Nation under attack from Marxist anarchists and Hindu Rashtra proponents

Sraddha "a Quarterly devoted to an exposition of the teachings of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo" edited by Arup Basu and published by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences (Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8, Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata - 700071) continues to be a quality offering in its seventh year. It can be read at:

http://motherandsriaurobindo.in/#_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-09 E-Library/-05 Magazines

The JNU episode has shown how ideology can mould minds. It also underlines the fact how we, the followers of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, have failed miserably to carry their philosophy to the students. Most Universities harbour divrse streams of political opinion but Sri Aurobindo is nowhere to be found. Silence and Meditation are surely admirable Yogic attributes but when the nation is under attack, both from Marxist anarchists and Hindu Rashtra proponents, then a great responsibility devolves upon us. 

From whatever little appears on the Web, it's clear that there is no unanimity among the Devotees. Open discussion and debate on matters of socio-political importance are therefore necessary for removing doubts and confusion. Adequate intellectual development is also essential for withstanding the temptation of uncritically supporting the ruling party. Seeing through fallacies in conflicting arguments and detecting methodological errors are crucial for right understanding of issues. Besides, thorough reading of a set of certain writings need to be taken up as a syllabus. A minimum of organised effort can go a long way in pushing this long term goal. [TNM55]

References:

1. Marketime

Establish institutions of eminence where classical Indian spiritual traditions are taught - By Kundan Singh Asura or the negative hostile forces operates through both: ignorance and evil.

2. Evergreen Essays

Dharma under the lens of legitimate social causes - Kundan Singh rama ranjan • With regards to your second point, I would say that please wait for the full series to appear--you will see why I cl...

3. Savitri Era Political Action

Spirituality that Bharat represents - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Mar 2 Ghaziabad, India RW columnists have no other option but to borrow theoretical ammunition from Sri Aurobindo for c...

4. rainbOwther

Sri Aurobindo belonged to all worlds and cultures at once - A chat with Anusuya Kumar Ph.D Auroville Radio Short talk with Anusuya about her research work on Johannes Hohlenerg's meeting with Sri Aurobindo - A chat w...

5. A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life

Sri Aurobindo’s Concept of the Nation-Soul – Kishor Gandhi - “Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in b...

6. matriwords

India, Indology and Deep Colonialism (by Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay -Part 4) -CONTINUED FROM PART 3 THE WAY FORWARD Now that we understand the landscape and the forces at work, how do we deal with this situation? Below I propose a 7-...

7. Resurgent India February 2016 Issue

Political Antecedents of Indian Secularism: Indian Nationalism and the Framing of the Indian Constitution

8. Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty  Mar 2

Ghaziabad, India [not a single hymn in Rig Veda out of its 1017 hymns, a ritual or a rite... no mention of a priest lighting a fire.] http://selforum.blogspot.in/2007/07/there-is-no-mention-of-priest-lighting.html …

9. Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty  Mar 2

Ghaziabad, India [Kant adored “Émile” and went somewhat further than Rousseau had, ... accepting the moral need for rational faith] http://selforum.blogspot.in/2007/08/kant-adored-mile-and-went-somewhat.html …

10. Project B: Vande Mataram Library to compete with the Murty Library

From Rajiv Malhotra Dr. Sampadananda Mishra, a Sanskrit scholar in Pondy and a solid researcher of Sri Aurobindo, has written to me that we must “form a collaborative publishing platform with a home team of genuine scholars and commence the work of publishing that is deeply perceptive of our Vedic tradition. We could perhaps call it the "Vande Mataram Library". 

11. Related TOI report by Yogita Rao on removal of American Indologist Sheldon Pollock

12. Sraddha http://motherandsriaurobindo.in/Works.php 

Evolution and Advani

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future rolled out in 1914 through a monthly magazine named Arya. Young Indians must wake to his exhortations.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo was prescient enough to formulate an alternative version of Indianhood than what is offered by the Congress, RSS, or the Left.

@SavitriEraParty: BJP, like BSP, is a victim of an imaginary certainty of mustering a majority constituency. BJP is cocksure on theory while #AAP of practice.

@SavitriEraParty: Like Andhra Pradesh, BJP is finding it hard to keep its three factions together owing to overdose of presumed patriotism and righteousness.

@SavitriEraParty: R, A, M represent the present three factions of the BJP. While R is the Tamasic and M, the Rajasic, A constitutes the Sattwic propensities.

@SavitriEraParty: @gopimaliwal Please look at the future in configuring the evolutionary role of Advani instead of relying too much on examples from history.

@SavitriEraParty: @gopimaliwal But you seem to be totally clueless as to the source of the darkness and Advani has better intuition to sense it & act & lead.

