April 26, 2025

Kierkegaard, Gadamer, and Sri Aurobindo

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

From a series of lectures by Ambalal Balkrishna Purani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Recorded in 1962 at the Crescent Moon Ranch, Sedona, Arizona, USA.
This is the first talk of the 3 day online workshop - The Freedom of self-forgetfulness - in the light of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, organised by NAMAH, ...
11 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo and The Mother never gave any outer (or even inner conditions) for chanting Their Names or the mantras. Even Sri Krishna does not give any such ...
In addition to Sri Aurobindo's keen insights on Indian sculpture, readers will also find engaging material on topics such as: origin of murti-puja in India, ...
Part 3 of Beloo Mehra's blog - Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo - is now out on BhāratShakti website. This part focuses on - Arjuna Viṣhāda ...
4 hours ago — 238 / Sri Aurobindo: Initial Years: 1872-1879 · 239 / Sri Aurobindo: Life of Preparation at Baroda: 1893-1906 · 240 / Sri Aurobindo: Political Life: 1902-1910 ...
22 hours ago — At that time, India will be leading the world based on the values ​​of great personalities like Madan Mohan Malviyaji, Sri Aurobindo, Vinoba Bhave and Pujya ...
16 hours ago — In my case, it was the vision of Sri Aurobindo, and I embraced an evolutionary perspective. So it wasn't Hinduism as such that I was interested in; I was more ...
21 hours ago — He also got me involved with Auroville, Puducherry, to help them use geospatial technology in projects. Dr Rangan was versatile, with his expertise ...
Explore the stunning architecture of Savithri Bhavan in Auroville! Discover its unique design and the vision behind this incredible space.
Sri Aurobindo firmly rejected the divisions created by the colonisers, especially those based on religion, and warned us not to accept them as permanent or ...

[PDF] The rise of Indo-Muslim rule and the fall of Indian Buddhism–Comments on Audrey Truschke,“The Power of the Islamic Sword in Narrating the Death of Indian …

J Newman
… 1 See Audrey Truschke (2021: 1) for her harrowing account of threats of violence she received from “Hindutva extremists,” and her discussion of the current rewriting of Indian history driven by “a feverish devotion to a bastardized vision of India’s past.” …

Criticizing Hinduism through Dalit Lens: A Critical Study of Kancha

A Biswas - Dalit Autobiography: A Critical Study, 2025
… Ilaiah also informs that at that time the term ‘Hindutva’gained the prominence. Those people who are not Muslims, … ‘Hindutva’is attached in the mind of Dalit-Bahujan as the author inscribed in the introductory portion of the book. They have nothing as …

[PDF] Gender danger. Mapping a decade of research on anti-gender politics

E Korolczuk, A Graff, J Kantola - Journal of Gender Studies, 2025
… Analyzing cases of anti-gender discourses that are rarely discussed in literature, eg anti-gender rhetoric of the Chinese party, or in Hindutva nationalist propaganda, leads to a better understanding of how anti-gender politics emanates from a variety …

Analysis of Caste, Identity, and Faith

S Farooqui - Dalit Autobiography: A Critical Study, 2025
A trailblazer in Dalit literature, Bama Faustina Susairaj, popularly known as Bama, offers an unvarnished depiction of the social and cultural struggles that the Dalit community in India faces. Bama was born into a caste that was marginalized in …

The Spiritual History: An Essential

C Puchalski - Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare: A Resource Guide, 2025
… ," further elaborated on the spiritual domain, establishing it as an integral part of whole person care. In 2014, the World Health Organization (… (Communities such as churches, temples, mosques, family, groups of like-minded friends, or yoga or …

Positioning the body: Black womanhood, beauty and exploring body neutrality

KD Rowe - Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 2025
… -improvement by focusing on the yoga industry: By focusing only on body acceptance, the yoga industry highlights the individual, universalized … the sole responsibility of the consumer (often presented as achievable through consumption …

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Rajan - Journal of Dharma Studies, 2025
… For instance, he had been an integral part of Anuttara Trika Kula—an online close-knit circle of seekers devoted to the profound and life-affirming teachings of Abhinavagupta within the expansive vision of Kashmir Śaivism. Rooted in scriptural …

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SS Deshpande, A Fathima, A Majid, BH Rodrigue - 2025
This article describes a religious belief, based on folklore but arising within Hindu culture, that has evolved over the last three decades in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It describes how this belief is spreading in North-West India and has moved closer to …

Wellness tourism: nurturing nature and achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) while travelling

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The proverb “Health is Wealth” has taken on renewed significance in the post-COVID-19 era, underscoring the importance of prioritizing health and well-being. As the global situation improved, there is a growing interest in wellness tourism, a sector offering …

[PDF] Ascension Through Apocalypse: William Luther Pierce and the Development of Revolutionary Neo-Fascism.

