Thursday, July 14, 2011

Cultural nationalism propagated by Swami Vivekananda, Dayanand Saraswati and Sri Aurobindo

SRI AUROBINDO SAKTI CENTRE TRUST
Sarod recital with Tabla: on 14th July at Centre Hall from 6.30 p.m.
The Hindu : NATIONAL : TAMIL NADU : Lecture
Sri Aurobindo Society, Tamil State Committee, will organise a talk on ‘Relevance of Consciousness in Today's Business' by Saikat Sen, Director, Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Integral Management, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry, on July 15, between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., at Sri Aurobindo Society, 8, Race Course, Thomas Park.
Sri Aurobindo has further explained how an ideal leader should work. According to him, the Guru or the leader should use “teaching”, “example” and ...
When the Mother founded Auroville, she didn’t even mention Sri Aurobindo or herself or the Integral Yoga in the texts she wrote down for the Foundation Ceremony on February 28th 1968, introducing the central concept and overall guiding goals for the experimental township being born. The concept and the goals are in fact the highest and vastest, but she presented everything just in very simple words anyone could understand and relate to and be touched by. …
Even if one considers nevertheless the Integral Yoga taught by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as the spiritual way obviously to be followed in Auroville – which to some extent is true, because it is they who have been the inspiration and origin of Auroville, and because the Mother herself explains more deeply about that Yoga in her later messages – still that Way of Yoga also will not give the same and identical directives for everyone, as each being is unique and needs a different, individualized way of proceeding.
When I made the formal decision to enter the spirituality racket -- to dive into the deep end of the cosmos -- it was initially as a disciple of the Indian sage, Sri Aurobindo, whose theology I felt at the time to be the most .... Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Ramanamaharshi and Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba did this. Veda is the archetype. Christianity and the other majors (by numbers) are offspring (Islam via Christianity and Christianity via Buddhism, which, ...
This cultural heritage being central to all religions and languages is a civilisation identity and constitutes the cultural nationalism of Bharat propagated by Swami Vivekananda, Dayanand Saraswati and Sri Aurobindo, being the core of ...
Some of the most renowned masters of the modern era were Sri Aurobindo, Sri Chinmoy, and Swami Vivekananda. Furthermore, Rabindra Nath Tagore added to the rich culture with its excellent composition. He is a legendary poet who is the ...
[Link to written works of Thea] Because of this she speaks with the same confident authority and power as Swami Vivekananda did when he was challenged by a Madras pundit objecting to something he said that went beyond the teachings of Shankara. Vivekananda shot back, saying to the pundit, 'Shankara does not say so, but I, Vivekananda say so'. Sri Aurobindo later pointed out that, '…what to the ordinary eye may seem as the Himalaya of egotism is not what it seems. ...

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