From being a rationalist to being a devotee

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Folks - Let's talk about race, privilege, identity, and what constitutes a legitimate claim to knowledge in the study of Indian history. THREAD #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #history #India

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So, does my race matter? Yes. I have benefited from white privilege at every stage in my life, including now. I oppose white privilege and strive to make the playing field more equal. Simultaneously, I try to use my white privilege for the greater good, to call out injustices.

Knowledge of history is not found in the water that you drink, nor in your blood that runs through your veins. Historical knowledge is gained by long, intense, laborious training.

So, folks, identity matters, but it is not the basis on which historians speak. If you want to listen to someone's views on Indian history because of their appearance, you're rejecting the very basis of academic inquiry, namely the bedrock of knowledge and analysis.

Audrey Truschke- how soul vultures lie about Indian history for cheap conversions – She belongs to a soul vulture family. Should not be allowed to enter India as her prime motivation is conversion through false narratives https://t.co/IjkeJXfnYK

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Even hotter take: Derrida's critique of Agamben is clearly motivated by personal animosity! And many Derrideans accept it due to in-group dynamics rather than a fair assessment of Agamben's work! Which is fine. There's so much to read.

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I'm working on Homo Sacer today, and it strikes me that antiquated medical texts are an "area of competence" for Agamben throughout his career. We get a good helping of that in Stanzas, in the third part of Homo Sacer, then in Use of Bodies.

We begin a new series on the enduring fight for survival of an ancient civilisation against a menacing, violent ideology: the first that has refused to submit to the onslaught, the last of the great pagan bastions..Who will win..?

#Quran #Islam #Hindus https://t.co/XuJNgnqgZZ

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The Qur’ān, the Mu’mins, the Ahl-e-Qitāb & The Kāfirs – I

A spate of violence unleashed on Hindus by Muslim mobs in the recent months in India have to be viewed in the context of a larger war of civilisation that has been going on since fourteen centuries https://t.co/XuJNgnqgZZ

All Muslims turn towards the Kaaba to pray, but this was not always so. In the initial phase of Islam, Muslims turned towards Jerusalem. It was only later that the qiblah was changed to the Kaaba, writes @mjakbar, https://t.co/KsgPAIgp13 https://t.co/E5nef6ToZI

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The Ahmedabad Session of the pre-independence Indian National Congress that met on 24 December 1921 officially appointed Mohandas Gandhi as the dictator. Read what happened next. https://t.co/Fox27LxXvM

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There's one device I want you everyone to keep in mind when reading about Hindu Princely states. Nehruvian era historians distorted their actions greatly, in order to justify the merger

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A careful reader can see Bankim Chandra ji's writing transition from being a rationalist to being a devotee through out the book. The transition, whether by intent or by destiny, is beautiful @Sai_swaroopa @AbhinavAgarwal @IndicAcademy @indictoday

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I don’t know. Does anybody know? 😀

I would guess the outlook for sport would be similar to Yōga, or to the Mārga dance forms in Nātyaśāstra: avoid risky sports that bring harm to the body, avoid games of chance/gambling, cultivate sports that bring union to the body and mind. https://t.co/MgkDBBFcrb

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From the point of view of Nātyaśāstra, the performance is ultimately not for an audience, but for the meditative inner experience of the performer himself/herself. The same is true of sport. From a Yogic perspective, a good sport should encourage this capacity of “flow” over age.

"Nation-state borders, in their current form, cannot humanely, justly, or even efficiently accommodate the depth of transnational interconnection that characterizes our world." https://t.co/MijRiRNXVY

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Climate Revolution a ‘Must Read’ for understanding our Sun driven climate as we progress deeper into the new Eddy Grand Solar Minimum. Weather extremes leading to high food prices are here now, and this book describes the expected changes from 2019-2023

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Can i have ur e mail id please....I personally involve  in waste  management policy issue which has a huge potential for livelihood https://t.co/OXYwOLZvl8 good friend from Odisha has strted a compay to provide primary health care fascility in digital platforms..Mail u detais..

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Rasagola is good as it has protein. Not eating rice or roti (including their derivatives) is the solution. Body doesn't need them at all. My Bhata chhada andolana!

