Saturday, February 18, 2023

Sri Aurobindo was thinking a century ahead of himself

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

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Third day of the Spiritual Summit in Unity Pavilion on February 15th. Dialogues were held on the topics of “Coming to Know Shakti”, “Body & Mind”, “Designing a More Conscious Future”, “Human Evolution & Auroville” with Dr. Jayanti S. Ravi, etc. @avfoundation #auroville
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Ravi is the WRONG person to accept this earthday award on behalf of Auroville because she has BULLDOZED hundreds of TREES in Auroville for a 50 year old concept plan of a ROAD which had plenty of viable alternatives! She still seeks to bulldoze more trees in contempt of the NGT.
Sri Aurobindo, in his essay “Arya: Its Significance” on what it means to be “Arya”
For seekers in the Dharmic tradition, finding the works of Aurobindo Ghosh (both the political and spiritual) is like finding a detailed map of a dangerous and difficult expedition. He was thinking a century ahead of himself at the very least. A true genius
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In Aurobindo's interpretation at least (from what I can make out of it), I don't think he has a low opinion of businessmen. It's just that most ancient cultures (including our own), placed the role of the priest and the warrior as the ultimate ideal to aspire towards
speaking on his book 'India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation' with in YouTube Link:
It was a delight to listen to Shri KN Govindacharya after ages! He has not lost his fluency as you can see. In this short clip I recorded he brings out the essence of Bharatiyata so beautifully. Prakriti bhugol banati hai, manushya itihas banata hai.
A scientist, in particular in medicine, should know better than uncritically enhancing the claims of a single study

Sri Aurobindo in the Twenty-First Century

DA Mahapatra - Sri Aurobindo at 150: An Integral Vision of Evolution …, 2023
… It seeks to address the question: if Sri Aurobindo’s ideas are alive, how do they
reflect on the … exercise to examine whether Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga is
relevant to our current times. … Sri Aurobindo would tell us emphatically that this …

Integral Conflict Resolution

DA Mahapatra - Sri Aurobindo at 150: An Integral Vision of Evolution …, 2023
… in Sri Aurobindo’s conception of conflict resolution. His conflict resolution can be
compared to concepts such as conflict transformation or transcendence, but it will be
much more. It can be called integral conflict resolution. Though Sri Aurobindo did …

All Life Is Yoga

DA Mahapatra - Sri Aurobindo at 150: An Integral Vision of Evolution …, 2023
… The chapter focuses on Sri Aurobindo’s theory of evolution and integral yoga and
their various facets. It also focuses on concepts such as … concepts is crucial to
understanding the whole spectrum of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga and philosophy. For Sri …

Ideal of Human Unity

DA Mahapatra - Sri Aurobindo at 150: An Integral Vision of Evolution …, 2023
… Many of the reflections which Sri Aurobindo made on the international
developments including … , how contemporary developments appear meaningful
from Sri Aurobindo’s integral perspective, … In the next section, I juxtapose Sri …

[PDF] Theatre as Social Critique in Select Nineteenth-Century Indian Plays

A Ara, SS Majumder - SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2023
As an imitation of actions, theatre is representational. Different aspects of
performative arts like theatre are a reflection of the contemporary age in which they
are written and performed. Theatre in Calcutta, India, in the nineteenth century …

The Violent Homo, Nationization in Tomer Heymann's Paper Dolls and Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

S Lee - QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2022
… in the late nineteenth century, and although Hindutva as a Hindu nationalism was
born in the … Both Zionism and Hindutva perceive a strong national body as a way
to mitigate European … the national symbols represented in Zionism and Hindutva; …

Conflicted and Confused: The Changing Complexity of Masculinity in Zoya Akhtar's Films

A Shields - ReFocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar
… insecurity and power gaps that new groups have risen to fill, notably Hindutva
and its biggest party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 6 … Hindutva, whose increasing
political power drives this move, has responded by building an image of an …

From the street to the dance floor: Political imaginings of the pop star in popular Indian cinema

O Ahmed - Pop Stars on Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market, 2023

Religion, Environmental Crisis, Fascism

RS Gottlieb - CR: The New Centennial Review, 2022
This essay argues for a certain normative conception of religion’s current
responsibilities. It is directive in intent, even though I realize that religious
communities have their own deep sense of how their faiths should direct their lives …

Sabka Time Aayega: Language and the City in Gully Boy

K Sharma - ReFocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar
This chapter looks at Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy (2019) to examine the relationship
between Mumbai and its working-class communities and language, particularly
poetry. The city plays a central role in the film as that which inspires, intrigues, gives …

PERFORMANCE AS METHOD Critical approaches to the Western episteme

M Sugiera - Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II …, 2023
Born, raised and educated during the Cold War in Central Europe, I have always
operated within contact histories between the West and the East. What is more, my
native country, Poland, has a rather complex past of colonizing and being colonized …
Between 1914 and 1921, Sri Aurobindo wrote several books on religion and philosophy in the Arya magazine but he conceived The Life Divine in a different way where he was weaving an entirely new ontology surpassing both Western and Indian tradition and contemporaries from science.
Dharma adherents have no hesitation in buying new models of mobile phones but when it comes to philosophy, the tradition is considered as pure gold. Sri Aurobindo has boldly shattered this opposition by religions by establishing The Life Divine as a universal and futuristic path.
Let it be known that almost all direct disciples talked about synthesis, inclusion, and the integral approach that was normal to the modernist environment of the 20th century. But responding to postmodernist sentiments, I have been pitching for an exclusionary marquee since 2005.
Sri Aurobindo has given the Vedic interpretation of castes but that doesn't alter the ground situation as long as the mythological basis of religion lasts. No amount of social justice can help. Savitri Era Religion saves from such social ills perpetrated by customs and tradition.
Marketime: Bruno and Dayananda marketime.blogspot.com/2023/02/bruno- Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b.1956) Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), & President, Savitri Era Party (2007) Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.