Thursday, April 17, 2025

Auroville was meant to transcend nations and politics

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

From January 1968 till August 1970, the Mother was reading chosen passages from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri and giving Her explanations which were tape-recorded ...
8 hours ago — On Original Thinking – Sri Aurobindo. Man does not ordinarily think for finding the truth. intellectual conclusions of the rationalist … are as much dogmas ...
21 hours ago — Om Sri Aurobindo Mira – Let us open wide our hearts. A musical offering from Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham (SASP), Lodi, California.
16 hours ago — A beautiful Audio on Sri Aurobindo and The Mother written by Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Here's the first episode of our new podcast, The Blind Spot, featuring yours truly with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. We're starting out with some topics from our book but we'll move on from those soon, and we plan to invite guests for future episodes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3vT...

https://bsky.app/profile/evanthompson.bsky.social/post/3lmxr3nhzks23

Latest papers: Jonathan Najenson tackles the problem of specificity, namely the extent to which memory engrams can be identified, tracked, and distinguished from other engram and non-engram vehicles in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...

https://bsky.app/profile/journalphp.bsky.social/post/3lmwxm4hg742e

To be honest, I can't really criticize people reading Harry Potter on the grounds that the author sucks because I'm currently rereading Being and Time. In my defense, it's not like I'm enjoying it. I remember a philosophy prof saying, of Heidegger, "it's certainly not the only time a terrible man wrote one interesting book."

Yeah, that's kind of the thing. It does make me want to go back and read Husserl, who was clearly the main influence on him, and probably more important, if less noted.

https://bsky.app/profile/rufus-hickok.bsky.social/post/3lmz6hki5wc2l

Curiosity and flirting last week, consent this week, bad sex next week. @universityofleeds.bsky.social is the place to study all these important and fascinating topics!

https://bsky.app/profile/clsrleeds.bsky.social/post/3liyqnnxbn22k

I’m lecturing on sexual consent later and looking forward to discussing the work of @quillkukla.bsky.social and @ellieanderphd.bsky.social. @manongarcia.bsky.social’s recent book also makes an appearance. It’s such a good time to be thinking about the philosophy of intimacy and relationships.

https://bsky.app/profile/lukebrunning.bsky.social/post/3liyjyxjjhc2k

NEW: Men and women belonging to Gen Z are more divided than those of any other generation on key questions about feminism, gender roles and women’s rights

Read our new 30-country study with @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social for #IWD2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-z-m...

https://bsky.app/profile/giwlkings.bsky.social/post/3ljmlx5o6bs2c

So great hearing @joshshepperd.bsky.social talk about the media reform movement, educational TV, and the origins of media studies. Equally inspiring hearing Carol Stabile talk about the broadcast blacklist and her new research on anti-communism and CBS.

https://bsky.app/profile/gtzarcelia.bsky.social/post/3lmxuofz7cc2c

Persons of other religions can't be appointed as members of religious boards. This is a valid point raised by the Supreme Court. Savitri Era Party demands that non-devotees should be removed from Auroville Foundation so that devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo take decisions.

https://x.com/SavitriEra/status/1912874560891892183?t=xeA6Prj2nY7iRROU8Uinug&s=19

This is the time for devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo to unite so that we get back Matrimandir and Auroville from the clutch of Govt. as per the dissenting judgement of Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy. I have been telling this through Savitri Era Religion and Savitri Era Party.

https://x.com/SavitriEra/status/1912878842609541365?t=O6EiRJ-o_2mfDrwPUwpVAQ&s=19

Auroville was meant to transcend nations & politics. Today, its forests are being cleared, its land traded, & its residents silenced.

Inside Auroville: A spiritual commune caught in a storm of power, profit, & politics.

Massive tree felling. Dubious land deals. And a quiet plan to turn it into the BJP’s southern stronghold.