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150799486597287936?s=19

Please take a look at this seminal work. https://t.co/SszOdcDw2S @BooksPanda @ashoswai @svaradarajan

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I realised Mogubai's Tilak Kamod (Sakala Dukha Harana) rendition wasn't available on YouTube. Sharing it with all of you on her 115th birth anniversary.  https://t.co/dxWc6nPQxn #Mogubai #MogubaiKurdikar

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Magic of such timeless classic: one can't remember when & where one heard it for the first time! Whoever in our time hadn't a chance to hear it in  childhood is an unfortunate one. https://t.co/fxo3L7jdY4

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Krishna's lover Radha was not even named in Srimad Bhagavatam, the canonical text strictly followed by the Hare Krishna Vaishnavites. If I'm not wrong, several other puranas (Brahma-Vaivarta Purana, etc), suggest that Radha is fair-complexioned while Krishna isn't..

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The reality is that the religiously motivated nob violence by muslims on non muslims is the highest. Make muslims peaceful, @asadowaisi. Make muslims stop cattle theft, smuggling, mob violence, rape and lynching of innocent Hindus, especially our dalit brothers and sisters. https://t.co/eWhnn2aDs6

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Same logic applies to you. You believing that 'I am imposing my love for cow' is ur personal choice and is only limited to you. You can't impose your belief on me. I worship and protect whatever I want. Also, I won't get violent when some 'Vishnu Das' is lynched. Jai Shri Ram. https://t.co/pu869XQHAW

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@Auro_Mere Again gone thro’ the article  in @timesofindia ! Appears that only @iitmadras @IITKgp @IITKanpur @iitgn etc are associated with the project ‘Gandhipaedia ‘! I hope there’ll be lots of devotees of #SriAurobindo ,like you’re from @iitdelhi, who can help in ‘Auropedia’ ! https://t.co/ZF6vxVIt0T

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61) Hymns 389 - 394 (Verses 3,914 - 3,951): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 05, Sukta 035 to 040 (including a hymn on the legend of Svarbhanu); with #SriAurobindo's words on the true psychological significance of Soma https://t.co/wcplyyIu1q

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What is the origin of the different methods of writing,– from right to left, from left to right or, like the Chinese, vertically? SRI AUROBINDO ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA SHORTER WORKS 1910-1950 https://t.co/vha8nxnDC2 @vakibs @bennedose @Hiranyareta @Shakra_Kulish @Parikramah

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Twelve years back https://t.co/NFyh03iKoW @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad (UP) #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

"No term was fixed to the high-pitched attempt;" -Sri Aurobindo. Savitri. Book 2, Canto 1 https://t.co/M9rgU4Vxz5

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Savitri Era Political Action: Will Durant, Paul Brunton, and Bimal Roy https://t.co/aJ6Bt7VosG

@NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad UP #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

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Strive for a united, peaceful global society

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The larger aim of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, is to strive for a united, peaceful global society. Refreshingly, there is no talk of religion.

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https://t.co/tHs29hZxYn Modi’s elevation to the post of India’s prime minister in 2014 is a watershed moment for India. @PMOIndia @narendramodi has understood the idea of Bharat Shakti & is therefore the best instrument to confirm & fulfil Aurobindo’s augury. https://t.co/QZZdUmFssC

https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1146606776189456384?s=19

In absence of concrete ideas and policies, empty symbolism is what passes for pro Hindu polity. (This is why core is important) https://t.co/Fb9kFQ7nFa

https://twitter.com/doubtinggaurav/status/1146733440995168257?s=19

That was what the great S R Goel had nicknamed 'windbag' politics, steered in his time by Vajpayee. Alas! that wasn't an exception but has become a well-entrenched tradition.

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For the BJP however, especially after the advent of Modi at its helm, ‘Vande Mataram’ evolved into a war cry, a chant that defines the party’s – and other affiliates of the Sangh parivar – view of nationalism. https://t.co/H1CRdN5hAI

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5/ Sri Aurobindo's difficulty in expressing on paper what he experienced firsthand inwardly, is a GREAT lesson: No matter what the words on the page tell us, they NEVER give us more than a hint or a suggestion or a pointer to what the real meaning of those words are or might be..

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Peter Heehs and his American supporters at the Archives of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, should be packed off to Donald Trump’s country -- read  https://t.co/LnrWUQZI3l

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The Mother & Sri Aurobindo can't, definitely, be identified with one nation; they worked for the whole humanity or rather to transcend it. Those who are in love with a muscular representation of Sri Aurobindo's political philosophy are, of course, entitled to such a tunnel vision.

Exactly. But Ashis Nandy n Dipesh Chakrabarty refuse to accept our view. And they are the "gods" of social history today!!! Sugata Bose knows his value a bit. https://t.co/BhZWBOK6VT

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Let's hope that new informed representation of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo surface across disciplines so that the two extremes, 1) yoga and meditation pushed by the Ashram, and 2) militant revolutionary popularised by the left make way for a wider appreciation of their versatility

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1. There is need to bring Sri Aurobindo's vision to occupy Indian political space.

