Monday, July 15, 2019

Limits will be set by Him


Assorted tweets:

Sri Aurobindo was a fast writer n couldn't revise most of his texts. I appreciate the editors' work in the 2009 complete works. However, I don't use the revised Savitri (1993) n I don't appreciate anyone using it. I use the 1950-51 unrevised edition.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1150331100910084098?s=19
I am not talking of Sri Aurobindo’s revision of Savitri (1950-51 text). 1993 edition was revised by 2 of his disciples. Many of us don't accept that revision of Sri Aurobindo’s original Savitri . RYD has got Sri Aurobindo's text reprinted by a Delhi publisher. Huge controversy.
The now available Savitri (1993) is not entirely Sri Aurobindo's text. I wish all to use Sri Aurobindo's text which first came out in 1950-51 in 2 volumes. Contact RYD for Sri Aurobindo's original text. Or collect it frm a library.

it's always a joy & privilege for me to be in the company of Aurobindo devotees, I love this openness, & flexibility of thinking in both of u, that I see in rishi Himself, something miserably absent in a few of His followers though, but that is also by His will I presume
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1150357037676544000?s=19

After He kneads you will also become flexible like us..don’t worry 🤣🤣🤣 our dealings are with Master..each of us..and at each level the Dharma most suited for that stage of development...limits will be set by Him, not by opinion of people..
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1150358390826131458?s=19

58) Hymns 372 - 377 (Verses 3,780 - 3,805): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 05, Sukta 018 to 023 (including hymns on the fulfillment of the soul); with #SriAurobindo's words on the true psychological significance of Indra https://t.co/EKvcPxjeTv
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1150336342431154176?s=19

Hey, I just signed the petition "Devotees and admirers of Sri Aurobindo: Deport Peter Heehs and his supporters from India" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
Our goal is to reach 100 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:
http://chng.it/9RFPTRVwVm
Thanks! RY


“True tolerance must not only make distinctions but also connections. These connections must find their place in a hierarchical structure. It’s not just a matter of connections between the essential & nonessential but also between the whole and the parts” -Panikkar

https://twitter.com/krumbbumm/status/1150480564241092608?s=19

Another #Nalanda denier found. Meet @AudreyTruschke, a privileged White women, apologist for #Aurangzeb's crimes against Hindus & Sikhs, lecturing me abt bigotry. Edward Said's orientalists hv descended on Bharat to echo Pakistan's Islamist propaganda. cc. @NioZenji @AsYouNotWish https://t.co/6g3Lcwo4ol
https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1150423237966409728?s=19
The single point mission of her writings is to whitewash Indian truth and create an alternative history that buttresses the fake narrative of Islamists of South Asia. Her shoddy scholarship  unfortunately is promoted by Indians.
https://twitter.com/AartiTikoo/status/1150474676235227136?s=19


The evidence behind the Islam-killed-Buddhism-at-Nalanda narrative is paper thin, although the bigotry behind it is formidable. See my article below for more.
#SpoilerAlert - Library burning and Muslims wiping out Indian Buddhism allegations are dubious https://t.co/iTAdk2nzKA https://t.co/o5umgBF4Ww

https://twitter.com/AudreyTruschke/status/1147128704948146178?s=19

Is population explosion truly religion based? Question needs honest reply. Attached map disproves this fallacy. Northern states are bursting forth. It's visible to naked eye when driving in those states. Not religion but politics is harming India more https://t.co/5MzKcSWQw7
https://twitter.com/SatpathyLive/status/1149679584767463426?s=19

At Tripuri, Congress Socialist Party, led by Acharya Narendra Dev & Jai Prakash, struck a death-blow to Subhas Chandra Bose by abstaining. Internally, the Bengal revolutionary wing of CSP led by Jogesh Chatterji fought against this CSP decision tooth&nail: https://t.co/aYNq2lrH2e
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1150464249560543234?s=19


Many of the current controversies over transgender rights and identities derive from false beliefs, explains the author and academic Susan Stryker. Here she selects five excellent contemporary trans titles with depth, complexity and heart
https://t.co/LDNYTCAAty
https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1150476305676288005?s=19


