Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Neither Nehruvian nor Hindutva worldview

1m - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty One-stop blog for curing all theoretical confusion and muddled thinking just a click away at Savitri Era Learning Forum - Location: Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India - CV of an average Indian Posted by Tusar N. Mohapatra at 1:33 PM November 01, 2012


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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Appeal of Sri Aurobindo transcends the national and provincial borders

Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Sri Aurobindo believed that India had a message for the world

A house in Pondicherry - Lee Langley, Lee Langley - 1995 - 275 pages - Now Aurobindo needs somewhere he will be safe. The subcontinent has proved surprisingly deficient in hiding places for a wanted man, and the British are thorough in tracking down those they wish to find. He studies the approaching ...
Political ideas and leadership in Vidarbha - P. L. Joshi, Nagpur University. Dept. of Political Science & Public Administration. Silver Jubilee Committee, P. L. Joshi - 1980 - 338 pages - Dr. Moonje approached Yogi Aurobindo and requested him to preside over the Nagpur Session. Yogi Aurobindo declined the request. Mahatma Gandhi had taken up the reins of the congress and advocated the principle and programme of...
The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought - Page 145 - Harold G. Coward - 2008 - 219 pages - Preview One such ashram was established at Pondicherry, India, in the first half of the twentieth century by the contemporary Yogi Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950 CE). Aurobindo, after studying Western psychology in England, revised Yoga thought and ...
Educational challenges in socialist India - Satya Pal Ruhela, Satya Pal Ruhela - 1975 - 220 pages - lndian Education Today Principal NW Bhawe The birth-centenary of Yogi Aurobindo offered a golden opportunity to the young generations to know more about the life and work of the Yogi who once carried the torch of liberation ...
Converts do not make a nation - Page 442 - M. G. Chitkara - 1998 - 719 pages - Preview It may be the ordained time when the prophesy of the Great Yogi Aurobindo may turn out to be true; that ultimately India and Pakistan would come closer and stand united. Enduring peace and prosperity in the Indian sub-continent may not ...
Human rights: commitment and betrayal - Page 67 - M. G. Chitkara - 1996 - 306 pages - Preview The hour before the down is darkest, Yogi Aurobindo Ghosh warned that who are to restore the reign of light, Truth, Bliss and Consciousness, now obscured and perversed into darkness, falsehood, suffering and inconscience.
World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati - Page 36 - Gaṅgā Rām Garg - 1984 - 592 pages - Preview He met Rajnarayan Bose, the maternal grandfather of Yogi Aurobindo, who was leading a newly-emerging movement of proud Hindu nationalism against the inroads of westernization. He presented a copy of his lecture: 'The Superiority of ...
Revisiting Indus-Sarasvati age and ancient India - Bhu Dev Sharma, Nabarun Ghose - 1998 - 495 pages - In this regard, Yogi Aurobindo has written, "The word Arya expresses a particular ethical and social order of well-governed life, courage, gentleness, purity, humanity, compassion, protection of the weak, liberty, observance of social ...
Gandhi in Indian politics - Nirmal Kumar Bose, P. H. Patwardhan - 1967 - 93 pages - Yogi Aurobindo believed that India had a message for the world. This ancient land had survived many ups and downs for thousands of years because it had a message for the world. India's political freedom was only a means to awaken ...
People in World History: A-M - Susan K. Kinnell - 1989 - 450 pages - Attempts to show how the Indian revolutionary-turned-philosopher and yogi Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) interpreted his religious experience and how he used religious symbolism to work out a paradigm of an organic society and to ...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Abolish desire & replace by action of purer motive power

Meditation with the Mothers Music - karmayog.in
SRI AUROBINDO'S ARRIVAL TO PONDICHHERY. Meditation with the Mothers Music Evening 7:00 TO 7:30 P.M. Centre will remain open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sri Aurobindo Society, 11, Sahakar, B Road, Churchgate- 200 020.

