Saturday, February 27, 2016

Resurgence of a primitive barbarism would be possible

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The Mental World and Its Relation to the Vital and Physical ...

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Sri Aurobindo observes that beyond the physical worlds and vital worlds there are also mental worlds, where the operative principle is that of Mind. “Mind there ...

Savitri Era Devotees: Mother's Blessings

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5 hours ago - 'In the Light of the Supramental', was the name given to the next stage of higher consciousness, which Sri Aurobindo saw as humanity's spiritual destiny.

We, the Barbarians: A spiritual examination of the hatred ...

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For this, I lean on Indian spirituality, best articulated in the words of Sri Aurobindo, which effectively captures evolution into this statement: into matter burst life, ...

City of Human Unity… Auroville, India | out to see the world ...

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So in 1914 Sri Aurobindo meets “The Mother”, a French traveler who had seen Aurobindo in her childhood visions. She was an already highly spiritual being ...

Supramental light around the Peace Table of Auroville ...

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Discussions of causality and consciousness in the colonial Indian academy

N Bhushan - Science and Religion: East and West, 2016
... the British Raj this was the attribute that was taken–by Western scholars, but even many Indian philosophers–to distinguish Indian philosophy and religion from modern Western philosophical this-worldly traditions (see, eg, Tagore 1915; Radhakrishnan 1932; Aurobindo 1953). ...

Post-Western Revolution in Sociology: From China to Europe

L Roulleau-Berger - 2016
... In an article which appeared recently in the French journal Socio, a central figure of Indian human and social sciences, Rajeev Bhargava (2013), quotes Sri Aurobindo (1997:39): Nothing is our own, nothing native to our intelligence, all is derived. ...

The scientific education of Greek Orthodox during the seventeenth century

E Nicolaidis - Science and Religion: East and West, 2016
... Michel 6, 28 Franciscan order 170, 199, 222 Freud, Sigmund 49, 50, 54, 66, 69 Freudian 49, 65; theory 49 Fromm, Erich 21, 48, 50–1, 60–1, 66, 68 Galileo 8, 28, 32, 34–5, 46, 159, 219 Galston, Arthur W. 115–16, 21 general divine action (GDA) 12 Ghose, Aurobindo 79–101 ...

LOOK EAST POLICY

G Das, SC Das, U Paul - Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India's …, 2016
Page 38. 1 LOOK EAST POLICY Economic engagements with ASEAN and East Asian countries Gurudas Das, Subodh Chandra Das and Ujjwal Paul It is about two and half decades that India had launched Look East Policy ...

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... In the midst of all this we come to know that there was a break in their relationship due to their parents. We come to know the reason of the tense relationship of Krish with his father when Krish visits Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He ...

[PDF] Aspiring Public Solutions to Public Deficiencies

M Majumdar, K Rana - PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA
Page 37. We come together for various social purposes. As Tagore ruefully remarked on the self-destructive events in Bengal during 1934-40,'People here do not combine to build up anything bit by bit, but they flock together ...

Beyond paradigms—IV

A Pandey - NAMAH-THE JOURNAL OF INTEGRAL …, 2016 - myresearchjournals.com
7 days ago - ... Sri Aurobindo has explained that the future approach to knowledge will be based on a developed and structured intuitive foundation which will automatically do the work that reason now accomplishes with so much labour and error. ...

The body beautiful

S Basu - NAMAH-THE JOURNAL OF INTEGRAL HEALTH, 2016 - myresearchjournals.com
7 days ago - ... The body beautiful. Dr. Soumitra Basu. Abstract. Sri Aurobindo has warned that if mankind did not evolve further in consciousness, a resurgence of a primitive barbarism would be possible. We see the impending danger around us. ...

[CITATION] The concept of agni in the veda in the light of sri aurobindo

V Iatsenko - 2016 - ir.inflibnet.ac.in
16 days ago - 1) Vedic Texts: RV Rg-veda Sarhhita AV Atharva-veda Sarhhita TaitS TaittirTya  Samhita VajS Vajasaneyl Samhita MaitS Maitrayani Samhita AitBr Aitareya-Brahmanam KausBr  Kausitaka- Brahmanam TaitBr Taittiriya-Brahmanam SatBr Satapatha- Brahmanam ...

[CITATION] Upanishadic influence on educational thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo

S Sengupta - 2015 - ir.inflibnet.ac.in
20 days ago - This thesis along with a hymn below is dedicated to the sweetest as well as  never-ending memory of my mother, Kalyani Sengupta–although it was the saddest thing  that she withdrew from her body and worldly life last year but with a glimmering of light that ...

