedy. http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2013/03/for-new-readers-of-adam-smiths-moral.html … Mar 10 [For Heidegger, by contrast, conscience is not God talking to me, but me talking to myself] Simon Critchley 20 July 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/20/heidegger-being-time-critchley … -  View summary Mar 10 Racing round the universe riding on a mouse: The meditative mode of blogging - by Tusar N. Mohapatra http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2009/07/racing-round-universe-riding-on-mouse.html … Om Sri Aurobindo Mar 9 -Vivek Dehejia ‏@vdehejia To label those opposed to Modi's Wharton visit as "Indian sepoys" does no credit to Rajiv Malhotra nor his arguments. http://huff.to/13I9Qdc   Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View summary - Mar 10 kittu reddy ‏@kitturd http://wp.me/s3bTx3-182  via @wordpressdotcom Sri Aurobindo on ancient indian polity  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View media Mar 10 Sri Aurobindo admits the debt of materialism for making us free from superstitious beliefs http://selforum.blogspot.in/2010/06/sri-aurobindo-admits-debt-of.html … Savitri Era Learning Forum Mar 9 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Being pushed, willy-nilly, towards Hindutva camp is another danger @RajivMessage either overlooks or underestimates. http://savitriera.blogspot.com/2013/02/rajiv-malhotra-vis-vis-raja-rammohan-roy.html?showComment=1362841178423#c5506374844487270099 … Mar 9 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [we must first become a nation of individual citizens, multi-hyphenated, yes, but also equal in the eyes of the law.] http://www.firstpost.com/politics/the-fake-debate-communal-modi-fanboys-vs-sickular-commies-623991.html … - View summary Mar 9 [Confused liberals in India mix up classical liberalism, secularism and nationalism – and end up practising none of them.] @minhazmerchant Mar 9 [Ananthamurthy imposes a misleading mix of existentialism and the Marxist conception of society] -Sandeep Balakrishna http://themusepaper.blogspot.in/2013/03/ananthamurthy-imposes-misleading-mix-of.html … Mar 9 IIT Delhi workshop on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Prof John Russon and Prof Shannon Hoff (Canada) on 11th March 2013 (10 am: MS 610) Mar 9 santosh krinsky ‏@santoshk1 Karma Is a Law of Spiritual Evolution http://wp.me/pCLXM-1qy  via@wordpressdotcom  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View summary Mar 8 [Sri Aurobindo and Tyagaraja attempt to capture the bliss of spiritual experience & unison.] -Murali Sivaramakrishnan http://themusepaper.blogspot.in/2013/03/sri-aurobindo-and-tyagaraja-are.html … Mar 8 db Debashish Bose ‏@db_DelAlpha @kshetragnya They are different persons, Aurobindo is a visionary willing to believe and try, Nirad C is a chronicler and commentator  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View conversation Mar 8 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [a person who is attuned to Sri Aurobindo’s consciousness just falls in love with his writing style.] by Sandeep http://selforum.blogspot.in/2013/03/postmodernism-requires-maturity-and.html … 9 hrs Hostilities between the Israelis and the Palestinians too will be resolved one day through the Savitri Era Religion. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2008/02/hostilities-between-israelis-and.html … 9 hrs Sri Aurobindo admits the debt of materialism. Postmodernism requires maturity. History-mythology. Auroville to Esalen http://selforum.blogspot.com/ 

On the Generality of Exchange Behaviours from Adam Smith's Lost Legacy by Gavin Kennedy

Humans are not isolated in their self alone.  They act in social settings with other people and also have memories.  They live today in settings where the majority of people nearby are anonymous, not relatives or friends. (The ‘company of strangers’ was a great title recently).  In a small hunter/scavenger and gathering band they knew everybody intimately… We share by giving in order to legitimise our expectation of getting at some time in the future… The share motive (so-called altruism) was accompanied by the expectation of reciprocation in due course, and punished by exclusion from sharing in future (witnessed by Dunbar and observed by people today in work situations and, indeed in families). This simple facet of exchange by reciprocation is experienced today in inter-personal relations in the workplace, including university faculties (!) and is an element of behaviour relevant in developing influence among fellow employees. 

Questions that are rarely asked from Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen

“So, my libertarian devotees of evolutionary psychology, you can’t have it both ways.  If feminism is wrong to think we can and/or should resist the dispositions that evolution has given us, then why is it wrong for defenders of the classical liberal order to think we can and/or should resist those dispositions when it comes to our evolved instincts toward the morality of socialism?  Or put the other way around:  if resisting our evolved moral instincts and obeying the rules of just conduct work to generate a civilized, cooperative economic order, why should gender issues be any different?” That is from Steve Horwitz.