KL Vandrasik - 2025
… are the most important monographs from the era for our purposes, each demonstrating both … post-war ideologues including Francis Parker Yockey, Savitri Devi, and Julius Evola, who in … today, especially given the role Savitri Devi played …

[PDF] Faith: The Staying Power

U Singh - Journal of East-West Thought (JET) ISSN (O): 2168 …, 2025
In this paper I aim to present a wide-ranging and sustained examination of Kierkegaard’s thought especially with reference to his oeuvre—Fear and Trembling. Paradox and absurd in its semantic content would exclude reason. Kierkegaard’s …

Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding: Gadamer and Countercritique in India

Chitralekha - Current Anthropology, 2025
… Hindutva, the ideological force of an ethnic movement that brings into contest rights to the Indian nation-state, has been … existent disgust for meat and (for) the Muslim body that ingests it or between Hindutva’s recognition of and desire to …

[A Modern KuruKṣetrA? VAiṣṇAVisM, nAtionAlisM, And the second World WAr
Jon Chapple
if Krishna Prem, by birth a Briton,... weakly in favor of the Allied cause, his spiritual contemporary, fellow Kingsman and guru to Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo...]

For Bahujan youth, fluency in pop culture is a survival skill and a strategy for self-respect. Education isn’t enough; real opportunity is in acquiring cultural shorthand, writes @Balram1801. Artwork by Siddhesh Gautam

Transformation of the individual, society, and earth

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Peter Heehs · 2025 · ‎Preview
A Life of Sri Aurobindo's Spiritual Collaborator Peter Heehs. and culture of Mirra's youth is brilliantly done , and when dealing with the Indian years , Heehs adroitly brings in the impact on the Mother and the ashram of the Second ...
Patrick Beldio · 2024 · ‎No preview · ‎More editions
This groundbreaking book in comparative theology analyzes the contributions of the Mother to the Integral Yoga that she and Sri Aurobindo co-created.

Bindu Puri · 2022 · ‎Preview · ‎More editions
This book presents contemporary perspectives of scholars working on different aspects of the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo- the idea of evolution, integral yoga, the transformation of the individual, society and earth, theories of nation and ...
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Gautam Chikermane, ‎Devdip Ganguli · 2022 · ‎No preview · ‎More editions
Reading Sri Aurobindo introduces each of these volumes through the perspectives of twenty-one contributors.


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Prema Nandakumar · 2021 · ‎Preview
This book, authored by Prema Nandakumar, briefly yet powerfully narrates the interaction and influence of Sister Nivedita had with and on Sri Aurobindo, and how the two powers combined to become a lighthouse of future nationalism.
In this book an attempt has been made to compare the two legendary writers by comparing the eastern way of thinking with the western way.


Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra · 2020 · ‎Preview · ‎More editions
By presenting the first sustained discourse between Sri Aurobindo and the contemporary world, this collection addresses the relevance of his philosophy for everyday life and highlights the lasting work of this important 20th-century
Brainerd Prince · 2017 · ‎Preview · ‎More editions
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance.
Rod Hemsell · 2017 · ‎Read
An investigation into the nature and evolution of consciousness through the lens of various philosophers, culminating with the experiential philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.
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Peter Heehs · 2013 · ‎No preview
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the various aspects of Sri Aurobindo's work as a poet, literary critic, political leader, social reformer, philosopher, and spiritual thinker.

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JP Oliveira - Journal of Dharma Studies, 2025
This paper analyses a corpus of contemporary English-language adaptations of the Mahābhārata sold via Amazon India and takes a qualitative discourse analysis approach to describe and sort out the linguistic, narrative and discursive techniques …

Between Speaking and Writing: The Limits of Modernity in Tagore's Poetry

N Das - South Asian Review, 2025
… that appeared to many of his nationalist contemporaries expect for Nehru and Gandhi as merely a “poet”s fancy’, (Chakrabarty Citation2000, 156–157; Dasgupta Citation2010, 10), re-appears as even more significant in a time when, what we are …

Four Glimmers of Ambedkar's" Fraternity.": That is, a fellowship yet to come.

