Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Human propensity to aestheticize and normalize power and violence

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

5 days ago — Author M P Pandit Language English ISBN-10 - Publisher SAKSHI Trust No. of Pages 72 Binding Softcover.
12 hours ago — The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 33. Savitri - I. A Legend and a Symbol. Contents. Part One. Book One / The Book of Beginnings.

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Luna Sabastian:'Babies, Mothers, and India's Lesser-Known Father'

L Sabastian - Global Intellectual History, 2024
… But most of all, Vivekananda gets blamed as a trailblazer for Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva.Footnote 5 True, many scholars exonerate him and speak of his ‘appropriation’ by the Hindu Right,Footnote 6 but crucially, all who write on Vivekananda are …

The Epic World

P Lothspeich - 2024
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence …

Tasks, sacrifices and digitized rituals: interpellating the Indian subject through rites of nationalism

S Kumar - Media, Culture & Society, 2024
… “Democracy is in our veins, it is in our culture—it has been an integral part of our work for centuries. By nature, we are a Democratic Society.… life through yoga. I request all of you to participate in this competition, and through this novel way, be a …

Flourishing from head to toe: An interdisciplinary approach

D Vella-Brodrick, A Gill - Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health …, 2023
The disciplinary fields of Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine have made significant contributions to preventing ill-health and promoting physical and psychological health and wellbeing. While each field has focused largely on their …

Physical Education And Yoga

R Murugesan - 2023
… Yoga has become an integral component of the lifestyles of tens of thousands of Westerners in search of genuine health, balance, and well-being. … It can be executed in isolation, as a warm-up, or as an integral component of a more …

Karma Yoga and Social Activism: The Bhagavad Gita's Teachings on Selfless Action as a Catalyst for Change in Society

AK Poddar - The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in …, 2023
… presents the concept of Karma Yoga, emphasizing selfless action without attachment to outcomes. Social activism, aimed at creating positive change, often faces challenges such as burnout and ego-driven motives. This article explores the …

[PDF] Good Health and Well-being: Essential in Promoting Enhancement of one's Living Conditions

R Kapur
… Yoga is regarded as the union of body, mind and soul. Yoga signifies integration of personality at the highest level. It includes various … The utilization of these resources is regarded as an integral part of the personal and professional lives of …

[PDF] When My Brown Got Colored

S Sathi - meridians feminism, race, transnationalism, 2023
This essay is a testimonial of the author’s experiences, memories, and reflections about becoming a person/woman of color, discovering, and unearthing the meanings of racialization, white privilege, and white supremacy in the contemporary …

[PDF] Critical perspectives on the denial of caste in the educational debate

JM Paraskeva - 2023
… He has been at the forefront of some of the most shrewd and innovative non-derivative poststructuralist phenomenological and deconstructionist approaches related to the Hindutva-caste system. Sampath’s remarkable international scholarship focuses on …

[HTML] Singh, Gurharpal and Shani, Giorgio, Sikh Nationalism: From a Dominant Minority to an Ethno-Religious Diaspora. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021

A Milne - Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique. French …, 2023
… The volume culminates with Sikh nationalism facing questions of a global nature, and Hindutva (or Hindu-ness and Hindu nationalism) from the later 1990s until the present day (chapter 7), analysing the diaspora, today. The authors argue that there …

Cross-Border Journalism in South Asia

M Ittefaq, W Ejaz, MW Jan - The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism, 2024
This chapter examines the current state of cross-border journalism (CBJ) in South Asia with a specific focus on India and Pakistan. The discussion pertains to political, economical, ethical, and legal determinants of cross-border journalism in the region …

Dwelling in the city: Socio-spatial dynamics of gendered and religious embodiment of young Muslim women in Delhi, India

SJ Zahan - City, Culture and Society, 2024
This paper examines the intimate relationship among gender, religion, and the urban with a special focus on Muslim women in Delhi, India. Drawing on interviews conducted with young, middle-class, unmarried Muslim women, this paper …

[PDF] Modi's Identity Doctrine: A Historical Overview Urge for Hindu State

I Sarwar, Z Zafar - PERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY, 2023
… The Hindutva doctrine followed and advocated by BJP … of Hindutva which is actually against Hindu Teachings. This study will highlight Modi Government policies that indicate his urge for Hindu state and will trace the connection between …

[PDF] The Quest for Decolonization: Reimagining Politics, Nation State and Identity in India

MK Fiaz, R Nawaz - PERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY, 2023
… The elements of populism and Hindutva were at play and that meant, Muslims as 'the other ', and as 'national minority' of the nation state of India, while revitalising The Hindu nationalism based on the principles of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) …

[PDF] Political Thinking of BR Ambedkar: A Critical Evaluation

I Aditya
… of consolidation of dalit- bahujan power particularly against the Hindutva forces representing Brahman-Bania nexus with the global capital. These forces which form the core of the Hindutva have now realized that their ‘soft Hindutva’ is no more …

