Thursday, June 21, 2018

Sri Aurobindo's Integral lens to overcome the tyranny of binaries

The Hindu-31-May-2018
Tagore was on his way to England when he expressed a desire to meet Sri Aurobindo in Puducherry at a time when Sri Aurobindo was not ...

The New Indian Express-20-Jan-2018
It was sometime in 1972 that the Paris-based Indian historian, linguist, scholar of Indian culture and of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy Prithwindra ...

The New Indian Express-15-Jun-2018
In a footnote to a chapter in his magnum opus, The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo wrote, “Even if Science—physical Science or occult ...

Assorted tweets for general information:

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo gave us the Integral lens to overcome the tyranny of immediate binaries and espouse modern values that are universal. Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud made Theory global but Sri Aurobindo imbued it with the much-needed Vedic Evolutionary inevitability.

Pranab Mukherjee’s Aligarh detour may explain his pointless discourse in Nagpur https://t.co/svlEyMKK3F https://t.co/2C9kSranty

“Sabka saath, sabka vikas” can be a facile government slogan, not for a party which claims a Hindu constituency. The exit from J&K misadventure gives BJP an opportunity to rediscover it’s ideological moorings as a party of Indic people and culture. https://t.co/TkEUtR40n7 https://t.co/WKwmYxIV7X

When Paid Media, Liberals & Commies are bought by opposition to defeat a successful leader Modi, it's time to sit back & see what Modi has done in this little time.Will this progress continue if we ignore him & let vultures come again? Pls read the thread below!
#WhyModiIn2019 https://t.co/eLPXjiqFQS

I remain a well-wisher of the BJP and the @narendramodi government but I'm more than disturbed by the change in the governance template and the ecosystem surrounding the PM which is increasingly captured by extreme voices. Here I lay bare my concerns. https://t.co/iAXza56unP
"The RW ecosystem which once used to call out fake news now routinely peddles it." It's not I who have "turned" but the Modi government and the ecosystem surrounding it have morphed beyond recognition. My piece setting the record straight. https://t.co/iAXza56unP

Why I am resigning from the BJP: A Narendra Modi supporter and party campaign analyst explains https://t.co/6UxUaJyc8j https://t.co/ZYAOa3rrdc

I just published “Boycotts — What’s a good strategy?” https://t.co/uMH8oXWIM9
As online activists looking to further political or moral viewpoints, it is important that the outrage that is built-up does not go wasted..Constant outrage leads to diminishing results as followers who see no visible change stop supporting or engaging in such causes https://t.co/5IvJx67ZKh

The Ultimate Aim of the Religion of Humanity https://t.co/b69pqJ5flP

In conversation with Prof  RV – Is Europe at a crossroads? https://t.co/343TevwEbZ via @PGurus1
Prof. @rvaidya2000 on the decline of churchgoers in Western Europe and how the concept of family has been wrecked.

Europe is facing a migrant 'catastrophe' to rival the 2015 crisis, Austria warns https://t.co/OO4DTO8W6A

A reminder to America what it the country is supposed to be all about: https://t.co/4b6G47ClZ0

This is ironical at another level. The US deep state preached human rights to countries around the world, and harassed especially India with its sermons. Now the US itself seems to think human rights is a racket. https://t.co/nsIPYhcnGa

@srinathraghava3's exciting and vital new book, on a History of the United States in South Asia, is now available: https://t.co/kZSsI4FZnv

"In the Kandhamal district of Odisha state in eastern India, Christianity is a significant force in the lives of two minority communities who call the district home," begins Pinky Hota in her essay for our forum on "Crossing and conversion."

Jesus Christ was a Tamil Hindu, claims RSS founder's controversial book https://t.co/x0pmIGLZs6

The forgotten history of the African slaves who were brought to the Deccan and rose to great power https://t.co/tDzYwPr8kW | @UnamPillai https://t.co/iwomrC2xAL

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has some interesting insights to offer about what makes a republic tick, says @ajaybpatri. 

https://t.co/c5vyTXRHeQ We, the modern people of India, don’t care about Bharat. What is equally true is that the people of Bharat care little about us. Is that is why the Lutyens narrative, promoted by politicians & mandarins, is wearing thin, if not already falling apart?

