The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are the tallest

@SavitriEraParty: Many Sri Aurobindo's devotees have actively campaigned for Modi and they should now plead for ARYA Centenary Celebration on August 15, 2014.

@SavitriEraParty: Metaphysics is supreme and therefore all practical knowledge and expertise held by Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras bow before the Brahmins.

@SavitriEraParty: It may surprise you that most people residing in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry, Auroville, & other Centres have not read The Life Divine.

@SavitriEraParty: Reading Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine amounts to subject yourself a lifelong training to shun mythological fiction and savour metaphysics.

@SavitriEraParty: The Mother & Sri Aurobindo started publishing their mature Theory on August 15, 1914 which stands the tallest even after a Hundred years.

@SavitriEraParty: Experience is always privileged over intellectual faculty but while vision is subjective in spirituality theory can be subjected to scrutiny.

@SavitriEraParty: The only superiority that we can attribute to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is on grounds of Metaphysics especially when compared with Hegel's.

@SavitriEraParty: Considering religious diversity obtaining in India The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have made it clear for new generation futility of superiority.

@SavitriEraParty: Harbouring hatred towards those belonging to other religions and the habit of denunciating them or ridiculing their practices is a disease.

@SavitriEraParty: Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal: "All Art is Quite Useless": What a Wild(e) Idea! http://t.co/8ebfnhai1G Sri Aurobindo

@SavitriEraParty: [For me, Hegel’s Science of Logic has always been the great white whale, Ulysses, or Finnegans Wake of philosophy.] https://t.co/3gr52hJfqM

@SavitriEraParty: [What most irritated Rand about Kant was the turn toward the subjective, away from the objective facts of the world;] http://t.co/N0zgQfzp6i

@SavitriEraParty: [So what Hegel is trying to do in the Phenomenology of Spirit is give some account of everything and relate together] http://t.co/CXFTwLukpj

@SavitriEraParty: [Doull’s story is not only a story of philosophy; more concrete history as well, of politics and of “religion”] http://t.co/aagCm3KfLI Hegel
[instead of constantly being in the pursuit of money. Working at jobs that one loves, rather than just making money.] Auroville http://t.co/cQUPq6FqKz

Anti-Evolutionary mentality of RSS & Marxists

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo has examined the present situation in India and the world with clinical precision before one hundred years. Follow #FiveDreams

@SavitriEraParty: @rranjan501 We are contributing in our own ways and that might gather momentum some day. Sri Aurobindo gives very firm assurance of Harmony.

@SavitriEraParty: @rranjan501 It would be unfair to deny existence of honest and compassionate persons in public life. We must count on the positive aspects.

@SavitriEraParty: Apart from human Collaboration, Evolution, like Gravitation, is a force in itself which is dragging the course of history towards Harmony.

@SavitriEraParty: @rranjan501 Instead of saying relevant, let's call morality the core element towards which everything is moving in its Evolutionary journey.

@SavitriEraParty: AAP promised a strong Lok Pal & BJP assured a strong PM. Strength is the quality all want but Wisdom must accompany it, says Sri Aurobindo.

@SavitriEraParty: @rranjan501 Electoral mechanism in a Democracy uses various other attractions than mere morality which is just another element in the mosaic.

@SavitriEraParty: Read Sri Aurobindo's books. No need for our 12 year-olds to burden them with the anguish of "1200 years of servitude" http://t.co/w782517IHW

@SavitriEraParty: Political ecosystems in India like the Left or Sangh are cause of confusion. A political party should be sovereign & run as per Constitution.

@SavitriEraParty: In any case, who's interested in what will happen in 2019 or 2047? All that matters is who becomes which Minister or who are invited where.

@SavitriEraParty: While a Federation of free nationalities looks plausible, the current hubris of sound paradigm based on glorious ancient India is misplaced.

@SavitriEraParty: The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity by Sri Aurobindo conceals many cultural clues and civilizational secrets which need decoding.

@SavitriEraParty: In view of fast-changing geopolitical contours, civilizational roots & related religious ramifications will reach at Sri Aurobindo's thesis.

@SavitriEraParty: @vjshanks Thanks to the pronouncements of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, Elst can't get away with "Hindus have a very mistaken view of Hitler."

@SavitriEraParty: Although Savitri Era Party has not been able to be active on ground so far, a nucleus of like-minded people can converge to give it a shape.

@SavitriEraParty: The more you come out of the anti-Evolutionary mentality of RSS & Marxists and know more about Sri Aurobindo, the sooner India can progress.

@SavitriEraParty: The Mother came to India and collaborated with Sri Aurobindo to publish ARYA on August 15, 1914 & they have envisaged a great future for us.

@SavitriEraParty: No one was bothered what RSS was doing earlier as a social organization but now they flaunt the stamp of authenticity of the Govt. of India.

@SavitriEraParty: Instead of disseminating genuine teachings of Sri Aurobindo, so called defenders of Indian tradition are propagating therapy & superstition.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo gave the Essence of ancient Indian wisdom 100 years back but present-day neo-Hindu Gurus are busy expanding their own empires.

@SavitriEraParty: One good thing about reading Books by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is that you can at once recognise such spurious writings of other authors.

@SavitriEraParty: SABDA–Distributors of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publications free online

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Sri Aurobindo reconquered the world in the pages of ARYA

You may not locate any book by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo in stalls at Airports or Railway Stations. Online access at http://t.co/S7aWJUENTD

Fortunately, The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have left behind their philosophy as well as biography in writing so that no one misrepresents them.

Savitri Era Religion stems from the Evolutionary Judeo-Vedic legacy of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo suitable for people from all Continents.

There is no one else in the world than Sri Aurobindo who so thoroughly understands the religion and culture of India as well as the West.

No nation can move in the path of Development if its citizens are under the intoxicating effect of mythological fiction and miracle seeking.

Instead of endorsing texts supposed to be composed more than 1000 years back, better to rely upon what Sri Aurobindo wrote in ARYA in 1914.

From Science to Psephology, many fields of study mimic mythology and hence not much critical work generates in India, Marxists included.

No philosophical or cosmological inquiry interests most Indians unless there is some mythological content of Bollywood variety in narrative.

