Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Gitanjali Angmo ignites controversy over Sri Aurobindo

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

From day one after their entry in Jantar Mantar agitation, I was apprehending about their role. Shared views with my friends and also spoke in some of my videos as well as from other platforms. My source of information were few journalist friends. But this is big revelation!

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Oh dear. How embarrassing. This is Sadhvi Rithambara-type dialogue.

She has a perfect right to her opinion but it’s good to know what she really believes…

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She can have her opinions, ofcourse! Has she herself acted on any of the advices she is generously offering to all others in chaste victorian english… while obliquely cussing it! Why not show some scholarship in sanskrit herself?

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She is parroting what Mother and Sri Aurobindo have said about Sanskrit. Then she and husband associate with the “cockroach party”. Activists and opportunists who have nothing to show on the ground of making fundamental changes in education @GitanjaliAngmo

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fraud husband takes the name of another fraud called Bapu. The fraud wife @GitanjaliAngmo dares to take the sacred name of Sri Aurobindo. Neither of you will be allowed to forget your association with this “Roach party”.

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To all the trollers: Stop confusing religion with spirituality.

Religion seeks followers. Spirituality seeks transformation.

Religion is an institution that defines identity, authority, and control. Spirituality is a deeply personal awakening that expresses itself through every thought, word, and action.

Politics infused with religion divides. Politics guided by spirituality unites and aspires to the ideal of the philosopher-king: one who serves with wisdom, compassion, restraint, and truth.

Sri Aurobindo said, "When it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatana Dharma that shall rise. India is rising for the sake of the Sanatana Dharma."

Sanatana Dharma is the bedrock of Indian civilisation. It was never meant to be a religion in the narrow, institutional sense, nor can any political party monopolise it. It is a way of being, a path of inner evolution, and a lived pursuit of Truth.

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सोनम वांगचुक और गीतांजलि अंगमो बेनकाब हो चुके हैं.

लक्ज़री अस्पताल मेदांता से डिस्चार्ज होने के बाद सोनम वांगचुक और उनकी पत्नी राजघाट जाकर गांधी जी को श्रद्धांजलि अर्पित की.

सोनम वांगचुक ने कहा अब वो पहाड़ों की ओर वापस लौट जाएंगे. लद्दाख बौद्ध भूमि है. सोनम वांगचुक और उनकी पत्नी बौद्ध हैं. 

बौद्ध अनुयायी होते भी गीतांजलि अंगमो का झुकाव हिंदूवादी संगठनों की ओर है. सुब्रमण्यम स्वामी के यूट्यूब चैनल पर बात करते हुए गीतांजलि अंगमो ने कहा था

संविधान से सेक्यूलर शब्द हटा देना चाहिए. संस्कृत भाषा को राष्ट्रीय भाषा का दर्जा देने की मांग कर रही हैं. और आर्यन इन्वेजन थ्योरी को नकार रही हैं. किसी को भी नायक बनाने से पहले उस व्यक्ति की विचारधारा वेरीफाई करना जरूरी है.

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The Wangchuk couple is right-wing reactionary, natural ally of the RSS & BJP, but strange laws of history used Wangchuk as an instrument to give voice to the discontent of the people against the BJP. Their part is done: for this movement of the youth, they are redundant now.

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Her real name was Gitanjali Jain. She is from Balasore Odisha. studied in Bhubneshwar. Belong to a Punjabi Jain family. Although the exact date is somehow not public but it’s not very long since they married. As per Delhi sources she is very very close to Sub Swami long long time

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Saw the video in full and realized that at 2:39 she repeats the age old, now debunked myth of Khilji burning Nalanda. @GitanjaliAngmo there's no primary source that says Khalji burnt Nalanda, as explained here (youtu.be/vD2hkHxdk4Q) excavational material reveals a more complex history of the university

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Didn’t know this aspect of @GitanjaliAngmo ji, wife of @Wangchuk66 ji and with this in background I fail to understand why @BJP4India jailed him on unproven NSA charges??

