Monday, November 14, 2022

Sri Aurobindo came forward boldly to challenge and counter the European narrative

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)

Ambassador special address at inaugural session of the national seminar on 'Sri Aurobindo & Sanskrit', organized by the Centre for Human Sciences youtu.be/wZ7h61sOkcY
Feel Philosophy: Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri is replete with references... feelphilosophy.blogspot.com/2022/11/sri-au

[HTML] A critical examination of a community-led ecovillage initiative: a case of Auroville, India

A Koduvayur Venkitaraman, N Joshi - Climate Action, 2022
… Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who believed that “man
is a transitional being” and developed the practice of integral yoga with the aim of
evolving humans into divine beings (Sen 2018). His spiritual consort, Mirra Alfassa …

[PDF] THE GURUKUL TRADITION OF ANCIENT INDIA

M Nanavati
… Integral to this structure was the active part students were expected to take in the
chores that supported the hermitage. The first duty of the day … understanding of it,
and its method was Yoga: “the art and science of the construction of the self through …

[PDF] California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA

A Montuori
… As a result, creativity has not been an integral part of western educational systems.
In fact, education was not intended to promote creativity. Educational systems were
designed to produce people for the industrial age who could perform well in the …

Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection

AO Wallner - The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty …
By examining the early decades of the twentieth century in Latin America through
the lens of entangled South-South globalities and their cultural dynamics, we are
able to reconstruct the trajectories by which India—as a form of knowledge and …

Taoism, Teaching, and Learning: A Nature-Based Approach to Education

JP Miller - 2022
… I started the practice of yoga and I became interested in Eastern thought and
Taoism. Stephen Mitchell’s 1988 translation of the Tao Te … Taoism believes that
the human being is an integral part of nature. This idea was expressed in chapter 25 …

Escape from Self

L Aarssen - Lonnie Aarssen
108 the central importance of the latter, the exalted pyramid cap represents not a
motivation per se, but the overarching functional (adaptive) consequence connected
to all of the underlying needs/drives: successful transmission of gene copies into …

Karma Yoga: Scale development and studies of the impact on positive psychological outcomes at the workplace

A Navare, A Pandey - International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2022
… We propose that the approach of Karm Yoga can answer these questions. This
research presents the model of Karma Yoga derived from Vedantic tradition. We
present three studies … This study also suggests that Karma Yoga reduces stress …

Yoga for Positive Embodiment in Eating Disorder Prevention and Treatment

C Cook-Cottone, AE Cox, D Neumark-Sztainer… - 2022
… and personal aspects of our lives as yoga practitioners, researchers, and women
living in … “Yoga for positive embodiment in eating disorder prevention and
treatment” has been a work of love for all of us. As yoga practitioners, we have …

Nurturing Spirituality: In Conjunction with Integral Education

A Mishra, A Muddgal - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2022
… This research paper explicates the meaning, importance, and understanding of
spirituality as a part of Integral Education. The researcher in this paper has tried to
study the different practices at home to ensure the development of spirituality among …

Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

R Harris - 2022
… This obscurity is all the more perplexing given that up to 36 million Americans
today claim to practice yoga regularly, and Vivekananda did more than anyone to
introduce it, publishing the first manual in English on the subject in 1896.16 Most are …

[PDF] Augmentation of a State's power in Kautilya's Arthashastra, The case of India

S Pandey - 2022
… The balancing of internal factors and unity of these factors allude to yoga, which
means to unite or, to a certain extent, holism. … Samkhya and yoga are important in
understanding the ideational influences in the Arthasastra, as reasoned by Medha …

[HTML] Be Well Wellness And Health

JC Thalheimer
… Yoga – If you have limited flexibility or your arthritis has taken away your flexibility,
consider taking a beginner yoga class. This will help you focus on your breathing,
which you can use at night when you need to relax or de-stress. But contrary to …

Looking at the Nation through a Lover's Eye: N. Padmakumar's Film, A Billion Colour Story

SP Subramanian - Journal of International Women's Studies, 2022
… 10 and on, she speaks about how Hindutva has hijacked all discourse but still, we
need to move forward into the “India of our dreams,” the catch-all ambition of this film
as well. This conference is evidence of long decades of work by South Asianist …

[PDF] Religious Polarisation Outweighs Ethnic Mobilisation

V Tripathi, DP Sharma
… The declaration of Sarma as the chief minister represents a well-marked strategy
of naturalising Hindutva politics in Assam at a moment in its history when religion
has definitely overtaken ethnicity and language as the most significant marker of …

Influence of political brand value on social media activities

S Kalra, N Singhal - Digital Marketing Outreach
… NAMO; Surgical strike against black money, ie, demonetization; Aadhar card; GST;
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan; Digital India; PM Jan DhanYojana and PM AwasYojana;
stand on terrorism; recruitment policies; and Hindutva are some of the associations …