Years of being submerged under mythological fiction has made the minds of Indians so dull that they are unable to accept Sri Aurobindo works.

The ARYA writings of Sri Aurobindo during 1914 - 21 were later revised and published as books which stand out as guiding posts for humanity.

@Satyapriyan @AshwinIsrani @gsurya Sri Aurobindo has given an altogether different meaning of Purusha Sukta. My request is you must read it.

Being passionate about domestic economy is fine but to check once in a while what stirs Hegel, Nagel, or Sri Aurobindo is not unprofitable.

India is not restricted to Govt of India. Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx by DPC gives an introduction to our participation in its Global role.

Once you are done with Ambedkar, Savarkar, or Golwalkar, you will need Sri Aurobindo who wrote in ARYA that was launched on August 15, 1914.

India was under British occupation & Puducherry a French territory. But Sri Aurobindo reconquered the world in the pages of the ARYA in 1914.

Emerson & Bergson, Nietzsche & Freud, James & Royce: diverse theories were floating and Sri Aurobindo cleared the air in the ARYA in 1914.

Europe was in the throes of an intense intellectual fermentation due to Darwin's theory of Evolution and through Marxist social Revolution.

In 1914, Sri Aurobindo wrote several books in a monthly magazine called ARYA which are worth reading. Most of them are beyond comparison.

Just because mythological fiction are safeguarded through stone sculptures installed in large real estate accommodations they would be true!

What Sri Aurobindo wrote in the ARYA a Century back has not lost an iota of relevance in the modern world and especially for Indians & NRIs.

When I say forcefully that everyone must read Sri Aurobindo's works some people misconstrue I'm applying force! That's really disconcerting.

Sri Aurobindo's Vedic Evolutionary dialectic integrates and surpasses Emerson, Nietzsche, Bergson, James, & Whitehead http://t.co/RmnIjHdd8w

ARYA Centenary is the right occasion to revisit sublimest thoughts pertaining to human potentiality & destiny as disclosed by Sri Aurobindo.

If you are feeling suffocated from tyranny of rituals visit Puducherry to taste a new paradigm free from superstition & mythological fiction.

Sri Aurobindo raised his voice in the pages of ARYA against cobwebs collected over several Centuries. Why do you want to be meek and silent?

Diverse theoretical discourses and public action were fermented during the 19th Century which Sri Aurobindo corrected in the pages of ARYA.

Countrymen are requested to celebrate the Centenary of ARYA monthly magazine established by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo on August 15, 1914.

We have been raising our voice against RSS-BJP-Modi model and will continue to treat them as anti-Evolutionary as well as anti-intellectual.

Expecting enlightened appreciation from those trapped in the vicious circle of RSS parroting Golwalkar's circular logic is surely chimerical.

Read Sri Aurobindo to understand the true import of Indian culture, literature, and scriptures. Don't rely upon your street-corner panditji.

The Veda, says Sri Aurobindo, is a means for voluntary yearning for self-evolution and not to be awarded as a contract to perform a havan.

As people are unaware of Sri Aurobindo's #FiveDreams, it's normal for them to concentrate on the present but we fix our gaze on the future.

No matter whether you study Science, Engineering, or Hotel Management, insulate yourself from rituals, superstition, & mythological fiction.

Left can remould itself

Those who forever debate Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Ambedkar, or Savarkar are light-years away from what The Mother & Sri Aurobindo accomplished.
Neither Vivekananda nor Radhakrishnan do justice to Indian tradition. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have reconfigured it aligning to Evolution.
British rule in India served a great Evolutionary purpose for the mankind and no amount of pining for pure Hindutva is going to materialize.
Evolution is the objective, Transformation, the process and our Collaboration is the task. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo aim at radical change.
Modified BJP has thrown an unprecedented opportunity for the Left to go national and to go mainstream but it must abhor the AAP caricature.
The Left possesses intellectual wherewithal to fathom what Sri Aurobindo says but yet to come to terms with his version of Internationalism.
The Left in India is not uninfected of religion and prefers non-Hindu company. It can broadbase itself by riding piggyback on Sri Aurobindo.
Never before in its history the Left had such missionary task on the national landscape as in this election. It must draw upon Sri Aurobindo.
@Sheks65 It's erroneous to look at everything in terms of the past. If BJP is being modified then the Left can remould itself too. Evolution.
@Sheks65 All three are to be in #ThirdFront Govt on May 16. Yechuri was convener of Oct 30 convention. So no contradiction in my projection!
@vs70 @Sheks65 See, if I'm able to introduce an iota of doubt in your firm expectations then my job is done. I want that fear to nag you all.
Now that Modi has zero chances, RSS will test the waters for others like Yashwant. I'm, however, grateful to him for ever for VRS from Bank.
@Sheks65 BJP is definitely gaining decently on vote share everywhere but negligible increase in terms of seats is proving to be a nightmare.
Robust campaigning by BJP on Twitter must have caused a swing in votes not less than 0.007% estimated on all India scale at 7 O'Clock today!
@vs70 Essence of life is in the delight of the journey and not merely the destination. So, nothing wrong in enjoying by wallowing in hopes!
@tweeted_now When people like Nandan Nilekani join Congress and promote Dynasty and sycophancy, one loses faith on all talk of meritocracy.

Ambivalent, comical, confusing, paradoxical

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 30 March 2014 at 6:03 am said:

Election campaigns are on in India and many issues are in the melting pot though they are hardly approached from a philosophical perspective. If anyone cares to look at them with some seriousness, then the word ethics might be of added contemporary interest. [TNM55]

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First quarter of 1914 will be over in a few days. Political developments so far have been confusing; no firm indications but part of History.

It's a perfect postmodernist scenario: ambivalent, comical, confusing, paradoxical, no ideological anchorage, frustrating and fast-changing.

@outburstindia @shivageologist To say anti-India, one must define what exactly India denotes but even the Constitution falls short of real.

@shivageologist Both BJP & AAP, backed by RSS & the ultra-Left as they are, are not very comfortable with the present shape of Constitution.

Even there is a mismatch between Yoga and ethics and so between politics and ethics is no surprise. Enchantment and charisma fuel politics.

There is no greater delusion than looking at the past centuries as model societies. Present day Indians must firmly resist such temptation.

