Five Koshas and Five Dreams
Annamaya Kosha [Physical Education] Free and united India.
Pranamaya Kosha [Vital Education] Resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia
Manomaya Kosha [Mental Education] World-union
Vijnanamaya Kosha [Psychic Education and Spiritual Education] Spiritual gift of India to the world.
Anandamaya Kosha = To raise man to a higher and larger consciousness
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo met each other on March 29, 1914 in Puducherry signifying the meeting of the East and the West, and the birth of the Savitri Era Religion.
Religious conflicts leading to terrorism and war are likely to find their solution when more and more people embrace the Savitri Era Religion and, thereby, volunteer to work for the Ideal of Human Unity. Globalization has presented immense opportunities to carry forward this task in a variety of avenues. While knowledge, skill, and technology manipulate easy integration, cultural and attitudinal reflexes find it hard to secure common ground.
The synthetic teaching of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, fortunately, reaches out to people residing anywhere in the world simply because it is founded on a substratum that is universal, and the basic concern is human, regardless of geography, biology or religion. The Metaphysics of The Life Divine is indisputably the most modern, affirmative, and optimistic. The principles of Integral Yoga, likewise, chime so harmoniously with frontier research areas in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive studies.
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo came to emancipate us from the fetters of the “past that seeks to endure.” It is for the young people of today to acquiesce at the choice and seek conversion to the Savitri Era Religion.
Tusar N. Mohapatra,
President, Savitri Era Party.
It is unclear how so much of debate around nuclear energy has taken place without paying even an iota of thought as to how this energy has been cocooned in the womb of an atom, or “Who” the architect of such sure-fire micro-management is. The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo tells the whole story. [TNM]
The current issue of Mother India carries an old letter by Amal Kiran regarding “Doing pranams to Sadhaks” which has been a contentious affair all along. It would have been ideal, however, were M.P. Pandit’s justifications on the matter too included.
Allied to the issue is the phenomenon of feudalistic signs shown by the Sadhaks which spawns a sense of superiority bordering upon immunity from any probe. Such condescending attitude invariably takes a despicable turn, wherever finance is involved, and consequently, probity comes under cloud. Accountability, propriety, and transparency, therefore, are the apt behavior as “Caesar's Wife should not only be honest but also be seen to be honest.”
Tusar N. Mohapatra,
President, Savitri Era Party.
Financial inclusion is a buzz word these days. But Savitri Era Party aims at Metaphysical inclusion. Different religions, astrologers, and political groups preach their own brand of metaphysics to hoodwink people. These generally consist of a mixture of ethical prescriptions, mythological stories, and legends.
Savitri Era Party follows the metaphysics of The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. This is meant for the whole humanity and not only for any particular country or culture. Savitri Era Party requests all educated people to read this book. It is a must read for politicians, policy-makers, and all those who are in the public life.
Tusar N. Mohapatra
President, Savitri Era Party.
from Tusar N. Mohapatra <tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com> date 10 July 2008 11:32
As you are in contact with the words of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo..., may I give a low down on what the future holds, and how you can effectively be right on the centre stage. Savitri Era Religion, with its roots in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey is the 6th prominent Semitic religion that is going to grow at the cost of older religions. Out of the need for a sound metaphysics, people will be forced to accept this religion. They will have The Mother's shoulders to cry upon, in addition. This is an invincible combination, plus Savitri, plus Matrimandir, and what have you.
Gagdad Bob once assured me that, "You can't build a bridge from the middle," and in that sense he is doing a lot of preparatory (i.e. subversive for older ones) work in favor of Savitri Era Religion. The West will be the most fertile ground for the Savitri Era Religion, whereupon others, including India, will follow suit. Now that the Indo-US 123 Nuclear deal is likely to be through, Gagdad Bob's political stance also makes sense...
In this scenario, you can perform a great role if you come out... We have a great product; we need suitable marketing wherewithal...
Tusar N. Mohapatra
President, Savitri Era Party.
