- The Role of Pain in Human Evolution – M.S. Srinivasan - “And the deep need of universal pain.” – Sri Aurobindo The average mentality looks at pain and suffering as evil or a punishment for wrong action or bad ... Pain comes to awaken us to this facts of life and tells us “Look you ignorant fellows, your instinctive longing for everlasting pleasure is a stupid desire. You cannot avoid me because I am an intrinsic part of life.”From the point of view of evolution and progress, pain is better than pleasure. Indulgence in pleasure sinks us more and more into a dark, self-satisfied and dissipated condition. When we are in a state of pleasure we never ask any questions, don’t think and no urge to act, move forward or overcome. But pain leads to reflection, thinking and action. When we are in pain we ask, why this pain? What is the cause of it? How to overcome it? Most of the modern science of medicine is the result of the attempt to understand and overcome physical and mental pain and suffering.Similarly, when we make a conscious attempt to bear, endure and rise above pain, it brings out the inner strength within us. We come out stronger by the ordeal. As Mother explains: why pain is a greater power for progress than pleasure:
- Virulent Brawl goes neck grabbing - Universally despised except by his Aaaka Petticoat Joey and maybe those dependant on him, if any, Virulent Brawl chose to go for the neck of a parent petit...
- Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology - Originally posted on Becca Psyche Tarnas: We in the Northern Hemisphere find ourselves in the heart of the darkest time of year, the Solstice—from the Latin...
- Sri Aurobindo unhinges Veda from ritual and religion - SELF aims at supplementing the individual’s struggle for a successful social adjustment with more aspirational input https://t.co/roBIUZZGr4 @India_Policy ...
- The Need to Spiritualize the Mind - Deathbed salvation is a concept that has considerable attraction for those who recognize that the outer life is something lesser and distracting to the spi...
- HISTORICAL CONTEXT MUST BE GRASPED BEFORE TRANSLATING SMITH INTO MODERN POLICES - *David Hardman*, posts 17 December HERE *“Soft strengths”* *“In The Wealth of Nations, the Tories’ favourite philosopher, Adam Smith, espoused a view of e...
- A Blog Update and a Lesson in Detachment - The Divine Teacher Today on the auspicious day of Gita Jayanti, I got an important lesson in detachment. For more than two years now I have been writing ...
- Sri Aurobindo's alternative paradigm stems from Veda - Hindutva suffers serious infirmities in the eyes of Sri Aurobindo, who offers an alternative paradigm that is universal and stems from Veda. Oppose AAP, BJP...
- SACAR and SAFIC hold year-end study camp on the Upanishads - Puducherry News - The Hindu Five-day study camp on Upanishads from Dec. 26 The Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research (SACAR) will hold a five-day study...
- Visual Art in Savitri: Book one Canto one- The Symbol Dawn — Illustrations for Book One Canto One the Symbol Dawn - Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space,Its formless stupor without mind or life,A shadow spinning through a soulless Void,Thrown back once more into unthi...
- Upcoming APA Talks - The 2016 Eastern APA Meeting (January 6-9 in Washington, D.C.) is close at hand, and the draft program is online. In terms of talks and panels focusing on ...
- Truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness - Friedrich Nietzsche's Guide to Conquering Your Existence | High ... Overman” refers to Nietzsche’s conception of a man who has literally overcome himself an...
- Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol—Urdu Translation: Part Two, Book Four, The Growth of the Flame ,شعلے کاپھلنا پھولنا , The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, شعلے کی پیدائش اور بچپن, Canto II, IV:ii Section 2 ( 96 ) [96.1-96.12] - ،لیکن درمیان اِس دنیا کے، یہ دِل جو اُس کی پُکار کا جواب دیتے
- Hinduism and India’s Future – Part 2 (by Kittu Reddy) - Continued from Part 1 Hinduism and Secularism in Independent India However that might be, India recovered its strength and consequently in 1947 India attai...
