Silence and the self-giving which demands nothing in return

The Orchid and the Rose
Only one joy, to raise thy kind, desire. - Sri Aurobindo
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The Aryan invasion theory questioned
Scientists haven’t worked out abiogenesis
Mathematical analysis of linguistic evolution
Like genes, words can be compared to one another a...
Patience is older than fairness
The same programme of Physical Education is prescr...
A day of the elephants at Nandankanan
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Should one lower one's cholesterol?
The more you eat the sooner you will leave this pl...
Deification of victimhood; the supremacy of feelin...
It is impossible to understand anything of Lacan i...
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To be healthy, you really do need to break into a ...
The spiritual man casts a deeper look
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Fire and fragrance, sacred wood and flowers
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The potential of inner technology is practically l...
The Quiet Healing Centre opened in February, 1997
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Joan Sala and Aloka Marti have been engaged in ove...
If a tree is ill, tree doctors are invited from Po...
Herbal Medicine in/around Auroville
The Mother asked Narad to design the gardens
There are so many opportunities here and so many t...
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A place of peace, concord and harmony
Ecovillage Design Education
Eye exercises
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It was nice to be amongst friendly faces its a bit...
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Medicinal Garden in the Community of Pitchandikula...
Self-awareness and self-discovery through the body...
Health of the body and its necessary role in the t...
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William James, Sri Aurobindo, and Maine de Biran
Purna Yoga must not be physical, but spiritual or ...
To activate the higher healing forces
Trees soak up the sun’s heating rays
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Aspiration; innumerable and obstinate, repeating itself untiringly

Feel Philosophy
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have knowledge.

Reason was the helper, Reason is the bar.
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Emphasis on the mental and spiritual evolution of ...
What Da shows is really revolutionary
Daya Krishna was a trailblazer in juxtaposing Indi...
Consensual knowledge of an universal subjectivity ...
Sri Aurobindo describes “three dynamic images” thr...
Chalmers went one step further claiming that consc...
Thanks, now we know where Agamben stole "the naked...
It constructs, but does not create
Politics, Rancière argues, is the rare event that ...
By the blooming, buzzing confusion of literature a...
Intellectual dishonesty
If Derrida can take a concept from Saussure and us...
The indeterminable space where baldness begins and...
Late Husserlian concept of freedom is ‘hazy’
Husserl has solved one half of the problem
Deleuze, Badiou, Henry, Laruelle
Merleau-Ponty, Henry, Patočka, Nancy
Zizek is one hundred eighty degrees wrong about He...
Just one long sentence of 16 lines loaded with far...
Verstand for Hegel involves division and distincti...
The grandeur of Hegel's effort has no equal in the...
Yaska and Chomsky
Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga is the first maj...
The highest integrative structure in the personal ...
In the view of the old Indian physicists
Luce Irigaray deserves credit for treating plurali...
A returning of Geist to its original signification...
Claude Levi-Strauss demonstrated the rationality b...
Cognitive science has been well linked to philosop...
Don Lavoie understood that Mises's revolutionary i...
Patoèka is an alchemist of thought
This is the sole true supermanhood and the one rea...
Tolstoy looks back on his life and considers it to...
Instead of there being two lines, one masculine an...
A Bird Needs Two Wings: Wisdom and Compassion
Kant's doctrine of the ‘categorical imperative’ ma...

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Philosophers can be "prophets"
The reproach of anthropomorphism and anthropolatry...
Tengelyi endorses Levinas' idea
Scotus’ first move is to present the infinite as p...
Destruction of meanings is concomitant to a commit...
Poiesis as a kind of praxis
Repetition and negativity do not take place in the...
Where the future is always deferred, and desire de...
Michael Tratner’s paper, Derrida’s Debt to Milton ...
To really understand Zizek would mean dealing seri...
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The hunger for absolute leaders and absolute truth...
One is what one does
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Sri Aurobindo and The Mother suggested to read the...
Toward a truly suprarational and transformational ...
He whose transcendence rules the pregnant Vasts
We will miss this departed scholar from Bankikodla...
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo were not interested i...
Dr. Mangesh V.Nadkarni passed away on 23 September...
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A clear distinction be voiced between practitioner...
All our faculties, our will and thought and feelin...
For outsiders like me every small incidence about ...
How can it help a person in day to day life
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother intervened with The B...
I am much interested in Sri Aurobindo's thoughts
Deep synthesis of Eastern and Western worldviews
► August (9)
The body actually becomes universal, it develops a...
The entire form of Savitri has descended en mass f...
Sometimes I help to do the flowers for the importa...
That is the faith every sadhak must have at the bo...
Van Vrekhem’s child-like approach to Sri Aurobindo...
Even the physical shall reveal the dynamic reality...
Both the Gayatris were given by the Kshatriya Seer...
Sri Aurobindo is magnet
The concept of evolution is rapidly becoming a new...
► July (2)
Welcome to the new UHU Forum
They never intended to make a religion or saints o...
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The cells themselves turning towards the Divine Pr...
The relics are often like a flame that is looking ...
There are some other integral yoga related blogs o...
A profoundly elevating experience of song
Auroville Matrimandir
Mira Alfassa - the Mother
► May (10)
The sudden descent of divine force into my body th...
How to maintain peace in tough times
This group is for the people who are in search of ...
Donations to Sri Aurobindo University at Dalijoda
A platform for discussing Sri Aurobindo's teaching...
They form a bridge to further human evolution
I have been staying in the consciousness of Sri Au...
In our school perfetion is more important than suc...
There may be millions in this world believing and ...
To say Integral Yoga is not a religion is no more ...
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There can be no enslavement to old formulas
Sri Aurobindo’s twelve and the Mother’s six
Sri Aurobindo is more than his works, prose or poe...
There is absolutely no basis to claim the integral...
The danger of avatarhood as a concept breeding rel...
The golden event which occurred on 29 February 195...
I will not try to escape from the work Thou hast g...
The divine Savitri is poised to take the mortal bi...
Privileged are those who will enter into its court...
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The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation, - for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment, - is also the highest which his thought can evisage...

