Thursday, October 13, 2016

Aligning human endeavour to the forces of Evolution

Echoing Humans need not apply, Abhijit Bhaduri sees future in relationship workers. An excerpt:

[Problems are getting too complex to be done by one individual. The days of the lone genius working alone in a lab are over. Problems have to be seen through a multidisciplinary lens. No longer can someone from one discipline solve problems all alone... Working in transdisciplinary teams will mean that knowing how to manage people and coordinate with others will be skills that will be valuable in the job market. Routine problems will get solved by algorithms. Human beings who can solve complex problems will be valuable... The future belongs to people who are more emotionally intelligent. This may be the era of the “relationship worker” – someone who can handle complex human relationships.]
Last year I presented a paper captioned Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management available at: https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7

An extract:

Everything can be managed: that is perhaps the most ambitious objective of Management and hence the concept of Zero defects, etc. But the Integral approach doesn’t subscribe to such optimism. Sri Aurobindo has outlined three principles of Education, the first of which is ‘nothing can be taught’. In the same vein, it can be asserted that nothing can be managed. However, this is not pessimistic, but rather surrendering or aligning the human endeavour to the forces of Evolution in constructive spirit. [TNM55]

Misc. References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Aug 13, 2014 - Uploaded by CGP GreyCGPGrey.com/ https://twitter.com/cgpgrey ## Robots, Etc... 

www.forbes.com/.../if-humans-need-not-apply-will-all-our-jobs-disappea...
Aug 18, 2014 - I just watched Humans Need Not Apply, the latest video from CGP Grey, the semi-anonymous creator with dozens of explanatory videos to his ...

www.huffingtonpost.com/.../humans-need-not-apply_b_5693808.html
Aug 20, 2014 - Many of these concerns are captured in the extremely well-produced video, “Humans Need Not Apply,” just released by C.G.P. Grey. Grey has ...

- In the LRB, Malcolm Bull reviews Ponderings II-VI. [T]he truly shocking question posed by the Black Notebooks is not: was Heidegger a Nazi? Or: was Heideg... 

Simulatio entis - “The true life is absent.” But we are in a simulation. Everything about our universe, rightly understood, cries out: I was created! Finitude, imperfection,... 

The Unity and Harmony of Individual Being With Universal Being - The apparent opposition and conflict we experience as the ego confronts an apparently indifferent or hostile Nature, is part of the method of Nature to dev... 

ADAM SMITH DID NOT APPLY NEWTONIAN GRAVITY TO ECONOMICS -*Philip Ball*, the author of:” Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen” and many books on science and art, posts HERE “*It might seem unlikely, even i... 

The song of Narad, pp 416-418 (SH 215) - Narada, the demigod and a bhakta of the Lord, is ever engaged in the good of all creatures. His work, if he has any since he lives in freedom, is to sing... 

Nīti and the two ways of “using” texts - On Sunday I was reading Sundarapāṇḍya’s Nītidviṣaṣṭika, an interesting collection of āryā verses on the subject of nīti (something like: how to act in the ... 

Kierkegaard, Berdyaev, Bosanquet, and Sri Aurobindo - Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and ... https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=0739103229 Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - ‎Preview -... 

Love affair with Western thought continues - The love affair with Western thought continues. Just read about how Kierkegaard wanted his philosophical writings to be read without being concerned about ... 






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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Love affair with Western thought continues

The love affair with Western thought continues. Just read about how Kierkegaard wanted his philosophical writings to be read without being concerned about the author, which means he anticipated Barthes.

A. Aumann (‎2011) observes:

[Berthold portrays Hegel and Kierkegaard as anticipating the concerns of postmodern thinkers from Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida to Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan (EA 134).]

