Saturday, July 28, 2018

Bharat Shakti - The First Pondy Lit Fest from 17-19 August, 2018

Surya Sen- The Hero of Chittgong

IndiaFacts-26-Jul-2018
His meeting with Sri Aurobindo in 1903 further ignited the revolutionary fervour in Mukherjee who was “entrusted” with the crucial task of setting up a network of ...

The profound relevance of Vedic knowledge today

Zee News (blog)-26-Jul-2018
The Vedas were one of the main inspirations for India's Independence Movement, particularly through Dayananda Sarasvati, Lokmanya Tilak and Sri Aurobindo, ...

Random Meditations through Her 1000 Names: VIII

Swarajya-25-Jul-2018
(VC:108) These are also names of the Goddess in Sri Lalitha Sahasranama (398, ... Sri Aurobindo speaks of the Vedic horse as the symbol of 'the Life energy'.

Sabarimala Temple Case: Why 'Religious Denomination' is key to ...

Financial Express-24-Jul-2018
In SP Mittal vs Union of India & Others [SCR (1) 729], the Constitution Bench through 1-4 delivered by Justice RB Misra had refused to accept Sri Aurobindo as a ...

Madurai Today

The Hindu-20-Jul-2018
Sri Aurobindo Study Forum: Discourse on Sri Aurobindo's 'Life Divine' by Subramany, Nithyatha, Auro Lab, Veerapanjan, 10 a.m..

Strength-Based Approaches to Mental Health Promotion in Schools: An Overview
S Soni, N Hameed - Positive Schooling and Child Development, 2018
… Sri Aurobindo, the great Indian philosopher, believed that 'true and living' education helps an individual to realize and bring out the full potential that he is endowed with, helps a man to enter into his right relation with life, mind …

'VANDEMATARAM'-A NATIONAL IDENTITY; BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJEE: SOCIAL & RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY
ID Velpula - 2018
… He strongly believed and worked like Vivekananda and Aurobindo for fusion of eastern spiritualism and western materialism … Bankim also believed like Aurobindo that science has only limited sphere to understand religion and spiritual truths …

Paths of Yoga: Perspective for Workplace Spirituality
A Pandey, AV Navare - The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and …, 2018
… Sri Aurobindo (1992) suggests dhyāna to gain the knowledge of true self … Sri Aurobindo (1994) explained that like the individual, the nation, society (or organization for that matter) also has a body, an organic life, a moral and aesthetic temperament, a developing …

Integrative Governance: Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises
M Stout, JM Love - 2018
Page 1. Page 2. Integrative Governance is a richly powerful, cross-disciplinary book. It captures the voice of Mary Parker Follett's work, the essence of German existential thought, and applications to governance. Moreover, the …

Navigating Inter-generational Differences Between Spirituality and Religious Behavior in the Twenty-First-Century Workplace: What We Can Learn from Boomers …
CA Creech, SM King - The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and …
Page 1130. Navigating Inter-generational Differences Between Spirituality and Religious Behavior in the Twenty-First-Century Workplace: What We Can Learn from Boomers, Millennials, and Xers Chelsi A. Creech and Stephen …

Hindu-Muslim Relations: What Europe Might Learn from India
Jörg Friedrichs

The Global Gandhi: Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy
Ramin Jahanbegloo

Who is the Scientist Subject? Affective History of the Gene/ST
Esha Shah

Men and Feminism in India
Edited by Romit Chowdhury and Zaid Al Baset

The Information Game in Democracy
Dipankar Sinha

Indeed it is the standard of western modern science to doubt a claim without empirical testing. However people are conditioned to ignore the fact that experience is empirical evidence... the issue centers on method and frequency, sometimes insisting on repeatability and independent or blind confirmation. The problem is that the strictest criteria eliminate all but mechanical behavior. Novel occurrences, which characterize mental experiences, are characteristically unique. Does that mean they didnt happen?  No. It means they are not entailed with the general ambiance but rather with a subSet...they are system dependent.  Such phenomena are what we want to study.  So much more careful and conditional testing is required to recreate conditions, which may include the belief conditions of participants.
For example, if you test for the effect on health of going to a Catholic Mass, it could be that devout Christians will show a positive effect and others will not. So the result is conditional, not general, and dependent on prior belief. But it may be real and empirically confirmed. Life is all about establishing contextual dependencies.
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Assorted tweets from diverse perspectives:

