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All we owe to Thee
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Transparency can come only as a result of perfect ...
Surrender; to will what the Divine wills is the su...
True purity gives a lovely fragrance
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Aspiration; innumerable and obstinate, repeating i...
Transparency, trust, gratitude, aspiration, persev...
Sincerity, faith, devotion, courage, endurance
Keep yourself always open towards me – this is all...
Be like a flower ... open, frank, equal, generous,...
Sri Aurobindo has diagnosed the human condition as...
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All we owe to Thee

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VAISHALI # INDIRAPURAM # VASUNDHARA # AND KAUSHAMBI
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135th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo
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The Mother's birthday in Indirapuram
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Sri Aurobindo Bhawan, Noida
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Progress ... the reason why we are on earth

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Doom as boon From chrysalis on to apotheosis When...
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Watch out! In the immensity of unity Replete with...
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Gratitude ... let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply

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This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose
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You have perhaps caused as much destruction of lif...
Acting out, reaction formation, denial, projection...
Written text allows for certain possibilities that...
Envy is an aspect of what Freud called the death i...
Church attendance gives way to spiritual longing. ...
You no longer have a university, but a series of i...
The salon is a thinking-machine
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A hybrid monster that is neither adult nor child b...
Young people are naturally drawn to leftism, it gi...
I do order and declare that all persons held as sl...
As if there were no women philosophers during the ...
Decoding is the disruption of these social codes
The woman is very jealous of her husband’s time be...
Atheists are the most reviled people in American s...
Islam gives importance to intentions; clicking of ...
What drinking means to the people who consume or, ...
Absence of a frank discussion about the many dimen...
From a servant model to a service provider model
70 percent of black children are born out of wedlo...
Males that fall under the feminine side and women ...
Biological-centeredness of the study of kinship in...
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Television in rural areas have had an effect on la...
One may find equality in spiritual realm and inequ...
Children belong to a special category of citizens ...
Lilla believes that there is something called "the...
Political theology is highly adaptive and can pres...
While the Indian Constitution outlawed untouchabil...
Rehana Sultana also tried to do the same thing, bu...
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Grammar and syntax used by men and women show disp...
To be human means to be called to interpersonal co...
80 per cent of Christians in North India are 'Dali...
Brahmins prefer cricket because they don't like ot...
Indo-Persian Mithraism is not the same as that of ...
Cosmic Mother worship: the secret worship of ferro...
How gender has been conceptualized in different sp...
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Frankly even the term "feminism" seems divisive to...
Patriarchal nonsense packaged as New Age spiritual...
Cultural and moral ’selectivism’
There are different types of touches, some holy, s...
A split between matriarchal and patriarchal mytho-...
How can selection be theorized without presupposin...
I would fault Butler for taking her own “structura...
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Sex phobia underlies the reactions to sexual speec...
Toilet designs indicate a particular ideology pert...
The natural hierarchy that prevails among humans
Families as "pockets of insurrection"
I find Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s teachings ...
► April (4)
In most instances racial interpretation can safely...
A million untouchables
The demeaning way in which religions view women
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Transparency can come only as a result of perfect sincerity

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Let us rationally believe that social events do not happen suddenly like an earthquake. Those begin to crop from the seeds sown. I praise your efforts; at least the new generation may get opportunity to understand perspectives of events and social equations.

