Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Animating the idols is akin to playing with dolls

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Welcome to 'The Synthesis of Yoga' by Sri Aurobindo. Chapter 5, The Synthesis of the Systems, paragraphs 18,19 & 20 ...
#ai #artificialintelligence. AI Deep Dive into Sri Aurobindo's "The Life Divine". 1 view · 11 minutes ago THE MATRIX ...more. Gary Lee Haskins. 6.71K.
21 hours ago — Founded by Mirra Alfassa, revered as the Mother and spiritual collaborator of revolutionary-turned-philosopher Sri Aurobindo, Auroville was established on ...
The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, Savitri, Sri Aurobindo - Page 586. 1 waiting #themother #sriaurobindo #integralyoga ...more ...
The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, Savitri, Sri Aurobindo - Page 585. 99 views · 17 hours ago #themother #sriaurobindo # ...
4 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo: When we use Manas in the general and wider sense it means the mind, meaning the whole mental activity — reflection, emotion and mental ...
16 hours ago — A beautiful Audio on Sri Aurobindo and The Mother written by Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
5 days ago — Dear Biren,. Your list of questions is rather a long one. I will answer you in the mass rather than in detail; and chiefly I will attack two fallacies with ...

Debashish Banerji explains how Sri Aurobindo's analysis of Nietzsche can be traced to his understanding of Heraclitus. #SriAurobindo

[From panel on Sri Aurobindo as a Transcultural Thinker at the International Philosophy Congress. Rome, August 7, 2024.]

Savitri Era Open Forum: British with all their faults were not the Imperial Japan

seof.blogspot.com/2024/09/britis

[The Concept of Enlightenment of Self in Isopanishad and Sri Aurobindo: - BK Das

Nationalist Movement and Popular Protest in Dhenkanal State of Odisha: 1938-39 - SK Bag]

[The Complete Yoga - The Lineage of Integral Education - Jim  Ryan - Sri  Aurobindo, acknowledging and affirming the positive elements of these many yogas, endeavored to develop and practice an "Integral Yoga," a "Complete Yoga," that would serve the complete human being.]

[श्रीअरविन्द आश्रम - दिल्ली शाखा का मुखपत्र

(जुलाई-अगस्त 2024) अंक - 4 (निःशुल्क उपलब्ध)

कृपया सब्सक्राइब करें

saakarmdhara@rediffmail.com

sriaurobindoashram.net

संस्थापक श्री सुरेन्द्रनाथ जौहर ‘फकीर’,

सम्पादन - अपर्णा रॉय, विशेष परामर्श समिति - सुश्री तारा जौहर, विजया भारती]

Savitri Era Party: Absurdities, ironies, tragedies, and cruelties

savitrieraparty.blogspot.com/2024/09/absurd

[... the novel has the capacity to operate in two registers simultaneously, representing both the enormous breadth of the social world and the intricate minutiae of the individual life.] -BC

[“The Sublime Guides” is an anthology of twenty-four essays authored by Manoj Das discussing the lives, vision and contributions of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother which were published in newspapers, journals, and commemorative volumes between 1972 and 2020.] overmanfoundation.org/our-publicatio

Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: Sri Aurobindo invites us to live largely and freely

serfrat.blogspot.com/2024/09/sri-au

[Absent Women Philosophers in Indian Thought Ṛṣikās, Sarojini Naidu, and Jaishree Odin - M Ali, R Shukla, M Rathour

Feminist Subtext in Tagore's Chitrangada - R Shukla]

Savitri Era Political Action: Dreams send signals, boost confidence, and motivate people

sepact.blogspot.com/2024/09/dreams

[Socrates, Kant, Descartes, Sri Aurobindo, Confucius, John Locke, John Dewey, Machiavelli, José Ortega y Gasset, Avicenna, Marx, Kafka, Whitehead, Tagore, Gopi Krishna]

2 days ago — Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss.

[HTML] Money is a Social Agreement—Let's Start Treating It That Way

N Natrella
Like most people, I usually mute and ignore advertisements; however, one caught my attention. It was the new Barclays advert—have you seen it? Well, whether you have or you haven’t I’ll describe it for you: Adults are portrayed as children going …

[PDF] Representation of India Pakistan tensions in Bollywood (2015-2020): Case study of Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Tiger Zinda Hai films

M Mohammadzadeh - CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2024
Tensions between India and Pakistan is one of the important issues in South Asia. The tensions between these two countries have affected many political, security, military and cultural issues in this part of Asia. These tensions can be seen in many …

[PDF] Dr. BR Ambedkar's Philosophy in Contemporary India: Threats and Relevance

E Nahar
… Even some of the fanatic groups are mixing his philosophy with Hindutva and left Marxist ideology. These groups are playing politics to … They are also agitated at the attempts by the Hindutva forces to derail the debate on caste based oppression …

[PDF] Populism in the world's largest democracy: Whither minority rights in India?

