Friday, July 12, 2019

Sense of participatory citizenship is priceless



The Fractal Organization: Creating Enterprises of Tomorrow
N Joseph - South Asian Journal of Management, 2019
… larger scales. The author introduces fractal based systems thinking for organizational change and development by combining fractal science from Mandelbrot and physical-vital- mental orientations from Sri Aurobindo. Fractals …

[PDF] Happiness explained by the ancient Hindu Scriptures and the temporal nonlocality in Quantum Entanglement
J Paul - 2019
… any sort. - Brihadaaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.14 According to Sri Aurobindo, happiness is the natural state of humanity, as he mentions in his book 'The Life Divine', he informs about it as delight of existence. Srimad Bhagavad …

[PDF] Cinema and the Evolutionary Emotional-Aesthetics of Sri Aurobindo
MA Kaplan
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, poet and one of the first integral theorists, having developed an integrated system of Yoga called Integral Yoga (1993). One of Aurobindo's contributions to integral theory was its application to the …

The Global Rise of the Far Right
W Bello, A CHANGE, PS SERIES
… tni), Netherlands Sayaka Funada-Classen, Japan Shuji Hisano, Kyoto
University, Japan Koichi Ikegami, Kinki Universit, Japan Alexander Nikulin, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public …

Assorted tweets:

There's an unstated fantasy about the West. This fantasy juxtaposes "5000-yr backward, caste-ridden India" vs the West as some egalitarian heaven. We forget that the West had chattel slavery till the 19th century and, mostly, women could vote and own property only in the 20th.
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1149410855643054081?s=19
In practically every epoch of human history, India has been more egalitarian, wealthier, with more diversity and acceptance than the West. All the qualities of the West we see now, even physical cleanliness of cities, is barely 100-150 years old. 2/n
The narrative of internalized Western supremacy is an artifact of colonialism. Colonialism of *our* minds, and *their* colonial loot, slavery and appropriation of native lands and resources as the basis of their economic progress. https://t.co/BWOZlIBv6C
A reminder that Australia was settled by White criminals who started off by killing, raping and destroying the indigenous peoples. #ChristianMorality #SAvsAUS https://t.co/2zgNQeRbz3
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/977694170763509761?s=19
Till the 60s Australia classified native people under "flora and fauna"—as animals, not human. Now missionaries in India claim they are here to "save" tribal people. #SAvsAUS #AUSvsSA https://t.co/tFxXJ3N8cl
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/977696474048839680?s=19
Till the 20th century, the West was still keeping human beings in zoos, just as native people up till 1970s in Australia were legally "animals." Now their trained Indian sepoys parrot how "Brahmanism" oppressed tribal people (for missionaries to "save") 🙄 https://t.co/i1387FoI5v
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1149415708624732160?s=19
Christian history is one of slavery, subjugation and genocide. Till 20th century, Australian Christians classified aborigines as animals. https://t.co/ihouyFqGRa
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/935015689424916480?s=19
Per Indian “liberals”, missionaries come to “save” “tribals” & “Dalits.” Strange they’ve never saved anyone else
https://t.co/0eYNoJg5xH
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/935017100011343872?s=19

But more than just benefits of economy, tech education etc, what Indians benefitted from, which is quite priceless, is the sense of participatory citizenship. In spite of the Brits *not* allowing full citizenship to Indian hoi polloi, the intro to the concept was change enough.
https://twitter.com/kaeshour/status/1149361902868455424?s=19
Ambedkar speaks at length about it. Of course some Indians will inevitably say that Indians already had it since Mahabharata or something (bloody typical!)...
The fact is we were, and to an extent still are, a socially challenged people. Paper-thin social contract. Airy-fairy rule of law. Ekeing out an existence based on extended familial/caste/biradari networks, or in places purely tribal codes of behaviour.
I used to think it didn’t but I’m increasingly of the view that India’s interaction with British colonialism was far more beneficial than we give it credit for. Almost necessary for Indian social reform & economic revival, even though the initial period was quite extractive.
Not a people who could have innovated a sense of citizenship naturally. We had to borrow it and that is what we did. Quite consciously. It is to Indians’ credit that they didn’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
https://twitter.com/kaeshour/status/1149363146269872129?s=19

History of cow protection in india
Fantastic, must-read article by @entropied https://t.co/EhLNMOxHsP
https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1149350605871169536?s=19

Many years ago, I walked in Pandharpur Wari all the way from Akkalkot. Million of people walk 100s of KMs to go see the beauty of Vitthoba and Rukumayi. It is a frenzy, the likes of which can be experienced only by taking part in it https://t.co/Fistk4MKzw
https://twitter.com/snsachinnandu/status/1149497155368787973?s=19

