Video Report of Dilip Datta's Violence against Devotees in
Silent Protest from A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo"
by Peter Heehs by General Editor
We have received a video report of the events of
27th February 2012 in which Dilip Datta, trustee of the Ashram Trust,
misbehaved with devotees in Silent Protest, and his daughter Shoma was racially
abusive towards Devotees from Odisha.
The high-handed and arrogant behaviour of all the
Trustees is on full display, when they refuse to receive a simple Petition from
the Devotees from Odisha, and instead shower them with racial and unacceptable
abuses. The people of Odisha have demanded that the Trustees apologise and
resign. We have uploaded the video in high resolution so that all the details
of Datta's aggresion are clearly and unambiguously seen.
Mirror
of Tomorrow is moving to a new Platform by RY
Deshpande on Wed 28 Mar 2012 04:53 PM IST | Permanent
Link | Cosmos
But we are glad to inform that a new arrangement has
been worked out for its continuation. Some of the details are as follows. Mirror
of Tomorrow is moving to a new platform from 29 March 2012. The management of
the site will transition over to the Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North
America (SAYFNA) and its team will take care of it in every respect. I am very
grateful to the Yoga Foundation for coming forward enthusiastically, and I must
in fact congratulate them wholeheartedly.
It goes without saying that this will not only
assure continuation of the Mirror; with a stronger team it can expand into
several directions which I was unable to do as an individual. My own personal
association will continue to be there with it, though on a restricted
scale,—even as my focus is shifting more and more towards Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri at http://savitri.in/savitri/.
Understandably the new MoT site will be an interim
step towards a more robust web-portal. In course of time it will have a broader
scope with a larger coverage of topics and issues taking, as Sri Aurobindo
would call, "the Yoga view" of things as far as it is possible for us
to do that. The idea is to have a spiritual-cultural-social-educational-scientific-technological-environmental-health-educational
forum for different kinds of activities, activities in the promotion and
fulfilment of deep human aspiration. If we have to describe it in a single
phrase, it could be Applied Spirituality in Life. With the basis and the sense
of commitment it has, I am sure, it will be a great success…
Let me take this opportunity to express again my
sincere appreciation to them all who have been, during the past few years,
patronizing the Mirror of Tomorrow because of which it has acquired great
prestige and recognition in the field. There were active discussions and these
had lifted up the standard of deliberations, bringing wonderful insights to the
several issues. My truthful thanks are due to all the readers and contributors
to the Mirror. There is no doubt that this participation will continue to be
there for the new Tomorrow also. RY Deshpande
Comment on Introduction to The Seven Quartets of Becoming by
debbanerji from Comments for Posthuman Destinies by debbanerji
There are two ways in which such a perpetual rupture
may be thought (just as there may be two kinds of Enlightenment): (1) the
complete instrumentalization of human subjectivity; (2) the perpetual miracle
of the Life Divine. Unfortunately, the first kind of rupture is what rules our
age now (in spite of the happy undogmatic sleepers) – it is the leaching of
history, the momentariness of flattened subjecivity, to which duration, the
intuition of Becoming, is rendered unavailable. This is the loss of interiority
(not one which remains static but the being of evolution) I see ourselves
subject to…
In the early decades of the 20th c., at the height
of the cultural movement of modernism (a critique of modernity), Sri Aurobindo
was foreseeing an imminent shift from a subjective age to a spiritual age. This
shift did not take place. Not that he was sans skepticism about it – he pointed
to the economic barbarism which stood in the way. At the end of his life, when
he was writing the last chapters of Life Divine, he returned to this theme –
the need for a spiritual turn in humanity if the evolutionary nisus was to be
fulfilled now rather then never or in the remote future. Here too he warns that
the dangers are considerable and our being aware of this is important.
Today, hardly anyone is even interested in this
message in spite of the widespread availability of Sri Aurobindo’s works
everywhere. Why? Because the medium has massaged us into the comfortable sleep.
Human subjectivity belongs to the market and to the politics of ideology. It is
these determinations which need to be supplanted if an interior space can be
found for the waking of a new aspiration.
Husserl’s time-consciousness and the object-oriented position
from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek - More
from Johan Normark, HERE.
(title unknown) from enowning Ingvild Torsen on art without aesthetics.
Just as metaphysics on Heidegger’s account is blind
to being, aesthetics is blind to art, and rather predetermines artworks through
the specific aesthetic stance with which it meets the artwork. (title unknown) from enowning David Wittenberg on Nietzsche at the end of
metaphysics.
The end of metaphysics, which Nietzsche’s philosophy
paraliptically heralds, is the first potentially proper experience of the
essential historicity of thinking, the first experience in which the
ever-repeating self-same differentiation of metaphysics, which Hegel called
simply the “spectacle [Anschein] of so many and so varied [verschiedenen]
philosophies,” can be properly reviewed as Being’s self-abandonment
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