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Friday, June 28, 2019

Fighting against fascists is no less fascist


Assorted tweets:


https://t.co/c1ei3UElpw
Rare Video of The Mother Playing Long Tennis
@SAADelhiBranch

https://twitter.com/SAADelhiBranch/status/1144519056583798784?s=19


The magic of shapes and colours:- In this comic #students #learn shapes, colours of items and counting too. #Comics are the best and easy way of #learning for the students.
#TEACHERINNOVATIONAWARD #TIA2019 #ZIIEI #INNOVATIVEPATHSHAALA #teacher #school #Government #digitalartwork https://t.co/JrvepWwqhP

https://twitter.com/SAS_Rupantar/status/1144479462865506306?s=19

The Roti made of wheat flour looks beautiful like that of the full moon; it has within it gram powder mixed with salt, ginger and asafotida; it has been made soft by the application of fresh made ghee; May this special Roti enter into the mouth only of those who are righteous. https://t.co/ngPFfHiH1o
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1144480961322610691?s=19


20) Hymns 121 - 127 (Verses 1,356 - 1,436):
Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 121 to 127 (including hymns of Kakshivat to Usha);
with #SriAurobindo's words on the historical development of language https://t.co/ipv037lqk6


21) Hymns 128- 133 (Verses 1,437 - 1,485):
Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 128 to 133 (including the glories of Indra);
with #SriAurobindo's words on the historical development of language https://t.co/X12QsukSvx

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1144362672533544960?s=19

Raja Ravi Varma's distinct style of painting emerges from the Company style, a technique that emerges from the East India Company's desire to paint a visual portrait of India.https://t.co/egdXho29fP
https://twitter.com/madrascourier/status/1144527679535763456?s=19

"Mr Modi is undoubtedly a master of manipulating the political narrative, who has persuaded hundreds of millions of people of his integrity, intent and achievements." https://t.co/8wXNtqTvVk via @financialtimes
https://twitter.com/suvojitc/status/1144531733305425921?s=19


"Modi or any politician won't care for a cause unless they see votes in it."
It's this kind of language which exposes "Core". 99% of the Core had no connection with Hindutva (and hence RSS/BJP) before 2010. Who cares what "Core" says? As I said, they have credibility issues.
https://twitter.com/Hiranyareta/status/1144447116108079106?s=19


Dig deeper, all evidence in Dabholkar, Pansare & Gauri murders will lead you to Nagpur, but RSS masterminds will never be investigated. Remember, according to Aseemanand himself, Bhagwat had sanctioned Samjhauta, Ajmer bombings. Modi & Shah report to him. https://t.co/jquxzVyJ8m
https://twitter.com/nikhil_thatte/status/1144206416925712384?s=19