New breed of writers using sophisticated English argue earnestly in favour of bygone days & glorify pre-modern culture. Safe to ignore them.

None of the political parties aspire what inspired Sri Aurobindo. It's upon the young to be aware of his vision and consciously work for it.

The Mother and Sri Aurobindo strived to awaken the young about the beauty of the future world. They first met 100 years back in Puducherry.

Many in their thirties seem to be more confident about the shape of Indian society and customs 3000 years back than during their life time.

Very idea of forcibly keeping people bonded to a set of religious or cultural prescriptions handed down by tradition is against democracy.

Sri Aurobindo goes beyond the Gita

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 19 March 2014 at 7:26 am said:

Sri Aurobindo stressed that the Mahabharata and the Gita contain large scale interpolations. Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita is more famous for his response to other philosophical paths than a literal interpretation of the text. Moreover, care should be taken not to treat it as representative of Sri Aurobindo’s overall philosophy. [TNM55]

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 19 March 2014 at 7:23 pm said:

Essays on the Gita is, in fact, among the bulk of Arya writings that Sri Aurobindo undertook after the arrival of The Mother in India on March 29, 1914. But his writings took a decisive turn after the second and final arrival of The Mother on April 24, 1920. His philosophy of Yoga from 1926 onwards became surrender-to-The-Mother-centric oriented to the imperative of Supramental Evolution. They insisted on leaving behind the past dawns in order to be ready for the noons of the future. Yoga of the Cells for perfection of the body also forms their most ambitious project for future humanity and they desist from enforcing any universal standard of ethics. These, in nutshell, can be said the divergences introduced by Sri Aurobindo into the Indian tradition. [TNM55]

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 19 March 2014 at 7:57 pm said:

The elevating Vedic connotations Sri Aurobindo attributes to the term Arya is perhaps more appropriate here than what Rasika denotes especially when the task of philosophy is not merely an aesthetic immersion but prodding on the path of innovation and evolution. [TNM55]

Heehs has no remorse

Tusar Nath Mohapatra says: March 12th, 2014 at 3:41 pm

The author is an insider as regards his subject while the same cannot be said about the Professor and therefore the two books stand on entirely different grounds. How strange that he has no remorse for injuring the intimate feelings of thousands of people who choose to adore The Mother! [TNM55]

Avoiding other traditions and teachers

The path of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo has this implicit assumption that whenever their names are invoked, the Evolutionary march gets animated. Remembering them, therefore, is itself considered as a potent form of practicing Integral Yoga. Apart from the conventional nama-rupa-guna-lila-and-dham modes, a more engaging avenue that is available to us today is to examine their words upon the framework of our own experiences and reactions or correlated social responses. Articulated coherently, they also constitute skeletal documentation of this nebulous realm that is no less real than say nimble chopsticks. The sociological dimensions of voluntarily following a spiritual discipline are manifold involving stereotypes and speculative views. Faithful accounts are rare for the fear of being treated as unreliable and frivolous or disclosing failures. One problem area in this context is how to deal with other traditions and teachers?

Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence edited by Nalini Bhushan and Jay L. Garfield has a delightful collection of articles and commentaries. While sympathising with the academic compulsion of accommodating diverse viewpoints, let me put it a bit bluntly that such a practice is inadmissible in Yoga. They may be great writers or leaders, but their role in relation to the Evolution may be questionable. So, the safe course is to avoid them since The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have been palpably reticent in recommending others. The recently issued CWSA volume-II of Letters on Yoga has ample guidances as regards inadequacies inherent in other paths and philosophies.

The firmness, however, is less available when we apply them to our present situation, especially politics. Followers of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are now sharply divided in their support and we at Savitri Era have taken the line of opposing the dominant national parties like the Congress, the BJP and their allies including AAP. But the option of possible alliances with them is very much open and alive. 2014 happens to be the Centenary year of the The Mother's arrival in Puducherry and the Arya (not to speak of the WW-I) and hence the election outcome cannot be devoid of its own significance as a push towards the Life Divine. [TNM55]

Uniqueness of Sri Aurobindo

The current issue of Sraddha has several references to Vivekananda and a whole book-chapter. Rajiv Malhotra's Indra's Net and Jyotirmaya Sharma's twin volumes are noted treatments too. But a definitive estimate vis-a-vis Sri Aurobindo is still awaited. In fact, such a demand is perhaps defective at the first place and that's the line we have been following for long.

Without any claims to a decent level of scholarship, let me state with a blogger's credentials and carelessness that any sympathetic approach towards Vivekananda, Tagore, or Gandhi is an injustice to Sri Aurobindo. Debts or similarities are nothing but at the fringe level and we don't perceive the difference due to too much of familiarity. Just think of the present day India without Sri Aurobindo; no The Life Divine and no The Secret of the Veda. How shallow is the intellectual level? And that's the standard our Perennial philosophy-wallahs like RSS and RKM propagate.

Building statues and temples is part of competitive politics and intellectuals will not lag behind in erecting scholarly monuments, but the role played by Sri Aurobindo is entirely different and unique. This can be understood only by the devotees and longtime followers. The Mother's arrival in Puducherry a Century ago is a stark reminder of how only she knew who Sri Aurobindo was. That distinction needs to be protected with zeal by the Savitri Erans. [TNM55]

Sri Aurobindo integrates the Veda with Vedanta

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 6 February 2014 at 10:20 am said:

Sri Aurobindo happens to be a prominent member of the “philosophy written in English in colonial India” club. The diverse dimensions of his work defies precise labelling and safe genealogical mapping. But how he reconciles the demands of reason with the primarily intuitive utterances of the Upanishads is a treasure for the present generation. Integrating the Veda with Vedanta by bringing them to identical wavelength is his unique contribution and hence any treatment of disparate texts sans the connotations he unveils should seem as inchoate and arbitrary. The just released updated volume of his “Hymns to the Mystic Fire”

(freely available online at

http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/sriauro/writings.php )

stands as testimony to his profound hold on the original intention of these ancient pronouncements. So, to neglect the hermeneutical tools Sri Aurobindo brings to the table would mean to geld Sanskrit of its native splendour and Indian Philosophy its vital wonder. [TNM55]

Sri Aurobindo establishes a firm benchmark

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 7h Injustice & corruption can never be eradicated so long as relatives and friends continue to condone or even encourage such acts of a person.

