January 23, 2024

The Life Divine should be included in the college syllabus

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

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Are we ready? After the #Ayodhya ceremony, I put the Modi establishment's #Vishwaguru idea to a reality check for @WIONews
#foreignaffairs #diplomacy #unitednations

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1749781480694485474?t=bpu7tFc0e2EZEA1seD1VJg&s=19

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There must be a glide path to a #RamRajya in which communal harmony matches economic resurgence.
My piece for @TheQuint on
#RamLallaVirajman #Ramlalla #RamMandir

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1749466603748725149?t=FkzsAl0ohIRpwGHQ-vp4GQ&s=19

This timeline of the history of philosophy is pretty good, except for the part where process philosophy supposedly ends in 2000! If anything I'd say the last quarter century has been something of a renaissance in Whitehead studies. 

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https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1749618477575573672?t=Xpw-BX9RTvWIg0aAPX34TA&s=19

Continued dominance of Hindutva in the national scene will keep Sri Aurobindo relevant for the scholars since he is the only alternative. The Life Divine should be included in the college syllabus so that people know his philosophy beyond his oft-repeated opinion on nationalism.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1749786073822298555?t=Yoz15QT7n4rbJdmeivns7g&s=19

#Replug | From Vivekananda to Aurobindo, no one’s idea of Hinduism matched the Hindutva of the RSS

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In ‘Hindu Rashtra’, Ashutosh traces the opposition between MS Golwalkar’s views and those of Mahatma Gandhi.

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December 31, 2023

The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo challenges all your assumptions

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Religions impose lots of socialisation and collective activity. They also feed a lot of intellectual garbage. Reading the books of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo can liberate one from mythology and superstitions. The Mother passed away fifty years ago in 1973. Knowing her is crucial.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1741336507833819185?t=axSrPtxWu48Eze73J66KnA&s=19

Political power coupled with religious fervour is spreading false narratives. Universities and the Publishing industry are propagating false philosophies. Savitri Era Learning Forum is the only place where one can find right perspective wrt Sri Aurobindo.

selforum.blogspot.com

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1741114310833914257?t=g2ljjHMiJ4VerbyG926qNg&s=19

I have been distributing the correct worldview without leaning towards the Right or the Left. Having worked in the field of knowledge outside the Universities and various ecosystems I don't represent any echochamber. My paper illustrates unique perspective

informaticsjournals.com/index.php/nmr/…

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1741025529669828847?t=fcGvzC252ROh_JKG7nPNAg&s=19

While reading hundreds of X posts every day, I profusely thank The Mother & Sri Aurobindo for having given me the right intellectual orientation and conducive circumstances in life. Also I have the satisfaction of not having let their teaching thrown to the wolves for two decades

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1741010168182423635?t=8CtV3HcPqhiIFD2JJu7NIQ&s=19

Aurora Mirabilis has seen 7645 hits this month. I have been tending a number of such blog-sites since 2005 which contain innumerable links and hints to varieties of knowledge sources. As Director of Savitri Era Learning Forum, I have a bias for Humanities.

auroramirabilis.blogspot.com/2017/05/for-so…

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1740984535767204193?t=0kZbY-hPRkXk6UBE2ooRkg&s=19

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo stressed on meditation and inner living when Television, Internet, and Mobile phones were not there. In the changed circumstances, Aspiration and Surrender are the best option. Reading their luminous books can provide the right intellectual undergirding

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1740976009976193308?t=WI9U_QelbqLj3nvjxK3lsA&s=19

Modern Western thought is greatly indebted to Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) occupies almost an equivalent position in India. Nietzsche rakes up philosophical and psychological problems while #SriAurobindo solves them in The Life Divine and The Future Poetry.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1740971076489031801?t=M0Pz_gxex4oO15g2RZczVw&s=19

From Lenin and Hitler, the world has seen enormous amount of changes during the last one hundred years. Human nature however hasn't transformed much. The spirit of love and harmony isn't easy to be found. All admirers, followers, and devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo unite!

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1740615617626194196?t=cq0VxR9Pl7iJ5sd0tcWeeg&s=19

Some people are fond of speaking against Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Jawaharlal Nehru without whom thinking of modern India is impossible. Savitri Era Party encourages sound historical perspective even though Leftist historians have done enormous harm to the legacy of Sri Aurobindo.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1740246446316880364?t=-Odg0JCiUur8Bm9yP7kNeA&s=19

Politics is the art of selectively manufacturing history by selectively invoking history to claim that history was manufactured. Because impressions, memories and scholarship get tangled in the hurly-burly of social life.

