Savitri is key to Human Unity

Tweets 5 hrs - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty The Human Cycle (1st Edition, November, 1949) by Sri Aurobindo far surpasses the Enlightenment ideals envisaged in the Indian Constitution. 6 hrs The Postscript Chapter to The Ideal of Human Unity (2nd Edition, April, 1950) constitutes the most evocative pronouncement by Sri Aurobindo. 6 hrs A new future for the nation is right here with Sri Aurobindo as the fulcrum and Savitri, the ethical anchor and pivot for a new world order. 6 hrs Savitri is the new Veda authored by Sri Aurobindo for the modern world in which all scriptures as well as all cultures find their own echo. 6 hrs The epic, Savitri by Sri Aurobindo offers a roller-coaster adventure from pre-history to remote-future that is steeped in utmost aesthetics. 7 hrs Savitri admittedly is difficult to understand but the sound of its words serve as a springboard for diving deep into Sri Aurobindo's thought. 8 hrs Reciting a page from Savitri by Sri Aurobindo at random everyday is an assured means of finding the meaning of esoteric dimensions of life.  

8 hrs - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [Ramdev said he was now committed to take Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, and his political, social, and economic vision to the people.] Welcome - Feb 23 To short-list three PM candidates is the sub-text. http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/just-graffiti/entry/macaulay-s-children-the-rest1 … Avoiding Sri Aurobindo's take on Evolution. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/centreright/~3/qFRt6Kk2yNo/ … - Feb 21 - @rvaidya2000 He is RS member and elected by CPB. Your tweet lacks precision but what you hint at is not his fault but Indian Constitution's.  View conversation - Feb 21 - @rvaidya2000 Straight talk feels fine in the Presidential system but not in our culture as the PM is indirectly elected and lacks mandate.  View conversation - Feb 21 - @rvaidya2000 Btw, what will be your reaction if you are the PM?  View conversation

Feb 18 - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty - @krishnarjun108 No such dystopian view is involved in Sri Aurobindo's "Five Dreams" broadcast that is based on the Vedic vision of evolution.  View conversation - Feb 18 - @krishnarjun108 Man must discover the secret of his nucleus i.e., what he calls the Psychic Being and apply its voice on his own expression.  View conversation

Feb 18 - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty - @fleicap May the five parts of the book reborn as five new volumes incorporating sufficient details about The Mother. http://savitrieradevotees.blogspot.in/2013/02/the-mothers-evolutionary-vision-by.html … - Feb 17 - @CatchHRah "What's in a name?" "The One whom we adore as the Mother" "by any other name would" be "the golden bridge, the wonderful fire."  View conversation - Feb 17 - @CatchHRah Reverring The Mother is personal and subjective as other objects of reverence are eliminated gradually upon contact with her.  View conversation - Feb 15 - @alok_bhatt @politics_the That's because we are a totally different Religion. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.  View conversation - Feb 7 - @PondyTweets @kitturd Looking at the timing and the context, tt's a shame to see a prominent inmate of Ashram airing Sri Aurobindo's qoutes.  View conversation - Jan 28 - @madhukishwar Pl. recommend Savitri Era Learning Forum http://selforum.blogspot.com/  for Integral worldview to take root @hguptapolicy @orsoraggiante -  View conversation - Jan 23 - @PatrickFrench2 Intrgralism was enunciated by Sri Aurobindo who was inspiration for the founders of BJP but today the party has drifted far.  View conversation - Jan 19 Clue to 2014 is hidden in the epochal arrival of a French couple in Puducherry in 1914 to launch "Arya" in collaboration with Sri Aurobindo. - Jan 10 - @gopimaliwal Can I request you to discuss the views of Sri Aurobindo so that your avid followers can learn something seriously? Thanks. –TNM Dec 24 - @satyamevajayate Reciting Savitri and reading The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo is perhaps the best means to spreading sanity and harmony.  View conversation

1 hr - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty IPROCH – Jairam Ramesh releases the book IMAGING ODISHA edited by Prof. Hermann Kulke on Feb 26 http://wp.me/p23wJC-4h  via @wordpressdotcom -  View summary - Feb 7 Eleventh Jiwan Pani Memorial Festival http://wp.me/p23wJC-3W  -  View summary

Sri Aurobindo advocates a religious ethos for nationalism

Tweets 23 Dec - @satyamevajayate Reciting Savitri and reading The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo is perhaps the best means for spreading sanity and harmony.  View conversation

