Saturday, August 17, 2024

Salience of silence

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

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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 …