Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Introduction: Emerging Concerns in the Psychology of Emotions
G Misra, I Misra - Emotions in Cultural Context, 2024
… Extending the views of Sri Aurobindo, it is argued that the Divine is not just limited to an … But as Sri Aurobindo has noted, emotions can be a source of higher knowledge and are … However, there is a consciousness-based approach …
Emotional Creativity: Applied Concerns
S Sharad - Emotions in Cultural Context, 2024
… In the words of Sri Aurobindo, “Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal’s heart” (Savitri, Book VI, Canto II). Emotions are the function of ahamkara (ego) and not atman (true self) (Ramaprasad, 2013). Bliss and not …… The Indian perspective on emotions looks at emotions as something integral to self-transformation and growth. Emotions can become a … Within the Indian approaches, Samkhya and Yoga adopt a dualistic perspective regarding matter/material …
True Love: The Penultimate Emotion
S Varma - Emotions in Cultural Context, 2024
… Sri Aurobindo asserts that the Divine is not limited to an impersonal existence or state, but that the Divine also stands behind all persons … Seidlitz, Transforming lives: an introduction to Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga. Sri Aurobindo Centre for …… In Bhakti Yoga, the emotional life of the aspirant or seeker undergoes a gradual … The rasa theory of emotions and Bhakti Yoga Rasa is translated into English variously as emotion/… For the psychic, which by its very nature is integral and …
Indigenous Perspectives on Happiness: Insights from Indian Traditions
G Misra, NM Pandey, V Mishra - Emotions in Cultural Context, 2024
While the quest for happiness has been a perennial global concern, it’s meaning and ways to pursue it differ widely. The traditional Indian worldview situates human life on a broader spectrum of conditions encompassing physical, psycho-social, and spiritual modes of existence. According to this dynamic process, model happiness is achieving liberation from suffering. This Dharma-centric view considers the limits of the material world and treats regulating the ego and its attachments as an inevitable challenge. It aspires to seek mental peace and harmonious co-existence with other beings be they creatures, nature, or the environment. Thus, happiness incorporates optimism, the absence of illness, a sense of wellness, and securing the well-being of others. Pursuing happiness involves renunciation as well as self-control. An endeavor is made to maintain equanimity, accept positive and negative events, and engage in activities that constitute the pattern of a happy life. Mindful self-regulation is the key to the pursuit of happiness... Bhagavad Gītā also maintains that samatva is yoga (Samatvam yoga uchyate). Instead of positivity, as emphasized in positive psychology, the Indian approach maintains that the balance (Sańtulan) of positive and negative is important as both …
Emotions in Cultural Contexts: An Indian Perspective
G Misra, P Ramanathan - Emotions in Cultural Context, 2024
Emotions constitute some of the most important aspects of our lives; they give meaning to life, stimulate behavior, and shape the thoughts and patterns of social interactions. Understanding how culture shapes people’s emotional lives and the …
Lajja: The Missing “Basic” Emotion in the Natya Shastra and What That Tells Us About the Hindu Moral Code
U Menon - Emotions in Cultural Context, 2024
This chapter explores the relationship between moral codes and emotional functioning in Hindu India. It examines both the rasa theory and its model of moral development as presented in Natya Shastra, the ancient and seminal treatise on dramaturgy and the arts, as well as the experience of the moral emotion lajja. Noting that the rasa theory does not include lajja in its list of basic emotions, the chapter attempts to provide a plausible explanation for this omission. It suggests that lajja’s absence illustrates the uneasy yet enduring tension that exists within the Hindu worldview between the two equally valid moral goals of dharma or world-affirmation, and moksa or world-renunciation, with lajja lying squarely within the temporal world, while the Natya Shastra points its readers toward moksa and Ultimate Reality... Rarely do they speak of moksa, fully aware that to even to talk of aspiring to achieve it signals desire and attachment, values that are antithetical to and undermine the very project of moksa.
