Showing posts with label Vivekananda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vivekananda. Show all posts

Friday, December 28, 2012

Finally got a framed, large photograph of Sri Aurobindo

Tweets 16 Dec 11 Ajit Singh @9991711133 Anna team must read & follow Sri Aurobindo's Karamyogin & Bande mataram To defeat the cancer of corruption in india.  23 Dec The means & aim of AAP shall nt succeed until full of spirit of Sri AUROBINDO.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
27 Nov - Philos-L @PhilosL IRNRD Conference Week, New Delhi: Announcement of the New Delhi Conference Week of the International Research Ne... http://bit.ly/Y18bxZ  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
7 Decniral soni @niralsoni - @fgautier26 I have uploaded Sri Aurobindo's Life previously removed : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-iIuf1YVy8&feature=plcp … .. please share, sir.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View media
20 Nov - ∫ubra @IntegralUnity - @NirvaniBliss Vivekananda was his spiritual guru (as he was for many) Aurobindo's writings would be v useful from a western pov Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View conversation
22 Nov - Rajarshi @TheRajarshi Marvelous, fiery opposition to a world-negating end of the spiritual journey. Sri Aurobindo.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
23 Nov - Sangeeta Goswami @SangeetaRG - @yrskmohan '12 years with Sri Aurobindo' by Nirod baran and #LIfeDivine the books always on my desk :) @Back2Vedas - Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View conversation
25 Nov - Rajmohan Srinivas @yrskmohan @Back2Vedas but my goes not to Aurobindo, but to Mother. If Sri Aurobindo was theory she was a practical demonstration.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View conversation
26 Nov - Gautam Chikermane @gchikermane While on the subject, another absolute must-read: The Future Poetry by Sri Aurobindo http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/sriauro/downloadpdf.php?id=39 …  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
21 Nov - Rajarshi @TheRajarshi Finally got a framed, large photograph of Sri Aurobindo. Was looking out for one. Veritable silence on a throne of equipoise.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
22 Nov - Rajarshi @TheRajarshi More I read and contemplate on Sri Aurobindo's writings, more I get amazed. In my opinion, the tallest Vedic intellect in a very long time.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
22 Nov - Rajarshi @TheRajarshi There are clear Tantric roots in the first impetus which drove Sri Aurobindo towards sadhana. He wanted Shakti, to liberate India. Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
22 Nov - Rajarshi @TheRajarshi It was Sri Aurobindo who told Tilak that moderates cannot be carried along. The revolutionaries wanted to break free, aim for full swaraj.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
23 Nov - Kunal Dave @kunal_nd @Back2Vedas agree on dat front. Infact if u look at history in 2nd world war it was Sri Aurobindo who gav powers to Churchill against Hitler.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View conversation
26 Nov - krishnarjun @krishnarjun108 When compared to the intellectual debates stimulated by the likes of Dayananda, Aurobindo hindu thought output abysmal after independence.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
20 Nov - Rangesh Sridhar @kshetragnya - @visaraj that Tilak and Aurobindo spearheaded was the first truly mass movement. and all we hear is Gandhi Archanai (3/n) Retweeted by Savitri Era Party   