Hegel and Kierkegaard concurring on this is further interesting. So, there is no escape from Hegel. The second book co-edited by Rimina on Hegel is in press and Silika's dissertation on OOO is receiving final touches, as I turn 61 today. [TNM55]

Misc. References:

American Philosophy A Love Story by John Kaag
Kaag had written his dissertation about Peirce, whom he calls "arguably the most original philosopher of the 19th century." ... Although less all-encompassing than Carlin Romano's dauntingly brilliant America the Philosophical, this is the most enthralling book of intellectual history I've read since David Edmonds' and John Eidinow's Wittgenstein's Poker, published in 2001. HELLER MCALPIN

A new “Christianist” secularism in Europe - [image: Image via Flickr user Quinn Dombrowski]Throughout much of the world, religion manifestly—and sometimes markedly—informs everyday understandings, cu...

Purification, liberation, perfection, and delight - #Aurobindo: The spiritual revolutionary who severed the thread of the global power structure https://t.co/0aCHPXYXCO #spirituality Contemporary challenges...

MV Nadkarni - 2016 - books.google.com
What is the Bhagavad-Gita? Is it just a religious text? When was it composed? How relevantis it to the modern world? This book answers these foundational questions and goesbeyond. It critically examines the Bhagavad-Gita in terms of its liberal, humanist and ...

S Dhaliwal - 2016 - books.google.com
Shveta Dhaliwal teaches at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Patiala, India. Her areas of specialisation are geopolitics, regional human rights systems, comparative political thought and international relations. She has published more than 40 ... Tagore ... Aurobindo and Vivekananda

https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn...
Vasanthi Srinivasan - 2014 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions This is the dictate of Indian philosophy. This oneness is the rationale of all ethics and spirituality.'1 Since then , many Indian thinkers have celebrated spiritual oneness and clarified how it can be applied to economic and political life. Examining S. Radhakrishnan and Vinoba Bhave, I have argued that this longing for oneness ...






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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Scholarly activity is an important element of Integral Yoga

All life is Yoga may or may not be the reality but all life is reading for followers of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. Their writings including the commentaries by disciples are essential for proper understanding of various nuances. Besides, reasonable acquaintance with Western philosophy and poetry is also desirable. One may not be interested in all kinds of subjects but limiting Sri Aurobindo within education or Indian culture alone is a defective method. Further, searching quotations for justifying one's own viewpoint or a pet ideology is also a form of misrepresentation. So, in all these aspects, one must exercise utmost caution.

Another common practice is to denounce intellectual culture by admonishing for lack of experience or spiritual contact. They are imposters for whom parroting The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's words is used for terrorising others. If they really possess the yogic power, they should enjoy their bliss instead of wallowing in theoretical controversy. Scholarly activity is an important element of Integral Yoga and those young must not neglect this aspect under any pretext. Social media provides a very convenient platform for trying one's hand in writing and writing demands further reading leading to additional learning.

Uniqueness of the philosophy of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is well known but its significance is yet to gain desreved recognition and popularity. Adequate number of people are not there who have read their works thoroughly and understand them threadbare. Many from the above category are not conversant with Western philosophy. Many don't have the flair for writing. Still many don't have that activist spirit and prefer the path of silent yoga. All these difficulties lead to their eclipsing from public consciousness and must be reversed. [TNM55]

Misc. References:

The subject as knower and doer in Yāmuna’s Ātmasiddhi - Opponents coming from the Advaita field figure often in Yāmuna’s Ātmasiddhi, which shows that even before Rāmānuja Vaiṣṇava authors were taking seriously t...

Trump’s Theater of Cruelty - It has often been remarked that Trump has brought a “reality TV” feel to this election cycle. What is less noted is that he is on both sides of the reality...

Indian perspective burnished by Sri Aurobindo's prophecies -Irreducible Mind and its sequel Beyond Physicalism made waves when they were published but I have not read them. So, when known scholars on Sri Aurobindo l...






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Monday, October 10, 2016

Indian perspective burnished by Sri Aurobindo's prophecies

Irreducible Mind and its sequel Beyond Physicalism made waves when they were published but I have not read them. So, when known scholars on Sri Aurobindo like Debashish Banerji and Makarand R. Paranjape edit a book on the theme of Posthumanism, it certainly can prove to be a milestone in the history of ideas. Hence, the editors and other contributors need to be congratulated for this.