Short scifi movie about the vastness of space and the loneliness of a deep space mission. https://t.co/zCQ6JD6Ijf

Evolutionary cosmologist Brian Swimme telling the story of the universe via video conference at INTERSECT: Science and Spirituality in Telluride, CO https://t.co/TsPbulKUiZ

The first to back this venture was the one & only Kiran-Garu, the founder-inspirer of @IndicAcademy @IndicBookClub @indictoday @IndicActivists @indictoday & a whole host of other initiatives. Our sincere thanks to him for his unfailing support & inspiration. @indicanetwork https://t.co/rhUHvybIMy
Thanks to our fabulous speakers @bibekdebroy @vinay1011 @sonal_mansingh @swapan55 @authoramish @TheJaggi @KanchanGupta @abhijitmajumder @vivekagnihotri @sanjeevsanyal @smitabarooah @ARanganathan72 @anirbanganguly (a local) @Iyervval @Shubhrastha @RajatSethi86 & many others 🙏🏽 https://t.co/vERUFRU6x8
Ours is a humble effort, inspired by legends like @NamitaGokhale_   @SanjoyRoyTWA @DalrympleWill. I'm totally awestruck by the support of @thekiranbedi Hon. CM @smritiirani & local Pondy community. Lalit Partha @AloPal & Ajit are great partners. Thanks to @SriAurobindoSoc too🙏🏽 https://t.co/5oHoGzAkPb
We happy to collaborate with @MakrandParanspe and Lalith Verma, Curators and present @PondyLitFest along with Partha Hariharan and @FrustIndian. @indictoday @IndicAcademy @IndicBookClub @vipulkocher @DimpleAtra @yoginisd @AbhinavAgarwal https://t.co/56f6clqSHa

It was exactly 509 years ago on this day 26th July 1509 that Pradhana Amatya  Timmarusu crowned Sri Krishna Deva Raya the Emperor of Dakshina Patha & heralded the golden era of Vijayanagara Kingdom (1509-1565). Excellent piece by ⁦@pburavalli⁩  https://t.co/tNM2IpdvOU

Dear People, I've written this big blog post on history. Hope you will read & enjoy it, please share if you like. https://t.co/VVzCz81AYX
A version of the above article has been published on @IndiaFactsOrg , Please do read if you haven't done so already. https://t.co/iDm1cFFbTw

Indian Foundations of Modern Science By Subhash Kak. Very Informative. https://t.co/vVTP39V5Ao @subhashkak1 @AbhinavAgarwal @VamseeJuluri

How we are misreading the Gita to suit corporate greed ... my column ⁦@EconomicTimes⁩  https://t.co/k76lmYmkAm

Academic power is like political power.
For 50 years all early Indian astronomy -- incl. most of #Aryabhata's -- was taken to be copied from #Babylonians, even in absence of  Baby. evidence. 
It needed a long refutation showing priority of Vedic texts.

There is a difference between anti-intellectualism of the marxist variety - tedious argumentation, modeling, theorizing. 
Vs  intellectualism of the "Core" variety.  I am against the former, but latter is essential. https://t.co/Xin7yQvdEQ

I just published “Vyasa Purnima: The Unsurpassed Educational Heritage of India” https://t.co/GFLLn3S86b

The River of Life – Cultures of Resistances Down the Ages https://t.co/xzrXiGqxA8

The fringe in each ideology takes pride in being purer than the centrists (who keep the ideology going mostly ). However lately , there is a spate of articles in various right leaning platforms where the activists belonging to fringe have attempted to appropriate the word core .
This is deeply worrisome as world over where the fringe has pushed centrists to appropriate the centre piece the movements have often become unstable and collapsed onto themselves.
The assumption that it's the purity and not steadfastness of purpose that forms core is deeply flawed too.
An observation of things around us will convince you that the fundamental function of core of anything is to stabilize and not to constantly cause unrest with demands for higher and higher purity. Political parties understand this too.
And that's the reason the traders in surat who sent 15/16 MLAs from BJP in a year of demo/gst have a bigger claim to core than the keyboard warriors questioning the party over various issues and issuing threats (NOTA etc ). These people understand the importance of holding on to a higher purpose and not get distracted by tactical issues over long term.