Quotation of the Day…  from Cafe Hayek by Don Boudreaux … is from page 190 of Richard Posner’s 1995 volume, Overcoming Law:

“We all have the weaknesses of our strengths.  It is hardly a surprise that people who have powerful intellects tend to have an exaggerated faith in the power of intellect to solve social problems.  It is the same perspectival deformity that leads intellectuals to model democracy as a form of intellectual discussion or to set freedom of thought and debate far above economic freedom.”

(title unknown) from Routledge India Originals's Facebook Wall ~ The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India Edited by: Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan, Rs 895, Pages: 366. Both India and Europe have been undergoing a difficult process of negotiating cultural, religious and ethnic diversity within their democratic frameworks....

The Highest Law of Our Nature from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

It is a quite natural tendency of human nature to fixate on one issue to the exclusion of others. The mind, as a dividing and analyzing instrument, tends toward exclusive concentration. So it is easy to understand that when we once focus on the ethical principle, that it may be viewed as the “categorical imperative” of our human nature.

Sri Aurobindo acknowledges the role of the ethical principle, but he also puts it in context with other aspects of our nature that equally call for fulfillment. There are the seeking for knowledge, the seeking for beauty and harmony, the seeking for Oneness which also represent aspects of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo said people get stuck in old forms

The Story of the Karmic Accountant « Sri Aurobindo Studies

Sri Aurobindo illustrates the absurdity of some of the most popular conceptions about the operation of the law of Karma with a story from the press of his day.

Sri Mother talks about "Ego" - From the book Questions and Answers

AuroMere Meditation Centre (Sri Mother and Sri Aurobindo Center), Pallikaranai is running from 2005 under the guidance of The Mother's Service Society (MSS), Pondicherry - founded by Sri Karmayogi Avarkal. Books by Karmayogi

Major Schools Of Indian Philosophy: An Introduction In Six Monthly Lectures An overview of the six orthodox schools, with special reference to the Vedas

30 January 2013 At 18:30 - C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM, IIC Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Speaker: Dr Karan Singh, M.P. Chair: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra, Trustee, Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The first in a series of monthly lectures on Indian spiritual thought that will explore some of the principal schools of Indian philosophy, their impact on Indian civilization, and contemporary relevance 

Hitchhiker's Guide to Rajiv Malhotra's Discussion Forum: RMF ...

January 9 My encounter with Brian Pennington at the recent AAR Rajiv Malhotra: Of course, I disagree with his argument that Swami Vivekananda violates Hindu tradition. But there was no smear, ad hominem or personal issues raised in his talk. ...

Sandeep responds:
"Someday in the future, as Indian universities improve in quality, lets hope India produces an army of well-funded (non-marxist) academics who understand Hinduism better, who have access to the latest facilities and are able to publish their books without any impediments.
... This debate will then shift to the "Indian academy of religion" Rajiv's response: I have promoted this idea for 20 years. Easier said than done. Infinity Foundation held 3 major world conferences on religious studies in Delhi with opinion leaders across the political and ideological spectrum. Lots of passion, resolutions, etc. No action in the end...

For now I want to focus on producing new discourse that challenges old hegemonic discourse, and on debating my work with serious scholars, so as to take it further amongst readers who have the required level of commitment and background to follow the issues. " …

Now, here comes the book BD by Rajiv Malhotra that recognizes the folly of conflating ideals with practices.  It takes the world-views of Dharmic traditions and contrasts them with Abrahamic religions by walking the readers through a 4-dimensional space of (1) history-centrism, (2) integral unity vs. synthetic unity, (3) attitude towards complexity vs. rigid order, (4) non-translatable concepts (described in original Sanskrit works).

January 9 How to be Dharmic? Sandeep responds Dh" Practicing Dharma does not mean you must mimic ancestral rituals blindly.  It was this problem that Sri Aurobindo cited when he said people get stuck in "old forms".  

Some person several hundred years ago started "dainik sandhya" because he had some intuition that it might help him go inwards.  That doesn't mean you might also benefit from it.  You have to find what suits your personality.  The goal of Dharma is to go within and find your Atman.  You may be better off joining some contemporary Yoga school ... ...
Not every child is bound to become "Dharmic".  Some people are not cut out for it.  If you force the child into something they don't like, they may rebel against you later and turn atheists for the rest of their lives.  Take the case of Vikram Gandhi, who was immersed in religious practices of the Arya Samaj while growing up in New Jersey, but lost interest in it after growing up.  Now he has made a movie Kumare on fake Gurus. 

