Voltaire jolted me through his satire

For some reason I'm reminded of Candide today. Voltaire jolted me (I was ~16 then) through his satire. Nothing was ever the same again.

I refuse to tolerate oppression - by government. 

We must not allow human dignity to be compromised in the name of protecting our health.

https://twitter.com/sabhlok/status/1308539312594509824?s=19

"Leave something of sweetness and substance in the mouth of the world."

How to live and how to die: https://t.co/XvlFcroa28

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1308534542488211458?s=19

The #COVID19 pandemic is worsening already high and rising wealth and income inequality in both advanced and emerging economies. When all is said and done, inequality may end up at its highest since before the advent of the modern welfare state. My latest: https://t.co/uuL2Z4sTBH

https://twitter.com/vdehejia/status/1308533643552395264?s=19

Feminism is the last resort for drug addicts and their apologists. If any one has specific info about drug consumption of Bollywood men and if he shares those, and the info isn’t acted upon, he can legitimately complain, not before.

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1308529517976342528?s=19

I ❤️ Stats: Does astrology work? Does homeopathy work? How will you test it? How will you set up a clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a medicine. The logic of statistical thinking and the concepts that guide statistical inferences and conclusions.

https://t.co/jNBDY9F2JF https://t.co/8Bt9uOHgng

https://twitter.com/amiya_rbehera/status/1308540128772665346?s=19

Mental models that the schooling must not ignore. If you don't know these, you are not thinking right in most circumstances. #ThinkingHabits #CriticalThinking

https://t.co/dTRLFOR1za https://t.co/Bu9Ydz2xVE

From hypocrisy to democracy, This way: Delegated Proof of Stake 

https://t.co/fUvnbOSOwg

Unfair Democracy https://t.co/37eFkuLTf6

Tree of Democracy: Design it and improve it with time. #EvolutionaryDemocracy 

https://t.co/ex0q4tcJLS

Message to millennial who are planning for kids. If you give another 5 years to this type of govt, you are dragging the younger generation more closer to extinction, not just extinction but miserable extinction in 100 years

https://t.co/8nH4XhRJSo

#Fair #democracy of experts without any intermediaries or brokers such as politicians (MPs, MLAs, PM, CM) and bureaucrats, who delay the implementation. People will transact directly with their service provider departments.

https://t.co/kvW14Pc00w

How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop

Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.

https://t.co/7UDpWRgapo https://t.co/9FpOoHC3z5

#CriticalThinking #Logic #Fallacy #Bias

Common sense is not a gift, it’s a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it. https://t.co/MvntZxYXLo https://t.co/BJ1stanoxG

Cricket, Bollywood, and Music keep the youth busy. No incentive in reading. Basically, no intellectual quest. Lack of acquaintance with Philosophy proper is the cause.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1308506791123189760?s=19

The Formation of Sri Aurobindo’s Vision https://t.co/mJZfUqwy35

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1308422366792421377?s=19

As ARYA (1914-1921) will close within next four months a hundred years ago let's remember that ten to twelve major works of Sri Aurobindo got published in a systematic manner. Collectively these books constitute a veritable University. Indians need to read https://t.co/evlIvfvRuZ

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1307633048830185475?s=19

Śaṅkara never refers to any experiences of his own

And while Śaṅkara was perhaps nondualism's purest and most famous exponent, it was taken up by many others in various ways – including by very different enemies of Śaṅkara. The later theistic thinker Rāmānuja wanted to assert against Śaṅkara that the plurality of things in the world is real, and yet he accepted Śaṅkara's basic nondualism: his philosophical system was called Viśiṣṭādvaita, differentiated or qualified nondualism. He aimed to produce a harmonious synthesis: the plurality of the world is not an illusion, as Śaṅkara would have it, but the parts of the divine One.

Now while Rāmānuja could be harshly critical of Śaṅkara himself, he remained in Śaṅkara's basic camp of loyalty to the Vedas and especially the Upaniṣads. Śaṅkara had much greater hostility to the Buddhists, who rejected the entirety of the Vedas and Upaniṣads. And yet – here is the striking thing – a very large number of Buddhists themselves accepted nondualism. The Yogācāra school had been taking up some form of nondualism since before Śaṅkara's time, enough that to other Vedāntic thinkers Śaṅkara's school just looked like the Buddhism they were familiar with; for that reason they even called him a "crypto-Buddhist" (pracchanna bauddha).