- Kiritan Flux & Chloé Sanchez - [image: flux_chloe_flyer_reduced_700]Performing live together! FRIDAY, 18.12.2015 @ 8 p.m. in MMC / CINEMA PARADISO flux [flûks], n. Lat. fluxus, fluo, f...
- Sri Aurobindo made an exception and met Tagore - The Rainbow Bridge: A Comparative Study of Tagore and Sri ... https://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com › Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo were formally introdu...
- The Rainbow Bridge: A Comparative Study of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo—A Review - Title: The Rainbow Bridge: A Comparative Study of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. Author: Goutam Ghosal. Publisher: D. K. Printworld (P) Ltd. Price: Rs. 420 (Har...
- Rishabhchand : Death of a Disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - April 29, 1970 There are things… really interesting things. Strangely, you might say there are numbers of miracles, that is, things that contradict all ...
- Buddhaghosa, Śāntideva, Aristotle, Hume, and Hegel - Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. - Love of All Wisdom Choosing a few traditions - I have long had an ambition which,...
- Choosing a few traditions - I have long had an ambition which, I am slowly realizing, is unlikely to be fulfilled. It is an ambition … Continue reading →
- In thy hard passage through a suffering worldLean for thy soul’s support on Heaven’s strength,Tu...
- Passing away of Sri Aurobindo – The Mother - Mahasamadhi Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness whic...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Court has banned the book, not any ordinary man
BAN THE BAN In addition to ‘The Satanic Verses’, here are ten books that India needs to unban now https://t.co/ZwRtFhwtss It’s time to put a stop to India’s ridiculous obsession with banning books. Shoaib Daniyal · Tuesday, December 1st 2015 https://t.co/otyxDL9t3D
10. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, Peter Heehs
An extremely well-regarded biography of Bengali revolutionary-turned-ascetic Aurobindo, the book ran into trouble with modern devotees for refusing to accept the saint’s divinity. “To accept Sri Aurobindo as an avatar is necessarily a matter of faith”, Heehs wrote, adding that “matters of faith quickly become matters of dogma”.
In response to being called dogmatists, some Aurobindo devotees filed a case in the Orissa High Court asking for a ban on the book in 2008 and got it.
Controversy over book would have amused Sri Aurobindo
Rediff-10-Apr-2012
Despite a few shortcomings, Peter Heehs's book on Sri Aurobindo, which has landed him in trouble with the Pondicherry ashram as well as ...
People of India respect right to freedom of expression: Heehs
The Hindu-14-Apr-2012
“I am looking forward to being forgotten,” remarked American historian Peter Heehs, as he spoke about the media attention that followed the ...
Sri Aurobindo, Heehs and the fragility of faith
Hindustan Times (blog)-22-Feb-2012
This time, it's Peter Heehs, an American historian, who has who has lived in and served the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for 41 years, set up the ...
Yoga and philosophy of Sri Aurobindo is not a religion: Peter Heehs
Economic Times-19-Apr-2012
Historian Peter Heehs was born in Chicago in 1948. In 1968, he took a break from college to learn yoga- a decision that took him to the ...
The Lives Of Sri Aurobindo
Outlook-21-Feb-2014
A good lawyer can always find a section that was meant for one purpose and put it to work for another. Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 , forbids ...
The 'lunatic Hindu fringe' that seems to have a disproportionate say ...
Daily Mail-22-Feb-2014
Peter Heehs was asked to leave India, where he had been living for forty years, because of his biography on Sri Aurobindo. When James ...
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History-rewriting shouldn't mean restating Puranic accounts of history
It is in the #Ayodhya debate that I have learned the power of historical scholarship, says @Koenraad_Elst: http://indiafacts.co.in/examining-the-marxist-version-of-indias-past/ … #ICHR
There are very few hold-outs of Hindu-minded history, and these are admittedly not very creative, nor have they got international standing. The Marxists have always had their eye on the cultural sector, but after Indira Gandhi needed their support in a power struggle, some fifty years ago, they really got their chance. Thapar’s collaborators PN Haksar and Nurul Hasan changed the face of India. “Hindu” became a dirty word, and any young historian classified as a conscious Hindu could forget an academic career.