BEYOND TRADITION: WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND REPRESENTATION IN SRI AUROBINDO'S 'SAVITRI'
R Kumar - Redshine Archive, 2024
This research paper delves into the exploration of women's empowerment and representation in Sri Aurobindo's epic poem,'Savitri.' While traditional literary analyses often overlook the role of women in spiritual and philosophical works, this …
ROLE OF EDUCATION IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: UNDERSTANDING THE PERSPECTIVE OF SRI AUROBINDO
R Chaudhary - Redshine Archive, 2024
Education is a pivotal establishment that assumes a crucial role in molding both individuals and societies, drawing upon insights from the realms of psychology and sociology to grasp its complex essence. Psychological perspectives concentrate on …
Ancient and Modern Yoga
SG Mijares
Seated in a half-yoga lotus position at a local athletic club, students slowly inhale through one nostril, hold the breath, and then slowly exhale through the opposite. They may hear the instructor call this practice pranayama, but the majority of these …… Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) established what is known as Integral Yoga, which is tantric in nature. He noted the ascent of consciousness through the chakra system, and also pointed out the relevance of the … Aurobindo believed “it was the destiny …
[PDF] Individuality, Enkapsis, and Philosophical Anthropology
JG Friesen - 2024
What is a thing? Dooyeweerd says that a thing is made up of two or more “individuality structures” interlaced together in an “enkaptic” relationship. We need to understand what Dooyeweerd means by these terms. This is made more difficult by the fact that …
[PDF] Holistic approaches to mental health: Integrating mind, body, and spirit for comprehensive well-being
D Kaushik, M Garg, G Dixit
This research paper explores the paradigm of holistic approaches to mental health, aiming to integrate the interconnected aspects of mind, body, and spirit for comprehensive well-being. Beginning with an examination of the current state of …
[PDF] Mothers Making and Moving: Creative Arts Workshops and Postpartum Identity
HE Dreger - 2024
… This literature review provided background information that is integral to the exploration of the two research questions. The literature revealed the potential for visual art, dance/movement, and movement improvisation to provide a space for …
Differently Imagined: Minorities and Majoritarian Politics in India
A Ranjan - Studies in Indian Politics, 2024
… The rise of the BJP is usually credited for the shift towards the Hindutva politics in India, but other political parties are also not immune to … Hinduism is only a derivative, a fraction, a part of Hindutva… Hindutva embraces all the departments of …
[PDF] Debating Secularism in Nepal: Conspicuously at Crossroad between Mission or Fashion?
A Dahal - Current Opinion, 2024
The spectrum of global debates has agendas and discourses of different dimensions ranging from power to regime to environment to terrorism to space war to religion to international relations as well and many more others. Theology had been one of …
[PDF] Fire, police cars and barricade tape: exploring visual securitisation in Sweden Democrats' Instagram posts
S Bouchafra - Social Semiotics, 2024
With the growing popularity of visual-centred social media, authoritarian populist parties are provided with more platforms and devices to position themselves as key securitising actors by engaging in the visual securitisation of issues related to …
BR Ambedkar, John Dewey, and the meaning of democracy
AP Mukherjee - New Literary History, 2009 - JSTOR
… John Dewey. This paper looks at the influence of Dewey on Ambedkar and Ambedkar's … This was the project that both Dewey and Ambedkar embarked on, and studying their work …
[B] The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
SR Stroud - 2023 - books.google.com
… about Ambedkar and Dewey and reveal new ways of understanding the importance of Dewey and American pragmatism to young Ambedkar… a young Ambedkar fascinated with Dewey, …
Pragmatism and Deepened Democracy: Ambedkar between Dewey and Unger
L Škof - Democratic Culture, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… shaped Ambedkar’s study years at Columbia. As we will see later, when Ambedkar cites Dewey, … Another fact deserves mentioning: Ambedkar was a liberal, with a clear socialist (leftist) …