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सोनम वांगचुक की पत्नी गीतांजलि अंगमो को सुन लीजिए। पूरी संघ की भाषा है। संविधान से सेकुलर शब्द को हटाने की बात भी कर रही हैं। किसी को कोई शक़ नहीं रहना चाहिए कि सोनम वांगचुक दंपति की विचारधारा और एजेंडा क्या है। सोनम अच्छे वैज्ञानिक होंगे मगर वे आंदोलन में शामिल बीजेपी के एजेंडे के तहत ही हुए थे। उपराज्यपाल के द्वारा विवश किए जाने वाली बात मुँह से निकल गई थी, जिससे वे बेनकाब हो गए थे।

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I have compiled multiple clips from a programme on Subramanian Swamy's YouTube channel featuring Gitanjali Angmo — co-founder of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh. In it, she calls for removing "secular" from the Constitution, wants Sanskrit as the national language, endorses the Ram Mandir and a "Hindu Rashtra" and rejects the Aryan Invasion Theory.

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You can add at the end wangchuk’s statement mujhe LG ne vivash kiya cjp se milne ko and the picture is complete . The response of ordinary students was amazing and now kids are being hounded across India / arrested / attacked. Shame on them

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thewindsofwonder.org/2026/07/27/aur… 

Another master piece from my ideal , #RYDeshpande , an ardent devotee of #SriAurobindo ! I wander how does he managed So much !!

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Soma is one of the earliest experiences in Yoga

When I started doing dhyana more than 40 years ago my first shift in perception happened within a few weeks

The whole world became brighter. Colors grew vibrant. Every object appeared to glow, shrouded in light. I felt very light almost as if I had had an alcoholic drink

Everything was wonderful and radiant. I realized that when the poet describes the soma, or the honey-wine as Sri Aurobindo called it, this is not a poetic image or fancy. The poet is describing an actual experience with a simple formula, a code

One feels heady, light, free, drunk. It seems that the Vedic perspective is similar and that may be why Soma comes so early on in the Veda

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Initially, yes. But it grows on you until the madah मद: is permanent 

It is my submission that the soma or bliss described in the Veda is this experience. I came to this understanding groping and by serendipity

Then, Sri Aurobindo confirmed it in his own masterly way

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The Veda describes a whole ritual on how to hold it, grow it and use it to transform all the other parts of one’s being. Quite amazing!

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Vedic Meditation वरुण Varuna 

The second shloka of the Avadhoota Gita has a remarkable expression:

एनेदम् पूरितम् सर्वम् आत्मनैव आत्मना आत्मनि

Loosely translated, it says:

The whole universe is filled with the Atman, even the Atman with the Atman

This is the Varuna experience 

To feel the Universe as if one could stretch one’s arms and embrace it all. No horizons limit the consciousness

Sri Aurobindo has a mantric line:

An unwalled mind dissolved in the infinite 

This too is Varuna, the one who destroys all enemies रिशा दसम् in RV 1.2.7

Spend some time with the ocean or a wide open space next time you get a chance. The limits of the mind, prana or body are an artifact. Let the consciousness gradually become limitless as the sky चिदाकाश and Varuna shall loosen all your bonds

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Tatyana Elizarenkova says that the Veda is a linguistic system. That seems correct but the limitation of western linguistics is to see the Veda as only a linguistic system and a language

What else does the Veda have? Let me try to enumerate just a few minor extras:

1) A complete system of symbols and signs or Semiotics 

2) An elaborate description of the correspondence between the inner world and the outer and how and where they overlap and interact

3) A system of sounds and their significance and patterns to the smallest unit

4) A system of music and its first literary symphony

5) A detailed description of inner processes using mythology and fable

6) An elaborate psychology and its description at each level and loka

7) A spirituality that is extremely sophisticated and refined with tremendous influence on almost all religions and panthas that came after

8) A masterly work of art and literature that is still peerless and exquisite even if we see it only as literature when we approach it with Vedangas such as nirukta, vyakarana and chhanda

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There are more such as jyotisha, the healing arts, the beginning of philosophy and mathematics, but to see all of these in one vast integral system that is indeed a superhuman achievement and we still have much to assimilate from fully would be a good start

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Postmodernism, we were told, had escaped from the modernist myths and traditions of the past. 

But metamodernist philosopher and historian of religion Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm argues that this postmodern story is itself a myth. He argues in favour of metamodernism. 

