Assorted tweets:
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https://twitter.com/SACAR_IN/status/1145974640042364928?s=19
The philosophy of #evolution has a special status in the integral philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. There are two aspects involved-an ‘Involution’ (a downward movement) and an ‘Evolution’ (an upward movement) https://t.co/TsjSnzJjQ9
https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1145972880531951616?s=19
We have often objected to the “us vs. them” intolerance of right-wing ideologues. But increasingly, liberals are aping this close-mindedness to alternative views.
The liberal says 'future Indian liberalism may belong to those rooted in regional & cultural traditions & histories of India, allowing them to speak a homegrown language of faith & plurality' https://t.co/ZEmAAHmNUa
Is Indian liberalism moving away from Nehru to Vivekananda?
https://twitter.com/sgurumurthy/status/1145935624941137920?s=19
The 12 Early Warning Signs of Fascism https://t.co/1FSm9KHD99: PROBLEM is the definition of terms; Each of the 12 apply to Communism and Lutyens
https://twitter.com/Swamy39/status/1145828099562409985?s=19
A completely new light on the established narrative of the #partition and #independence of #India https://t.co/1aLUI4UZZZ #IndianHistory
https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1145758950551199745?s=19
The Hijacking of Indian Astronomy- II https://t.co/YvlRFRm9On
https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1145759146395852802?s=19
Did Gandhi refuse to denounce the caste system?
https://t.co/95VoZeWTBi
https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1145836983891050496?s=19
What does the Nehru historian has to do with rocket science? 🧐
It is harder than even explaining the birth and death of stars, IMO. https://t.co/8dQESSjnj8
https://twitter.com/hamsanandi/status/1145832694338617344?s=19
From menstrual hygiene to sexual harassment a young IAS officer is trying to open conversations on lesser spoken subjects in the district of Budgam.
#ReporterDiary @ShujaUH
More videos https://t.co/FAHzdjSiWA https://t.co/OmZZ40bzNA
https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1145683020407595008?s=19
A brilliant essay on sexuality &fertility from a deeper Ayurvedic perspective, summary of papers presented at a national seminar on conscious conception, pregnancy, reproductive health, Review of @nkgrock book on menstruation and lots more. Check it out! https://t.co/8LsU2c5wWA
https://twitter.com/beloome/status/1145532276362661888?s=19
IndicaYoga's 4 day workshop -'The world of Prana', exploring the subtle dimensions of human experience thru philosophy & practice, wid Gabi( EUY), Anuradha Choudry & Vinayachandra concludes wid insightful sharing & learning.Thanks 2 all participants. @IndicAcademy
@indictoday https://t.co/FA86K0LYMH
https://twitter.com/aurovinaya/status/1145859552254005249?s=19
There has always been a Dharmic idea of India. It is neither majoritarian nor does it suffer from any phobia. It sees India as a land of myriad thoughts, customs and practices woven together by a strong cultural thread https://t.co/3n5JwWmBOd
https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1145938905440477184?s=19
#India can take some pride in the fact that Euler’s interest in #astronomy, and the significant output that followed, was first stoked by #IndianAstronomy, when Bayer asked for his help with the Tranquebar notes https://t.co/YvlRFRm9On
https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1145917899522990081?s=19
Satasloki is one of the Prakarana-Granthas of Adi #Shankaracharya consisting a hundred and one verses teaching the highest knowledge of non-duality. Swamini Svatmavidyananda sheds light on this text in this new lecture series- https://t.co/p4GX2wixp7 #Advaita #Vedanta
https://twitter.com/advaitaacademy/status/1145918372225228800?s=19
Is fiction meant to be an escape from the real world, or a commentary on current affairs? The award-winning writer Liu Cixin seems to be of two minds. https://t.co/Zv8jADrRR0
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1145932426742501376?s=19
1. The truth of paurANika kathas has nothing to do with literal occurrence in historical time. Sure, great bhaktas will speak as if they occurred in such a manner. That is to induce a certain rasa in oneself & others.++
2. Nowhere in dharma is the literal understanding of paurANika kathas as actual occurrences in historical time in some corner of the universe deemed as some fundamental article of faith. That is your own assumption, due to your sheer lack of reading/training.
3. By privileging the materialist definition of truth as "actual, historical occurrence", you have completely ceded the ground to your enemies. Both Xtians & their earliest opponents (the post-Enlightenment atheist freaks) were literally 2 sides of the same coin++
3'Contd: Both based their respective stances on the historical reality of the bible. The Xtians attempted to prove the accuracy of their bible by demonstrating how historical evidence matches with biblical testimony. Atheists tried to show how it did not match.++
3'Contd: Don't get sucked into the game. I am not saying that matters of historical value can't be found in our texts. Of course they can & we must do all we can to uncover our history. But we do not need "actual occurrence" to extract the truth of purANa-kathas.
The idea that historical actuality of scripture is essential in order for scriptures/traditions to have any worth/value is shared by both abrahamisms & modern atheism.
By Liam Jerrold Fraser in "The Secret Sympathy: New Atheism, Protestant Fundamentalism, and Evolution": https://t.co/ErZgwQ4LKP
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145295551249780737?s=19
4. AcAryas got the importance of reading a shAstra properly. Merely saying, "Oh I easily believe all these things as they are; you dare reflect on this? You faithless intellectual" is no display of shraddhA. It is lazy thoughtlessness & vain virtue-signalling disguised as piety.+
5. When a great man from a hoary guru-parampara, who lived & taught more than a 1000 years ago, explains painstakingly why purANa stories (shiva entrancing the wives of daruka-vana sages, killing andhaka, etc) are to be understood non-literally, you can either give up or read.
