Smiling Sri Aurobindo

[Re: A Cultural Misunderstanding
by Kepler on Wed 28 Jan 2009 08:54 AM PST Profile Permanent Link
In the end perhaps some good will emerge. The instinctive splitting of many into two camps viewing each other as either Indian/religious/fundamentalist or Westerner/skeptic/materialist, was clearly latent beneath the surface and is a phenomenon one can imagine Sri Aurobindo smiling at. Reply]

[Re: A Cultural Misunderstanding
by Rick on Fri 30 Jan 2009 12:49 PM PST Profile Permanent Link
I think we're throwing around the word fundamentalist here without contexting it that well and in this way it tends to assume less and less meaning. There's way too much justice in this world. Rick Reply]

[Re: A Cultural Misunderstanding
by Kepler on Sat 31 Jan 2009 03:03 PM PST Profile Permanent Link
Clearly there are some similarities between the current Heehs/Lives and the earlier Satprem/Agenda controversies. I don't personally find the import of the content of Mother's Agenda can be directly compared to that of Peter's biography (i.e. ocean compared to stream). And the intensity of the current conflict also seems to me relatively mild compared to the height of the Ashram vs. Satprem/Auroville upheaval. But the partition into Indian/religious vs. Western/liberal stereotypes certainly has a common feel.]

[Re: A Cultural Misunderstanding
by Rich on Sat 31 Jan 2009 11:09 PM PST Profile Permanent Link
I would argue that in addition to the cross-cultural misunderstandings there is a really serious language conundrum at play not only here but throughout the culture of Integral Yoga and that must first be resolved before this evolutionary knot can begin to untangled. and I suggest a start by noting what Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, said: “The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance” rich]

The ocean/stream comparison is rather the other way round in import considering the denial of divinity sparking the current imbroglio. [TNM]