2. We also need to be REALISTIC.

3. It would not be like Hindutva.

3. But it would need to address Islamic terrorism and Christian convertion.

4. Let this idea reach all Sri Aurobindo followers.

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Marketime: Muscular representation of Sri Aurobindo is tunnel vision https://t.co/SoZSNxwUvs

Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) @NathTusar

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

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"Spiritual Dimension of Fertility, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Ayurveda" - essay by Dr. P. Rammanohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda https://Spiritual Dimension of Fertility, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Ayurveda https://t.co/d2wnSvrj1z

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But we had Yogis like Sri Aurobindo who by his acute Sadhna ,turned the course of a World war ! Didn't let Hitler the evil forces win ,This is the strength of his Tap , sadhne & sacrifice ,Don't know abt him but we hv enlightened babas who hv attained victory over nature ! -

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A sense of cohesion having communal goals

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God can only be known by symbols because in its ultimate reality it defies logic and exceeds perception – Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/O9jlMsqgib

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William James, the first psychologist to demonstrate “war”, the author of the seminal essay named ‘The Moral Equivalent of War’, coined the term “discipline”, indicating a sense of cohesion having communal goals towards the service of greater welfare.

At the personal level, war makes us feel more alive, awake and alert. As per the bird’s eye view of James, “it ‘redeem[s] life from flat degeneration.’ Moreover, it gives us purpose and meaning, going beyond the monotony of daily life. “Life seems cast upon a higher plane of power”.  In this age, the development of democracy, nuclear deterrent and especially sports as the “moral equivalent of war”-as mentioned by James, are some salient factors getting around for the rise in peacefulness. Apart from this, the rise of international trades, communications, and the Internet are also capturing the worth mentioning place values.  Thus, empathy has been rising, and moral inclusions are promoted. However, it must be reminded that perpetuating overconfidence of human psychology to control and secure the self-invented technologies or war innovations like missiles, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, and so on, had been giving rise to complacency.  Besides, Hilbert's problems of security, the future of various war technologies have also been raising various ethical and political debates regarding what type of community we will be leaving for future generations. Rajabhishek Dey [The Psychology of War, Steve Taylor Ph.D., https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/out-the-darkness/201403/the-psychology-war]

Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata. Analysis of Chapter V Kurukshetra from Essays on The Gita by Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/dGsX0Jpz4R

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I hear you. Grappled with same binary, still do to an extent. Solution seems to be poise of the Gita, to engage in battle while positing our consciousness on the Divine. That way life and sadhana need not be divorced. A vast world-action, even terrible, is the way of Kshatriya.

And I use term Kshatriya for its characteristic impulse to make progress under hostile conditions. This varna template makes one not foster the other three varnas implicit or behind dominant one. Makes us hobbled. Read Essays on Gita by Sri Aurobindo, if you have not, will help.

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He is an international icon ! Whitman, Yeats, Tagore n Sri Aurobindo. 4 world poets of the modern age.

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“He’s become an American icon, and I think that was a hope of his." —Karen Karbiener

Learn more about Walt Whitman and the #WaltWhitman200 exhibition now. https://t.co/t1hV5qpG5X

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Ginsberg was the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality. Like the expansive, sensual, democratic Whitman but unlike the twisted, dishonest, pretentious Foucault, he saw the continuity between great nature and the human body, bathed in waves of cosmic energy. (Salon 4/15/1997)

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Our guide should be not the frigid, head-tripping nerd Michel Foucault but prophetic Allen Ginsberg, who fused Hinduism with Walt Whitman to give us a radical vision of energy, passion, and sensuality—of homosexual desire grounded in the amoral rhythms of nature. (VT 1994)

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For gay men, free love detached from all reference to nature meant that, by the eighties, their ruling theorist would be social constructionist Michel Foucault rather than the nature-revering Whitman or Ginsberg. (Arion 2003)

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Deplatforming & unpersoning are examples of Foucauldian ‘dividing practices’. Foucault’s own examples include the isolation of lepers during the Middle Ages, & later the confinement of the insane. Unpersoning is an especially devastating & effective method.[..]

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They want to defend essentialism, which Foucault rejects. Foucault doesn’t say ‘there is no human nature’, he rather changes the subject and asks how was human nature defined in any given epoch. Who was doing the defining? Etc.