"Women Of Pride", by Lakshmi Vishwanathan
Ordered this - really looking forward to it!
"studies, in depth, the devadasi tradition and its transformation into a living cultural phenomenon in the context of Hindu tradition. https://t.co/zV3bkfAtyw h/t @by2kaafi
#books #Hinduism https://t.co/L8ZUb5YnEQ
https://twitter.com/AbhinavAgarwal/status/1139777683032686592?s=19

Best translation of 'vairAgya' is given by Sri Bannanje Govindacharya. He terms it 'detached attachment'. So someone having no money is not vairagya but a very rich person not affected by wealth is indeed vairagya. Chaturmasya vrata develops sankalpa ability (control) of manas.
https://twitter.com/pranasutra/status/1149513997005123584?s=19

"Re-imagining" and "mythology" - exactly what the Leftist and Left-leaning history writers used to do! In fact some of them insisted that history was not to be telling truth about the past - it was justifying the past to suit the requirements of the historian's ideology! https://t.co/1X19WKB7UE
https://twitter.com/tmmenon/status/1149552930229374976?s=19

The Hindu Charter demands equal constitutional rights to Hindus on par with the rest of the communities. Watch this video where the speaker discusses why Articles 26-30 need to be amended to ensure equality for all.
Sign now: https://t.co/GIX6tBNXKo
https://t.co/dtc5IjXHPM https://t.co/uGUXlcDdqN
https://twitter.com/HinduCharter/status/1149551481726439425?s=19

Mahābhārata – Episode 74 – The Invincible Bhīṣma https://t.co/81u2P3Bb1J
https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1149560992524726274?s=19

Every Hindu child must be made to MEMORIZE the verses in Mudrarakshasa that bring out Chanakya's character so powerfully. These childhood lessons will act as a great bulwark against any challenges in life.
--- Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch
#quote https://t.co/Ag39uFq2BS
https://twitter.com/_Bhaarat_/status/1149562667515826176?s=19

My theory is that Sleeping Beauty (1959) is the most beautiful animated film ever created and to support my argument I've brought along these images. https://t.co/0iM3FaZBgn
https://twitter.com/scottEweinberg/status/1146977284995387392?s=19
The conceptual work alone is worth the price of admission. Eyvind Earle was a master. https://t.co/I0GowakFZm
https://twitter.com/wardomatic/status/1147138449750790144?s=19
Basically every Disney movie from 1939 to 1969 was a beautifully artistic masterpiece. So here’s my proof to back me up. https://t.co/IInoY89mgl
https://twitter.com/artwastenot/status/1147055888143810561?s=19

"Man to his earth drawn always prefers his nethermost promptings,
Man, devouring, devoured who is slayer & slain through the ages
Since by the beast he soars held & exceeds not that pedestal’s measure.." #Illion_BookVII #SriAurobindo #WorldPopulationDay (Art: John Pitre) https://t.co/av5krB8Bqr
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1149325155551723521?s=19

@Auro_Mere @mirra21_mala @DhruvalKhurana Yesterday late in the night remembered a line of #Savitri by #SriAurobindo ..
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life.
Had faint memories of devotees praying to the Mother to press with her 🦶their chest , literally! May kindly confirm! https://t.co/ILFTOZmPTt
https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1149572596846878722?s=19

Please request @M_Lekhi to check the documents for the land surrounded by Sri Aurobindo Marg, Sarvodaya Enclave, Kalu Serai & Mother's International School. An ashram has been occupying the land for ages.
https://twitter.com/SunlitSeeker/status/1149525892927873026?s=19

Modi govt is perceived to have developed serious doubts on the legitimacy of Hindutva. This is a welcome development and vindicates our stand. Gandhi, I think, is only a temporary phase; a red herring for attracting support from diverse quarters. Ultimate anchor is Sri Aurobindo.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149385064985198592?s=19
RW was about ideology: a curios combination of Market & Mythology. Now it's marketing: soliciting donations, selling books, endorsing resorts, seeking conference sponsorships, LitFests. Left survived by exactly this strategy. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149604145143275523?s=19
VIP VAK: It's a wrong move to punish Peter Heehs https://t.co/BZqqRqn9kG @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (UP) #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149365478004969474?s=19

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Tuesday, July 09, 2019

English of Sri Aurobindo seems like some secret tantric language


Assorted tweets:


the Orchid and the rOse: Sri Aurobindo's fame as a mystic obscured his importance as a poet and aesthetician https://t.co/r3Be8GwJYe
@NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148120736667561985?s=19

