Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Shame and guilt have corrupted the whole area of sex

Philosophical perspectives on suffering and evil in colonial India
N Bhushan - The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century, 2018
… In the early twentieth century, public intellectuals who were involved in the Indian independence movement, such as Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Dayanand Saraswati and Rabindranath Tagore …
[PDF] A Handbook of Rural India
S SJodhka - 2018
… This would require some amount of rigorous substantiation through a reading of Hegel and the Gita, but rather what is to be found are ref- erences to the works of Vishwanath Prasad Varma's The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo …

[PDF] KD Sethna-A Poet Par Excellence
P Bhatnagar
… html Abstract Sri Aurobindo ranks among the greatest personalities of modern India …Sri Aurobindo has been a great source of inspiration for the intellectuals of his times. He has many followers who are drawn to him irresistibly. They …

[PDF] Of Innocence and Experience: Tracing the Journey of Ramaswamy in Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope
G Karmakar
… Rama realises that if he wants to surrender himself to the God then he has to surrender himself to his Guru and his thinking resembles the sayings of Sri Aurobindo: “In surrendering to the Guru is to the divine in him that one …

[PDF] Minimalism in Modern Indian English Poetry: A Study
V Rajasekaran, C VIT
… The Indian poetry in English has gone through many changes from 1901 to 1947, before independence and continued to grow after independence up to the present day. The pre-independence poets include Toru Dutt, Sri Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu …

[PDF] Book Review: THE ROLE OF CULTURAL DYNAMICS IN THE CREATION OF PAKISTAN
NA Habib - Journal of South Asian Studies, 2018
Page 1. JS Asian Stud. 2018 – In Press XXX Available Online at ESci Journals Journal of South Asian Studies ISSN: 2307-4000 (Online), 2308-7846 (Print) http://www.escijournals.net/JSAS Book Review: THE ROLE OF CULTURAL …

Gandhi and International Law: Satyagraha as Universal Justice
SG Sreejith - Locating India in the Contemporary International Legal …, 2018
Gandhi's encounter with international law, as the discipline is understood in the classic epistemological and functional sense, is tangential. Hence,there are hardly a few legal discourses that have...

Shashi Tharoor-An Era of Darkness_ The British Empire in India-Aleph Book Company (2017)
ABYST NON-FICTION

Assorted tweets for general information:

A festschrift for my philosopher brother Ashis to celebrate his 80th. Edited by Iranian-Canadian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi who works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critical philology published by Oxford University Press. https://t.co/pLoeHk6oEw

There should to be some distinction between your own ideas and those of past authors. So mentioning their names will help in easy grasping of concepts. Further, Sri Aurobindo has written extensively on these topics which may be referred to or contrasted with wherever necessary.

Sure. I mention inspirations and influences invariably. But in this particular thread, it was mostly my own views, though the conflict between Progress and Diversity was suggested off-hand in an interview I heard recently with Harvey Mansfield, the Harvard Political Philosopher

Let’s debate materialism, a #workshop at RJ College, #Mumbai. On #Marx and Chattopadhyay, to celebrate their birth centennials. I will speak on Marx vs #Hegel and Chattopadhyay vs #Ambedkar. ⁦@rjcollegemumbai⁩ ⁦@Uni_Mumbai⁩ ⁦@MarxPhilosophy⁩ ⁦@cpimspeak⁩ https://t.co/Jpm8bJNwqB

Will speak on the #Buddhist foundations of #Ambedkar ‘s #political #philosophy on 7th July in #Mumbai. At Somaiya #vidyavihar #centre for Buddhist Studies. @KJSIMSR @SomaiyaTrust @Buddhism_Now @PhilosophyNow @NowBuddhism https://t.co/dyI5fporTU

A Blog in “The Times of Israel”:
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
For more than one century Sherlock Holmes has not gotten old. Tall, thin, with an eagle’s nose, he first appeared in the streets of London in... https://t.co/op5HcEGwq2

Review of Kancha Ilaiah’s “Why I am not a Hindu” https://t.co/vLs6BJWrvW #antihinduagenda #antisemitic

Can a live-in relationship be treated as de facto marriage: Supreme Court https://t.co/pLaIdRIsrm https://t.co/U8Vcz7PRk4

While the internet is a great platform to talk about causes that matter, sometimes it might also become a place that distorts perceptions of beauty and reality, don't you think? https://t.co/KjleMkAA8U

Slang is used because our minds have been conditioned to feel shame about our sexual body parts, by the manipulators behind our big religions. 2/
Shame and guilt have corrupted the whole area of sex. Where it should be natural and fun, even transcendent, it is loaded with preconceived rubbish, spoon fed now by the whole culture, even when one is not explicitly raised in a church atmosphere. 3/

more than mirrors, others eyes and words complimenting people even if they themselves consider themselves ugly looking, is more precious to all - across the gender-board.