This gender war that is being waged in the west trickling to our land, is one my recurring nightmares. With a billion population, imagine how quick we will be mutated to zombies if this fad pushes aside genuine transgenderism and takes front stage.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/04/22/the-trans-child-as-experimental-guinea-pig/amp/#click=https://t.co/EzySuelwgE
https://twitter.com/lotophagus/status/1150465860001124352?s=19


“Chandrayaan-2 project will be India’s first planetary mission led by women—design engineer Vanitha Muthayaa & mission director Ritu Karidhal.”
All the best ! https://t.co/DpYhWJlMBv

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1150452146363674625?s=19

if only someone actually read P.N. Oak... but even the most ardently logical communist historians can't rebutt half of the 108 proofs Oak has given for Taj Mahal being a misappropriated building... if only RWers read P.N.Oak .. if only ...
https://twitter.com/hitarthtweets/status/1150476459158278144?s=19

My piece today counters Rana Safvi’s lazy history, argues she’s taken facts selectively & that the Mughal empire was extortionate, nasty, economically stagnant and a nightmare for its citizens to live in. The British were MUCH better
https://t.co/0MT3ZALBlH
https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1150400180551704576?s=19

What if an author absolves a real plagiarist who has lifted chunks of material from him or her without proper acknowledgement? Does the author’s absolution, like a papal bull, wash away the ‘sin’ of plagiarism?, asks @MakrandParanspe, https://t.co/6VbFmyVhGX https://t.co/Wy3TPSoNix
https://twitter.com/Openthemag/status/1150263400741707776?s=19
An eloquent piece on MP @MahuaMoitra &plagriarism. An eloquent&excellent piece! Kudos Dr. @MakrandParanspe for writing this! Hv always enjoyed your articles,despite not agreeing with them at times(totally agree with this one tho). @Iyervval Give it a read https://t.co/3AVRRuoPWR
https://twitter.com/anwesh_satpathy/status/1149954983720128512?s=19
Of Mahua Moitra and Plagiarism | As someone who takes plagiarism very seriously and often warn young, upcoming writers about pitfalls of ‘lifting’, I am glad ⁦@MakrandParanspe⁩ has written this essay on plagiarism and thus started a conversation. https://t.co/xK99Dh3mhQ
https://twitter.com/sunandavashisht/status/1150006250479841281?s=19

In his new book on Aryan Invasion debate, Shrikant Taligeri refers to @KalavaiVenkat as "the racist-casteist Hindu activist Kalavai Venkat". Despite my problems with Kalavai, I find this does not belong in a research book.
Emotions --> Ad Hominem --> Book loses credibility https://t.co/qUB32PihXN
https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1149996971077148672?s=19

Many thanks for such a principled stand which will go a long way in cleaning the public sphere.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150109666325569536?s=19
I think, the govt is following a well thought out approach. It has its own experts and analysts and let's rely upon them.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150468410725167106?s=19
Everyone's opinion will obviously vary but Bengali victimhood clouds the overall picture. However, only one opinion matters in the matter: that's of Sri Aurobindo. Accepting his insights with humility is the only sane option. Emotions and arguments have no place before it. Thanks
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1149931512046993413?s=19
Savitri Era Learning Forum: It's literally the edge of our collective knowledge https://t.co/fjqkMiEAZ4 @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150463428227584000?s=19


Preserving faith at the Dakshineshwar Kali temple

Telegraph India-20 hours ago
Some were recognisable — Khudiram, Preetilata, Madhusudan Dutt, Kabir, Krishna, Jesus, Kazi Nazrul, Mahavir, Rishi Aurobindo... I had to read the names of ...



Literary lion

The Statesman-07-Jul-2019
Kudos to Sutradhar for bring out this book in these changing times. After all, SriAurobindo had rightly said, “Bankim created a language, a literature and a nation ...



Mental health programme launched at 15 Puducherry government ...

Times of India-11-Jul-2019
PUDUCHERRY: Sri Aurobindo Society in collaboration with the Directorate of School Education launched a two-day universal positive mental health ...


