Sunday, November 29, 2020

Sri Aurobindo is getting more limelights

My article in the strange journey of Bengali Hindu progressivism: from cosmopolitan internationalism to invoking the threat of ‘outsiders’
https://twitter.com/swapan55/status/1331807023327969280?s=19
OPINION | Bengal has a history of peculiar exceptionalism. @swapan55 writes on Bengal's history of peculiar exceptionalism
https://twitter.com/ttindia/status/1331787509106356226?s=19

Today, when we talk about Aatmanirbhar Bharat, we remember Sri Aurobindo.
His vision of self-reliance included keeping our mind open to best practices from all over and excelling.
He also had a dream of furthering education and learning among the youth of India. #MannKiBaat https://t.co/oMYn6IVh5I
https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1332925844092641281?s=19
What Sri Aurobindo teaches us about Aatmanirbhar Bharat and the vitality of education. #MannKiBaat https://t.co/m8pfSXCaa9
https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1333021801887059969?s=19

Great to see @narendramodi emphasizing Sri Aurobindo, who has been regarded as the Rishi behind India's Independence Movement and the seer of future India and future humanity.
https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1333074547990556672?s=19
The main Vedic text I have studied and found inspiration in is Rigveda, following Sri Aurobindo and Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni. There are deeper yogic meanings to all its mantras, yet few know these and academia ignores them. Gayatri Mantra is but one example.
https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1330319985013628929?s=19

The problem with invoking Sri Aurobindo is that he invokes the spirit of Vedantic Questioning...
Even the Gods of Death are not spared by the Nationalist Nachiketas... https://t.co/cNC9I7kGfd
https://twitter.com/raghav4india/status/1333076211442958336?s=19

We are indeed grateful to @PMOIndia @narendramodi ji for his inspiring words on Sri Aurobindo in his #MannKiBaat today. https://t.co/Zseocn0SZE
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1332951401727574020?s=19

Before embarking as a footsoldier in the struggle for realising PM @narendramodi's vision of #SonarBangla, offered homage, this morning, at Sri Aurobindo’s shrine at his birthplace - Sri Aurobindo Bhavan- in Kolkata... #EbarBangla https://t.co/p44eJKqE0i
https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1332562019438923776?s=19
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee stands as an iconic symbol & lighthouse of inspiration & resolve in our struggle for realizing the dream & vision of #SonarBangla. He strengthens our sankalpa to #SaveBengal.
Offered homage to him this morning at Red Road #Kolkata. #EbarBangla https://t.co/tm4r7GdeIh

It is good news for us that Sri Aurobindo is getting more limelights these days. The Congress forgot his name since 1969!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal3/status/1332960033814970370?s=19

PM @narendramodi: He also used to say that Swadeshi means that we give priority to the things made by our Indian workers and artisans. It is not that Sri Aurobindo ever opposed learning anything from abroad
#MannKiBaat
https://twitter.com/DDNewslive/status/1332930351367299073?s=19

Other than the cultural history of Bengal, this article gets the political history of India wrong too. Claim: C. R. Das, Subhas Chandra Bose, Bengal revolutionaries charted a path different from the rest of India. A short rebuttal in the thread below: https://t.co/4LD5Xk7kFx
C R. Das had become Congress President and subsequently founded the Swaraj Party along with Motilal Nehru. In opposition to Gandhi. The Swaraj Party established a foothold in all of India & forced Gandhi to a political retirement for a few years.
Swaraj Party was the strongest in Bengal but had strong presence elsewhere too,looking at the luminaries who joined it, eg, Vittalbhai Patel, Vallabhbhai’s older bro. How can any 1 in right mind say C R Das charted a path different from rest of India unless Gandhi is their India?
The Revolutionary independence movement was the strongest in Bengal but had presence in many other parts of India, eg, Punjab. Bengal revolutionaries helped organize the revolutionary movement in United Province, South India. Read: https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU
So, how can any one say in his right mind that the Bengal revolutionaries charted a path different from the rest of India? Implication being that the revolutionary freedom fight was confined to Bengal alone. What a gross injustice to the exemplary revolutionaries from elsewhere?
Finally, the elephant in the room - Subhas Chandra Bose. He became the Congress President defeating Gandhi, Nehru, Gandhian Congress Working Committee. The strong support from Bengal played a major role in his victory, but it won’t suffice by itself. Read: https://t.co/aYNq2lrH2e
In his battle for Cong Presidency Subhas Chandra Bose received strong support from Punjab, Karnataka, Madras province, United province etc https://t.co/aYNq2lrH2e How was he moving different from India, unless Gandhi, Nehru, Gandhians are your India?
Must Anglophiles be ignorant in even the subject they received their doctorate in, even when that doctorate was awarded by a reputable institute? Sad!
The claims I expect are a product of supercilious ignorance- but the messaging is insidious. Bengal has remained outside India throughout, now is her opportunity to join India, read Hindia. And the messaging also denies a historical fact-Bengal led the freedom movement of India
This article reveals the enormous problem the BJP-RSS faces in Bengal. It has no one who knows the history of Bengal, nor has any lived experience there, nor has any affection for Bengal. So, the messaging will be off. Thread follows:  https://t.co/4LD5Xk7kFx
First, let us discuss the deeply flawed knowledge of recent history of Bengal revealed through this article, ironically authored by a Bengali-born, who has a doctorate in history and from a reputed institution.
Claim: Until the advent of Swami Vivekananda, the Bengal Renaissance movement entirely discarded the Hindu heritage of Bengal, except for Bidyasagar, Bhudeb, Bankim. This claim shows an acute ignorance of the history of the Hindu reform movement of Bengal.
The Bengal Renaissance started with Rammohan Roy, leading to Brahmo Samaj. The entire movement was deeply Hindu, just not the Sanatani kind. Rammohan Roy got Sati banned through arguments based in Hindu scriptures.
To say, Rammohan discarded the Hindu heritage of Bengal is indicative of the worst of Right Wing ignorance of history, and a deeply perverted notion of Hindu heritage of Bengal as also misogyny. Is the Hindu heritage of Bengal only widow burning ?
Then the Brahmo Samaj. Brahmo Samaj was a Hindu Reform movement, again not the Sanatani kind, and stopped the conversion to Christianity. Urge reading a good summary of its contributions given in Indian Struggle, by Subhas Chandra Bose.
The writings of Shibnath Sastri, Michael Madhusudhan Dutta, Kaliprasanna Sinha (eg, authoritative translation of Mahabharat from Sanskrit which is read till today) are stellar examples of Hindu heritage of Bengal.All predate Swami Vivekananda. Nothing cosmopolitan in the writings
Sad that a man promoted as the intellectual face of currently a major party in Bengal has no knowledge of writings of such stalwarts. Of course, even worse he has a Phd in history from a reputed institute. And writes on history of Bengal. Anglophiles do not need to be ignorant!
Now, let us come to the lack of lived experience in real Bengal. That would be knowledge of Bengali literature post independence, popular Bengali movies, and discourse in Bengali homes. The commentary in the drawing rooms of Anglicized elites do not count, sorry.
Yet,what does the author believe is culture of Bengal? Lenin, Stalin,Ho Chi Min, Mayokovsky,Pablo Neruda.Tells me that the author has not read any Bangla literature post 1947, nor seen any popular nor avant-garde Bangla movies.Effectively he didn’t live in Bengal, even if he did!
Let’s look at the writings of the stalwarts of Bangla literature post 47. Jibanananda (a bit), Sharadindu, Ashapurna, Tarashankar, Samaresh, Satyajit, Sunil, Shirshendu are some names that readily came to my mind. None of them wrote of Neruda, Mayakovsky, Lenin, Stalin,Ho Chi Min
Their works, at least the celebrated ones, are set in urban and rural Bengal and sometimes elsewhere in India. The characters were mostly Bengali. So, very little cosmopolitanism. Educated Bengali homes read those, discussed those.
Growing up in an educated middle class Bengali home (i.e., a Bhadralok home), I never heard of Neruda, Mayokovsky while in Bengal. I heard of Neruda later after moving to US. It is in US that I read the translation of one Russian classic. Mayokovsky, I heard this evening
But, I did read the major works of the literary stalwarts mentioned in my thread above.Their works capture Bengali society reasonably well (Sunil misses the relig. component in middle class homes due to his communism). But you won’t read of Neruda, Mayokovsky, Stalin, Lenin there
Next, the popular and avant- garde Bengali movies. The popular genre were the actings of Uttam Kumar, Soumitra, etc. Most of those movies are set in urban and rural Bengal. Characters are Bengali. 0 cosmopolitanism. No Neruda, Mayokovsky, Lenin, Stalin, Ho Chi Min.
The avant garde ones - direction of Satyajit, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak. Tapan Sinha straddled in both avant- garde and popular categories. Again, same story - set in urban, rural Bengal mostly, characters are Bengalis.
And the characters do not read nor discuss Lenin, Stalin, Ho Chi Min, Russian classics, Mayokovsky, Neruda. At least largely.
Guided by these, the leadership of BJP-RSS, which is entirely outside Bengal, would miss educated Bengalis entirely! Finally, read the article, you will singularly miss any affection for Bengal. But then, you can’t love something you haven’t experienced.
All that comes across is a mind entirely focused on protecting the interests of Hindi speakers&imagining threats to them that do not exist.But then the same politician entirely ignored the plights of Hindu Bengalis in Assam.Just reinforces who the real masters of BJP-RSS in WB is
I see on SM quite a few Bengalis sympathetic to BJP-RSS who certainly know much more about Bengali culture, literature, history than the politician author in question. But, then showing subjects in good light is rarely the object of colonizers. End.
Scratching my head vigorously 4 long,I could find a bit of cosmopolitan internationalism in 2 popular Bangla works: 1) Sukanta’s Thikana amar cheyecho bandhu ঠিকানা আমার চেয়েছো বন্ধু 2) Sunil’s Purbo Paschim পূর্ব পশ্চিম Just 2,but even that’s only a bit! https://t.co/4LD5Xk7kFx
I could not recall a single popular or avant garde Bangla movie showing Bengalis discussing Lenin, Stalin, Mayokovsky, Russian classics, Pablo Neruda etc.
Sukanta’ Thikana Amar Cheyecho Bandhu song, sung by Hemanta https://t.co/DGMEgZFt0Y Topic is internationalism,but appears to conclude at a contradictory note -says, finally we meet at our own country, Swadesh. Explicit cosmopolitanism is limited 2 1 mention of 4 foreign countries
Bhupen Hazarika’s Ami Ek Jajabor https://t.co/DGMEgZFt0Y Most internationalist in the Bangla popular genre. He is Assamese, but the song is Bangla.
The third will be Bhupen Hazarika’s আমি এক যাযাবর song. Hazarika is however Assamese, and though the song became a hit in Bengal where Hazarika lived for some time, it was probably originally Assamese. So, we get a grand total of 3, even that nowhere near what Swapanji posits.