[In that slow and difficult emergence a certain semblance of truth is given to the dictum of Heraclitus that War is the father of all things; for each idea, force, separate consciousness, living being by the very necessity of its ignorance enters into collision with others and tries to live and grow and fulfil itself by independent self-assertion, not by harmony with the rest of existence. Yet there is still the unknown underlying Oneness which compels us to strive slowly towards some form of harmony, of interdependence, of concording of discords, of a difficult unity. But it is only by the evolution in us of the concealed superconscient powers of cosmic Truth and of the Reality in which they are one that the harmony and unity we strive for can be dynamically realised in the very fibre of our being and all its self-expression and not merely in imperfect attempts, incomplete constructions, ever-changing approximations. Location: Home > E-Library > Works Of Sri Aurobindo > English > The Life Divine Volume-18 > Supermind, Mind And The Overmind Maya]
[Selfishness and Adam Smith do not go together...The notion that selfishness was good came from a earlier commentator, Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733), whose book, ‘The Fable of Bees’, which made him famous, began as poem and was fleshed out to a best seller..Take the famous quotation (Wealth Of NationsI.ii. pp26-7) about seeking our dinner from the ‘butcher, the brewer, and the baker’... Smith’s advice was not to expect our dinner from their ‘benevolence’ ... but to address their ‘self love’ and their ‘advantages’, not our own self love and our advantages, which is an unselfish approach on our part. In bargaining for our dinner, or whatever, from others the nature of our behaviour is to ‘propose to them: ‘Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want’. In short, the practice two-way bargaining, each addressing the self interests of others, and by considering the interests of other people, we address our own too! Ill-Informed Attribution to Adam Smith Of Views on Selfishness Mar 12, 2008 12:07 AM
from Adam Smith's Lost Legacy by Gavin Kennedy]
Adam Smith's trinity "the butcher, the brewer, and the baker" do represent the Sacchidananda, and, at least, the butcher instantly reminds us of Dharmavyadaha, the Enlightened butcher, of the Mahabharata. However, we may take the liberty of changing their order so that the baker producing bread comes first as Sat or Existence; the butcher comes next with his supply of meat denoting Chit or Consciousness; and finally comes the brewer, the Daroowala... Ah! Ananda...Bliss... (no explanation needed!).
What Heraclites termed as “War” and Sri Aurobindo interpreted as “Collision with others” may, in a modern day situation, be applied to “Competition” among the economic agents. While the rationalist and the secularist see them as separate, the integral approach is to look for the “unknown underlying Oneness.”. [TNM]
When on November 24, 1920 The Mother in that stormy evening shifted to the house where Sri Aurobindo was staying, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram came into being consisting “not quite ten in all.” From a rented house, the ashram has grown exponentially in land, buildings, and farms. The number of inmates, associates, and devotees has also grown in leaps and bounds.
The Ashram, and various other organizations attached to it now, are basically problems of Management. Although they are private entities, there is a feeling that they are also public institutions. As such, who manages them and how they are managed are matters that justifiably fall in the public domain.
Accountability, propriety, and transparency are cornerstones of an organization that exists for Truth. Let’s hope that it is never compromised nor any blemish stains the hallowed names of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. [TNM]
The Problem of Rebirth engaged Sri Aurobindo from time to time, but a conclusive thesis eluded him. Sean M. Kelly weaves the tapestry afresh by bringing in Barbour, Fechner, Gebser, Hegel, Jung, Morin, Nietzsche, and Whitehead. [INTEGRAL REVIEW June 2008 Integral Time and the Varieties of Post-Mortem Survival - 5:30 PM]. [TNM]
from Tusar N. Mohapatra <tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com> date 1 July 2008 12:43 subject Re: World Union and Supramental
Dear Aju babu,
Many thanks for broaching the issue of World Union which is close to my heart. Whenever we talk about India's Role in the World's Future or India's Spiritual Destiny: Its Inevitability and Potentiality, we prefer a very abstract language. But if we really want to see any appreciable change then we have to come down to practical action.
India means its people, we the citizens. One of us has to be in the forefront to achieve our cherished goals. Our ideology has to be broadcast among the young generation. If people like us, then only we shall have power to act at the world scene.
I have floated the Savitri Era Party. I need the support and active participation of all of you.
Thanking you,
Tusar N. Mohapatra,
President, Savitri Era Party
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Tusar N Mohapatra said... June 28, 2008 2:05 AM
A nice portrayal of Sri Aurobindo's thinking in its historical perspective. Compliments; More power to your pen!
The Life Divine is fundamental to the teachings of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo; all other books are accessories. In this book Sri Aurobindo “fabricates” a philosophy representing a Global “assemblage” that forms the foundation of an integral evolution of the humanity.
No other book, no other thesis, no other person offer such a fullness. People of all countries will have to study The Life Divine for the sake of their own welfare. Schools and colleges will be required to tell their students about the significance of learning from this book.
Studying of The Life Divine itself constitutes praxis as long held nuggets of metaphysical notions picked up from popular myths and religions come under scanner to be found to be false. And, the smug impression of many that one knows what the book says is also demolished, brick by brick. [TNM]
from Tusar N. Mohapatra <tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com> date 27 June 2008 10:40
Dear Sankar babu,
Thanks for the appreciative words. In fact, two very fine studies have come up which, in a way, endorse the Habermasian emphasis on Communicative Action within the Sri Aurobindian context. One is,
And the other,
Let’s hope that these stir the imagination of people and we help create a better world for ourselves.