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I’ve wondered why people like paglia and many on the right shit on Foucault when the the majority of what he’s doing is critiquing elite power dynamics

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Explore #Foucault's thoughts on homosexuality in this OUP blog. A major influence on #queertheory, he examined the issues of power, repression, and sexuality and the ways in which societies penalize those who reject the norms #PrideMonth #philosopherOTM  https://t.co/OuI06CYOcq

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Excuse me, but I am tired of seeing posts like this. William Blake, Walt Whitman, Foucault and other free thinkers sought to liberate sexual activity in general, not to shackle it to “queerness,” and “deviance.” Sexuality liberated is Private!

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Dr. @dnbrgr put together a comprehensive prison abolition syllabus which invites people to read many different books: https://t.co/SLtUs5rIME

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1. Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy by Nils Christie.

2. Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists by Prison Research Education Action Project

3. Kind & Usual Punishment: The Prison Business by Jessica Mitford

4. Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

5. Penal Abolition: The Practical Choice by Ruth Morris

6. Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Agains the PIC by Critical Resistance.

7. The Crime of Imprisonment by George Bernard Shaw

8. Arrested Justice by Beth Richie

9. How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos

10. Disability Incarcerated Edited by Liat Ben Moshe

11. Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus

Finally if you are a speculative fiction fan read Octavia's Brood edited by @adriennemaree and @WalidahImarisha. Also read Captive Genders edited by @Eric_A_Stanley

"If a state is going to take its secularism seriously, what might that mean for its education system?"

3rd up in our #Moral #Education series, Andrew Copson considers some #ethical problems for #Secular education in a pluralistic world: https://t.co/Xdal35Q1Hu #philosophy ...

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The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism https://t.co/LdhsS6sVi1

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Rejecting capitalist notions of freedom | @PriyamvadaGopal 

Priyamvada Gopal shows how the British tradition of anti-colonialism was heavily influenced by resistance from within the colonies. 

She is the author of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent. https://t.co/whdcuSBC0F

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The book aims to contribute to, in a modest way ( I mean that) to reconfiguring the way we think about Britain and Britons' relationship to empire as well as how African & Asian heritage communities in Britain think about themselves in relation to Britain  https://t.co/LlDTE93TUr

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Acerbic. Insightful. Brilliant. Arundhati Roy's book, Listening to Grasshoppers, examines the darkest deeds of the Indian democracy and asks uncomfortable questions. https://t.co/UMQJuif7WL

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#NeverForget Today was the day, June 25, 1975, when Indira Gandhi declared the #Emergency, and THIS is how it happened.

My column, on the darkest chapter in independent India's history. https://t.co/B6WnK3L6pP

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Because India's nationalism is moored in the Hindu liberal tradition of pluralism, the country's future as a secular republic is secure, writes @sreemoytalukdar https://t.co/dTF7Ll6r1W

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Recently there were few attempts at giving a new interpretation to samskaras. This post, thanks to @zeneraalstuff , is in a way a response. Tries to show what our rishis thought of samskaras. And a short introduction to the main ones. https://t.co/L7MAqK03IN

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12) Hymns 71 - 76 (Verses 807 - 855): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 071 to 076 (including more hymns on the powers of Agni); with #SriAurobindo's words on how He arrived at the psychological meaning behind the Vedic system of worlds & the Gods https://t.co/nqF1jHzXwt

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13) Hymns 77 - 82 (Verses 856 - 908): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 077 to 082 (including description of the movements of Indra and Agni); with #SriAurobindo's words on the necessity of establishing a philological basis for His psychological theory https://t.co/vZXiQ1dd4w

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29. The flame burning within that smoke is the powerful penance of Janaloka. This is also called as Naka or swarga, the plane of Bliss (anandamaya loka) bereft of ignorance and sorrow. Naka also refers to the state of Bliss that can be achieved by individual soul. ||1.6||

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@gary_agg and all those who read Sivanandalahari bhaashyam !  Pl.  study today's bhaashyam very carefully may be a couple of times.  It explains a very important philosophical pillars of our Dhaarmic understanding of reality.

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26.  .@MarioPuzo901 We are continuing the bhaashyam on Umasahasram from where we left off yesterday.

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261. This in turn leads us to the realization of ‘sivoham’ of our oneness with Parameswara in Sivaanandalahari!

Sivoham, Sivoham 

262.  Tomorrow we will take up the next sloka.

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The effect of an unselfish dharmika man around girls n women cannot be underestimated.  Just like effect of mother on small kids cannot be.  Anyway,  everybody wants jugaad,  nobody wants to invest n sacrifice for a dharmika community.