This power equation was aggravated by the passivity of the Hindu Nationalists. As the only nationally organized Hindu force, they claim to be the vanguard of Hindu society. If so, they should not be proud of their achievements in this field, where Hinduism has only been losing ground. They have never invested in scholarship.
The result can now be seen, when Narendra Modi’s government would like to pack the universities with pro-Hindu or pro-Modi vice-chancellors and other prominent professors, but fail to find qualified people.
But there was no session about what Hindus themselves had done wrong in MM Joshi’s textbook reforms of ca. 2002, a horror show of incompetence.
But organized Hinduism has produced nothing except some obscurantist repetition of scripture as if it were history.
To be sure, historians have to navigate between many uncertainties and unknowns. Some of these may be resolved through research or by unexpected discoveries, others will be your companion throughout your career. So you ought to exercise some clemency here and accept that the rules of the hard sciences do not always apply to history. Even so, her school could indeed have done better in the Aryan origins debate.
In terms of the evidence now available, you are right to call the Invasion Theory (which some weasels now prefer to call a Migration Theory, though it amounts to the same thing) “discredited”. But in terms of academic opinion, it is not yet discredited at all.
Historians ignoring the astro-chronological evidence, linguists ignoring the archaeological evidence: this is abnormal and unhealthy, and the first thing to do now is to break through these walls and get people to listen to the other side.
Yes, there is plenty of criticism of the Hindutva movement (I myself have written quite a bit of it), but here it is really on the right side. Opposing the Aryan Invasion Theory is not only defensible from a scholarly viewpoint, it also happens to be politically correct.
This is my own initiative: the organized Hindu movement should take an advance on the results, and it will eventually reap the fruits, but it is not doing anything at all to further this research and this debate.
And this makes me think of one more important aspect of the Aryan debate. A debater confident of his position will seek to debate the strongest version of the opposing position.
The Thapar School is very status-conscious. When I studied the RSS, I thought it was an RSS trait that they will hire as a guest speaker an enemy with status rather than a friend without it.
Puranic Hindus paid lip-service to the God-given revealed Vedas whereas the Vedic seers themselves knew that the hymns were not revealed by a Supreme Being but skillfully composed by human poets.
Ancient Hindus wrote the Vedas, medieval Hindus crawled before the Vedas. Most Hindus believe that the seers Vishvamitra and Vasishtha had a caste-based rivalry, because at a later time caste had become very important, whereas the Rg-Veda doesn’t mention anything about caste. So, the distant past is distorted by the recent past and by the present, and it is part of the historians’ job to reconstruct the events as they looked to their own agents.
I am not impressed by all the rhetoric with which the RK Mission is trying to leave the sinking ship of Hinduism.
“Hindu” is now a dirty word, the secularists have seen to this, and so everybody is running towards the exit, saying: “We are not Hindu.”
Just watch how Hindutva spokesmen perform in TV debates: their communication skills are dismal, because they have always despised intellectual work, both in scholarship and on the media front.
@jothishnair1010 @TRILOKHNATH Please go through latest scientific findings which favour AIT/AMT without any bias. https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com
Follow Sri Aurobindo's Ideal of Human Unity http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2015/11/follow-sri-aurobindos-ideal-of-human.html … Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Without trying to understand Sanskrit as per Sri Aurobindo's hermeneutics, pedantic conclusions are bound to be flawed http://indiafacts.co.in/exploring-the-world-of-varna/ …
@curbset @Openthemag Consulting Sri Aurobindo what he wrote a century back can solve many of our ideological dilemma http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-religion-of-humanity …
The Mahabharata in Sri Aurobindo Ashram – by Sampdas - This has reference to an interesting write-up titled *The Bhishmacharya Complex*in Sri Aurobindo Ashram (posted on this site on 25 October, 2015). The writ...