Ever since McLuhan broke free from the orthodox Marxist line of thinking of his Frankfurt School contemporaries like Benjamin, Horkheimer, and Adorno, the world has not been the same. But unfortunately, the geography of Western commentators has not advanced much since the days of Dante. As a result, the Indian situation has never been subjected to an honest theoretical analysis. 

So, against this backdrop, let's hope that Critical Posthumanism would introduce the much needed Indian perspective duly burnished by Sri Aurobindo's prophecies. Further, the modern generation is not comfortable with highfalutin prose or wooly speculations. It demands proof and action. So, whosoever succeeds in providing these basics would be applauded, else will fall by the wayside. [TNM55]

Misc. References:

This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond. Due to the global engagement with advanced. Editors: Banerji, Debashish, Paranjape, Makarand R. (Eds.)

Sri Aurobindo. Pondicherry, India: Ashram Press. Aurobindo, S. (1963) (1974). In: P. B. Saint-Hilaire (Ed.) The future evolution of man. The divine life upon earth. Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Press. Bhagavad ...
Posthumanism is required to develop daily ethics of living based on an integral investment of its post-anthropocentric premises. The notion of spirituality helps us answer these questions, as it dramatically broadens our understanding of the posthuman, allowing us to investigate not only technical technologies (robotics, cybernetics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, among others), but also, technologies of existence.
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures Editors Debashish Banerji (1) California Institute of Integral Studies Makarand R. Paranjape (2) Professor of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor of English Authors 

Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) envisioned the exceeding of human limits in an ... us intoposthuman subjects through an independent destining, beyond our will.

Some of these thinkers were Henri Bergson, the philosopher of creative evolution, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the thinker of the noosphere, and Sri Aurobindo, ...

https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=1317809424
Jyotirmaya Tripathy, ‎Sudarsan Padmanabhan - 2014 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions Upendra Baxi, Human Rights in a Posthuman World, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007; Manoranjan Mohanty, Partha Nath Mukherji and Olle Tornquist ... Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Pondicherry: Sri AurobindoAshram, 1962. 8.

A POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK - *Shawn Otto* posts (9 October) on *Scientific American* HERE https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-plan-to-defend-against-the-war-on-science/ He descr...

Savitri Study Camp 19-06 “The Intermediate Zone” - There are powers and energies hidden in this intermediate zone between gross Matter and the ground of pure Spirit. It is here that the sadhaka can easily...

Why the study of religion shouldn’t be about studying religion - My undergraduate degree was in sociology and geography, with a focus on urban studies. That world often seems far away … Continue reading →

Understanding the Limitations of the Fixed Yet Confused Action of the Lower Nature - As we examine the issues that surround the attempt to exceed and transcend the limitations of the lower nature, we find that the action of body-life-mind i...

Selfless service scenario that Srinivasan anticipates - M.S. Srinivasan (Editor, Fourth Dimensions, Pondichery) has contributed a paper titled, "Business and Society: A Multidimensional Perspective" to SAMSMRITI...

Fate and Fury in The Aeneid - The Aeneid is a book about fate. This is a different kind of fate from what we see in Greek mythology, which is as inexorable as it is meaningless. Here th...

- In the Spectator, a discussion of the scholars who support the Trumpista *Gemeinschaft*. academics who are at the top of their fields, such as the philoso...

Song of the Sun God - Surya, Sun God Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser - Sri AurobindoSri Aurbindo teaches the significance of Surya Savirti – the Sun God – in his book The S... 





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Selfless service scenario that Srinivasan anticipates

M.S. Srinivasan (Editor, Fourth Dimensions, Pondichery) has contributed a paper titled, "Business and Society: A Multidimensional Perspective" to SAMSMRITI – The SAMS Journal (Vol. 10(2), July – December 2016, Bangalore).