I'll join. I have an idea. Let's do a film. Opening scene: Dr. BS Moonje, a Brahmin doctor from Nagpur, stands surveying the Altare Della Patria (Altar to the Fatherland) — site of grand military parades — from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome. Beside him is Mussolini. https://t.co/1zYjlHMKfn
https://twitter.com/FriedrichPieter/status/1144496546504826881?s=19
Opening line: Moonje turns to Mussolini. "I have no hesitation to raise my voice from the public platform both in India and England whenever occasion may arise in praise of your Balilla and Fascist organizations," he says. The Italian dictator grins. He says, "We made a new man."
Dialogue continues. "We discovered how to combine the mystical side and the political side," Mussolini tells Moonje. "After we added the element of discipline, it was a simple matter to convince the the citizens that they had nothing except the life of the State." Moonje smiles.
Moonje to Mussolini: "I just saw this morning and afternoon the Balilla and the Fascist Organizations and I was much impressed." Mussolini sips a glass of warm milk. Moonje continues: "Every aspiring and growing nation needs such fascist organizations. India needs them most."
Mussolini speaks: "Dr. Moonje, what is good for Italy is good for India. Teach the people that freedom is not a right, it is a duty. It is not equality, it is a privilege.” Moonje replies: "Yes, yes. We hear everywhere the clamor for 'rights" but never any stress on 'duties'."
Moonje then asks: "India has long been enslaved. What shall we do?" Mussolini responds: “Fascist doctrine is best suited to the tendencies of a people which, like the Italian, after lying fallow for centuries of foreign servitude, are now reasserting themselves in the world."
"I see," replies Moonje. "Fascism believes neither in the possibility nor utility of perpetual peace. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it." Mussolini replies: "So learn war."
Scene two: the aging & white-bearded Moonje sits for a chai pe charcha (chat over tea) with a long-haired young man half his age. The young man is dressed in a simple robe. Behind his glasses, his eyes glint with fire. Moonje speaks: "Madhav, Mussolini was a man of great wisdom."
The young man is Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, a lawyer. Moonje continues: "India needs some such Hindu as a dictator — like Mussolini or Hitler of the present day in Italy and Germany. To teach the citizens that all is within the State, nothing outside it, and nothing against it."
Golwalkar nods his head. "Yes, uncle. Every citizen must learn that to offer one’s all, even his dearest possessions, at the altar of motherland is the first and foremost duty of every son of this soil. We must struggle for the existence of our motherland and our national unity."
Golwalkar monologues: “Look at Italy! The old Roman Race consciousness of conquering the whole territory round the Mediterranean Sea, so long dormant, has roused itself and shaped the Racial-National aspirations accordingly." Moonje nods (perhaps dozing off) as Golwalkar talks.
Golwalkar continues: "The ancient Race spirit, which prompted the Germanic tribes to over-run the whole of Europe, has re-risen in modern Germany." Moonje lets out a snore, but the young lawyer continues to hold forth. He addresses the tea kettle, envisioning a grand audience.
Golwalkar is STILL talking: "Even so with us: our Race spirit has once again roused itself as is evidenced by the race of spiritual giants we have produced, and who today stalk the world in serene majesty. National consciousness blazes forth!" Moonje jolts and wakes. He speaks.
Moonje to Golwalkar: "Yes, young Madhav. Our leaders should imitate the Youth movement of Germany and the Balilla and Fascist organizations of Italy. They are eminently suited for introduction in India, adapting them to suit the special conditions." Golwalkar listens intently.
Moonje continues: "The idea of Fascism vividly brings out the conception of unity amongst people. India, particularly Hindu India, need some such Institution for the military regeneration of the Hindus. Our Institution, the RSS, is of this kind." Head in hands, Golwalkar ponders.
A thought strikes Golwalkar. He stands, shouting. Moonje jumps. Golwalkar, loudly: "The war goes on and has not been decided yet. The Race Spirit has been awakening. The world has to see the might of the regenerated Hindu Nation strike down the enemy’s hosts with its mighty arm!"
https://twitter.com/FriedrichPieter/status/1144512581467607040?s=19


OPINION | As majoritarianism flourishes, so does the demonizing of those minorities whom members of the majority perceive as different, and, crucially, inferior, to themselves.
https://t.co/w8cC3YtoqX
https://twitter.com/ttindia/status/1144523328608190464?s=19


Actually the anti-people, anti-social trait is from the Supremacists who incite others against others. And the supremacists in India is hardly 4%.
The Subcontinent suffered under supremacist demonization of Shudras & Avarnas for nearly 2 millennia. Now muslims.
https://twitter.com/Tamil1947/status/1144534836196986880?s=19




“World War II continues to be the most important war in history”
Antony Beevor recommends a #readinglist of #WW2 books: https://t.co/4vtKwCYCX6

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1144527106627559424?s=19

On 28 Jun 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Paris Peace Conference, formally bringing the First World War to an end.  The seeds that would subsequently grow and ripen into the Second World War had now been sown.  #ChaucerUniversity #TCEP #History #Politics #WW1 #WW2 https://t.co/lSVml5nGmc
https://twitter.com/ChaucerUniv/status/1144531588413296640?s=19

Penguin stops printing Pedro Baños book after #Antisemitism claims. Investigation led by Julia Neuberger finds #Spanish edition of How They Rule the World has ‘echoes of Jewish conspiracy theories’  https://t.co/IjIMUGrGVv
https://twitter.com/ShernaKhambatta/status/1144532021525372928?s=19

Here is announcing a prize of ₹1 lakh for anyone who can prove that an Aryan (distinct from krinvanto vishwam āryam) invasion/migration occurred during 1500-2000 BCE. Evidence has to be based on Indian sources. @NileshOak @RajivMessage @davidfrawleyved @ndtv @ShekharGupta
https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1144296380132802560?s=19