A Pedagogy of the Dhamma: BR Ambedkar and John Dewey on Education: BR Ambedkar and John Dewey on Education
C Queen - International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture, 2015 - dbpia.co.kr
… Dewey, at Columbia University in the years 1913‑16. In this essay, we examine the influence Dewey had on Ambedkar’… the Indian reformer’s hand-written annotations of Dewey’s works. …
Ambedkar and the Constitution of India: a Deweyan experiment
K Maitra - Contemporary Pragmatism, 2012 - brill.com
… I think given the pragmatic attitude that Ambedkar shares with Dewey, he couldnГt have … that both Ambedkar and Dewey are striving for. So while Ambedkar is extending Dewey here, …
The populist challenge and Ambedkar's integration of Buddhism and Dewey
K Mahadevan - Pragmatism, spirituality and society: Border crossings …, 2021 - Springer
… As an alternative to liberal individualism, such a rootedness has for Ambedkar the potential to forge people into a collective solidarity. For Ambedkar, just as for Dewey, such a process …
The Influence of John Dewey and James Tufts''Ethics' on Ambedkar's Quest for Social Justice
S Stroud - 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
… , we must reflect on the mystery surrounding Ambedkar’s copy of Dewey and Tufts’ Ethics. This text is currently preserved in the archive of Ambedkar’s personal books stored at …
[PDF] An Appraisal of Influence of Eminent Personalities on Ambedkar's Political Thought during Early Twentieth Century
IA Ray, BN Mahavidyalaya, S Ray… - Historical Research …, 2012 - academia.edu
… John Dewey had already established himself at the … Ambedkar had been influenced by Dewey’s concept of instrumentalism. Dewey’s idea provided the foundation which led Ambedkar …
Justice for the excluded and education for democracy in BR Ambedkar and A. Gramsci
C Zene - Rethinking Marxism, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… interested in establishing the Ambedkar-Gramsci link, for which Dewey could provide a … between Dewey and Ambedkar, at the level of praxis and experience Gramsci and Ambedkar …
The “untouchable” who touched millions: Dr. BR Ambedkar, Navayana Buddhism, and complexity in social work scholarship on religion
S Mukerji - Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… First, I review current social work literature on Ambedkar and make the case that disciplinary … and deep ecology, or of BR Ambedkar without appreciating his admiration for John Dewey. …
Imagining India: Aurobindo, Ambedkar, and After
M Paranjape - South Asian Review, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… towards such a realization, Aurobindo freely admits how he was not at first a person of faith or Bhakti. This passage is important lest we consider Aurobindo an irrationalist or fanatic. …
Harmonies of Light: Walking with Rohith Vemula and Sri Aurobindo
M Gupta - Reading Sri Aurobindo: Metaphysics, Ethics and …, 2022 - Springer
… the philosophical perspective of Sri Aurobindo. It outlines the … in the Integral Thought of Sri Aurobindo. What do these lines … BR Ambedkar and Sri Aurobindo on the ideal society. It looks …
Transforming Caste Domination and the Challenges of Structural Transformations and Transformation of Consciousness: Ambedkar, Shankara and Beyond
AK Giri - Journal of Human Values, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
… For the transformation of caste domination, Gandhi, Ambedkar and Sri Aurobindo in their own ways challenge us to realize the limits of political theology of enmity and violence and …
[PDF] Exploring the Effects of Trance States Through Ritual, Kriya Yoga, and Expressive Arts for Adults with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
ALF Traub - 2024
… The third session was based on the theme of “ether” with the intention of creating a relaxation, out of body experience that utilizes crystal sound bows, chimes, and my voice guiding the participants through a practice called yoga nidra. Yoga nidra is the …
[PDF] An Exploration into the Effectiveness of Yoga in Reducing Anxiety in Female Military Personnel
AC Berry - 2024
… Current research indicates that yoga could serve as an efficacious alternative treatment to reduce anxiety, … yoga that lead to decreases in anxious mood. However, there is a need for further research to address existing gaps in the …
[PDF] Beyond Samādhi: The profound teachings of cid-aditya realization in the Mahāvākya Upaniṣat
