Dynasty and nasty personality cults

Tweets 30m - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty The followers of Sri Aurobindo can grow a critical mass to influence the politics of the country provided they forego intellectual hedonism. 58m Che or Hu, a firm commitment to an ideology is the key. 1947 Five Dreams Manifesto provides a futuristic road-map for India and the World. 1h Right moment to get rid of the dynasty and other nasty personality cults. Neither Anna nor Kejriwal, adopting an honest ideology is the way. 1h Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo imparts the right intellectual muscle to judge complex political and economic currents circulating in the world. 1h Sri Aurobindo's teaching constitutes an essential feature today for enduring power and nation building. No other ideological glue is safer. 1h Congress accommodated Leftist scholarship to look respectable but RSS banished Sri Aurobindo's illuminating vision from its curriculum.

4h - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty - @alok_bhatt @rsyashasvi In commentaries on ancient Indian texts, his fidelity is matched by the profundity he furnishes  View conversation 4h Fighting colonialism as well as resisting revivalism was twin challenges before Sri Aurobindo as a writer a century ago. 4h Neither the Nehruvian nor the Hindutva worldview can be counted as appropriate for India at the moment. [TNM55] http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2012/11/the-mother-and-sri-aurobindo-stand-for.html …

[8 Nov - Madhu Kishwar ‏@madhukishwar Kiran segal dancing to soul uplifting poetic compositions of oriya poet Kuntala Kumari. Amazing first time composition pic.twitter.com/LyN7iugd  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View photo]

8 Nov - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Manushi festival of music & dance: Female gurus http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/11/female-gurus.html … - Promote a spirit of genuine intellectual enquiry: http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/11/promote-spirit-of-genuine-intellectual.html … Women mystics http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/11/women-mystics.html … @madhukishwar 

7 Nov - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty @sabhlok Being an ace criminal lawyer, Jethmalani can't make do without criminals.  View conversation

5 Nov Rely on Sri Aurobindo, and not on Naipaul, for "rediscovering and questioning every received wisdom" about Indian history and culture.

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4 Nov Sri Aurobindo was a rebel & stayed so till he breathed his last. Savitri Erans are envoys of Unity, Mutuality & Harmony http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2007/10/savitri-erans-are-envoys-of-unity.html …

4 Nov A must read RT "@sabhlok: Sri #Aurobindo – the vocal opponent of #socialism http://goo.gl/fb/M373I "

2 Nov Sri Aurobindo – a serious contender http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2012/11/sri-aurobindo-serious-contender.html … Rediscovery of Sri Aurobindo http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2012/11/rediscovery-of-sri-aurobindo.html … No soft path http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2012/10/no-other-soft-option-than-politics.html …

2 Nov @Getafix2012 @sabhlok @an4rky @hguptapolicy @orsoraggiante @acorn @Realist_Indian On Sri Aurobindo (Manoj Das - P. Raja) http://www.worldofmanojdas.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:on-sri-aurobindo&catid=54:interviewcat&Itemid=132 …

[2 Nov - B Shantanu ‏@satyamevajayate @prasannavishy @doubtinggaurav Pl do read @sabhlok's recent posts on Aurobindo, Chanakya etc.. We don't hv to rely/copy western paradigms  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View conversation]

[1 NovAshísh Gulhatí ‏@an4rky What I meant by Auroville bring socialist was that there's ostensibly no property rights within Auroville. @sabhlok @Getafix2012  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View conversation

[1 Nov pvnatarajan ‏@pvnatarajan Sri Aurobindo - the vocal opponent of socialism - Sanjeev Sabhlok's revolutionary blog http://sabhlokcity.com/2012/11/sri-aurobindo-the-vocal-opponent-of-socialism/#.UJMZejZrHJg.twitter …  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party

[1 Nov - Sanjeev Sabhlok ‏@sabhlok @an4rky You are right! This is a mess: http://www.aurovillefoundation.org.in/organisation/the-secretary … @Getafix2012 Why do Aurobindo's followers need IAS officers? Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View conversation

Sri Aurobindo refutes Nietzsche

[Nietzsche, Descartes, Lacan and the Death of God Posted by larvalsubjects 11 Comments May 21, 2006

What strikes me as crucial in this passage is Nietzsche’s remark that we have wiped away the horizon, that we now move without direction, that we are suspended in an infinite void and cold, empty space. The death of God therefore seems to signify a world that has lost its coordinates (what else is a horizon if not a way of co-ordinating our movement?) and where the ground has disappeared beneath us. I take it that the term “God” is a generic term for any sort of transcendental term that would fix meaning and identity. It would be a mistake to assume that “God” simply refers to the God of organized religion. Rather God is a generic term referring to anything on the order of a form, essence, transcendence, identity, substance, permanence, ideal, wholeness, totality and so on.]

[April 9, 2007 at 7:46 am Coming across in a hymn of Martin Luther what Hegel described as the cruel words, the harsh utterance, namely, God is dead, the latter was perhaps the first great philosopher to develop the theme of God’s death according to whom, to one form of experience God is dead. Commenting on Kant’s first Critique, Heinrich Heine spoke of a dying God. Heine influenced Nietzsche. Since Heine and Nietzsche the phrase Death of God became popular. (K. Satchidananda Murty, The Realm of Between, IIAS, 1973)]

[The Human Aspiration « Sri Aurobindo Studies 30 Aug 2009 – Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine

The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last,—God, Light, Freedom, Immortality. These persistent ideals of the race are at once the contradiction of its normal experience and the affirmation of higher and deeper experiences which are abnormal to humanity and only to be attained, in their organised entirety, by a revolutionary individual effort or an evolutionary general progression… The greater the apparent disorder…, the stronger is the spur…]

The firmness with which Sri Aurobindo refutes Nietzsche’s playful affirmation is a milestone in the history of human thought. For long, philosophy has been hostage to a science fiction style of writing or abstract painting. Happily, fatigue has set in and that epoch is fast coming to a close. Further, defending Marx, which was considered pivotal to theory, is no longer that sacrosanct. These are welcome developments but without Sri Aurobindo a satisfying ontological framework is difficult to put together. [TNM55]