The Master Meets His Mission from Auromira Yoga by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani
Sri Aurobindo’s arrival in Pondicherry on 4 April 1910 marks the culmination of a long and tortuous preparation that was necessary in his outer life before he could settle down with the mission of his life… An instrument of the Divine was needed to provide this message to the world, particularly the West, which was affected the most by the material prosperity and spiritual poverty generated by the industrial revolution. And, who could be better than Sri Aurobindo as that instrument – an intellectual giant who had 14 years of intelligent engagement with the West, and 14 years of self-study in the East, along with spiritual siddhis of the highest order. This rare instrument was too precious to be battered and bruised by the batons and bullets of the British police. Hence the divine intervention that forcibly pulled him out of the freedom struggle. [Excerpts from an article first published in The Call Beyond (A periodical published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch) April 2010] 

Man-handling of Savitri by RY Deshpande from Savitri: the Light of the Supreme by admin read more

A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ... by General Editor
Peter Heehs, a US national who is a self-styled "scholar" and writer, published a book called The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, purporting to be a biography of Sri Aurobindo. By his own admission, Peter Heehs has no formal educational ...

THE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY: AN ... by integralmusings
As the intuitive and evolutionary thinkers like Sri Aurobindo and Teil-hard-de-Chardin have pointed out, the main evolutionary challenge facing humanity is the growth of consciousness from the rational, divisive and analytical consciousness of ...

Tweets santosh krinsky ‏ @santoshk1 Sri Aurobindo. 1st condition of inner revolution & transformation of life energy: abolish desire & replace by action of purer motive power 1:29 PM - 4 Apr 12
Auroville Radio ‏ @AurovilleRadio Kalarippayat, Mohiniyattam and Theyyam performed by Udayan's Masters at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Auroville. http://bit.ly/Hf1ikz 1:01 PM - 4 Apr 12 via aurovilleRadio
Tunku Varadarajan ‏ @tunkuv When a govt expels a historian, you can be sure it is thin-skinned, paranoid and pandering to the gallery of intolerance #Heehs #India
Gautam Chikermane ‏ @gchikermane The book, The Many Lives of Sri Aurobindo, is the best biography of the freedom fighter turned spiritual leader. Most haven't read the book. The book has been banned on the advice of Orissa DG Intelligence - he hasn't read the book. Is India going to end up being the place from where all free speech, intellectuals, ideas will be banished? After Salman Rushdie and MF Husain, the fundamentalists have turned their guns on Peter Heehs, an ashramite serving in India for 41 years. As one who has read the book (The Lives of Sri Aurobindo), I can say that it's unlikely ever to be surpassed: Ram Guha 9:13 AM - 3 Apr 12 Real issue: India - country of Gita, Vedas, Upanishadas - cannot tolerate truth or alternative points of view. Heehs is latest victim. 12:19 PM - 4 Apr 12@RupaSubramanya Peter Heehs is an issue of religious fundamentalism, not security as claimed. His visa denial is a shame. 11:08 AM - 4 Apr 12
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Sunday, April 01, 2012