Here are a few extracts:

[But to realize fully the moral and spiritual potential of ideals like ethics, social responsibility or sustainability they have to be pursued for their own sake, as a selfless service for the well being and progress of the larger whole of life. But if we pursue these ideals with an eye on some pragmatic gains it not only diminishes their uplifting, evolutionary potential but also restricts their material results.]

[Globalization is making us aware of the unity, interdependence and connectedness of our economic life. But all these unities are the outer manifestation of a deeper and inner unity of the human and terrestrial life at the psychological and spiritual level of our being. Our bodies are part of the universal physical energies of nature. Our individual bodies are linked together with the bodies of all others, human and non-human, material, biological and animal.]

[We also know that whatever we do or give for the well-being and progress of others or the whole ultimately returns to us manifold enriching our own well-being. Similarly all hurt or violence we inflict on others or the larger whole also returns upon us. Ultimately, all the higher and broader ideals emerging in the corporate world like ethics, social and ecological responsibility or globalization, to realize their highest potential have to be based on the perception of this integral unity of all life. All our actions have to be a movement towards a progressive attainment of our inner being and outer life to this inescapable law of unity.]

Elsewhere, he has been writing on allied themes, regularly:

Corporation as a Community – M.S. Srinivasan - A business organization is undoubtedly a part of the economic life of the community. But it is not exclusively an economic entity; it is also a social org...]

The Roots of Race and Other Prejudices – M.S. Srinivasan - In a country which thinks itself to be the greatest champion of democracy, and quite often pontificates on democracy from a pedestal of superiority to othe...]

Building Corporate Integrity - Moral force cannot be confirmed merely by ideas, it can only be forged and tempered in the workshop of action. –Sri Aurobindo The modern corporate world as...]

The Next Step in Evolution: Superman or a Supermachine – M.S. Srinivasan - “Good bye Humans: Are we creating the engines of our own demise”… this is the title of a special issue of an Information Technology magazine. Such thinking...]

While the "selfless service" scenario that Srinivasan anticipates may seem remote at the moment, we have theoretical justification for it from another wizard of words, Debashish Banerji:

[But one may conceive of an organ of Knowledge in which multiple descriptions of Reality can all be equally true and simultaneous experiences. This is what Sri Aurobindo calls Supermind. (INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY – THEORIZING ITS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES: A TALK AT THE CULTURAL INTEGRATION FELLOWSHIP, SAN FRANCISCO, 2008) http://www.sciy.org/?p=1774 in Praxis by debbanerji January 6, 2010]

Thus, we obviate all practical difficulties in the way of achieving a life of harmony upon earth. [TNM55]

Misc. References:

https://voiceofindia.me/.../contemporary-challenges-facing-hindu-society... and beyond, across India. It draws its inspiration from the likes of Vivekananda, Aurobindo, and Chanakya and promises to overturn the long-held accepted…

@Bharata_Bharati Without clearly defining what exactly "Vivekananda, Aurobindo, and Chanakya" represent, Sen seems to rely on empty rhetoric

Habermas, Taylor, Gregory, and Milbank - Many thinkers and authors don't become much famous during their lifetime but their writings become widely known afterwards. The name of Kierkegaard comes t... 

Fate and Fury in The Aeneid - The Aeneid is a book about fate. This is a different kind of fate from what we see in Greek mythology, which is as inexorable as it is meaningless. Here th...

Examswatch-7 hours ago
The proposal made in March this year detailed how VEB would contribute to the Indian education system by providing a blend of human education of Aurobindo, ...

Business Standard-7 hours ago
There are some prominent tourist spots as well to explore, like the Paradise and Auro beaches, the Aurobindo Ashram, and the Boat House. Reaching ...

The Hans India-18 hours ago
Author of the best-selling 'HR Can Win' (Excel Books, New Delhi) and currently Vice-President (HR) at Aurobindo Pharma Ltd in Hyderabad, Dr Kumar's book is ...