Save Mirambika - Justice Delayed is Justice Denied - While for over 5 months Mirambika children continue to be exposed to danger in a fire safety failed unsanctioned building built on land whose ownership by ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Israel, Ireland, and the Indian Renaissance
Israel is keen on building a dynamic cultural relationship with the Union Territory of Puducherry by facilitating exchange visits of exponents of art, film and theatre, Dov Segev-Steinberg, Israel’s acting Consul General in Bengaluru said on Tuesday.
Visits Ashram
They met a group of artists from Puducherry, visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and also participated in a seminar at Pondicherry University.
“We would like to promote relations with Puducherry at many levels,” Mr. Segev-Steinberg said.
According to the diplomat, Israel’s missions in India are focused on evolving strong people-to-people ties alongside a robust business relationship.
The Acting Consul General, who had earlier visited the Aurobindo Ashram and paid homage at the memorials of Aurobindo and his spiritual ...
Sri Aurobindo observes: “If the highest height of spiritual experience, the sheer summit of all realisation is the absolute union of the soul with the ...
"Geeta is universally acknowledged as one of the world's great scriptures, although in Europe its thought is better understood than its secret of spritual ...
Mother's Q & A – 14 Sept 1955. Mother's Questions and Answers, September 14, 1955. Mother reads to the children from a play she wrote to teach ...
Auroville Beach, Pondicherry Review by Piyush Rt - A place of fun and enjoyment, Airoville beach also known as Auro beach combines the exotic ...
(e) Explain Sri Aurobindo's conception of cosmic salvation through spiritual evolution of the individual. 6. Write answers to the following in about 200 ...
[PDF] Sri Aurohindo: High Priest of Terror or happy Merchant?
JHS IE
Page 1. Sri Aurohindo: High Priest of Terror or happy Merchant? JH Stone IE Before his elevation to the status of “the greatest mystic-philosopher of present— day India,” Sri Aurobindo was among lndia's most radical Nationalist leaders. ... References Sri Aurobindo (Ghoshe). ...
[PDF] Liquid Geographies: India in the Oceanic Imaginary
MR Paranjape - 2015
... It always aimed at more than “mere” nation formation; Aurobindo, Tagore, Gandhi and other leaders who resorted to this word implied by it a much wider vision of society and human destiny.7 Svaraj to them was a cosmopolitan, not sectarian ideal. ...
[PDF] A case study of BPL Students at DDU–GKY Central Government Sponsored BPO Training Center, Anand, Gujarat
KB Rao
... Abstract A teacher's job is much more than to just instruct and share information. 'A teacher is a guide' as per the vision of Sri Aurobindo. ... Shradhallu Rande (2006) Introduction to Integral Education-An Inspirational Guide.Sri Aurobindo ...
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RC ZAEHNER
... Tr., Bhagavad-Gītā, with a Commentary Based on the Original Sources, Oxford, 1969. Evolution in Religion: A Study of Sri Aurobindo and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Oxford, 1971a. Dialectical Christianity and Christian Materialism, London, 1971b. ...
Articulation of'Selfhood'with the Intervention of Postmodernism in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen
A Prajapati - IUP Journal of English Studies, 2015
... perspective, man has two lives-one outer, involved in the outer world of 'maya' in the physical body which lives within birth and death; the other our true vital being behind the curtain of outer living throwing light on this duality in the matter of our being, Aurobindo (1977) states: ...
[PDF] Religion and Politics in Indian English Novel
APGR Lanjewar - AN INTERNATIONAL BI-ANNUAL …
... Sri Aurobindo examines Indian Renaissance as a cultural movement experienced by Ireland:- “The Indian Renaissance was less like the European one and more like the Celtic Movement in Ireland, the attempt of a reawakened national spirit to find a new impulse of self ...
Islam and Nationalism in India: South Indian contexts
MT Ansari - 2015
Gandhi and Tagore: Politics, truth and conscience
G Mukherji - 2015
[PDF] ART-RESEARCH IN MEMORY INSTITUTIONS: A BRIEF REVIEW OF THEIR RESOURCES FROM VISUAL-ARTS-RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE
S Kumar
... Http://www.granthaalayah.com ©International Journal of Research - GRANTHAALAYAH [84-99] Aurobindo Ghosh, etc.) and business leaders (Jamshedji Tata, etc.), social activists (Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Martin Luther King, etc.), and others. ...