Read this report by @poojaprasanna4 & @priyankathiru. thenewsminute.com/long-form/insi

https://x.com/thenewsminute/status/1912861103983583313?t=J_uLQ5InEqampsT1FniF0Q&s=19

Deep Time and Deep Place: A Path towards Academic

R Icaza - Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial …, 2025
Espejearnos. Conmovernos. A literal translation of these two terms from Spanish to English are “mirroring ourselves' and “moved (us) by or co-motion" respectively. Espejearnos is an invitation to be transformed by what has been heard, sensed, read …

World System: Dissent, Gender, and World-Making

B Tran - Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial …, 2025
… alism in the form of Hindutva in the 80s and its capture of political power in the 90s injected a new sense of urgency among Dalit activists, intellectuals, and artists. But with the consolidation of the Hindutva state, the fate of the dharma in twenty-first-century …

[PDF] Lessons From The Arena: Fragments of My Journey Through Leadership, Conflict, and Culture in Higher Education

RR Brown - 2025
Higher education is undergoing a profound transformation, shaped by demographic shifts, economic pressures, and evolving workforce demands. As institutions expand online learning and professional education to adapt, deep tensions have emerged …

Religious Practices and Attitudes of Youth

R Choudhary, AF Sen - Indian Youth in the Midst of Crisis and Challenges, 2025
Society has become a collectivised reality and religion as an institutionalised materiality to establish and grasp this social collectivism. This chapter provides an in-depth exploration of the religious behaviours and perceptions of the youth. It delves in the …

[PDF] Instilling Student's Social Character Values in Learning Islamic Religious Education

MR Ilyas, A Kirom - Indonesian Journal of Educational Science (IJES), 2025
This research aims to find out how a PAI educator instills social character values​​in students. The most prominent problem today is the drastic decline in the moral or social character of students. To answer this problem, this research uses field …

Restorative Justice: One Teacher's Perspective

ES Chavarria - PRACTICING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
… Local organizations, businesses, and community members should be an integral and involved part of the school community. Schools should welcome the involvement of parents, students, teachers, administrators, community members, and community …

[PDF] AM odern KuruKṣetrA? VAiṣṇAVisM, nAtionAlisM, And the second World WAr

J Chapple
… And this is yoga: Only yoga is peace.… of its Śrī Rūpa Gauḍīya Maṭha in Allahabad in 1932, and Sir John Anderson, governor of Bengal, to Śrī Yoga-pīṭha, considered the sacred birthplace of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in Māyāpura in 1935. Its …

[PDF] The Marketing of Populism and the Political-Economy of War: Learning from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

N Dholakia, A Ozgun, D Atik - Journal of Macromarketing, 2025
This conceptual study explores the social and political-economic conditions that spawn competing campaigns of democracy, populism, and autocracy from a macromarketing perspective. It delves into the less visible and deeper contexts that …

Hegemonic Failures: Mass-Elite Resonance and Narratives of Indian Nationhood, 1947–50

A Julka, NA Mir - Politics & Society, 2025
This article develops a theoretical framework of ideational resonance that distinguishes between hegemonic and dominant ideas at the mass level. Based on a Gramscian framework of hegemony and mass common sense, the article posits …

Waging War in Wild Wild Country: Regulating Sex and Nation in Osho's Rajneeshpuram

A Lucia - Mythologizing in South Asian Traditions, 2025
… Some of these relationships developed into famous partnerships, as in Swami Vivekananda and Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) and Sarah Bull, Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa (The Mother), Gandhi and Madeleine Slade (Mira Behn). The Bengali …

[PDF] Misappropriation of Indian Knowledge Resources by the West: A Study of Select Works by Rajiv Malhotra

J Batra
… , hijacking the levels marked by Sri Aurobindo. It may be mentioned here that when Malhotra organized a conference on Integral Consciousness in America, Wilber claimed monopoly on the term which was effectively rebutted by Malhotra as …

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Battle of perspectives, narratives, and manipulations

