Assorted tweets collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956) @NathTusar, Director SELF (2005)
He was named Arabinda (meaning Lotus in Bengali) but his name appears as the editor of Arya in 1914 as Sri Aurobindo Ghose. Subsequently, however, he signed as Sri Aurobindo and his books are published under this adopted name (pronounced as one composite word, श्रीअरविन्द). So, writing Aurobindo is incorrect.
Savitri Era Open Forum: Overmind as a repository of dichotomies seof.blogspot.com/2021/09/overmi
Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006) & Savitri Era Party (2007)
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Auroville founded in 1968 was evidently a dilution of the Ashram established in 1926. Sri Aurobindo wrote philosophy for public before it but switched to spirituality for disciples. His writings are unmatched as being logical but no assurances should be offered on actual results.
It's easy to quote to extol spirituality but, ultimately, it's nothing but a cult in the garb of yoga. People in general regard Sri Aurobindo as a rishi or a guru but Savitri Era Religion will keep growing around his versatile personality and The Mother's enigma and charisma.
The Mother herself was the brain behind Auroville, otherwise it would have been seen as blaspheme. No wonder, it continues to be under the mire of conflicts and controversies. Strangely, the govt doesn't take any corrective action to mend myriad imperfections of one of its wings.
Listen to "Ascent of Consciousness and the Descent of the Higher Consciousness Into Mind-Life-Body" by Sri Aurobindo Studies.
Sri Aurobindo on the primal secret of Reality, Overmind as a repository of dichotomies and the dilemma of the Absolute iiyp.net/lifedivinechap
for eg, Sri Aurobindo had a very non-conventional interpretation of the Gita. But his intent was Decolonial. Hindus who wish to engage with that do. The way BORI is interpreting is harmful. Knowledge production cant be separated from the power structures that produce them.
Last 30 days, there have been over half dozen instance where "Auroville" was mentioned. Hence picked this book, 100+ pages, seems like a blockbuster.
I read it. It's a critique of 'blind' faith - unpleasant things that happened to 2 Aurovilians are speculated to be the result of their reliance on the advice of Mother's protege, the radical ex-Ashramite Satprem. The author says he is on the side of skeptic reason, but that he admires the 'purity' of the blindly faithful. However, there is no discussion of what distinguishes true faith from mechanical and blind worship. I think it is an objective account of the life history of the Aurovilian protagonists - but there is no insight regarding what exactly spirituality is, individually or collectively , at least to my perception. To ardent followers of Satprem, this book is an insult. Otoh, those who are ambivalent about faith, especially at the collective level, will feel vindicated. Well, more spiritual than religious - they have no bar or preference for any religion. Its a place to practice Karma yoga is how I've heard it described. Satprem is a major character - check out the Mother's Agenda at
incarnateword.in - google itI am not really aware of this aspect. I have been to Auroville many times, but my contact is because of devotees of Sri Aurobindo. Don't know much about these other thingsResiliency, diversity, perms culture, native gardens .. etc which lead to multiple good work from that village. there are good examples to learn from the transformation of degraded lands to thriving, productive, ecosystem, that support local livelihood
Make sense. I used think of spiritualism like that. But now i feel it’s major type of religion which includes the common elements of Buddhism, Jainism , Hinduism. All provides a notion of spirit, it’s life cycle, and tolerance for others views/occupation.
Wonderful! #SriAurobindo. The left historians with all their mighty brains could not understand the meaning of Sri Aurobindo's Nationalism. They equated this with Hindutwa!
10 sentences frm #SriAurobindo n #TheMother r more useful than all the babbles of the sarkari babas and sadhus of India. They are hypocrites and rich sadhus. Sri Aurobindo is not a dead guru. He is as living as he was before 5 December 1950. One may check my claim in his words.
So before you bow your ignorant sacrificial head towards these haters, know all well that you are next in line. The book by #JyotiryamaSharma claims Dayananda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar -- are all founding fathers of #Hindutva!
Replying to @harshmadhusudan
English of Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda takes you closer to Dharma than the chaste Hindi of Rahula Sankrityayan, once Sitaram Goel said. Teaching science and Maths in mother tongue is indeed needed but that should go beyond the impractical 'throw English out' attitude.