But it is crucial that most of the thinkers I've named here do not cite experience as the ground of their claims. Wilhelm Halbfass in India and Europe reminds us that Śaṅkara never refers to any experiences of his own; Chinese nondualists like Zhiyi didn't either, according to John McRae and Robert Sharf. But if anything, I think that nondualism's non-experiential provenance gives it more plausibility. That is, nondualism's exponents did not merely see it in an altered state of consciousness, but viewed it as somehow a logical necessity.

Cross-posted at Love of All Wisdom.

Amod Lele | August 30, 2020 at 9:55 pm | URL: https://wp.me/p486Wp-1br

CHAPTER TWO NEO-VEDANTA: SOME CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE CONTEXTS

M SIVARAMAKRISHNAN - Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India: Approaches in …, 2020

… A little later Swami Vivekananda's call for a spiritual regeneration–a new epistemology– helped to cement this identity further. With Sri Aurobindo, an integral, hermeneutic, developed Neo-Vedanta arrived! Page 33. 24 Chapter …

Divine and Divine-Human Speeches of the Devi: The Speech Contexts and the Dynamics of Authority in the Devi Gitas

A Mukhopadhyay - The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess …, 2020

… The paradigm of the authority of Devi's speech that is manifested in the Devi Gitas gets reflected, in the twentieth century, in Aurobindo's epic, Savitri, where Ashwapaty's sadhana, his deep yogic meditation on the Divine Mother …

Two “Devis”, Two “Gurus” Speaking with Authority: Sarada Devi and Anandamayi Ma

A Mukhopadhyay - The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess …, 2020

This chapter re-contextualizes the female gurus in Hinduism within the traditions of celebrating Devi's speech as encapsulating the ultimate spiritual authority. The female guru is often seen by her...

Modifying Masculinity: Tantric Culture, Female Speech and Reframed Masculinities

A Mukhopadhyay - The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess …, 2020

… She is not just the Word that is possessed and utilized by men; rather, she is the mover of the words spoken by men. In Sri Aurobindo's Mother, we come across a continuous insistence on the aspirant's complete surrender to the divine feminine …

[PDF] A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE 'MULTIPLE RENAISSANCES'

PA BLITSTEIN - The Historical Journal

… And precisely because this renaissance was not European, it may have inspired Toynbee's 'multiple renaissances' thesis. Aurobindo Ghose (or Sri Aurobindo,  an important nationalist activist and, after the s, a spiritual leader – is a good example …

[PDF] Ken Wilber's Problematic Relationship to Science

F Visser - INTEGRAL REVIEW, 2020

… to Spirit. In later works he reversed these terms (following Sri Aurobindo), with involution being the prior movement from Spirit to maya and evolution being the opposite and subsequent movement from maya to Spirit. (Wilber …

[HTML] Gandhi on Caturvarṇa and Niṣkāma Karma: A Re-interpretation

ER Mitra - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2020

… This reading, while borrowing heavily from Shri Aurobindo's reading of Caturvarṇa, will seek to give it a more neutral and expansive direction, shorn of all associated suggestions of intransigence and empirical contingencies …

Cosmos and Consciousness: The Metaphysical Alternatives

RC Pradhan - Metaphysics of Consciousness, 2020

… Our universe cannot be conceived if we do not include these realities in the constitution of the universe. 9.4 Creation and Cosmic Consciousness: Sri Aurobindo and Nagel … 9.11 Mind and Spirit: The Cosmic Teleology in Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysics …

Matter, Life and Mind: Setting the Boundaries of the Mind in Advaita Vedanta

RC Pradhan - Metaphysics of Consciousness, 2020

… place in the universe. Mind is the most visible face of the universe in that the universe appears to be pervaded by the mind and consciousness (Sankara 1997a, b; Sri Aurobindo 1973) in its basic structure. Besides mind, there 

'Passive Resistance'in India, 1905–09

D Hardiman - The Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19

… The important contribution of the Bengali nationalist, Aurobindo Ghose, in the development of this strategy is analyzed … The important contribution of the Bengali nationalist, Aurobindo Ghose, in the development of this strategy is analyzed …

[PDF] Exploring the Horizons of Change: A Study of Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke

A Narula

… Indian nationalism. However, in the post colonial era, the dalits soon understood that their culture was distinctly different from that of the caste Hindu … Kamble emphasises about the impact of two movies Sant Tukaram …

The Metaphysics of Consciousness: The Foundations of a Transcendental Theory of Consciousness

RC Pradhan - Metaphysics of Consciousness, 2020

… the engaged Self. Thus we are at the beginning of the new era in the philosophy of Self or consciousness because of the importance of the embodied consciousness in understanding man and the world. In Indian philosophy …