The Life Divine couldn't be written before Darwin

 Collated X posts in original by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Being economic units Ashram and Auroville have their own compulsions and limitations whereas Savitri Era Religion is absolutely devotee oriented. The concept of Collective yoga is different from collective meditation or celebration of Special days. No dependence on intermediaries. 

Every year thousands of students take admission in colleges and out of those only a very few study philosophy. They certainly get a different orientation in life which stand them in good stead in professional sphere too. Reading The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's books is similar to it. 

Indians long for technology made by Indians. Westerners too take great care not to cross the boundary of Western philosophy. Hundreds of books are published every year but they wouldn't touch Sri Aurobindo with a barge pole. Philosophy suffers as a result and humanity as a whole.

Many tend to portray Kejriwal in a simplistic fashion, but he continues to be a source of confusion and chaos. The whole chain of events from Ramdev to Modi can't said to have been neatly scripted and executed by Kejriwal. Evolutionary forces were at work. x.com/SavitriEra/sta…

People were shocked when I talked about politics with relation to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. In the process, I earned more detractors than followers. Launching Savitri Era Religion also added fuel to the fire. But I have carried on singlehandedly with utmost conviction and hope.

The last twenty years are an important period in the intellectual history of India during which most people became confused, and lost their integrity. But thanks to Google Blogspot and Twitter or X, I have been able to provide an independent line of thinking due to Sri Aurobindo.

A compilation of his journal articles from 1942 onwards, The Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy by Sisir Kumar Maitra was published in 1956. I was also born, the same year, and am indebted to this book for stimulating my interest in Western philosophy.

Darwin's evolution and Freud's unconscious mind were hanging in the balance and Sri Aurobindo explained them on the basis of the Vedic ladder of consciousness. Descent of Supramental is an inevitability and worshipping The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine is basic. 

The ladder of consciousness should be understood in conjunction with the four facets of Divine manifestation as delineated by Sri Aurobindo in The Secret of the Veda. Varuna, Aryaman, Mitra, and Bhaga broadly corresponding with Maheshwari et al have social ramification as castes.

@sharmasatyan Sri Aurobindo has explained the phenomenon of Varna divisions on different occasions. The four suns, viz., Varuna, Aryaman, Mitra, and Bhaga broadly correspond to it. He has a similar classification for four powers of Divine Mother elsewhere. incarnateword.in/cwsa/15/the-gu…

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While your advocacy for the Hindu cause can't be contested, creating an artifical category like HINOs appears anomalous. How would you explain dividing the Hindu society by such a caste like feature. Besides, is questioning the religious orientation of people in a democracy okay?

There can be many such descriptions but you are basically fighting for the acknowledged Hindu population in India (covered by the Hindu Code for instance). Thus dividing them under the rubric of some arbitrary attribution like HINO is patently a contradiction. It's also insulting. 

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Apart from the biological uniqueness of individuals, the Vedic taxonomy of human nature lays bare a more complex scenario. The overall ontological formulation matters. Opting for the right philosophy, therefore, is important. x.com/SavitriEra/sta…

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While one is free to choose his or her food according to personal choice, the same doesn't hold good for philosophy. Following a faulty philosophy can lead a person to disastrous decisions. The Vedic worldview as restored by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is the safest course in life. 

Subscribing to an ideology or narrative that suits one's social and cultural background is common among people. The job of philosophy, however, is to jolt the mind out of the comfort zone. The writings of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, in this context, are magnificently significant. #TusarNathMohapatra

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Without the audacity of claiming any spiritual experience or realisation, may I affirm that whatever I'm writing today is the result of cumulative intellectual activity spanning seven decades. One is liable to be misguided without adequate reading. Sri Aurobindo demands reading.

Supporting evolutionary forces is important but Savitri Era Party fails to find anyone in the current political milieu of India. Similarly, it doesn't take any stand on international situation since it's so chaotic. But churning is on and will lead to Sri Aurobindo's #WorldUnion.

Savitri Era Religion, valiantly, believes that The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are the one Supreme Divine who are always present in their three poises. This liberates from the bondage of mythologies and imagined narratives of manufactured history. Reading Savitri can usher in harmony.

Savitri Era Religion is the most modern and rational religion backed by a coherent metaphysics. It operates at the psychological level without any external prop. Worshipping The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine amounts to conscious collaboration with evolution.

Reading the books of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo for their content shouldn't be the only objective. Understanding them takes long but reading on a regular basis creates an atmosphere of serenity and harmony. The very mechanical process of reading has its own effect and vibrations.