Heehs' book has created a furore

Tweets Sagarika Ghose ‏ @sagarikaghose
Historian Peter Heehs asked to leave India for his latest book on Aurobindo. The scholar has spent four decades studying Aurobindo. Curious. Why should a historian and scholar be asked to leave India after four decades because "certain groups” are offended? Nandita Saikia ‏ @nsaikia Historian Peter Heehs, who's spent 40 yrs studying Aurobindo, asked to leave India for his latest book on Aurobindo. 10:55 AM
Gautam Chikermane ‏ @gchikermane
The bigger question is: have we been so dulled into non-thinking by hagiographical works that we are unable to accept another view? Dismayed that other newspapers have not taken up the Peter Heehs issue seriously - it is almost as big as Salman Rushdie, MF Husain. Chidambaram must send a strong signal to religious fundamentalists: stop harassing thinkers - if you don't like their work, don't read it. Apart from 30 intellectuals, politicians from Congress and BJP are supporting Peter Heehs stay in India. PC orders review into historian's visa row: my story on Peter Heehs's needless harassment 9:08 AM
US historian may leave UT IBNLive.com‎
PUDUCHERRY: American Historian Peter Heehs whose book 'Lives of Sri Aurobindo' raked up controversy is keeping his fingers crossed after Union home minister P Chidambaram said that he would review the Ministry's decision not to renew his visa, ...
Chidambaram to decide on Heehs' visa tomorrow Times of India‎
PUDUCHERRY: Home minister P Chidambaram will review the decision to cancel the visa of American historian Peter Heehs, who wrote the controversial biography 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo' in 2008. He will make his decision by Monday, he told reporters.
“Will review historian's visa cancellation issue” The Hindu‎
Replying to questions about American historian Peter Heehs, Mr. Chidambaram said that he would review the decision on cancellation of the visa to the historian who was living in Puducherry by Monday. Mr. Heehs was asked to leave the country after he ...
PC orders review into historian's visa row Hindustan Times‎
Home minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked for a review of an order denying American historian Peter Heehs a visa extension. Heehs, who has been living in India for the past 41 years, was abruptly told by the foreigners' registration office (FRO) in ...
Cancellation of US historian Peter Heehs's visa to be reviewed: P Chidambaram Economic Times‎
NEW DELHI: Home Minister P Chidambaram will review the decision on cancellation of the visa of a US historian Peter Heehs, living in Puducherry, and will take a decision on it by Monday. Heehs was asked to leave the country after he had spent nearly ...
Is extremists' objection to his book behind US historians expulsion? Hindustan Times - ‎Mar 30, 2012‎
The ostensible reason for the non-extension of Heehs's visa, according to sources, is his ninth book, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo'. For years, a handful of religious fundamentalists have been harassing Heehs over his treatment of Sri Aurobindo's ...
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31 March 2012: Don't expel US historian, govt told Addendum: The question about the relationship between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is only one of dozens of objections raised by that handful of religious fundamentalists; it is not even mentioned in the Orissa Gazette Notification. It is, however, what appears to produce the most visceral effect in the public, for reasons we fail to understand. Heehs made it perfectly clear that there was no sexual element at all in this relationship. On the contrary, what he wrote underscores its profoundly sacred nature. Only readers with a serious Freudian hang-up can fail to see this. Moreover, we are aware that Minister Jairam Ramesh has read and greatly appreciated The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. He has written Heehs privately about this and also mentioned it in his letter to the Home Minister. We regret that the writer of this otherwise excellent report did not quote from JR's letter the positive comments about the book, along with the lines relating to the larger issue of freedom of expression. — Editors, IYF. Recent Additions
1 April 2012: Chidambaram to decide on Heeh's visa
31 March 2012: Don't expel US historian, govt told
10 March 2012: Those who get upset by these things are worse
24 February 2012: Sri Aurobindo, Heehs and the fragility of faith
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31 July 2011: BAN the BAN by Ramachandra Guha
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Prof. R.Y. Deshpande has been at the forefront of the intellectual rebuttal of Peter Heehs’s mischievous book