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 8h Socialism will survive as long as natural calamities inflict large scale disasters as market forces shrink inordinately during such moments.

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 9h Dreaming of a rosy economy is a survival kit against depression for many armchair commentators who fail to reconcile with what prevails now.

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 9h Take away competition, the Market is dead. Take away ambition and struggle for leadership within a party or an alliance, it's likely to die.

@SavitriEraParty: Despite all apprehensions regarding the proposed Federal Front the best thing about it is that no one person will dominate over its working.
Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 8h Congress and BSP declined due to one-person dominance; BJP and AAP are likely to meet the same fate. Third Front must internalize democracy.

@SavitriEraParty: @Realist_Indian Play of real and regional forces should enthuse all democrats, the impending slugfest and thwart on economy notwithstanding!
@SavitriEraParty: It's only because The Mother & Sri Aurobindo made us aware of how Hitler was a tool of hostile force that we understand his place in history.
Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty Feb 2 The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are the most authentic guides as regards Civilizational history and direction as well as true Vedic connotations.
Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty Feb 2 @Vivtweeter Yeah, good compilation but such distortions are everywhere and happening every day. Sri Aurobindo establishes a firm benchmark.
Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty Feb 2 History of Philosophy shows how arguments of great rigor were demolished a decade or two later with matching sophistication & convincing way.

@SavitriEraParty: The beauty of Twitter is that no one claims objectivity since all are unabashed activists or propagandists. Evolution extracts final truth.

@SavitriEraParty: Twitter forces refining an idea by chiseling it to precision without the necessity of expanding a unique thought to authoring an entire book.

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty Feb 2 Many books are misleading in the sense that references to subsequent refutations are missing and hence @amazon reviews are of a great help.

@SavitriEraParty: Ontological intention vis-a-vis diversity Posted by Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) http://t.co/kpgWgaHHyE

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty Feb 2 Tusar Nath Mohapatra: @amazon Reviews http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A18KJO8OJZ8YZE/ref=cm_pdp_reviews_see_all?ie=UTF8&sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview … The Secret of the Veda, Isha Upanishad, Savitri, Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 12h [The Eternal Message of Sage Aurobindo - Swami Krishnananda] http://goo.gl/alerts/aiWd #GoogleAlerts

Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty 17h ['The Nature of Divinity in the World is an Enigma' Essays Divine and Human by Sri Aurobindo - The New Indian Express] http://bit.ly/LqbVUe 

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Ontological intention vis-a-vis diversity

@SavitriEraParty: How Google or Twitter reconfigure their Republics over the next decade hold much greater hope & promise than what Obama or Modi can imagine.

@SavitriEraParty: Evolution, mercifully, loathes to discriminate between Sociology and Religion, Psychology and Oceanography and rides roughshod over borders.

@SavitriEraParty: Parroting We shall win rhetoric is a pathetic feature of being in the Party politics that blunts precision and integrity in daily discourse.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo distils the core of intuitive knowledge that percolated through the Centuries to serve it through Savitri and The Life Divine.

@SavitriEraParty: @doubtinggaurav How insightfully Sri Aurobindo responds to Nietzsche should inform our present predicament and predilections a Century later.

@SavitriEraParty: Neither Periyar nor Lohia had any clue to the causal and evolutionary aspect of religion that Sri Aurobindo so forcefully emphasized upon.

@SavitriEraParty: Religions are not merely fancies of human mind or geographical exotica; ontological compulsion behind their function must grip our attention.

@SavitriEraParty: Rise and fall of Religions in India is also linked to the swing in the fate of the respective Philosophies over time. http://t.co/rhdIgkB7WI

@SavitriEraParty: Whether the polar vortex or evolutionary escape velocity blow awareness on ontological relevance or not elections will veer round the local.

@SavitriEraParty: If morphology alone is to be taken as a sign of some ontological profundity vis-a-vis diversity then a federal spirit seems very much valid.

@SavitriEraParty: Region, religion, castes, languages, and even dialects decide the fate of the candidates. No idealistic escape from such a reality in India.

@SavitriEraParty: Let no one be under the illusion of leading or building a "National Party" at least in 2014. The mood of the country is unambiguously local.

@SavitriEraParty: The Prime Minister, this time, is genuinely emerging from the grassroots and not descending through a parachute or via any compromise route.

@SavitriEraParty: Never before in the history of India Lok Sabha elections was fought on such a federal basis as is going to be this year. Surely a watershed!

@SavitriEraParty: Ideological tags irrelevant now as personalities have come to dominate the political firmament. National Parties give way to State leaders!

The Mother's hand in Suparamental manifestation in 1956

@SavitriEraParty: The picture Ganeri paints of India in 1656 http://t.co/N7kmjWd7RI finds fruition in The Mother's hand in Suparamental manifestation in 1956.

@SavitriEraParty: Writing was a sign of learning which accorded journalism a halo. Audiovisual Media took back to the frivolity associated with Premodern era.

@SavitriEraParty: Many tweeting on history or politics also take care to wear their science, tech or finance credentials on their sleeve for enhanced standing.

@SavitriEraParty: @ScorpiusMaximus Without understanding the role played by Sri Aurobindo the Lal-Bal-Pal project would be as an automobile with three wheels.

@SavitriEraParty: How even a highly motivated movement like AAP is floundering in Delhi is a lesson; the Law Minister has lost legitimacy over moral policing.

@SavitriEraParty: @SurajitDasgupta @_AmarnathS Following Sri Aurobindo is the way. Ideological confusion and business compulsion prevented Ramdev's success.

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Added focus on action over what Sri Aurobindo wrote - 4

Corruption has agitated from Adam Smith to Anna Hazare and civilisation has been a quest for overcoming human imperfections. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, however, see ethics as inbuilt in Yoga which is a joint operation between human effort and Divine Grace. But the tragedy is that many institutions run in the name of Sri Aurobindo have turned dynastic fiefdoms and dens of corruption. Some educational institutions are a sorry spectacle. While the great virtues of education and creativity are extolled outwardly, demeaning hankering for power and manipulation continue as undercurrent. So, the lesson is mere enrolling as a seeker is no assurance for ethical behaviour.