There is actually a comprehensive examination of the Bengali renaissance in Pandit Sibnath Sastri's `রামতনু লাহিড়ী ও তৎকালীন বঙ্গসমাজ'. If @swapan55 had read that, he would have known just how totally Hindu Bengali reformers were.  BTW, there is an English translation of the+
+same book called `A History of Renaissance in Bengal - Ramtanu Lahiri: Brahman and Reformer' edited by Sir Roper Lethbridge.

Why hit and hurt the Bengali distinctiveness which has inspired the country for ages? 
Chaitanya rebelled against the Islamic rulers of those times in the footsteps of Sri Krishna. 
Even the Gitapress Founder Hamuman Prasad Poddar ji got his spiritual visions at Shimalapal.

You will find amazing similarity between say Jawhar Sircar & Swapan Dasgupta (both ideologically opposite) in the way they spread falsehood abt Bengal's history. 
In a Lit fest, both Swapan & few other Left-Liberals agreed that Bengal's "golden age" was during British rule 🤡🤪
Funny thing is ,In recent times, the only person who came somewhat close to writing authentic history (from ancient times to modern times) of Southern fringes of Calcutta was a member of Communist party !!! He wrote a well researched book though with some usual Leftist biases.
1) Boral, on southern fringes of Kolkata near Adi Ganga. 
Several archeological excavation near the 800 yrs old Tripura Sundari Mandir were done.
2 idols of Vishnu from 7th/8th century AD (apart from many other idols of Hindu deities, sculptures, artifacts) were discovered. https://t.co/0l69IXbUsN
Greco-roman style of sculptures found, more than 2000 yrs old.. 
https://t.co/kuRzQcKkXX

Sunday, November 01, 2020

Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF)

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Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (UP) India + 91-9650065636 email: tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Pan, Penguin, and Plutarch

As I re-read this article by @MNageswarRaoIPS ,more I undrstnd Indian constitution's abrahmic nature
1950,SC gave itself total power 2 decide whthr a particular practice/tradition is essential 2 Hinduism or not
R they experts?
Y did hindus then not revolt?
https://t.co/BTLHVLcbIi
https://twitter.com/RituRathaur/status/1308272715183190021?s=19
Using these powers judges decide how much 'charnamat," should be put on Mahakal Shivling, whether sabri mala should be open for women against its temple rituals, whether animal sacrifice should be allowed in hindu temples or not?
Who are they? Expert in hindu scriptures?

"My own view is that the 'education bubble,' like any asset bubble, is not merely a financial crisis. It is a moral crisis: a misallocation and distortion of value. The underlying problem of the modern university is a crisis of integrity and purpose." https://t.co/CCxE7QFpDa
https://twitter.com/A_Man_in_Full/status/1308228477842329601?s=19
This is excellent, @JoshHochschild, truly excellent. I think you should be part of any effort to completely rethink and restore higher education. You put your finger on so much here. The colleges that survive will be those who know their mission and believe in it (i.e., "Lindy").