Join Storm in this IAI Live interview on August 6th as he contends that metamodernism moves beyond the scepticism of postmodernism, exploring how we can embrace meaning, imagination, and new possibilities without abandoning critical reflection.

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Friday, July 24, 2026

Apropos of the Divine Body

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

https://auroramirabilis.blogspot.com/2026/07/shyam-sunder-jhunjhunwala-shyam-kumari.html

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Monday, July 20, 2026

Inexhaustible nature of the aspects and qualities of Savitri

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

... Sri Maa and Sri Aurobindo. This video focuses on their divine journeys and teachings, guiding us in incorporating their wisdom into our lives. Sri Aurobindo ...
6 hours ago — The daily record of the spiritual experiences of the individual who has written. A complete system of yoga. Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda: The Rishi ...
21 hours ago — It is hoped that the spiritual and occult concept of Consciousness propounded by Sri Aurobindo is convincingly projected in this study as the equivalent of God ...

Another distinctive quality of Savitri is its remarkable multi-facetedness. As a specimen of apocalyptic literature, for example, it lends itself to ample interpretation on several counts. So numerous are the various aspects of Savitri as apocalyptic literature that a considerably large volume can easily be written on each one of the aspects. The same applies to its nature as an epic poem.

Savitri is an Indian specimen of apocalyptic literature not merely because its author is an Indian. It is Indian because the quintessence of all the various spiritual, philosophical, religious, occult and cultural aspects of life led in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic times are integrated in it. As such, in spite of its inclusion of so much of the thought, philosophy and culture of the West into it, Savitri is most unlike anything that is Western.

This being the inexhaustible nature of the aspects and qualities of Savitri, the one almost insurmountable difficulty of a doctoral researcher venturing to explicate any given aspect of the epic is of trying to do justice to its paramount significance and yet limit himself or herself to the academic rigours of the viable size of the doctoral thesis. The academic study undertaken in this thesis is no exception to this. To deal with the salient features of Savitri as an Indian specimen of apocalyptic literature within the limits of an academic thesis is a task by no means easy or simple.

https://incarnateword.in/other-authors/madhumati-m-kulkarni/sri-aurobindos-savitri-an-apocalyptic-literature/conclusion

10 hours ago — The enigmatic personality of Sri Aurobindo and his voluminous writings have evoked two responses in general—it has either been devotion, or else, denigration.
12 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo returned to India with no mission other than to liberate this country from the British yoke. The seven political essays

A personal invitation from Team Kapil Kumar Bhaskar to join the session on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo by renowned Prof. Dr. Priya M Vaidya, Head of the Department of Philosophy University of Mumbai. Looking forward to your presence. #auroville #SriAurobindo

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Anyone else still read books? This is one of the best of all… Sri Aurobindo & The Mother, The Practice of the Integral Yoga - Jugal Kishore Mukherjee, Literally, secrets of Life!

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#KrishnaMcKenzie #RegenerativeAgriculture #SolitudeFarm #SustainableLiving #ClimateAction

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Episode 2 is here. How did a disagreement over who should administer Auroville evolve into violence, legal battles, and eventually an Act of Parliament? This episode explores one of the least discussed chapters in Auroville’s history—and why the events of the 1970s and 1980s still matter today. History has a remarkable sense of irony. Watch Episode 2 and decide for yourself. Auroville: The Truth Behind The Propaganda

https://x.com/i/status/2074510263110467758

Here Amit Shah talks of how Calcutta University VC Dr Shyamaprasad Mookerjee honored Bangla in his role as VC. In the same speech he pays homage to Subhas Babu as the greatest revolutionary of India. He also pays homage to Shri Aurobindo, Bankim Chandra and Bande Mataram, Rabindranath youtube.com/live/jlHl0oLmi

That’s the whole point. One doesn’t need to pull down one icon to honor another. It’s incomprehensible why WB BJP President started behaving like Bangla Pokkho, in trying to glorify Shyamaprasad Babu by pulling down Subhas Babu. Don’t dyed in the wool Sanghi Jis lack some common sense, some political sense, granted they haven’t read any history and have grown up on RSS Shakha propaganda! That’s the wh

https://x.com/i/status/2078829018636316749

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