M Sikandar - University of Western Australia Law Review, 2024
… In fact, Modi’s populist ideology is firmly grounded in the Hindutva framing of the Indian minority Muslims as antagonistic to Indian Hindu … The painting of historical events in black and white further legitimises the cause of the Hindutva ie, the …

Former teachers' perceptions of psychosocial supports leading to attrition

LB Gorham, G Fufaa - Journal of Public Mental Health, 2024
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how former K-12 teachers’ perceptions of psychosocial support led to their decision to leave the profession. Design/methodology/approach The researcher conducted eight interviews with …

[PDF] Chosenness-Myth-Trauma Syndrome and Hindutva's Othering of Minorities in India

MK Mehdi, MN Mirza - Strategic Studies, 2024
… What are the root causes of this anger against the minorities and why did Hindutva construct the binaries of us and them? … Hindutva, had been set into motion even before 1947 and continued after the partition of the Subcontinent into …

[PDF] ON BEING A HINDU (OR NOT)

S SIKKA
I was not born a Hindu for the simple reason that my parents did not know that they were Hindus.... My parents had only one identity and that was their caste: they were Kurumaas. Their festivals were local, their Gods and Godesses were local, and …

[PDF] The Barikan Tradition: A Symbol of Solidarity and Communal Harmony

MNR Yoga, IA Yaqin, VD Yulianti, M faiq Azimuddin… - Prosiding Seminar Nasional …, 2024
This research focuses on the role of the Barikan Tradition in strengthening social solidarity among the community, highlighting how this cultural and religious practice serves as a bond between community members. Additionally, the study aims to …

[PDF] MODERN CHALLENGES TO TRADITIONAL BUDDHISM IN THAILAND: NAVIGATING GLOBALIZATION AND SECULARISM

PP Chumkhot - วารสาร วิชาการ สังคมศาสตร์ สมัยใหม่ (Online), 2024
This paper explores the modern challenges facing traditional Buddhism in Thailand as the country navigates globalization and secularism. Historically, Buddhism has been integral to Thai identity, governance, and societal values, but in the …

The Way of the Other

Z Espinosa - Antiracist Research on K–12 Education and Teacher …
… The practice of mindfulness came to the United States in the form of yoga, and more recently through non-religious meditation practices. … Calderón (2014) argued that embodying land is an integral part of Chicana feminism because “territorializing …

The Lived Body in E-motion: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Dementia

R Winniewski, EN Dzwiza-Ohlsen - Phenomenology, Neuroscience and Clinical Practice …
… from our familiar lifeworld that emphasize both the positional (hiking, yoga) and the expressive dimension of movement (dance, playing a … or I-hold-still are important vital signs of movement and expression of the lived body and integral …

[PDF] Translation of the Quran in Tolaki: a Perspective of Religious Moderation, and Islamic Law

F Gunawan, A Khairunnisa - Samarah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga dan Hukum Islam, 2024
This study focuses on the study of the translation of the Qur'an in Tolaki culture in Southeast Sulawesi from the perspective of religious moderation and its influence on Islamic law, as well as the factors that influence the translation. The method used …

[PDF] Assessing Discriminatory Legislation Against Indian Muslim Communities: A Detailed Socio-Legal Review

B Sohail, K Jime
This study provides a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of discriminatory legislation affecting Indian Muslim communities. It examines how recent and historical policies have impacted the socio-economic, political, and legal status of …

[HTML] The Science of Mudras

J Utermoehl
… rooted in the ancient practices of yoga and meditation. These … integral part of spiritual traditions for thousands of years, particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. These gestures can be gateways to higher states of consciousness and …

[PDF] Spiritual journey of foreign travellers in Varanasi

K Gosain - 2024
… Some of the notable spiritual locations are Auroville in Pondicherry, ISKON in Mayapur, ashrams in … Auroville is a site in Pondicherry that focuses on sustainable living practices and is known as a universal that attracts tourists from different …

[PDF] Scope of Yoga Education in Promoting '21st Century Skills' of the Digital Natives: An Overview

M Mukherjee, M Bhadra
The pattern of social life of the adolescent has completely altered with the onslaught of digital media; truly they are digital natives nurtured in a unique period of an unprecedented influx of technology. Teens are usually have inadequate ability for …

Approaching a Universal Pattern? Gopi Krishna's Transformational Kundalinī

M Thaler
… in his book Passages about Earth (1973) how Krishna had lost his interest into Aurobindo after the latter had confirmed Krishna's experience as the rise of kuņdalinī, but recommended Krishna to look for another (ie, tantric) source of support:“Now …