A few chapters into the book and can say it is a very easy flowing, engaging read. 
@harshmadhusudan was one the first people I started following on this platform n its great to be reading his book after a few years 🙂 
Wishing Harsh and @RMantri more success in the years ahead. https://t.co/yFhPn5wpx3
https://twitter.com/pratyasharath/status/1308474704378826753?s=19

Pls explain:
On the one hand, I find many Indians worldwide among the highest accomplished in various fields 
On the other hand, I find huge majority are poor in IQ, work ethics, reading skills, argumentation; BUT big on emotions, lofty self-image & lots of BULLSHIT/BAKVAS
Why?
https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1308504812493955072?s=19
Many former school/college classmates retired from top posts tell me youth caliber has DECLINED over recent decades. 
-Reservations lowered the quality?
-Malthusian over population?
-Bad education
-Fake westernization
-Other?
Pls comment

Cricket, Bollywood, and Music keep the youth busy. No incentive in reading. Basically, no intellectual quest. Lack of acquaintance with Philosophy proper is the cause.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1308506791123189760?s=19

“Thamus, are you there? When you reach Palodes, take care to proclaim that the great god Pan is dead.”
-Plutarch, ‘The Obsolescence of Oracles’
https://twitter.com/krumbbumm/status/1308502688800231427?s=19

Penguin found dead on Brazilian beach after swallowing entire face mask during voyage from Patagonia, autopsy shows. It’s so easy just to cut them up. 💔😔
https://t.co/NPih0UB9Q4
https://twitter.com/XposeTrophyHunt/status/1308498472438386688?s=19

These ill-conceived projects will cause irreparable harm to the Sundarbans.
https://twitter.com/GhoshAmitav/status/1308500199648698370?s=19

"Paying attention to ergonomics isn't just about making you more efficient, it's about making sure that you feel good and wholly yourself when you're working – so you have the time and energy to do all the things you want to do outside of your job." https://t.co/HIbfsEbqRz
https://twitter.com/CIIS_SF/status/1308490452908355587?s=19

Everything You Know About ‘Good Posture’ Is Wrong
Could the way you’re aiming to hold your body be making pain worse?
Amelia Harnish Sep 3
https://elemental.medium.com/everything-you-know-about-good-posture-is-wrong-cca9b941b651

The tempo of life reaches a frenzy, and yet we feel stuck. One balm for our internet-accelerated age: read old books https://t.co/Q5RTcz6K6W
https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1308511503302225924?s=19

We asked some of the best thriller writers working today what their own favourite books in the genre are. They reeled off plenty of classics – but some other choices may surprise you. Find your next pageturner here: 
https://t.co/Qxn2ZVsnT3 …
https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1308511450663735301?s=19

Reviving ancient traditions to save the future. For more ideas and innovations helping to protect the world's forests, visit UpLink: https://t.co/RLpdSweNaH @WEFUplink @1t_org https://t.co/MIgmA7hahC
https://twitter.com/wef/status/1308511390785630208?s=19

The rise of the Global monoculture is one of the reasons, people are loosing originality. Non-western societies r a disproportionate victim, because the monoculture is west driven. But, if youth caliber was so great in the past, we wouldn't be carrying Nehruvian BS on our heads.
https://twitter.com/Bhikhshu/status/1308508690119622660?s=19

High natural background radiation is a constant presence in the lives of those inhabiting some coastal regions of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. https://t.co/GqkyqTOkEi
https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1308503932612870146?s=19

Archives | “My Lords should wear a burqa and roam the court corridors to hear the way lawyers talk about the judges,” Dushyant Dave said. “You will get a first-hand account of the rotting justice-delivery system.”
Atul Dev in: https://t.co/fWPppjgLll
https://twitter.com/thecaravanindia/status/1308503838882582529?s=19

Monday, September 21, 2020

Sri Aurobindo built a firm foundation for a future Civilisation

As ARYA (1914-1921) will close within next four months a hundred years ago let's remember that ten to twelve major works of Sri Aurobindo got published in a systematic manner. Collectively these books constitute a veritable University. Indians need to read https://t.co/evlIvfvRuZ
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1307633048830185475?s=19

Read Sri Aurobindo
Rate Sri Aurobindo
Recommend Sri Aurobindo

Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest https://t.co/A4YJxAWu9Z
Many new religions have developed around Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, Subhas, Periyar, Ambedkar, Savarkar, et al. Facts are essential.

1920: The Mother has returned back with new experiences and renewed resolve to make the world see light. Nothing is secure not even her equations with Sri Aurobindo or his associates. ARYA has done its job; something else is needed. An experiment of living in a spiritual commune.
After completing six successful volumes the first issue of the seventh volume of ARYA was published in August 1920. No one knew that it will stop midway and the last issue was January 1921. Sri Aurobindo overturned the wisdom of past six thousand years in these six and half years https://t.co/baEjklM6oK
By writing on diverse themes in ARYA month after month for six and a half years, Sri Aurobindo built a firm foundation for a future civilisation by laying down universal principles and showing solutions for common challenges. Essential reading for negotiating ethical quandaries.

Amusing to read tweets on diverse issues plus puerile responses from very sensible people. Reading Sri Aurobindo is such a foundation that there's no confusion or vacillation. But most are content with stray quotations. How this deficit can be met is a big intellectual challenge.

Year after year, The Mother & Sri Aurobindo repeated one simple thing. That faith, sincerity and surrender are the basic tools. Nothing to do with anti-intellectualism or anti-work mentality but to understand that mind is not always a safe guide. Excessive individualism can fail.

Sri Aurobindo is the only top leader active in the Bande Mataram (Partition of Bengal) movement in 1905 to have seen Independence in 1947 and Constitution in 1950. In between he also navigated through two World Wars. He also saw assassination of Gandhi but historians neglect him.

The best way to look at the galaxy of great men involved in the struggle for independence is that they are all different characters in a gigantic play. That way the scene becomes interesting instead of blaming them for the part they played. This in fact is the spiritual approach.

Gandhi is a European – truly, a Russian Christian in an Indian body. When the Europeans say that he is more Christian than many Christians they are perfectly right -- Sri Aurobindo 
https://t.co/GjFsECHXjU
https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1307166402319532033?s=19

Very nice of you to quote Sri Aurobindo ! Hopefully you will accept his views on The Mughal Empire being a magnificient creation ! https://t.co/DwF7oypE8X
https://twitter.com/karrama12/status/1307277959259066369?s=19
Oho... Sir.. Now another quote on the Taj Mahal from Sri Aurobindo himself. https://t.co/D2pF050PFq
https://twitter.com/karrama12/status/1307360570903912448?s=19

Left and right aspects of the brain discovered in 1960s. 
Amazing that Sri Aurobindo wrote this in 1910: 
"The faculties of the right hand are comprehensive, creative, and synthetic; the faculties of the left hand critical and analytic."
More here:
https://t.co/OOSM5SpCkI
https://twitter.com/subhash_kak/status/1305256462344695808?s=19