I don't know about that.This petroglyph of Balarama n Krishna is authentic n was found by a leading Pakistan archaeologist AH Dani 1st Cent CE
Accepted by the world academic community. From the Baltistan region
Nugget from Dr. Meenakshi Jain when I sent her the report on https://t.co/S9iOt8lBtT https://t.co/ccec6diIrE
https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/1144522344855064578?s=19

Also this found by A H Dani
From Dr. Meenakshi Jain :)) https://t.co/jebwkCMIWZ




For #FollowFriday, go follow @Oh_My_Hrithik, an org. which aims at normalising & destigmatising female fantasies & self-pleasure.
Also follow @MahamuniSrushti, a social justice blogger, she has written some amazing articles on female sexuality. Check them out on our website! #FF

https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1144531856819277826?s=19

Fighting against fascists is no less fascist; ultimately, conflict and war are the primary modes of human behaviour. In fact, they are at the root of the whole biology. Sri Aurobindo, however, shows the Evolutionary dimensions vis-à-vis Vedic aspirations ingrained in certain acts.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1144545875798061056?s=19

Rainbow & the Other: Outrage is contagious; Truth is not https://t.co/idxz6jpdC6
Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF - since 2005),
For eradication of intellectual malnutrition. @NathTusar
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1144323204086784000?s=19

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Monday, June 24, 2019

Sensory inputs turn us into robots


Assorted tweets:

Debates prior to Sri Aurobindo must be understood for locating him properly.
[Where Nietzsche or Emerson say to be more individual, Kant tells us to be more universal – to act according to the same moral law that everyone else should act under. -Amod Lele] https://t.co/C0MISaBS5d

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1143057144469528576?s=19
Now that you are a proud possessor of The Life Divine you can begin with the last six chapters which Sri Aurobindo added after two decades. They are more sociological and futuristic. Besides his last essays on Mind of Light clarifies many a nitty gritty; Savitri has cryptic clues
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1142725111457316865?s=19

Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata. Analysis of Chapter V: Kurukshetra from Essays on The Gita by Sri Aurobindo (via @myindmakers) https://t.co/3rxSXDoJ63
https://twitter.com/ask0704/status/1143014841105428480?s=19
https://twitter.com/myindmakers/status/1143012219246055431?s=19

The Lotus harbours all the wisdom worth knowing as made clear by Sri Aurobindo's work. In the West the rose will do the same if you go on searching. https://t.co/g5X5xhALAl
https://twitter.com/BergVigor/status/1142910685606830080?s=19

Jibonmukhi singers of Bengal in the 90s tried to intellectualise music! Pathetic efforts at mass appeasement! Emotion n what Sri Aurobindo calls the "the soul of emotion" r essential ingredients of music.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1142986665092239360?s=19

Solitude is a frequent subject of Tuareg songs and poetry, where nomads are habitually living far from their homes or society. This happens because the usual nomadic itinerary, droughts or armed conflicts that lead to escape into exile into the vast sands of the Sahara
https://twitter.com/AyushyaKhanna/status/1143066102546624512?s=19

Daily dose of the Vedas:
The Rg Veda states that each of us is a child of immortality.  Meaning all jivas and immortals have the same source.
This view was recognized even in the 1800s by academics, and was the view of Aurobindo as well as Kapali Shastry.
https://twitter.com/YogiBabaPrem/status/1142835265729437696?s=19

9) Hymns 51 - 57 (Verses 600 - 671):
Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 051 to 057 (including the wonderful actions of Indra);
with #SriAurobindo's words on how 3 major aspects of the Vedic Sacrifice (Yajmana, Offering, Results) are dealt with in His psychological theory https://t.co/EOdA95OEe3
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1142856025571131393?s=19

Bhai civilization itself has the nature of river or flowing water,and is connected to water element principle.thus we lost our civilizational edge of beginning 5000 years back,simply because we clogged the fountain of ideas keeping the riverine fluidity alive,and we restricted it
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1142840544617357312?s=19
Africa has many of the codes of mukti just like the indic subcontinent,but somewhat more overshadowed or layered up with more complicated, invasive civilizational frequencies from abrahamic ideologies,Africa needs decoding now,to trace back it's lost mystic roots.
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1142716674723864576?s=19

Race is biological, so is ethnicity,  orien**** are make believe nonsense. A fraud concept. From orient*** now we have come to zender fluid lol, like feeling like man in morning and women by night
https://twitter.com/rohits95/status/1143066955445702656?s=19