I have seen many traditionalists here on Twitter canceling the likes of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar as a Trad. So who is a trad? How do u define it? What are their contributions? Would u consider Swamiji a Trad? Or does the definition keep changing? What abt Savarkar or Aurobindo?
No, he isn't. On the contrary, some folks in Trad sections accept Aurobindo more than SVN while others reject both. Without knowing Marathi or having read Savarkar's original writings ppl shd refrain. Sad part is even a part of Sangh has projected VDS as something he was not.
Replying to @rahulroushan
Are you serious? That Taklu who had twisted understanding of Gita, Ramayan, Dharma. The closest trad I could think of is Maharishi Aurobindo
This blanket rhetorical dislike of all things "western" is really something new
Even the "cultural nationalists" of the 19th/20th cen would not toe the lines of some of the trad accounts on twitter - be it Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Savarkar
Anti-caste is too strong a term. Don't know abt Savarkar but spirituality in India was always something beyond caste. In that sense Sri Aurobindo's spirituality was also caste-neutral. Hinduism is not a proselytizing religion & caste was a means to transmit itself generationally.
Replying to @pinakasena
Please do. As an aside:you included a list of types non trad Hindu trads who's approach u dislike. U didn't mention 1 type:ppl who follow Raman Maharshi or Sri Aurobindo sincerely.These masters indeed don't gv texts a precedence in actual practice of their line of Sadhna. Views?
I always found those working in KFI schools understood very little of what he said. So, children imbibed all nonsense only. Same with Sri Aurobindo school.
Replying to @rahulroushan
Tilak should be obvious choice but much better options are Aurobindo, Dayanand Saraswati (reformist so not trad) or then directly Adi Shankaracharya!
No "Trad" Hindu ever became a freedom fighter fighting against the British.
Most were of the "reformists" & "Leftist" variety. But devout Hindus. Some of them took on both "M" leaders & the British simultaneously. "Trads" did None.
Savarkar ; Aurobindo ; Pulin Das ; Ghadarites.. none of them were Trads.
Even Lalaji or Bipin Pal were Not Trads by the standards of that generation
Chapekar brothers were pioneers. But NOT "more successful" than the likes of Rashbehari Bose. Tilak was part of Extremist group of INC; which included Lala Lajpat Rai (an Arya Samaji); Bipin Chandra Pal & Aurobindo Ghosh (Pal was a Brahmo; Ghosh from Brahmo background) As for Chandrashekhar Azad ; last night his comrade Bhagat Singh was abused by Trads
"Bengal renaissance" is incomplete without Vidyasagar, Bankim, Aurobindo, Vivekananda. There were scores of Brahmos who deserve to be celebrated ! Should we reject Rabindranath, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Satyajit Ray just because they happened to be Brahmo ?
Replying to @madversity
In fact that Sri Aurobindo found the root of His Savitri in the RgVeda.and spoke contrary to trad Hindus extolling Upanishads as 'refined n essence of veda'. Rgveda alone,he said speaks of heavenly waters drenching the earth as divinisation of matter flash/earth. @raptor_fossil
Sri Aurobindo had a strong non-denominational spirituality. He was not parochial. He did not confuse culture with spirituality. With the Mother, he ushered in modern Hinduism. Beyond the Vedas, with his own meditative insights
So before people start dissing on Bengalis, first they need to learn what exactly happened in Bengal. All the Bengali intellectual stalwarts, including Vivekananda and Aurobindo germinated from the soul of Brahma Samaj.
The fact is that none of the Sanyāsis and Gurus of the 18th century created an intellectual culture comparable to the Brahma Samaj. They were all hiding in the margins, away from the political action in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Brahma Samaj was the origin of our resistance.
Yes. Until this point, which was recounted in Anandamath by Bankimchandra, there was nothing whatsoever as resistance from the Gurus.
And Brahma Samaj was critical for this awareness to have developed.
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We cannot judge a personality like Raja Rammohun Rai with today's standards. He had his own conditioning of his time. But he was also way beyond that. But for Brahmo Samaj a considerable section of educated Bengalis would have converted. It would have been disastrous for Hinduism twitter.com/HindolSengupta…