Tuesday, March 07, 2023

India has the potential and possibilities to lead the world

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)

12 hours ago — The seminar, aiming to bring out the significance of Sri Aurobindo's life and his teachings, will be attended by eminent scholars including Prof Sachidananda ...
3 hours ago — Addressing Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi's 143rd-year Jayanthi ... He quoted Rishi Aurobindo's dream for Bharat, which says it is Bharat's duty and divine ...

[PDF] National Revolutionism in Colonial Bengal: A Re-look at a Neglected History

SB Deb, BR Deb
… Aurobindo equated Goddess Durga with the motherland. This tradition of relying
upon Hindu heritage and past glory was also visible in the … This led to the arrest of
almost the entire group including its head, Aurobindo Ghosh. Thirty-four of them …

[PDF] Re-Engineering the Indian Healthcare System-A Contemporary Call in the Light of Holistic Approach

S Singh - The Essence of Yoga
… Concluding Remarks: India has the potential and possibilities to lead the world
towards a divine supermanhood as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. In his prophetic
words, as quoted by Mukherjee (1975), if India is able to develop indigenous …

[PDF] A Retrospective Study of a History of Outdoor Practices, Recreation, and Education in India

SJ Mitra - 2022
… Joshi (2003), while commenting on Aurobindo’s philosophy on the gurukul
system from the ancient period noted that “in this [gurukul] … The essence of
Aurobindo’s philosophy of the ancient Indian education indicates the experiential …

Episode 5: Gods and the City

R Bornberg - Urban India: Cultural Heritage, Past and Present, 2023
The worship of the gods still plays an important role in India today. As already
explained in the previous chapters the spatial arrangement of temples and shrines
played a central role in the worship of gods. The underlying mandalas represent the …

[PDF] Decoding Dharma, Religion-Mazhab within the Framework of the Two World-Views

RS Singh - Himachal Pradesh University Journal
This article is an attempt to understand Dharma and how it is different from Religion
and Mazhab. How the tradition of Dharma is deep rooted in the India World-View
and how it differs from Abrahamic traditions of Religion-Mazhab as developed …

Resilience Training in Dance: On Toxic Positivity, Attentional Focus, and Playful Discomfort

L Laberge-Côté - The International Journal of Arts Education, 2022
Building and sustaining a dance career requires more than technical and artistic
skills; it requires psychological resilience. How might resilience training be
effectively integrated within dance education? What might be the pitfalls associated …

Indian Society and Its Cultural Richness in Reference to Building Mental Health Resilience

A Kumar, A Sharma, A Pradhan - Facts and Artifacts of the Society, 2023
… Society always plays an integral role in a person's mental health. The way our
society functions it affect the way people think, feel, behave … Furthermore, many
Indian cultural practices as we discussed earlier such as meditation, yoga, and …

[PDF] Re-Engineering the Indian Healthcare System-A Contemporary Call in the Light of Holistic Approach

S Singh - The Essence of Yoga
Health and Education are two vital aspects of individual and collective life of man,
which are essential for all aspects of human development. But both these aspects
have turned into huge systems and have been made almost mechanical to such an …

Role of Physical Activity on Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review

M Aditya, P Pradeep, A Varun - Cureus, 2023
… Yoga is generally safe for most people and seldom causes unintended negative
consequences. Adding yoga to traditional treatment for mental health issues may be
beneficial. Many of the studies on yoga included meditation as an integral part of …

Social Sustainability: Elements and Influences

CR Charles - 2022
… called ‘Wisdom of the Heart’ which is an integral part of the culture of their
community, while Gaia Ashram offers many activities around earth-centered
spirituality as well as daily yoga and meditation sessions, all of which are integral …

[HTML] Hindu Civilizationism: Make India Great Again

RMA Saleem - Religions, 2023
… This paper explores how Hindu civilizationism is not only an essential part of the
Hindutva and BJP’s narrative but also the mainstay of several government policies.
The “other” of the BJP’s populist civilizationist rhetoric are primarily Muslims and …

How Secular Is Art?: On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia

T Guha-Thakurta, V Zamindar - 2023
… to be vanquished been only the ruthless cunning and claims of the forces of
Hindutva. But there were other demons to be fought their own falling … debates on
the meaning of secularism in a multireligious country that was fast being consumed …

[PDF] From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens

S Batabyal - Indian Journal of Mass Communication, 2023
Digital India, the government’s flagship programme, at first glance is a radical
departure from the past and a welcome step forward to digitise the country’s faltering
infrastructure. However, as this chapter argues, seen through a post-development …

