Friday, August 18, 2023

History happens just once in a lifetime

 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. 

12 hours ago — This is the first talk of the series on Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus 'The Life Divine'. It is meant to be a chapter-wise summary. Read More ...
9 hours ago — This webinar is based on looking at Sri Aurobindo as a representative of the Divine upon earth. Read More.
10 hours ago — It is a collective effort of many souls united in their aspiration and devotion to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and the Supramental Force which they have ...
10 hours ago — It is a collective effort of many souls united in their aspiration and devotion to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and the Supramental Force which they have ...
4 hours ago — Swami Vivekananda upheld Advaita's compatibility with modern reasoning akin to scientific research; Sri Aurobindo embraced the Upanishads and Advaita; ...

[HTML] Entangled in the Web of Conflicts

L ButkutÄ—, D Mortelmans, J SondaitÄ— - European Journal of Psychology Open, 2023
… People talked about learning meditation, attending yoga classes or self-discovery
courses, attending church, or doing sports. Some argued that the only way to go
through the initial emotional turmoil was to become immersed in intensive work. One 

Book Review: Why I am not a Hindu woman by Wandana Sonalkar

Pooja, A Dhilroh, Z Husain - 2023
… According to her, Hinduism is faith-centric while Hindutva is power-centric;
Hinduism cherishes diversity while Hindutva opposes it; … while Hindutva fights
against them. Departing from the usual assertion that Hindutva is bad and Hinduism …

Munshi, Gujarat, and the Patan Trilogy1

R Kothari, A Kothari - Indian Modernities: Literary Cultures from the 18th to …, 2023
This (Aryan) culture, however, is to be found in the sense of continuity; in the
consciousness of Indian unity, in the permanent values in which the Indians have
always seen the fulfilment of life; in the ethical and idealistic absolutes which have …

12 Film as a majoritarian framework of Hindu nationalism

P Jain, A Raina - Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective: India …, 2023
… In this grand narrative (about Hindutva), the idea of the people–nation is as old as
Indian civilisation. And the upper caste Hindu male, speaking a northern Indian
language is the most legitimate Indian, and every other identity is to be defined and …

A Historian of Technology Watches" The King, His Kitchen, and Other Stories"

B Kagliwal - Technology and Culture, 2023
abstract: Public representation of Indian cuisine is important for historians of
technology. It shows how progress, modernity, and innovation pervade the general
public's understanding of South Asian food history. Based on a popular …

[PDF] EFFECTIVE MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE IN MIND RETENTION INDIAN CULTURE, HERITAGE AND HISTORY FOR STUDENTS

SF Jeya, AR Saravanakumar
… As a result, time and space are integral components of history. The fact that
history happens just once in a lifetime is one of the features of … For instance,
Indian literature and scriptures such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Gita, and Yoga …

Playing it the nation's way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films

P Radhakrishnan, D Ray - Contemporary South Asia, 2023
The generic popularity of Hindi sports films has been overwhelming in recent years.
The article examines this genre of Hindi films through the thematic construction of
the sports‘man’ and its evolutionary manifestation from a masculine figure …

[PDF] We May Disagree, but We All Love the BJP: Populists' Networks and Targeting Opportunities on Twitter

IA Maxwell - Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2023
… Since its founding in 1925, the RSS has propagated the ideology of Hindutva (“Hindu-ness”):
all Indians are ultimately Hindus because … Championing Hindutva, the RSS has
sought to undermine secular government in favor of an ethnicized Hindu nation-state.Footnote …

Infinite Praise: Beyond the Constituted Finitude of Life and Liberty

S Choudhury - Liberalism and its Encounters in India
… The third dimension that we might extract from Savarkar’s discourse is his
eventual political interest in securing a saturated Hindu Polity which he himself calls
the stakes of HindutvaHindutva includes the politics of constituted state power and …

16 From Villain to Superhero

CS Lanka - Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation …, 2023
… Ramanujan's essay was removed from the Delhi University Curriculum in 2012 in
the context of a strengthening Hindutva movement. 5 Yet, Ramanujan was merely
demonstrating, with specific examples, the various retellings of a well-known story …

Secularism and Its Theological Interior: An Anthropologist's Demand on Faith

A Majumder - Liberalism and its Encounters in India
In this chapter, I investigate the secular persona of the anthropologist as she begins
to ask some troubling questions of faith. I provide an autoethnography trying to show
certain aporias surrounding the self-conscious journey of a secular person (in this …

Varieties of intellectual decolonisation: an introduction

G Hull - Social Dynamics, 2023
… Sai Deepak – who is, like Ram Swarup, a prominent voice in the Hindutva current
of thought and political activism. Sen describes the evolution of Mignolo’s
Decoloniality thinking from its beginnings in a “critique of authenticities” to its mature …

Hinduism, Yoga and Indian Culture: The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

