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
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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 
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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
https://twitter.com/nsd_india/status/1285436159527514112?s=19

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
https://twitter.com/sambit_dash/status/1285539940550340609?s=19

As a build-up to #ConstitutionDay2020, we are partnering with Law Schools to raise awareness on #IndianConstitution and #OurDuties. Be a part of 10 Cr+ students who’re leading the #CitizensDutiesAwarenessProgramme. Join the movement. Visit https://t.co/lqxAUnIS1m to participate. https://t.co/R7WtNRWI1s
https://twitter.com/DoJ_India/status/1285184184105889792?s=19

#BlogchatterEBook author Ellora Mishra’s @ellora280 book ‘Dots and Streaks’ has won the coveted LIT Digital Award 2020! We get together for a (virtual) chat to talk about her writing process and inspiration:
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https://twitter.com/blogchatter/status/1285477173541961728?s=19

#CyberBullying is terrible.
Can understand having been a victim myself.  
There's very little doubt-
That the bullies want us out.
Time to show them our clout!
My #blog #post -
Stop Cyber-Harassment- 
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#EndCyberBullying 
#TuesdayThoughts #tuesdayvibes https://t.co/AECTnmAAv1
https://twitter.com/anitaexplorer/status/1285597586712338433?s=19

The fantastic Magi Matinga is sharing her expertise on gender equality and renewable energy because, when it comes to climate change, we cannot leave anyone behind. The solution has to be inclusive. #climatejustice #renewables #EqualityForAll
https://twitter.com/ClimateParl/status/1285604048683630592?s=19

🌅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
https://twitter.com/uttrashada/status/1285396610575294464?s=19

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.
https://twitter.com/dhankar_r/status/1181538459321655300?s=19
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...
https://twitter.com/ravikumarg14/status/557432731554947072?s=19

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
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1146765089967677441?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 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.