Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Self-interest and not ethical or rational conviction

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007). Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother

A big day for Pondicherry University today. The Sri Aurobindo Chair is getting inaugurated. The one day inaugural seminar on "Celebrating the life and philosophy of Sri Aurobindo" is going to dwell upon much awaited themes.
Prof., inaugurated the seminar on "Celebrating the Life & Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo" on 28.03.23. As a part of the event, VC launched a book titled "Sri Aurobindo: An Extraordinary Phenomenon" and unveiled photographs of Sri Aurobindo and Mother.
Prof presided over the Inaugural Seminar on "Celebrating the Life & Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo " under the auspices of Sri Aurobindo Chair at Pondicherry University. Our Vice-Chancellor launched the book entitled "Sri Aurobindo: An Extraordinary Phenomenon"
Great to be attending seminar on Indian philosopher, yogi Sri Aurobindo in said that the present youth should’t only read the Aurobindo’s philosophy besides should also do it into our daily practice
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Stengers speaks to our moment with urgency & care, using Whitehead to remind us that, while thought & language were long preceded by the power of abstraction, the specialized abstractions of professionalized experts now threaten to undermine our very capacity to make sense.

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Whatever VP Singh did wrong as PM is more than balanced out by his excellent work in destroying Gandhi dynasty halo. All assessments of Indian history need to start by acknowledging Gandhi family as fountainhead of BIF. All others are our people, we will have disagreements.
I don’t think Mandal ever threatened to do any such thing. Mandal itself as a phenomenon is overrated Imo.
Not really. You are overstating its impact. The real change here was splintering of Cong coalition which was more due to Mandir and people being done with Gandhis than with Mandal.
Yes VP Singh’s open revolt against Rajiv was the beginning of the end of Nehru dynasty’s hold over Hindi heart land Mandalism destroyed Cong’s hold over Caste dynamics which in turn paved the path for Ayodha movement Cong lost Hindi heartland since then
Nice to see some good words for VP Singh who I consider the best Prime Minister of India. Despite his socialist image, he initiated many strands of economic reforms even when he was the Finance Minister. With unmatched integrity, he was the personification of value-based politics
It's good that so many webinars on Sri Aurobindo are taking place but most of them are of undergraduate level or lower. PG or PhD standard discourse is absent. Confining deliberation to Sri Aurobindo's writings, without taking the ecosystem into account, is one major shortcoming.
Each one supports some political or ideological plank out of self-interest and not due to ethical or rational conviction. Thus, searching for real self-interest is important. Reading Sri Aurobindo's books reveals the true nature of our psychological make-up exposing blind-spots.
In view of the fact that the writings of Marx still rule the ideological currents, Sri Aurobindo's thought is relatively recent and more potent. Marx's forecasts on the demise of Capitalism came a cropper. So nothing more reliable than Vedic evolutionary prophecy of Sri Aurobindo.
Publication of Arya in 1914 is an important event in the history of humanity. Metting of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo a few months before on March 29 turned highly fruitful. All intellectual debates of the previous century were resolved and a definite way for the future was shown.
Sri Aurobindo's major writings were published before the Ashram came into being, in the 'Arya' magazine. Thus, there's no official or establishment position on Sri Aurobindo's opinions. Let's hope that full academic examination and utilisation of his thought will be possible now.
Aurora Mirabilis: Huge nations are hurdles auroramirabilis.blogspot.com/2023/03/huge-n Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum, Founder, Savitri Era Religion, and President, Savitri Era Party. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

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