The way this is phrased : 'I have read XYZ and so whatever disagrees with it is untrue / invalid / disqualified' is very disturbing. This argument effectively invalidates the hundreds of retellings of the Ramayana and MBh across the villages of India, based on an *absolute* book.
https://twitter.com/pattaprateek/status/1162978655640772608?s=19
I would rather let each person believe in his own retelling, and while at it, let him know of the other variations that exist. That way we all know more. And it is fascinating to just know how these characters are in different cultures. How different and how similar.
https://twitter.com/pattaprateek/status/1162982082185850882?s=19

The gesture of shaking hands is probably a relic of the “mysteries” (rituals) of Mithraism in Rome. Those initiated into the ultra-elitist cult were called “Syndexioi” (those united by the handshake). 
A symbol of equality? LOL 😂
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1307781499379421184?s=19

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Sri Aurobindo, Brockway, and Kenyatta

You can't make this stuff up. PRC describes itself as Caesar to Australia's Brutus when calls were made for an independent inquiry into origins of Covid-19."It is approximately identical to Julius Caesar in his final day when he saw Brutus approaching him."https://t.co/mouCw2ucs5
https://twitter.com/TheresaAFallon/status/1300789220274057217?s=19
https://twitter.com/MrsGandhi/status/1300711578199756801?s=19

A herd of goat in the open pasture above the #EktaliMIP dam #Bankwal. The herder being none other than our own #SureshBehera from #MundahataSai 😊
Pic clicked 3yrs ago today 01.09.2017
#NatureClick @hindolbeauty #IncredibleHindol https://t.co/5R0hFZM2kj
https://twitter.com/HindolPalace/status/1300825327942250498?s=19

Exactly 5yrs ago, a group of committed Odias joined together with a mission- 
#RasagolaDibasa trended on #NiladriBije of #NabakalebaraRathaJatra 
30July,2015✌🏻
Sincere effort to end #Rasgulla debate & ensure correct spelling.
Odisha got #GITag for #OdishaRasagola on 29July,2019👍🏻
https://twitter.com/anitaexplorer/status/1288558003537326080?s=19

''Krutanjali'' (1984) by Prafulla Kar, produced by Bhima Bhoi Memorial Trust released a full fledged LP with unknown and amateur visually challenged musicians, a few of whom earned their livelihoods by singing Bhajans on the streets,  etc..the Album was first of its kind in India https://t.co/P5Dz7h7ooa
https://twitter.com/odiamelody/status/1300832373529915393?s=19

Karan Johar the main culprit of movie mafia! @PMOIndia even after ruining so many lives and careers he is roaming free no action taken against him, is there any hope for us? After all is settled he and his gang of hyenas will come for me #ReportForSSR
https://twitter.com/KanganaTeam/status/1300778227594670081?s=19

Watched this surreal thing: The Swimmer (1968), based on John Cheever’s darkly poignant #shortstory that first appeared in @NewYorker in 1964. A dismantling suburban beauty in #technicolor. 
#cinema @mubi @mubiindia https://t.co/bTgWk0RHCw
https://twitter.com/riminamohapatra/status/1300802912826736641?s=19

The recording of this year's @CSMVSmumbai Jehangir Sabavala Memorial lecture, 'How Jesus Went Native: Translators as Transcultural Inventors in the Mir'at al-Quds and the Krista Purana' - which I delivered on 23 August 2020 - is now online: https://t.co/CcxezX3GNa
https://twitter.com/ranjithoskote/status/1299048032156053506?s=19

Just finished reading. What a wonderful book. The thesis is amazing. What I got out of it most was an exciting plethora of new voices to explore Aurobindo, Brockway, Kenyatta just to name a couple. https://t.co/1RUBCa9Hoz
https://twitter.com/Whebblewhite/status/1300764994871590913?s=19

Add @PriyamvadaGopal-under-racist-attack’s works to your course handbook. I am doing it for my course “Law, Violence, and Humanity”. Her Insurgent Empire will help students understand the difference between racist ideas of humanity and anti-colonial humanity. https://t.co/OBOInzxwVc
https://twitter.com/PeruginiNic/status/1276256495471034372?s=19

Congratulations to @PriyamvadaGopal who has been short listed for the Bread and Roses award for Radical Publishing, for her book Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent 🔥 we are so proud to publish this work - see more here: https://t.co/8HGQMuboZ5 https://t.co/UJcq3R9yYQ
https://twitter.com/VersoBooks/status/1277928150064934913?s=19

Perennial nondualism https://t.co/6QcvGqTHYU
https://twitter.com/loveofallwisdom/status/1300176595060174853?s=19
The opposite of Christianity https://t.co/VmUN3JXKb2

“Sesquicentenary Celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s Birth Anniversary Makes an Impactful Beginning”: https://t.co/9RuBC4zulw via @eOrganiser
https://twitter.com/anilguptarsd/status/1300486594286071808?s=19

Open Challenge to TN Govt's HR&CE Department which is administering Hindu temples illegally & in contempt of Hon'ble Supreme Court. Prove me wrong thru Court Action or thru  open/ live debate in a popular TV Channel.  @Swamy39 @vhsindia @BJP4India @indiccollective @LostTemple7 https://t.co/https://twitter.com/trramesh/status/1300816369391251456?s=19

Jobs are lost and businesses suffered due to the damn #ChineseVirus . But most of all the humanity lost the simple joys of a coffee with friends or meeting people without panicking about virus. The joys of travelling and happiness of being carefree. Will the world be same?
https://twitter.com/artyshruti/status/1300786046855081985?s=19

Sikh royal history is no doubt filled with the spoiled & the sycophantic — but also includes many decent rulers and a select few who worked as leaders in the Sikh community. These would probably be my favorites (so far):
Ranjit Singh
Bikram Singh
Ripudaman Singh
Yadavindra Singh https://t.co/hrTpKo5yE7
https://twitter.com/JungNihang/status/1300637744721539072?s=19

IT Minister @rsprasad calls out staff bias at @Facebook which is increasingly captive to censorship by anti-democracy, anti-#FreeSpeech radical #LeftLiberal #Antifa type activists on its rolls. The platform is now the bully pulpit of Leftists, Islamists, Anarchists and Hatists. https://t.co/HwN0a34NZk
https://twitter.com/KanchanGupta/status/1300825275698040832?s=19

@narendramodi Sir
Gandhi series of currency notes/coins started in 1987.
There're other extraordinary great men whose contribution to Nation building is immense. AUROBINDO & AMBEDKAR were 2 such.
Request consider issue of Aurobindo & Ambedkar series of currency notes/coins. @RBI
https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1300821879649792000?s=19

This Con commentariat class is hilarious. After voluntarily signing up for a debate on national TV (for possibly few 1000 bucks) they try to sound so sanctimonious. Dozens of daily debate on economics happens in TV/web that one can watch
https://t.co/0QaNKM72rz
https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1300821259966533634?s=19

Gaana, Hungama, MX Player: The growing influence of Chinese companies through investments in India’s entertainment sector and elsewhere
https://t.co/IjMOUKxWlE
https://twitter.com/OpIndia_com/status/1300815678224515072?s=19

Christian missionaries talk of love, but the goal is the destruction of our way of life, because it is different from theirs - Swami Vivekananda
https://t.co/uqHqtLZlVD
https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1300785770890813440?s=19