12. Interpretation of texts is a very complex task. There is no single way to look at it. There is no one conclusion. "Historicity is good", "Historicity is bad", "Symbolic meaning is good for everything". There is a case by case approach for all of this.
13. We should NOT use "historicity" to undermine our shAstras/sampradAyas. We should NOT limit our definition of "truth" to "occurrence in historical time". Having said that, we can use both historical & symbolic readings to enhance our appreciation of certain matters.//End
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145402320236077057?s=19
You have never put in the hours to do the hard work. You don’t even possess a basic vocabulary of the matters on which you abuse others. You can’t even say the names of relevant works of AcAryas since all you know is a few hot-off-the-press titles written in the last 5-10 years.
Unpopular opinion: Forming opinions & arguments on Hindu theological issues should never be a democratic, free-for-all process. There should be a diversity of opinions, yes; but from a small group of intelligent people. Unfortunately, we can’t enforce that here.
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145278256603467776?s=19
Illogical stuff from itihAsa-purANas shouldn't be justified either. Maybe folks who claim tokenism for shruti - "respect and relegate" have a point after all.
https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1145541716943855618?s=19
If there is one feature that redeems modernity and technology..it must be that one can stumble upon @OGSaffron @GhorAngirasa @Gopanarya @Auro_Mere and so many more..who bring a certain elevation and subtlety to this medium..else all is treachery or deception, or just mundane!!
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1145741178140102658?s=19
Absolutely..the essence of surrender is this..to only act when the Divine impels and not otherwise..
Yes! I follow all of them. Exceptional. Like @BharatPronam mentions, Mohit bhai was the first person connected to Sri Aurobindo and Mother I started following. Through him many wonderful contacts. There is a certain perfection in material work that I love and admire in Mohit.
https://twitter.com/RaghuveerBelur/status/1145944584058310657?s=19
Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo represents “the completest synthesis that has been written by Shrikanth https://t.co/vx9GvlIhCg #columns
https://twitter.com/medhajournal/status/1145921099403866118?s=19
India’s flaws create millions of jobs. The laziness of its rich, men who are protected from house chores, the need to be feudal lords, the imagination that if you put a malnourished man in a paramilitary costume he will become a 'guard'. My latest column: https://t.co/BkCK2WFNgS
https://twitter.com/manujosephsan/status/1145496370674929664?s=19
Indians deeming some jobs fit only for low castes, too, provides jobs. Even monopoly over some jobs. Dalits aren't 'entrapped' by low jobs. The fact is Brahmins are more entrapped in caste-dictated jobs: Software, surgery, finance are sophisticated version of cow-skinning.
one may not concur with all stereotypes ets in the article,
but nearly total uselessness of 'security' paraphernalia based on the 'malnourished' & 'defeated' cadre is very right
https://twitter.com/IndiTrades/status/1145565503873667072?s=19
"Bengal's intellect and Kerala's literacy were biggest misbelief of last century"
https://twitter.com/SimplyIshank/status/1145545416659722240?s=19
There is a kind of age-related cognitive decay that’s like needing reading glasses. Thoughts lose precision the way fields of view blur. You have to hold ideas at arms length to process them, but then you lose resolution and can’t process small font size (intricate logic)
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1145720241432887296?s=19
Half my experience of being a writer, as far as reader responses go, is people informing me with barely concealed impatience, that I’m rediscovering in ersatz pop form something esoteric by someone they like... Baudrillard, Deleuze, Marx, Nietzsche, are popular accusations
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1145888857109360641?s=19
Cyberspace reminds of Shakespeare's *The Tempest*. Same space of dreaming and the imagination -- but also mania, delirium, phantasmagoria, pandaemonium, and the sinister Caliban (or Wetigo) spirit.
https://t.co/zIEnilnv9W
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1145858853294227463?s=19
Rolf Jensen's brave new world of *The Dream Society* would be inconceivable unless physical reality was assimilated by, and made subordinate to, virtual reality. That would mean loss of discernment between subject and object spaces.
That is the implication of Aurobindo's *Age of Subjectivism*.
30) Hymns 185 - 191 (Verses 1,931 - 2,006): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 185 to 191 (including an Apri hymn)
with #SriAurobindo's words on Vedic Preservation & Prosody
(End of Mandala 01) https://t.co/fQ4vY7oVkp
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1145840205468848129?s=19
29) Hymns 179 - 184 (Verses 1,886 - 1,930): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 173 to 178 (including the conversation of Agastya and Lopamudra) with #SriAurobindo's words on Vedic Preservation & Prosody https://t.co/LJMQD3BlfM
Plain & Simple: Welcome to Peter Heehs 2.0 at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives https://t.co/HGaREtRssn
Posted by @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (U.P.) on July 1, 2019. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1145755784443121664?s=19
Fighting against fascists is no less fascist; ultimately, conflict and war are the primary modes of human behaviour. In fact, they are at the root of the whole biology. Sri Aurobindo, however, shows the Evolutionary dimensions vis-à-vis Vedic aspirations ingrained in certain acts
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1144545875798061056?s=19
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