Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Mirra Alfassa, the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Sri Aurobindo was not a "Gandhian", he was a revolutionary. If you get time, read "Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom" by Sanjeev Sanyal. Its an eye opener.

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After reading sri aurobindo and mother Mirra ; I got all the Answers iwas looking and  they have solved the riddle of Universe; only thing is a thirst for seeking the Truth; I have been influenced with so many other Thinkers as well ; but my  Path is unique  

Synthesis of Many.

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New Episode! "The Subtle Energetic Interchange That Takes Place at a Subliminal Level"

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Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life , Ch. 1 Life Through the Eyes of the Yogin,…

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7 hours ago — Opinion. A Fatherhood More Equal? In exalting Gandhi, we've elbowed Sri Aurobindo into the shadows. Advertisement. F. Francois Gautier. February 5, 2022.

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The Myth of the Theons: Constructing and Deconstructing the Image of Two European Occultists

P Heehs - Aries, 2024
… One person who discovered the Revue Cosmique in 1904 was Mirra Alfassa, a young Paris-born artist who toward the end of that year met Louis Thémanlys, a friend of her brother, who was in contact with the Theons and a reader of the Revue …… Years later, after she had become the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, she related some anecdotes about the Theons to students of the Ashram school and to a close disciple. These stories first appeared in print in collections of talks published …

The reputations of Eliezer Mordechai Bimstein and Mary Ware (aka Theon and Madame Theon) as master occultists took shape during their lifetimes in the absence of accurate biographical information. Best known as leaders of the Cosmic Movement, which attracted a number of adherents during the first decade of the twentieth century, they each had an interesting backstory, Bimstein as a worker in the tobacco trade, then co-founder of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Ware as Mother Superior of a convent, then poet, actress, and lecturer on occult themes. Their teachings, published in the Revue Cosmique and Tradition Cosmique, influenced such people as Louis Thémanlys and Mirra Alfassa, later the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Biographical material on Bimstein and Ware, brought to light by recent scholars, has led to a deconstruction of the myth of the Theons but this does not necessarily detract from the interest of their writings. 

Concept of Dharma and Ambiguity of a Culture: Peace Building as Yuga Dharma

S Velassery - Towards a New Dharma of Peace Building: Conflict …, 2024
… Thus Sri Aurobindo has correctly pointed out the implications of dharma as religious law of action and the most profound law of our nature. According to him, it is not a creed, cult, or ideal inspiring an ethical and social rule; it is the moral law that …

Toward a New Dharma of Peace, Health, and Global Well-Being

M Kapadia - Towards a New Dharma of Peace Building: Conflict …, 2024
Peace is generally seen as absence of conflict, like health is seen as absence of disease. However, when we review Vedic literature, peace, and health both are constructs in themselves, not in relationship with the contrast. Peace is an emotion …

[PDF] RETHINK REVOLUTION: TRANSFORMATIVE WAVES ACROSS DISCIPLINES

DRE MUNDHE - 2024
Disciplines” is focused on an interdisciplinary approach involving team members from different disciplines working collaboratively, with a common purpose, to set goals, make decisions and share resources and responsibilities. In an era defined …

[PDF] Counter-Discourses of Lower-Caste Intellectuals in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Mainstream Hindu Discourses and the Phule-Ambedkar Ideology

JE Lee - International Journal of Religion, 2024
This study examines the nature of discourse formation in the Dalit movement by analysing two different historical stages: 1) the nineteenth-century upper-caste discourse on Aryan race theory and the counter-discourse advocated by Phule; and …

[PDF] SR Ranganathan: Making of the Man and his Method

MP Satija, DK Gupta - Annals of Library and Information Studies, 2024
This study aims to explicate the mind and intellectual personality of Ranganathan through various genetic and environmental influences, both professional and social. Ranganathan’s father Ramamrita Aiyer was an erudite and religiously respected …