A Hindu shrine in Gaya by Thomas Daniell
The shrine was likely rebuilt by local villagers and they embedded old sculptures and inscription into wall of temple. Note sacred grove. Such sacred groves were almost commonplace in Hindu temples unfortunately not taken care of nowadays. https://t.co/NO9jplCTU0
https://twitter.com/wiavastukala/status/1300806425170518019?s=19

Indian Astronomers discover one of the farthest Star galaxies in the universe. India's AstroSat/UVIT was able to achieve this unique feat because the background noise in the UVIT detector is much less than the Hubble Space Telescope of NASA: Department of Space, Indian Govt

Join Lenovo’s Senior Design Strategist, Ali Ent, as she talks design and builds a kinetic sculpture on this episode of #STEMatHome. #womeninSTEM
Click here to learn how to build: https://t.co/PpF0ZyBL04. https://t.co/WrJZLQDmUl

Open Challenge to TN Govt's HR&CE Department which is administering Hindu temples illegally & in contempt of Hon'ble Supreme Court. Prove me wrong thru Court Action or thru  open/ live debate in a popular TV Channel.  @Swamy39 @vhsindia @BJP4India @indiccollective @LostTemple7 https://t.co/ke3p32pmA5
https://twitter.com/meghara/status/1298932743724847104?s=19

I periodically see arguments about how Rāvana, Mahābali or some other Asura in Purānic stories is a Brahmin. The arguments are often given as counter to colonial/missionary propaganda of racist theories that infested the humanities, that Hindu Purānas describe a racial struggle.
Thanks for this discussion with @naman_it who forced me to explain why exotic races like Asuras don’t have Varna, and why the Mlēccha societies amongst humans don’t have it either.
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1300826217516609536?s=19
Previously, I discussed the Adhyātmika elements in Rāmayana. Nothing here is arbitrary, even the names of characters.

This way of looking at the Purānas is a key part of Hindu scholarship. This Adhyātmic aspect, or the Adhidaivika aspect, shouldn’t be removed from the stories.
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1300799821004132354?s=19

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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There is a very close relationship between capitalism and imperialism. The German philosopher thinker Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) argued in her book The Accumulation of Capital (Luxemburg 1913) that capitalism cannot survive without imperialism. In the first chapter, we narrated the history of capitalism in India and the consequences; how the economy of India, the first major colony of Britain, was destroyed to bring about the capitalist development of Britain.

Idea of Imperialism and Capitalism

D Basu, V Miroshnik - Imperialism and Capitalism, Volume I, 2020
… This is essentially opposite to the “utilitarianism,” which is the philosophy of the “Globalization.”. Sri Aurobindo (1947) has explained it further … Sri Aurobindo (1947) has explained it further in “Life Divine” (The Life Divine, vol 1, Arya Publishing House, Calcutta) …

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Movies are a far more efficient vehicle to market products

One thing that I have noticed about American movies over the years is the tendency of characters to talk about things in  great detail, almost personifying objects and events. 
For instance character X recounting his first meeting with someone would be like +
https://twitter.com/entropied/status/1296354791384207360?s=19
Thanks ! Though my final conclusion was opposite : That these fillers were a ploy to make the mundane appear a little more interesting and add some spark and colour ot the  proceedings. 
I mean in the movies, it's the fillers that tend to melt the heroine's heart usually. +
Religious Hindu poetry of the type Tulasidasa wrote has a lot of Upmas while describing gods but those are  imaginations. For instance 'Charan kamal" is not a description of a mundane reality but imagination. Also it is reserved for the most special characters such as our Gods.

True. I lately realizing Indian poets & authors have a razor sharp mind that’s no lesser than any doctoral candidate of top notch western universities.
Indian grammar itself has such a strong framework & the kind of constraints on writing poetry are immense
https://twitter.com/sreedutt22/status/1296472826510290945?s=19

Several factors explain this discrepancy but one of the major factors is that H verbal skills have been steadily degrading over the centuries. 
For example, translate this sentence into any Indian language: "The fruit is halfway up the tree."
https://twitter.com/BabyVanara/status/1296438904887947265?s=19
In Hindi, one might say “Phal ped ke beech mein tanga hai” or "Phal aadhi doori par hai" but its not an accurate descriptor. The translation being made is: "The fruit is in the middle of the tree."
However, the descriptor isn't "middle" but "halfway up" - a very specific visual.
One can provide plenty of idioms in Indian languages which cannot be translated into, say English, but we are not looking at idioms but descriptors. Descriptors, unlike idioms (which are often non-translatable), don't need cultural knowledge or context.
The fruit is half way up the tree is an objective statement. Has nothing to do with cultural context. 
You will find non-translatable descriptors too. But on average, we have a lot more trouble translating are descriptors into Indian languages than translating into, say English.
It's difficult to translate such things because we have lost the linguistic ability to describe things in accurate detail. I'm sure our forefathers would have struggled far less than we do to translate descriptors. Kalidasa would have laughed at such trivialities.
Another indicator is how easily Ys, Xs, Ps, & Fs indulge in dog whistling. On the other hand, the avg. H is incapable of communicating in dog whistles with each other. The average H speaks plainly. We have no active practice of in-group communication.
It is simply incomparable.

True. This is another key reason for the phenomenon.
Your observation reveals itself in movies like Breakfast at Tiffany's or American Psycho. How many have watched American Psycho & not wanted to have dinner at Dorsia? Or wear Oliver Peoples glasses?
https://t.co/BPxXVGPNYr
https://twitter.com/BabyVanara/status/1296799072238686209?s=19
And movies are a far more efficient vehicle to market products (generic & branded) than a 300 page novel. Visual sensory overload in combination with suave articulation, in short 20-30 second bursts captures our imagination like nothing else.
https://t.co/Cwx9lLfqEi
Of course, there are a few other key reasons that compound to result in this phenomenon. 
Yesterday, I wrote about how verbal skills in general have been deteriorating among Hs over the centuries.
https://t.co/jZNaWoubMQ
Another reason is because script & writing are valued far more in American media than in Indian media. In India, the writers are paid peanuts so they deliver gutter quality movie scripts. 
Also, there's a big difference in American & Vishwaguru professional culture & work ethic.

In literature, this is the charcteristic of the 19th century novel. Also known as ‘the realist novel’s mimetic ambition’.
https://twitter.com/TiwariNivedita/status/1296481818200416256?s=19

The phenomenon you talk about here has a lot to do with the American consumerist culture and its promotion by American cinema which served as an important advertising vehicle for companies and a tool for moulding consumer behaviour.
...

