Wednesday, March 31, 2010

1910: Sri Aurobindo leaves Chandernagore for Calcutta

Claude Arpi: When the most dangerous man came to Pondicherry by Claude Arpi
Sri Aurobindo's coming to
Pondicherry was a closely guarded secret and he would like to live in strict solitude in order to avoid harassment by the agents of the British Government”, says one of Sri Aurobindo's biographers. ...
The 100 years of the Master’s arrival in Pondicherry are today celebrated: politicians will probably garland statues of Sri Aurobindo, ‘scholars’ will recount his achievements and the contribution of the State of Pondicherry to his inner realizations; many will quote Rabindranath (who visited him in 1928): “Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee! O friend, my country's friend, O Voice incarnate, free, Of India's soul....The fiery messenger that with the lamp of God Hath come...Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee,” but there is another side to the coin.
During the 40 years of his stay in Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo faced constant enmity, to put it mildly, not only from sections of the local population, but also from the representatives of the British Crown, the French Administration as well as local politicians.
A subject of never-ending study and debate is the question of the primacy of the mind or the body in terms of our psychological actions. Psychologists have taken positions on both sides of this question, and everywhere in between. There are those who believe that the body is first, primary and the underlying cause and foundation of the emotions, the mind and our creative expressions. They try to explain everything by combinations of amino acids and the physical and physiological organisation of the body that means that mind is a function of the brain.
Others take the position that the body is more or less illusory, and despite a habitual pattern of thought, which leads to habitual bodily responses, it is actually the mind that creates the form and thus, the body can be changed or adjusted by changing the mental framework.
Circumsolatious: The Zodiac, the Sphinx and the Key to Cosmic Order by Lori Tompkins
In our day and current Age of Aquarius, this KEY of Gnosis has been revealed via the combined or Triune yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet. On the right is a depiction of Narasimha (literally meaning ...
My Mind: A Flower To Auroville Mother-11 By Indira Renganathan
A Flower To Auroville Mother-11. Arali (Nerium oleander) You're too composed, meek and mild.. In gentle diffusion and secret spread. When your aroma rises around. In search a passer-by bewitched. Pink or red,single or double petaled ...
My Hand: Aurobindo-15 By Indira Renganathan
An appreciation on Savitri- Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto I The World-Stair Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'A self-creation without end or pause. Revealed the grandeurs of the Infinite: ...
My Mind: Aurobindo 12 By Indira Renganathan
An appreciation on Savitri- Book I The Book of Beginnings- Canto V The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's And consequently 'the 'Timeless''left his white ...
Important small work dealing with the action of the Divine powers in the world and practice of yoga of Sri Aurobindo. By Aurobindo Ghose. Loading mentions Retweet.
Above all, no botherations! There we are. This is the first choice. After this there are many others." --The Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India) This voyage is a privilege, a gift. I have a duty to fulfill. ...
lauripackett » Blog Archive » Yoga and Love, Part II by hyperlooking
Sri Aurobindo writes in Savitri, “The great are strongest when they stand alone.” Only when we feel complete “standing alone” – the word “alone” originally meant “all one” – can we transcend neediness and attain true love, ... Aadil Palkhivala 
Dr. Anuradha Choudry is a graduate from the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Puducherry and completed her Ph.D in Sanskrit on Vedic Psychology under Dr. K.E Dharaneedharan from Pondicherry University where she sought to ...
To be fair on Heeh's critics, I can appreciate and respect that they are devotees who have a religious worship of Sri Aurobindo, and would therefore be offended by a non-hagiographic biography, especially by an ashramite who they had ...
[Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.] Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum. [SELF posits a model of counselling and communicative ...
Savitri Era Learning Forum: The why of the interaction between so ...                                                                                                                             
YOGA: FROM CONFUSION TO CLARITY Vols. 1 to 5 by Satya Prakash Singh and Yogi Mukesh,1730 p, 5 Volumes, figs, ISBN : 81-87471-57-8, $325.00 from Vedic Vision of Consciousness & Yoga by Mukesh 2:29 PM 
Sri Aurobindo (from the message broadcast on the eve of August 15, 1947). Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. ...
Lalit Kumar’s 3 blog posts were featured
santoshk1‎ - Twitter - Sri Aurobindo ultimate intellectual & material phase denies occult, supra-rational or spiritual causes or forces. eventually these resurface
The first stage in Sri Aurobindo's yoga, and the major task that opens the door to many realizations, is mental silence.
New Video: Sri Aurobindo - "The Involved and Evolving Godhead" - Essays Divine and Human Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwGvta3uIg8  ...
Comment posted by: RY Deshpande Re: Of the sly and insidious Method ... let us get down to the specifics
We need not pay much attention to the continuing Satheesh-Tusar imbecility, nor need it surprise us if it should lug along with it a set of other imbecilities. It seems the whole thing is just unstoppable, perhaps because such blogs commercially thrive only on controversies. If there are no contents, if there are no specifics the quickest and the wisest thing to do is to trash them. But when such glorious thrivers try to trash the 1950-51 edition of Savitri itself, the one which practically came out during the time of the author himself, then the matters become serious. In such circumstances it will be wrong to keep ascetically quiet, quiet by simply saying that the Master knows how to take care of such inanities, such absurdities, that he doesn’t need defence from the scrawny, we the poor earthlings. It might even be suggested that it would be better to avoid it lest one is dubbed, as does the usual cliché go, an egoist.
Yet a question can puzzle one, as from where could such nonsensicalities emanate at all. Could it be that these are coming from some disgraceful office or foundation named Satheesh-Tusar Absurdity where people do not look for facts, where people have scant regard for facts? In any case, it definitely appears to be a place where people do not read things or, if at all they do, they show little capacity to understand things.
From bijan ghosh 28 March 2010  
no room for confusion -  1954 is Original, rest are not.
So they are not named to be identified, all are in a class - "mutilated editions"
By Kenneth Mcpherson
This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in dealing with the rise of Indian nationalism, the local political nuances of that rise, and its own changing position as part of the wider Muslim community in India.
The book argues that Partition and the foundation of Pakistan in 1947 were neither the goal nor the necessarily inescapable result of the growth of communal politics and sentiment, and analyses the post-1947 constructions of events leading to Partition. Neither the fact of Muslim communalism per se before 1947 nor the existence of separate Muslim electorates provide an explanation for Pakistan. The book advances the theory that micro-level studies of the operation of the former, and the defence of the latter, in British India can lead to a better understanding of the origins of communalism.
The book makes an important contribution to understanding and dealing with the complexities of communalism — be it Hindu, Muslim or Christian — and its often tragic consequences. ISBN: 9780415589130 Published March 31 2010 by Routledge India.
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