The purpose of the Ashram Trust is unambiguously clear in the opening
words of the Trust Deed. We need not therefore have any qualms of conscience
for being termed as “followers and disciples of Sri Aurobindo having faith in
his philosophy and yoga” for which the Ashram was “exclusively” meant. So is
the Trust Board contemplating changes in the very object of the Trust Deed by
quoting the paragraph on the necessity of scepticism and atheism in society? It
is one thing to force on others one’s own point of view and another to invite
spiritual disaster by courting falsehood. The first is religious
fundamentalism, which is not the case here, as we are not trying to convert
Peter Heehs or his associates and supporters, it is he who insists on
converting us into materialistic sceptics with his so-called “objectivity”. The
second is spiritual suicide by accepting the rank falsehood pervading his book,
which has already started eating into the very foundation of sadhana at the
Ashram. Should the disciples bear with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s
denigration in the very heart of the institution that they have dedicated their
lives to? Should they take this untenable criticism of their Master without any
protest? Should they simply do nothing to prevent this perverted book from
getting introduced in the curriculum of universities in India and abroad? …
Finally, about the dig at Ranganath’s
involvement in the Savitri corrections case at Alipore. The Trust
did not do a favour to Ranganath by providing him legal defence; Ranganath did
a favour to the Trust by leaving his work and deposing in front of the court.
The main accused in the case was the Trust and the names of Ranganath and many
others were included in the petition as co-respondents because of their
indirect involvement in the matter – Ranganath was looking after the Ashram Press
at that time and he printed the new edition of the Savitri under
instructions from the Trust. The Trust itself, along with a few others, was
actually responsible for the Savitri corrections. Incidentally, the same
Peter Heehs and Richard Hartz figure prominently in this case, which could have
been easily settled out of the court with a little discussion and referring the
matter to other experts in the same field instead of insisting on the decisions
of only one committee. Raman Reddy 3 July 2010
Ashis Nandy on Aurobindo –
A Tale of Inauthentic Modernity: Savita Singh January 30, 2013 by Pratilipi
Blog
Most certainly, there is another way of reading Aurobindo’s life. It
could be quite enlightening to bring in another reading here offered by another
significant hermeneutical thinker of India , Prof. J.L. Mehta, who takes
Aurobindo’s own statements about his life as an authentic rendering of its
truth. He treats them as more meaningful beginning of his life’s story… On this
reading, what Nandy considers as being lost, that is, Aurobindo having lost to
the West, Mehta considers it as a mere adventuring of the self to the Other,
experiencing it in all its otherness as its own part. For indeed, Mehta works
with a hermeneutical insight as far as human understanding is concerned…
Depicting the complexity of a hermeneutical life as that of Sri
Aurobindo, in which he arrives at an understanding of himself and that of the
West as part of each other, Mehta locates this understanding emanating from the
Vedantic as much as from a Heideggerian sources. He brings in Heidegger to
illustrate the interesting relationship the self has with its other, a position
which Aurobindo spawned by living out the kind of existence he did. Aurobindo’s
life came with a certain kind of depth where any stark differences between the
self and the other simply got dissolved.
[Prof Savita Singh is Professor and Director of the School of Gender India : A
Hermeneutical Study', and earned her degree from Delhi University
Are we facing an evolutionary crisis? The Hindu February 2,
2013 MANOJ DAS
According to Sri Aurobindo, “At present mankind is undergoing an
evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny; for a stage
has been reached in which the human mind has achieved in certain directions an
enormous development while in others it stands arrested and bewildered and can
no longer find its way.” Sri Aurobindo envisions a future when the mind could
be transformed into a Supramental gnosis…
To a professor who was logically convinced of Sri Aurobindo’s vision
but wondered if the ugly man of today could really grow into something
beautiful, a rustic school teacher told, “If a wonder like the lotus could
bloom out of mud with the Sun’s Grace, why cant out of our muddy mind bloom the
Supramental with the Divine’s Grace? We may replace Divine’s Grace with
Evolutionary thrust, if we please.
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And in this passage from The Letters on Yoga
, he elucidates on the manner in which the human consciousness navigates the
recondite “dream worlds”: Ordinarily when one sleeps a complex phenomenon
happens.
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There he discovered Sri
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from the civil service, and went in search of adventure in French...
Satprem relates that on 19 May 1973, six months
before The Mother’s death he was barred admission to her room, the beginning of
a serious falling out between the Ashram leadership and himself. Moreover,
Satprem and his followers believe there is evidence in the recorded audiotapes
that the Mother did not actually die but rather entered a “cataleptic trance”
or state of suspended animation in which there would not even be a detectable
heartbeat.
Omkarnath
Bharadwaj has left a new comment on "Sri Anirvan and Ekalavya": Savitri Era at
4:58 pm, February 02, 2013 Dear Sir
I want to know In which year Sri Anirvan ji
visited Pondicherry
& met the Mother
Regards Omkarnath Bharadwaj
Savitri Era - Spinning mythology - Ashis Nandy had mauled the
memory of Sri Aurobindo like a bull in a china shop which Savita Singh has now
ably countered by juxtaposing the hermeneutical reading of J.L. Mehta.
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