From this perspective, the role of proper management, rule of law, administration of justice, political correctness etc. become crucial. How even a highly motivated movement like AAP is floundering in Delhi is a lesson for all. Human affairs can't be dealt with by mere common sense any more in this complex world; very refined and rigorous policy making is essential. Further, there are no fixed, textbook solutions; sensibilities emerge as situations unfold and responses shift in commensurate fashion. Media and advocates foisting twists complicate the situation.

Ban on the book robbed much of the moral ground and it has become indefensible over the years. A parallel can be drawn to the Minister in Delhi who has lost legitimacy for moral policing. Loss of credibility like the Michhua Radhua can play havoc on the part of an individual or organisation. The Mother introduced many exemplary modalities in the Ashram but some others can justifyably be criticized for being harsh on human wants and emotions. So, whether they can be pardoned today in the pretext of spirituality is a much larger question. Devoloping competence and sagacity for judging such matters is also urgent and we need fresh texts to fall back upon. [TNM55]

Added focus on action over what Sri Aurobindo wrote - 3

The Mother passed away before the TV arrived in India and hence it was a sort of primitive age. The Internet today has transformed the Indian society to a huge degree. The type of professions has multiplied so also infotainment avenues. Pressure on youth for early success has robbed many options from life. So Yoga, as The Mother & Sri Aurobindo formulated it, is no more an easy proposition. Reading the detailed explanations of Parts of the Being spreading over several volumes is a remote exercise today. In short, Integral Yoga is far away from the priorities and preferences of the youth.

In contrast, some other religious camps are flourishing by imaginatively marketing recreational events and well-being modules. Being affiliated to influential sociopolitical organizations also raises profile as well as popularity. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, however, have been averse to such techniques from the very beginning. The level of ethics they insist makes one unsuitable for team-spirit and group-dynamics. Thus to reconcile Yoga with ordinary demands of life or casual religious approach is an uphill task. Rise in prosperity is adding more hurdles to practicing simplicity.

The truth is that all these difficulties were not unknown to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo but without dealing with them theoretically no assured results for practice of Yoga can be offered. The safe heaven they created in the form of the Ashram is also in doldrums. So it can safely be concluded that their teachings are impractical both in theory as well as in practice. But fortunately, this conclusion has other implications. No other solution can be said to have any credible prospect and in comparison The Mother & Sri Aurobindo stand heads and shoulders above them in many respects. [TNM55]

Sri Aurobindo has saved from the tyranny of Indian Philosophy

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 25 January 2014 at 7:01 am said:
Demarcation between philosophy proper and history of Indian philosophy has been deep since the arrival of Sri Aurobindo in the scene. This year marks the Centenary of his magnum opus “The Life Divine” and other original works like “The Secret of the Veda.” The Evolutionary dialectic of his Integral Ontology seeks to establish a universal template of philosophy that acts as applied psychology as well by suitably incorporating poetic aesthesis. So, not to include him in the list would be an injustice to the future of human civilization and education. [TNM55]

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 26 January 2014 at 6:16 am said:
Bringing in other names while thinking of Sri Aurobindo is a real problem; so is the period during which he wrote. Most of his books, fortunately, allow us to concentrate on the subject proper and a slim volume like “The Problem of Rebirth” or “Heraclitus” can introduce one elegantly to his philosophical project that dovetails into poetry too.
Though neither germane nor palatable, let me say as a nonspecialist here that it is Sri Aurobindo who has saved the modern day Indians from the tyranny of “Indian Philosophy” by offering an alternative set of literature in English reading which is transformative as well. [TNM55]

Added focus on action over what Sri Aurobindo wrote- 2

Apart from pointing out the newness of their philosophy or the synthetic nature of their yoga, The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have been careful to reject founding of a new religion. A following, nevertheless, has taken shape after their departure accentuated by the periodical ceremonies celebrated at the Ashram and regional Centres. This constitutes an added aspect to their complex legacy and needs to be confronted astutely by theoreticians. Political dimensions arising out of the religious identity also should be grappled appropriately.

Tracing the evolution of Sri Aurobindo's opinions, itself, is a challenging task. So when it comes to deciphering additional tendencies obtaining after his departure, it's verily a minefield to stray beyond his written words. But the task has its own validity as Sri Aurobindo never considered his own path as a separate category for comparison which, nonetheless, has come to modify his prognostications. The founding of Auroville, similarly, has considerably altered the texture of dispensation originally conceived by The Mother. These practical results, howsoever unsavoury, need to be accommodated within a more charitable appraisal of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo leading to their realistic appreciation.

This brings us to the question of authority as well as authenticity. Since each individual is constrained by a set of personal experiences and cultural setting, his impression is bound to be subjective. So the way the disciples have attempted to portray the Ashram life when The Mother was around belongs to a bygone era. Or how Her devotees carry on their lives in the outside world and confront the demands of the dominant religion has never really been tackled theoretically. Thus the challenge is to look at the teachings of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo from a realistic perspective and the altered socio-political situation in India. [TNM55]

Added focus on action over what Sri Aurobindo wrote

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have left behind around 80 volumes of collected works that includes paintings, poems, plays, speeches, essays, letters, messages, translations, and conversations spanning over a period of 80 years. Since the contents are of a specialized nature, they attract a very restricted kind of readership. The dense character and vastness of the writings prevent many from going through them all even as some of them are still unpublished. Secondary literature, however, is flourishing and varied estimation of the Masters are mushrooming. The works of the disciples or dedicated sympathizers are precious as credible introductions while commentaries or comparisons with the opposite intention are not uncommon.

Apart from their writings, the Ashram at Puducherry and the Auroville community owe their existence to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. Besides, a large number of institutions run all over the world by drawing inspiration from them. Thus, a distinct cultural, religious, and political identity has come to be associated with the followers despite their being geographically scattered. The thrust on integration of the East and the West and Human Unity in the teachings of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is responsible for the internationalist bias on the part of their devotees. Access to Sri Aurobindo's works is also facilitated since he wrote in English. This year marks the Centenary of his magnum opus “The Life Divine” and other original works like “The Secret of the Veda.” The Evolutionary dialectic of his Integral Ontology seeks to establish a universal template of philosophy that acts as applied psychology as well by suitably incorporating poetic aesthesis. 