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Salience of silence

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

8 hours ago — New Publications: · India The Mother · Nature Lures · The Inner Attitude (Chinese and English) · Mother and Sri Aurobindo's Plans for Founding Auroville by Loretta ...
The special issue of Renaissance journal celebrating the 152nd birthday of Sri Aurobindo is now available at https://renaissance.aurosociety.org/home/ The ...
16 hours ago — Describing his first spiritual experience Sri Aurobindo said silence was his 'first positive spiritual experience' which made the rest of his sadhana possible.
11 hours ago — To. H.E. The Governor of Madras. Chancellor of the Andhra University. I am in receipt of your letter of 30th October informing me that the Syndicate of the ...
18 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo has announced that Savitri has prepared the world and now the Consciousness that She carried in Herself is come down upon earth and is preparing ...
11 hours ago — Email · PrevSri Aurobindo Ashram in 1968 · Sri Aurobindo & His Dreams for the Future of MankindNext. Related Posts. Back to Documentaries and Videos ...
The Mother & Sri Aurobindo : E-library. 10.5K. Subscribe ... Lecture series on Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga (by Ranganath), pp 92.
Savitri Class by Jhumur Bhattacharya - 41 - B1C3 (Page 41-42). 1 view · 9 minutes ago ...more. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo : E-library. 10.5K.
From a series of lectures by Ambalal Balkrishna Purani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Recorded in 1962 at the Crescent Moon Ranch, Sedona, Arizona, USA.
Poems of Narad - Poems To Mary Helen - Weeping of the cells. 1 view · 10 minutes ago ...more. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo : E-library. 10.5K.
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Because of its geographical tie to India, I won't call myself Hindu. Because of its untenable belief system, I don't count myself as a Xian anymore. "Integral Humanist" will do.

https://x.com/ElstKoenraad/status/1824825327559831998?t=hjFy9vBwXzJnyZr-Rfn5QA&s=19

Integral Humanism was a political doctrine of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS), the precursor of BJP. It was developed by BJS President Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. In essence, Integral Humanism is a restatement of Freemason ideology. As such it is an Intellectual Fraud played on gullible Hindus by #Sanghis.

Further, Integral Humanism is an oxymoron. For, humanism that is fragmented is no humanism. Moreover, why thrust that camouflaged freemasonism on Hindus?

Sanghis invent all sorts of identities for Hindus but avoid calling Hindus as Hindus or Sanatanis, except when they need Hindu votes. This is because, they are #PseudoHindutva which is nothing but Anti-Hindu just as the #PseudoSecularism is.

Therefore, I am shocked that you @ElstKoenraad call yourself an “Integral Humanist”.

https://x.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1824832557524893868?t=pW_3cGgXGrRlKHy8-PdfVg&s=19

Hindu majority is a big myth !

Identity based Indian electoral politics, while pulverising the organic Hindu society into smithereens by pitting one caste or group of castes against the other, has simultaneously consolidated Muslims and Christians.

Resultantly, in elections Hindus predominantly vote for their caste, whereas Muslims and Christians primarily vote for their religion, making Hindu majority a big myth.

The real majority in India are Muslims, followed by Christians, who decide the nature and course of Indian governance irrespective of the political party or coalition of parties ruling at the Centre and in States.

Interestingly, while Muslims and Christians are doctrinal enemies fighting to finish elsewhere, in India they work in tandem against Hindus who are their common theological enemy.

The Islamic gangsterism with international support and the global Christian false propaganda together subjugate the Indian governance systems.

While that being so, the Left-Liberals in cahoots with Mullahs and Missionaries spread the falsehood about non-existent Hindu majoritarianism to vilify Hindus and their religion.

https://x.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1824764544826081348?t=O0qS-QJ6MB_kn61frb58MA&s=19

The foundational, existential obsession to convert others to the worlds two dominant religions is so normalized and the existential right to defend and reject that conversion is so abnormalized that Hindus (including our children) are called bigots and intolerant simply for rejecting conversion. 

That “bigotry” is then held as a logic for conversion. 

It’s deeply manipulative. 

Most secular spaces of inclusion and diversity sit at the surface level of identity. People of all communities are welcome premised on identity, including the identity of religious affiliation. 

But the people in these spaces are not are especially ill equipped to handling the implications of religious ideologies that are premised upon intolerance, that are not satisfied with Live and Let Live. The people in these spaces do not interrogate the kind of manipulation I describe above. Not only do they avoid it, they actively cover it up, sometimes using the premise of bigotry as a camouflage. 

This is why Hindus (and others) reject the assumption that secularism is neutral and that it levels the playing field. It actually does the opposite. 

For these and other reasons, the flaws in secularism are particularly visible to Hindus. Hinduism has much more honest and viable frameworks and practices of honoring viewpoint diversity. And of embodying Live and Let Live. Not only has this attitude has served as a protective membrane in the full conversion of our community, it serves as a powerful model for democracy. But when Hindus seek ti communicate this, we’re accused of being in violent opposition to the goals of democracy. We are labeled intolerant bigots. 