“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah" -Ronald Reagan. https://t.co/UkIVs4RNTo
https://twitter.com/tweetingsourav/status/1143058348754919424?s=19

How Hindi cinema taught a medical reporter to see doctors without their halos https://t.co/vFqvUprvhk via @Kractivist
https://twitter.com/Kractivist/status/1143058382959628288?s=19

In a sense, Amitabh Bachchan’s career encapsulates the arc of the Hindi film doctor—from the disillusioned Dr Bhaskor Banerjee in Anand to the guilt-ridden Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde in Bemisal to the Bhaskor... https://t.co/ipUCPXtjsT
https://twitter.com/sohinichat/status/1143056774532161536?s=19

https://t.co/8yTpAGqqIH The historical male  and female character, both are worshipped with dignity.....Bhabani Pathak and Debichowdhurani, the infamous dacoits of Bengal were the devotees of Godesess Kali... https://t.co/eubu6o69cg
#bhabanipathak #debichowdhurani #banglabinodan 
https://twitter.com/meonly16/status/1028168180521295872?s=19

Bhabani Pathak's Tilla, Durgapur, West Bengal - a protected monument mentioned by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in his novel - Devi Chaudurani https://t.co/SECl8n3v8K
https://twitter.com/saranstm/status/916739638340993024?s=19
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee made him famous in his novel Devi Chaudurani and both Devi and him used a series of tunnels starting from Durgapur all the way to Damodar river to escape from British.Alternatively it is believed BP hid the treasure he looted from British in these tunnels

But as William Hunter noted, anti British struggle was started by Muslims. It was just 5 yrs after the dethornment of Siraj. That is in 1762. It was started by a fakir, named Majnun Shah. Later Bhavani Pathak joined it.
https://twitter.com/AvijitSinha5/status/1031411090821971968?s=19

#bankimchandrachatterjee in his two novels, Anandamath & Devi Choudhurani , has made the Sannyasi Fakir Revolt great. However the greatest name in pre1857 anti British struggle is of #TituMir (1827)

"Summoning all her strength, she took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, telling herself that she had to think of the others now and put her anger to one side."
The Long Road Home. Chapter 7. - ww2 history terror https://t.co/3WvapMl7mn #WW2 #History #iartg #nurses #DRK
https://twitter.com/annamagique/status/1139987399805722624?s=19

Destruction of Athena by Christians: In the fourth century, this statue was decapitated by Christians because she was idolatrous. Her arms were also chopped off. In 2016 photos were released showing that the statue had been once again, decapitated and mutilated, this time by ISIS https://t.co/XeI629wBNH
https://twitter.com/CIS_Indus/status/1143018879389593600?s=19

Christian Orgs Involved In Forced Conversions Struggling After Modi Government’s FCRA Crackdown: Report
https://t.co/OCzDOUK4Nk
https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag/status/1143055267690455040?s=19

Did you ever write a love letter to a town? Professor Simon Altmann did. https://t.co/lXMtR8JUmI
https://twitter.com/madrascourier/status/1143058942194360320?s=19
#MondayMotivation Between teaching, researching the archives in Italy, writing a book, and working out at the gym three times a week, Simon Altmann-the 94-year-old professor of Mathematics -took time out to write about life, love and everything in between. https://t.co/dto32H6yu3

Frank Chimero on causing 'good trouble' and re-imagining the status quo to combat achievement culture https://t.co/QrV5VgRIZr #Creativity
https://twitter.com/LarryGMaguire/status/1143065376848265219?s=19

#MondayMotivation The Suleiman Charitra is a Sanskrit retelling of a Biblical tale - the love story between David and Bathsheba, and the birth of King Solomon – written in the fifteenth century by a Hindu poet, for his Muslim patron. https://t.co/DRwXKtHqEV
https://twitter.com/madrascourier/status/1143069659886809088?s=19

“As we grow older, we dim down the sensory responses and increase the sensory inputs, turning ourselves into robots. That is why art is indispensable for human survival....”
1/2 https://t.co/evkWs9mcMi
https://twitter.com/McLinstitute/status/1142824205131616257?s=19
“... Art perpetually dislocates our usual sensory responses by offering a very abstract or meagre and selective input.”
Eric McLuhan, 2008 response to James K-M’s ‘Cave Paintings.’