23 Dec - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty May the youth of my country follow the words of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo instead of chasing quick-fix solutions in Rajpath and India Gate. 23 Dec Those who are fueling anarchy in the name of securing instant justice through direct democracy are enemies of national interest and harmony 23 Dec The alacrity with which some national level players jump regularly to fish in troubled waters without thought sends shivers down the spine. 23 Dec - @raj393 No instant solutions barring invoking the teaching of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. Halting moral degeneration is a long-term process. 23 Dec - @raj393 Mere security and secularism is not enough for inculcating character. Sri Aurobindo has advocated a religious ethos for nationalism.  View conversation

20 Dec From now on as the search for a new iDom begins, the idiom of Indian politics goes for a toss. Religion and its pseudo version under scanner. 13 Dec [International Research Network on Religion and Democracy presents an international conference ‘Are We Postsecular?’ 13–14 Dec. 2012 at LSR] 10 Dec - @OUPAcademic @philosophybites "Matter, the usual philosophical pariah, is spiritual, and has been treated with due respect" by Sri Aurobindo.  View conversation

7 Dec @bhavinjadav @ShivaKap I learnt about two new words today: Heilsgeschichte & Enantiodromia http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/12/sri-aurobindo-is-more-intellectually.html … @hguptapolicy @orsoraggiante -  View conversation

5 Dec Neither Ambedkar nor Savarkar, Sri Aurobindo is the true beacon of light for guiding the future of India and the world in the 21st Century. 1 Dec - @SathyaSher @alok_bhatt @kshetragnya Read Sri Aurobindo's Human Cycle and all theoretical confusion will melt away. Ignorance is no glory.  View conversation

29 Nov Give must not spur any give and take ... For to know how to wait is a heroic trait. http://tusarnmohapatra.blogspot.in/2005/11/diffidence.html …

28 Nov The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo has not been accepted on a wide scale till now, but then no other philosophy has been universally accepted. 28 Nov "गो is cow or cattle, no problems there" surmises @bibekdebroy, but no, then what is Goloka or Gaveshana? Sri Aurobindo comes to the rescue. 28 Nov What is the meaning of life? The simple answer is LIFE. L = Light, I = Immortality, F = Freedom, E = Ecstasy or Bliss. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2007/11/light-bliss-freedom-immortality.html …

28 Nov A confluence of myth, history & philosophy, Savitri, like Suez Canal, ensues unhindered East-West commerce of culture. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2007/11/step-and-all-is-sky-and-god.html …

28 Nov Admirers of Swami Vivekananda are legion but only a minuscule of them has read the works of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2007/11/promoting-intellectual-growth-of.html …

26 Nov - @saliltripathi With a slight modification of course, with Sri Aurobindo and his 1947 Five Dreams as the pivot. @sabhlok -  View conversation

Invigorating writings of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo

Tweets 11m - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty By debating the ideas of Sri Aurobindo, and not St. Augustine, that one can reach at the right conclusions pertaining to secularism in India. http://centreright.in/2012/10/vaad-prativaad-secularism-is-important-to-a-modern-india-iii/

23h - [Amazon.com: Savitri with Accents: (Kindle Edition - Oct 25, 2012)] http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393193&linkCode=shr&tag=savera-20&rl=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Savitri+with+Accents … via @amazon -  View media

24h [Amazon: Sonnet-like Passages in Savitri by RY Deshpande 318 pages $9.99 Publication Date: October 18, 2012] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009W93YVM?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=B009W93YVM&linkCode=shr&tag=savera-20 … via @amazon -  View summary

28 Oct Quit tweeting and spend the time to study the invigorating writings of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. That's the best path for nation building.

28 Oct No firm supporter of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo now in the national scene. All the more reason for clinging to the Manifesto of Five Dreams.