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1740020437042794562?t=rZx_KNDTs9j3-ZoibCojcQ&s=19

I don't know what happens in Israel or Palestine. But what has happened after the #IsraelHamasWar is the exposing of the lack of intellectual ability in the Western media. This is a direct fallout of #journalism being reduced to mechanical reportage without sufficient context

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1740016681890812120?t=sXewEwmt7ZVWtAD_WOfZnQ&s=19

This one looks like a book, it is not. It is an experience. Life Divine by Aurobindo. It will challenge pretty much all your assumptions about consciousness. It also lays out the foundation for Integral Yoga.

https://twitter.com/selfvision/status/1739294270039974141?t=7P8YOyOEkWcqQMkuYpAgkQ&s=19

I went through your list. Good stuff. But  may I recommend Stanislaw Lem and the Strugatsky brothers? These are a bit slow burning but ultimately much more rewarding than 99.9% of the stuff out there. East Europe elevated Sci fi to literature. A very different evolution.

https://twitter.com/KunalLal84/status/1738881727987327052?t=cUSNDOsGgyzXyQvHLDf2rQ&s=19

May I recommend The Dawn of Everything (book) by Wengrow and Graeber and also Meditations on Molloch by Scott Alexander (blog post) for looking at this question in a deep and nuanced way.

https://twitter.com/KunalLal84/status/1740029417911673041?t=R5WwH3d_FIkvqrXERUcqAA&s=19

@SekharB94411996
My new poetry anthology ‘Probably Geranium’ ( Red River) finds a home at Palais De Mahe in Pondy for its release in warmer environs, courtesy the Pondicherry Auroville Poetry Festival.

https://twitter.com/SekharB94411996/status/1740393244029325810?t=fN5n5E33vrSWtpl-EoH6Zg&s=19

I've been reading Schelling's Berlin lectures (tran. Bruce Matthews). 

Scientistic naysayers often claim philosophy makes no progress. That's wrong, but it has its own definition. As Schelling said, philosophy advances by generating entirely new problems, never before considered.

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1740896378774245500?t=CFbLe7zuiSfDeoymd3ID2Q&s=19

Virtual influencers. A bit like William Gibson's book Idoru. I mention this in my book in progress on the history of AI.

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1741228741391773783?t=MGvPEscN8c0M_449OoPBnA&s=19

No street marches, no woke Cause Celebre, no global outrage. It's almost as if Rohingya lives don't matter.  Same with Yazidis, Tibetans, and Uyghur. To be fair, the right are as mindless in their own epistemic tribal ideology as the left.

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1741208491157832172?t=EswWgVTvb4IXXCq7RRti6g&s=19

This is why I despise the woke left with their double standards. Some commetators pointed out that other "woman" in the chador is actually a guy and that you can tell by the stance. What is it about these fucked up males that makes them so terrified of and hateful towards women?

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1739784029313110128?t=0nHJXxiq5jWf_Esjo3umxQ&s=19

not sure degrowth would work. But there’s no question that the capitalist economy needs to be reined in rather than being allowed to commodify all aspects of human and nonhuman life. Culture and politics ought not to be for sale. Economics should meet needs not invent desires.

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1739766593360687567?t=DPZ9Z02bSWK_cbZQxPEAJA&s=19

November 09, 2023

Sri Aurobindo expounded a profound psychology which recognises spirit, mind, and body as being interdependent

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

19 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch. Sri Aurobindo Lane, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110 016. Birth Anniversary of. Pt. Barun Kumar Pal ji. 14.11.23 (Tuesday).
10 hours ago — The aim or purpose comes with the identification with the soul, the psychic being, which is connected to the divine spiritual being that is One and which is ...
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Talks on Sri Aurobindo's "Essays on The Gita" by Dr Ananda Reddy - Chapter 8 - Part 2 - p 70-71 (18-02-08)

(Sri Aurobindo had granted an interview to a correspondent of The Hindu in early 1915. This interview was quoted in full by Lala Lajpat Rai in his book Young India along with an introduction titled Arabinda Ghosh—Vedantist and Swarajist.) 

“But it is equally necessary that we Indians should

https://twitter.com/drsatyajitsahu/status/1722473347244765595?t=gYYe3cjeKlYL8cGaiHOhxA&s=19

Listen to श्री अरविंद अष्टोत्तर शतनामावली (Sri Aravinda Ashtothara Shatha Namavali) - 108 Names of Sri Aurobindo - by Gangadhar. 