Show Cause Notice to Prof. R.Y. Deshpande - Prof. R.Y. Deshpande has been at the forefront of the intellectual rebuttal of Peter Heehs’s mischievous book on Sri Aurobindo. His site *Mirror of Tomorro...
A Letter from RY Deshpande to Manoj Das Gupta—Apropos of the Show-Cause Notice - Let me just say what I had said earlier in one of my letters to you, that you are crudely per...
Minimizing the Obstacles to the Transforming Action of the Higher Consciousness - Sri Aurobindo provides some guidance for how to support the action of the higher force of consciousness at each stage of its development. “In order to allo...
Sri Aurobindo's volcanic key to the Veda -Kala Tattva Kosha published by IGNCA lists nearly 500 Sanskrit texts in comparison to which The Seven Quartets is like a drop in the ocean. All its terms...
Etre, Esprit, Conscience force - S’il est une chose que Sri Aurobindo et Douce Mère ont remis en valeur dans notre monde et nature corporée, c’est que nous ne sommes pas exclusivement un E...
Dharana Shakti : the capacity to sustain spiritual experiences - We tend to yawn and eat junk food after a period of meditation because the physical body is tamasic(dull) by nature and not accustomed to the newly-attaine...
- SAVITRI BOOK TWO : The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto Five : The Godheads of the Little Life (Page : 154 - 159) 10th March 2012 (Telecon) Durati...
Re-membering the Posthuman Within/Across Sustainability Paths Anita Girvan - This paper will focus primarily on .... the liminal encounters en-coded within sustainability practice; however, some of the foundational theory I present ...
Money Power - Q: Divine Mother, could we have a message from you to pass along to those in the United States who may be ready to aid in the fund-raising work we are d...
Golden Memories by Togo Mukherjee -Dear Friends, Today we are publishing the reminiscences of Shri Dhritindranath Mukherjee better known as ‘Togo’ in the Aurobindonian community. Shri To...
New content: Attempts to create an “Aurobindonian religion” - New content, reproduced below, has been added to this website: Attempts to create an “Aurobindonian religion”: Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have unambiguou...
Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Routledge India, 2008
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

To exceed ourselves

The Mother's Message to Matrupuri, Risida, Odisha

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Thursday, March 08, 2012

Savitri reading is a potent vehicle of aspiration

Savitri (book) - thefullwiki
The whole poem first appeared in book-form in two parts in 1950 and 1951. Sri Aurobindo's letters written to his disciples on various aspects of the poem are now part of the book. This modern epic written in a modern language is also a modern day scripture. It recounts the saga of human victory over ignorance and conquest of death. Painstakingly composed in a rhythmic meter, each line of the poem is suffused with power of Mantra.
Many students and disciples of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother draw inspiration from Savitri for their spiritual growth. Many even find the answers to their doubts and questions by opening the book at random. On special occasions, continuous recitation of Savitri on a relay basis is also quite common in the Centers where the works and yoga teachings of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo are studied and practiced. Regular camps and conclaves are also organized at different places in the world to study the poem and contemplate over its occult force.
Reading Savitri is itself considered as practice of integral yoga and a potent vehicle of aspiration. And, therefore, its central role in the process of yoga is often affirmed with both awe and affection. Related links Savitri Era - Savitri Era is our religion

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Silent protest from February 26-28


Pondy ashram faces 3-day flak Deccan Chronicle February 27, 2012 chennai By S. Prasad
The Sri Aurobindo Ashram here is facing an embarrassing turmoil with a section of the inmates and devotees launching a three-day protest against the trustees of the ashram for their alleged failure to take action against inmate and US author Peter Heehs for making “denigrating” remarks against Sri Aurobindo and The Mother in his book, ‘The lives of Sri Aurobindo’.
The aggrieved inmates announced a silent protest from February 26-28 to exert pressure seeking dismissal of the present group of trustees and expulsion of Mr Heehs from the ashram community.
Mr Bijan Ghosh, a devotee and Supreme Court lawyer, told Deccan Chronicle that the Orissa government had proscribed the book in 2009. The book contains ‘derogatory’ and ‘malicious’ content about Sri Aurobindo, The Mother and the collective life at the ashram. We are going to intensify the agitation till our demands are met, he warned. A section of the protesters also demanded the dismissal of the present trustees of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust.
They demanded that the trust publicly declare that the book is factually incorrect and does not represent the views of the community and the trust and that Mr Heehs has abused his position at the archives. The trust should also withdraw the copyright permission to publisher Columbia University Press.
A spokesperson of the trust said the ashram cannot take a fundamentalist stand and some, posing as gurus and those the ashram had taken action against for indiscipline, were instigating the devotees. Many who have written to the ashram appreciating the book, felt that those who found the book offensive have not read it completely. Further, Mr Heehs’ visa extension file was pending with the Union home ministry. As long as his visa is not rejected, his stay is not illegal, said the spokesperson.
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