Another Prof. @MakrandParanspe (ed) book I have is Sri Aurobindo Reader. "This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatana Dharma, with it it moves and with it it grows." ~Sri Aurobindo. @avatans @AbhinavAgarwal @IndicAcademy @indictoday https://t.co/CY4OvPPcju
https://twitter.com/IndicBookClub/status/1148429983410532353?s=19

Savitri is engrossing, reading it never gives me the feel that I am reading English, rather it takes me to timelines that seem to even predate Sanskrit itself, the English of rishi aurobindo seems to be like some lost or secret tantric language, at the dawn of human civilization. https://t.co/urS9EX70Ad
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1148433473503318016?s=19

You are latching on to it...that ‘feeling’ you mention is a trait of mantric speech...where by use of symbols and allusions the strict boundaries of rational mind are broken so to speak to let one experience ranges of existence otherwise impossible to get to..
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1148434335776702464?s=19
It’s been my experience that when reading Sri Aurobindo, the being withdraws inward..and there seem to be a million mind tongues savouring each sliver of that immensity viewed through the keyhole of our being..
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1148434803122814976?s=19
This happens not just for mantric language but also for elevated music..for me it is western classical, some types of Bhakti songs..so many experiences have arrived due to music..not the pop/rock stuff of course, which excite the vital but has nothing of the higher sap
This higher sap is what i look for when savouring any literature or art or music..it is then we realise that the higher inspiration is so pervasive in life..our cultural conditions prepare or limit us to certain forms only..so breaking this limitation is essential to see ananda!

@HRDMinistry why are Sri Aurobindo's works not in the syllabus. He is the most accomplished English language poet and his Savitri is the longest and sublimest english poetry in the world. But why none of our universities teach it when students in universities abroad study it. https://t.co/cKXEtrhc8o
https://twitter.com/SpiritWithBody/status/1148160430482829312?s=19

A little of his criticism is included in the CBCS BA  syllabus. But not poetry. Sonnets, Tiger n the Deer r in the MA syllabus of Visva-Bharati. It shd be there in BA syllabus too.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1148220035304787970?s=19

Sri Aurobindo on The Principle of Free Confederation versus The Idea of Self -Determination: The cases of Finland and Poland. https://t.co/2cFME4PEm0
https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1148139727599493121?s=19

It never ceases to amaze me how determined people are to blame "all of us" in general for political outcomes when our already anti-democratic system has been even further rigged in favor of one party for a decade and the man who is currently president lost by millions of votes.
Who's to blame for the state of society? Is it the people with institutional power they can exercise, in many cases, with no effective restraints or accountability? Or is it the unorganized mass of people in general? Gosh, tough one.
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1148306300402581505?s=19
I know it's scary to admit to ourselves that we're trapped in the belly of this terrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death, but maybe it's better to face a feeling of powerlessness than to spend our time making our fellow powerless peons feel like shit.
The paradox of the head of government being effectively immune from prosecution through control over law enforcement is not fixable. It is an inherent conceptual problem. The only solution is to make it easier to remove a head of state so that they can be prosecuted out of office
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1148296873666588675?s=19
The other solution, which may turn out to be more robust, would be to figure out a way to organize human society without a "buck stops here" figure in the first place, but that is impossible within the global framework of nation-states.
In either case, the Founders bequeathed us a system where the president IS above the law for all practical purposes, by requiring such an absurdly high standard for removal. Literally no president in American history has been successfully impeached and removed. None.
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1148297609536253954?s=19
I guess I don't understand why hardcover books even exist anymore. They are unwieldy and irritating, and it's never clear what you're supposed to do with the stupid dust jacket.
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1148240427964882944?s=19

Work needs to be done on polytheist frameworks for speaking about human rights, all the more so on account of polytheists' justified suspicion of universalisms.
https://twitter.com/EPButler/status/1148304111856693250?s=19
Perhaps one place to start would be by recognizing "universality" as something that we approach without ever expecting to simply attain, rather than something we intuit from out of the blue.
No tradition is so introverted as to not address somehow an exterior. We need to see what we can grasp structurally about such dispositions, and about the conditions of justice and injustice arising from them.
Otherwise, we are stuck with a futile and destructive opposition between monoculture and a multiplicity defined by conflict.
We have to recognize that no individual is wholly constituted without remainder by group or tradition membership. This is an insight congenial to polytheist metaphysics on a deep level.
The fact that polytheisms have as a central focus the formation, conservation and perpetuation of stable communities is certainly not a bug, but a feature. To reduce them wholly to this function, however, is a caricature.
Every tradition, every single one, and I include the monotheisms here as well, provides a basis for moral agency; but all of them likely also possess factors that can undermine this agency.
https://twitter.com/EPButler/status/1148326452636598272?s=19