The Mother travelled from France to Puducherry in 1914 in order to meet Sri Aurobindo and so action preceded their philosophical collaboration. The amount of activity The Mother has inspired theresince is surely unparalleled in the human history. Interested students will be studying this phenomena in the years to come but authentic documentation of the present decades is woefully inadequate. In the absence of truthful tales narrated by the current crop of practitioners, impressionistic accounts by cunning swordsmiths are taken to be as genuine. Problems associated with writing and publishing, reach and interpretation etc., however, cannot be evaded, but a more web-enabled discursive environment could have developed over time contributing to theory. [TNM55]

Sri Aurobindo had the advantage of not dealing with his own theory as a new category

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo had the advantage of not dealing with his own theory as a new religious or political category which we are forced to do today.

@SavitriEraParty: Lack of popularity, no doubt, is a severe disability for Sri Aurobindo's teaching but by no means for its worth or relevance for the future.

@SavitriEraParty: Negligible success both on the spirituality & philosophy front after 63 years of Sri Aurobindo's departure forces us to be humble on claims.

@SavitriEraParty: Dissonance between theoretical formulations and actual performance by people or organizations associated with Sri Aurobindo bogs scrutiny.

@SavitriEraParty: Though seeming elitist or abstract The Mother & Sri Aurobindo actually strike at the most pertinent & intricate problems of human existence.

@SavitriEraParty: Ethical licence is implicit in Monarchy and as a legacy political parties do condone moral transgressions in Democracy. AAP has come of age!

@SavitriEraParty: India is doomed until intellectuals need to be told about the importance of Sri Aurobindo's writings which they fail to notice on their own.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo resisted bolstering the Nazi forces and despite all his patriotism, Netaji fails the test of aligning with Evolutionary arrow.

@SavitriEraParty: Uncritical extolling of historical personages is fraught with risk and The Mother & Sri Aurobindo offer a safe guide https://t.co/gcMKxuuTYz

@SavitriEraParty: Leftist atheism, Nehruvian secularism, and RSS obscurantism are hurdles for full blossoming of Indian nationhood that Sri Aurobindo insists.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo understands the ontological worth of religion for future Evolution of man and neither RSS-BJP nor AAP. http://t.co/syPMskdrN7

@SavitriEraParty: TOI edit is spot on on electoral arithmetic but forgets about the deeper issue of place of religion in nation-building which BJP-RSS stress.

@SavitriEraParty: More than any particular religion or geographical territory Sri Aurobindo is concerned about the future man, his destiny & moulding society.

@SavitriEraParty: Like many choosing a school or hospital by building-size and not by teachers or doctors, RSS valorized tradition by ignoring Sri Aurobindo.

@SavitriEraParty: RSS itself denotes an abstract form of Hinduism but is victim of supporting contradictions accumulated over the period of last 60 centuries.

@SavitriEraParty: Perceptions on its performance notwithstanding the theoretical stance of RSS on religions is accommodative & informed by a fraternal spirit.

@SavitriEraParty: Is this the sign of Indian culture and Hindu pride? Not a single person can stand up and say that Modi cannot win 272 and won't become PM?

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 25 January 2014 at 7:01 am said:

Demarcation between philosophy proper and history of Indian philosophy has been deep since the arrival of Sri Aurobindo in the scene. This year marks the Centenary of his magnum opus “The Life Divine” and other original works like “The Secret of the Veda.” The Evolutionary dialectic of his Integral Ontology seeks to establish a universal template of philosophy that acts as applied psychology as well by suitably incorporating poetic aesthesis. So, not to include him in the list would be an injustice to the future of human civilization and education. [TNM55]

Go for the Veda

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 20 January 2014 at 7:01 am said:

Gaveshana or Research derives from the word Go meaning light, a connotation brought to light in modern times by Sri Aurobindo in his epochal The Secret of The Veda. This hermeneutical coup has so unsettled the received wisdom that there is unwillingness to look at the later texts in terms of the Vedic Sanskrit as unveiled by Sri Aurobindo. This blog, however, is a sign that such resistance will recede. [TNM55]

Antiquity of sources can't be only criteria for ontological veracity

Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 13 January 2014 at 8:46 am said:

Aware of the constraints of not straying outside the texts and syllabi, let me mention for the sake of discussion that later day philosophical formulations contain many ingenious notions like Sanghita or Loka-Sangraha to predicate emancipation. The problem of rebirth itself undergoes substantial transformation in the hands of Sri Aurobindo and hence antiquity of sources shouldn’t be the only criteria for ontological veracity. [TNM55]

Conversations are subject to inertia of motion

@SavitriEraParty: Much like Ekta Kapoor, Ramdev, Modi, Anna Hazare and Kejriwal have explicitly proved the Katju remark that 90 percent of Indians are fools!

@SavitriEraParty: Pop-Hindu puja rituals largely drawn from Tantra entail a sense of mechanicity like Astrology & Medicine enticing politicians for assurance.

@SavitriEraParty: The portrait of politicians as popularised by the Bollywood serves as a fine template to cash in on Reality TV familiarity and enchantment.

@SavitriEraParty: CMs moving around the country addressing rallies is like University Professors attending Conferences at home and abroad neglecting students.

@SavitriEraParty: Constitutional propriety demands that Chief Ministers with national ambition should resign from their posts & don't comment on other States.

@SavitriEraParty: None of the established parties in India is prepared or willing to field someone less than 60 years of age as the next Prime Minister. Why?

@SavitriEraParty: Pranab Mukherjee and Advani as PM probables are likely to play as two opposite poles of Indian politics in May to attract the State satraps.

@SavitriEraParty: @bhoopalp Advani will have the advantage of numbers over others & not be at anyone's mercy. Not age but his experience will see him through.

@SavitriEraParty: @bhoopalp Of Savitri Era Party. Perhaps we are the only people to support Advani as PM at the moment as BJP-RSS have no confidence in him.

@SavitriEraParty: @bhoopalp Of Savitri Era Party. Perhaps we are the only people to support Advani as PM at the moment as BJP-RSS have no confidence in him.