Friday, July 5, 2019

Stop misrepresentation of Sri Aurobindo


Assorted tweets:

Peter Heehs and his American supporters at the Archives of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, should be packed off to Donald Trump’s country -- read  https://t.co/LnrWUQZI3l
https://twitter.com/TlosaE/status/1146801039170924545?s=19


Peter Heehs Reinstated as Head of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives – Anirjeet
Is the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust in Pondicherry bent upon destroying the spiritual legacy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother?

https://twitter.com/CLINGTOTRUTH/status/1146288466969485313?s=19

Some of the  modern Bengali sociologists are allergic to Sri Aurobindo. Reason? Sri Aurobindo asks for a refined life style, which they can't practise. I too can't satisfy the minimum standard set by him. But I don't speak disparagingly of Sri Aurobindo.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1147077459055038466?s=19


Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: Strive for a united, peaceful global society https://t.co/o9Atb3uW0k
Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) @NathTusar
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147061639792848896?s=19

The way @AmitShah is reverberating the Indian Parliament with his forceful and fascinating exhortations replete with the classic Indian Motif, Indian Intellectual Renaissance as envisioned by the giants like Sri Aurobindo is just but round the corner.
https://twitter.com/raghav4india/status/1146964187693772800?s=19


Peter Heehs talks to me about 'Godless Spirituality' : ‘It’s possible to be an atheist and practise a religion; many religions get along quite well without gods’ https://t.co/oMk7XoWKWj
https://twitter.com/Getafix2012/status/1145607067966697473?s=19


Plain & Simple: Welcome to Peter Heehs 2.0 at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives https://t.co/HGaREtRssn
Posted by @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (U.P.) on July 1, 2019. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1145755784443121664?s=19
It appeared downright blasphemous when Peter Heehs announced in 2008 that [The Aurobindo that interests me is the one who...was able to write a shelf full of books] but his own fetish for them (and lifelong engagement) must be seen as the redeeming factor. https://t.co/tFSy4kc1KC
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1125331313370681345?s=19
Sri Aurobindo is regularly accused as an escapist and a slew of 'mudslinging' has been documented by Peter Heehs in his book, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. A masterly work but also famous for its skew. Parts of it are available online free.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1109774659313033217?s=19
Mother's Agenda, edited by Satprem was highly controversial when published without consent of #SriAurobindo Ashram. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs also generated much heat a decade back. Still, she remains almost unknown in India. Hardly anyone has read her 30 volumes. https://t.co/hXKwxTiN8W
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1104428737028915202?s=19
Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville has scores of scholars who have dedicated their lives to research on Sri Aurobindo and allied fields but media including RW journals are fond of giving coverage only to foreigners. This colonial mentality should end and Indians should get chance
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147131619402084352?s=19
Issuing the warning for the nth time in the public interest, especially for the budding Hindutva intellectuals and scholars (a rare species, indeed): Please don't contaminate your understanding of Sri Aurobindo via Danino, Elst, Frawley, or Gautier (DEFG). https://t.co/q7pc8io2X5
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1120338888118231040?s=19
Danino, Elst, Frawley, Gautier, and Heehs, though sound sympathetic, are responsible for misrepresenting the message of Sri Aurobindo. (TNM55)
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/203824154770817024?s=19
"Sri Aurobindo is uncompromising" Danino tells evocatively "he rejects humanism and all hopes for a more 'moral' human being as shallow and ineffectual, and insists on a fundamental change in human nature as the only hope for the species' survival." But AIT is his Achilles' heel!
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1041891468456148993?s=19
Scholars from Ambedkar to Ashis Nandy, from Sita Ram Goel to Arun Shourie are just primers and shouldn't be allowed to be the final template. Even Rajiv Malhotra and S.N. Balagangadhara, Koenraad Elst or Michel Danino fall in the same category. Sri Aurobindo is the finishing coat.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1024930015169929217?s=19
The Mother & Sri Aurobindo can't, definitely, be identified with one nation; they worked for the whole humanity or rather to transcend it. Those who are in love with a muscular representation of Sri Aurobindo's political philosophy are, of course, entitled to such a tunnel vision
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1146785732440158210?s=19

K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar's biography of Sri Aurobindo is till date the best one. It is not "hagiography" at all. It is subtly critical n balanced. When d subject's name is Sri Aurobindo one has to be extremely careful. Criticise we must but on bended knees!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1135945497674313728?s=19
Iyengar was a trained critic, got his D.Litt. on Lytton Strachey in 1938. Sri Aurobindo didn't interfere with the interpretations; he just corrected some facts.

