Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)
Second day of the Spiritual Summit in Unity Pavilion on February 14th. Dialogues were held on the topics of “The Science of Sound: The Impact of Sound on the Physical World”, “The Individual and the Collective”, “The Power of Love to Uplift Consciousness”, etc.
Absolutely delighted to receive the enlarged & revised 3rd ed of my Penguin Sri Aurobindo Reader during the 150th anniversary celebrations of Sri Aurobindo. 
The 1st ed came out in 1999.
The 1st ed came out in 1999.
A book recommendation for you Aravindan ji which I'm sure you will enjoy
Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs (Approaches to Postmodernity)
A fascinating writeup. Hindu history is replete with very ordinary people achieving savantic abilities in some particular field through the grace of a Devata. This is a real phenomenon, I've met such people. It will be an important topic of investigation for future scientists.
Ramanujan’s discoveries in math were astonishingly profound & wide-ranging, but his creative process is an enigma
Many results came to him in dreams—yet his dreams have been almost completely ignored. Here’s a stroll through what we know & might yet learn
Intriguing descriptions of Ramanujan's intuitive process quoted in this piece. Something similar in Sri Aurobindo's Record of Yoga, where he scientifically describes levels of intuition and Shruti. Perhaps the Divine speaks to us in whatever way we're attuned to listen.
Very very much true. Personally love to see AI coming up with images similar to Brahma on the lotus of Vishnu's navel -material evolution unfolding out of the navel of pure consciousness on the primordial serpentine chaos-a deep artistic representation of participatory universe.
All I can say as a non-Brahmin Tamizh Hindu, I feel ashamed. Feeling exactly how a non-Nazi German should have felt when he saw the horrors of concentration camps. This is the path towards that. Another proof that Dravidianist movement is a curse and abomination on humanity
This comment got me thinking. As the father of 2 girls, would I want this for my daughters?
My answer is an emphatic no. Perhaps I AM old fashioned about certain things.
For leftists and Islamists, why does everything boil down to sex and physical appearance? What is this weird projection?
Medieval European theology/philosophy is such a bore, adds nothing of substance. You can pretty much skip the entire philosophy of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox church & miss out on nothing.
Start in Pagan Greece, skip the middle ages & go straight to the Renaissance.
The same obv goes for Islamic theology/philosophy. There really is nothing innovative about it. I find it a waste of time (though I still sometimes peep into both just cause I like philosophy & theology).
My roadmap for those who want to study Occidental philosophy.
Homer, Hesiod, Pindar > Herodotus, Thucydies > Presocratics > Plato/Aristotle > Neoplatonists
Here ends Ancient Greece, now go straight to modern Europe.
For modern Evopra, just read Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/IEP summaries of the 'humanists' like Rousseau, Voltaire, Locke, Spinoza. Check out Hobbes and Machiavelli for realists & political philosophy.
The only ones you should read cover to cover are the Germans imho.
Germans are divided into idealists & post-modernists. Idealists are v close to Hindu philosophy in some regards, so lotta ammunition can be found there for coherent arguments. You may wanna read the English skepticists like Hume to know who the opponents of the idealists were.
Now, the post-modernists are equally imp. Nietzsche is the one you want to read asap. However, before reading Nietzsche, make sure you've read the New Testament & the Tanakh, and also Plato. Make sure you have also read Schopenhauer in full. Then read Nietzsche.
After Nietzsche, you can just read Oswald Spengler and Julius Evola, though none of em technically post-modernists. Post-modernists generally deconstruct systems, while ones before them "build up" grand systems (i.e - hence Hegel is seen as last of the idealists/modernists)
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I messed up and forgot to say, please do read Greek tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides) before you touch Nietzsche. And absolutely make sure you read Thomas Carlyle and Edmund Burke if political philosophy is what you savor.
For Indian philosophy, I think the best thing to do is literally just begin with the Rigveda and read it to understand the Vedic spirit. Read like 3-4 mandalas cover to cover. Then read just one of the Upanishads cover to cover (no commentary; just the translation).
Read the Nyaya Sutras first to understand the epistemology of Indian philosophy, and simultaneously read the Purva Mimamsa Sutras to understand the theory of apaurusheyatva, shabdanityatva, arthavada, nishedha/vidhi etc
Then read Prashastapada for Hindu naturalism (Vaisheshika)
Notice how I didn't begin with "read le Upanishads and then le Gita then Adi Shankaracharya xDD" - the people who say this have not actually read anything, or they just have incomplete knowledge. You need to go in the order I am suggesting or you will never understand anything.
We Hindus don't need to read Medieval Christian devotional works to find some "pagan spirit", its a useless waste of time when we have 4000 years of devotional works on our & our ancestors Gods.
(Still I have read those Christians but only bc I'm a nerd)
Yeah mariology and saint veneration has a lot of that, but it's just simply the roman influence that the catholic church took, or stole.
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Not a fan of Abr@hamic religion, but the devotional literature of Bernard of Clairvaux, Louis de Montfort, inter alia are works of profound mysticism (i.e. the Cult of the Blessed V!rgin) that hearken back to much earlier Greco-Roman motifs.
A mlechCha new atheist with ekarAkShasa-pUrva-vAsana-s was suggesting how the current navyonmAda among the mahAmlechCha could be related to the fantasies of "Neoplatonic mysticism". He felt Plato & Aristotle were rational figures presaging the western enlightenment, whereas the
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Neoplatonists brought in a subjective "Oriental mysticism" obscured the original rationality and took it down an incorrigible path till ekarAkShasatvam rescued the greek wealth in the form of "western civilization". Which much of this bloviation was a commonplace construction
of the Occidentalist discourse, there was one specific point he made which had to be conceded. Many in the occidental neo-heathenry are celebrants or votaries of navyonmAda, which they indeed try to justify using such ancient ideas/debaucheries of the Classical world. To us this
"The tragedy of the commons" (Hardin) is the flip side of "the culture of narcissism" (Lasch).
presenting at our 50th Anniversary Conference! Giving a paper titled “Physics Within the Limits of Feeling Alone.”
If the Uttarpara speech were enough to understand the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo then he wouldn't have taken the trouble of writing the books like The Life Divine or The Synthesis of Yoga. Dharma adherents are clever to offer lip service but are never interested in reading them.
Evergreen Essays: Recent books on Sri Aurobindo
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Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007).
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
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I'm yet to use any card or digital option but to get change of 500 rupee note is a problem.
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Her old Odia number on the rain theme is quite melodious.
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