Monday, August 04, 2025

Bengal Renaissance and Sri Aurobindo are indebted to Christian legacy

 Collated X posts in original by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

The Divine Manifestation of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is unique and unprecedented, and hence it's erroneous to explain them or their thought in terms of old mythologies or philosophical doctrines. It's anomalous too to compare them with their contemporaries or other great names.

The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo is absolutely new and no one can understand it without reading his books in original. His prose is difficult and the concepts remote. Even then, reading with some persistence yields results. No intermediary is required.

Link incarnateword.in/cwsa

Internet gave access to unlimited sources of knowledge and I started posting relevant reading material & links at selforum.blogspot.com in 2005. With my good grasp on The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's writings, I also started recording my own observations at savitriera.blogspot.com.

Since Meditation and Wellbeing have become commercialised, Savitri Era Religion refrains from promising spiritual realisation or mystical experiences. Devotees are encouraged to establish a direct relationship with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo through love, devotion, and surrender.

Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta are now available online, in an independent site. A Century’s Salutation to Sri Aurobindo provides a profound estimate of the life and work of Sri Aurobindo. Those who find Sri Aurobindo difficult may shift to Nolini.

Modernity privileges Enlightenment values but at many points religion overrides education leading to irrationality. Savitri Era Religion, owing allegiance to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, however, is a composite dispensation comprising best of philosophy and a captivating religion.

By opposing all other parties, Savitri Era Party pushes its own ideology and narrative tethered to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. The country is suffering due to anti-evolutionary policies as people are falling prey to vicious identity politics. I am disseminating this since 2007.

Although, Fifth Pay Commission in 1997 marks the beginning of Indian prosperity, Yashwant Sinha increasing deduction of interest on self-occupied property from 30K to 75K in his 1999-2000 Budget was a daring step for propelling India's growth story. He also gifted me VRS in 2000.

During 2021 to 2022, I was enjoying the hospitality of one hospital after another. Thus I missed many things.

[many-voiced, multiple-perspective narrative... shaking literature free of ‘single camera’ view... Perhaps the 20th century really began in 1922.]

Paucity of genuine scholars on The Mother & Sri Aurobindo on this platform is forcing those who love conversation to grapple with @grok. But AI generated prose can mislead in many ways due to limited access to authentic info and experience. Possibility of slants are always there.

Texts explore metaphysical dimensions but the practice part is under-reported. Round-the-year devotional activities in Odisha, for instance, are barely noticed. Scholarly analysis of their sociological as well as religious aspects have never been attempted. 

People assume that they can be taught to become something or they were shaped by a certain books, etc. But Savitri Era narrative believes in the other way round (TOWR). Each person grows into what his or her Psychic Being opts for in terms of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's thought.

Although I became acquainted with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo in the Primary school, serious engagement happened during the College days when Centenary celebrations were on. Later I met Niranjan Mohanty, an ardent devotee at Sundargarh and was drawn into Study Circle organisation.

Mythology may have many uses, be it Sudhir Kakar or Devdutt Pattanaik, but Savitri Era Religion is against giving it a new lease of life. To assume that Indians have an inherent identity with mythological characters is nothing but a figment of imagination.

Religious discourses are common in India because of which people feel saturated as far as metaphysics or cosmology are concerned. Reading a few pages from Vivekananda turns them experts on spirituality. Thereafter, what's the necessity of reading Sri Aurobindo's interpretations?

Being born and brought up in an Odisha village, I understand the value of modernity and liberalism. Bengal Renaissance and Sri Aurobindo are indebted to Christian legacy and the Constitution too is based on Biblical ideals. Savitri Era Party steers clear of mythology and rituals.

Savitri Era Religion, as an alternative to all old belief systems, worships The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine, who are always present in their three poises. Understanding their philosophy and practice of yoga etc. should be taken up voluntarily by the devotees.

It's important for scholars and academics to be intellectually honest. It's always possible that there's a chasm between their professional work and personal beliefs. They need to be stated clearly. Peter Heehs, for instance, explains his methodology clearly but own views opaque.

There's an impression that The Mother's writings are simple and easy to understand. This may be partially true but one should be prepared to be bombarded with disruptive and revolutionary ideas within a couple of paragraphs. Sri Aurobindo would tell tacitly but her way is direct.

Although Congress has national presence, its family-owned structure can never attract people. BJP seems to have exhausted all its ammunitions. That leaves AAP as the lone contender for the future. But Sri Aurobindo might prove to be a more powerful force than any Arvind Kejriwal. 

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Our task is love, devotion, and surrender

 Collated X posts in original by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

All admirers, devotees, or followers of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are fortunate to have come in contact with them. But choosing to be prisoners of anti-evolutionary narratives amounts to wasting that opportunity. Savitri Era Party encourages intellectual culture for right steps.

Appreciating The Mother & Sri Aurobindo through their books may take decades but Savitri Era Religion is the secure route to access their greatness. Even, visiting Centres at times may feel repelling but Savitri Era Religion demands no rituals or methods of practice. One is free.

It's easy to be drawn into any faction given the multiple identity ghettoes in our country. Savitri Era Religion is also an identity based fraternity, but believes in universality and human unity. Savitri Era Party respects diversity and democratic route for resolving conflicts.

If Govt. can't manage temples, then why should it manage schools or colleges; or hospitals, for that matter? Administration is brick and mortar. Religion is a much broader concept than mere temples. Focusing on that is the real task. Auroville was private but Govt. took it over.