Makarand ji, an insightful piece about what's hiding in plain sight: the soul of the nation. The dharampal quote is profound. By coincidence, I too quoted that incident (it is staggering!) in a different context! It moves and illuminates one https://t.co/kbbKgbvb5J

Also, can you please stop imposing your Shivaji legacy on the rest of us? He was as much of an outsider and invader to many cultures in India.

Kashmir is not the only problem; whole of India is a bundle of problems as the British bungled in 1947. Sovereignty to the States where people decide their fate locally is the only solution. Each State having an External Affairs Ministry should be the first step in that direction

Sampark for Samarthan is a unique, out of the box initiative to reach out to Masses https://t.co/gfiRhBn1gJ

2019 is not a war on Modi but on what he proudly represents - atmost respect for civilisation, pride in our origins and culture, tenacity to defend our stakes in world order and clean the sins which brought our society to 500 years of slavery. If he fails, We fail.

Please read my blog in this subject- Anatomy of a Modi hater - https://t.co/eOonGpHlQn. These people hate Modi much more than they love their own children.

Gauri Lankesh and MM Kalburgi Bound by Common Thread of Lingayat

Real masterminds behind rationalists’ killings are Hindutva groups, they should be exposed: Govind Pansare’s daughter

In all this Manusmriti bashing, our Liberals conveniently leave out the major point. The book specifically says that it is reflecting the dharma of its time, that the dharma changes with changing times & requests readers to use their judgement & not follow the book blindly.

A seminal book by Nandini Bhattacharya-Arya shows how the British, in order to create a "Hindu law" ignored the tradition of smritis being made for the time and "froze" Manusmriti as THE_Hindu_law_book which Indians now believe as true Book review here https://t.co/PL2hZ7Souv

State taking away children from their parents is actually a very state like thing, nothing new, it has taken many forms, one of the less mentioned but a most significant one is compulsory daily indoctrination aka public education.

This is why I put such an emphasis on philosophy: you have to get right down to basic categories if you want to create something genuinely new and not merely just invent a new flavor of liberalism.
This is a reminder that there's a distinction to be drawn between illiberalism and post-liberalism, the latter acknowledging the inescapable historical and cultural fact of liberalism as it seeks to move beyond it, the former reacting against it but inevitably on its terms. https://t.co/qxwmy7dpYp

"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community." - Aeschylus, Eumenides
But hatred is intrinsically schismatic; it eventually fractures its own unanimity. Unless followed up with quick & ruthless success, hatred turns on itself, like a scorpion girt by fire.

The machine of state that runs on fostering speculative finance and a military that intimidates its adversariesso that it can secure its place in the annals of the ‘exceptional’ American playbook,is bound to fail. The military concept of leadership is atavistic, relying on the manufacture of ordinance to secure its position in the geosphere. In time, even the American somnambulant public must awaken to the fact that might is a relative phenomenon rather than a given. Denis A Conroy
The Inscrutable Protocols Of The Zeitgeist https://t.co/Kremq8OQwG

Here's a short and simple version of how I see evolution and involution happening in multiple aspects of Mind. I present these as thought in progress and definitely not the only way to construct these... https://t.co/P81h96K049

Is evolution evil? Goodness forbid! Forgive me if you just spit a little coffee back into your mug. Are you ready for a sobering thought experiment? If it were true that evolution were evil, then that would make Evolutionary... https://t.co/1h3zg2eHBK

“Accept everything which happens, even if it seem disagreeable, because it leads to this, the health of the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius on how to live through our difficulties: https://t.co/JSGUcUzTil

NEW BOOK FORUM
Jared Sexton (@UCIrvine) kicks off a new discussion of Houria Bouteldja's "Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love" with his essay, "The world love jam."