Let me tell you as a precis  the mischiefs done by a foreigner who wanted to  sell his book. 1. Can a biography of Sri Aurobindo be written thoroughly in an ironic style? 2. Can a person totally untrained in literature n poetry write a biography of Sri Aurobindo? Unpardonable.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1136167312640241664?s=19

What @peterheehs did is unpardonable. It was also a mediocre work written with bias and malign intent. I don't know what purpose it served. https://t.co/OsN4S9vmXm
https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1136180922091487233?s=19

From the age of fifteen Michel Danino was drawn to India, some of her great yogis, and soon to Sri Aurobindo and Mother. In 1977, dissatisfied after 4 years of higher scientific studies, he left France for India, where he has since been living. #quotes https://t.co/9eMYNEJOVj
https://twitter.com/Pragyata_/status/1146321038734745601?s=19
Michel Danino is an author and historian with works such as the "The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati" to his credit. Influenced heavily by Sri Aurobindo and The the Mother, he left France for India in 1977, and has been living here ever since. #quoteoftheday https://t.co/25RqRgjPAs
https://twitter.com/Pragyata_/status/994114742745686017?s=19

Excellent article on the Sarasvati River and its centrality in Vedic chronology by Michel Danino  https://t.co/O6FQT3GvCs via @academia
https://twitter.com/subhashkak1/status/1147108020419211264?s=19


I am deeply humbled and awed by the force of Prof. Michel Danino's essay. Why is this Frenchman so patiently persuading Indians who just don't want to listen? 
Thank you Prof. Danino. You are Indian. More Indian than any of us. Thanks to Aurobindo for inspiring people like you. https://t.co/ECEYx7h9cH

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/966656272392212480?s=19

The creation of an atmosphere of genuine culture where students are invited to critically explore wider horizons is what is needed but one that is also free of the high-decibel, stereotyped and neo-colonial disparagement of our public intellectuals. https://t.co/XDNhUvvgJv
https://twitter.com/Pragyata_/status/966624363691827200?s=19

If you have never read  Sri Aurobindo and India’s Rebirth now is the time to get the new release,edited by Michel Danino. Aurobindo warns early enough the need to distinguish reason from a blind imitation of the West, a trap we are falling into. https://t.co/cjwYknzPSv
https://twitter.com/vivakermani/status/1017591317042421760?s=19


Begun "Sri Aurobindo & India's Rebirth" by Michel Danino.
Had no idea he was so anglicised, school & college in England from age 8 to 21!
His rediscovery of heritage, yearning for freedom, & passion for  education has shades of conservatism at which today's liberals would flinch. https://t.co/rgU9sdgM4U

https://twitter.com/BooksPanda/status/1073045233548574721?s=19

I have maintained my interest in #Auroville as an experiment of great value, an aspiring laboratory for Sri Aurobindo’s vision of a humanity endeavouring to rise above the ego and its endless greeds, says Michel Danino https://t.co/pJjGgbMbwM
https://twitter.com/IndiaFactsOrg/status/1123916745591394306?s=19

Sri Aurobindo’s view of non-violence contrasted with Mahatma Gandhi, explained by Michel Danino. Aurobindo extols older Kshatriya Dharma. https://t.co/xwMS92yVuQ
https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/782407347545124864?s=19


#ExpressOpinion | Only #NarendraModi has understood the idea of Bharat Shakti and is therefore the best instrument to confirm and fulfill Aurobindo’s augury. @MakrandParanspe writes:
https://t.co/KzPnEorD8D

https://twitter.com/IndianExpress/status/1146619900393213953?s=19
https://t.co/tHs29hZxYn Modi’s elevation to the post of India’s prime minister in 2014 is a watershed moment for India. @PMOIndia @narendramodi has understood the idea of Bharat Shakti & is therefore the best instrument to confirm & fulfil Aurobindo’s augury. https://t.co/QZZdUmFssC
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1146606776189456384?s=19


Savitri Era: Modi as a modern day Ashoka https://t.co/zqAZ6bxwxh
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https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1146509068074246144?s=19