Tweets 19m - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty Put up some pictures of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother in your house http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/put-up-some-pictures-of-sri-aurobindo.html … Orbit of the old gods http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/orbit-of-old-gods.html … Savitri Era 10h Sri Aurobindo delineating Aim in Yoga during 1912–13 http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindo-delineating-aim-in-yoga.html … Vol.12 Essays Divine And Human, Vol.13 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga 15h Savitri Era: Augment Whitehead with Sri Aurobindo http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/augment-whitehead-with-sri-aurobindo.html … Whitman, Wittgenstein, Whitehead & Sri Aurobindo http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/whitman-wittgenstein-whitehead-and-sri.html …
18h Sri Aurobindo catches the large breath of the inspired Upanishadic Sanskrit http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindo-catches-large-breath-of.html … Sri Aurobindo's allegiance to Western ideal 26 Dec Sri Aurobindo is a gradualist, an evolutionist: http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindo-is-gradualist-evolutionist.html … Sri Aurobindo is alive to the intrepid and incessant activity of life. 26 Dec Sri Aurobindo bridged the East and West http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindos-philosophy-bridged-east.html … Sri Aurobindo enthuses us to take to a life of scholarship http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindo-enthuses-us-to-take-to.html …
26 Dec 'Sattwa can never be the cause of downfall' http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/like-conrad-sri-aurobindo-broadened.html … Like Conrad, Sri Aurobindo broadened the range of the English language. 25 Dec Sri Aurobindo's world-affirmativism is born out of an allegiance to a Western ideal more than to any that is Indian: http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindos-allegiance-to-western.html …
24 Dec Chief concern of Sri Aurobindo's drama is to establish order in the disorder of this world in tune with Cosmic order : http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/chief-concern-of-sri-aurobindos-drama.html …
24 Dec Sri Aurobindo echoes Pragmatic, Humanist and Romantic ideals coupled with firm empiricist motive - Stephen H. Phillips http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindo-echoes-pragmatic-humanist.html …
22 Dec Blank verse has attained in the hand of Sri Aurobindo its fulness, harmony, perfection http://selforum.blogspot.in/2007/12/blank-verse-has-attained-in-hand-of-sri.html … Savitri Era http://savitriera.blogspot.com/ 
15 Dec Pankaj Mishra's even handed interpretation of Sri Aurobindo's contribution http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/pankaj-mishras-even-handed.html … Decline of the West - FP By R Vaidyanathan.
11 Dec Savitri Era: Sri Aurobindo stands out distinctly among the Hindu Renaissance leaders for his unique Western upbringing http://selforum.blogspot.in/2010/10/sri-aurobindo-stands-out-distinctly.html …
9 Dec [Sri Aurobindo’s stories of the supernatural set in England are far more dramatic than M.R. James’. by Sunayana Panda] http://selforum.blogspot.in/2007/09/sri-aurobindos-stories-are-far-more.html …
8 Dec [To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude - Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo — Compiled from various sources] SABDA Rs 95 http://sabda.in/catalog/bookinfo.php?websec=ENGD-BA-260 …
6 Dec Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri is the Epic of Triumph—of the Conquest of Death: Spiritual Biography of Savitri by RY Deshpande http://selforum.blogspot.in/2007/09/savitri-is-epic-of-triumphof-conquest.html …
6 Dec Babaji Sri Ramakrishna Das, who came to Ayodhya in 1928, was instrumental in installation of Sri Aurobindo's Relics. http://purnangayoga.org/index.php/books/sri-ramakrishna-das … 
6 Dec Sri Aurobindo also resisted the equation of modernization and westernization. Sri Aurobindo was educated at Cambridgehttp://www.thebritishtoastrack.com/?p=1799 
5 Dec Why to cling pathetically to some other’s tail? Why should we compromise? Say with pride that we are the Savitri Erans. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2007/02/why-should-we-compromise-say-with-pride.html …
5 Dec No more referring to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as mere Avatar or just Guru. No concealing of our faith, "Savitri Era." http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2007/02/why-should-we-compromise-say-with-pride.html … 
4 Dec The choice before the country is clear now: Nehru & Gandhi or Sri Aurobindo? http://sabhlokcity.com/2012/11/sri-aurobindo-the-vocal-opponent-of-socialism/ …
4 Dec [As a spiritualist, Aurobindo... has a great horror of socialist authoritarianism... & absence of liberty. V.P. Verma] http://sabhlokcity.com/2012/11/sri-aurobindo-the-vocal-opponent-of-socialism/ …
3 Dec [Neurological and Yogic models of memory: unusual cases of memory transference in organ transplant recipients] Sandeep http://auromere.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/memory-transference-in-organ-transplant-recipients/ … -  View summary
3 Dec [I have collated all of Sri Aurobindo’s remarks on animals and compared them against recent cognitive ethology] Sandeep http://auromere.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/insights-into-animal-cognition/ … -  View summary
29 Nov [Perhaps a Swami Vivekananda and an Aurobindo Ghosh happen to be exceptions to this Nehruvian phenomenon. @SandeepWeb] http://centreright.in/2012/11/ananda-coomaraswamy-a-gentle-introduction/#.ULd_geSR_yd …
28 Nov [Dayananda induced much needed shock treatment to hindu society. @krishnarjun108http://krishnarjun108.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/dayananda-the-lion-saint/ … Sri Aurobindo unraveled Vedic light.  View photo
27 Nov [Re-election of Barack Obama offers real hope that we will one day live in a post-racial America. Guest Post by CI Aki] http://percaritatem.com/2012/11/27/guest-post-by-c-i-aki-when-the-color-of-black-is-invisible/ …
27 Nov [Mimicry, mockery or mumukutva? A response to Deepak Sarma, by Jeffery D. Long - from Love of All Wisdom by Amod Lele] http://loveofallwisdom.com/2012/11/mimicry-mockery-or-mumuk%e1%b9%a3utva-a-response-to-deepak-sarma-by-jeffery-d-long/ …
24 Nov Had Sri Aurobindo's advice been accepted on Cabinet Mission Plan, it may have prevented bloodshed: http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/11/had-sri-aurobindos-advice-been-accepted.html … 1926 http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/11/1926-scores-over-1949.html …