- Rabi Kanungo (Intellectual Forum)
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India must have its own unfettered freedom based o...
Talleyrand's apparent treasons can be seen as the ...
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) is the most original phi...
Across history, the prosperity of a nation has gon...
To this day, the kings of Thailand are only crowne...
Yechuri’s appeal that faith must be a tool to prom...
Fallacious dreams have reappeared in other garbs. ...
Justice is the main pillar of commercial society
Sunni Islam has already experienced something akin...
We have the potential to grow our own beautiful fl...
Keeping supercapitalism from spilling over into de...
We need to find sources of prophecy appropriate fo...
Hegel finished the process of secularizing theolog...
Wealth Of Nations was written to persuade legislat...
Marketing Christian fundamentalism with all the sa...
Sitaram Yechuri's epic plagiarism brings in the ra...
Scientists push back the boundaries of knowledge. ...
German Idealism is best understood as the philosop...
The American revolution was the first explicitly m...
To this day America has failed to define what is o...
Hume’s “epistemological problem” and alleged skept...
The definition of religion adopted by the High Cou...
Today we live in the American era with all its glo...
Christianity is rigidly myth bound and inherently ...
True science only developed in one place and in on...
Domestication of Sacrifice
Paganism may be said to have survived its apparent...
A vital bond they share with Jews is the threat to...
America’s colleges and universities have become th...
Oxbridge graduates go on to run the country and be...
Adam Smith found the origins of justice in the inv...
At King’s, Sri Aurobindo shone at classics more th...
Welcome foreign universities
Adam Smith did not introduce the ‘famous metaphor ...
The Jesuits in 16th century Spain found a need to ...
Social protectionism is a spontaneous reaction to ...
Ayn Rand was the first thinker and artist to fully...
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Ms. Klein has become the kind of brand she lamente...
Sri Aurobindo is widely considered to be one of th...
In Paris, a British lieutenant was to play a very ...
William Jones was a pioneer in the pursuit of the ...
Marx’s fetish picks out a sensuous material world
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Arundale traversed India in search of compliant pr...
Major groups within Christianity
Hydro, Thermal, Nuclear and Renewable energy canno...
An absolute democracy could bring a democratic end...
Bepin Chandra Pal paid great tribute to Sri Aurobi...
Tyler’s new book Discover Your Inner Economist is ...
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Surrender; to will what the Divine wills is the supreme wisdom

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All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

- The Life Divine
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The meanings law, order and truth mingle in a sing...
Dawkins is a decent popularizer of science but com...
The poison isn't religion; it's monotheism
To be an Athenian is to hold the quest for knowled...
Rorty has a laudatory essay on Kundera's fiction
''The good old Great Books approach'' is the ''onl...
We must cultivate consciously the art of saying no...
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One can make room for the slaughter of a child wit...
El may have been a god in the Canaanite pantheon, ...
Upcoming book on "Christology and Science"
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The same system Leonardo used was the basis for ou...
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The obligatory atheist is essentially fixated on t...
Shakespeare once again, uses vivid imagery to show...
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Thoughts related to God cultivate cooperative beha...
Vivekananda’s doctrine of Maya is not like that of...
Read Augustine as a historical figure and as a con...
Outside the normal educational process and outside...
A rationally informed faith requires the imaginary...
What really binds me to rituals are the mantras, s...
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Political theology centered on God was replaced by...
Core values that guide their daily lives
Religion is not primarily about God, but about the...
All religions carry a huge baggage of customs that...
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A guide for ethical living
Sri Aurobindo has experimentally verified and logi...
Hindu ploymorphisms should not be confused with po...
There remain serious theological differences
There is too much in their traditions to ignore
The desert fathers didn't go to the library to lea...
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I want to read ten million books in my lifetime
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The question of whether the cosmos is evolutionary...
New Way to synthesise the Transcendent, the Cosmic...
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St Maximos believed the cycle of suffering could n...
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The flower garden receives no water, while the ban...
The most distinguishing feature of the Indian char...
Each of these bear as many repeat reads as a lifet...
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I find divinity through literature
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True purity gives a lovely fragrance