8 India's Crisis of Development

PB Nayak - Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy: Mapping …, 2024
… afford to promote the ideology of Hindutva, based on the notion of the preeminence of Hindus vis-à-vis other religious groups. The ideology of Hindutva is essentially political and is to be distinguished from the religion of Hinduism …

A Look at the State of Research on [Counter-] Terrorism and Violent Extremism

AP Schmid, T Renard, JJF Forest, I Singh - Perspectives on Terrorism, 2023
In continuation of a previous survey published in 2021 in Perspectives on Terrorism, a new survey exploring the state of [counter-] terrorism research, resulted in 50 responses from researchers and directors of think tanks, centres, institutes and …

[PDF] JHSR Journal of Historical Studies and Research ISSN: 2583-0198 Volume 3, Number 3 (September-December, 2023), PP. 79-99.

S Barman
… The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a political party in India that is aligned with right-wing politics and adheres to the ideology of Hindutva, … The BJP's approach to politics is strongly influenced by Hindutva, which promotes the values of the Hindu …

[PDF] Undoing the Masculine Hero

SS Sooraj, KRK Krishna, AK Mishra
… [13] The strengthening of Hindutva politics also contributed to the desirability of upper caste Hindu male characters in the 1990s.[14] During this era, the theatrical releases of Mohanlal and Mammootty films were accompanied by the installation of …

[PDF] Evolution of LGBTQIA Related Literature: The Neglected Part in Indian Knowledge System

A Chakrabarti
… Right-wing political parties in India have displayed rigid heterosexual norms by saying that LGBTQIA identity is incompatible with the Hindutva state's very foundation. The LGBTQIA identity in Indian literature has been outspoken and …

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Russellian fear of emptiness

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

6 hours ago — [Sri Aurobindo's footnote]. E.g. the Russellian fear of emptiness which is the form the active mind gives to Silence. Yet it was on what you call ...
2 hours ago — ... Sri Aurobindo, Vasudev Sharan Agarwal, Pandit Madhusudan Ojha and Sri Anirvan. Delving into 'Understanding India through Indic Perspective,' Dr. Sharma ..

[PDF] Nation and Nationalism in India: Their Essence and Development in the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

N Mandal - RABINDRA BHARATI JOURNAL OF POLITICAL …, 2023
… This essay considers Sri Aurobindo’s idea of nation and nationalism from a national-colonial perspective. It contextualizes his thought within the broader political-ideological debates of anti-colonial struggles and ideas of nationalism and reflects on its …

[PDF] Indian Path with Vedic Literature: Values and Prestige Defining by Swami Dayanand Saraswati's Popular Quote “Back to the Vedas” in the reading of Introduction to …

A Kumar, UP Jyoti - À◊ ûfl ö ûfl ö ûfl ö ûfl öŸöööö·'‰”† ƒ–‹
… Why it is mother to all language Once Sri Aurobindo said,“Sanskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, as one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient …

[PDF] Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope Contrasting between Illusion and Reality

J Ambika - À◊ ûfl ö ûfl ö ûfl ö ûfl öŸöööö·'‰”† ƒ–‹
… In Sri Aurobindo’s great epic, Savithri, Satyavan symbolizes truth and Savithri symbolizes the power of devotion. In the novel Savithri loves Rama in the same way as Radha and the Gopis and Mira loved Krishna. Rama is thoroughly disenchanted …

The Role of Language in Shaping Identity in Indian Literature: A Critical Study

PK Singh - The Creative Launcher
… The works of two significant Indian intellectuals, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, are thoroughly examined in Saugata Bhaduri’s book Beyond the Nation: Forms of Modernity in Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. The work of Bhaduri …

Consciousness of Religion, Mythology and Spirituality: A Study of Prof. Vikas Sharma's Novel IAS Today

R Tiwari - The Creative Launcher
Literature expresses the perceptions, feelings and desires of a writer. Indian English writers have predominantly been culturally conscious of religion. Religion and literature give peace to suffering humanity. IAS Today is a novel written by Prof …

[HTML] Balancing the Poles of the Seesaw: The Parallel Paths of Eckhart and Hindu Vedānta toward Oneness with God/Brahman

J Liu, Z Wang - Religions, 2023
… The most famous and influential figures of this movement were Swami Vivekānanda and Sri Aurobindo, who are considered representatives of the spirit of neo-Vedānta. … Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press. [Google Scholar] …

'Spiritual' witchcraft and magic 2.0 as weapons of resistance: The emergence of a new movement?