[PDF] Science and Religion in India Beyond Disenchantment, by Renny Thomas

C Gangodawila - 2022
… Although no clause in the Indian constitution requires the state to remain neutral
on religious matters, nor does it say that religion should be the basis or reference for
state policy in Indian polytheist culture, it is hard to dispute that Hinduness (Hindutva) …

Western Academia's Toxic Hinduphobia

A Gupta - National Security, 2022
… For instance, a conference titled “Dismantling Global Hindutva” was organised at
the Stanford University in September 2021 to discuss, in the words of the organisers,
“the fascist dimensions of the ideology, its alignment with other supremacist …

Provincializing Bollywood: Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible: by Akshaya Kumar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021, 256 pp., 1495 INR …

SK Bissoyi - 2023
… He dives into society while keeping a constant vigil over the political happenings
of the country to study how the rise of right-wing Hindutva politics and caste-based-identity
politics shapes popular culture in the Bhojpuri speaking region (BSR). He …

Worldviews and Ideologies: Nationalism, Regionalism, Capitalism, Religion, and Other Weltanschauungen in Theme Parks

S Anton Clavé, F Carlà-Uhink, F Freitag - Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies …, 2023
The premise of this chapter is that theme parks always reflect, represent, and even
implement a certain series of values and worldviews, both on the representational
level (reflected in the choice of themes and how they are depicted) as well as on the …
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On The Mother's Birthday | BB Mohanty | Miraville Foundation | 2023
On The Mother's Birthday Anchoring: Aurosmita MohantySpeaker: Mr. Bharat Bhusan MohantySponsored & Produced By: Sri Aurobindo's Light TrustVideo - Billu Digi...
Mangesh V Nadkarni: Hindu-Muslim Unity in Sri Aurobindo’s Light auromaa.org/hindu-muslim-u
#Goa2Pondicherry picked up 3 booklets of Sri Aurobindo's compiled thoughts after an immersive, intense hour at his samadhi. thought a lot about my grandfather Armando Menezes, who was deeply drawn to this place, and whose poetry the sage publicly admired: incarnateword.in/compilations/s
The Sun of divine laughter This delight, this wonderful Laughter which dissolves all shadows, all pain, all suffering... We only have to go deep enough into ourselves to find the inner Sun.. Read more at motherandsriaurobindo.in/The-Mother/boo #SriAurobindo #TheMother #yoga
KALARIPAYATTU & MAYURBHANJ CHHAU with Kathivanoor Veeran. A traditional Theyyam story told on the body language of Kalaripayattu and Mayurbhanj Chhau, 22 February 2023 at Bharat Nivas. #SriAurobindo #Auroville #Aurovillefoundation
Received A New Approach to the Vedas by Ananda K Coomaraswamy. He was a brilliant man who appreciated the Veda in a deeper intellectual and spiritual light. His insights parallel those of Sri Aurobindo even though his book came later. One of our earliest warriors of Light.
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To clarify, Coomaraswamy was one on our earliest Warriors of Light in the last century. Warriors of Light is originally a Vedic term, gosu yodhah, satvabhih.
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No, I just happened to read this bit after our discussion on Aurobindo yesterday, so shared. This is an excerpt from Revolutionaries, by Sanjeev Sanyal. మీకు కావలసిన మార్గం వేరని నాకు అర్థమయింది #సత్యాన్వేషణ (?)
Peak RSS soft propaganda was spread in non metro cities during 70s and 80s, Indira Gandhi, Janta Party and Rajiv Gandhi era. People born in 60s and 70s grew up on a diet of communalised Amar Chitra Katha and Indrajal comic with heroes like Bahadur, based on an imaginary RSS.
Whereas the 'Basic structure' is itself unconstitutional, invention of the Judiciary, giving itself tyrannical power that was never approved by people of Bharat
The Secular Nehruvian state is that... a continuation of anti-Hindu Dharma British rule, by other means.
Is there any Dharma Guru who has spoken about what it is to be a Man in these times? Any pravachana anyone can share? Is there any Matha which organizes physical contests for young men? Is there any Matha which organizes intellectual debates for the young?
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It makes me very, very sad that we don't have a prominent voice with great distribution that gives a wholesome India centric view, interrogates any issue from a uniquely India centric perspective, and that is in India's own camp, instead of being from the Western or Chinese camp.
Evergreen Essays: What a genuinely independent media looks like evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2023/03/what-g Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006) and President, Savitri Era Party (2007). Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.