(See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXNjDcOLWU&feature=player_embedded)
Therefore, one has to gauge the personality of the child to find what is the best path.  The child is more likely to be attracted to poetry, literature and dance rather than dry philosophy and discursive ethics.  ... The best way to mould a child is to become a different person yourself.  If they sense a positive change in you, they will naturally come to you for guidance.  

Articles in Professional Journals and Books Peter Heehs is an independent scholar based in India. He has written or edited nine books and published more than fifty articles. 2006. “Yoga/Yogi”. Keywords in South Asian Studies. Published online by Centre of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Popular at the time of this writing are Bikram Yoga, which is done in a room heated to 105º F, and Ashtanga Yoga (no obvious connection with Patanjali’s...) … For the most part, however, yoga is viewed by the American and European public as a form of exercise that helps the student become flexible, relaxed and free from stress… For some urban Indians, the worldwide success of yoga has become a source of cultural anxiety rather than cultural pride… Such anxiety seems misplaced. 

The most respected contemporary masters of the schools of physical yoga practiced in the West, B. K. S. Iyengar of Pune and Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, have spent comparatively little time abroad. No self-respecting Western yoga-teacher can hang up a shingle before she or he has studied under these or other Indian teachers or their students. Some contemporary Indian yogis cater primarily to an Indian clientele. Swami Ramdev brings his message of health through yoga and ayurvedic medicines to an enormous television audience. He heaps scorn on the corrupt civilisation of the West, whose foods, drinks, medicines and entertainments are undermining the Indian body and soul.

Yoga as a phenomenon of popular culture will doubtless continue to go in and out of style. The practices associated with yoga — postures, breath control, meditation, and the rest — are likely to persist, because they offer a means of coming to grips with some of the perennial problems of embodied human life. Peter Heehs Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives, Pondicherry

francois gautier

Finally, India gained its independence from in 1947 and was disastrously divided by the British, against the advice of saints and seers, such as Sri Aurobindo, ..

Tarun Vijay

Like Sri Aurobindo, who conceptualised Mother India as Bhawani Bharati,.... Tarun Vijay is a member of the Rajya Sabha; member, ...

Circumsolatious: Connecting Inner and Outer = A Total ...

This is what Sri Aurobindo calls bringing down the Force from above. In this way there is a chance of being able to change the world, because one has brought...

Technology of the Heart: The Role of The Divine Feminine And How ... by Sadiq Alam

It is no mere chance that visionaries like Sri Aurobindo and Hazrat Inayat Khan both proclaimed a century ago the ultimate resurgence of the Feminine. Sri Aurobindo's prophetic words were: If there is to be a future, it will wear the crown of ... 

Dr. Anirban Ganguly (Associate Fellow, VIF) Expertise: Civilisational and Cultural Studies, Indian Political Thought, Contemporary Indian Political History, Philosophy of Education

Articles: Vivekananda: Essence and Significance

The central deity of his adoration and spiritual identification, however, was India. To a generation of the Indian intelligentsia who grew up on and propounded the notion of an externally inspired and evolving Indian unity, Vivekananda came as a mighty nonconformist… He was firm in his conviction that despite all passing appearances the ‘great deeps’ of India and of her people would forever remain ‘moral, austere and spiritual’, it could not be otherwise. And her ancient civilisation meant for him, simply, the ‘inbreeding of energy through many a millennium.’

Like the religio-cultural, the socio-political too strongly attracted and interested Vivekananda. In his expressions of concern for India, this aspect often distinctly flowed out through his talks, conversations and letters. The mighty urge to see India liberated, self-reliant and spiritually conscious and vibrant continuously occupied his being and he attempted to work this out not as a politician, but as a ‘nationalist.’ He ‘was no politician: he was [rather] the greatest of nationalists’ and therefore to him the ‘destiny of the people was in their own soil, and the destiny of the soil was no less in its own people.’

The essence and significance of Vivekananda lay in that: an unwavering nationalist who offered an epochal and liberating vision for his land and his people. Published Date: 27^th December 2012

Acquiring the Heritage Tag – is it enough?