Daily Nation-14 hours ago
... poet Rabindranath Tagore and spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo are there, as are the sub-continent's independence fighters, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammed ...

«There is still no consensus on whether any of these signs can be treated as reliable “signatures” of consciousness.» http://t.co/XNwLnECRnZ

Are we in the thrall of scientific professionals more than ever before? asks Rakesh Kalshian https://t.co/3DQvGjPanQ #science #blog https://t.co/kH1UBNLmVW

OUPblog (blog) 
some of today’s most eminent atheist philosophers, notably Thomas Nagel, OUP author of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (2012). As his subtitle reveals, Nagel’s worry is less about the science and more about its supposed religious-cum-metaphysical implications, namely that Darwin plunges us into a hateful world without value and meaning. This kind of worry is shared by many students of the history of evolutionary theory, and–




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Sunday, October 09, 2016

Habermas, Taylor, Gregory, and Milbank

Many thinkers and authors don't become much famous during their lifetime but their writings become widely known afterwards. The name of Kierkegaard comes to mind in this context. Some writers give some extra importance to some philosopher or poet of the past resulting in a redrawing of history of ideas. Pfau highlighting Coleridge or Lilla recommending Rousseau fall in this category. Some others like Bellah focus on a certain period of time as crucial which necessitates thinking about the progress of history anew. Thus, it is essential for students to be aware of such lesser known facts.

In India, a narrative is taught in the schools that Mahatma Gandhi brought freedom. This is a clear case of disinformation and no particular remedy has been effected till date. Calling him Mahatma and the Father of the Nation also are contested, justifiably. Similarly, Ambedkar is accorded disproportionate respect by his followers without due academic rigour and comparison. It appears that no political party in India is interested in a sound version of history. Such a cavalier attitude is not good for developing necessary scientific spirit in the country, thus thwarting creativity. But expecting RSS, which is an epitome of rumour and falsehood, to take corrective measures is futile.

Attracting eyeballs and drawing attention space has become pivotal for modern economy and hence peddling lies has gained a new level of respectability. So, there is virtually nothing against which something can be checked for veracity or lack of it. As more and more people readily compromise with values, institutions, too, get corroded. Paid media is a stark reality now and so is the case with Universities and system of awards and honours. Although, this paints a bleak picture of the future of human civilisation, we must put our faith on Evolution which has its own logic and plan. [TNM55]

Misc. References:

The Hindu-Sri Aurobindo Study Forum: Discourse on Sri Aurobindo's 'Life Divine' by ...

www.sacar.in/
Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research. Home; About Us. SACAR · Manifesting ... Surrender in Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Darshan (SADA) · New Race.

Pronouns in Savitri: 42: Pronouns in Sentences 5.1-5.3 - (Note: The personal and "who" pronouns within Savitri lines are marked in bold and the possessive pronouns are marked in bold and italics. The square brack...

Song of the Sun God - Surya, Sun God Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser - Sri AurobindoSri Aurbindo teaches the significance of Surya Savirti – the Sun God – in his book The S...

Beyond Religions, Sects and Cults (video) - The age of religions is over. When a great Master comes and releases certain teachings, they have to be expressed in a body of words, which we understand...

Introduction to Philosophy and/or Philosophy of Mind - I am considering to co-teach a course with a philosopher at the University of Florida, one in which we’d look at Indian and Western writings on the same to... Right now I am thinking I would assign books like Perception by Matilal, or Chakravarthi’s Non-Realism, or Ganeri’s Concealed Art of the Soul

- In The Chron of Higher Ed, Faustian desires. The problem with the physical sciences — or with the catchall that Faust called "medicine" — is that when it ...

Bradley, Bataille, and Baudrillard - Just received the soft copy of my article, "Harnessing Western Philosophy for Self-Management" published in SAMSMRITI, The SAMS Journal (Volume 10, Issue 2...