[PDF] LIFE-WRITING: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY, 1850 TO THE PRESENT

T SERAFINI
Fiona Shaw, author of the first one, is an English woman who suffered from post-natal syndrome and who decided to be cured in a mental hospital. There she was treated with psychotropic drugs and electroshock that caused her a partial loss of memory …

Populist Politics and Policies: Welfare Populism in India

Akanksha, N Kumar - Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the …, 2024
In the last few years, Indian politics has entered in a new phase of populist politics, where state welfarism promotes the policies Populist politics, policies with a strategic sense of belonging to a particular ideology. The populist persuasion of Hindutva …

National Populism and Refugee Crisis: The Case of Rohingya Refugees in India

MV Georgekutty - Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the …, 2024
… Hindutva nationalism, which directly sees several ‘internal’ and ‘external’ threats to the ‘Hindu/Indian’ nation. One central claim of the Hindutva … In the Hindutva narrative, the presence of nonHindus in the nation’s body politic contributed to the …

The morality trap of decolonising development: a reply to 'From dematerialising race to distorting decoloniality: development-as-imperialism and Hindu supremacy'by …

K Patel - Global Discourse, 2024
… In the article, Wilson suggests that essentialist readings of decoloniality in development ‘facilitate’ its appropriation in Hindutva politics, with sinister outcomes for Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim Indians especially. I wonder about the extent to which …

[PDF] Affirmative Action and New Populism

JC Chennattuserry, M Deshpande, P Hong - 2023
… Populism in India has found interlinkages with Hindutva as Hindu nationalists try to advance their agenda both via reservations and opposing it. For BJP, incorporation of Muslims and the other minorities to the OBC fold hampers the idea …

Emergent healing spaces: decolonising healing and wellness in Finland

W Njuguna - Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Racialisation and …, 2024
… with the rise of reactionary Indian Prime Minister Modi’s fascism and Hindutva. This gives it a cultural and political resonance that not all BIPOC … ’, making palatable the genocidal harm caused by the rise of Hindutva and the ‘saffronisation’ …

Migration, Memories, and the" Unfinished" Partition

A Ranjan - 2024
This book looks at migration through the lens of the Partition of India in 1947. The Partition uprooted millions of people from their homelands. This volume examines the initial difficulties faced by the refugees in settling down in their adopted land. It …

Public–Private Partnership Ventures: A Diasporic Initiative in India Through Social Remittances and Philanthropic Work

S Dsouza - BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: Issues and Cases in the …, 2024
… Some have even charged that diaspora giving to militant Hindutva groups fueled the recent ethnic riots in Gujarat. This can be said as the negative impact of religious remittances. There are many accusations that wealthy Saudi businesspersons …

[PDF] RE-VISITING THE DISCOURSE ON SECULARISM AND MUSLIMS IN INDIA

N Nayeem, JA Bhat
This article examines the political trajectory of Indian secularism in the post-independence era, exploring both its theoretical foundations and its practical application. It underscores the fundamental aspects of Indian secularism and delves into how …

[PDF] A REVIEW STUDY ON SWADHYAYA (SELF-STUDY) IN ANCIENT AND MODERN PERSPECTIVE

LK Meena, AK Sharma, R Pargi - 2024
Svādhyāya literally means' to study oneself'. It is a larger concept which has many meanings. Svādhyāya is a‟ Niyama'in various Hindu philosophies. Swadhyaya also means' self-study'and reading the Vedas and other scriptures. Studying, listening …

[PDF] Understanding professional learning in and for practice

P Salo, S Francisco, A Olin - Professional development in education, 2024
Based on an overview of the existing literature, this paper aims to provide a holistic and coherent conceptualisation and understanding of the complexity of educators’ professional learning. First, the way in which professional development, professional …

Monday, February 05, 2024

National integration, civic virtue, and world peace

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo (1): Background and Introduction (TE 337). AuroMaa · 1:13:36 · The Synthesis of Yoga (2): The Yoga of Divine Works ...
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[PDF] Sri Aurobindo's Principles, Philosophy, Nationalism And Education: A Critique

S Mandi - Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture, 2023
… The researcher aims to investigate the applicability of Sri Aurobindo's ideas on integral yoga and national integration in the twenty-first century for cultivating civic virtue and world peace. Integral yoga is referred to as a creative and harmonious …

[PDF] A Study on Educational Thoughts of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.