I understand the issue and wholly sympathise with your argument and demand. In fact I'm also demanding the same for Auroville. Churches and mosques have been outside Govt control but temples are large in number and unless a viable management model develops conflicts will mushroom

Savitri Era Religion, owing allegiance to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is the best option in the modern environment. It is free from mythology and rituals and seeks to collaborate with Earth's consciousness for descent of the Supramental light and force as per evolutionary journey.

True, but The Mother & Sri Aurobindo represent evolutionary power capable of transformation of human nature. Collaborating with that is the task. #Grok can help you further.

Current generation of Hindutva intellectuals are products of the temple movement where the rise was easy. Now they find that reading Sri Aurobindo is essential for their credibility. It's a difficult job and laid with interpretational mines. The presence of The Mother stymies too. 

History like mathematics has a very limited use in life but news and current affairs impose too much of it on people. Historical analysis is posed as crucial but the truth is that events rarely occur in the old format. Evolution is amazingly creative; expecting newness is a must.

An incomplete commentary on Isha Upanishad written around 1902 marks the beginning of The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. Several other drafts are also available at incarnateword.in/cwsa/17

The published version can be accessed at incarnateword.in/cwsa/21 and incarnateword.in/cwsa/22.

When Book Two of The Life Divine was published in 1940 Sri Aurobindo included many new chapters by discarding old ones. incarnateword.in/cwsa/22 

In the last two chapters one can find the highest aspiration and vision for man as delineated by a mature philosopher who left in 1950.

Agreed that there hasn't been any "noticeable" confirmation of Divine Life as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo in the final chapter of The Life Divine. There appears to be no reason why if we sincerely hope for something won’t bear fruit. It is a therapy of hope, Hopeopathy, let’s say!

The Life Divine is generally considered a book of philosophy but it contains enormous insights on psychology as well as yoga. Further, it's also the sublimest expression of sociology. From ontological view too, it sets out the secrets of physics and biology. Poetry isn't missing.

The Life Divine constitutes the greatest Manifesto for the mankind. Reading it amounts to prayer for fulfilment of the prophecy it proclaims. Sri Aurobindo assures that the descent of the Supramental consciousness is an evolutionary inevitability. Surrender to The Mother is key.

It's interesting to compare the last three Arya chapters with the last two chapters of The Life Divine.

incarnateword.in/arya/05/the-ne

This also exhibits the unwavering faith and certitude of Sri Aurobindo in his basic philosophical thesis even after two decades.

incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/summar

A democratically elected Govt is the highest ideal in social and political thought and hence its actions and priorities can't be faulted. Citizens are well within their rights to demand change of policies but the Govt has its own compulsion of building consensus within the party.

Social media has empowered individuals to have their say but respecting democratic ethos is most important. Asking present Govt to rectify all errors of the past is absurd. Representing an interest group requires building an organisation. Otherwise, lone voices are empty vessels.

No Prime Minister had performed the kind of dextrous tightrope walking that Modi does in the full glare of Social media. Myriad chaotic and cacophonic narratives targeting disparate constituencies exemplify democratic polyphony. Repealing the farm laws is his greatest achievement. 

Students' Prayer forms one of the defining dictums of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's teachings. The inherent aspiration in it dovetails into a resolve, but discerning what's tainted with the past and which beacon of light beckons towards the future warrants dispassion and goodwill.

Divinity of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is the fundamental aspect of Savitri Era Religion which the outside world can never understand or accept. It is for the devotees to express that to let others know. It's not for nothing that major religions are spending so much on publicity.

Outsiders are always eager to compare The Mother & Sri Aurobindo with others, but it's a fruitless exercise. Their Divine Manifestation is unique and unprecedented. But even their intellectual output is lightyears ahead. No man has ever imagined what The Life Divine proclaims.

The Mother discouraged involvement in active politics in the Ashram, and that gives the wrong impression that Sri Aurobindo was against politics. In fact, both The Human Cycle and The Life Divine deal with collective affairs. Savitri Era Party aims at #FiveDreams and #WorldUnion.

The Bourgeois and the Samurai by Sri Aurobindo is also a good analysis in this context.

incarnateword.in/cwsa/7/the-bou

Direct disciples in the Ashram were responsible for dissemination of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy in a scholarly manner. Later, some University professors took it up for writing books and articles among whom Sisir Kumar Maitra (1887-1963), BHU was a pioneer.

Indra Sen (1903-1994) is famous for his book Integral Psychology. He had attended Heidegger's lectures and met Jung. He had first visited Puducherry with Surendranath Jauhar as a tourist but later became a devotee and left Delhi University to settle there.

Savitri Era Party has been demanding:

1) Abolition of Reservations

2) Inclusion of Sri Aurobindo in University syllabus

3) Lifting of ban on The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs

4) Returning Auroville back to the devotees

5) Granting Sovereignty to the States for #WorldUnion

The trap of current affairs shouldn't delude us. Savitri Era Religion is open to all those who accept and worship The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine. As devotees our task is love, devotion, and surrender. How the future evolution unfolds is their responsibility.

Based on The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's vision, Savitri Era Party maintains a valiant stand that Hindutva is anti-evolutionary. It's also against Congress due to its family ownership. Reservations should be abolished. Beyond this it's difficult to speculate on geopolitical matters.

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