Song by Chinmayee Maheshwari.

motherandsriaurobindo.in/disciples/gang…

https://twitter.com/SriAurobindoLib/status/1722473120009703649?t=Dgimrsg6aAIQHaWmKabH1w&s=19

Some are of the opinion that the future of the earth is dark but Sri Aurobindo strongly believes that human society is moving towards a brighter destiny. His appeal for the cooperation of all for descent of Supramental consciousness. No need for old customs in this grand journey.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1722437753512849645?t=eKV0M5P6s_cNvaSa7_bowA&s=19

It gives the impression that Dayananda came after Vivekananda. Overlooking all that happened before the latter is also a blind spot. Ideally, the review should start with Chaitanya.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1722152713591632251?t=PPuF2YWUyfqo_lRaBrRiJQ&s=19 

From the psychoanalytical perspective, Nitish Kumar said about himself more than what he said by way of advising others. Discussion on sex thoughts in old age is a rarity and should equally draw attention as his reported comments. No one should be prevented to speak his mind.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1722607021026115738?t=15uZCQgD5qBfWEajGGGGvw&s=19

Yeah in the discussion one did get the impression that Dayananda came after Vivekananda. Perhaps the discussion could have even started with Ram Mohan Roy to show how Christianity impacted Hindu society & the thoughts of its leaders 

Swami Dayananda & Roy's assertion that monotheist thought was present in Hindu texts & polytheism being the corruption of the original thought is perhaps the effect of contact with the missionary

https://twitter.com/im_suketu/status/1722154361525334222?t=vECYqgVNrYSOVEQqZ7Fbzg&s=19

When you suppress the truth by banning lectures, seminars and discussions, it means you are afraid of free and fair debates to help people decide what is right 

You have lost the debate even before it started. When both sides are heard without noise it is a true debate

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1722535708366393752?t=SmOqi2MjQ8Nd9hKNjWN_kQ&s=19 

The beauty of Indian democracy is that your social status, caste, privilege and educational qualifications do not determine your ability to be in public life. The voter chooses who he wants to be represented by. Drop the arrogance and petulance @PrashantKishor

https://twitter.com/rohini_sgh/status/1722603026958131377?t=Gqg5wSvDIHzNBM5jUek2ew&s=19

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Thai Massage: Therapeutic Uses and Benefits

RT Baht
… It has always been an integral part of Thai culture and has found a place in both traditional medicine and the daily life of the Thai people. … , energy balancing, stretching techniques and yoga-like body movements. The recipient is guided …

[PDF] “Hum Kaagaz Nahi Dikhayenge”(“We won't show our papers”): The Narratives of Bodies and Belongings at the Anti-CAA Shaheen Bagh Protests 2019-20

K Bhatia - Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 2023
… In this case, therefore, this historically minoritarian status has been utilised by the Hindutva fascists, who ‘used the democratic route to assume power’, to question the Muslim peoples’ rights to claim India as their homeland. (Hameed 2020, 33) The …

Gender in development: What lessons for addressing inequality on the grounds of religion or (non)-belief?

M Tadros, C Shutt - World Development, 2024
… Hindu religious leaders, including those who have been influenced by Hindutva teachings. These leaders have now engaged in efforts to … Shah’s description above highlights that powerholders’ advancement of Hindutva is all encompassing …

[PDF] An Evaluative Study of Political Thinking of BR Ambedkar: A Critical Underpinning

I Aditya
… of consolidation of dalit- bahujan power particularly against the Hindutva forces representing Brahman-Bania nexus with the global capital. These forces which form the core of the Hindutva have now realized that their ‘soft Hindutva’ is no more …

[PDF] Interfaith dialogue in India: Its need and challenges

NU Islam - Journal of Language, Literature, Social and Cultural …, 2023
… The emergence of Hindutva as a key counter-ideology in recent years has served as a catalyst for the escalation of India's secularism debate. Hindutva ideology, often known as religious nationalism or Hindu nationalism, is a nationalist ideology that …

[PDF] Where next for feminist foreign policy on countering anti-gender backlash?

A Khan, E Tant, J Michalko - 2023
… In response to critiques of such erosion of rights and freedoms, the Indian government defends its Hindutva policies in anti-colonial terms. This use of religion and culture appeals ‘to disenfranchised or alienated groups in times of economic …

[HTML] Orchestrating self-empowerment in tribal India: Debt bondage, land rights, and the strategic uses of spirituality

P Mader - World Development, 2024
… For these reasons, in an India increasingly divided into separate tribes by Hindutva politics, finding ways for Adivasis to challenge … rangers, police, army, mining companies, informal moneylenders, MFIs, traders, Hindutva activists, and …

[PDF] Selfish Agendas, Transcendent Justifications: Examining the traditions of violence and peace/peacebuilding within Hinduism in India.

SR KUMAR
Religion has often been called upon to stand trial for the massacre of the masses. For as long as human civilization has existed, people have always sought to engage in violence against a perceived enemy for the protection of life, rights and justice. Yet …