In #Chernobyl, the actor playing Mikhail Gorbachev says: “Our power comes from the perception of our power.” Such pithy dialogues add to the appeal. On episode three and hooked.
https://twitter.com/d_extrovert/status/1143021682514247680?s=19

In a way the dialogue is emblematic of russian culture. Russians are known for their brevity and are very succinct and germane. You won't find them beating round the bush and obfuscating the issues at hand. Russians shoot straight.
https://twitter.com/thsaccntisfake/status/1143045966934581249?s=19

A pithy reworking of the GoT quote: “Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
https://twitter.com/akshayalladi/status/1143022933507358721?s=19

#RohenaGera #TillotamaShome #LondonIndianFilmFestival #BFI Saw Rohena Gera's film "Sir" today at the BFI and loved it. Rohena has very deftly handled this difficult story. Like in "Lunch Box" you can feel the French touch.
https://twitter.com/SunayanaPanda/status/1142899807771615233?s=19

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Friday, June 21, 2019

There is no yoga; you make your own path


Assorted tweets:

Let’s not limit #InternationalDayofYoga to an annual jamboree. I practice yoga on a daily basis, I urge upon all of you to do so as an integral part of your life. #YogaDay is incomplete without remembering #SriAurobindo
SS वन्दे गुरूणां चरणारविन्दे सन्दर्शितस्वात्मसुखावबोधे । https://t.co/TiY8HN2NaF
https://twitter.com/SuparnoSatpathy/status/1141921173329960960?s=19

The development of Yoga primarily as a postural discipline that drives better health emerged in late 19th / early 20th centuries when the traditions of Yoga interacted with Western disciplines of gymnastics and physical exercise
https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1141871384517365760?s=19
The great statesman C Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) in 1968,  in his typically conservative way, bemoaned the rise of Postural Yoga in an article - reproduced below - https://t.co/GUnpzM82RB
Here's the concluding extract - https://t.co/uLyp7FXAi1
I wouldn't go as far as Rajaji does in condescending towards Postural Yoga. It has its merits. But it is worthwhile to take a step back and rediscover what Yoga really ought to mean and rescue it from those who wish to market it as a panacea for all bodily ills

Very nicely written... There is one more, if one is interested, the *integral yoga* as explained by Sri Aurobindo, which according to him was different from the yoga of Krishna. https://t.co/145xPKWsuI
https://twitter.com/dwarakiMN/status/1141922885268725761?s=19

#Yoga of #Patanjali, #Aurobindo etc that led to the discovery of the Divine is now a health hamper. https://t.co/t5IaAzA815
https://twitter.com/GreatHeretic/status/1141911017955291136?s=19

Sri Aurobindo observed: “Indian yoga is experimental psychology. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, the Upanishads ~ these and the Saiva Siddhanta treatises ~ furnish pioneering examples of experimental psychology.”
https://twitter.com/mayamadhava/status/1141898817568043008?s=19

" Yoga is Life - Life is Yoga ! "
 Integral yoga finds all life conscious or subconscious a yoga, defines the term yoga as a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and highest condition of victory !
https://twitter.com/BubaidaRoy/status/1141887395068911616?s=19

Let us go through all the 1,028 Sūktas of the Rig-Veda based on #SriAurobindo's commentary, written for His journal 'Arya'.
Today marks the 105th anniversary of the announcement of Arya's publication (21 June 1914).
#InternationalDayofYoga https://t.co/lIXhkJTG1g
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1141871431250137088?s=19
1) Hymns 1 - 6 (Verses 1 - 60):
Description of #RigVeda, Mandala 01, Sukta 001 to 006; with selected excerpt from #SriAurobindo's works https://t.co/49SjygM7OM
2) Hymns 7 - 13 (Verses 61 - 134):
Description of #RigVeda, Mandala 01, Sukta 007 to 013; with selected excerpt from #SriAurobindo's works https://t.co/1rP79xoyQT
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1141959851532120065?s=19

Links between Vedas, Upanishads, Tantra and Puranas | Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother https://t.co/lk24mKTASI
https://twitter.com/h_santhosh/status/1141668418892062720?s=19

This DAY Last YEAR - Dharmic principles form the bedrock upon which Indic civilization has thrived and hence need to be propagated as well as defended.  https://t.co/JTfPwb3kHv
https://twitter.com/Pragyata_/status/1141966512657522688?s=19