Where do atheists, who reject teleology by definition, get the standing to talk about "rights" in the first place anyway? Utilitarianism is dumb (MacIntyre infamously pointed out that Nazis were happier to kill Jews than they were pained to be dead) but at least its not nonsense
https://twitter.com/TAJackson20/status/1148373935496425472?s=19

Why even sixty years’ of original work of the rare duo of Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel hardly left a mark on the intellectual scene of our country https://t.co/5qyLWcOIpt via @dharmadispatch
https://twitter.com/nitaldave/status/1148156674370260993?s=19

The study of social dynamics and inter-ethnic conflicts in India is irreparably screwed up in the current mileau. It is still based on outdated 19th century notions of caste and erroneously modeled after European feudal system. A de novo study based on evolutionary anthropology https://t.co/FI3EjzAWb4
https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1083527277801988096?s=19
Is very much desired. Majority don't even know the word caste subsumed two very different entities- varna and jati. Varna was an intra-Indo-Aryan classification of priest-philosophers, warriors and lay people. It became meaningless the moment Indo-Aryan speakers started
Interacting with various ethnic groups and the emergence of nation-state with a heterogeneous mix of ethnic groups. This emergence was due to IA cultural ethos and various groups "Aryanized" at their own rate. This entailed a mapping into a varna which by now is just theoretical.
Unfortunately misunderstanding of the processes affect real people due to faulty understanding and dubious political policies.
M.N. Srinivas the Sociologist came close with his study on "Sanskritization" as a means of upward social mobility.
Unfortunately social studies in India is leftist bullshit from west with a time lag.
https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1083539857354321920?s=19


Remember, it were the Hindus who gladly accepted the passing of the Hindu Code Bills in 1955 that took away their rights to practice personal law.
Am sure Mr Ansari and proponents of the right to practice personal law wouldn't mind the BJP tearing up the Hindu Code Bills. Wait.

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1017394620425228294?s=19

A Debate in Ancient India: An extract from my book Krishna Gopeshvara illustrating debating culture of ancient India and how totalitarian political systems (religions) sought to destroy that culture. Krishna rescued it from Kamsa, world should do it now https://t.co/nItb1JD8pV
https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1148171220975673344?s=19

By rigorously respecting time honoured religious tradition of seeking the blessings of the divine before commencing any substantial task, @isro continues to rule the heart of the common man in this nation and makes us proud. Never forget the roots sir! https://t.co/5m9cfsznFZ
https://twitter.com/anshul_pandey/status/1148244228993982471?s=19


Sections of the Tamil country uncritically swallowed the “Dravidian” propaganda, internalized it, gave it an ideological shape premised basically on the linguistic separateness of Tamil. By Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch 
https://t.co/fHZA3frLPv @sukaul @UrviMD

https://twitter.com/_Bhaarat_/status/1148174221723369473?s=19


India’s forced embrace of globalisation in the mid-1990s reawakened the West’s interest in India, and one major consequence has been an explosion of books about India written by Westerners — by Sandeep Balakrishna ji @dharmadispatch
https://t.co/ABvrkTEkHj

https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1148178940608909313?s=19


“When I savour the art it gives me the experience of entering Heaven. When I see the inner workings of the artist, there is something else. Why is this contradiction?”
Mandra: The Triumph of Ramkumari https://t.co/TyRSIx2RS3

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1148273771435847683?s=19


Many on Left no longer argue with pol opponents, but attempt to delegitimise them -get them sacked, brand them with term like ‘racist’ or ‘denier’, to try to ruin their business. Either you agree with us, or you do not deserve to be heard. https://t.co/w8yY6BWpZk
https://twitter.com/vinaleekha1/status/1148481458727604224?s=19


The Seen and the Unseen is quickly becoming my favourite Podcast. I barely even notice the irritating traffic these days while driving. Calmly trundling along to some fascinating discussions (some of it does go over my head at times but what's Google for eh?). Cheers @amitvarma

https://twitter.com/LoftyCheeks88/status/1148133258397249536?s=19


Message has gone out that Naveen Patnaik is invincible and yet the future is uncertain, or rather pregnant with possibilities. Both Congress and BJP are struggling to erect a safe ideological scaffolding. Putting Sri Aurobindo on pedestal is the right recipe for reaping dividends.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148481920780492800?s=19

Evergreen Essays: Gandhi was a master of the political deployment of ritual https://t.co/zji8iDD1a7
@NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (UP) #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148188150168092672?s=19

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