Thursday, June 9, 2022

Matrimandir and Auroville must be handed back to The Mother's devotees

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956)

19 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo, who was from Pondicherry, was confident that India would definitely be united, and would include Afghanistan, Myanmar and Ceylon.
16 hours ago — This is what Sri Aurobindo terms the 'mechanical mind' which keeps running like a machine even when our higher conscious intellect is calm. The understanding of ...
6 hours ago — “This is a major problem that is often underestimated for two reasons,” according to Dr Ramesh Bijlani, a spiritual seeker at Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi ...
19 hours ago — This is what Sri Aurobindo terms the 'mechanical mind' which keeps running like a machine even when our higher conscious intellect is calm.
5 hours ago — The methodology of the late founder of the Auroville-based Adishakti Theatre Arts, who fused Sri Aurobindo's philosophy with myriad folk performance art, ...
15 hours ago — ... every manuscript the inevitable word and expression of the Spirit, as may be found in the Vedas, and more prominently, in the works of Sri Aurobindo.
13 hours ago — Revolutionary, thinker, #SriAurobindo's close collaborator in the freedom movement ... PM Shri. @narendramodi. ji inaugurates Iconic Week Celebrations of ...

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G Hampson, M Rich-Tolsma - Big Picture Perspectives on Planetary Flourishing
This chapter furthers integrative higher education theory by connecting three meta-approaches—Bhaskar’s
critical realism, Morin’s complex thought, and Wilber’s integral theory—and
advancing a metatheory matrix. Following identification of the complex global crisis 

Indian Psychology in the Inter-Cultural Context: From Assimilation to Integration and Beyond

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… Sri Aurobindo published his essay titled “Psychology of social development”
based on traditional Indian systems of knowledge. This essay was further developed
into a book titled The Human Cycle (see Purani, 1978). Sri Aurobindo … friend and …

Integrative Approaches to Psychotherapy: Insights from Cultural and Spiritual Psychology

K Thapa, P Ghildyal - Towards an Integrative Psychological Science: Issues …
… As has oft been stated spirituality has been an integral part of everyday life in India.
Thus, spiritual and cultural factors are now regarded as part … This section will
focus briefly on how therapeutic interventions can incorporate and include …

[PDF] Introduction to Philosophy of Consciousness

M KOZŁOWSKI
… This will “integrate” the other brainwave states together; creating what
philosopher Sri Aurobindo has termed the Supermind. Once this system comes fully
online, it will enable a transparent vision of human history, sear the divisive lines of …

[PDF] Inner Consciousness: A voice of the Modern Indian English Poetry

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… New poets wanted to discard the blurred and rubbery sentiments of Sri Aurobindo.
They wanted to deal with concrete experiences in concrete terms in their poetry. The
experience may be intellectual or emotional or historical or tragically or comical, but …

[PDF] Hindu Nationalism: From Ethnic Identity to Authoritarian Repression

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… The lazy assumption that caste would check Hindutva was a product of a
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Ambedkar had presciently argued, in part it is caste division that necessitates the 

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… We are acutely aware of the need to resist Hindutva and Islamophobia and
interrogate what is at stake in South Asian invocations of “aunty.” We present a
reconceptualization of the aunty as subject through the figure of the auntylectual, our …

Mysteria, the Beauty of Silence: a Program of Contemplation to Cultivate the Awareness of Beauty in Art Museums

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… and transcendent, which generally manifest themselves by generating a state of
integral inner well-being. These conditions referred to are … -eating, mindfulness-based
cognitive therapy, hatha yoga, yin yogayoga for trauma and hatha raja yoga; …

[HTML] Resilient utopias

A Baumber, B Le Hunte, B O'Neill, C Pilon-Summons - Ecology and Society, 2022
… References to Leadership included both the distributed nature of leadership at
Auroville and the role played by charismatic leaders such as The Mother and Sri
Aurobindo, the founders of Auroville and its philosophy. Nestedness was linked …

[PDF] Einstein's Abandoned Otherworld: How Conscious

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… The major impact of this paper is on the cognitive science, systems psyche, and
on “greater psychology” of Sri Aurobindo [12]. Systems psychology is … Sri
Aurobindo. “Greater Psychology”. Pub. Sabda, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry …

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What makes man, man is the freedom and execution of it in all realms but without
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An (other) world is already existing and present across place. Capitalist-style
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creating ‘livable worlds.’Moreover, as part of the multiple ontologies and …

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In this article, I foreground the political scenario in contemporary India following
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figure appears to have developed an existential crisis with respect to his masculinity …

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INK KANÉ'S
… According to the renowned Hindu philosopher and saint, Shri Aurobindo, “The
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yet is it never satisfied so long as it remains abstraction” (Aurobindo 20). His …

Race-making, religion and rights in the post-colony: unmasking the pathogen in assembling a Hindu nation

R Kapur - International Journal of Law in Context, 2022
… His writings on Hindutva continue to represent the ideological foundations of the
contemporary Hindu … , Hindutva is distinct from Hinduism and embraces ‘all the
departments of thought and activity of the whole being of our Hindu race’ (Savarkar …

[HTML] How Rhythm adds to the JOY of music listening

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music. This influences the subjective feelings evoked by music. Music with rhythm …

[PDF] Philosophical Practice as Spiritual Exercises towards Truth, Wisdom, and Virtue

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studies of a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates, the Stoics, Epicureanism, to
early Christianity, the former catholic priest Pierre Hadot conceives philosophical …

[HTML] Seminarium-Colonial History, Postcolonial Anxiety and the Crisis of Masculinity

JS Pettersson, CT som disputerade vid Karlstad
… rise of the Hindutva Movement in India since the 1990s. The electoral victories of
the BJP are only a small part of the story of the Hindutva shift … However, I am
interested in the Hindutva Movement’s links to postcolonial anxiety and the crisis of …
Now that the govt is seen as overtly espousing religious concern of minorities, it should give recognition to Savitri Era Religion and hand over the administration of Matrimandir and Auroville to the devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. We don't worship Hindu gods or goddesses
I have been demanding that Matrimandir and Auroville be handed back to The Mother's devotees. Matrimandir is the sanctum sanctorum of our new religion. Any attempt to secularise it would amount to desecration. Turning Auroville into an environmental or developmental hub is absurd
Dominant religions have ruled for too long and we see the consequences. The Mother has built the Matrimandir in Auroville for her devotees and let this new religion show light to people of the whole world. Earth is one and humanity needs to be forged into one aspiring community.
Treatment of a few symptoms is not the answer. The disease needs to be eradicated completely. Sri Aurobindo had warned about all this long ago. Only by following the integral philosophy and psychology of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo that new thinking can be injected among the youth
All said and done, Modi has scored a masterstroke by turning an adverse situation into a source of reaping endless advantages. It's not mere reiterating of a Nehruvian dictum. Once this principle stabilises, significant reforms borrowing from Sri Aurobindo can be given a trial.
Working for the best of future is most needed now and Sri Aurobindo has provided the key. It's a collective endeavour and each one has to collaborate. Aspiring with the right attitude is the path. Personal life getting imbued with a larger goal can galvanise the whole atmosphere.
Everything is substandard when compared with Sri Aurobindo. You have the best of philosophy, poetry and political theory. No need to run after the West or utilitarian sources. Humanity is one is the first lesson. We are one species poised to take a leap into Supramental territory
150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo is two months away. I request all to spare a couple of hours for reading his books. Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit, Volume 9 of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) is a good place to start. Here's the link: incarnateword.in/cwsa/09


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