[PDF] Subalternity, Marginality, Agency in Contemporary India

A Kunihiro, M Thapan
… This is a scathing critique of the suggested cohesiveness of a pan Hindu society
touted by contemporary Hindutva proponents who see “minorities” and others as
existing outside it. Dalits lie outside the … Thinking Equality in the time of Neoliberal …

Caste in and out of place: State, market, and culture

ST Madsen - Caste Matters in Public Policy
Caste permeates the state, the economy, and culture posing administrative, political,
and legal conundrums many of which are addressed in a well-ordered manner.
Nevertheless, caste is rarely treated as an independent policy issue in India. In a neo-Macaulayan …

Introduction: The career of caste in public policy

R Choragudi, S Pellissery, N Jayaram - Caste Matters in Public Policy
This chapter introduces the theme of the volume, namely, the interface between the
social institution of caste and public policy. After a brief statement on the changing
avatar of caste, it explains three aspects of law and policy in relation to the dynamics …

Religion and Livelihoods Studies

E Tomalin - The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global …, 2022
This chapter examines the marginalisation of religion in livelihoods studies and the
implications of this for achieving improved livelihoods strategies and outcomes. This
is followed by an examination of the relevance of religion in livelihoods studies in …

Religion and Strategic Marketing Communication: Perspectivizing Key Facets of Consumption

M Arora, RL Sharma - Promotional Practices and Perspectives from Emerging …
Religion has always occupied place of prominence in people’s lives the world over.
At one point, its practice would serve as a means of salvation/self-actualization; but it
would never be viewed as a way of making money. In recent years, there has been a …

Is the Bhagavad Gita Modern?

G Mukerjee - Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and …, 2022
… Mercy was an integral part of his warrior self. … The Gyana Yoga is telling us to
reach out to the highest part of ourselves, where the material world falls away, …
The process yields the greatest benefits to our Karma Yoga, the work-life that we …

Wellness in the Wild: Reverential Naturalism in the Pacific Northwest

P Bramadat - New Spiritualties and the Cultures of Well-being, 2022
… clear that although meditation, yoga, and hiking are promoted by tourism
marketers as available to all–with often free yoga classes offered in parks–these
activities are most readily available to those who both have the financial latitude to …

[PDF] INTERDISCIPLINARY AND SPIRITUAL BASIS OF HEALING CREATIVE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

AI Semenova - OF RUSSIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOLOGY
… The information received in the language environment supports the identity of a
person as an integral bodily-spiritual being. The ability to work with it is important:
perceive, distinguish, find associative links, recode, transmit. Modern semiotics is a …

[PDF] Gendered Analysis of Hindutva Imaginaries: Manipulation of Symbols for Ethnonationalist Projects

M Pande - Journal of Modern European History, 2022
Since the 1980s, feminist scholars have explored the dynamic linkages between
nationalism and gender. Case studies have shown representations of women as
reproducers, transmitters of culturally sanctioned behaviour, signifiers of ethnic …

[PDF] THE RISE OF HINDUTVA: IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIAN MUSLIM MINORITIES

Z Zishan, J Fatima
… This research paper will examine the evolution of Hindutva … how Hindutva is
associated with Hinduism and has antagonistic behavior towards other minorities
especially Muslims in India. In addition to that this research will also focus upon the …

Humanism Project takes aim at Hindutva hatred

R Evans - Green Left Weekly, 2022
… inDian-aUSTralianS and anti-racist supporters protested outside Melbourne’s
Thornbury Theatre on June 4 as a leader of the hindutva hate movement addressed
a conference sponsored by The australia india Youth Dialogue (aiYD). The protest …

[PDF] Diaspora Hinduism and Hindutva

P Mallick
Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) 1 is an issue of popular discourse, discussion,
electoral equations, and political and social choices in India. As an area of
contestation of ideals, Hindu nationalism is termed as a metaphysics on the imagery …

Political deification of Lord Parshuram: tracing Brahminic masculinity in contemporary North India

J Bhattacharya - Religion, 2022
… This article explores the rising prominence of subterranean caste antagonism
within the ideology of Hindutva within the Indian political landscape… The article
argues that, even though the ideological mandate of Hindutva apparently proposes …

[PDF] The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly Consequences of India's Pandemic Response

S Bhogale, P Suryanarayan - POPULISTS AND THE PANDEMIC, 2022
… during the 2014 General Elections by emphasizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
life story as an experienced Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat, an incorruptible
volunteer (or a “pracharak”) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an organization …

[HTML] “Learning to Learn from Below”: Understanding Subalternity

M Thapan - South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2022
… This is a scathing critique of the suggested cohesiveness of a pan Hindu society
touted by contemporary Hindutva proponents who see “minorities” and others as
existing outside it. Dalits lie outside the Hindu kutumb and in this sense, Hindu …