[PDF] Sri Aurobindo: A Postmodern Sublime Poet

A Kumar - EDITORIAL BOARD, 2016 - thecontour.org
20 days ago - Among all the leading poets of the early twentieth century Indian English poets  Sri Aurobindo is vibrant with the contemporary literary ethos–modernism vis-a-vis 
postmodernism. His modernism was not haunted by what TS Eliot and Ezra Pound found ...

How Do Spirituality, Intuition and Entrepreneurship Go Together?

SS Nandram - Philosophy of Management, 2016 - Springer
22 days ago - ... What is the potential role of intuition in disciplines such as education? For understanding the concept of intuition a philosophical base has been followed, inspired by the teachings of Sri Aurobindo on types of knowledge and levels of consciousness. ... Sri Aurobindo . ...

Sri Aurobindo at Alipore Jail

J López-Bonilla - Scientific GOD Journal, 2016 - scigod.com
29 days ago - Abstract In this essay, I comment on the mystical experiences of Sri Aurobindo at Alipore jail which may be best summarized by his own words:“Spiritual life finds its better expression in the common life with the force from Yoga [; b] y connecting internal and ...

Shukla Sanyal. Revolutionary Pamphlets, Propaganda and Political Culture in Colonial Bengal.

N Bose - The American Historical Review, 2015 - ahr.oxfordjournals.org
78 days ago - ... Following the precedent established by literary figures and revivalists like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya, Aurobindo Ghose, and Swami Vivekananda, pamphleteers also equated violence in the name of nationalist protest (initially directed at opposing the partition ...

[HTML] Performing the Bengali nation: Munier Chowdhury's Kabar and Syed Huq's Payer Awaj Pawa Jaye

SJ AHMED - departmag.com
86 days ago - ... The success of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sri Aurobindo in inaugurating a populist
narration of nation in the late nineteenth century South Asia, lay in their ability to coalesce a
number of signs of sacred texts (such as the Gita), deities (such as Kali and Shiva), rites of ...

[PDF] Philosophy of Political Economy; Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

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87 days ago - Among the many remarkable men born in the second half of the 19th century  who were to mould India's destiny, there is hardly anyone who has the aura of heroism,  romance, mystery and grandaur which surrounds Aurbindo Ghosh. A contemporary of ...

[PDF] An Indian Aesthetic Consciousness of Natural Corollary in Sri Aurobindo's Select Poems

S Karthick, OT Poongodi - ijellh.com
91 days ago - ABSTRACT Eco aesthetic is a critical mode of English poetry in Indian 
aesthetics. It has a poise of nature consciousness of spiritual unity. Nature literature aims at 
a rational conception of the reality as a whole. It seeks to gain true insight into the general ...

[PDF] SRI AUROBINDO'S VIEWS ON THE CHARACTER OF ENGLISH POETRY

A Aggarwal - cwcjournal.in
103 days ago - Sri Aurobindo was the greatest intellectual of our age; a poet, a seer, a critic,  an interpreter and commentator of Vedas and all the legends of India. Sri Aurobindo wrote  his Future Poetry and there has not been any other intelligent and systematic assessment ...

[BOOK] Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga Volume 1: The Conditions of the Synthesis and the Yoga of Divine Works

S Krinsky - 2015 - books.google.com
121 days ago - In The Synthesis of Yoga Sri Aurobindo unfolds his vision of an integral (also  called “purna” or “complete”) yoga embracing all the powers and activities of man. He  provides an overview of the main paths of yoga, their primary methodologies and the ...
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Toward a new Hermeneutics of the Bhagavad Gītā: Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and the Secret of Vijñāna

A Maharaj - Philosophy East and West, 2015 - muse.jhu.edu
125 days ago - The Bhagavad Gītā has inspired more interpretive controversy than any other  religious scripture in India's history. The Gītā, a philosophical and spiritual poem of  approximately seven hundred verses, is part of the ancient Sanskrit epic, the Mahābhārata ...

[PDF] GANDHI AND HIS MOVEMENTS: A REAPPRAISAL

R KUMARI - DISCUSSANT, 2015 - crdj.in
125 days ago - ... Aurobindo had justification for passive resistance on the ground that British were too powerful and therefore active resistance would be suppressed brutally. In other words, Aurobindo was not against the use of force against the British. ...

[PDF] Sri Aurohindo: High Priest of Terror or happy Merchant?

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128 days ago - Page 1. Sri Aurohindo: High Priest of Terror or happy Merchant? JH Stone IE Before his elevation to the status of “the greatest mystic-philosopher of present— day India,” Sri Aurobindo was among lndia's most radical Nationalist leaders. .References Sri Aurobindo (Ghose ...

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Friday, February 19, 2016

Ancient biblical hope of a just and compassionate society


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... things that matter to their participants, and American culture is no exception. From its early days, some Americans have seen the purpose and goal of the nation as the effort to realize the ancient biblical hope of a just and compassionate society. 