S Shreyas - The Massachusetts Review, 2025
Through a series of four glimmers, the author explores the meaning of fraternity in India, specifically in Bangalore. The essay seeks to understand how India’s caste categories are an obstacle to the fraternity necessary for a thriving social democracy …

Periyar's Philosophy of Language and the Politics of Respect: A Critical Assessment

M Suresh - Tamilmanam International Research Journal of Tamil …, 2025
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of EV Ramasamy Periyar's philosophy of language and its intersections with politics, self-respect, and social reform. Periyar's radical linguistic and cultural politics redefined Tamil identity and …

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RS Thakur, A Singh - The Spectrum, 2025
This paper explores Amitav Ghosh's Countdown (1999) and foregrounds his reactions to the testing of nuclear weapons in India on 11th May 1998, followed instantly by the Pakistani tests. The travelogue follows the extraordinary journeys of …

[PDF] WITH AND BEYOND SOCIOLOGY AND INDIAN KNOWLEDGE

BHI VISHWA
There is a now concern for linking many disciplines to Indian knowledge system and as a part of this, there is a call for making a Bharatiya sociology. This article engages with this discourse and critically examines its one-sided formulation of Bharatiya …

World System: Dissent, Gender, and World-Making

B Tran - Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial …, 2025
… alism in the form of Hindutva in the 80s and its capture of political power in the 90s injected a new sense of urgency among Dalit activists, intellectuals, and artists. But with the consolidation of the Hindutva state, the fate of the dharma in twenty-first-century …

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R Choudhary, AF Sen - Indian Youth in the Midst of Crisis and Challenges, 2025
Society has become a collectivised reality and religion as an institutionalised materiality to establish and grasp this social collectivism. This chapter provides an in-depth exploration of the religious behaviours and perceptions of the youth. It delves in the …

Deep Time and Deep Place: A Path towards Academic

R Icaza - Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial …, 2025
Espejearnos. Conmovernos. A literal translation of these two terms from Spanish to English are “mirroring ourselves' and “moved (us) by or co-motion" respectively. Espejearnos is an invitation to be transformed by what has been heard, sensed, read …

Noi vs Loro: La Narrativa Polarizzante tra Persuasione e Manipolazione nell'Era della Politica Digitale"" Il Caso dell'India: tra l'ideologia Hindutva e la Digital Modi …

M Gebbia - 2025
This thesis explores one of the main themes characterizing today's politics: political polarization. This phenomenon, starting from the concepts of manipulation and propaganda, exploits new strategies in the current digital age to reinforce social and …

The Historical Challenge of Hindu Unity

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Preface The Historical Challenge of Hindu Unity undertakes a comprehensive exploration of Hinduism’s intricate historical journey, spotlighting the enduring interplay between its celebrated diversity and the elusive goal of unity. This book …

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This research paper delves into the portrayal of regional food and its significance in the literary work of two prominent Tamil writers, Perumal Murugan, and Imayam, through an in-depth analysis of select novels Pyre, Season of Palm, and Beast of …

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WR are Needed
India is the largest producer of milk, jute and pulse in the world, second largest in sugarcane, cotton, groundnut, fruits, vegetables and fisheries production and third in cereal production.[i] Despite this, the agricultural growth rate is dismally low and …

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T RAJAGOPAL, V CHANDRASHEKARAN - Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics …, 2025
… Hindutva Watch recorded hate speech incidents against Muslims. Most incidents occurred in BJP-ruled states. BJP supporters face similar … Zionism and Hindutva share a fear of being outnumbered by Muslims, which strengthens nationalism. It is …

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TP Schirrmacher
This paper is concerned with the question of whether Christian apologetics as it relates to other religions and worldviews is in principle compatible with an interreligious dialogue and whether truth claims make dialogue with other religions …

Anti-Western hypermasculinity and Imran Khan's Pakistan

Z Alam - International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2025
This article analyzes how Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan between 2018 and 2022, mobilized anti-Western hypermasculinity to appeal to his followers, using strongman-style politics to assuage the anxieties of traditional men who felt …

Migration to Indian Cities

M Percot - New Directions in South-South Migration
This chapter examines the complex interplay of poverty, climate change and migration as experienced by marginal farmers and rural labourers from Morrelganj, southwest Bangladesh, migrating to Indian cities for work as ragpickers and …

[PDF] Knowing Digital Governance from Below

C Crawford - 2025
… In the Indian context for example, there are some specificities of political economy that mediate the Indian feminist experience: most notably the dominance of the Hindutva movement in digital space. As I will show across the following two parts …

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M Percot - New Directions in South-South Migration, 2025
This chapter examines the complex interplay of poverty, climate change and migration as experienced by marginal farmers and rural labourers from Morrelganj, southwest Bangladesh, migrating to Indian cities for work as ragpickers and …

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Situated in Western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, the paper (1803-present) traces the contemporary roots of forced bachelorhood in the agrarian north from the vantage point of colonial and post-colonial political economy. The colonial government relied …

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R Ranjanis
Grief fills our lives today. Every loss, especially when we fail to hold a last bodily departure, leaves in us a deep void. Mourning, as hooks said, shows us the ultimate expression of that loss when rendered visible. Through the treacherous, often …