Yours Fraternally,
Tusar
from Tusar N. Mohapatra <tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com> date 22 June 2008 21:21 subject Re: sri anirvan
Thanks for the enquiry but I have no personal acquaintance with Sri Anirvan. He is great to us as he was the person at a distant place who, like Ekalavya, received the permission as well as power for the first translation of The Life Divine, which he ably accomplished. This fact alone makes him immortal, as there was no dearth of scholars in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram then.
All the best, Tusar
from Tusar N. Mohapatra <tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com> date 24 June 2008 16:34 subject Re: Sri Anirvan
Dear Debabrata babu,
Namaskar. Thanks for opening up a bit and expressing yourself freely on Sri Anirvan. At one place you say that,
[Sri Aurobindo did not give anyone the permission to translate Life Divine.]
But, I could lay my hands on the following statements:
"Sri Anirvan accepted on condition that their guru, Sri Aurobindo would agree." [from the preface of the book, Letters from a Baul]
and,
"He was the first to translate The Life Divine into Bengali with Sri Aurobindo's full approval. [from the recollections of NKS published in Mother India, April, 2005]
That apart, it was shocking to know that his translation has been abandoned by the Ashram. That means, when I rhetorically compared him with Ekalavya, I was spot on. However, let this matter be debated and some alternate publisher might agree for its publication.
By the way, J.L. Mehta talks about Sri Anirvan's work on the Veda very reverentially in his book, Philosophy and Religion (p.163).
Yours fraternally, Tusar
NB: [the translation has received constant and full attention of the Ashram Trust. PM 6:45 PM]
[if the effect of hypnotic attachment is successfully produced, if we become convinced that the text hides a secret, we become locked in a power relationship with text and authorship where the author is now a master containing the truth of a secret, and the reader is perpetually inadequate, always close to the elusive truth of the secret of late Heidegger, late Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida, etc., while also always falling short. Far from freeing the reader, far from liberating them, the reader instead is locked in identity as a disciple and apostle of the text, devoting, perhaps in the extreme case of the scholar, their entire life to the hermeneutics of the text that has now become sacred. Larval Subjects April 25, 2008 Style Posted by larvalsubjects under Politics, Writing]
[For the Hebrew alphabet, which had descended from its Semitic forefathers, however, there was at least a slight pictorial connection to the world seen by the eyes. For example, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet was aleph. This letter was shaped by the Hebrews to pictorially represent an ox, and, in fact, the letter by itself did mean "ox." Likewise, the Hebrew letter "M" resembled water in its wavy structure, and, in fact, the Hebrew word for water started and ended with the letter "M."... I would like to point out a number of important factors that resulted from the Greek adoption of the Hebrew alphabet. First, as mentioned, the Hebrew alphabet had a slight pictorial reference to the world seen by the eyes, such as the first letter, aleph, representing an ox. By the time the alphabet was being used by the Greeks, however, all references to the visual world were gone, because the Greeks lacked the pictorial references the Hebrews had. For the Greeks, aleph did not visually represent anything. It was just a shape on a piece of paper... Is it just a mere coincidence that the world’s most abstract literacy tool (the Greek alphabet) and the world’s most abstract and disembodied philosophy (Plato’s theory of Ideas) just happened to flourish in ancient Greece at exactly the same time in history? -- Plato's Vowels: How the Alphabet Influenced the Evolution of Consciousness
Frank Poletti Esalen Center for Theory and Research 2000.]
[Existence is only one in its essence and totality, in its play it is necessarily multiform. Absolute uniformity would mean the cessation of life, while on the other hand, the vigour of the pulse of life may be measured by the richness of the diversities which it creates.
Only the utmost limit of height, wideness and fullness of self- expression possible to man, if any such limit there be, could be regarded, did we know of it, - and as yet we do not know our utmost possibilities, - as the eternal ideal.
Whatever the ideas or ideals which the human mind extracts from life or tries to apply to life, they can be nothing but the expression of that life itself as it attempts to find more and more and fix higher and higher its own law and realise its potentialities. Location: Works Of Sri Aurobindo > Social And Political Thought Volume-15 > Nature's Law In Our Progress 8:19 PM 8:35 PM]
Life in its rich diversities would always prove riddlesome. Be it desire or competition or biopolitics, any scrutiny of the inventory of details will leave us nonplussed unless the underlying unity is plumbed. The operation of a nisus perhaps needs the tension of a conflictsome scenario and hence, the actual hardly helps. [TNM] [10:30 AM] [11:25 AM]
What differentiates Sri Aurobindo from other famous philosophers and savants is his emphasis on evolution linked to a definite teleology. Whereas other notions of evolution are speculative and uncertain, Sri Aurobindo posits a grand pillar of possibility which the world has to embrace unwaveringly.
As regards Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey [Roughtheory.org / davidharvey.org] it is really astonishing that such large number of people are still enamored of Marxist thought. Similar is the case with other Masters of Suspicion as well as prominent thinkers. Why this happens is necessary to understand.