It seems that the first uses of secularization to refer to such an epochal process date from the 1830s, and that they emerged in a specific context: namely, in debates over the reshaping of Germany’s religious and political order that were taking place in the period of political turbulence (the Vormärz) leading up to the 1848 revolution and National Assembly. It further seems that this new usage took place within the new discourse or discipline of philosophical history that had emerged when Kantian and Hegelian metaphysics were projected onto political, legal, and ecclesiastical historiographies... One might say that since 1848, philosophical histories of secularization as an epochal rationalization of society have hovered at the edges of the university, as we see in the rival accounts of secularization provided by such thinkers as Habermas, Taylor, Brad Gregory, John Milbank, and others. 




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Saturday, October 08, 2016

Bradley, Bataille, and Baudrillard

Just received the soft copy of my article, "Harnessing Western Philosophy for Self-Management" published in SAMSMRITI, The SAMS Journal (Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December, 2016) edited by Dr. K.C. Mishra, Director, Sambhram School of Management, Sambhram Academy of Management Studies, Bangalore. The Editorial introduces it as below:

[“Harnessing Western Philosophy for Self-Management” is something special a piece and Mr. Tusar Nath Mohapatra says people still search meaning of their life even today. He talks of spirituality perceiving the spirit hidden behind the material world and suggests the oriental tradition can give a meaningful solution; it‟s only learning self-management to lead a harmonious and meaningful living.]

An extract from the article: 

The lens of Western thought serves as a useful tool to understand the world around us and the mystery of our own existence. By yoking both science and mathematics to its advantage, speculative philosophy has traversed a long path in discovering new ways of looking at our place in the universe as well as the realms we carry within ourselves.

The word "spirituality" is used in a variety of contexts. But its most simple meaning lies in its literal sense, that is perceiving the spirit hidden behind the material world. Since time immemorial, seekers have aspired to break through the barrier between the visible and the invisible and have left behind their experiences for others to work upon, in different cultures and continents. The Oriental tradition, or especially, the ancient Indian wisdom, in this context, can be looked upon as largely revelatory in nature. While the Truth was disclosed at the very dawn of its civilization and various philosophies and systems of practice were formulated to attain the Truth, it has never been easy to bridge the gulf between it and the ordinary human experience. 

It is here that the new ways hewed by the Western philosophers comes to one's rescue. Without any pretension of leading one to Self-realization or a Divine-encounter, it takes the rational route and tries to clear the hurdles in seeing aright. Honest in its avowed goal of thinking the unthinkable, it sets out to humanize the transcendental idea and harmonises the austere and otherworldly nature of spiritual pursuits with ordinary human aspirations. [TNM55]

Misc. References:

Harnessing Western Philosophy for Self-Management: Tusar Nath Mohapatra (SAMSMRITI July-Dec 2016 Sambhram Bangalore). Cf. https://t.co/kH1UBNLmVW

Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management - Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) Ghaziabad https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7 - http://newsnirantara.in/?p=6871

[PDF] NEW RACE
S Aurobindo, J Anderson, N Joshi, C Naganna… - A Journal of Integral & …, 2016
When the mobile connection" idea" was launched, its caption was" an idea can change your life". Although it was made for a commercial purpose but it seems that the brain behind this caption had caught some philosophic intuition. The famous Greek philosopher Plato ...

