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The Mother & Sri Aurobindo emphasise that the future will be different. Savitri Erans, therefore, don't put much confidence on the past. Even present arrangements like nationality or commercial blocs are suspect. Our identity as human beings is the most fundamental configuration.
Development is the new slogan and reform is the modality. For Savitri Erans, however, transformation is the mode of evolution. It doesn't depend on any single community or geographical location. New consciousness can grow anywhere in the world, in any receptive or aspiring heart.
Although, Nehruvian consensus served the basis for a broad cultural template after the British left, Charan Singh was able to articulate the concerns of the farmers with economics at the heart. His protest against Nehru then is the genesis of why Modi is the Prime Minister today.
Many here advise others to read Sri Aurobindo without reading him themselves. They don't specify which book to read or in what context. They aren't bothered about The Mother or what Auroville means. They are unaware that Sri Aurobindo wrote a long poem titled Ilion on Greek theme.
Worshipping The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine who are always present in their three poises is the minimum expected of their devotees. Savitri Era Religion is meant for securing this much without any variation or pretext of slipping into temptations of old ways.
There is another typo in the name of Sri Aurobindo. It is Sri and not Shri. He used to sign in the style Sri Aurobindo and that is his complete name. Any variation is erroneous. For us the devotees, name is mantra and spelling sacrosanct. It also proves that you haven't read him!
In many meetings and conferences, the speakers induce a sense of deficiency in the minds of those present by citing The Mother's instructions. Savitri Era Religion, on the contrary, encourages a joyful relationship with her, with love, devotion, and surrender. No yoga or sadhana!
For many solutions, The Mother & Sri Aurobindo proposed the role of soul, the spirit, the psychic being, the true self, or such other esoteric entities. From the point of view of a modern mind, these are inaccessible. Despite robust theoretical framework, results are not assured.
There shouldn't be hypocrisy. What The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have said is their responsibility. We needn't parrot them. Avoiding false promise is most important. Savitri Era Religion asks to worship them as the one Supreme Divine but a devotee's relationship with them is unique.
It was easy for me all these years to criticise Hindutva on the strength of Sri Aurobindo. But now Hindutva itself is undergoing severe churning due to upper castes revolt. No clarity as of now since electoral politics and RSS double-speak are involved. Still Savitri Era is safe.
Please write Sri Aurobindo, a proper noun.
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You didn't believe me then!
That's not the right spirit, and we can't claim monopoly on Sri Aurobindo. As an author, JSD is very much entitled to provoke public opinion by referring to Sri Aurobindo in a tangential way. One is reminded of how Ken Wilber popularised Sri Aurobindo among the elite in the West.
Writings of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo leave most things open-ended. Although The Mother has been identified as the Divine Mother in three poises Sri Aurobindo's own status hasn't been clearly enunciated. Even the concept of Ashram or Yoga is not compatible with their philosophy.
The Ashram grew from ideas in Ananda Math, Bhawani Mandir, and Deva Sangha of Chandannagar etc. It was a laboratory which has no relevance after The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's demise. Secluded and regimented life has no place in their vision of the world. 2) Yoga is not verifiable.
Leftists have been churning out PhDs in Humanities without mentioning Sri Aurobindo. Hindutva intellectuals imitated the same formula for writing books. But now a situation has arrived when there can't be any thinking without Sri Aurobindo. The next step is Savitri Era version.
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I have been hinting at that weird situation when many of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's actual writings would be bypassed or overlooked. Selective quoting at present creates misleading atmosphere. But subjective interpretation will be a more dangerous zone. However, spirit matters.
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Democracy is an admirable notion but with the most problematic elements. Instead of an elephant choosing as in olden days people are expected to elect. But on what basis? Can it be rational? With men one can be sure to some extent. But women? The eternal Gopis? Whoa! It's rigged.
Remembering The Mother along with Sri Aurobindo is also important as she embodies that Integral spirit. Incidentally, tomorrow happens to be her Birth anniversary which is celebrated all over the world. Peter Heehs has written a wonderful biography of her.
Why there is so much of confusion within the Hindutva ecosystem? The Mother & Sri Aurobindo foresaw it long back. I started Savitri Era Religion for worshipping them as the one Supreme Divine, who are always present in their three poises: individual, universal, and transcendent.
Winds of Modernity blew into India when The Asiatic Society was founded by Sir William Jones on January 15, 1784. Bengal Renaissance followed during which William Carey and Thomas Babington Macaulay played great roles. The Mother arrived from France to meet Sri Aurobindo in 1914.
Most of us here talk about politics or national and international affairs, but the relevance of spirituality is basically personal, and The Mother is an excellent guide. Sex is Achilles' heel of Integral yoga on which Dr Bijlani has tried to shed some light.
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