A Vohra, K Ramesh - 2023
This volume is a collection of K. Satchidananda Murty's unpublished writings. It
presents Murty's views on Hinduism, Indian culture, and Yoga. Murty traces the
etymological origins of the term'dharma'and discusses its contemporary relevance to …

Art and Ethics in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

N Bhushan, AK Mehrotra - The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art, 2023
… At the same time, ethical lessons regarding good and evil characters, and explicit
and implicit conventions of morality have been an integral part of the ancient … He
argued that art was a yoga or discipline that enables the artist to embody an intuition …

[HTML] Gandhi falling… and rising

R Rao - Journal of Historical Geography, 2023
… Among those who passed through it was the young Vinayak Damodar Savarkar –
the ideological architect of Hindutva who inspired Gandhi's assassin Nathuram
Godse and was himself tried for conspiracy following the assassination but …

[HTML] Hindu Civilization and Indian Nationalism: Conceptual Conflicts and Convergences in the Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt, c. 1870–1910

A Mitra - Religions, 2023
This paper is about a particular construction of nationalism at the hands of Romesh
Chunder Dutt (1848–1909), the well-known exponent of ‘economic nationalism’, in
colonial Bengal from 1870 onwards till his death in 1909. In this construction of …

Role of Socio-spiritual Reformers in the Social Well-Being of Contemporary India

PS Sahni, K Singh, E Chopra - Religious and Spiritual Practices in India: A Positive …, 2023
… Shri Aurobindo also proposed ‘integral yoga’, which unlike the regular yoga
focused more on the psychological and spiritual growth than only physical balance
vis-à-vis balance of our mind. Research on the practical experience of individuals …

Religion, Spirituality, and Happiness: Through an Indian Lens

J Agrawal, K Singh, G Saxena - Religious and Spiritual Practices in India: A Positive …, 2023
Religion and spirituality (R/S) form an essential part of an individual’s identity. About
80% of people around the world are believed to be associated with some religion.
Researchers have become increasingly interested in the psychological associations …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English

M Jaidka, TN Dhar - 2023
… Significant essays on yogic knowledge and experiences of Sri Aurobindo and
some important translations appeared in Arya, but it was discontinued in 1921. Sri
Aurobindo’s oeuvre consists of voluminous work related to philosophy, literature …

MOTHERING THE DAUGHTERS'BODY

SN Abidi - The Gendered Body in South Asia: Negotiation …, 2023
… This idea of nation as a mother became prominent during the nationalist struggle
and has regained momentum; I argue with the current wave of Hindutva nationalism
dominating political discourse in India. The Muslim mother is therefore located in this …

[PDF] Disavowing Naidu: Nationalism and Decadent Poetics in India

S Chakraborty - Volupté, 2023
… 8 ‘In a landmark 1923 book Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?, the conservative leader
and revolutionary VD Savarkar coined the term Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) to
challenge the secular conception of Indian nationhood propounded by Gandhi and …

“You Are Not the Body”:(Re) Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga

EF Johnston - Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, 2023
… Ron and Aadesh, 2 the program’s instructors, sat at the front of the room beside a
customary Integral Yoga … of yoga to the Integral Yoga community's broader
symbolic world. Using the sun salutation drill as an opportunity to do interpretive …

COVID-19 AND THE CHALLENGES OF TRAUMA, TRANSFORMATIONS, AND DEBORDERISATION

AK Giri - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life, 2023
… There is also a dialogue between Savitri and the King of Death in the
Mahabharata as well as in Sri Aurobindo’s epic Savitri in which Savitri is striving to
revive her … In Afterword to Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, edited by Ananta …

[PDF] International Research Mirror

N SINGH
… Therefore, Sri Aurobindo said that while wealth was divine it remained for a long
time under the influence of the evil forces, and it was time for some good people to
retrieve it for God’s sake and for justice. (Hindu, 2019) …

J Sai Deepak's India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution. Bloomsbury 2021

A Sen - Social Dynamics, 2023
… With vigour, he starts hitching the decolonial wagon to the Hindutva juggernaut. 5
He identifies four schools and assigns them a series of dilettante definitions. The
Modernists, the Postmodernists, the Postcolonials (Subaltern Studies primarily, one …

[HTML] Mirra Alfassa: Completing Sri Aurobindo's Vision

P Beldio - Religions, 2023
… This article seeks to stimulate a new avenue of scholarship on the integral yoga
tradition by critically investigating Mirra’s sources of power that engendered and
facilitated her authority and leadership with Aurobindo that were both continuous …

[HTML] History of Weed

CIA China
… specifically devoted to Lord Shiva, consume vast amounts of cannabis flower and
hash through clay pipes during times of worship, meditation, and yoga (Godlaski,
2012, p. 1068). … Regardless, hemp was an integral part of America’s founding …

Community Psychology: Indian Perspective

R Lal - 2023
The present volume is a compilation of virtual lectures. Virtual lectures were held
from July 10 to August 12, 2020. The community psychology issues discussed were:
Prospects of Community Psychology in India, Community Psychology: Nature and …