In Vedas the summer solstice marks the day Indra slays Vritra and releases the seven rivers to flow into the sea. Indra is the Purusha or seer. Vritra is the power of ignorance (avidya). The seven cosmic streams merge into the ocean of Consciousness. A clearly yogic metaphor.
https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1141916461792813057?s=19

The oldest statues of Lord Buddha show Him worshipped by Indra & Brahma - & Indra is honored in all Buddhist sutras of all sects.  Buddhists and Hindus have common ground to forge an alliance which would link India to super developed powerhouse nations Japan, China & Tiger Asia! https://t.co/e56NOl4xgn
https://twitter.com/NioZenji/status/1141918786649563137?s=19

When people say that Hindus need to be more aggressive, rigid, hierarchical, violent and intolerant to 'save' Hinduism, I realise they want Hinduism to be less Hindu and more..... well you know 😀
https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1141906922934640640?s=19
If you knew history you would know 'violent' Jain kings like Kharavela and 'violent' Buddhist kings like Dharmapala ..... binaries are for the stupid

Who Is “Fascist”? For old bores who still want to imprison words in their dictionary meaning. https://t.co/kYw7jHfkFw
https://twitter.com/Koenraad_Elst/status/1141954158058180608?s=19

‘New India is motivated by the noble thoughts of Sree Narayana Guru, will move forward towards the ideals of Gurudev Tagore’: President Ram Nath Kovind in his joint address to the parliament https://t.co/y3J6zCqJVN
https://twitter.com/eOrganiser/status/1141972603403296769?s=19

Postcolonial theory allows upper-caste intellectuals to maintain privilege in both India and the US. The Indian educational systems whose benefits disproportionately accrue to the upper castes allowed these intellectuals to make the transition to the west. 10/16
Once there, shocked at not receiving the privilege they had back home, postcolonial theory was invented. This theory was used to critique white elites, since it allowed them to position themselves as the brown voice of the subaltern in western academia (e,g, Spivak, Bhabha) 11/16
The grasping desire for power among these scholars is reflected in the empty and ethically hollow nature of their theoretical production. The obfuscatory language that masquerades as sophistication is just a way to hide power. Don't fall for it. 16/16
https://twitter.com/achakrava/status/1141950254561935361?s=19
What makes some brains more resistant to decline? The brain starts shrinking around the age of 40, and how resistant you are is likely to be linked to how much of a mental buffer you have in your brain. Here’s how can you boost your mental buffer https://t.co/RvE32ixzdp
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1141969825767591937?s=19

Aurora Mirabilis: Vedic mantras were articulated long before the Hindus https://t.co/BehBw0gfSK
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1141793448271458308?s=19

Raibhya is a great Vedic Rishi in our Sanatana tradition. In #GirishKarnad's eyes, he's a lewd old man who lusts after his own daughter in law.
And Karnad is hailed a great litterateur. This is the damage they've done. How does one undo this? https://t.co/9eXsLqF4n4
https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1141722419129794567?s=19

Roads are the places where, during our commutes, we build up a frenzied, frazzled and annoyed state of mind, which we carry to the other spheres of our lives, especially, offices and homes.
https://twitter.com/CholericCleric/status/1141876899351842816?s=19


Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk. As you walk, you make your own road,

Plasim Radar

The Way of Bhakti (a talk in Hindi TH 026) - If knowledge is taken as light and work as path, then bhakti is the key to the divine doors. The talk brings us the significance, importance and the way ...

Why Roberto Unger's new book is worthless - Roberto Unger believes Economics is flawed because it lacks causal theories. This is not true. It holds that the cause of the activity it studies is 'scarc...

Other Than the Known, Above the Unknown - The Rishis of the Vedic Age explored the origin of conscious awareness which they experienced. Clearly the mind, the vital force and physical existence we...

- Weimar Republic & the Phenomenology of Being Episode 30 of the Iphigenia Inquiry with Philip Armstrong.

Adorno and the Origins of “Never Again” - Ever since then candidate Trump began calling for mass deportations and religious bans, comparisons to the Third Reich have consistently been made. While m...

Circulating publicness and public circulation - How is publicness—the realization of publicity—itself mediated, circulated, and received?