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Time is always moving and taking things to their conclusion. Like a little kid one day becomes a old man, a big tree sprouts up from a tiny seed, a valley becomes a desert. We need to move with time. Whoever is waiting for an approval to move is only deceiving himself.

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That's why Sanyasi's perform their own Sraddha before taking Sanyas. They have taken up a vow of moving alone and not to depend on anyone. Chart you own path. Each and every successful person has charted their own path.

Everyone of them had to clash with the society. The clash between society and a powerful person is the most ancient battle in the history of mankind. Clash between collectivism and Individualism. Vama Marg is individualistic.

It's fear which makes us weak and inactive. The difference between  a passive person and active person is actually fear. The fear of failure vs the urge to reach the success. That's what makes the difference.

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it's always easy to gang up on one like a pack of wolves,requires no qualification, not even any guts :) only the lone warrior reaches enlightenment, as zen philosophy puts it and luckily for us, Bengal never lacked single 🐅,who stood away from flow, in all fields https://t.co/DTddlmSBPS

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Who stole my river? In the past 100 years, nearly 700 rivers have died in the delta of the Ganges in Bengal

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Just today I came to know that some historians believed Junei, a place 2.5 km before Konarka, holds an important place in history. They believe this place was the capital of King Kharabela. @TapanSatpthy sir, @PramodpandaVk sir, @ashishkumar_tw  @mishra9_supriya @TheCrazy_Freak

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Tarani bhai. You were also present there..You know better than me. https://t.co/cC0Ux6OpJm

Reading "The RSS: A View to the Inside" by Walter K Andersen & Shridhar D. Damle. Had always wanted to read an authoritative account of the Sangh. https://t.co/hXE4AWT0CU

https://twitter.com/BooksPanda/status/1143242719151550464?s=19

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Vama Marg is individualistic https://t.co/mMTZyfTM8I

A practical and effective means of coming out of the present chaos

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Yet, this dream is on the way of becoming a reality. That is exactly what we are seeking to do at the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo on a small scale, in proportion to our modest means.

https://twitter.com/DivineLovePower/status/1139552015183306752?s=19

The achievement is indeed far from being perfect but it is progressive; little by little we advance towards our goal, which, we hope, one day we shall be able to hold before the world as a practical and effective means of coming out of the present chaos in order to be born into a more true, more harmonious new life.

The Mother

From the astronomical point of view the earth is nothing, it is a very small accident. From the spiritual point of view, it is a symbolic willed formation.

#TheMother #IntegralYoga https://t.co/vq1zup1SAS

https://twitter.com/integralyog/status/1139362259027632128?s=19

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being. #sriaurobindo https://t.co/vbJMNLBJg9

https://twitter.com/InevitableWord/status/1139173014128406529?s=19

Sri Aurobindo: YOGA: we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being & a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man & in the Cosmos

https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1137096043965763584?s=19

In the current issue of Renaissance, our e-journal, we feature some fundamental tips for beginners on the path of sadhana/yoga. These letters were written by Pavitra, one of the earliest disciples of #SriAurobindo and the Mother #InternationalYogaDay https://t.co/ptSIbUmoht

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1139774409168867328?s=19

We are working on various innovative projects and keep organisig various programs for learning Sanskrit and Indian Culture. Follow us if you are interested to participate and learn. @Sampadananda @beloome #LearnSamskritam @languagecurry

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1139508521131638784?s=19

If I am not wrong,rishi aurobindo and PY had made similar observations on non-monetary form of wealth system being a better option. @raptor_fossil @ArpanAgarwal3 @kalisbrood @BharatPronam @Sanjays81301051 murlignosis please feel free to chime in

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1139754667976433664?s=19

The rise of communism in Bengal has more spiritual undercurrents than most even would try to figure/sort. The communist bastion in short term,blocked flow of the tentacles of global monetary chain into land of wb,thereby preventing temporary prosperity of this land. https://t.co/ma8lhMI3jv

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1139405177230807043?s=19

@kalisbrood @raptor_fossil @ArpanAgarwal3 @redLotus1_ @Sanjays81301051 @Auro_Mere  u may like this I was reading these by taking printout of PDFs till now,but it's always better to have the touch of a real book in hands,that ways ideas get transmitted directly as I feel.
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1139808759746682880?s=19

I'm not sure what SA said about barter system. But I think Mother did mention sthg akin to paper-note currency being value-less & gold coins of old having greater value etc.

https://twitter.com/raptor_fossil/status/1139772821297434624?s=19

One thing I find very interesting is where science ends Sri Aurobindo begins. Man is an intermediate stage of evolution is quite apparent and also scientifically evident now..Joy Sri Aurobindo

https://twitter.com/iamsuprabhat/status/1139732458528636933?s=19

Well said. #SriAurobindo said that Sanatana Dharma is Hinduism and that is your religion. 