The Indian Ideal of the Relation Between Man and Woman https://t.co/tINm4yc8Cq
A Review of the Vedic View of Psychological Types or Roles Between the Symbolic and the Typal Stages of Society https://t.co/NFd3267UWS
Avoiding the Trap of Using Our Modern Intellectual Approach in Trying to Comprehend the Meaning of the Seers of the Symbolic Age https://t.co/yDdBWCBNqI

"According to many liberal thinkers, spirituality is a regressive state of mind […] they regard it... https://t.co/Qg0ZoKf2Mp

Fools want us to blindly accept anything with 'science' tag
Story of John Yudkin - how established-science may misguide us

Destroy, denigrate, appropriate.  It's the story of the West in relation to native cultures. But colonized minds are so accustomed to the Western stamp for legitimacy, for "science", that they aid this process of targeting native traditions.
As #NNTaleb has also pointed out, to follow tradition is itself scientific from a statistical viewpoint. Tradition does not need scientific validation to follow it no more than cats need to look at a study on how to birth kittens.

I feel anxious about our ability to fight back without a few dozen Vivekananda and Aurobindo like people (not the same).
History, sociology and everything else needs people who can do what Christian seminaries do. Develop sophisticated apologia, understand and refashion.

They are closing in on the gap. We need to use our heritage of inner sciences to do some serious research in neuro-sciences. Unfortunately all I am seeing around are 'third-eye' cheap parlour trick charlatans. https://t.co/jcTh8qABlk
Yes. There has been real good work. Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Culture and Sri Aurobindo groups have done some pioneering works. But we need much more and much faster.

Is there any access to the info on the work that is being done in these places? It will be good to see our scientists collaborate with our practitioners of inner yogic sciences. S-VYASA in Bangalore is another place where they are attempting such work.

Trying to view a complex epic like Mahabharata in black and white should also stop, there are too many conflicting layers to all the characters, everyone can pick their favourites based on certain qualities they like in them
Greatness of Hindu civilization is not built on blindly accepting scripture but critically analysing it

Again, I thought so too at one time, but Vyasa has described each character thoroughly. We don't need to interpret. It was practically biographical, and Vyasa is impartial to all, so he isn't biased.
So if he says X is bad, then X is bad and end of discussion.

Exactly. महर्षि वेदव्यास, it's his depiction of history and his views bear max wtg. Also, the concept of नैतिकता has deteriorated since then and it would only be shortsighted to apply our pea sized brains compared to him and try to interpret

But Hinduism doesn't give any weed smoking Tom, dick or Harry to become authority on religious matter. If you want to, first learn all the scriptures, live by their rules & then tell me what to do & not to do. Otherwise My Dharma isn't a guinea pig in your lab of liberalism!

Freedom of Speech/Expression has to be based on the Responsibility of Conduct. That vital aspect is conveniently ignored by the ‘have a mouth, will speak’ SJWs. Why? Because they are alien to that oft-mocked concept of ‘Sanskar’.

2) Muslims who are in the mainstream are the ones who are fighting against orthodoxy, fundamentalism and extremism. By picking us out as targets and labeling us terrorists, etc., BJP weakens the fight against extremism. That makes sense because BJP itself is extremist.
3) I'm labeled an Islamist extremist terrorist. So is @RanaAyyub and other moderate Muslims. We are subjected to the worst of abuses, fake news, targeting to the point where we are totally demonized. Whose purpose does this serve? We are the Muslim women BJP claims to fight for.

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