One becomes a Brahmana

The Mother and Sri Aurobindo keep harping on the notion that a higher, wider, and deeper mode of perception is native to our nature. Our whole business is to discover that.

• The urge to break-free from the shackles of restricted awareness and the endeavour to bridge the epistemological disconnect is Yoga.
• To be reborn into such an Integral Consciousness is being Dwija, i.e., attaining the state of Brahmana.

Seekers of the world, unite!

Holi, the boisterous carnival of colours, brings to the mind the catchline, United colors of Benetton. How harmonizing is the imagery! The whole world seems to be wallowing in seamless love and brotherhood. But alas! The real world presents a different picture.

Sri Aurobindo and The Mother bring us the assurance that a new configuration is round the corner. All that we need to do is to collaborate, which entails receptivity, plasticity, and humility on our part. And then all here shall be home to Harmony.

Money or Harmony?

Ananda- Bhaga (Enjoyment, Share)- Shudra: Service, Surrender- Marx's Labour
Ananda/Chit- Mitra (Harmony, Love)- Vaishya: Desire, Libidinal Economy- Freud, Lyotard
Chit/Tapas- Aryama (Force)- Kshatriya: Power, Leadership- Nietzsche, Adler, Foucault
Sat- Varuna (Purity)- Brahmana: Knowledge, Nobility- Kant's Sublime, Habermas' Dialogue
Friday, October 28, 2005 ¶ 5:44 PM

Sri Aurobindo, the deliverer

Yoga- from pshycho-physical exercises

Veda- from religious rituals and rigidities

Karma- from the reward and punishment syndrome

Science- from the logic of the finite