L OBADIA - Social Compass, 2023
At the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the landscape of religions and the dynamics of beliefs are reshaped by several movements. On one side, a ‘return of magic’ in contemporary societies and the rise of a modern witchcraft, and in …

[HTML] Tao Porchon-Lynch

T Porchon-Lynch
… She discovered yoga in 1926 when she was eight years old in India and studied with, among others, Sri Aurobindo, BKS Iyengar, K. … Having studied with yoga greats Sri Aurobindo and Indra Devi, [11] she abandoned her acting job in 1967 …

[PDF] Experiences

B Segar
… Asha Mukheriee (2021) Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo: Reconstruction and Reformation of Philo sophical Traditions' in Ananta Kumar Giri (Ed.) Mahatma Gandhi und Sri Aurobindo, Routledge. …

Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture: Introduction to the Play Field Theory

F Lebed - 2024
… of this is evident in Hinduism, where gods are perceived as having a relationship with the earthly lives of people, viewing it as a play that must be guided by the divine spirit (Sri Aurobindo, 1997): … In Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 33-34, (Book …

Ascetic, Alekha and Ambivalence: The Mahima Movement in Eastern India

S Sahoo, S Mohanty, PK Swain - Review of Development and Change, 2023
Historians and sociologists stride on unchartered terrain when it comes to studying social movements, especially those termed ‘historyless’, the marginal communities. This paper deals with India’s most unique socioreligious movement called Mahima …

[HTML] 16 Vamana and Indian Poetics

MS Maity
It is extremely difficult to give an accurate definition of poetry and try to distinguish from other forms of literature. But it can be distinguished by some certain qualities like diction, theme, subject matter, rhyme scheme, pattern, so on and so forth. Indian …

Ariew, Roger.“Descartes and Scolasticism.” In Cambridge Companion to Descartes, edited by John Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 …

P Analytics
Selected Bibliography Page 1 Selected Bibliography Ariew, Roger. “Descartes and Scolasticism.” In Cambridge Companion to Descartes, edited by John Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Aristotle. Nichomachean Ethics …

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Sri Aurobindo put forward a new way of life beyond any existing religion

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

[PDF] Sri Aurobindo as a Patriotic Poet

AN Dwivedi - NEW RACE, 2023
… But the prosecution failed, and Sri Aurobindo was acquitted. … The Congress was adjourned and the Nationalists met separately under the chairmanship of Sri Aurobindo. The popular support extended to Sri Aurobindo and Tilak infuriated the …

[PDF] Agni: The Eternal Flame Guiding Indian Life and Spirituality

V Vijay - Interdisciplinary Journal of Yagya Research, 2023
… Sri Aurobindo expounded upon the significance of Agni in his work ”The Secret of the Veda” [11]. According to Maharshi Aurobindo, Agni holds a prominent place in Vedic hymns and is a Vedic deity symbolizing fire as a multifaceted aspect of divine …

[PDF] Karmayoga Analysed through Spinoza's Perspective on 'Eternity'and Bergson's 'Élan Vital'

SR Bhandari - OUSL Journal, 2023
This study aims to unveil the dimensions of karmayoga on duty and action exposed in the Bhagavad Gita from the philosophical perspective of eternity postulated by Spinoza and the concept of élan vital (the vital force or impulse of life) propounded …

Psychology: The 'Scientific'Study of Subjective Experience

B Patnaik - Psychological Studies, 2023
The discipline of psychology has certain inherent features that render the possibility of inclusion or integration of Indian thoughts regarding human subjective experience at a disadvantage vis- a- vis what is termed as ‘modern’ Psychology. Like many …

[PDF] Satisfaction and representations of raw earth habitat: a case study of Auroville, India

N Kebaili, S Mohamed, Y Kehila, R Bensalem - Journal of Asian Architecture and …, 2023
… Villagers around Auroville burn about 100 tons of wood for 250,000 fired-bricks. However, … CSEB housing exhibits a diverse range of architectural styles in Auroville, including collective … As shown in Table 1 CSEB housing constitutes only …

The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad

S Phillips - 2024

British Translators, Bhagat Singh, and 'Atheism': How 'Reverse Translation'Alters the Meaning of Philosophical Concepts

R Vanita - Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial …, 2023
This chapter begins an enquiry into the impact of what I term ‘reverse translation’. A philosophical concept, such as dharma, is repeatedly translated into English, using terms from a Judeo-Christian lexicon, such as religion, and then the English word is … 

Tagore and Androgyny: The Politics of an Accommodative India

C Choudhury, AK Rath - South Asian Review, 2023
Tagore reinstalled the homology between androgyny and Indianness challenging the hyper-masculine politics practiced by colonialism and the extremist strand of nationalism. This article reads that Tagore challenged nationalist masculinity and …

[PDF] Bharat's unseen patriots: Igniting flame of nationalism and brave tales of sacrifice to secure India's Independence