[PDF] Published in M. Chatterji and L. Zsolnai (Eds.): Ethical Leadership. Indian and European Spiritual Approaches. Palgrave-Macmillan. 2016. pp. 3-13.
RT Tolstoy, MK Gandhi
... Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, as well as through the thoughts of India's greatest minds such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Sri Rabindranath Tagore, along with Western management thinkers such as Peter Senge, Peter Drucker and others. The ...

www.millenniumpost.in › NewsContent
No consensus on consciousness 8 October 2016, New Delhi, Rakesh Kalshian ... As Chalmers said at a recent conference, “There is nothing like a consensus theory or even a consensus guess.” If mysterians like ... Rakesh Kalshian - Down To Earth

www.ipi.org.in › blogs
For McGilchrist, the modern “individualist” (Sri Aurobindo's term) age can be summed up as one in which the emissary of analytic intellectualism, mediated by the left hemisphere of the brain, has taken over the role ...

https://beautyishisfootprint.wordpress.com › ...
We invoke Her through nine representations of the white lotus flower (sacred lotus, East Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera 'Alba'), to whom the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram gave the spiritual significance: Aditi ...

swarajyamag.com › culture › the-meanin...
... of the highest yogic spirituality. Bharat mata is Durga with her imperious lion. She was the image behind India's independence movement, which worked through her inspiration, such as Sri Aurobindo so eloquently ...






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Friday, October 07, 2016

Ramanuja, Dayananda, and Sri Aurobindo

Week-long cultural and entertainment bonanza opened downstairs last evening as part of 18th year Durga Puja celebrations. The hold of religion is so well-oiled that it's difficult to even think of for anyone its negative features that we discuss. Attended the IGNCA seminar on Ramanuja in the morning and the focus was on bhakti and service which lubricate religion. The speakers were emphatic how he secured philosophical validity for bhakti as if philosophy ended there. Silika presented her pre-thesis submission seminar on Object-Oriented Ontology today which is, of course, a matter of joy and pride. Let's hope that this latest stream of philosophy doesn't take the new converts for a ride.

The followers of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, in this context, are lagging behind considerably. Every organisation is using modern management and communication techniques for involving more and more people but nothing comparable is being attempted by us. Thus, expanding religious modalities should be a priority so that the intellectual content can be fed in small doses in due course.

References:

1. In the last century postmodern philosophies lead us down the path of a hyper-romanticism that took the inner turn toward mind to its ultimate limits in post-structural irony and endless disquisitions on the blindspots of mind and (inter)text(uality). 

2. my long interview of Markus Gabriel 
September 23, 2016 On the EUP website, HERE.

3. @peaceful_monk12 no but am big admirer of that greatest of all Hindu lions after Shivaji, Swami Dayananda Saraswati

To really understand QM better you need to understand Samkhya - Traditionalists like Dayananda reject anything scientific - Raj Singh 2 months ago Just a few more points in a separate post to cut down the length of the pos...

Corporation as a Community – M.S. Srinivasan - A business organization is undoubtedly a part of the economic life of the community. But it is not exclusively an economic entity; it is also a social org...

Sri Aurobindo envisages a perfect world - INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY – THEORIZING ITS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES: A TALK AT THE CULTURAL INTEGRATION FELLOWSHIP, SAN FRANCISCO, 2008 http://www.sciy.org/?p=1774 January 6, 2010 in Praxis by debbanerji
It is what is illegitimate to assert about her and in her name that concerns us foremost. Yet a corpus of collective experience in an Integral Psychology about what is possible and how, cannot but speak of her and must find the languages to do so. These languages may be impersonal, personal but ahistorical or personal and historical or all of these (as in Sri Aurobindo’s own case, in his varied narrations). But without this attempt, the formulation of an Integral Psychology will remain impractical and incomplete as a core possibility within the (post)-human. 







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Thursday, October 06, 2016

Sri Aurobindo is closer to modernity than Dante

Knowledge accumulation is an ancient enterprise which refuses to cease. But after so much of scientific and philosophical advancement our understanding of the outer Universe as well as inner universe can at best be said to be rudimentary. The contributions of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are an authentic source but it is difficult to recommend them for assured result. In that sense, they belong to the realm of metaphysical speculation or poetic imagination. That said, it's profitable to turn to their socio-political ideas and literary-cultural output for educational purposes. This has, especially, assumed urgency in view of the Hindutva menace that we discussed in the last post. 