The Epics and our National Life: ignored perspectives, six examples and some views

Perspectives on Standards in Public Life & Swaraj

Encircling the ‘Light of Asia’: the Lumbini Project

Revisiting the Indian Tradition of Public Dissent

Projecting India’s Civilisational and Cultural Perspective: Need for an Integrated Vision

Both Swami Vivekananda and Tagore were personalities who essentially symbolized and represented the Indian civilisational ethos and it is in a commemoration of that uniqueness of their being that we can hope to discover an effective instrument for perpetuating the Indian message. One needs to ensure that generations to come continue to read, understand and internalize those very ‘Sanskrit-Mantras’ that had so surprised Vivekananda. And the determination to spread their message and content requires India to evolve an astute and visionary civilisational perspective. The commemorations at a deeper level offer that opportunity over the next few years and a hardening of resolve to initiate such a mega-plan backed by an integrated long-term vision to spread India’s spiritual and civilization perspectives is what is required at the moment. Published Date: 29^th February 2012

Setting up a Central University: Vision, Issues and Debates

Plight of Hindus in Bangladesh: Some Recent Trends

The Necessity of Reinventing a Shared Cultural Past–India and Southeast Asia

Why Dilute the Vision of the University at Nalanda?

Recreating Nalanda - Is the Deeper Raison d’être Missing?

Official Apathy Towards Culture in India

Political uncertainty over prez polls is a Cong trait

Man and Environment in India: Past Traditions and Present Challenges

Minorities in Peril in Bangladesh

Ocational Paper: Amarnath Yatra: Occasion to Revisit the Indian Institution of Tirtha

Intellect divisible into two important classes and Invisible hand

The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : Madurai Today December 31, 2012

Sri Aurobindo Society: Study circle meeting on ‘The Mother’, 3 Lajapathi Roy Street, Chinna Chokkikulam, 10.30 a.m.

KM Munshi remembered - The Hindu December 31, 2012

Munshi was educated in Baroda under Sri Aurobindo, and started his career as a lawyer and entered into politics under the guidance of Dr. Annie Besant and...

Atanu Dey on India's Development » Blog Archive » A few quotes ...

Transforming India - The book “Material things are not to be despised – without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.” – Sri Aurobindo

Young India! Reject State Education! from ANTIDOTE by Sauvik von Chakraverti Dec 30, 2012 Read about James Watt - and how this "steam engine" happened. Read about Edison - a man who "invented" so many, many wondrous products! And there have been so many such - and there are many such even today…

NEW KNOWLEDGE - is "produced." This includes "new histories" - something that NO COURT HISTORIAN ever does! We may say "Austrian School of Economics" - but even this School of Thought has never stayed STATIC. Mises, for example - he raised a TOWER above whatever Menger had begun. Just as I have made attempts to further "develop" upon all that Mises has left behind. Each one of us is a "unique and non-repeatable" human-in-time. We are not here to repeat or relive the lives of ancestors - like these "political epigones" who claim to be "leaders" - and even "youth leaders" - or even "role models." It is the PREROGATIVE OF YOUTH to contribute something NEW to the vast inventory of mankind.

Renaissance in India:A Prelude The Mother India

We drifted away from our own dharma and karma, we gave up the teachings of Geeta, we betrayed our ancestors-Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo. Today ...

resurgentindia.org Indian Culture

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs – A Critical Appraisal · Some Issues of Critical Importance · The Present Situation – Various Practices Adopted in ...

The Acts of the Moment Are Created By the Eternal Soul from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

The focus on the individual details makes us lose sight of the “big picture”, the sense or significance, the perspective. Impressionist painters such as Vincent Van Gogh conveyed this sense through their artistic efforts. Up close, their paintings overwhelm one with the incredible number of brush strokes, texture, and color. There is however a “tipping point” as one backs away from the canvas where one suddenly switches from the “detail view” to the “gestalt”, the idea being conveyed, and suddenly the “big picture” takes over and the brush strokes are seen for what they are, the technique or the “facts” by which a larger significance is expressed.

Similarly, we become so involved in and overwhelmed by the detailed acts of our day to day lives that we tend not to recognize the “big picture”, the significance of those lives or those acts.

Sri Aurobindo discusses this situation with a very insightful view about the relationship between the day to day details and the soul’s meaning in creating and carrying out those details… Just as we undergo a transformation in our view of life when we understand that the sun does not revolve around the earth, but the earth around the sun; and that the entire solar system is part of an enormous Milky Way Galaxy which is a part of a larger universe, we can begin to understand the soul’s action and the true meaning of the details of our day to day lives when we take a different standpoint outside the focus on each of the details and begin to view the “big picture”.