Wrestling with the angel: Fight all night (Further thoughts on intercultural philosophy) - I hope that readers will bear with me while I keep on exploiting the metaphor of wrestling with the angel. There are a few more indications, in fact, we ca...

Integral Yoga & Human Defects (II) -“Don’t Try to Be Virtuous…” - To realize that everybody has got some defects, and so to admit that one has some too, to accept to see them, whatever they may be, is only the very first ...

India is variety personified - Mirage of a strong state is not a reality. *Making of a strong state is the reality and reality need not get confined to existing or established labels or...

Aesthetics like nutrition should seek the right-mix - The irony of disowning one's culture The New Indian Express-04-Jun-2019 It is not wise to confuse the treasures of our heritage with the Hindu religion as ...

Monday, June 10, 2019

Do not pause to ask why


Plasim Radar

Savitri Satsang 097 pp. 169-171 - A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English). The post Savitri Satsang 097 pp. 169-171 appeared first on AuroMaa.

A Sellarsian solution for the self? - The conflict between Buddhism and qualitative individualism is a major difficulty for my own philosophy. In addressing that conflict, there is one approach...

A Sellarsian solution for the self? - The conflict between Buddhism and qualitative individualism is a major difficulty for my own philosophy. In addressing that conflict, there … Continue read...

Jairus Banaji & the HUMANCENTiPAD - Prof. Jairus Banaji writes in his essay 'The Fictions of Free Labor'- When is a contract ‘voluntary’? The answer is, probably never. The underlying assump...

- Esther Neff reads 50 minutes from "The Question Concerning Technology".

“Cultural Marxism” and the Marxian Revolutionary Idea - Some recent personal experiences have been nagging at me — like a series of synchronicities — to get around to posting something about this matter of the M...

AUROVILLE: The first six years 1968-1974 by Savitra - “Auroville, the first 6 years – 1968-1974” written by Savitra is one of only two records of what was happening on the Auroville plateau during the first ...

Analysis of Isha Upanishad, Birth and Non-Birth - Verses 12-14 of the Isha Upanishad mirror in their framing verses 9-11. The earlier verses referred to Knowledge and Ignorance. The latter verses describ...

Assorted tweets

The book provokes us to re-assess and re-think the categories in which  we have been accustomed to speak, unintelligently and unquestioningly,  of matters concerning Indian society and culture.  #bookreviews #SAFICBookOfTheMonth
https://t.co/8VkWaVgTiP
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1137948614238625794?s=19

Bankim Chandra writing in the 19th century about the capture of Indian texts, especially Sanskrit texts, by European scholars who monopolized interpretation and then whitesplained them back to us. This is an old colonial problem. https://t.co/uDjq2Iatnn
https://twitter.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1137621181970837504?s=19
Excerpt from @swapan55 's new book Awakening Bharat Mata

Except, of course, that a hundred years after Bankim we still have no body of work that matches the depth and scholarship of what is being produced by Gary Tubbs, Sheldon Pollock, Yigal Bronner et al. So we have our special “understanding,” but no books. https://t.co/iTU0ZXzh2H
https://twitter.com/AatishTaseer/status/1137689216299819008?s=19

I agree. Many Western academic scholars (not all, of course) have done good technical scholarship ( शिक्षा) but they miss out vidya, the deeper understanding of the subject. 
Such scholarship is good for a generation in academic halls, but it will not stand the test of time. 1)
https://twitter.com/subhashkak1/status/1137899889030029312?s=19

So far no academic scholar in the West and no leftist scholar in India has even imagined the cosmic depth of Vedic symbolism as compared to Sri Aurobindo, Kapali Shastri, Ganapati Muni, Sri Anirvan or Swami Veda Bharati. Without mantra sadhana Veda cannot be revealed.
https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1137908375939715073?s=19

Since you have not heard such names as -
Ananda Koomaraswami
Surendra Nath Dasgupta
Mysore Hiriyanna
P V Kane
R G Bhandarkar
Rahula Sankrityayan 
Rudrapatna Shamasastry
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
- it only goes to show your ignorance https://t.co/9dYlnBcRGN
https://twitter.com/bhAratenduH/status/1137917443672870912?s=19

What nonsense? Pollock et al are yet to produce a single book on sanskrit or Vedas that can come close to what are published by Sri Aurobindo & Kapali shastri institute. Pollock type fellows don't even get Sanskrit right...Forget producing truly scholarly works.
https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1137857120311767041?s=19