@SavitriEraParty: @arungiri Expect not more than 20 seats for BJP in UP plus Bihar and all India tally will be just 100.

@SavitriEraParty: @thinkoutofbox The situation in each State is different. Let's take Odisha and I don't think AAP can win even a single seat. So in TN & WB.

@SavitriEraParty: @thinkoutofbox AAP's limited success in Delhi was expected. But its party structure in other states is nonexistent, lacking local charisma.

@SavitriEraParty: @thinkoutofbox See, we are speculating on the basis of the present realities. But your being so optimistic about the AAP borders on fiction.

@SavitriEraParty: @thinkoutofbox Despite best of circumstances, AAP couldn't secure a mandate in Delhi. In rest of the States, it will draw a blank.

@SavitriEraParty: @thinkoutofbox The numbers right now favour a Third Front combine and most probably Jayalalitha will be the final choice to win South Block.

@SavitriEraParty: @ash_dubey That's a flaw of the Indian Constitution and not any functional laxity on the part of MMS. So, his personal integrity is intact!

@SavitriEraParty: The so called PM candidates of major parties are unfit and undesirable. Let intimate identity sentiments drive organic, State-level voting.

@SavitriEraParty: Dominant parties are neither national in their spread nor ethos. Let the State level players bring their experience in an equal atmosphere.

@SavitriEraParty: Third Front is the best bet for the future of the country. Let a genuine federal polity evolve from the regional and linguistic diversity.

@SavitriEraParty: In view of the changed scenario, SEP is forced to revise its strategy for the Lok Sabha elections: Oppose Congress, BJP-RSS, AAP & the Left.

@SavitriEraParty: @bpandey72 Trusting anonymous entities on Internet is not without its hazards and the Kafkaesque functioning of AAP is certainly repulsive.

@SavitriEraParty: @bpandey72 The question is priority and corruption is a lesser threat at the moment. So if the collective might of Satraps helps, so be it.

@SavitriEraParty: @bpandey72 I'd tend to agree with you here and that's the raison d'être of SEP. The evolution of AAP so far however is deeply disappointing.

@SavitriEraParty: @bpandey72 Reality is the power of drawing votes through imaginative use of Caste, Religion, Regional & Linguistic chauvinism besides Money.

@SavitriEraParty: @bpandey72 Even that's imaginary. Point is not to be swayed away by theoretically reductionist ethical versions of politics & accept reality.

@SavitriEraParty: @bpandey72 I don't believe even AAP is fired by those greater ideals, it has not invested enough to create such a core cadre; no ideology!

@SavitriEraParty: @bpandey72 Honesty perhaps is not the right category to judge politics; its rather Might that's derived from identity, geography & charisma.

@SavitriEraParty: It's really perplexing how by gathering a crowd of a lakh or so imparts the authority & legitimacy of knowing the minds of a billion people.

@SavitriEraParty: @crguna Easy to trust a bud but when human nature is involved the future is not secure. You were suspicious of AAP TN unit yesterday only!

@SavitriEraParty: @crguna Statutory warning: Past performance is no indicator of the future, so beware!

@SavitriEraParty: @thinkoutofbox Any one can be a contender, but where are the numbers? @SavitriEraParty: @thinkoutofbox Please avoid spreading utter lies as revealed truth.

@SavitriEraParty: If Congress is really the brain behind the Kejriwagon phenomenon then its sponsoring CAG's astronomical presumptive losses seem the genesis.

@SavitriEraParty: Stop advising or providing data to parties; they don't need it. Join any party (including SEP) if you are enthusiastic to prove your talent.

@SavitriEraParty: No matter whether Keynes said it or Churchill, but "when the facts change," each and every Aam Admi is entitled to claim "I change my mind."

@SavitriEraParty: Nation-building is not such a cheap undertaking as to be left to the singular preference of thirty-year-old patriots jumping to a bandwagon.

@SavitriEraParty: Never to be deluded by the efficiency of any Govt. or the virtues of some CM or PM. How democratically the Party functions is the real test.

@SavitriEraParty: No one should falsely appropriate the supposed wish of the people. Executing the wish of the Party is the most legitimate function of Govt.

@SavitriEraParty: Though the cornerstone of democracy if a party is incapable of functioning democratically then it's time to call this sham machinery a halt.

@SavitriEraParty: Party apparatuses accurately reflecting demographic spectrum of the nation is the ultimate confirmation of democracy being in pink of health.

@SavitriEraParty: Altering nuts & bolts of party functioning by infusing transparency, delegation and feedback is far more important than changing the System.

@SavitriEraParty: Threadbare discussion on policy issues in a plenary session of a party is a must for nurturing healthy convention in securing authorisation.

@SavitriEraParty: Panchayat is equally vulnerable to being monopolized. Besides, politics itself is a game of charisma and maneuvering. (Wed, July 4, 2012)

@SavitriEraParty: @kiranbatni Civilizational episodes are much longer than the span of human life and so better to make peace with currently reigning flavors!

@SavitriEraParty: Let political conviction be built upon thinking and opinion and not on physical objects of election symbols or wearing theatrical costumes.

@SavitriEraParty: May my countrymen be freed from the obligation of wearing caps, turbans, or such other sartorial devices imposed by religion and politics!

@SavitriEraParty: It's not difficult to spot who profess sobriety in politics today but the youth tend to root for the "teach them a lesson" kind of rhetoric.

@SavitriEraParty: Carnivalism during the election campaign infuses brazenness into the behaviour of political actors while the aim is sober parliamentarianism.

@SavitriEraParty: The political compulsion to win in the elections forces to strike deals and make compromises. Ideology, therefore, is a must to hold ground.

@SavitriEraParty: No pan-Indian campaign has the power to influence the voting behaviour across the country. Political affections and affiliations are local.

@SavitriEraParty: The Delhi-centric view has been to overlook the geographical mosaic of the country but India's polity today is firmly rooted to the ground.

@SavitriEraParty: Like nationhood, Twitter is turning into a Republic of ghettoes depending upon who follows or blocks whom. Not a very desirable spectacle!