NM Parmar
… He has given the greater emphasis on yoga. He said, “The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine in the world, to … The knowledge of the secrets of the process of integral education is largely contained in the Veda and …
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[HTML] Technology and Meditation: Exploring the Challenges and Benefits of a Physical Device to Support Meditation Routine

T Kermavnar, PMA Desmet - Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2024
… Volunteers interested in the study were recruited via the university mailing list, as well as by means of recruitment pamphlets posted across various TU Delft facilities and yoga/meditation centers in Rotterdam (see Appendix A, Figure A1). They were …

[PDF] Disruption, Recovery, Religion and the Value of Crisis

W Kusters
… However, these form in fact an integral whole and influence each other, and a methodological decision to distinguish the two would … spirituality and end up somewhere on the wide and varied spectrum that runs from yoga exercises, tai-chi …

Environmental Personhood: Philosophical Foundations in Tantric Ecology

T Kochetkova, G Segalerba - Bridging Health, Environment, and Legalities: A Holistic …, 2024
… For this, we turn to the Indian school of Tantra yoga, which can promote the attitude and identity leading to the desired cultural shift from Ego to Eco, and thus, as we will argue below, can help us solve the environmental crisis and can make …

[HTML] Soul Connection: Menuhin's Yoga Practice with BKS Iyengar

K Wendland - 2024
… had already developed an interest in yoga, was eager to “meet an expert.” 2 Iyengar traveled ten hours from his home in the town of Pune to meet Menuhin in Bombay. The violinist should have known immediately that he had met his match …

Servant Leadership and Spiritual Intelligence: A Synergistic Approach

T Thakadipuram - Leadership Wholeness, Volume 2: Application of the …, 2024
This chapter discusses servant leadership’s fundamental principles and characteristics based on its historical and philosophical foundations. The various dimensions and components of spiritual intelligence are briefly discussed based on …

[PDF] ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

P Singh, D Singh
… It is one of integral tools of alternative medicine in which body can regulate heal itself. Various manipulative and body-based techniques are currently used – such as massage (normalizes … Breathing exercises in yoga and massage therapy can aid …

[PDF] Evidence-based traditional medicine for transforming global health and well-being

B Patwardhan, LS Wieland, O Aginam, A Chuthaputti…
… For centuries, TM has been an integral resource for health in households and communities. The WHO recognizes the value and diversity of the cultures of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, along with their traditional knowledge …

Classical Perspectives of Wholeness/Spiritual Intelligence

T Thakadipuram - Leadership Wholeness, Volume 2: Application of the …, 2024
This chapter provides an overview of the classical perspectives of spiritual intelligence. Although there is very little empirical research on spiritual intelligence, the classical literature provides a wealth of knowledge and perspectives on spiritual …… Aurobindo says that this can be done by a technique he calls Integral Yoga, which combines the knowledge, will, and devotion that … Evolution seeks the divine through nature, while yoga reaches out for the divine as transcendent to nature …

[PDF] Exploring Assertive Utterances in Rings of Power series movie

A Arbain, J Rahmad, YR Pratama - Comparative Linguistics, Translation, and Literary …, 2024
… Yoga Rifai Pratama yogarifaipratama@gmail.com Universitas Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda … Overall, this study underscores the integral role of assertive speech acts in shaping both language and narrative in the movie series. Keywords …

[HTML] Mental health and well-being of women (menarche, perinatal, and menopause)

