The false choice – reject or be annexed LINK (Part 1) by Govind on May 13, 2012 REJECT Indian
spiritual tradition or be annexed by it. Mirror of Tomorrow: (part 2) here by Govind on
May 15, 2012 It is clear that Mother Sri Aurobindo do not REJECT Indian
spirituality but simply the giant errors that crept into it. Mirror of Tomorrow:
It is only by getting rid of these “religious”
things that these parasites can rightfully claim absolute freedom to abuse Sri
Aurobindo and yet lord it over and lead a soft and comfortable life by feeding
off the free grade A organic milk-fat flowing from His Ashram… Far worse and unforgivable is their blind,
fanatical devotion to and fervent promotion of a point of view which renders
Sri Aurobindo a total prisoner of history… This point of view delegitimizes and
strongly disputes the Mother’s claim of Sri Aurobindo’s a-historicity…
In
the immediate context of the current controversy over the TLOSA book it also
reveals the nefarious modus
operandi of the Heehsian propagandists. Not only do these
purveyors of falsehood project their own prejudices and fears onto Mother Sri
Aurobindo but they also project their own cardinal faults and failings onto
their opponents. While they themselves are parasitical xenophobes, looking down
on the land that has embraced them and detesting the spiritual tradition that
is its living essence and its very life-blood, they coolly turn around and
condemn their opponents as xenophobes. While they are the ones trying to annex
Sri Aurobindo to their own ideological prejudices and phobias they will first
take care to accuse their opponents of doing the same so that these will be
shamed into silenced or at least discredited by others. Finally, to cover their
own fundamentalist adherence to Heehs and his book, they will label all his
critics as fundamentalists for their faithful adherence to Mother Sri
Aurobindo.
Engaged
in all-round betrayal of everything they verbally profess, projecting onto
their opponents the crooked tendencies they themselves harbor, these promoters
of Heehs and the servants of the Ashram Managing Trustee would exile its Soul
from the Ashram and fill the remaining vacuum with a triumphant anti-divine
Western materialist intellectualism and a one-man authoritarianism.
The
genesis of Sri Aurobindo’s superman Posted on May 4, 2012 Sandeep
It
would be too onerous to discuss the precise details of the supramental
transformation in this article. People who are exposed to the topic of
supramental transformation inevitably ask the question: well, then when is this
huge supramental change going to happen? Certainly not in our lifetimes,
in which case it doesn’t really matter. There are a couple of occasions
when I had to answer this question on this blog so I am going to reproduce the
answers here. In this comment,
I said:
“Such
high-level questions are best left unanswered because they serve as a litmus
test to separate wheat from chaff. Those who are discouraged by such questions
tend to be unfit for Yogic practice. On the other hand, those who have received
the inner call to practice Yoga will continue to stake the path irrespective of
any doubts regarding current status, because they have realized that there is
no other choice, since the phenomenal world cannot offer the joys that Yoga
brings.
So
you have to find the answer on your own through your yogic practice. And if you
don’t practice, then the question doesn’t need to be answered, because if I
give you an answer, it becomes dogma.” In
another comment,
I replied:
“I
don’t spend any time speculating on such lofty questions regarding the
supramental, mahapralaya, etc. Knowledge in the spiritual path is given
on a need-to-know basis. When you are inwardly ready for something, the
knowledge will be automatically disclosed to you in a vision.
Until
then, one has to focus on bread-and-butter issues. One has to learn to live
better by regulating food consumption and speech, sleeping well, extending the
duration of mental silence, etc. When you reach a certain stable point in the
spiritual path, your intuition awakens and automatically provides you with the
answers to the questions as required.”
Sandeep says:
May
6, 2012 at 5:11 pm Andrew
Cohen also talks about evolutionary enlightenment. He was influenced by the
teachings of Sri Aurobindo but never acknowledges that. Given the spread of
esoteric knowledge in recent times, there are going to be many people who will
voice the same ideas. It’s become difficult to disentangle who is what. The
situation today is qualitatively different from about a hundred years ago when
mass communication was not highly developed. We just have to stick to the
teaching that makes sense and carry on with our lives. For me, Sri Aurobindo
and the Mother are sufficient. …
This
is ridiculous! Mahatma Gandhi was not even Enlightened and made several
political miscalculations in his life. Anyway, the less said the better about
the proliferation of these Gurus. I prefer to stick to Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother! May
6, 2012 at 8:42 pm
mike says:
May
13, 2012 at 6:48 pm Also,
there are so many authors today writing about Spiritual things that they’ve
never experienced. l don’t feel it’s right to do that, no matter how good the
reason.
sbicitizen: Message: Re: The Art of Growing up - 6 May
2009 Devinder Singh Gulati
The
controversy is reminiscent of the split in the Catholic Church, when the
Broadway musical, Jesus Christ Superstar was made into a movie in 1973.
[…]
Quoting DAVID BROOKS, Published: June 6, 2008 The new York
Times. (See previous post.) Peter Heehs couldn't agree
less. Soon after David Brooks published his column, Heehs found himself in
the centre of a fierce controversy- in early September- after a review of
his new book, The Lives of Sri
Aurobindo appeared in the Auroville Times.
The Political Theology of Lincoln and Melville from An und für sich by Bruce Rosenstock
It’s
hard to think of any historical moment that more deserves political theological
reflection than the American Civil War, yet a very quick Google Scholar search
turns up only one book (Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological
Crisis) that uses the phrase “political theology” (once, in passing) in its
discussion of the event. Why is the Civil War so richly deserving of entering
the ranks of privileged political theological points of reference (along with
Schmitt’s and Benjamin’s focus on the European Baroque with its doctrine of
absolute sovereignty, or Agamben’s camp and the Musselman, or Hardt and Negri’s
Empire, to name a few)? Consider the constellation of factors: the crisis of
sovereignty, the friend-foe decision, the state of emergency, the status of the
human reduced to bare life, and, not the least significant factor, the claim
made by North and South to be waging a battle for the future of Christendom.
Zwischen Humanität und Nationalität: Herder’s “Volk” and
Ethnic Nationalism from Centre Right India by Jaideep Prabhu - May
12, 2012
I
propose in this post, in opposition to recent scholarship, that Herder did indeed try to
crystallise a “national form” that was constantly evolving. However, I concur
with the latest research on Herder that
there is no inclination of the desire to set up a political institution like
the modern state in Herder’s
thoughts. Therefore, to read Herder as
a nationalist is perhaps accurate but to define that term (nationalist) in the
manner many modern historians of nationalism have is blatantly wrong. Herder probably did not believe
that nationalism as is understood by the majority of academics today was
modern. Hence it is unlikely that Herder could
be of his own volition the father of modern ethnic nationalism. It is Herder’s search for the eternal Geist that
makes him a Romantic figure, delving into amorphous ideas and gefühl. This
was perfect fodder for the monstrous distortions of Herder’s ideas by latter day
nationalists.
I suppose the lesson has always stayed with me. It
accounts for my cynicism over the Lok Pal and the concept of “Persons of
unimpeachable integrity”… In general, I am sceptical of any solution that
relies on people’s character rather than structures and incentives. 10:39 AM
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