Integral education is known in a far wider circle than Integral yoga. It also features in the University syllabus. Further, there are over a thousand schools in the county dedicated to this ideal. NEP 2020, too, is said to have elements of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's teachings.

Universal unconditional love doesn't expect anything in return. Top professionals blending their experience with spirituality is a rarity. Dr. R.L. Kashyap was able to accomplish a lot vis-à-vis Veda. And Dr. Ramesh Bijlani continues to radiate his wisdom.

Decent people are generally reticent about their religious belief and most devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are ultra-decent in this respect. But this also helps to be diplomatic and avoid taking any firm stand. Savitri Era Religion and Savitri Era Party provide confidence.

Many new States have taken birth in India and creation of new Nations in future can't be ruled out. Geopolitical transformations are very much part of evolutionary plan and it would be much more profitable to explore such possibilities instead of constantly delving into the past.

Worshipping The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine also involves thinking about why their background, culture, or historical circumstances were so dissimilar and complex. But then it's all in the scheme of evolution. The Life Divine couldn't be written before Darwin. 

While Sri Aurobindo is waxing eloquent about the concept of Avatar in The Essays on the Gita, the same is conspicuous by its absence in his magnus opus, The Life Divine. Moreover the problem has been compounded by the Divine Manifestation of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo themselves.

Worshipping The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine is the fundamental tenet of Savitri Era Religion. Thus, overlooking many of their historical contexts and utterances is necessary. Devotees need to be sensitive not to insist on literal interpretation of cold print.

Savitri Era Religion owing allegiance to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is also an excellent alternative. Savitri stands for aspiration for Immortality as enshrined in the Veda & The Life Divine sets forth an evolutionary path for mankind through descent of Supramental consciousness.

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Sri Aurobindo had welcomed the Cripps Proposal and had urged the Congress leaders for its acceptance. There is a belief that the partition could have been averted had his advice not rejected.

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My legs are still better,

No engine, no failure!

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I am a devotee of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo for over sixty years. Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006) ତୁଷାରନାଥ ମହାପାତ୍ର @NathTusar tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad (UP) Born 22 January 1956 Joined April 2012 1354 Followers savitriera.blogspot.com

Read an article by @Hashestweets in @htTweets that he and @amitvarma blog at middlestage.blogspot.com. It was 2005, and that's the first time I learnt about a blog. Then, I launched Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as focus selforum.blogspot.com. 

An Odia short story titled, 'Type Four' by Ananta Prasad Panda is famous for this theme. [the turmoil of a lady who was respected in a locality in Cuttack... move to a govt quarter in Bhubaneswar and their... The lady feels that her existence has no meaning.]

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Magunira Sagada tells of an allied sad theme.

[Maguni is a bullock cart driver, who has won the hearts of the people. One day the news spread that people would no longer ride in Maguni's cart, because the Singh family plans to ply a motor-bus in the town.]

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Ramti Aave Madi

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Awareness of Odia music is very limited even in West Bengal although Bengali singers used to dominate during the golden age of the 1960s. Nirmala Mishra was the most popular singer who shot to fame with Aaji akashe ki ranga lagila ଆଜି ଆକାଶେ କି ରଙ୍ଗ ଲାଗିଲା। m.youtube.com/watch?v=j27mMu…

Sandhya Mukherjee has sung over a dozen songs in Odia films during the 1960s among which Phula rasia re ଫୁଲ ରସିଆ ରେ is the most appreciated. Au chanda lagi ଆଉ ଚାନ୍ଦ ଲାଗି is also popular. However, the music of her first film was directed by Nachiketa Ghosh. youtu.be/5Xr4NrikiaM?si…

Aarti Mukherjee's first song in Odia, Dele dhara katha ଦେଲେ ଧରା କଥା was a romantic duet which is still popular. But the next, Udasi akhi chahin rahe ଉଦାସୀ ଆଖି ଚାହିଁ ରହେ is famous for its haunting melancholic mood. Ei Jhuma jhuma ଏଇ ଝୁମା ଝୁମା is also great. youtu.be/AsVclyWThxs?si…

Sipra Bose is ranked almost equal to Nirmala Mishra and has the most evocative song in Odia, Janena janena ଜାଣେନା ଜାଣେନା to her credit. Besides, she has lent her voice to several duets with folk theme. This is in contrast to her image as a classical singer. youtu.be/cJ39oQYLYic?si…