Till de day Dindus are just one community in this land among others, this land will remain like this. If the present situation is cool for some people, then , well.... less said, de better.

https://twitter.com/raptor_fossil/status/1139400149732491264?s=19

We sensed moderation in the approach of Modi govt and extended support. Apart from people like Jaitley or RSS, Reliance may be responsible for the middle path. Hindutva and Dynasty are aberrations and must be thrown away. Following Sri Aurobindo therefore is the most sensible way

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1139435071331430401?s=19

Each religion is a bundle of superstition and people have no option than to carry forward that burden. They are fighting with each other without having any hand in creation of the religions. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have clearly said about the end of the reign of all religions.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1139253914111361024?s=19

Shubh Prabhat, Brothers !!

I am interested to know about the theology of SriAurobindo and TheMother.

You may suggest me books on that.

Best Wishes, My Brothers !!

https://twitter.com/brahmavidvariya/status/1139722156110041088?s=19

white lotus

@redLotus1_

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19h

Please google

"Mother ,Sri Aurobindo, 4 Asuras"

Satan was one of the 4. But he has converted to #Mither's side in 1905 itself.

He is lord of consciousness, chit or light.

But he became lord of darkness due to deleting of 'I' n separated himself frm Supreme Father like other 3.

and he started the Chinese revolution (nationalist one of Chang Mai shek) as beginning of "terrestrial revolution" on earth.

#Mother is Ādya ParaShakti. Came to earth to convert back or annul the original 4 Asuras (sat, chit, tapas, ananda) , her kids, before the Gods.

@auroviryavaan @raptor_fossil

Satan after conversion in 1905 started Chinese revolution in 1911 at EXACT TIME N DATE that told #Mother in 1905.

Even breakdown of families n race riots in most advanced America too r his work alone.

All over the earth, he causes maximum disorder till he has to surrender before the #Mother (his also) in Bharat.

This is destined.

Yoga includes Rasa; Aesthetics is beyond morality

Assorted tweets

Enough of devotion! We now want critical works on Sri Aurobindo's literary output. Of course, nobody shd forget on whom he/she is writing! Can u forget when u r writing on Shakespeare? Like that. Sri Aurobindo is another Lord of the English  language.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1137541369789001728?s=19

He must be placed in a comparative framework. Else the world won't accept his merit. Most in the world r not devotees of Sri Aurobindo.  And our objective will be to make them know him.  Devotion has done enough harm to Sri Aurobindo. Both the devotees n detractors r guilty.

Let us open out the master for all--  devotees n non-devotees. Sri Aurobindo for all shd be the slogan.

Many people are not bhaktas. But they are fascinated by his language of prose n poetry. They are welcome to appreciate Sri Aurobindo. Those who abuse him  shd be treated as becharas!

Sri Aurobindo for Hindus, for Muslims, for Christians, for Sikhs, for Jainas, Buddhists -- Sri Aurobindo for all. Why does an Avatar speak n write English? Because he is for humanity. He is the writer of a great bk called The Ideal of Human Unity.

All can do integral yoga. A change of religion is not needed for that.

Shakespeare is the supreme Lord of Language. Sri Aurobindo has a whole body of aesthetics on Shakespeare. Without  rationality n balance in the devotees Sri Aurobindo will continue to be neglected.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1137614319816851456?s=19

I was referring to Shakespeare's language. Not his substance. Shakespeare n Sri Aurobindo r the 2 greatest Lords of language.  By the way Sri Aurobindo's Interpretation of Shakespeare may be seen in The Future Poetry n Letters.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1137612077353168896?s=19

The idea is to see Sri Aurobindo as a culture hero. Bhakti is one aspect. Personal matter.  There are many aspects of the Master.  Let the no-bhaktas also take some fragrance of him from his sociology, anthropology, literature, psychology etc.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1137712649888776192?s=19

Beg to differ sir! #SriAurobindo Has No Parallel !

Beg to differ sir again! Devotees haven’t made any harm to #SriAurobindo ! In fact they’re spreading His Words !! As far as quality of Shakespeare is😟,I had a glimpse of it & found it full of violence, hatred, lust,crime...he can’t be compared with SA! @Auro_Mere @BharatPronam

https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1137608797239828480?s=19

Exactly ! What #SriAurobindo & the Mother expect from a devotee is Pure Faith & total Surrender!! Rest lies with the Masters!!