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Welcome to 'The Synthesis of Yoga' by Sri Aurobindo. Part 1 The Yoga of Divine Works Chapter 1, The Four Aids, Paragraphs 1 to 6 ...
Sri Aurobindo on the Cold War and Human Unity https://t.co/mYsX076jlv.
The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, Savitri, Sri Aurobindo - Page 592. 1 view · 2 minutes ago #themother #sriaurobindo #integralyoga
songs in Sanskrit, Hindi and Gujarati on The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, set to music by himself. At present he is a full time music teacher in Sri Aurobindo ...
Savitri by Sri Aurobindo Page 153. ... Savitri by Sri Aurobindo Page 153. 1 view · 14 minutes ago ...more. buzzutopia. 220.
Welcome to 'The Synthesis of Yoga' by Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo uses the words Purusha, Prakriti, He and She frequently in The Synthesis of Yoga.
Poems of Harindranath Chattopadhyay - Poems and Plays - Reverie (Read by Narad). No views · 2 minutes ago ...more. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo : E-library.
Poems of Narad - Songs to the One - Do Not Cling To the Past. 2 views · 5 minutes ago ...more. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo : E-library. 10.7K. Subscribe.
11 hours ago — Sri Aurobindoarrow_drop_down · CWSA · SABCL · ARYA · Talks · Documents · Correspondence · About Sri Aurobindo · The Motherarrow_drop_down · Collected Works ...
6 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo. 'The Mother' | book · 'Savitri' | Four Editions · First (1950-51) 'Complete' Edition · Second (1954) 'University' Edition · Third (1970) ' ...

Part 3: A clash of visionary insight versus materialist and literal confinement!

In a battle of perspectives, @PingaliGopal presents #SriAurobindo's view of the Vedas as a spiritual roadmap, brimming with cosmic mysteries, while Western scholars limit them to mere ritualistic interpretations.

#AurobindoIndology #JamisonBrereton @rekha_dhar @SaamaanyaJ @IndicaOrg

indica.today/long-reads/par

https://x.com/indicatoday/status/1838833800803160389?t=H2Renbgx4ijXlqriK7I_Xw&s=19

Spotlight on Auroville: A UNESCO-recognized township in Tamil Nadu, Auroville thrives as a model for human unity & sustainable development. Insights shared by architect Lalit Bhati & Dr. Keya Chakraborty at UNU-FLORES. #ResourceNexus

https://x.com/UNU_FLORES/status/1838850184412823817?t=_aSPc1-PxyOV5b8dYPOMXg&s=19

From 1900 BC-300 BC we do not have sculptures. Vedic people did not make sculptures, at least not in durable materials. During the Mauryan Empire (320-185 BCE), royal sculptures were built on top of pillars.

Read more Art and Culture with Devdutt Pattanaik | What sculptures tell us about Indian culture #UPSC
indianexpress.com/article/upsc-c… via @IndianExpress

https://x.com/devduttmyth/status/1838855370715893885?t=rM5suxc3LVn8UQqexM565Q&s=19

According to the research, alcohol reduces social anxiety and lowers inhibitions. This creates a psychological effect where people feel more relaxed and confident, allowing them to speak without the usual hesitation they would have when sober. This reduced anxiety makes the brain feel more comfortable accessing second languages—thus, "English" starts flowing out. However, this doesn’t mean their language skills are actually improving. In fact, alcohol impairs cognitive functions such as memory and judgment, which can lead to mispronunciations and incorrect usage of words.

Researchers have also noted that this effect is short-lived. Once the alcohol's influence wears off, the same person may find it difficult to string together coherent sentences in a second language. Moreover, excessive drinking can have the opposite effect, impairing speech altogether.