Z Zoariah - Firstpost, 2023
… The truth remains unshaken, witnessed by the names etched in history’s annals – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, the Chapekar Brothers, Lokmanya Tilak, Aurobindo Ghose, and more. A tapestry of moderates and extremists, all threads woven from …
RR HEGDE
… Sri Aurobindo ignited the mind of the devotee by defining consciousness as the ‘unity of existence far beyond the ignorance and the lower nature of the living beings. Then he continued, Indian consciousness is essentially spiritual in nature which …

Peace Education and Integral Ecology: Inspiration in Piaget at the Legacy of Pierre Weil

MA Ribeiro - The Transnational Legacy of Jean Piaget: A View from …, 2023
… I used to participate in world federalist movements and I had translated a “Constitution for the Federation of Planet Earth” published by a press in Auroville, an international city created in South India and inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s political and social …

Prefiguring Utopia: The Auroville Experiment

SA Clarence-Smith - 2023
… This book examines Auroville, the largest, most diverse and long-standing intentional community in the world, … , Auroville uniquely draws on spiritual ideals to enact a prefigurative utopian practice applicable to all aspects of human society; …

When I drove from Paris to #Auroville at the tender age of 19, I met the Mother of Pondicherry, who was Sri Aurobindo's spiritual companion & continued his work after his passing away? That encounter changed my life:

https://twitter.com/fgautier26/status/1714504720965042277?t=ZZO_xNwJxx0Cwhms_msAxg&s=19

Sri Aurobindo's singular retelling of a Vedic myth, Savitri, must be noted. Not book-length, but W.S. Merwin's long narrative poem "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" -- a retelling if a northern European folktale rooted in the Cupid & Psyche myth -- looms large in my literary universe. Also, his book-length The Folded Cliffs merits notice.

Australian poet Francis Brabazon's Stay With God (1958) is also worth mention -- though it's in several sections, each of which is a long poem.

There's also Alice Notley's Descent of Alette (1992).

https://twitter.com/raagatodi/status/1714613491842326730?t=tS3Lze1ZSnhNFlQtRw4OzA&s=19

I had the honor of presenting a paper at the recent conference titled Sustainability and Contemplative Civilization: The Integral Vision of Sri Aurobindo which was held at the California Institute of Integral Studies where I teach and study. #sriaurobindo

kathystanley.substack.com/p/sustainabili…

https://twitter.com/LabrishJamaica/status/1714707117876347034?t=xZ7SCm0VEw-tAZQqRlZxlQ&s=19

Explore the profound symbolism of the Mother symbol in Auroville with Jorel Jaya Berggreen-Clausen. Discover the divine consciousness, four aspects, and 12 qualities. Dive deeper into the full talk here: sangamtalks.com/DivineSymbolis…

#SangamTalks sangamtalks.com/DivineSymbolis

https://twitter.com/sangamtalks/status/1714242354150793544?t=ckC-xI2X3PbhfOgDtyQXgw&s=19

Mātṛ Śakti - The force that runs the world. 

Sri Aurobindo gives us the 4 aspects of the Divine Mother - Māheśvarī, Mahālakṣmī, Mahāsarasvatī, Mahākālī. 

Watch the first episode of Bodha here:
youtu.be/B_P7yB2sMYw

Shri @Roddam_Ram ji, in conversation with @anviksiki, opens up our vision to understand what we must become to be an ādhāra for this Śakti to manifest in and through us.

Let us reflect on the higher realms in this auspicious time.

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#brhat #bodha

https://twitter.com/brhat_in/status/1713930277662441478?t=1rxMmxKSsRs9mgCWz_r5Ew&s=19

It is really incredible that modernI ndia's greatest thinker, #SriAurobindo, is not better known. Yes, some know his nationalism, perhaps his Uttarpara speech, but that has little to do with his philosophy. He put forward a new way of life, beyond any existing religion.

https://twitter.com/roshendalal/status/1713402608394940503?t=v1NYddBciM-aou3wszSPSg&s=19

Sri Aurobindo did not differentiate between people on the basis of religion.

#SriAurobindo

https://twitter.com/roshendalal/status/1713416174804050241?t=b5A8hCJZCGaVMmiZb0-E1Q&s=19

Experiences during author’s recent visit to Omkareshwar  by Dr Sampananda Mishra
esamskriti.com/e/Culture/Indi… @Sampadananda @MPTourism @PS_MPTourism @sriaurobindo @Sriaurobindo150 @monikahalan

https://twitter.com/esamskritiindia/status/1714492320803086597?t=uXDhuqsd2fECipXBnsCQAA&s=19

A monthly tax has been imposed on some residents of Auroville which seems to be an arbitrary measure. Administration should inform the public about the rationale of its actions in view of international ramifications. Further, reputations of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is involved.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1714974271653781640?t=7qehEds5f-XAmcHSEKp7SQ&s=19