@SavitriEraParty: @gopimaliwal Difficult to hazard a guess as to the possible trajectory of the Zeitgeist but Advani definitely has a prominent role in future.

@SavitriEraParty: No doubt Advani heads a faction today but it's the evolutionary wing in the BJP ready to learn & change unlike RSS hardcore or the matadors.

@SavitriEraParty: The most pragmatic and realist truth is that Advani is BJP since he created it and so to expect that he gets out of it is downright foolish.

@SavitriEraParty: Not Savarkar or Golwalkar, it's Advani who like Lenin brought the Hindutva to life and limelight. He must be given opportunity to mend it.

BJP like Sisyphus has an unenviable task

Tweets 1 hr - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty BJP like Sisyphus has the unenviable task of pushing RSS up the evolutionary ladder but every time it comes sliding down. Time to say adieu. 6 hrs Neither dynasty nor personality, only ideology can propel India in its appointed role set forth in 1947 5-Dreams broadcast by Sri Aurobindo. 6 hrs Pramod Mahajan's five-star culture offered abundant feel-good factor to varnished BJP to sell Shining India that crash landed so tragically. 7 hrs Of many parallels in history Nitin Gadkari's case warrants comparison with Sitaram Kesri. The loss of face RSS has suffered has no parallel. 7 hrs The prospect of BJP and RSS running a three-legged race as partners is foreclosed. The ideological mismatch is too glaring to be repaired. 7 hrs BJP's dismal presence in Andhra, Odisha, Kerala, Haryana, J&K, WB, TN, and UP: http://www.lensonnews.com/congress-decline-how-bjp-can-benefit.php … Incisive analysis by ‏@GVLNRAO - 8 hrs @AmareshMisra A Prime Minister who really leads the country as well as his party without being directed by any remote control. @rvaidya2000 -  View conversation - 14 hrs Sri Aurobindo on 15 August 1926: a day which ought to be a day of consecration, of self-examination and a preparation http://selforum.blogspot.in/2013/03/a-day-of-consecration-of-self.html … - Mar 2 Splitting UP into 3 or 4 States is a must although the ruling Party is strongly against it. Let development take precedence over vote bank. Mar 2 Each Lok Sabha constituency should elect one man & one woman as its representatives as an enduring measure of gender justice. @madhukishwar - Mar 2 Five Dreams and five Indias http://selforum.blogspot.in/2013/03/five-dreams-and-five-indias.html … Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is key to Human Unity http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2013/02/savitri-is-key-to-human-unity.html … -Tusar N. Mohapatra - Mar 1 [The Mother's divine dictatorship was gladly accepted by all her disciples and devotees.] Sri Aurobindo Ashram http://www.google.com/gwt/x?source=reader&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelivesofsriaurobindo.com%2F2013%2F03%2Fthe-cords-that-bind-ashramites-baikunth.html …  - Feb 27 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 - 1 hr - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Tusar N. Mohapatra (b.1955) 2816 Tweets 100 Following 75 Followers http://savitriera.blogspot.in/  Savitri Era Learning Forum, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - CV of an average Indian

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

Scripting fruition of the Postscript

At about the same time when the Constituent Assembly was busy giving a final shape to the Constitution of India in 1949 in Delhi, Sri Aurobindo applied himself to writing in Puducherry - barely a year before his passing away - an elaborate justification for establishment of World Union, his Third Dream. Admittedly, one of his last and most profound pronouncements on a patently political topic, A Postscript Chapter constitutes a vision and a prophecy in international relations that might seem too remote at the moment but the logic of which is assuming an ever increasing certitude day by day. The question now is whether some ground level machinery for facilitating the fruition of such a grand idea is in operation at present. [TNM55]       

The Mother served an ultimatum on the West on March 6, 1914

When The Mother boarded Kaga Maru on March 6, 1914 in order to meet a bearded recluse in Puducherry, she served an ultimatum on the West. A private voyage; but verily a gigantic leap for the mankind. From then on, the course of history can, as well, be said to be a series of disjointed-seeming footnotes to her agenda. Sri Aurobindo occupies the Centre of Gravity of the whole humanity now. Neither politics nor economics, neither philosophy nor literature can move any further by ignoring him. What The Mother dreamt of a century back is taking shape in a way that is largely unseen. The palette of human thought and action is being remoulded and reconfigured continually for the new creation to coagulate. “If this is she of whom the world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change.” Pranams at her lotus feet. [TNM55]       