Mapping genealogical trajectories in Sri Aurobindo's oeuvre is a herculean task but highly rewarding and fertile field. That itself offers an intellectual journey around the world. Further, one finds him closer to modernity than say, Dante at whose time science was in infancy. Thus, Sri Aurobindo's relevance to current Indian scene is immense. Providing an alternative political ideology is still more potent than the pedagogical dimension. [TNM55]

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www.indiaheritagedesk.com › the-iic-exp...22nd October 2016 at 11 am. 
Sep 26, 2016 - Description: An exhibition about the history and contribution of the Asiatic Society and the knowledge and study of human civilization. The exhibition includes.

2. Date : 7th October, 2016 Venue : IGNCA Auditorium, C.V. Mess, Janpath, New Delhi Event : symposium on Ramanujeeyam : The World of Sri Ramanujacharya in collaboration with Sri Bhagvat Ramanujacharya Darsana Kainkarya Trust, Chennai and Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana, Vrindavan.
This symposium is an attempt to review the life of the Indian philosopher and Theologian Ramanuja. The focus will be on Indian Thought and Sri Ramanuja’s contribution to Indian worldview. The themes and topics for the sessions will be a step towards engagement with the modern world and modern thought and also towards its assessment from an Indian perspective. Sri Ramanuja’s teachings and his contemporary relevance will be discussed. This one-day international symposium will be constituted of four sessions. 

Viśiṣṭādvaita and Nyāya on qualities - Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta authors claim that the whole world is made of the brahman and that everything else is nothing but a qualification of it/Him. This the...

4. “Objects of Occlumency: An Inquiry into object-Oriented Ontology” seminar on Friday, 7th October, 2016 at 2.00 P.M.

5. Indian thought haunted Hegel, representing a sort of evil twin to his own philosophy. He did achieve two points of clarity in distinguishing his own thought from Indian philosophy: the first was to focus on freedom, and thus he railed perpetually against the caste system; the second was to indicate the necessity for dialectical, progressive mediation, and thus he spoke in contrast on the stasis of Indian thought. Hegel's India, Aakash Singh Rathore & Rimina Mohapatra https://t.co/vnSGbym6Ic

6. Hidden away in a green cover is the Aurobindo Bhavan, a two-storeyed bungalow with striking domes, canopies, parapets, large windows and entrance gates with piers. Story goes that the bungalow was constructed in 1932 by the Maharaja of Nepal for his sister Princess Rajalakshmi Aishwarya, who was married into the influen tial Rana family. Though there is not much documentation on this piece of real estate, uncorroborated sources state that the princess's husband was disallowed entry into Nepal si .. Read more at:

7. Integral Musings | Towards a Holistic Vision - The Roots of Race and Other Prejudices – M.S. Srinivasan - All the external “reformations” or “enlightenments” – social, political, cultural or eductaional – brings a certain amount of refinement to our surface conscious being but they don’t have much impact on these subconscious impressions. For example, every male, however broad-minded, enlightened, progressive, feminist on his surface mind, may have some residue of a raw, untouched chauvinism in his subconscious depths. These hidden subterranean prejudices can creep into our conscious mind or secretly influence our thoughts, feelings, behaviour and actions.

www.universityofhumanunity.org › even... 21 hours ago - Philosophy and Psychology in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Vedic studies, On-line courses, Self- Study, Research Archives.
Savitri Immersion Workshop 2017 by Rod Hemsell in Belgium
Start: March 29, 2017, 9:00 am End: April 2, 2017, 9:00 pm
Venue: Tibetan Buddhist Institute BELGIUM
The conquest of death is in fact the primary aim of the Integral Yoga of Transformation, as we learn from the many volumes of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of yoga, and from the Mother's Agenda. And Savitri is the mantric transmission of the will and force that are activated in this Yoga. 

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Sep 25, 2016 - The Universe has no direction, it is not spinning or being stretched in any particular direction, and is expanding uniformly, says a team of scientists at University College London and Imperial College ...

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