Sri Aurobindo spoke about the typal society that does not evolve but relegates itself into a conventional machanicity. Elsewhere, the Devatas have been described as typal beings who, being incapable of evolving further, inhabit their respective domains for ever. Similarly, these powerful thought-systems are typal realms that survive and continue to attract followers.
All teachings – religious or rational – are such typal traps that The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have warned us to keep away from. They are anti-evolutionary, and hence any hobnobbing with them erodes our own sense of certitude. The Supramental transformation will happen only under the benign gaze of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. [TNM] [11:25 AM , 5:23 AM ]
Debashish Banerji, by far the most erudite among the Sri Aurobindian scholars today, wrote a very perceptive essay on Nietzsche that was published in the March 2004 number of Mother India. With the typical Western politeness he had sternly reminded that,
“Sri Aurobindo’s texts need to be read in a cross-cultural context. They have contexts which are equally eastern and western.”
“Many who have read Sri Aurobindo have never read Nietzsche and acquire some preconceptions of what the Nietzschean Superman is all about. I’d encourage them to divest themselves of these ideas.”
“Nietzsche’s call is going out to the will of man. It is not a simple call to the ego – it is not a call to titanism as has been popularly supposed, it is a call to sacrifice, to vastness, it is a call to the formation of gods within us.”
Eminently edifying, the essay should be available online. [TNM] [Life Divine Colloquia via Skype by Debashish Banerji] [ 1:21 AM ] [http://www.sciy.org/blog/_archives/2008/11/23/3991905.html]
from Tusar N. Mohapatra <tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com> 12 June 2008 18:11
I can't understand why you are so emphatic about a hiatus between poetry and philosophy. All our scholars - from NKG to RYD - handle them with equal ease, and the same should be the case with you. It is not a question of "our liking," but what we grow into because of "Their liking."
Let me tell you one thing categorically: If one is not reasonably conversant with Western Philosophy, then his study of The Life Divine is partial, superficial, and simplistic. Therefore, there is no escape and it is never too late to start studying philosophy. All the best...
If your thesis is right, then the very word "Integral Yoga" is a misnomer. For, Sri Aurobindo himself has been an embodiment of erudition as well as experience. Thus, creating an "either/or" situation is an error...
I stand by it, and refuse to be cowed down by "grapes are sour" mentality. [TNM]
Tusar N. Mohapatra,
President, Savitri Era Party.
[Can there be a mediator between science and occultism? And does technology have a pivotal role to play in humanity’s ascent to Divinity as some sort of mediator between science and occultism? Open Question to Readers from The Stumbling Mystic by ned]
Such questions arise owing to a lack of grounding in The Life Divine. Contrary to our present notions of technology, the fact is that technology existed from the earliest of times. A stick, a ladder, a wheel are all examples of technology. Even, digitalization depends on the inherent (or, occult) property of Silicon and not solely on human innovation. When we fail to see this unitary working of our world, Sri Aurobindo calls it Constitutional Ignorance. [TNM]
[(title unknown) from enowning by enowning How not to talk rubbish... Existentialism, as such, has its origins with Sartre and his circle in the early forties--e.g., see Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism (1946)...It's hard to introduce authenticity (let's date it circa B&T, 1927) to existentialism, before it existed as such. Many texts try pass off historical figures like Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Pascal, even the author of the Book of Job, as existentialists. They, of course, can't defend themselves, but thinkers like Heidegger, who were able to respond to such accusations, denied being existentialists. Even Sartre denied being one, after he'd tired of promoting it.]
[Jun 16, 2008 The Hazard of the Public
from Larval Subjects by larvalsubjects. The form of jouissance embodied in this subjective type seems transparently self-evident: to engage in a game of one upsmanship where one can situate their interlocutor in a subordinate position. The phenomenon is no different than the sort of hierarchies that emerge in wolf packs. In these encounters there is no dialogue, no discussion, no development of thought, but only a play of display and counter-display that seems geared towards repeating the word and position of the masters.]
The history of Philosophy spans over 4000 years. But, it’s only about 40 years back that its Truth-claims was contested. And, Philosophy has never been the same again. Philosophy is "writing" now, Literature. From Eco to Žižek, it's all collage, mosaic, allusions. And, nobody is complaining. Jouissance aha! [TNM]
It was www.kheper.net which had first dug out extensive information about Max Théon to which RY Deshpande [Permanent Link] has now added significant details at Science, Culture and Integral Yoga site. Elsewhere, N. Nandhivarman [Permalink at 12:22 PM] rather mischievously has asked,
[Well it is the Mira Richard’s husband Paul Richard, whose works Aurobindo translated were one of the reasons for his philosophy to blossom. Let impartial researchers dig deep into the writings of both to arrive at a conclusion who influenced whom?]
It would be nice if the Savitri Era lineage is probed in greater intensity without inhibitions and hesitations. [TNM]