JS Kedare, A Kadiani, P Patkar, A Gautam - Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2024
… Indian culture and tradition has always seen yoga as an integral part of well-being and must be utilized maximally to ensure that we protect … Studies have shown yoga to be effective in reducing vasomotor symptoms and psychological symptoms …

[HTML] Leading for Safety

T Jackman - Legal Fundamentals of Healthcare Law, 2024
… Leadership plays an integral role in shaping and promoting a safety-oriented culture. Leaders must lead by example, accord priority to safety, and effectively communicate its significance to the workforce. A robust safety culture is …

Navigating Life Challenges Through Play

S Kang, J Hundal - American Journal of Health Promotion, 2024
… The practice of downtime is not new and was often an integral part of Indigenous ways of living. The practices of yoga, tai-chi, meditation, sweats, and ceremonies have been a longstanding part of many cultures around the world to help people …

[HTML] Our Story

K Hamaker, M Munton, M Quinn, J Wes
Drawn by an internal call, the five of us eagerly raised our hands when our instructor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Jocelyn Chapman, put out a call for students to enter the Student Case Competition at this year’s International …

[PDF] Yoga's Divine Transformation: Restoring Faith in God. Case Study

M Dragomir - DIA LOGO
… This scientific article explores the profound influence of yoga on the restoration of faith in a higher … yoga retreat, featuring 11 participants aged 32 to 55. Central to this investigation is a single, pivotal question:“How is your relationship with Divinity …

Panchakosha: Cornerstone of Human Development

N Kumari - International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy, 2023
… The relationship of every cell is integral and interrelated with each other. According to the concept of disease according to Yoga and Taittiriya Upanishad, human existence from the gross to the subtle body is made up of Panchakosha ie …

[HTML] Proposed physiological mechanisms of pranayama: A discussion

S Mondal - Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2024
… Pranayama is an ancient Bharatiya (Indian) yogic breathing technique invented by age-old sages, the then yoga scientists, by their solid … cingulate cortex, an integral part of the all-attention system, is known to modulate LC activity precisely …

[HTML] Yoga, Mind-Body Coherence, and Zen

J Gao, HH Sik - 2024
… This chapter covers topics that Yoga integrates breath and posture to unify mind, body, and the environment; and furthermore, Zen/Chan … This chapter explores the mind-body nexus and contrasts various meditative disciplines, primarily focusing on …

On Consciousness: The Evolving Mind

S Brunnhuber - The Third Culture: The Impact of AI on Knowledge …, 2024
This chapter introduces eight essential components of consciousness. It argues that humans are able to create forms of consciousness that are not based on biochemical signals or electromagnetic waves, and that will one day be able to …

[PDF] GENDER HIERARCHY AND BENGALI WOMEN: LOOKING THROUGH THE MIRAGE OF MORALITY

D Chatterjee - 2023
… Images of India as a monstrous mother-goddess and as a woman raped and dishonored by foreign (Muslim and British) conquest were prominent in the militant Hindu nationalism advanced by Aurobindo Ghose and V. Savarkar (Hancock 2001) …

[PDF] Collaborative research Networks: Fostering Interdisciplinary Research

D Bhattacharyya - AIU Central Zone Vice Chancellors' Meet–2023-24, 2024
47 UNIVERSITY NEWS 62 (03) JANUARY 15–21, 2024 collaboration and integration of insights, methods, and approaches from multiple academic disciplines to address complex problems or questions that cannot be adequately understood or …

Digital Capitalism in the New Media Era

Ç Topçu - 2024
How do digital capitalism and the evolving landscape of new media intersect, and what does this mean for the future of media? It is necessary to begin the excavation process, to unearth the insights of experts in these fields to better understand the …

[PDF] To my friends, Jutta Holländer and Peter Schmidt-Holländer.

J Holländer
Religions have accompanied mankind since the beginning of its existence, and there are many indications that its development was facilitated by them. Analysis of the history of homo sapiens also allows the conclusion that its success has been …