- 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:
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- 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...
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- 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 ...
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- 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...
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- 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,...
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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 ...
@rvaidya2000 tweets: 06 Dec 15
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