Friday, November 2, 2012

Instinctive expression of critical thinking, tolerance, and liberty

Sri Aurobindo - the vocal opponent of socialism - Sanjeev Sabhlok's ...
Most people think of Sri Aurobindo as a great spiritual and literary master. Few realise that he was, in line with Vivekananda and most Indian philosophers, a great proponent of liberty and – in Sri Aurobindo's case – a direct opponent of socialism.
Had Sri Aurobindo lived, Nehru's plans of socialism would have been still-born and India might have escaped from its (ongoing) misery of the past 65 years.
The more I think about it, it becomes clear that I am speaking from the ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITION. It is an instinctive expression of critical thinking, tolerance, and liberty that ancient India so deeply understood.
Till Nehru came in and confused everybody, including Team Anna/ Arvind Kejriwal and even Baba Ramdev. And of course, RSS/BJP are DIRECT godchildren of Nehru. There is no distinction I can make between BJP and Congress. (Btw, Modi is the same.)
NONE of these people are attuned to what Gandhi, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, and Tagore were attuned to: a deep instinctive tolerance and insistence on liberty. It was an instinctive expression of Indian-ness, the true Hindutva.
But Nehru the Westerner came in with half-baked German (Hegelian) ideas and destroyed India. It is time to reclaim Hindu Capitalism (also known as Hindu Dharma) and bring tolerance and liberty back to India. This includes economic freedom and incentive-based governance outlined in Arthashastra.

Sreelatha Menon: The Kejriwal club Business Standard-27-Oct-2012
It’s not just Arvind Kejriwal whose spirit is ablaze with the need to change it all. There are many Kejriwals working quietly for a change in the political infrastructure of this country. Most of them admire him — though they may differ with him on policy issues.
Jai Prakash Narayan started the Lok Satta party with the same intent, much before Kejriwal arrived on the scene. He has managed to win one seat in the Andhra Assembly elections so far. Others have followed his footsteps. There is the Jago Party, which was launched in 2007 and is active in Rajasthan…
Sanjeev Sabhlok, a former Indian Administrative Services officer, was fed up with the “system”, too. He says the system is like a cesspool feeding endless disease-carrying mosquitoes (or corrupt officials and politicians). He quit the services in 2001 to start a liberal party like Rajaji’s Swatantra Party. He has written a book, Breaking Free of Nehru: Lets Unleash India, and has been working with Bhagawat’s FTI.
FTI functions more like a club for anyone to join and take a plunge into politics with the intent of changing it for the better. It has 150 members at present. Sabhlok operates from Australia, and advises the government on public policy. He is gearing up to return to India the moment the field is ready for a new political party.
Both Sabhlok and Bhagawat admire Kejriwal, of course with plenty of reservations. They don’t approve of the economic policies that Kejriwal has spoken of so far. Sabhlok says he has met Kejriwal and tried to show him his idea of reform, “but he has not been responsive”. “I’ve not given up. I continue to try to reach out to him.”
But Kejriwal’s admirers have a word of caution for him. “Many of his ideas, such as fixing prices for essential commodities, are deeply socialist, and will take India further down the path of ruin. We need serious policy thinkers to come forward, not economics illiterates,” says Sabhlok.

The inaugural session From September 14–21, The Auroville Festival – Auroville, City for Transformation, was held at the India International Centre in New Delhi.
AVToday October 2012.
Smt. Ambika Soni, Minister of Information and  Broadcasting,  was  the  guest  speaker.  She recalled one of her most cherished memories and experiences, of having darshan of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother as a child, which, she said, has marked her relationship with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville ever since. “When I went to Auroville a few years ago, it was such a beautiful experience. If India today has a message for the world, it is its basic mantra of inclusiveness, synthesizing the various religions, languages and cultural traditions, creating a global dialogue, creating understanding and compassion, avoiding the so-called clash of civilizations. And that is what you are doing in Auroville as well. We should not look at the individual colours, at the blue, the yellow and the red, but weave them together to get the colour white, the colour of love. This would be the greatest message of Auroville to the rest of the  world.”  She  expressed  the  hope  that  the Auroville  Festival  in  Delhi  will  be  the first  of many interactive processes  “of all of you from Auroville with the rest of us who are deprived of living in such experiments”.
Shri  Soli  Sorabji,  eminent  jurist  and Chairman of the India International Centre, first became  involved  with  Auroville  in  the  1980s, “when  a  case  came  up  at  the  Supreme  Court regarding Auroville  – was it  a religion  or  not? And then the Supreme Court held that Auroville was not representing a religion. That was my first contact with the work of Sri Aurobindo and Auroville. Eight years later I visited Auroville and it was an unforgettable experience, meeting so many people of different nationalities. It was a place of dedication; the whole atmosphere was alleviating or rather transforming.  Then, much later, I was asked for a legal opinion on the question if Auroville was a government organization or an autonomous institution and I gave the opinion that Auroville is an independent juristic entity, not a government body. I will soon go again to Auroville to replenish my batteries.”
He then proceeded with an assessment of the human condition today. “One of the most tragic paradoxes of our times is that an age that is witness  to  tremendous  progress  and  technological developments has  at the same time  also seen  a tremendous  decline  of  moral  and  spiritual  values.  Today,  human  beings  are  measured  in terms of mass and molecules, forgetting that there is a spiritual spark in every human being and that the divine is in the heart of everyone. Greed has taken enormous steps. And there is also a sharp the decline in the standards of politicians. Here I would like to read something by Sri Aurobindo which is still quite relevant today.