Thursday, September 19, 2019

It is ego that makes our prose artificially difficult


D  journal Shraddha is a medley of Supramental Biriyani n Gnostic Mutton Afgani! A journal is for reading bt it is Greek! No true one writes  Auro in isolation wid others. Unable to understand DB's English his marican frnd hv asked him: D can u pl translate this into English! Ha!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1169992667742105600?s=19
An ideal journal on Sri Aurobindo shd write simple n expressive prose in the style of the Mother. It is ego that makes our prose artificially difficult. This shd be strongly criticised to bring back good sense. Shraddha wasting money coz it can't communicate Auro's words .

Who reads "Shraddha"? The contributors themselves n the Editor. Poocho kiun? It is full of technical n bombastic words n not connected with contemporary life n other great writers. The result is a wastage of money n misfire. It shd learn from Sri Aurobindo Society journals.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1171304223528472576?s=19
A journal on Sri Aurobindo shd b connected with contemporary life n d other great writers of the world. No estimate is true n complete without comparisons n contrasts. Writers must also possess a sufficient knowledge of contemporary life n literary theories n literary criticism.

D degree of awareness dat my students hv gained , partly due SA's presence in d syllabus, n chiefly due to d grt "moment", is Grace! Now I hv  to train them to suspend devotion n put SA beside the great authors of the world. Devotion shd b private; writing is a different thing.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1169982910297804800?s=19

2 extremes hv affected Sri Aurobindo Studies today -Peter's pollution of  him in a continuous ironic mode n the  obsession of nothing other than Sri Aurobindo. SA himself demanded critical research. An expansion is needed to see the value of others. That won't belittle SA.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1169988061804941312?s=19

Today while teaching Kafka to a class of postgraduates I said " Kafka, Camus n Sartre knew the crisis, but they didn't offer any solution. Sri Aurobindo knew the existential dilemma, but offered remedial techniques n tried to act them out.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1171047387441156099?s=19

Sri Aurobindo is new, unique, beyond all narrowness by virtue of his vast love for the Universe. Steeped in the scriptures, he leaves  behind  all past scriptures in his evolving Avatarhood. Grounded in a global tradition, he recreates the best of the East n the West.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1169669377618104320?s=19
His 8 prose works (1914-21) marked a revolution on multiple levels, spiritual (LD), non-sectarian exigesis (Essays on the Gita),  yoga of synthesis(Synthesis), history (HC), human harmony (IHU), Strife(WSD), deconstruction of "western  India" (Foundations), n poetry (FP).

Friday, September 6, 2019

Nobody cares for my posts; Twitter curbs my big ego


Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Today at RajNivas. Focusing on #SriAurobindo. 
Two Exhibitions by Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture (SAFIC) followed by a lecture by Dr @beloome & Dr @Sampadananda on Sri Aurobindo. 
Also on Shakti an Indian perspective on true empowerment of women. @ANI https://t.co/tm862EsIZe
https://twitter.com/thekiranbedi/status/1169808521199669250?s=19

Smt @AnuttamaGanguly Secretary @vifindia being conferred the highest Award of Gandan Monastery by Most Ven.Khamba Lama Head of Mongolian Buddhism in presence of eminent spiritual leaders #SamvadIII 
If I am allowed to express my personal feelings:a sense of deep elation & honour https://t.co/5SbZVL1gIT
https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1169858172162412544?s=19

Congratulations @beloome , @thekiranbedi and my Guru @Auro_Mere ... Thank you SanjayBhaiyya
https://twitter.com/mirra21_mala/status/1169837529610121218?s=19

Sri Aurobindo is new, unique, beyond all narrowness by virtue of his vast love for the Universe. Steeped in the scriptures, he leaves  behind  all past scriptures in his evolving Avatarhood. Grounded in a global tradition, he recreates the best of the East n the West.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1169669377618104320?s=19
His 8 prose works (1914-21) marked a revolution on multiple levels, spiritual (LD), non-sectarian exigesis (Essays on the Gita),  yoga of synthesis(Synthesis), history (HC), human harmony (IHU), Strife(WSD), deconstruction of "western  India" (Foundations), n poetry (FP).
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1169673582751797249?s=19
Twitter removes my ego. Nobody cares for my posts. Fb nourished my ego with 500 likes! All "likes" without reading my posts! But I try do some work in social media. Responses in twitter are cold. Doesn't matter! Twitter curbs my big ego!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1169814656614948864?s=19

FB has made changes to its algorithm to personalize content.. if you like something once, it will put posts from the same page or interest or topic repeatedly.. same is if you ignore it once, chances are it gets ignored again.. so many people don't even know they missed the bus
https://twitter.com/RoadHound/status/1169788922961915904?s=19

"Never forget that ro be a good teacher one has to abolish in oneself all egoism." (The Mother) #TeachersDay2019 https://t.co/ibRJqfzymL
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1169522341887410176?s=19

दो तरह के वातारण श्रीअरविंद  के वचन 
https://t.co/EuWwutlwtd
#sriaurobindo https://t.co/PJ3YEit12s
https://twitter.com/artwaniparas/status/1169740125074612224?s=19

