Defending Sri

[Millenarian Elements in the Hindu Religious Traditions Hugh B. Urban The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism In the course of suppressive colonial rule, militant nationalism emerged in messianic attire. Spiritual nationalist Sri Aurobindo described it as a religion directly presented by God. The new age came up with lifestyle gurus such as Osho Rajneesh, who asserted a symbolic end of time by surrendering typical lifestyle practices. The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism - Page 375 - Google Books Result - Catherine Wessinger - 2011 - Although Aurobindo Ghose is today best known as a spiritual teacher and philosopher, he was also, in his youth, one of the primary leaders of the revolutionary ...]

Sri Aurobindo’s name underwent many metamorphoses during his lifetime. From stark anonymity to a slew of pseudonyms and acronyms, his experimentation ended with his signing as Sri Aurobindo sans any surname or caste identity. His works, understandably, have been published under that name and, ordinarily, he is referred to as so. But there are certain types of people who are intolerant of his adding Sri to his name and are always eager to geld it. The Sri to them is a canopy of fundamentalism that smacks of unjustified superiority, thus threatening secular sensibilities.

The fact is that no one can help in this matter as Sri Aurobindo is no more and can’t be questioned as to why he wanted to retain his name this way. So, the minimum one can do is not to distort his name by eclipsing Sri. In book indexes too he should appear under the alphabet S and not A or G as Sri is not an honorific here but an integral part of his name. Sri Aurobindo is yet to receive the prestige he deserves as a poet and a thinker and hence the need to resist the snatching away of his Sri. [TNM55]  

FDI and FDM

Tweets 24 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Many seem confused about Integral Yoga. First paragraph of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo speaks of the call & the Grace. The latter is all.

24 Sep Savitri Era Religion centres exclusively around the Divine Manifestation of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo and their writings. All must welcome.

24 Sep In The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo affirms the inevitability of religion in the opening paragraph. Rest of the human concerns are variables.

24 Sep Savitri Era Religion signifies synthesis & defies comparison by those particular about analysis & base conclusions on superficial diagnosis.

23 SepSavitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [Before conversion to Aurobindoism they used to observe this vrata but now heaping contempt on rituals & devotees.] CNM http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/a-critical-examination-of-sri-aurobindos-secret-of-the-veda-vijaya-rajiva/#comment-10707 …  View summary 

23 Sep [devotees of Sri Maa and Sri Aurobindo have been doing away with all the Hindu customs, rituals, pujas and vratas.] CNM http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/a-critical-examination-of-sri-aurobindos-secret-of-the-veda-vijaya-rajiva/#comment-10694 …  View summary 

23 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty - @1827_life @ShashiTharoor @jay_ambadi @manishkbaid@priyankac19 @katie_abraham @gsurya [Gandhi, Nehru, & Sri Aurobindo] http://auromere.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/mahatma-gandhis-aborted-1934-attempt-to-meet-sri-aurobindo/#comment-13404 …   View summary 

23 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [Comment on: distinction between left-right brain differences Sri Aurobindo made in those remarks in 1909.] by Sandeep: http://auromere.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/predictions-of-sri-aurobindo/#comment-13584 …  View summary 

23 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Legitimizing chaos & anarchy in the name of people's agitation may be an easy strategy for attracting attention & popularity but boomerangs.

23 Sep Road rage is abhorred and so too rowdyism in Twitter street. Order, peace, & harmony are the ideals to follow both in religion and politics.

21 Sep Manishankar Prasad ‏@change_thinker Is Social Media curating an Alternate History? http://wp.me/p1g6Jd-8A   Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View media 

21 Sep Manvendra Singh Rana ‏@ms_rana @MovementIAC Kejriwal u r on right path. I am with u till end. Regardless of the outcome, I am going to support ur party in 2014 elections:)  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party

21 Sep Manishankar Prasad ‏@change_thinker The fight between Kejriwal n Anna is healthy: new entities in the political discourse r always welcome  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party