Only two are with us today

Tusar N. Mohapatra said, February 19, 2013 at 4:12 pm

Anilbaran’s bio is too sketchy; can we dig up more information please. In him we find the combination of philosophy and politics and hence his relevance and inspiration for dealing with the situation in the country today is compelling. [TNM55]

“On 20.10.70, Mother nominated a Working Committee of twelve: Pradyot, Udar, Shyam Sunder, Kireet, Nirod, Andre', Madhav, Madanlal Himatsingka, Chhote Narayan, Prapatti, Manoj Das and Charupada” for Sri Aurobindo's Action (Down memory lane - Page 61, Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala, 1996). Only two are with us today but the camps they have chosen to serve presently is extremely unfortunate. [TNM55]

Spinning mythology

Ashis Nandy had mauled the memory of Sri Aurobindo like a bull in a china shop which Savita Singh has now ably countered by juxtaposing the hermeneutical reading of J.L. Mehta. Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr  characterizes Savarkar a morally guilty man, third rate thinker, but he is misrepresented argues Uday Mahurkar. We must differ with Gandhi, asserts Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr but visiting Rajghat on January 30, 2013 tells a different tale. [TNM55]

AAP deserves all support and goodwill

Tweets 1h - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Not appreciating Sri Aurobindo yet is a cause of India's misery. AAP must offer intellectual leadership and not discredited Leftist ideology. 1h Karnad batted for lyrics recently and a play is more about dialogues. AAP must get down to Policy or it'd be Too many cooks spoil the broth. 1h - @indinova @mihirssharma Neither Ayodhya nor Nalanda, Pondicherry shows the way for the future through Sri Aurobindo's #5Dreams #SiddhiDay  View conversation 1h Muted response to AAP on Twitter is understandable. Ground has slipped from under many a feet and most are crestfallen. #SiddhiDay#5Dreams 2h The circuitous route that AAP has traversed before taking birth today is a masterstroke considering how perplexed Congress, BJP & Left were. 2h Thanks to AAP, there is a space now in the national politics to breathe freely beyond dynasties and dystopian fossils. #SiddhiDay#5Dreams 3h So Hisar was no misadventure. With AAP becoming a reality, connecting the dots is easier now. "Mayhem in Meham" too once made Haryana famous. 3h - @rajeerajan Many faces of Indian Democracy: Of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, By the Janata Party, For the Aam Aadmi Party. #SiddhiDay Sri Aurobindo  View conversation 7h What better opportunity than to have an inhouse psephologist for founding AAP who is also an ace theorist and stickler for ethics #SiddhiDay 7h Equally fascinating is AAP's tryst with theatre. All techniques of Asmita were adopted to change the political theatre of India.#SiddhiDay 7h AAP took birth through the midwifery of the old-, new-, and paid-media. Truly a 21st Century party that has tamed technology. #SiddhiDay 7h Machiavelli is the first political thinker to effectively separate politics from religion - by Greg Nyquist: http://selforum.blogspot.in/2007/08/machiavelli-is-first-political-thinker.html … #SiddhiDay 8h Sri Aurobindo drew on Neoplatonism, Hegelianism, and Bergson http://feelphilosophy.blogspot.in/2012/06/sri-aurobindo-drew-on-neoplatonism.html … Yoga Vashishtha and Kashmir Shaivism http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2006/10/integral-adwaita-yoga-vashishtha.html … 8h Knowing the complexities of Indian political scene, it's premature to expect firm policy grooves hewed by AAP. #SiddhiDay of Sri Aurobindo. 8h AAP deserves all support and goodwill as it occupies the crucial non-Congress, non-BJP space as an alternative with a national perspective. 8h Many faces of Indian Democracy: Of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, By the Janata Party, For the Aam Aadmi Party. #SiddhiDay Sri Aurobindo's 5-Dreams. 23h - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty - #SiddhiDay of Sri Aurobindo. Greetings.

Integral Yoga is no uniform potion

When it comes to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga, one feels like Condoleezza Rice remarking “The fact of the matter is I've been black all my life. Nobody needs to tell me how to be black.^[125]” Like Socrates’ "examined life,” The Mother’s stress on avoiding the misery of an “aimless life” is perhaps the most basic rule for an aspirant. For a major stretch in life, however, many mistake earning livelihood for the aim although the profession provides the opportunity for flowering of talent, nurturing creativity, and moulding of subjectivity. The resultant individuality, identity, and social mobility, however, do exert a mesmerizing effect whereby the chance of coming face to face with choosing an aim or confronting one’s own real self head on is always deferred. Drawing satisfaction from some substitute as compensation is, of course, forced by subsistence compulsions.