@SavitriEraParty: Conversations are subject to inertia of motion which also entertain myriad gestures and emotions and live mode lacks facility of correction.

@SavitriEraParty: 1) The Western, Christian, Modern society, 2) Academic, Secular, Theory-centric studies and 3) Reductionist, Textual world are triple flaws.

@SavitriEraParty: @sabhlok Okay, let's join hands and see how we are able to give the things a practical shape. @SavitriEraParty: @sabhlok @yehlog Great! All the best.

@SavitriEraParty: @santoshk1 Please add Sri Aurobindo to the text so that the tweets appear in search results. Thanks.

@SavitriEraParty: The Constitutional framework surely facilitates economizing on virtue but the evolutionary imperative is following Sri Aurobindian ontology.

@SavitriEraParty: A Party run on the basis of Indian Constitution only can be instrumental in giving a practical shape to the values and visions set therein.

@SavitriEraParty: India is yet to give birth a Party founded on the values that form the core of Indian Constitution. So politics till then is just juvenility.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo underscores the federal spirit of free association, unity and voluntary mutuality driven by fraternal sentiments and harmony.

@SavitriEraParty: The Party in fact is the antithesis of Indian Constitution for in order to fight for right and freedom, first you must lose it to the party.

@SavitriEraParty: RW-wallahs love the freedom of orbiting in their independent trajectories and hate to submit before the discipline & hierarchy of any party.

@SavitriEraParty: Is it too much to ask for a right-leaning party today outside the borders of RSS-BJP? SEP with Sri Aurobindian ontology is the right choice.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo reinvented the Veda by integrating it with Evolutionary teleology so as to serve as the pivot for India & future of humanity.

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo has applied broom to centuries old cobwebs that spawn superstition and fuel bigotry. His #FiveDreams vision is the right path.

@SavitriEraParty: How many are willing today to partake of the distilled wisdom of the Vedic tradition from The Life Divine and discover the true Nationalism?

@SavitriEraParty: Collaboration between The Mother & Sri Aurobindo resulted in the publication of the epochal "The Life Divine" in 1914 in the "Arya" journal.

@SavitriEraParty: The Mother's arrival in India in 1914 to meet Sri Aurobindo in Puducherry ranks as one of the most undervalued momentous events in history.

@SavitriEraParty: If behavioural traits transmitting through genes is okay then why objection to professional skills passed on through family and the castes?

@SavitriEraParty: @AgentSaffron There are deeper behavioural traits inscribed in the genes responding to the evolutionary imperatives opted by the individual.

Nationalist ideology under Sri Aurobindian ontology

@SavitriEraParty: @arunmsk I'd request you to start reading/reciting a page of Savitri by Sri Aurobindo on a regular basis for unlocking some newness in life.

@SavitriEraParty: There is no alternative to read and know and Sri Aurobindo has left it all in black and white. Art and poetry, philosophy and politics, Yoga.

@SavitriEraParty: The civilizational experience of the West form a vast canvas over which India has the distinct advantage of painting its future. #FiveDreams

@SavitriEraParty: Sri Aurobindo presents such a lofty notion of nationalism dovetailing  into universalism that mere bread & butter issues find their harmony.

@SavitriEraParty: Power entails development and governance but the greater task for a Party is to inculcate sentiments of unity and optimism among the people.

@SavitriEraParty: No other individual has charted a more elegant evolutionary pathway for India during the last hundred years than Sri Aurobindo. #FiveDreams

@SavitriEraParty: Party affiliations should never act as a repellent for assimilating appropriate intellectual inputs that can nurture an Integral worldview.

@SavitriEraParty: Intellectual underpinning is an essential element of any sound society and without grasping Sri Aurobindo's logic no firm basis is possible.

@SavitriEraParty: @Sheks65 Forming Govt is not the only legitimacy within a democracy especially when Sri Aurobindo's #FiveDreams Manifesto has a wide vision.

@SavitriEraParty: Ideological purity and maturity is far more important for the nation today than juvenile cobbling of motley combination for capturing power.

@SavitriEraParty: Many are wary of multiplicity of parties but then what's the alternative if one disagrees with AAP, BJP-RSS, Congress and the Left ideology?

@SavitriEraParty: Indian Constitution is a fairly decent document to accommodate nationalist sentiment under the overall umbrella of Sri Aurobindian Ontology.

@SavitriEraParty: Immediate electoral gains need not mesmerize us nor warp our strategies. Meeting of minds and ideological convergence is what should endure.

@SavitriEraParty: A huge nation-wide nationalist electoral space is still available that espouses liberalism & refuses to be yoked under the BJP-RSS paradigm.

@SavitriEraParty: Despite being twice-born, BJP is still entangled by the umbilical cord of the RSS and its borrowed cadre and dares not finding its own feet.

@SavitriEraParty: Symbiosis is a major driving force behind evolution but proves detrimental and debilitating in the long run like BJP-RSS or Sonia-Manmohan.

Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, poetry, and social theory

Governance and development torment our planners and lay man alike in India today. The elite is red faced as to why we are lagging behind and for so long. Earlier, the blame was on conquerors and colonialists but now there is no such alibi. So, obviously, something must be lacking in our national character; more aptitudinal than ethical. One such trait is reluctance to spot value.

The neglect of Sri Aurobindo by educated young Indians proves the point. Pretty intelligent people on Twitter are discussing thousand other things but are unwilling to listen a word about Sri Aurobindo. The preeminent place Sri Aurobindo occupies in philosophy, poetry, and social theory is absolutely forgotten whenever a portrait of the modern India is sought to be presented.

TV coverage is setting norms of value and individual priorities in a predominant manner but Internet has also facilitated reading in a big way. So, why this near absence of appreciation for what can be called the single-most reservoir of social capital? No doubt, absence of utilitarian exploitation by way of career avenues is a huge bottleneck but the reigning impression of the teaching of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo being abstract also acts as a dampener.

A national level Institute offering fellowships and part-time employment for prosecuting socio-cultural research around the works of Sri Aurobindo is a necessity now. That such an initiative should generate in the voluntary sector without any dependence on the Govt. is also important. Future progress of India necessitates Sri Aurobindo's Five Dreams taking practical shape and no lesser casual initiative can claim to outpace it. [TNM55]