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Sunbeams of knowledge Moonbeams of delight
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Poet Sriharsa is a deep-delved philosopher
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Intentionality can enter into a relation with the ...
Like Edgar Allan Poe, Sri Aurobindo wants the crea...
Dood Paard offers a gorgeous picture of the public...
Theatrical wrongheadedness
“Four years of freedom” are civilization’s only ch...
Kala Vikash Kendra at Cuttack was started by Babul...
Deleuze has been adopted as an evangelist, and his...
Because a poet must forge an original poetic visio...
Prabhulal Garg decided to revive and breathe new l...
For Sri Aurobindo it was the source of vitality an...
► September (21)
My tireless quest to promote the humanities
Schelling-Zizek: Mental State + Eternal Character ...
Deleuze diverges from Kant in arguing for a creati...
Before the work, the writer is nothing yet, but af...
It is hard to resist its infectious songs and its ...
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The depth of Torah as an art form
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Nirod was aware that faculties can grow, in fact, ...
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Include the phenomenologico-existential experience...
Tagore felt mortified by many of the nationalist l...
In art alone you are completely free because there...
These masters of blah have migrated to the Republi...
I see the historical problem of growth through the...
The Titans birthed the Mount Olympus deities
Bengal Theatre was inaugurated on 16th August, 187...
The “national consensus” among the SMS-sending cro...
A few of the liberals sought to strike a balance. ...
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The other four Pandavas represent the four purusha...
Vidyapati had propagated ideas of dharma in secula...
I suppose if I had to use a label, I'd tell you th...
A whole tradition in Rosenszweig and others that p...
Let love motivate every action
We refuse to argue or agree to philosophic positio...
The true hero, the true leader, is one who is at h...
Human intellect is the closest thing we have to th...
I've always perceived music as being a bridge betw...
Anu has worked at Matrimandir and Pour Tous
The Indian narrative is layered. The how is more i...
It is assumed that there is a natural link between...
What politicians have failed to do, a universal lo...
A complete yoga must make us all-embracing: outwar...
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Rorty valorises the study of literature and the ro...
Modernism and Magic Realism
'Do Beegha Zameen', 'Swades', 'Motorcycle Diaries'...
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Imagination ... must not be substituted for the Truth

Because Thou Art
Where Light is native and Delight is king
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The humble cabbage
The prophet among men is a notion that has come to...
An organ of trans-sensory perception is needed
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Donkeys do harbor lice
Beyond aesthetics to the full extent of aisthesis
“Economy of the icon”
New works by Sujata Dere
Eco believes that Maritain is reading more into Th...
The artist was particularly inspired by the Kolkat...
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In our fairy tales the ugly people are those who a...
Sadanga — the texts of Abanindranath and Sri Aurob...
Blue and white cows floating benignly in placid ga...
Nele Martens, Hufreesh Dumasia, Anna Maria, Agnus,...
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For the fine arts to revive, they must recover the...
Paintings by Vishwajyoti Mohrhoff
Benaras is not merely a geographical space, but it...
One who has this refinement will feel incapable of...
God’s purpose in the creative advance is the evoca...
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Interactive art is art whose state of rest must be...
An inner power of discrimination
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If you are measuring beauty, you aren’t experienci...
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The art world loves/hates Digital Art
Mouth of Purgatory is like a vortex where black lo...
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With more perspectives, more understanding is poss...
The way the building is tilted at 20deg to the roa...
Baker's low-cost architecture was in sharp contras...
The possibility of emerging into light is essentia...
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Art must be the expression of a divine world
Jesus Ciriza has created the successful brand `Col...
Practice of an art constitutes a kind of yoga
Taste is something you can work at
Relational Aesthetics coined by Nicolas Bourriaud
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Julian Lines, Chair of Auroville International and...
A documentation of the urban development and archi...
If in work you meet with some difficulties
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Surfer who has already become a cathedral himself
The highest vocation is self-knowledge; Art went a...
Integral Art goes right back to Sri Aurobindo hims...
Getting in touch with the collective unconscious a...
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If there has to be a future art
Decentered patterns which express the dialectic be...
See the reality of the abstract behind the abstrac...
What Champaklal achieved in his boutique paintings...
Form has to express inner beauty and harmony of th...
I'm an extremely tactile person
The Mother as an artist
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Auroville, the international village
Auroville architect Anupama Kundoo
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