He’s enumerating the several reasons which could affect cinematic content. That difference in professional culture is a major determinant of the quality of output, doesn’t matter what kind of output. Despite Indian cinema’s proclivity to ape American film craft it still has
He never alluded to superior skills of one vs another. He said there’s a difference in professional cultures between the two. Although you referred to a particular style of presentation of content, it still very much remains within the wider scope of film craft when taken as a
whole. And the variation in professional quality (not necessarily because one country doesn’t have the requisite talent but that perhaps that talent may not be getting the right atmosphere to grow) determines every kind of output related to a particular field including the
He never stated it as the only reason. He enlisted several reasons. Out of which this was one. And it indeed is a factor however small or big a weightage one may assign to it. But professional cultures do play a part in the output a field produces. Not for anything some
industries experiment and research and innovate more than others do. In film craft ways of expression are part of the total product which it sells. Product quality or range also depends on the organisational culture which a firm nurtures.
it isn’t just about a particular style, it is about the range of styles and depth in presentation that a particular film industry has acquired. A space where it not only can experiment with diverse cinematic expressions but choose which works for it best as the spearhead of
American soft power. An industry without resources and required expertise cannot sway global audiences as American movies do. 
An industry in shambles or mediocre in output will not get the patronage of the wider capitalist circles to push their brands or be able to promote a consumerist culture. You need quality professionals.
Preference for a product or its market viability is gauged by professionals only. Preference may already exist or it can be created even induced. Which will be preferred is dependent on how much is to be gained by any of the choices. The entire process is manned by professionals.
Same industry can have a diverse product range to meet the same need of the consumers. For example alcohol. It has a very wide range. So that point isn’t valid that the product is same. Because there’s a lot of differentiation.
Indian cinema’s content is dependent upon the regions or ideologies which fund it. It’s not like the American film industry in this regard. It does not play for the home industry nor does it for the promotion of native culture as it should. With greater professionalism it may go further rogue.
It was never about * just professionalism*. I have already stressed that this was one of the reasons stated. One is free to assign it the weightage one wants. But one cannot dismiss it as it relevant to the case in point.
Already stated why certain styles are more preferred. Not the only that are preferred but more.
This is mere conjecture. It cannot be proved.
You are using history to make projections about future events and narratives which again according to you will occur in a changed set of situations than what past styles were based on. If this isn’t a bizarre conjecture I’m not sure what is. 
>> there is a lot that current narrative styles in movies derive from past<< not at all. They’re vastly changed from music to dancing styles to familial equations to attires.
Secondly these changed circumstances may not necessarily occur in a society which continues to remain stagnant and inspired by past cultural attributes. It’s an evolving canvas.
History isn’t supporting you in what present cinematic content holds. Contrary to what you said the content and styles have a vastly changed. Even if the ending remains by and large happy. 

Nobody said what you have quoted there. What was said was that in more professional circumstances there’d be a more diverse range and experimentation in movie making with technology matching the advanced American film craft.
The point with which this thread started was never the whole answer to that question.
It was just a part of the whole film making process. To that extent it still stays relevant. It was never mentioned as the primary reason or the reason only. It was suggested as one of the aspects of film industry which influences output. And type of style is part of that output.
https://twitter.com/anshikashukla_/status/1296885454319452160?s=19

Friday, July 24, 2020

Godāvari was the boundary of Kalinga

Anga, Vanga and Kalinga are mentioned typically together as the eastern Janapadas. Kalinga was the southernmost tribe.
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1286596409563766786?s=19
Godāvari is actually called in common parlance as “Godāri Gangā” and sometimes even simply as “Gangā”. This is unparalleled with any other river in southern India.
I think we should discuss the period of the Janapadas distinctly from that of the great kingdoms. Kalinga was used as a name for both.
It is absurd to say people were speaking Odia during Kalinga war. Do you have a single literary evidence for Odia language then? It evolved from an old Prākrit. Moreover, the type of Prākrit changed later to a Magadhi version, which is the ancestor of both Bengali and Odia.
I feel really sorry for your ridiculous jingoism. The entire weight of literary evidence is clear that the Godavari delta was a central portion of the Kalinga Janapada. I am just pointing out the obvious, while being extremely respectful to my Odia cousins.
The onus of the explanation lies with the people who want to restrict the Kalinga janapada to just till Śrikakulam area. Why would a rich cultured civilization go till Śrikakulam and just ignore the fertile Godāvari delta!? It doesn’t make any sense!
You are artificially trying to eliminate Godāvari delta from the Kalinga region. You can’t just wish it away. It is the largest river in South India, with a very large agricultural economy since ancient times. In parallel, it had very ancient Shiva temples. Who were these people?
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1286574832801525760?s=19
What nonsense! How can you compare Godāvari with Vamsadhāra!? Compared to the Godavari, of course, they are just streams.
You are actually insulting the marital and the maritime character of the Kalinga by saying they just stopped at the Vamsadhara river. It doesn’t make any sense!
Godāvari was the boundary of Kalinga. Dakshina Kalinga was the Godāvari delta. Every single evidence points to this !
I also gave arguments why an important port city needs to be at the mouth of large navigable rivers: whether Paradwīpa on the Mahānadi, or Coringa on the Godāvari. 
Now look at the remarkable similarity of the name. Where does it come from? This is just commonsense.
Let us see the facts: Coringa was an extremely important port in the 18th century. It was devastated by two monstrous cyclones: one in 1789 and another in 1839. The latter killed 300,000 people and destroyed 20,000 ships. Coringa is undoubtedly in the Dakshina Kalinga region.

On Cousins Day (July 24) today, we may remember James H. Cousins (22 July 1873 — 20 February 1956), an Irish writer and his book "New Ways in English Literature" which Sri Aurobindo had reviewed quite approvingly. He was Vice-President at Kalakshetra, too. https://t.co/K30K6zmmFV
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1286518515545960448?s=19

Very few people know that most of mythological fiction are popular representation of the Veda. The four or five brothers of Ramayana and Mahabharata are basically Mitra-Varuna et al. So it's imperative that the new temple should be dedicated to Mitra-Varuna instead of Ram or Rama
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1286701938407378945?s=19
Important but self-certification can be dicey. So the real question is which knowledge, which school? Thankfully Sri Aurobindo wrote for seven long years in the ARYA a century back. There can't be a better examination of tradition than what he has executed. Mitra-Varuna will rule.
Human nature can't be compared with anything else; they are just indicators. Sri Aurobindo stresses on Fraternity - the third formula - on the Vedic Mitra-Varuna principle. We are moving towards that.
The last sentence is flawed. Of the four Varnas, the last one is especially geared to work with the service motive. Mahasaraswati in The Mother book represents that faculty. https://t.co/gEPjHIaqEu

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

There is always some hypocrisy attached to our beliefs

How to #Write When You’re Not Sure About Anything https://t.co/Y30SHCceJH via @thecut #writing #WritingCommunity
https://twitter.com/ShernaKhambatta/status/1285907054389952513?s=19

5 years ago today, I collected a scared little girl from a tiny orphanage in Bhubaneshwar and took her home with me. It’s been a crazy ride but the most rewarding and happiest of my life
https://twitter.com/rakheeghelani/status/1285717232438464516?s=19

@AIOVA3 happens to be one prominent “Do Tank” which makes change felt by its concerted and focused action...
https://twitter.com/raghav4india/status/1285832891881029637?s=19
This I have borrowed from @x_sitara creation of Madam @smita1900...
whose ardent push for an आत्मनिर्भर भारत in hi-tech space has been profound and inspiring...
Coming from @indiandiplomats having seen the world, she is a true भारतबंधु to rely upon...