Therefore the Twitter; discussions can spread awareness and stoke curiosity. Brick and mortar organisations have proved to be ineffective and stagnant. Besides, it's one world in the virtual space. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion #SriAurobindo @SavitriEraParty
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1169519614323089408?s=19

Illuminating! That is why enlightened Muslims appreciate n respect Sri Aurobindo so much https://t.co/FPC0BAAkFP
https://twitter.com/RabindraSutrad7/status/1169291903344316416?s=19

Shun Comparisons with others - https://t.co/G5DIX7BzDK #sriaurobindo https://t.co/Tg1iKtYlJl
https://twitter.com/istmgroup/status/1169407359329812481?s=19

d enlightened people of Bengal must be well acquainted with d vast corpus of works which Thakur Sri Aurobindo has left behind. We should appreciate n follow d noble initiatives of our neighboring state Odisha doing a great job on Sri Aurobindo from KG to PG https://t.co/fYd5pM1n92
https://twitter.com/RabindraSutrad7/status/1169684309654917122?s=19

for sharing ℹ️ about Orissa which believes so much in the teachings of #SriAurobindo & the Mother! No wonder that Orissa has wiped out its 🏷of a starving state having Kalahandi deaths ! @CMO_Odisha May kindly consider setting up a university in the name of SA ! @narendramodi
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1169794236864069633?s=19
@CMO_Odisha May kindly consider to establish the university in the Name of #SriAurobindo in Kalinga region to wipe out the impression that wars are always disastrous! OTOH WWII ended Hitler, 1971 war weakened pak, Kargil war... @Auro_Mere @mirra21_mala @RaghuveerBelur @kalisbrood https://t.co/oDRNcsx6Yw
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1169800832449040384?s=19

Lets do what SA & TheMother did, that is bringing the Supramental Consciousness and Energies into the world. Twitter etc.. are too small. A few Pure Hearts can do a greater job, compared to Millions of people, Twitter, etc...
May GOD bless BHARAT and the world.
https://twitter.com/brahmavidvariya/status/1169522003306414080?s=19

No point living in past glories. We missed the industrial revolution. For atleast 3 centuries our S&T was in pause. What matters today is China builds DDG in 2 years churning out one every couple of months while it takes 10 years for us to build. https://t.co/bNQFFvFwRQ
https://twitter.com/cvkrishnan/status/1169450220993728512?s=19

Among the series of #SrijanTalks lined-up this month, the one by Dr. @Koenraad_Elst will shed light on the contributions of Shri Ram Swarup and Shri Sita Ram Goel in the revival of Indian culture and heritage. This talk will be held at INTACH on 28th September, at 1 PM. Be there! https://t.co/NAm9vpnV9I
https://twitter.com/SrijanFn/status/1169857293631930369?s=19

Judiciary’s Views On Hindu Traditions Aren’t Radically Different From Those Of Vivekananda-Savarkar #TeachersDay https://t.co/Ho7gOl2qDx
https://twitter.com/IchBinGorg/status/1169857343783231488?s=19

On the day Ravish Kumar receives his Ramon Magsaysay award, social media users expose his hypocrisy  https://t.co/53jrp8hSOw
https://twitter.com/UnSubtleDesi/status/1169848828243013632?s=19

Art is where words can not reach, but where human imagination can go. "Aum". To go into the depths of human consciousness, as individuals, society.
In Advaitin terms, where something is its own essence, where Paramanu ceases and its Shunyam, Anantam, Satyam, Anandam.
https://twitter.com/knkaushik/status/1169637764427636736?s=19

The seminal paper in the prestigious journal “Cell” by Prof Shinde et al conclusively demolishes Aryan Invasion theory. First Ancient DNA from the Harappan Civilization city of Rakhigarhi in Haryana links its People to Modern South Asians. https://t.co/omFysnfA4V
https://twitter.com/vijai63/status/1169835727930003456?s=19

Along with Subramanya Siva he  led the strike in demanding higher wages, better working conditions. The management finally agreed to the demands, and Aurobindo praised both VOC and Shiva in his Vande Mataram daily for their courage. #VOChidambaramPillai
https://twitter.com/GabbarSanghi/status/1169458603578707968?s=19
Charged with sedition, he was confined in the Central Prison at Coimbatore from July 1908 to December 1910. The judgement was widely denounced, with even the British media claiming it was unjust.  #VOChidambaramPillai

I'm a scientist @BernieSanders. You're not.  In fact, you're not much of anything.  Do you have ONE Degree in science, engineering, mechanics? Even one?  The truth is you're an old-fashioned hoax and science is NOT a religion that is based on whether you "believe in science." https://t.co/UsRvCyo6rm
https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1169416092596486144?s=19

These climate change alarmists are buying multiple houses on beach, flying in private jets, Driving big cars and fencing in their property while telling US to conserve, pay for this hoax and scare our kids to death. This must stop. Now we can't have kids.
https://twitter.com/lovesex5/status/1169468700086325250?s=19