21 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty @krishnarjun108 We draw inspiration from Sri Aurobindo's#5DreamsManifesto at a macro-level but tackling micro-matters is our own prudence.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 As a free citizen you are entitled to your opinion which I feel is not as certain as you seem to hold. The PM, too, differs.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 Right. Cartel, Mafia & Information asymmetry undermine free market. But then ours is not a perfect world even as we aspire.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 Consumer choice is more crucial in business than deep pockets. So, no fear of the Capital as consumer can show him the door.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 Not easy to estimate as myriad multiplier-effects are involved. So the basic logic is not to put a spanner in free markets.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 Quality, competition, manpower-training, exposure to intern'l brands & economy of scale. There'd be 1000 invisibles besides.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 Relatively more secure than FII. Well, risks are there but reward too; so, restricting future scenario to present is unfair.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 I meant, retail entails much more than kirana & just as we welcome FIIs in Stock Market, we should welcome more secured FDI.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 Retail, even understood merely as kirana, is a basic step but exhibits huge attitudinal preparedness for engaging outsiders.  View conversation 

21 SepSavitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty @krishnarjun108 Many are surely common but some are unprecedented like technology, bioethics, carbon footprint etc. & warrant a global view.  View conversation 

21 Sep @krishnarjun108 Better desist from hypothetical propositions that we may never prove or disprove. Present maladies warrant present remedies.  View conversation 

21 Sep There are multiple issues to unseat this Govt. but opposing FDI & Reforms is not one of them. Serious misjudgment by Mamata & other parties.

20 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty @cpings4 With what? My statement or Govt. move on FDI? In the latter case, it's a question of discussing and learning with an open mind.  View conversation 

20 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Whatever be the motive or political compulsion the Govt made a great move on FDI but our friends on Twitter are found wanting in supporting.

21 SepPragmatix ‏@RisingIndiawins not for a moment do I forget that whatever good life I have enjoyed is because of reforms unleashed by Dr Manmohan Singh in 1991.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party

20 Sep Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty“@Realist_Indian: I think Kejriwal dear shud join TMC. Mamta is honest, "secular" and leftist :)” Sri Aurobindo & SEP rather a sound option.

20 SepSavitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Sri Aurobindo is the messenger of the Veda & the carrier of Savitri, the gospel of immortality. India bears the burden of diffusing wisdom.

20 Sep The country at the crossroads and #5DreamsManifesto of Sri Aurobindo broadcast on August 14, 1947 remains a beacon of hope for all Indians.

20 Sep When Left & Right join hands in a pseudo-nationalistic anti-FDA mission and Anna disowns Kejriwal the right Marg is Sri Aurobindo & 5 Dreams.

20 Sep By embracing Sri Aurobindo and #5DreamsManifesto Kejriwal can give the Gandhian Anna as well as the Vivekananda Yatri a run for their money.

20 Sep RSS/SJM, Gandhian & Leftist thinking has kept India backward. Kejriwal must break out from the past moulds & follow Sri Aurobindo's 5 Dreams.

20 Sep SEP's ideological clarity demarcates a distinct electoral space. Once Kejriwal ratify, the potential of Sri Aurobindo's appeal may multiply.

20 Sep We reiterate our suggestion that Kejriwal join SEP and work for the vision of Sri Aurobindo for India moving to the forefront of the world.

20 Sep Only route to follow for an enduring future for @kejriwal_arvind: Forget Anna Hazare; embrace FIVE DREAMS OF Sri Aurobindo and Free Markets.

20 Sep Hazare & Kejriwal have demonstrated the strange propensity of large sections of people in lazily believing in lies & false promises in herds

20 Sep Reigning state satraps may not hold the whole secret of future election results. Acute ideological churning is on and hence expect surprises

20 Sep Call to all those who support Reform and FDI to rally round Sri Aurobindo and his FIVE DREAMS Manifesto now that Anna Hazare has gone kaput.

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Shooting arrows at Ramalgam

It is heartening to note that the ideological Ramalgam pursued by RSS-BJP so far is being subjected to critical scrutiny by their own young and astute sympathizers. In Secularism is Important to Modern India, for instance, Harsh Gupta ‏@hguptapolicy inter alia avers, “The political philosophy of Hindutva is morally wrong, detrimental to the Indian national interest, detrimental to Hinduism, and politically counter-productive.”

Similarly, ThePragmaticIndian ‏@Realist_Indian tweets 5h, “My views. State has to be secular. Don’t understand what Hindu Rashtra means.” These are, no doubt, refreshing perceptions that come from common sense and compassionate attitude. Interestingly, such views stand close to the vision of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo but, unfortunately, no one has read their works. [TNM55]