This is why correct spellings & info are essential. Is it -
Chhenapoda 
Or
Chhena Poda ?
Many are using multiple spellings just like #Rasagola #Rasgulla 
Note 📝: #Chhenapoda is NOT linked with #RathYatra ; it’s #PodaPitha  
Poda Pitha or Podapitha? 
https://t.co/yAcmJ0WTku
https://twitter.com/anitaexplorer/status/1285842303236497413?s=19

The #COVID19 pandemic has laid bare gender inequalities, the head of @UN_Women told a virtual event on Tuesday, organized by @UN_PGA.
Participants met to find ways to accelerate landmark targets set 25 years ago for gender equality & women's rights.
https://t.co/aJRQ73LQgF
https://twitter.com/UN_News_Centre/status/1285869695145369601?s=19

Central University of Odisha organizes Online Lecture Series on #COVID 19 – Global Lock down – Environment Protection https://t.co/N10z7EAyr3
https://twitter.com/odishadiary/status/1285896190102470656?s=19

I've seen these all and still I have them with me. How many of these you saw? https://t.co/L6yAvHFh0e
https://twitter.com/LifeOfStardust/status/1285505439262621696?s=19
Let me complete this 😊 https://t.co/BIoxBbQTw1

Kajal Basu - Qanon
https://t.co/cJ1p55gbRG

All these years, govt has promoted Independence Day celebrations. Time to drop this outdated commemoration and fully dedicate the day, instead, to remember Sri Aurobindo. In any case, August 5 is likely to gain traction as a sort of Independence Day in future. So why duplication?
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1285890117068939265?s=19

A tale of seven rivers. Something to read and ruminate upon, year after year.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1285893894744358914?s=19

Godāvari is called affectionately in Telugu as Gōdāri గోదారి. It sounds very nice because “dāri” దారి in Telugu means a path. “Dari” దరి means a bank, or nearby to the goal. Both of these allude to the goal of enlightenment “mōksha” that Telugu people associate with this river. https://t.co/oDYBr0MkYh
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1146798200793247745?s=19

https://t.co/x6ykOy8aTT
A short film on The Mother's Symbol in Marathi
https://twitter.com/SAADelhiBranch/status/1285800007841525766?s=19

Beautiful sonnet by Sri Aurobindo: Because Thou Art https://t.co/w03Lkh7l3a God is in everyone and everything.
https://twitter.com/saraswathi/status/1285786080801722368?s=19

#BijayMohanty's versatility was reflected in the fact that he received the state film award as Best Actor six times, as Best Supporting Actor thrice and Best Actor in a Comic Role once. @geminianguddu 
https://t.co/xioAgrzdek
https://twitter.com/Outlookindia/status/1285538969870974976?s=19

Our lifestyles are heavily dictated by the culture and the time we live in. For eg many Muslims watch movies like it’s not a sin to watch movies because culturally it is acceptable. No one is a perfect Muslim today and there is always some hypocrisy attached to our beliefs.
https://twitter.com/brumbyoz/status/1285761021777309696?s=19

है। When this world be sick of man -made  religions which have not succeeded in raising the consciousness of man ,rather they have made them dwarfs by shrinking their hearts and minds . They out of envy can not see other people developing ,progressing ,They are buzy in crushing
https://twitter.com/uttrashada/status/1285422644561498112?s=19

#Opinion by Shelley Walia
Civilisational crisis and post-human society https://t.co/WzAzwnHBiX
https://twitter.com/thetribunechd/status/1285755232543096833?s=19

Also in case of Vedas themselves the level of brilliance that is contained Upanishad after Upanishad has yet to be seen subsequently... So to say that human thot ONLY advanced & not regressed, ONLY gained & not lost is a very weird & fantastic claim.
https://twitter.com/iamviryavaan/status/1181689055609794560?s=19

This is the sort of nonsense that linguists deal in. Not scientists. Personal impressions & biases on the lines of "One dead body is not enough to prove death". Obfuscation is the disease that linguists started and genetics researchers quote linguists in an example of GIGO
https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/1071942664407330818?s=19

The Psychic and Spiritual Transformations Are Pre-Conditions for the Supramental Transformation https://t.co/ligGcWNCnP
https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1285217782678933506?s=19
All the Parts of the Being Must Surrender Their Habitual Functioning to the Action of the Higher Power https://t.co/krPNPL2PGZ
Stages in the Evolution of Consciousness https://t.co/zllsvQyuqj

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Ostriches don't learn philosophy

Criteria for the Supramental Transformation in the Individual https://t.co/rF7neIipka
https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1285608513063071745?s=19

"The problem is that although MRI can tell us where things happen, it can’t tell us *how* things happen."
Identity and the Mind, a #readinglist by @PrincetonNeuro neuroscientist @SebastianSeung https://t.co/wq5H2OGlZR
https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1058414687648395265?s=19

With designers and manufacturers focusing more on creating aspirational value rather than enhancing the utility of a product, what does it mean for us as consumers? https://t.co/QW5r48HfVF
https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1285609348744577025?s=19

उत्कृष्ट अभिनेता एवम सुप्रसिद्ध नाटककार श्री   बिजय कुमार मोहन्ती ( पूर्व छात्र एनएसडी 1973 बैच ) के निधन  की खबर बेहद  दुखद  है  एनएसडी  परिवार भावभीनी श्रद्धांजलि अर्पित करता है । ईश्वर दिवंगत आत्मा को शांति प्रदान करे।#NSDfamily @nirupamakotru @MinOfCultureGoI @PIBBhubaneswar https://t.co/9n9frKCHbA
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Odisha's worst hit #Coviddistrict is Ganjam. The state govt despatched for the frontline health workers - 10K homeopathy vials to boost immunity! My piece in @DinalipiOnline on this dangerous pseudoscience: https://t.co/TzfTVS66iB #homeopathy #arsenicalba30 #Odisha #Ganjam
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🌅Sri Aurobindo ---There are SEVEN principles of existence and the seven Puranic worlds correspond to them with sufficient precision ---ओम् भू,भुव: ,स्व: ,मह: ,जन:, तप: ,सत्यम्।-तैत्तिरीयारण्यक।  ब्रह्मा ने चारों वेदों का विलोडन किया तो सप्तव्याहृतिरूप मक्खन निकला। ये साक्षात् -- https://t.co/1QIrnLNeBz
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Dayananda’s most important contribution to Hindu society is his reformist agenda solidly backed by vedic literature http://t.co/XH74H4psdJ

It’s not true that Buddhism “arose out of the Vedic matrix”. @Jayarava  https://t.co/nfHirNHgQS

History of India – The Vedic Age (7) http://t.co/nnryjXoyNu via @immortalindia

Philosophy requires cauurage, sir. It demand understanding and rational refutation if you disagree. Ostriches don't learn philosophy.
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You hv left out historical development of human thought. Aurobindo's hypothesis goes against that.
Fine if u think so. But 1.Aurobindo proposes this only as a hypothesis. https://t.co/ZkNHq06pZc finds it contradictory to traditional Indian https://t.co/MxJoRbOUVw finds it contrary to historical development of human thought. Assuming perfection in the beginning and (1/4)