We have rationalists talk about the uselessness of worshipping stone,earthen etc idols.
The uselessness of singing bhajans to idols. Anantamurthy is supposed to urinated on an idol to check its power
Any study on practice of draping chaddars over centuries old dead peer corpses?
https://twitter.com/GreatHeretic/status/1169841982471983104?s=19

The verse shared here is an english translation of one of the greatest tamizh lines on skanda. Translation here for the interested.  https://t.co/hMIOfQPKPy
The sheer alliteration of the original is pure auditory magic: Audio of that line here: https://t.co/OKD4JElDzi https://t.co/gWY5cGPxUk
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1169635239095726080?s=19

Styx plays a crucial role in Hesiod's Theogony, where She is the first deity to effectively *choose* Zeus as sovereign, rather than being among His natural allies, as it were. This sets the tone for His reign, in which persuasion is the preeminent sovereign power.
https://twitter.com/EPButler/status/1169633431891927042?s=19

This is wrong. Both Hindu and Greek sacred stories have clear definitions of the sacred. They are just different from the currently popular Monotheistic view. To look at the stories of Purānas as power games is absolutely horrid and reflects upon the inferior mind of onlooker. https://t.co/7nTXyBUaXB
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1169651304303607808?s=19
The fundamental divergence between the inclusive Hindu (or similar polytheistic systems) and the exclusionary systems of Monotheistic religions is that evil is not absolute in Hinduism. Evil is relative and arises due to an imbalance of principles, just like disease in Āyurveda.
The sacred is the opposite of evil. In Hinduism, this means the sacred is Pūrna (complete, harmonious: please read the essay in my pinned tweet) where as the evil/profane is incomplete and disharmonious.
This is very different in Zoroastrianism or in Monotheistic religions.
Once you postulate that evil can stand by itself (with the root being Satan etc), you necessarily have to devise a system of exclusion for that evil. From the perspective of Hinduism, that is a hollow and incorrect understanding of the sacred. Sacred can only be Pūrna (Infinite).

For ancient languages, it is different. Until recently, AIT proponents kept a charade that the invading Aryans were pastoralists who displaced an agricultural civilization. This is nonsense, never happened anywhere. So now they are trying to make claims on agricultural centers.
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1169861173723795456?s=19
The natural theory that fits to the data would be the Saraswati Sindhu agricultural civilization as the origin of the Aryan tribes. But this is being countered from Harvard by Increasingly convoluted theories. They are pushing the date of IE languages in India to very late dates.
Genetics is important. India needs to establish the Indian origin of the various crops (especially rice and millets), agricultural pests like mice, draught animals used in agriculture, and of course the farmers themselves. The current paper goes a long way in establishing that.
What the Harvard gang is doing, by “inputs” from linguists as they say in the paper, is to dig themselves into a deeper and tighter hole.. Arguing that Sanskrit has very late entry into India. This theory will collapse from the evidence in astronomy.
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1169862432187011072?s=19

September 6 - Even if both their teachings are proved a sham, it has an insignificant impact on Hinduism whereas if Jesus’s resurrection is proved a sham, then what is left in Christianity, but plagiarized philosophies and appropriated traditions. https://t.co/wBrUsMNQvh
https://twitter.com/Pragyata_/status/1169861230384730113?s=19

check out this #article on #ambedkar and #zizek versus the #PC left, easily offended about #race but indifferent to #caste. https://t.co/9GfbetZSZf
https://twitter.com/aakash_ironman/status/1169663013458038784?s=19

The #Chandrayaan2Landing is tonight! Will be live from the @ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) from this afternoon on @IndiaToday. Here’s what will be taking place tonight near the Moon’s South Pole https://t.co/RhATQHJuce
https://twitter.com/ShivAroor/status/1169863503525466112?s=19

Frankly, regardless of whether you speak tamizh or not, if you are a Hindu, you should listen to this wonder of a hymn: Original+english translation: https://t.co/qzi9HaJikt
Audio of entire verse: https://t.co/S4q4xps5qc
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1169637092986507264?s=19

Despite imposition of Hindi and English local or coloqal languages amazingly hold the fort. Awarding Sovereignty to new nations constituted on the basis of local languages is a most logical demand. Odisha was the first such State formed in 1936. Megalomania around India must end.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169517991660113921?s=19
Modern Odia songs by Akshaya Mohanty, Pranab Patnaik, Md. Sikandar Alam, Raghunath Panigrahi, & Chitta Jena deserve to be listened by people of other languages. Each of them has a golden voice and one can fall in love with their voice even if one can't make out much of the lyrics
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169678701534932993?s=19
Any one learning music or dance revers a Guru which itself is of religious nature and akin to believing in God. https://t.co/O4Tc9Q9Yjf
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/983676305223774208?s=19
It's one's impression or interpretation which matters. Depends upon one's preference. Aesthetic moments are not continuous during a dance recital; one needs to snatch those few minutes disregarding other mundane concerns. There the art stands supreme; performer becomes secondary.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/941997296400547840?s=19
Savitri Era Learning Forum: Better to say that it is unknown https://t.co/qdUxAVn0zd
SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE,
OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.
#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar
Director #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005)
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169655398346813441?s=19

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