[HTML] Good Queen, Bad Queen: Gender, Devotion, and Mythmaking in Women's Histories

S Johansen Hurwitt - Religions, 2023
How do we remember and write about powerful women and the impacts they have
had on history? Who tells their stories, and to whose advantage are those narratives
constructed? And what happens if we look carefully and acknowledge that when …

[PDF] Yogic Perceptions of Aryan-Dravidian Controversy

S Mukhopadhyay
… Sri Aurobindo(1872 – 1950) was a philosopher, yogi, mystic and spiritual guru
who developed the philosophy of Integral Yoga and human evolution. As a polyglot
he was fluent in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English, French, German, Greek and …

The Emergence of “Esoteric” as a Comparative Category: Towards a Decentered Historiography

J Strube - Implicit Religion, 2023
This case study contributes to ongoing debates about religious comparativism by
focusing on the emergence of the notion of “esoteric” as a de facto comparative
category since the seventeenth century. Scholars have so far restricted their studies …

Mystic Experience as Drama: Chaitanya and Mira

B Naikar - Poetcrit, 2023
… Dilip Kumar Roy happens to be a rare exception to the general rule, because he
wrote this play, Chaitanya (and also Mira) when he stayed in Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
under the powerful influence of the great yogi. Writing a religious play in English …

[HTML] Spiritualizing Anarchism, Making Spiritual Practices Anarchistic

M Losoncz - Philosophies, 2023
… After showing that “spiritual anarchism” appeared in newspaper articles from the
1890s with widely differing meanings, he shows that it was used in a truly affirmative
way from the 1910s, and then from the 1930s, thanks to the Catholic Worker …

Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and Politics

M Miri, B Puri - 2023
This book examines the centrality of ideas such as satya (truth), ahimsa (non-violence),
humility, and respect for understanding moral life in the complex milieu of human
existence. It provides a comprehensive view of how Gandhian ideas have both a …

Enlivening Gandhi and Sanitary Nationalism: Transmuting Health into Materialization of Swaraj

A Das - Studies in History, 2023
… Later, the promotion of physical culture—being a part of Indian nationalism
following the regeneration of the concocted ideology of Hindutva at the closing
stages of the 1890s—was made an essential quality in the counter-hegemonic …

[PDF] THE RELEVANCE OF AUROBINDO GHOSH'S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION–1986

KC Sabar - International Journal Of History And Political Sciences, 2023
This study examines the relevance of Aurobindo Ghosh's educational philosophy in
the context of the National Policy on Education (NPE) of 1986. Aurobindo Ghosh, a
prominent philosopher and educationist, emphasized the holistic development of …

Satya and Ahimsa: Learning Non-violence from the Gita

B Puri - Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and …, 2023
… Gandhi’s contemporaries like Tilak and Sri Aurobindo (among others) had argued
that the Gita had justified the exception to the law of … In this connection, one might
note that between 1905 and 1910, Sri Aurobindo had written and spoken repeatedly …

[PDF] VVS IYER: The pioneer of militant nationalism in colonial Tamil Nadu

T Balasubramanian, V Venkatraman
… After the episode in Aurobindo’s residence, the police searched Bharati house in
Dharmaraja Koil Street. The officer found only poems by … He returned to India,
albeit to French Pondicherry, and there met with both Subramaniya Bharathi and …

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

S Chakrabarti - 2023
The book examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be
seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism-the two
most crucial avenues of debate and discussion in the public sphere in nineteenth-century …

Self-Architecture for Sukha: Mind++ for Integral Wellbeing

A Choudry, S Ramasubramanian - Handbook of Happiness: Reflections and Praxis …, 2023
‘Happiness Happiness ’ or ‘wellbeing Wellbeing ’ with several synonyms is one of
the most important drivers in human life, but is it a process or an end in itself?
Happiness comes from the root ‘hap,’ literally meaning “to feel fortunate” and acts as …

For Love of Country: Gandhi and Tagore

B Puri - Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and …, 2023
… 438) imagined in continuity with “India’s earlier experiences with large
indigenous state systems” (Nandy, 1994:ix) had perhaps inspired the critiques of the
western nation-state and parliamentary democracy made by nationalists like Sri …

[PDF] God, Panentheism and Theistic Cosmopsychism: A Cross-Cultural Study Case

R Silvestre
Although Western philosophy of religion has developed many useful tools for
evaluating Abrahamic conceptions of God as they apply to different philosophical
traditions, there is a growing awareness that such monotheistic Western approaches …
Even now, few are privileged enough to fly, especially on their own money. It remains a bid deal. It is little wonder that many come to drop the traveler off and in doing so leave their own lives behind for a while and live a dream vicariously?
Because Thou Art: Sri Aurobindo stands like a huge oak spreading its branches over two centuries becausethouart.blogspot.com/2023/08/sri-au Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Founder, Savitri Era Religion and Savitri Era Party. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.