27 Oct [The Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust waiting for a better system of self-governance!] http://www.thelivesofsriaurobindo.com/2012/10/ashram-trustees-rush-to-chennai-high.html …

27 Oct Huge gap between level of the students and what The Mother & Sri Aurobindo convey. Multilateral conversation needed. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108736999389484710538/posts/3kJVmN6jf7g …

26 Oct [The image of the chariot becomes therefore a near perfect image of the human being. -Dr. Alok Pandey] http://nextfuture.aurosociety.org/chariot-of-the-gods?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chariot-of-the-gods …

26 Oct [The first man who inspired the voice of India’s freedom was not a politician or an activist, but a poet Sri Aurobindo] http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=hub031112psychology.asp … 

Ilion along the Bay of Bengal

Sri Aurobindo builds, but also breaks; synthesizes, but also demolishes. His painstaking attempt in metaphysical system-building and writing elaborate commentaries on ancient philosophical texts is incomparable but he also has a lurking mistrust for pure knowledge and has turned the whole corpus of prevailing motivational theories upside down. By affirming “Nothing can be taught” he throws a bombshell at the normal notions of human cognition and stretches subjectivity to unimagined heights and depths. Man’s proclivity for empiricism sustained a permanent injury when Sri Aurobindo lobbed his “Logic of the Infinite” by exempting all supra-physical phenomena from submitting to scrutiny by the senses. Philosophy will always be indebted to him for the methodological breakthroughs that he has fruitfully introduced so authoritatively.

One must strut through the alien terrain of his Ilion where he recreates Homer to get a feel of what he characterizes as “Knowledge by identity.” The “Ladder of consciousness” in Savitri, similarly, imparts such an intimate sense of reality that one shudders to call them fictional. The very combination of a poet and a philosopher in him is indeed a rare occurrence. But what takes the cake is his enviable third quality of being an astute critic. [TNM55] 

Anna Hazare should favour Savitri Era Party

Tweets 3m - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Savitri Era Party is against RSS, Sonia, Secularism/Atheism, & Socialism/Leftists. Sri Aurobindo's FIVE DREAMS Manifesto is its inspiration. 15m Anna Hazare is right. It's futile to form new party without a definite and coherent ideological anchor. He should favour Savitri Era Party.

18h Characterizing Sri Aurobindo's ontology as tunnel vision shows how the present generation is ill-informed about his significance for future.

18h No one on Twitter has the power of transforming the collective consciousness. Following The Mother & Sri Aurobindo alone can lead to Harmony.

19h - @samitbasu HT's real intention is to ferment animosity between Mamata and Naveen so that they don't join hands ahead of the 2014 elections.  View conversation

26 Jul Following the teachings of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo alone can ensure a flawless society. [TNM55] http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/follow-teachings-of-mother-sri.html …

26 Jul - @swaraj_india Savitri Era Religion is a rational recourse concerning identity as well as relatedness. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/savitri-era-religion-has-civilizational.html … -  View conversation

26 Jul Epics will be written to sing his notoriety and Heehs will be jeered for ages to come for The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/book-is-frontal-attack-on-savitri-era.html …

26 Jul A century after Schopenhauer, Sri Aurobindo resolves the riddle of this world in a fashion that can’t be glossed over. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/sri-aurobindo-resolves-riddle-of-this.html …

26 Jul Rare are a combination of thoroughgoing ontological system with an earnest socio-political vision like The Life Divine. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/life-divine-as-antidote-to-intellectual.html …

26 Jul Nationalism can hardly breathe in the rarefied air of the hybridity that The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have fabricated. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/nationalism-quandary-for-savitri-erans.html …

26 Jul It is high time that error of Ambedkar is reversed and the Dalits embrace Savitri Era Religion for equality and dignity. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/let-error-of-dr-ambedkar-is-reversed.html …

26 Jul Savitri and The Life Divine will be the guiding lights for a long time to come where the East and the West cohere. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/09/savitri-and-life-divine-as-guiding.html …

26 Jul Validating mythology might trigger numerous repercussions thus weakening the march of modernity in the country. [TNM55] http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/10/validating-mythology-weakens-march-of.html …

26 Jul The Veda vs. the Buddha war is no longer one sided. Sri Aurobindo votes for the Veda and turns the tables. [TNM55] http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/10/sri-aurobindo-votes-for-veda.html …

26 Jul If we want to see a new India ready to lead the world, then The Mother & Sri Aurobindo must preside everywhere. [Tweet No. 1001] http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/10/no-yoga-sans-mother-sri-aurobindo.html …

26 Jul The Mother’s divinity, a threat to the dominant religions and Savitri Era Religion is a red rag to many a raging bull. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/10/savitri-era-religion-is-emerging-as-red.html …

26 Jul The divinity of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are open questions. A rationalist wrestling with a devotee is an absurdity. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/10/juvenile-wrangling-and-unwarranted.html …

26 Jul The Life Divine is the crest jewel of human thought and hope and hence each one of us must read this essential work. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2010/10/life-divine-is-crest-jewel-of-human.html …

26 Jul The British shifted to Delhi in 1911 and since then millions have migrated for food & shelter. Anna comes to Delhi for abstaining from food.