Let’s differentiate between study & devotion! #IntegralYoga by #SriAurobindo isn’t meant for all as it’s “call given very rare & few are selected for it !! Otherwise in a world 🌎of billons not a few millions are devotee of SA!!! Because..

Only few can walk in greater light..

https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1137660482159091713?s=19

I think you mean by devotee a particularly sombre, cheerless breed who shut out all in a nervy way. But yoga includes 'Rasa' which is why it's integral. Sri Aurobindo wants us to understand the hidden poetry, 'Rasa' the world carries within. বৈরাগ্যসাধনে মুক্তি, সে আমার নয়..

https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1137715781741862913?s=19

Aesthetics is beyond morality. Devotees(some) tend to follow a moral rigour rather than a spiritual one, to build a Sri Aurobindo cult. Defeats purpose. Sri Aurobindo is all embracing, from poetry to battlefield. Branding SA as a school or discipline is a strait jacket.

https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1137694722825187330?s=19

Since the end of WW2 Sri Aurobindo era has begun. It is felt, not known. Like Ramkrishna had said of special force latent in a person: It's there, but one isn't aware of it.

That's the idea. From the sidewalk of College st to Bastaar forest, to seek & find His fragrance, maybe as a Baiju Bawra or a brooding Jibonanondo Das - depends on your sadhana of previous births. And bhakti? Invisible & individual, like fingerprints.

https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1137720461091934216?s=19

SA preferred students to devotees. The former inspect, question and analyse before their claim on knowledge. They deny accepting anything without an acid test, and that saves them from becoming blind believers, who out of lethal habit tend to become superstitious eventually.

https://twitter.com/rimabalaka/status/1137634144056307712?s=19

Understood! But if a student is not a devotee will Sri Aurobindo open himself to that person?

https://twitter.com/lopamudra_adak/status/1137655164465164288?s=19

@GoutamGhosal2  himself is a profound devotee.But being an emninent scholar of Sri Aurobindo he is explaining how students should approach Sri Aurobindo in terms of academic aspects. Moreover a comparative study will strengthen the faith of a devotee and help the world to feel it

https://twitter.com/lopamudra_adak/status/1137659054413664257?s=19

I don't believe in any astrology,life is a function of a vast karmic field that is connected to a huge collective sentience ,u simply cannot simplify this model enough to a few stars and planets,be that western or indic  :) and my life depends on my ishta,planets can go to hell

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1137604956775636992?s=19

Seed is there,as was planted by swami Vivekananda but the planet is not yet ready to unleash the free dance of mahamaya  on physical plane as energy flow ,Kali yuga principle is standing very strong,thus energy comes through the barrier of monetary illusion. https://t.co/9Kr5FTuwpo

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1137685295485210624?s=19

Long before ramdev ji started appearing on our tv sets,swami Vivekananda had advised each and everyone in his USA speeches&discourses,to take up 30 minutes of Nadi shodhan and few minutes of basic bhastrika pranayam for maintaining good health :) (Complete Works volume 1+2)

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1137583528571314176?s=19

Dada I have not seen one second piece of literature ,not even rishi aurobindo tbh,that combines so many fields or divergent streams of wisdom in the diary of spiritual journey of a common Kolkata man ,only Kolkata can give such literature to the world 

https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1137380946011758593?s=19

Ulysses by James Joyce shares a similar pattern in the way of narrative ,but Ulysses borrows from history&mythology,not exactly tantra,Philosophy &science like nigurananda. Btw I realised this now,nigurananda may well be considered a mild 'streams of consciousness' writer 

Plasim Radar

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Books on disciples of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Some must read books by the admirers, followers, and devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo.

BREATH OF GRACE

Breath of Grace / Editor M.P. Pandit.– Second Edition 2002

https://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/other/breath_of_grace_e.htm

Contents

M.P. Pandit. Preface

V. Chidanandam. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as I saw Them

Ganpatram. How I came to Sri Aurobindo

Narrated by “K”. Grace Comes to the Seeker

Kanailal Ganguly. As I Remember

T. Kodandarama Rao. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother as I saw Them Fifty Years Back

Maganbhai Desai. The Grace of the Mother

Mrityunjoy. A Look Behind

Pujalal. A Few Reminiscences

Dr. Rajangam. Long Back

Rakhal Das Bose. How I came to the Ashram

Romen Palit. The Grace

Sahana Devi. Forty Years Ago

S.T. Their Deep Compassion

Shanti Doshi. My World: The Mother

Shivabhai Amin. As I look back

K.S. Venkataraman. My Diary-Leaves

Breath of Grace - aurobindo.ru

How I came to Sri Aurobindo. Narrated by “K”. Grace Comes to the ... The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo's gospel of Divine Life is there enshrined in his vast body of literature. The Teachings of the Mother are there ...