In a recently published research paper in the Economic and Political Weekly, “Caste, Religion, and Health Outcomes in India, 2004―14”, Vani Kant Borooah has investigated whether there is a “social gradient to health. Read more: https://t.co/oW9GK9dLK8 https://t.co/Wg1PJhLrkd

a thought believes constant appeasing others is best way.  Gandhi, Gopal Gokhale,Surendranath banerjee were its idols. Congress freed by Sri Aurobindo in 1907 Surat session  fell back into same diseased trap.  @Swamy39 @myogiadityanath on Sri Aurobindo side ?? @raptor_fossil

I'm not 100% sure. Hindus have not been able to differentiate betweem religions, of which there are countless harmless ones, & religious, ideological & cultural colonialisms that basically want to wipe them out. Without this ubderstanding they are ill-equipped to permanently win.
Even having a passing influence from Ma Sri Aurobindo is like getting an armour of adamantium around 1self for any son or daughter of the soil of India. SRG, altho he remained somewhat materialist given his rational bent, considered Sri Aurobibdo & Krishna his main inspirations.
Sita Ram Goel. I have seen his book "How I became a Hindu" serialized in decades old issues of the main Ashram periodical "Mother India", which Sri Aurobindo called his own magazine. Today unfortunately most leaders even there pay groveling homage to Islam & r allergic 2 "Hindu".

Sri Aurobindo had a clear system of practice that he called integral yoga, as it was based on a synthesis of different paths of yoga. #InternationalYogaDay2018

Gurukuls in India were demolished by the  western invaders with great determination. Recently there is an emerging trend where the powerful Gurukul system is starting its resurgence.    https://t.co/QUJdpkAcXA https://t.co/QUJdpkAcXA

Yoga Day Celebrations –  Taking Indic Thought To The World https://t.co/sl6ACgDcI5 via @swarajyamag

Yoga and the means and ends of secularism https://t.co/0QpEcqFNUi https://t.co/KPDhutlB3S

The yoga sutra is incompatible with modern postural yoga, and science https://t.co/zNnPYfPRaT

Article explains the Concept of Yoga in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras by T N Sethumadhavanji https://t.co/3nIsAZVYyF

Boss If you are seriously know about “Yog” read classical Indian Philosophy and Aurobindo Ghosh....Especially “The Life Divine”
What is being propagated is “Aasan” only just one part of 8 parts of “Ashtang Yog”

Yoga as a holy practice of peace,  exercise & mind was initiated by Rishi Aurobindo Ghosh long ago. Unfortunately it is now hijacked by others for promotion of business and politics.

IYD: Inauguration of Yoga Textual Workshop, Level 2 
At Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Ramgarh in the lap of Himalayas..... https://t.co/4EvOPbD2b0

Yoga prescribes eight steps to discipline your mind. How many do you follow besides asana and pranayama? https://t.co/4rR6eYrKxQ https://t.co/COi81pzZm1

"Modern Yoga is a hybrid concoction belonging firmly to the twentieth century." https://t.co/gTThLItRPD

The point is who gives the authority to @HMOIndia  to declare Yoga is part of hinduism or not. Why make such ridiculous state from official handle of a secular state.

Monumental Absence
The destruction of ancient Buddhist sites in India

Religions originated in Ancient India https://t.co/bxofekFOxv #buddhism #hinduism #jainism

The culture of India is that the guest is God (Athithi Devo Bhava). It is also mentioned in the official website of the United Nations in India that nearly two lakh refugees from other countries have taken shelter here and they are provided not only security but all types of facilities. The views expressed in the above article are that of Fauzia Rahman Khan of Charkha Development Communication Network.
Resolutions are needed for peace and justice, not institutions


Polytheist heritage of kindness & compassion was rendered obscure by monotheist propaganda which planted a subtle but completely false link in the mind between the worship of many gods & the lack of a conscience. https://t.co/NkVoiAPINS

You cannot add a Devata to the pantheon, but you can represent your Ishta Devata as a form of one of the Devatas in the pantheon. This depends on the nature of the Devata. 
Based on the story of Jesus and original iconography, he is clearly a form of Surya.
Whether by plagiarism or by intentional concealment, whether corrupted further from wrong associations, a form of Surya still remains a form of Surya.
Furthermore, every deity imagined wherever in the world, needs to be a form of one of the Viswedevas. Nothing else is possible.