A Roy, P Subramanya - 2024
… ultimate goal of yoga, the Upaniṣat assert Cid-aditya Realization to be the highest, surpassing esteemed achievements like yoga siddhis, … ) to be oneself, emphasising the internalisation of radiant brilliance as an integral aspect of self-realisation …
A Life in Progress
R Mann
This chapter studies the biographies of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927–2001), or Gurudeva as his followers more commonly referred to him. Subramuniyaswami was the American‑born founder of the Saiva Siddhanta Church, the Himalayan Academy …
Exploring Identity-Related Concerns And The Influence Of Hindutva Ideology In Manipur: A Community Perspective Study
AR Singh, OB Singh - Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, 2024
The results of a thorough survey-based study that looked into the various community viewpoints on identity-related issues in the Indian state of Manipur are presented in this article. The research also explores how these viewpoints are impacted by …
Review of Hindu Nationalism and Terrorism in India: The Saffron Threat to Democracy: by Eamon Murphy, London, Routledge, 2023, 186 pp., $186 (Hardback), ISBN …
MN Arefin - 2024
… Hindutva and Hindu nationalism as a distinct kind of Indian nationalism. Here, juxtaposing the symmetries of Hindutva and European fascism, Murphy poses some stimulating questions: Is Hindutva … Murphy aptly points out the symbiotic Aryan-supremacy …
[PDF] Expanding Freedom: A Response
ML Mangharam - Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2024
… further through what she calls a “deep tissue critique” of Hindutva ideology. In response, I would like to turn to my book’s reading of … to the link between Hindutva and the creation and sustenance of neoliberal economics in India. The novel …
On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace
Y Saikia, C Haines - 2024
… In her chapter on the Miya Muslims of Assam, India, historian Yasmin Saikia traces the historical discourse of Muslim Otherness first by the British colonists and later by the Hindutva extremists (right- wing religious nationalists) who now …
[PDF] The Right to Dissent in the Socio-legal Context: Reimagining Citizenship, Strengthening Democracy
ADS Nigam
… The convergence and contradiction between the two hegemonic projects of neoliberalism and Hindutva reconstructed the gender relations in contemporary India to construe a unique `hindutavised neoliberal subjectivity’29. The struggles for …
The Unfulfilled Promise of Interdisciplinarity in Comparative Law: Dialogues with Legal Geographers
C Poncibò - Legalities, 2024
The article examines the unfulfilled promise of interdisciplinarity in comparative law and suggests a new focus for it: namely, in legal geography’s study of the multiple dimensions of law and space. This article maintains that comparative law may …
A study on employment sustainability among Engineering students using a Statistical and Deep Learning framework
M Bora, R Baruah - Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, 2024
In today's saturated job market, it has been one of the biggest challenges for the fresh engineering graduates from India to secure a satisfactory job offer. In this study, a Statistical and Deep learning (SDL) framework is proposed to predict students’ …
[PDF] Coaching and Character Strengths—An Essential, Inextricable Interconnection: Core Practices and New Science
RM Niemiec, D Casioppo
… We found further support that character strengths are integral to coaching, by the perception of coaches, the perception of clients, and potential prospective clients. A pattern of six character strengths repeatedly emerged as most important for coaches …
18 Al in Smart Fitness
PS Anurag, PK Singh, M Radha, K Ramesh - Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and …, 2024
… In recent years, smart fitness trackers have gained significant popularity, becoming an integral part of people's lives, helping them monitor … As datasets grew and AI models improved, fitness trackers became better at accurately …
[PDF] Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency
G Kuk, S Giamporcaro - Human Relations, 2024
As corporate social responsibility research increasingly focuses on the role of grassroots organizations in challenging business practices, there remains a gap in understanding how these organizations prefigure alternatives to the prevailing …