The consequences of alcohol consumption don’t stop at temporary language confidence. Prolonged drinking has been linked to brain damage, particularly to the cortex, the part of the brain responsible for memory, decision-making, and creativity. People suffering from Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) experience long-term damage that affects more than just language fluency.

https://www.dnaindia.com/viral/report-people-start-speaking-english-after-drinking-alcohol-due-to-3109253/amp 

25 Aug 2024 — Psychedelic drug, any of the so-called mind-expanding drugs that are able to induce states of altered perception and thought, ...
Psychedelics are drugs that alter a person's perception of reality and cause them to see or hear things that do not exist or are distorted.
Psychedelic and dissociative drugs can temporarily alter a person's mood, thoughts, and perceptions of reality.
What are the common tactics used by narcissistic manipulators (gaslighting, projection, blame-shifting)?
9 May 2024 — Love bombing involves a person overwhelming their partner with loving words, actions, and behavior as a manipulation tool. The manipulator uses ...
Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality.
1 Feb 2024 — ... manipulation techniques commonly used in toxic relationships ... Gaslighting: Making the other person feel that their version of ...
3 May 2022 — Manipulation targets and controls how someone feels, thinks, and behaves in order for the manipulator to get what they want. While manipulative ...
The 4 stages of manipulation · Flattery: The first stage is when the person with manipulative behaviors puts on a facade of being kind, caring, and helpful.
18 Jul 2016 — 10 Techniques Used by Manipulators (and How to ... "Gaslighting is a manipulative tactic that can be described in different variations of ...

I'm very happy to report that my paper "Narrative Understanding" is now out at the European Journal of Philosophy!  
The paper explores the role of narratives in fields like sociology and political science. The article also builds on some ideas I wrote about in the New Statesmen a few years back

Great article with insightful ideas on the value and role of narratives. Reflecting on it, narratives are a subjective semantic representation of data or events, loosely structured, offering an alternative to visual tools like graphs. They serve as vehicles of understanding. Broadly speaking, a typical academic paper combines narrative, visuals, Great article with insightful ideas on the value and role of narratives. Reflecting on it, narratives are a subjective semantic representation of data or events, loosely structured, offering an alternative to visual tools like graphs. They serve as vehicles of understanding. Broadly speaking, a typical academic paper combines narrative, visuals, Great article with insightful ideas on the value and role of narratives. Reflecting on it, narratives are a subjective semantic representation of data or events, loosely structured, offering an alternative to visual tools like graphs. They serve as vehicles of understanding. Broadly speaking, a typical academic paper combines narrative, visuals, and data, structured more rigidly for common understanding and data, structured more rigidly for common understanding among academics. Narratives are part of the pragmatic toolkit for effective communication and deeper understanding.

Narratives in Times of Radical Transformation

T Kawai, J Fahlbusch, HL Dienel, O Renn, R Renn - 2024
This book explores how narratives have been and can be used to facilitate radical transformations towards a more sustainable future. Scholars from various disciplines have been increasingly utilizing social and cultural narratives to understand personal …

[PDF] Re-imagining Education and NEP 2020

DM Bhatnagar, DP Bhatnagar - 2024
… the important needs of education system is to integrate employability skills as an integral part of education system. Now a day’s technology has … the classical literature of India, and they know the benefits of yoga and meditation. They are …

[PDF] VALUE EDUCATION IN ANCIENT INDIA: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO LEARNING

S Roy, S kumar Paul
This study explores the holistic approach to education in ancient India, emphasizing the integration of moral, ethical, and spiritual development with academic learning. Ancient Indian educational practices, notably the Gurukula system, were deeply …

Educating the Whole Person Includes the Spiritual Dimension

JL Lindsey
humanness into the classroom. The philosophy of holistic education is predicated upon the principal that the purpose of schooling is to develop the whole person; with the “whole” being a product of biological, psychological, social/environmental, and …

The Girl Child in the Life, Lore and Literature of Bengal: Selected Writings of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

N Sen - 2024
Contemporary children’s literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent, defiant and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique the parenting and schooling they go through, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised. The rare fictional girls …