[PDF] A SKETCH OF EVOLUTION IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
ALMSK Marwan - Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2015
... strongly the philosophic thought during the last one and half century, however, as discussed earlier, this conception is as old as philosophy itself.12 Evolution, in philosophy, deals with evolutionary process concerning to matter, life, mind.13 As Sri Aurobindo says, “Not Matter...
RELIGIOUS STUDI ES
FC COPLESTON - 2015
... and The Brothers Karamazov, by Stewart R. Sutherland, 555 review of Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, ed. by Steven J. Katz, 132 MILLAR, ALAN, review of Reason and Religion, ed. by Stuart C. Brown, I I9 MINOR, ROBERT N., article: 'Sri Aurobindo's integral view of ...
VÄTA-VÄYU
JR Joshi
... ' may not be connected with Väyu in the original nature of that divinity. Similar observation may be made regarding the view of Aurobindo ( Gurukula Patrikā , XIX ( vi ), 320 ) who equates Väyu with the presiding divinity of life.. ... Aurobindo: 1956, p. 351 ). ...
[PDF] FEMINIST STUDIES: CREATING NEW SPACES, PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES
P Walia - International Journal, 2015
... Aurobindo's Savitri, projecting the image of the selfless Savitri's purity, her selfless wifely devotion, her powerlessness that contains the power to save Satyavan (in this case not only the nation but the human condition) is a representation of the deification of the mother role in the ...
[HTML] Re: P: Adolf Hitler-The Truth
L all Jews
Talk it Up - Powered by vBulletin. P: Adolf Hitler - The Truth. Printable View. ...
A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia
S Srinivas - 2015
[PDF] Urbanization, Planning and Spirituality for a Sustainable World
C Woiwode, S Selvakumar
... Feuerstein and Feuerstein 2007). Some of the more recent approaches like the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo or Roy Bhaskar's philosophy of meta-reality (Bhaskar, 2002), are rooted in the Vedas. However, the growing number ...
[PDF] Revealing the Hidden Harmony
P Hague - 2015
... The Hidden Harmony, defined as the union of all opposites, is the ultimate Integral Tantric Yoga, providing a synthesis of all forms of yoga, including Aurobindo's integral yoga. (Aurobindo... To explain what this means, we need to modify Aurobindo's notions of evolution ...
An Integral Approach to Systems Engineering
K Devaney - INCOSE International Symposium, 2015
... Integral Theory has its roots in the work of the German philosopher Jean Gebser (1905-1973) who developed a theory of the structures of human consciousness, and Indian philosopher Sri
Aurobindo (1872-1950), whose work on the Inner and Outer Being is regarded as the ...
[PDF] COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOUL REALITY: A STUDY OF SELECTED VERSES OF SRI AUROBINDO
S Karthick, OT Poongodi
ABSTRACT Soul reality is an innate psychic force and a consciousness of Sri Aurobindonian dynamics of 'self'. Self as an evolving entity is critically dealt in Sri Aurobindonism. Endorsing the Vedantic philosophical system of sadhana and darsan, Sri ...
Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga Volume 1: The Conditions of the Synthesis and the Yoga of Divine Works
S Krinsky - 2015
In The Synthesis of Yoga Sri Aurobindo unfolds his vision of an integral (also called “purna” or “complete”) yoga embracing all the powers and activities of man. He provides an
overview of the main paths of yoga, their primary methodologies and the necessity for ...
[HTML] Education in India+ Search for Videos
SZ Irani
... Islamic Madrasah+ schools, whose boards are controlled by local state governments, or autonomous, or affiliated with Darul Uloom Deoband+. * Autonomous schools like Woodstock School, The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education Puducherry, Auroville+, Patha ...
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