This is from the school of 'Jesus is the original communist' 

The Shvetashvatara Upanishad goes back to specific Vedic verses for explaining the practices of #Yoga https://t.co/5j3u7CipYG #YogaDay #YogaDay2018 #Hinduism #dharma #InternationalYogaDay2018

[The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo - Volume16 - Hymns to the Mystic Fire consists of nearly all the fire hymns or hymns to Agni from the Rig Veda translated into a deeply poetic English.] @saket71 #SriAurobindo https://t.co/KpoLY4DRQN

Credibility crisis of India's higher institutions https://t.co/0Q9ewRukKq

You go to school, dressed in a uniform, you go to a pub in party wear, you go to weddings dolled up, but want a free pass  in Temples. Why? We take our things, our people, our Ecosystem, our traditions for granted.

Hello Swamiji, why delete https://t.co/i1o5AIkaHG

Marrying a virgin is a sure shot ticket to a boring sex life.

Just like extracurricular activities are essential for wholesome development of the students, extramarital activities are key to a well rounded marriage.
— Cleric

I voted Yes/Yes.
I think I am more polite with women for two reasons.
First is an innate one, a gender trying to be appealing to the opposite one. Normal heterosexual tendency.
Second: Being respectful of the social mores.
However, I quick to defer to my logical self when needed.

An Open Letter via @NiemanLab on how to end misogyny in the news industry. Worth reading, including the recommendations!

#LustStories -- @NetflixIndia's new original series brings four noted Indian directors together to tell their stories of women and sex. Worth spending your 2 hours on? @editorsahiba reveals: 5 @Advani_Kiara @karanjohar @psbhumi @mkoirala @anuragkashyap72

I don't talk about sex any more than food or something. If it stands out, maybe that's because there's a taboo on it.

BLOG | It is time we stop being shy about all things taboo and begin to have healthy conversations about sexuality, puberty, religion, death and sex. @smitha_tarur 

https://t.co/sviQliPxDf remains a most researched blog about abuse and feminism/sexism in the Indian context

'Obscenity lies in eyes of beholder’: Kerala HC on Grihalakshmi breastfeeding cover https://t.co/HrsY7odAVb
“One Man’s Vulgarity Is Other Man’s Lyric”: Kerala HC Refuses To Declare ‘Breastfeeding Woman On Magazine’s Cover’ As Obscene 

An absolute cracker of a article as it reverses the "gaze" and challenges  comfortably thrown stereotypes against Indian women to audiences abroad by so-called activists and feminists who "think"  they talk on behalf of all women, leaving them no agency ! https://t.co/SOqlkqGy8t

Women have become essential to the guerrillas in delivering meaningful social change in the villages and creating robust support systems that can sustain an armed movement, while at the same time generating bargaining power for women.

Such a joy to read a sahridaya! Shanta Gokhale writes in her @MumbaiMirror column about #PoetryInTheCity, the lively discussion and reading hosted by @AvidLearning at NGMA Bombay last week: https://t.co/UqRBYg5nPW @bachikarkaria @ShampooChats @asadlalljee

Music transgresses boundaries of caste, community and creed and takes you closer to the divine. On #WorldMusicDay, celebrating the divine spirit of music through Qawwali. 

Small films, compelling stories: The best of Malayalam cinema on Netflix https://t.co/Zf3seySNIM

Culture and History of Kerala is not that of hatha yoga but that of Kalaripayattu, the martial art.

Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management - Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) Ghaziabad https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7

Marketime: Identify your Vidur https://t.co/6D5XLXWnKU @NathTusar @DharmicMemes @CholericCleric @Ramayan_bot @vakibs
This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose,
From her blind unwilling substance must emerge
A beauty that belongs to happier spheres.
-Sri Aurobindo ("SAVITRI")

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