26 Jul FDI is okay, but foreign human influx is not in the land of vasudhaiva kutumbakam.

26 Jul - @orsoraggiante @ihindu Time permitting, you may attempt to elaborate on this over CRI so that others may partake of the catharsis.  View conversation 26 Jul - @orsoraggiante @ihindu Twitter is where one should be open to hints and ideas. But political leanings are a great stumbling block and hubris.  View conversation - 26 Jul - @orsoraggiante @ihindu You are joking.  View conversation - 26 Jul - @iHindu @orsoraggiante They have all been amply dwelt upon by Sri Aurobindo.  View conversation - 26 Jul - @orsoraggiante @ihindu Describing the problem is no help. How many are willing to study Sri Aurobindo's works? So why crib at quality?  View conversation

Future Savitri

[Considering all these factors I will go for the 1951-version which has the finality of revisions by the author himself. - RYD]

Personally, RYD is entitled to his own choice and opinion (like, everyone has his version of JLB), but the question is what will be his verdict as the Chairman of a Committee (like, the Standing Committee) on Savitri. He has to take into consideration the views of various quarters (including even the adversaries) and give audience to the most reticent. Drawing out the feelings of the unwilling, the unassuming, and the withdrawn will be an equally challenging task. We must move, as it were, the heaven and the earth, for we are dealing with Savitri, the Savitri for the future - for the following aeons - and any chink left at this juncture can prove too costly.

FIRST edition is the easiest option, but the complications don't vanish, nor are they all irrelevant. Further, none can rob the validity of SABCL edition on account of The Mother's presence. The CWSA edition, similarly, has its own authenticity and admirers. Fortunately for us, all these are products of a pre-cyber era, and this very fact offers us a wealth of opportunity.

Open or not, a site must have all resources relating to Savitri, and let people study and be aware of the complexities involved. A fresh edition will arise from this collective effort, and there is nothing to hurry or worry. This proposal is sure to infuriate those hardliners further who are sentimental about Savitri as mantra. But the CWSA edition, for all practical purposes, is the point of departure as of now and to stick to this much of common sense can save us from much rancour and recrimination. [TNM55]

Savitri vs. Savitri

[Like some other recent accounts concerned primarily with western locations, this reversion approaches modernism as an open-ended, still continuing global process rather than as a circumscribed aesthetic superseded by postmodernism.
The space-clearing gestures developed in recent modernist studies offer an enabling theoretical and interpretive context for my discussion of Mohan Rakesh (1925–1972), the iconic post-independence playwright in India's majority language, Hindi, and one of India's leading twentieth century authors, across the spectrum of genres and languages. As a member of the first generation of Indian-language writers whose careers unfolded after political independence in 1947, Rakesh exemplifies many of the larger literary, political, and cultural relations (and ruptures) that are seminal to any discussion of Indian modernism—those between colonial and postcolonial modernities, indigenous traditions and western influences, Indian languages and English, bourgeois-romantic nationalism and ironic individualism, Left ideology and a skeptical humanism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, center and periphery, village and city. His conscious and unconscious self-fashioning as a postcolonial modernist appears in the wide range of literary and "personal" genres he practiced, including short stories, novels, plays, essays, interviews, conversations, reviews, diaries, and letters. In the specific case of drama, Rakesh's three full-length plays show a radical sensibility working through the matter of the remote historical past as well as the immediate present. Ashadh ka ek din (A Day in Early Autumn, 1958), and Lahron ke rajhans (The Royal Swans on the Waves, 1963) place their historical protagonists—the canonical fifth century Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and the Buddha's stepbrother Nand, respectively—in largely invented actions that underscore the intensely human drama of separation and loss elided in the metanarratives of history. The third play, Adhe adhure (The Unfinished, 1969) returns to the postcolonial urban present to portray the collapse of a middle-class family unable to cope with its declining material circumstances and fractured relationships. Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker - Mohan Rakesh, Modernism, and the Postcolonial Present
Aparna Dharwadker University of Wisconsin-Madison]

Savitri’s engagement with the other in Adhe adhure resonating the seven facets of syadvad or the seven blind men apprehending an elephant is in stark contrast to Sri Aurobindo's Savitri proclaiming "Once my heart chose and chooses not again." [TNM]