Dharma is not law. Dharma is much larger and wider concept than that. There is no possible way laws can change the society because self-restraint only works if it comes from within. Enforcing self-restraint never works and never will.

The thinking that laws can replace imparting Sanskaras, individual dedication to Dharma etc itself is Adharmic to an extent & leads to extreme levels of idiocy like we see in fascism or communism. How exactly are you going to adjudicate leering w/o resorting to nutty 5 sec rules?

Islamic laws are respected even by Indian Penal Code and Twitter. Dharma is disrespected because Hindu smritis were taken to be "laws" and then mocked without understanding that they were laws only for their era. Our forbears have screwed us and now we don't know what law means

The controversy surrounding sexual abuse allegations against five priests of Malankara Orthodox Church in Kerala has turned murkier. https://t.co/Bm7MFe1d9R

The Varieties of Hope https://t.co/ozomqkd4Vo

Feminism and Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead https://t.co/ZhO0C8JNJH

‘Liberals’ Now Play  Victimhood Card Without Realising Joke Is On Them https://t.co/T9KevH9Scs via @swarajyamag
“Liberals” ought to be ashamed that it is the “Hindu nationalist” BJP that is fighting social evils in Indian Islam, and not they themselves. Effectively, they are standing on the same side as retrograde ulema and reactionary elements. 

Didn't you read that atrocious New York Times piece that argued that 'freedom of expression' only reinforced present power relations and served the elite? 🙂

He has made idiotic statements and this is rather in line with other such idiocy exhibited by the H leadership in the domain of knowledge: the BJP banker's anti-AITism along with a whole cohort of such; the support for astrology in earlier iterations, shrI Dobhal's knowledge of

Here's how we could create super-intelligence https://t.co/Cer7YqFWdM #neuroscience https://t.co/h0IQ559rRq

My talk at Indology 3 Chennai on AIT starts at 27:30
My talk at Chennai https://t.co/dj6TZGEEry

#Anti-Hindu #Media Fueled By Bigotry is a Growing Problem in #India https://t.co/G4yvwpyqd6 #burkadhutt #cnnibn #hindu

Alexander vs Porus: Beyond the fog of war https://t.co/wirdO2Wemc #IndianHistory

Advitiya Vishnu Vaada-III: Jiva is Vishnu’s reflection https://t.co/syBiCtuu31 #Hinduism #Dharma

The Intellectual Religion of Humanity: Its Positive Direction and Its Limitations https://t.co/c3r7Ex7wlb

A Spiritual Religion of Humanity Is the Hope of the Future https://t.co/Dl7Cq5kzBF

Read George Washington’s "110 Rules of Civility": The Code of Decency That Guided America’s First President https://t.co/uF5KFyOG87 https://t.co/pKqEaUtZaI

David Byrne Launches the "Reasons to Be Cheerful" Web Site: A Compendium of News Meant to Remind Us That the World Isn’t Actually Falling Apart https://t.co/edLLjKwhpn https://t.co/c81gxU8qCQ

A Disclaimer for the Resurgent Indic Civilization to Save It from Derailing https://t.co/nOUqQhpmDi

Check out "Intersect: Science & Spirituality" - a conference in Telluride, CO later this month https://t.co/PdgDYTPXWJ

Modern India is beholden to a host of Westerners who have discovered countless facets of its history and literature. Their religious or political predilections might have been responsible for some slant or distortion, still they deserve respect and engagement. Krishnaprem is one.

India is so vast and varied that discourse on multiple levels go on but freedom and courage is missing for full-throated airing of opinions. Restraint imposed by tradition and culture thwarts individualism and people plough safe. Ontological uncertainty also subverts confidence.

In his enthusiasm as a scholar, Ashis Nandy has done immense damage to Sri Aurobindo. A whole generation got prejudiced; ignored Sri Aurobindo. Nandy has never shown that he has actually read some important works of #SriAurobindo but he can make some amends for the injustice done

In the last two years of his life, Sri Aurobindo wrote eight essays which are extremely significant. Dilipkumar Roy argued over Perfection of the Body. [From the Bulletin of Physical Education (1949-1950): The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth: Message] https://t.co/iT1C1JtWht

Marketime: Cicero and Seneca were steeped in Greek literature https://t.co/FSLixTBag4 @NathTusar @harsh8848 @Ram_Guha
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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