Sunday, December 31, 2006
A million A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Comb between the lines of The Life Divine
Saturday, December 30, 2006
We are all ill equipped to measure mysticism
Friday, December 29, 2006
Is there another person in the whole of human history
- written a monumental epic like Savitri
- created a synthetic metaphysics like The Life Divine
- written history to create a new historiography
- formulated a new hermeneutics
- speculated on philology
- translated and gave new interpretations to the Veda, Upanishads, and the Gita
- challenged the Buddhists and Shankara to give Integral non-dualism
- wrote on ethics, aesthetics, and literary criticism
- wrote poems, plays, and short stories
- devised a new theory of education
- did fiery journalism against foreign rulers
- led freedom struggle and went to jail
- forsook material comforts and family life
- offered spiritual guidance to hundreds of his disciples
- meticulously recorded his spiritual experiences
- spent 24 years within his room
- fought Hitler with his spiritual force
and countless other aspects?
The most opportune moment to know
A nice way to begin the New Year
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Show me someone who can provide details of experiences
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Ahab, a synonym for Aham ('I')
Ahab, said K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar in his 1953 lecture on Moby Dick, is much like the Aham, the ego. Anderson, in taking up Deleuze’s treatment of the theme as an instance of "becoming" in the sense of Sri Aurobindo’s “Knowledge by Identity” or by linking Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” to Sri Aurobindo’s “Transformation,” has attempted to make these concepts accessible to the western audience.
The next century will be Deleuze’s, Foucault once prophesied; and mercifully, this study can help wean those obsessed with Derrida away to Deleuze. Be that as it may, by invoking the Whitehead quote, Anderson has succeeded in firmly fixing his name to the altar of Sri Aurobindo.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Find answers to every question in the Savitri Era religion
Sunday, December 24, 2006
A spirit of inquiry and thirst for knowledge
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Why task Ken for something which is beyond his ken?
Friday, December 22, 2006
Varuna, the vast and pure
Uma, the enigma
Thursday, December 21, 2006
The manifold roles it plays in life
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Sri Aurobindian vista must replace the Gandhian blind alley
The phenomenon of Gandhi is a stiff resistance to Savitri Era in several subtle ways. We must really understand this and speak out clearly. Diversity might be a respectable sociological principle, but for the Savitri Erans, Unity-Mutuality-Harmony are the watchwords. The Sri Aurobindian vista must replace the Gandhian blind alley.
Nihilistic Buddhist thought is a threat to Savitri Era
The danger is further amplified by the fact that Wilberian dialectics is couched in brazen iconisation. It is imperative, therefore, that Savitri Era Religious Fraternity wakes up to the challenge.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Kena and Ken
Friday, December 15, 2006
India Integral
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Roy Bhaskar deserves a closer look
Esoteric and the academic
The works of Nolini-Purani-Amrita-Pavitra, Anil-Amal-Nirod-Dilip, Rishabh-Chandra-Kapali-Madhav and Sisir-Indra-Madhu-Kishor among others constitute an immense quantity of authentic explication of the vision of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. These have also created an elaborate as well as elastic system of syntax and semantics for the posterity. Not to be intimidated by the tyranny of the present is the key, else one land at the jargonificationalization of say, Roy Bhaskar or the paradoxicatorising of the likes of Jean Baudrillard.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Bechara Anderson
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Navajyoti completes its 49th year
Of course, the popular appeal of its younger sibling Navaprakash, a monthly, is far higher; but the pioneering role of Navajyoti in carrying the message of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo from distant Puducherry to remote corners of Orissa has few parallels. Reading of Murari Pukur in the rural environs of Sailo Jharpara appears to be a miracle even today.
Destiny of an organization
Tusar N. Mohapatra Says: December 7th, 2006 at 11:21 pm Not only has an organization an agency or a soul but also a destiny, pre-designed, if you like. Sri Aurobindo has discussed at length about the group-soul of a nation in his classic, The Human Cycle. The same applies to the evolution of an organization as well.
Tusar N. Mohapatra Says: December 8th, 2006 at 11:07 pm Daffodils are as much divine as the dredgers and the Infinite is under no compulsion to stop imagining and staying outside the walls of WalMart. Proof, like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder and all epistemological rigours, therefore, need to be tempered by suitable hermeneutical hormones so that a new aesthetic is perceived. In this subjective adventure we are all loners and have to plough our own furrows. 11:38 AM