To answer it one should have either realized about the Bharateeya culture by travelling and interacting with common people all over India over few decades or be well versed in Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo. RRR was neither. He is a sharp but a colonial mind in brown skin.
https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1137845739982282752?s=19

New book (Rupa, pp. 260, Rs. 395) by the selfless warrior @Koenraad_Elst. Request all, esp. intellectual warrirors @Swamy39 @sanjeevsanyal  @swapan55 @davidfrawleyved  @ShefVaidya to endorse it for propagation - and for reading, and for doing the needful, too! https://t.co/fYVkP4YCWs
https://twitter.com/hesivh/status/1135804693295390720?s=19

How many RW dharam yoddhas have cared to publicise this? And the serene pusillanimous, self serving, party bootlicking wimp sitting atop at Shimla? Does he even read such stuff? https://t.co/Dqjvb2rNXr
https://twitter.com/db_is_db/status/1137749189691973637?s=19

He asking Sanjeev sanyal to promote it Lol i guy who belive that it was good that sanskrit was removed from india.
https://twitter.com/rohits95/status/1137774686664704000?s=19

Let's ban PowerPoint in lectures – it makes students more stupid and professors more boring 
https://t.co/iejbIhoeGD
https://twitter.com/aparanjape/status/1137924775647465473?s=19

Legends never die in the hearts of their well wishers & admirers #RIPGirishKarnad you will forever remain an icon , inspiration for many around the world
https://twitter.com/JaiveerShergill/status/1137960874549829632?s=19

#GirishKarnad will no more be found in the banal world of spoken politics, but that is not where we must look for him. Art/culture doesn't perish, it accumulates, spreads, embeds in the soil, even if broken, like ancient potsherds. https://t.co/IgF96chO5b
https://twitter.com/kazhugan/status/1137960853221781504?s=19

He was a Hindu hating zealot who exploited his own Hindu/Brahmin identity to subvert Hinduism. https://t.co/5WtVv3c4pr
https://twitter.com/Shakra_Kulish/status/1137955545007251456?s=19

Modiji I never followed #GirishKarnad 's work. I remember him for the hate & venom he spewed against you, BJP & Hindutva. As a staunch leftist Mr. Karnad was as intolerant as they come. Yes - 'may his soul rest in peace. - coz he was never at peace while alive!
I won't miss him. https://t.co/jIcFe9ZU8i
https://twitter.com/s_duvvuri/status/1137968104078598144?s=19

Veteran actor & artist #GirishKarnad will be missed dearly, his unmatched success and talent revived media and literature. His works are fond memories of an era of good will and growing art. May his soul attain supreme peace. Condolences to the loved ones from @PandaJay 
https://twitter.com/mp_office/status/1137967268657225729?s=19

Girish Karnad’s passing  away is not just a loss to theatre, films, and literature but more a loss of a sane voice. Always spoke his mind to defend what he found worth defending. RIP
https://twitter.com/irfhabib/status/1137965952673280001?s=19

As the host of Turning Point, Girish Karnad kept the nation enthralled with science. As a playwright, he used history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. As a human being, he often took the path less travelled. May you continue to walk them, Sir. #RIPGirishKarnad https://t.co/SBjhBhrnQe
https://twitter.com/amamsshah/status/1137960039195430912?s=19

Once upon a time, there was an India—a Karnataka—in which a #GirishKarnad could co-direct and do the screenplay for ‘Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane’, a movie based on a book of the same name by S.L. Bhyrappa (in Hindi as ‘Godhuli’). https://t.co/P7XflyrH2G
https://twitter.com/churumuri/status/1137962439599747072?s=19

Going by this video, isn't it clear that this man is a dangerous Islamic fanatic & supremacist, besides being a hate-monger, Hindu-baiter & threat to Indian secularism; an eloquent, educated inheritor of the Razakar legacy, a second Jinnah in the making? https://t.co/NJ1uizvgNk
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1137831124363665409?s=19

'"Why are moments memorable?", Meena Kumari asks, and then replies, " If we knew that , life would perhaps lose all its savour "... Do not pause to ask why
Such a wonderful thought that Meenaji shares on Life 
Please Do read #MeenaKumari #Filmfare https://t.co/r2D7iHQVXi
https://twitter.com/FcMeena/status/1137765463239274498?s=19