Traditional canons of conduct conveniently contain predominantly direct correspondence between ethical life and action and liberation. But non-linear Integral Yoga Ontology and its spiral evolution paradigm is more prone to post-modernist rapprochement with tentativeness, contingency, and uncertainty of interpretation. This is no logic to condone misconduct (for, the elephant is Brahman and so is the mahut) but the paramountcy of context is never emphasized more elsewhere. The tenet, All life is Yoga, therefore, assumes unprecedented significance against this backdrop. Like the Shatadala or a Sahasra-bahu (called Saas-bahu erroneously in colloquial fashion) temple, the interdependence, interconnection, and economy within a collectivity is thrown into sharp relief. Integral Yoga, thus, is no uniform potion; but rather an arena for experimenting with life along the known tracks and with notions yet unpracticed. [TNM55] 

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

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]  

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]  

Rediscovery of Sri Aurobindo

[Sri Aurobindo - the vocal opponent of socialism - Sanjeev Sabhlok's ...

Had Sri Aurobindo lived, Nehru's plans of socialism would have been still-born and India might have escaped from its (ongoing) misery of the past 65 years.]

Tweets [20h - Sanjeev Sabhlok ‏@sabhlok Sri #Aurobindo – the vocal opponent of #socialism http://goo.gl/fb/M373I  #badideas #india  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party]

[5h - Sanjeev Sabhlok ‏@sabhlok @SavitriEraParty @hguptapolicy Thanks. Can I see your party's manifesto on economic policy and governance?  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View conversation]

[3h - Jaideep A. Prabhu ‏@orsoraggiante @SavitriEraParty Agreed. Spontaneous order is a fundamental principle of liberalism. @an4rky @sabhlok @hguptapolicy  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View conversation]

Tweets 1h - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty @orsoraggiante @sabhlok @an4rky @Getafix2012 @hguptapolicy It's actually about allowing local self-Govt. by returning it to original owners.  View conversation

1h @sabhlok @an4rky @Getafix2012 Residents of Auroville are not strictly Sri Aurobindo's followers; should be allowed to elect their President.  View conversation

1h @sabhlok @an4rky @Getafix2012 SEP has been long demanding liberation of Auroville from Govt. of India control. @hguptapolicy @orsoraggiante  View conversation

2h @sabhlok @hguptapolicy A fixed manifesto is a socialist concept. Members to shape policy with Sri Aurobindo's 1947 Five Dreams as core.  View conversation

5h @an4rky @sabhlok A community of 2K people should have liberty to experiment and choose their own way of living. @hguptapolicy @orsoraggiante  View conversation

6h @sabhlok SEP is the only party in India today with the ideological basis of Liberty and and its inspiration is Sri Aurobindo. @hguptapolicy  View conversation

8h @sabhlok @an4rky Many thanks for highlighting what we are harping on for the last five years. Hope fruitful collaboration in the future.  View conversation

8h - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty http://goo.gl/fb/M373I  @hguptapolicy @orsoraggiante @krishnarjun108@SangeetaRG @m_vijayakumar 

30 Oct [Unleash entrepreneurial force & apply “markets where possible, the state where necessary” and stand back & stay back.] http://marketime.blogspot.in/2012/10/underground-entrepreneurial-energy-is.html …

30 Oct Savitri Era is a pioneering effort in this direction to precipitate an alternative identity & a participative religion. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2012/10/savitri-era-as-alternative-identity-and.html …

29 Oct - 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

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] 

All life is Yoga is for all

In chapter seven of Heraclitus, Sri Aurobindo writes on the role of philosophy. He praises critical reason for helping to arrive at the truth but calls a halt to it at that point. Thereafter, the dynamics of living the truth should be the guiding force and not philosophy.

The same can be said about the Yoga techniques too. They may help to a point but later prove to be a barrier. So, the formula - All life is Yoga - offered by Sri Aurobindo assumes significance. Not only it takes into account individual difference and destiny but also contains allowances as regards evolutionary possibilities. Unhinged from past formulations and dogma, it also ensures universality as well as integrality.

With such theoretical astuteness, one would imagine a course of spiritual practice that is smooth sailing and assured. But the truth is that for want of any standardization it escapes evaluation and emulation. This, however, must not be looked upon as a drawback but appreciated for its huge advantage. The open ended nature of human aspiration and imagination running in consonance with the Divine perfection is surely an empowering phenomenon.

Apart from the cultural prejudices and geographical bottlenecks, a major factor that restricts this knowledge system from reaching a wide spectrum of world population is the Ashram-centric approach. Monopoly over production of books is erroneously construed as the existence of some sort of supervisory authority or a rating system for granting hierarchy slots. The idea of being forced into membership of an alien community, too, is instantly repulsive for most. [TNM55]