It is untenable on the face of it. If that were so then modern philosophers wud not be making claims like all philosophy is merely a footnote to Plato... All of English literature has still to even remotely approximate a Shakespeare. (1/2)
https://twitter.com/iamviryavaan/status/1181688210092634112?s=19
Also in case of Vedas themselves the level of brilliance that is contained Upanishad after Upanishad has yet to be seen subsequently... So to say that human thot ONLY advanced & not regressed, ONLY gained & not lost is a very weird & fantastic claim.
Many other things cud be said & have been addressed by Sri Aurobindo himself in his writings on the subject. That RadhaK says all these things shows he has not even a clue what he is talking about.
All said & done theres no real examination here of Sri Aurobindo's work on the veda. To say it diverges from both Sayana etc & Western indologists is to merely repeat what Sri Aurobindo himself starts out with So the analysis is not even there. It is an uninformed opinon at best.
Sir, as u can c his treatment of a complex & deep work as that of Sri Aurobindo's revelation of the inner truth of the veda amounts to little more than few sentences. His reasons for rejecting r also not his own but "coz others hold differently" & pure supposition abt "human dev"

@SavitriEraParty Not to forget Dr.R.L. Kashyap who applied Swamy's philosophies onto full Vedic corpus. What a great service it is...
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The seven distributaries are named after the seven Rishis. The main ones are Gautami and Vasishta. The place where the Vasishta river meets the sea is known as Antarvēdi - “the end of the Vedas” i.e, enlightenment. I remembered Herman Hesse’s Siddhārtha when I took this picture. https://t.co/3y9EMZsGV6
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This is the sort of nonsense that linguists deal in. Not scientists. Personal impressions & biases on the lines of "One dead body is not enough to prove death". Obfuscation is the disease that linguists started and genetics researchers quote linguists in an example of GIGO
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The Vedas are not a history document. Their purpose is entirely spiritual. Any geographical/social information is entirely incidental. Words like fire, cow, river & horse take on spiritual meanings in some parts. But for that one cannot avoid Yaska, Sayana, Aurobindo. Kashyap etc

Re-use the Vedic-ideas that gave birth to Caturvarna to effectuate another synthesis. Dr. Soumitra Basu. Sri Aurobindo http://t.co/Jdl8htGT

Sayana’s work was a great stumbling block for a true understanding of Vedas. Vedic scholar Kapali Shastriar sums up http://t.co/AJnfxFdr11
The Vedic cow is not the four-legged animal which we  keep ill-treating all the time. http://t.co/1hnLu07i8C

The whole story of 20th Century was the Vedic fight with Hitler on one side & The Mother & Sri Aurobindo on the other http://t.co/D3tHoVC6t0

[the Vedic symbol of the Horse by which the pranic force is constantly designated in the Rig Veda.] ~Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/3vbTar3Bfc

Forget Chandan Mitra. This is how Sri Aurobindo describes the glory of Mitra as he is invoked in Vedic hymns of yore https://t.co/DMfejmoFga

The task of every Indian is to wake up to the Vedic striving for conquering death. Reading a page from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is right way.
May the nation wake to the anthem of truth, light, & immortality as sung by Sri Aurobindo in his epic Savitri invoking Vedic lore. #August15
@orsoraggiante Savitri by Sri Aurobindo sings the ultimate destiny of man informed by the Vedic aspirations for Truth, Light, & Immortality.
@hguptapolicy Evolution comes in precisely in such situations to force non-linear solutions & apply corrective. Vedic dialectic not helpless
Just as biology speaks of a single species for human race, ontology of Sri Aurobindo traces the common Human Aspiration to the Vedic hymns.
Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy
All grist for the Twitter mill
Sri Aurobindo foregrounds the unfathomable
Buried in the Vedic deities.
War, a Vedic device to score over the night
And welcome Evolution, an unavoidable interregnum
A delight for the hero but for choosing sides.
Instead of any Camus or Greene
Take lessons from our own Vedic gene
Sri Aurobindo doesn't rule out conflict
Hounding it out is heroic duty.
The Mother & Sri Aurobindo embarked upon an adventure of Consciousness in Judeo-Vedic Psychology with publication of ARYA on August 15, 1914
The Mother & Sri Aurobindo launched ARYA in 1914 in order to reiterate Vedic ethical values like nobility, generosity, tenacity and courage.
From Ilion to Savitri, the reigning theme Sri Aurobindo pursues in poetic creations is the Vedic imperative of thwarting the evil impetus.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/330640330305183745?s=19
Pre-mythological allegory of "Uma Haimavati" in Kena Upanishad contains the clue to symbolism of Vedic deities Sri Aurobindo brings to life.
Nishtha has translated hymns to Goddess Sarasvati in the Rig-Veda. http://t.co/jItLTlvFKf Vedic Sacrifice in Savitri. http://t.co/CxRod6xGw1
In the Matrimandir in Auroville also meditation is done around Sri Aurobindo's Symbol which has Judeo-Vedic roots. http://t.co/axdbEUYHO8
Temple sculptures & Indian Classical dances promote mythological fiction & unjust gender stereotypes. Sri Aurobindo teaches Vedic symbolism.
Tablets are replacing Desktops & Laptops but the Vedic Varuna and Mitra still rule over their domains. Sri Aurobindo brings them close to us
Death is the central focus of the Judeo-Vedic sadhana of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. Difficult to fathom it but reading Savitri is our duty.
Sri Aurobindo embodied Evolutionary vigour while Hitler represented wanton destruction reenacting the Vedic Indra vs. Vritra fight in 20thC.
Evolutionary paradigms of Bergson, Alexander, Whitehead, or Teilhard had a strong speculative element but Sri Aurobindo held Vedic sanction.
@knowingk2 Human civilisation is a cumulative position of fanciful ideas. Vedic amrita to Egyptian mummy point to yearning for immortality.
@knowingk2 Please read the Tales of Prison Life to disabuse yourself of fanciful notions. @jam2579 @sarkar_swati https://t.co/KGiQBwfwc9
No phrase in Sanskrit or Pali is valid without Vedic sanction and no proposition of the Veda is valid without Sri Aurobindo's interpretation
Popularising Vedic symbolism and Yogic spirituality as conceived by Sri Aurobindo is a thousand times more valuable than building any temple
If awareness about Sri Aurobindo's Vedic Evolutionary vision can rise even by a shoestring, India could pull itself up by its bootstraps.
Sri Aurobindo redefines ill-understood Maya and fuses it with Myers' Subliminal & Vedic Hiranyagarbha to conceive an ever-emergent Supermind
Neither Goel nor Golwalkar have been able to capture the goal of human life in any definitive manner. The Judeo-Vedic Evolutionary dialectic expounded by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is the most dependable roadmap for humanity which every Indian must internalise as well as endorse.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/940906426871844864?s=19
The way Sri Aurobindo decoded the Vedic terminology, The Mother too brought out the significance of flowers by assigning them Vedic values.