The Golden Path (Not for sale in USA) Interviews with Disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville — Anie Nunnally

Anie's subjects are all illustrious Aurobindonians.

Amal is an outstanding poet and critic, and is one of the most brilliant academic minds India has produced in our time.

Udar had a degree in aeronautical engineering from the London University; he founded the Harpagon Atelier and was one of the personal secretaries to the Mother.

Gauri Pinto, his daughter, has been a teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.

Tehmi Masalawalla was a poet, translator and teacher all her life.

Sunanda Poddar was associated for years with SABDA and is currently the caretaker of "Srismriti", the Mother's Museum.

Richard Pearson is a teacher, botanist, and editor of Flowers and Their Messages.

Jhumur Bhattacharya is a teacher at Knowledge (the Higher Course of the Centre of Education) and has taught for many years Savitri, The Life Divine, and the Mother's Entretiens.

Anurakta (Anthony David Rochelle) has for decades been the manager of the Sri Aurobindo Hand Made Paper factory.

Anu Purani has been a teacher, writer and dancer.

Aster Patel received a Ph.D. from Sorbonne and has taught at Knowledge and worked for Auroville for many years.

Krishna Tewari is a retired two-star major general of the Indian army and is in charge of Auroville Archives.

Amrit Iriyama, a Japanese American, has worked for many years at the Matrimandir Gardens and Nursery.

Each one of the interviewed disciples is like a quarry of precious stones and the author has delved deep into their yogic beings and brought out for us many a diamond of dazzling beauty.
— Mangesh Nadkarni

https://www.sabda.in/catalog/booksearch.php?criteria=all&terms=Golden&search_mode=search&x=0&y=0

Seven Dedicated Lives Paperback – Jul 2009

by Sunayana Panda 

https://www.amazon.in/Books-Sunayana-Panda/s?rh=n%3A976389031%2Cp_27%3ASunayana+Panda

These biographical essays provide glimpses into the lives of seven disciples – Nirodbaran, Tehmi, Rishabhchand, Millie, Krishnalal, Mona Pinto, and Udar – who joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in the 1930s and 1940s and played active roles in the life of this spiritual community. The book also includes an article on why Christmas is celebrated in the Ashram. The stories of how these sadhaks and sadhikas were drawn to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the ways in which they dedicated themselves and their work to the ideal set before them are inspirational and exemplary.

A GARLAND OF ADORATION — KRISHNA CHAKRAVARTI

This book is a collection of articles, mostly in English but also in Bengali, that appeared in journals such as Mother India and Srinvantu. In these the author, who has lived in the Ashram since 1956, expresses her adoration of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, muses on various themes inspired by their vision, and fondly reminisces about old disciples such as Amrita-da, Dyuman-bhai, Millie-di, and many others.

REMEMBERING THE MOTHER WITH GRATITUDE

A COLLECTION OF REMINISCENCES

— ESSAYS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS

In the '30s, she was not as much accessible to the first generation of sadhaks as she was to the children of the Playground in the '40s and '50s. Chitra Sen, Aster Patel, Richard Pearson, Gauri Pinto, Shobha Mitra and Krishna Chakravarty were among those lucky children, ...
The second set of recollections is by Prema Nandakumar, Georges Van Vrekhem and Varadharajan, one of the first Tamilians to settle in Auroville. 

https://www.sabda.in/catalog/booksearch.php?page=2#start

Shyam Kumari, How They Came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ...

https://philpapers.org/rec/KUMHTC

by S Kumari - ‎1990 - ‎Cited by 2 - ‎Related articles

How They Came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: Twenty-Nine True Stories of Sadhaks and Devotees. Shyam Kumari. Mother Pub. House (1990). Like.

Vignettes of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: Amazon.in: Shyam Kumari ...

https://www.amazon.in/Vignettes-Aurobindo-Mother-Shyam-Kumari/.../B01M8KXU8...

Anecdotes and incidents recounted by disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother concerning their relations and their experiences with them, as told to the author ...

Indian Literature (special issue): How I came to Sri Aurobindo