Tolerance is a social contract, not an unconditional virtue.

https://x.com/indumathi37/status/1824601615531114627?t=MNCbU0vyHAxiMmxK_F1PhQ&s=19

Sri Aurobindo: Cosmology, Psychology and Integral Experience

B Shankar - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2024 - Springer
Sri Aurobindo is one of the most prominent figures in the Indian Philosophy of twentieth century and yet we barely find any mention of his work in the philosophy circles. He has written …

The Myth of the Theons: Constructing and Deconstructing the Image of Two European Occultists

P Heehs - Aries, 2024 - brill.com
… One person who discovered the Revue Cosmique in 1904 was Mirra Alfassa, a young Paris-… Alfassa would be a central figure in the Cosmic organization from the middle of 1905 to the …

The wonder of darshan: Going beyond the local and the national

T Ganguly - Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
… Around the same time as Sri Aurobindo was beginning to develop his interest in spiritual practice in India, the young Mirra Alfassa began participating in the esoteric and occultist …

[PDF] English Language Pedagogies in Some Selected Alternative Education Institutions in India for Empowering the Subalterns

NAA THASNIM, DM Abraham - 2024 - 136.232.36.98
… Auroville which in French means ‘city of Dawn’, is an experimental utopian township which is founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa who is called as the Mother and designed by the architect …

[HTML] Mirra Alfassa: Completing Sri Aurobindo's Vision

P Beldio - Religions, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mirra Alfassa’s influence, power, and authority are essential to the integral yoga according to Aurobindo Ghose, yet most scholars have so far refused to examine their contours. …

[PDF] Worlding Encounters: Indian Spirituality and Anti-Colonialism in the Life and Thoughts of “the Mother”(Mirra Alfassa)

RD BajpaiS Parashar - Global Studies Quarterly, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… In this paper, we trace Mirra Alfassa’s journey from a spiritual seeker to being anointed as “… tional collaborations (as in the case of Mirra Alfassa) worked to achieve the nationalist goals …

The life incarnate and the life divine: Spiritual evolution, androgyny and the grace of the goddess in the teachings of Mirra Alfassa, the Mother of Integral Yoga

N Kuchuk - Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… At the same time, Alfassa deemed celibacy as necessary for … Alfassa’s complex attitudes towards gender and normative … materiality is an important current in Alfassa’s thought, including …

[PDF] EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS OF THE MOTHER (MIRRA ALFASSA)(1878-1973)

SB Mohanty - researchgate.net
The Mother (Mira Alfassa) of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry as the founder of the Ashram and its Centre of Education, was involved in education of children and started writing on …

[HTML] Jessica Namakkal. Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India

C Gurkaya - 2023 - journals.openedition.org
… In parallel, the chapter highlights how Mirra Alfassa, as the sole … Mirra Alfassa gave long speeches about the fraternity … —the very ideals Mirra Alfassa championed, which Namakkal …

[PDF] Contribution of Shrimaa (Mirra Alphasa) in Educational Thoughts

N Yadav - researchgate.net
… Mirra Alfassa in the thought of education is immense. Shrimaa was an Indian spiritual teacher of French origin, a disciple of Maharishi Aurobindo. Shri Arvind used to call her as Mata. …

[HTML] Everyone Drinks from the Same Well”: Charismatic Female Gurus as “Religious Feminist Influencers” in South Asian Hinduism

AE DeNapoli - Religions, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article examines the emergent leadership of two female gurus in South Asia who have declared their status as Śaṅkarācāryās (ie, heads of monastic institutions) based on …

The Integral Cosmology of Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction from the Perspective of Consciousness Studies

M Masi - 2023 - philpapers.org
… This cellular work was taken up by Mirra Alfassa, the “Mother”. She also was largely hesitant to speak openly about something that had to yet be accomplished and which success or …

An Ode to the Future Supermen: Understanding the Spiritual Experiment at Auroville

PK Singh 'Martand' - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2023 - Springer
… The Mother, a French woman, born as Mirra Alfassa, visualised a city in her dream and narrated in 1954, where the two contradictions of individual and collective life would cease to …

An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–1920

HM Krämer - Modern Asian Studies, 2023 - cambridge.org
… In Arya, which appeared between 1914 and 1921, Aurobindo, Paul, and Mirra Richard attempted to carve out a position for themselves in modern Hinduism, staying within fairly …

[B] Sri Aurobindo: The life and teachings of a revolutionary philosopher

R Dalal - 2023 - books.google.com
… Richard's explorations extended into the realm of the occult, but his understanding of it deepened due to his association with Mirra Alfassa. It was through this connection that Mirra …