Modern psychologists point out that there are essentially two hemispheres to the human brain. Left brain activity tends to be fixated on details, analysis and “the trees” of our lives; while right brain activity looks at the “gestalt”, the “big picture”, “the forest” if you will. Both of these perspectives are valuable, but they must be integrated in order to give a true sense and meaning to what we experience.

Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother  All Life is Yoga!

Those who practice the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have developed the habit of reading their books either alone or during study circles. Comment on Sravana Manana and Nidhidhyasana by Sandeep Dec 31, 2012

One of the aspects I forgot to emphasize in the main article is the fact that the ancients used to transmit knowledge orally rather than via writing. Texts were read aloud rather than silently as we do now. And the medium of transmission was through poetic verses rather than prose. That allowed the ancients to absorb and remember the melody of a composition which might have helped to stimulate the power of “intuition”. OTOH, we are drowned very much in an intellectual and visual era.

Although it is known that the Vedas were transmitted orally, historical documentation is scarce in India. In Greece and Rome, however, we find records that indicate that reading was usually done aloud. See a few anecdotes from Plutarch, St Augustine and St. Benedict here: http://www.readingaloud.org/history.htm. Also see online Chapter 2 of Alberto Manguel’s “A History of Reading” - There are plenty of other books on the subject. For example, Rosalind Thomas on page 13 of her Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece

Predictions of Sri Aurobindo Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother 4 Aug 2012 Lateralization of brain function (thanks to Ashish Kumar Sahani who pointed this out in a comment seen below)

Ashish September 17, 2012 at 6:30 am Link (http://surasa.net/aurobindo/aurowrit.htm) to “A system of national education” as proposed by Sri Aurobindo in Karmayogin 1909. It seems he knew about the workings of left and right half of the brain much before the modern split brain experiments which began only in 1950 which can be verified from this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain#History

Sandeep October 8, 2012 at 11:37 am Rajiv Malhotra has independently discovered the same prescient observation of Sri Aurobindo. On pages 283-284 of his book Being Different, he writes:

“Sri Aurobindo describes the dichotomy between the left and right as follows:

The intellect is an organ composed of several groups of functions, divisible into two important classes, the functions and faculties of the right hand, the functions and faculties of the left. The faculties of the right hand are comprehensive, creative, and synthetic, the faculties of the left hand critical and analytic … The left limits itself to ascertained truth, the right grasps that which is still elusive or unascertained. Both are essential to the completeness of the human reason

It is noteworthy that Sri Aurobindo wrote this in 1910, long before modern science came up with the idea that there are differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. A yogic technique of pranayama consists of breathing through the nostrils in such a way as to synchronize the two hemispheres.”

ashish kumar sahani October 9, 2012 at 3:48 am Thank you Sandeep, I was quite sure that Sri Aurobindo was the first to speak about left half and right half of the Buddhi. Your detailed and persistent effort in validating the observation added a seal of certainty to it. I hope you will mention this in your main article very soon. I will like to congratulate you for this blog which is truly a treasure house of knowledge for spiritual aspirants. 

Comment on Sravana Manana and Nidhidhyasana by Sandeep Dec 31, 2012

Whatever theory that is superimposed on phenomenal data is just a collective belief upheld by the personalities of the participating scientists. Some day, these scientists will die and be replaced by a new set of scientists who might question and overturn the “consciousness-based models” and return to the more close-fitting materialistic theories. Given alternate explanations, science works fine with “inference to best explanation” or parsimonious theories. Nothing in the phenomenal world requires a supernatural explanation. The world works fine as it is. December 29, 2012 at 12:32 pm

I am more inclined to believe that the scientists will just conjure up more refined materialistic theories to explain away the anomalies and discoveries that crop up with new instruments and experiments. Antonio Damasio did just that; he constructed a new three-layered model of the Self to explain all his clinical results on mind-body connection in a series of books from Descartes Error to Self Comes to Mind

Sri Aurobindo. On Original Thinking = On the Importance of Original ...

The attitude of mankind towards originality of opinion is marked by a natural hesitation and inconsistency. Admired for its rarity, brilliancy ...

gune has left a new comment on your post "Prior uses of the ‘invisible hand’ in literature, ...": Savitri Era Learning Forum at 9:43 PM, December 30, 2012

A list of prior uses of invisible hand is useful to the reader. The issue is that the reader is able to identify what the metaphor is. You can analyse the whole list.