A Philosopher Defends Religion by Thomas Nagel | The ...

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Sep 27, 2012 - Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism ... as to the philosophy of religion, turns this alleged opposition on its head. [...] Thomas Nagel
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga  Oxford University Press, 359 pp., $27.95
In his absorbing new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies, Alvin Plantinga, a distinguished analytic philosopher known for his contributions to metaphysics and theory of knowledge as well as to the philosophy of religion, turns this alleged opposition on its head. His overall claim is that “there is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.” By naturalism he means the view that the world describable by the natural sciences is all that exists, and that there is no such person as God, or anything like God. [...]
Most of Plantinga’s book is taken up with systematic discussion, deploying his epistemology, of more specific claims about how science conflicts with, or supports, religion. He addresses Richard Dawkins’s claim that evolution reveals a world without design; Michael Behe’s claim that on the contrary it reveals the working of intelligent design; the claim that the laws of physics are incompatible with miracles; the claim of evolutionary and social psychologists that the functional explanation of moral and religious beliefs shows that there are no objective moral or religious truths; the idea that historical biblical criticism makes it unreasonable to regard the Bible as the word of God; and the idea that the fine-tuning of the basic physical constants, whose precise values make life possible, is evidence of a creator. He touches on the problem of evil, and though he offers possible responses, he also remarks, “Suppose God does have a good reason for permitting sin and evil, pain and suffering: why think we would be the first to know what it is?”
About evolution, Plantinga argues persuasively that the most that can be shown (by Dawkins, for example) on the basis of the available evidence together with some highly speculative further assumptions is that we cannot rule out the possibility that the living world was produced by unguided evolution and hence without design. He believes the alternative hypothesis of guided evolution, with God causing appropriate mutations and fostering their survival, would make the actual result much more probable. On the other hand, though he believes Michael Behe offers a serious challenge to the prevailing naturalist picture of evolution, he does not think Behe’s arguments for intelligent design are conclusive, and he notes that in any case they don’t support Christian belief, and perhaps not even theism, because Behe intentionally says so little about the designer.
Plantinga holds that miracles are not incompatible with the laws of physics, because those laws determine only what happens in closed systems, without external intervention, and the proposition that the physical universe is a closed system is not itself a law of physics, but a naturalist assumption. Newton did not believe it: he even believed that God intervened to keep the planets in their orbits. Plantinga has a lengthy discussion of the relation of miracles to quantum theory: its probabilistic character, he believes, may allow not only miracles but human free will. And he considers the different interpretations that have been given to the fine-tuning of the physical constants, concluding that the support it offers for theism is modest, because of the difficulty of assigning probabilities to the alternatives. All these discussions make a serious effort to engage with the data of current science. The arguments are often ingenious and, given Plantinga’s premises, the overall view is thorough and consistent.
The interest of this book, especially for secular readers, is its presentation from the inside of the point of view of a philosophically subtle and scientifically informed theist—an outlook with which many of them will not be familiar. Plantinga writes clearly and accessibly, and sometimes acidly—in response to aggressive critics of religion like Dawkins and Daniel Dennett. His comprehensive stand is a valuable contribution to this debate.
I say this as someone who cannot imagine believing what he believes. But even those who cannot accept the theist alternative should admit that Plantinga’s criticisms of naturalism are directed at the deepest problem with that view—how it can account for the appearance, through the operation of the laws of physics and chemistry, of conscious beings like ourselves, capable of discovering those laws and understanding the universe that they govern. Defenders of naturalism have not ignored this problem, but I believe that so far, even with the aid of evolutionary theory, they have not proposed a credible solution. Perhaps theism and materialist naturalism are not the only alternatives.
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In his lectures on Raja Yoga, Swami Vivekananda discusses various phenomenal powers that can arise through the practice of the Yoga, and he makes it clear to the reader that these powers are distracting, and can lead the seeker away from the goal of attaining Samadhi, and abandoning the life in the world. Sri Aurobindo acknowledges this, and points out that for someone whose goal is to unite with the Absolute and disregard the world, such a position is both understandable and reasonable. At the same time, in the integral Yoga, where the world is embraced as the intended manifestation of the Divine, such a solution, which is, in effect, “cutting the knot” of the problem of life, is not acceptable.
“But since we accept world-existence, and for us all world-existence is Brahman and full of the presence of God, these things can have no terrors for us; whatever dangers of distraction there may be, we have to face and overcome them. If the world and our own existence are so complex, we must know and embrace their complexities in order that our self-knowledge and our knowledge of the dealings of Purusha with its Prakriti may be complete. If there are many planes, we have to possess them all for the Divine, even as we seek to possess spiritually and transform our ordinary poise of mind, life and body.” Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Part Two: The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, Chapter 19, The Planes of Our Existence, pp. 427-428
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