The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, - God, Light, Freedom, Immortality.
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Meeting of the East and the West
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Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Evolution
The Destiny of the Body

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M.P. Pandit Matrimandir
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Mirror of Tomorrow
Mother's Agenda
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Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture
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▼ 2007 (737) ▼ October (27)
Why would you close yourself off in philosophy?
Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Sri Aurobindo
Why insist on one person alone?
As most of the info on the link is posted by an In...
Glory becomes indiscernable from economy and gover...
Poetry of the future would embody a harmony of fiv...
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother's Integral Yoga, and ...
It is capitalism and the capitalist system that of...
Muslim version of the evolution starts out with mi...
A causal relationship from economic and social fac...
I find much value in Kazlev's serious attention to...
Hegel's handling of necessity & contingency is oft...
Studying the words of the ancient masters does not...
Evolutionary transition to a "new species" that Sr...
There is absolutely nothing in Sri Aurobindo’s lum...
The mainstream integral movement ignores The Mothe...
There is no way I could have surrendered to any ot...
Nancy's distance from the Nietzschean approach
We are not likely to see the end of religion anyti...
There is a strong parallel between Christianity an...
Sam Harris is no ordinary atheist. He's a Buddhist...
Don Lavoie's research and teaching should be remem...
Bourdieu analyses that aesthetic taste is correlat...
What an educated person should know
It is a world of very high social capital and low ...
My personal bias is towards an experiential knowle...
Sri Aurobindo's Integralism also places quite a hi...

► September (63)
I'm in agreement with most of Harris' arguments
Kentegral lie
Comte, Hegel, and Marx: the cult of “super-causes”...
Hegel’s work is a connection to the work of Nichol...
More religious scholars are needed to start active...
Including philosophy of science and the question o...
All philosophical taxidermy is repugnant falsifica...
The issue that really separates East and West
I think of writing and philosophy as being closer ...
A religious passion in the absence of religion
Dr. Don Salmon's Book on Integral Psychology as Ta...
We are all salespersons to different degrees, and ...
Luhmann’s reasoning is similar to Nietzsche’s
Gullibility of press and public and the mass seduc...
A fascinating reading of Žižek’s theological writi...
If Joseph Campbell was alive today, he would be ch...
A major new study of Herbert Spencer, A stunning r...
William of Moerbeke was a Flemish scholar and prol...
Wilber has moved on, left the likes of Sam Harris ...
The neo-Marxist fascists are leading the charge in...
Kabbalistic notion of Tikkun Olam
Judeo-Vedic relationship
The history of the Church has been one sustained a...

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Sri Aurobindo has diagnosed the human condition as one of sevenfold Ignorance

Aurora Mirabilis
All nature dumbly calls to her alone

To heal with her feet the aching throb of life.
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▼ 2007 (339) ▼ October (25)
Prof. Kireet Joshi to contribute his articles and ...
Amal, Udar, Gauri, Tehmi, Sunanda, Richard, Jhumur...
Pigmentation and painting
Lecture on “Sri Aurobindo and Vedic Symbolism” by ...
The Ontology of Self-Perfection
Need for a broad-based mature and competent team o...
Barbarism, Civilisation and Culture
Why Sri Aurobindo remains so unknown in the world
The magnet of our difficult ascent
The Language Lab at Auroville helps in learning ar...
Visit to the Samadhi and Collective Meditations
Sri Chinmoy died at the age of 76
Religion was the helper; religion is the bar
Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala
Lectures on "The Synthesis of Yoga"
Weekly special train between Bhubaneswar and Pondi...
Remembrance meeting on Prof. M.V. Nadkarni
Navajata, whom she called 'My faithful'
"It is a dream come true for me and my wife," said...
P. Lal, L.K. Advani, Rama, and Shyam Chand
Swami Vivekananda’s favourite Tagore songs at Sri ...
Aboni Ghose, J.N. Mohanty, and Kangali Charan Pati...
Auroville has residents from over forty countries,...
A divine life free from physical death
Savitri Bhavan Programme for October 2007

► September (30)
Ashram and the Army
The most valuable legacy The Mother has left to hu...
An apparently genuine sage
Recite a page or two from the poem as a daily rout...
Savitri study group in Manhattan
Both The Mother and Sri Aurobindo spent their form...
I put 'practice' first!
Another view on the role India to play for the upl...
Knowledge, Business and Consciousness
Sri Aurobindo Society Centre of Human Unity, Shang...
Mangesh V Nadkarni passes away
Sri Aurobindo Meditation Centre, Coimbatore
Sri Aurobindo Society was formed with the Mother a...
He wrote books on Andaman deportation days called ...
Mantra vs. meditation
Sri Aurobindo is light years beyond
The Life Divine for Spiritual Growth
Nitya (or the eternal substance) and the Leela (li...
World Congress on Spirituality and Psychology
India's Challenges & Destiny
Sri Aravindar Annai Trust, Madurai
When Sri Aurobindo left the Baroda College Dr. C.R...
I prefer to evaluate the original articles or post...
I "swallowed" this book in virtually just a day
Fountain of human light

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Her light, her bliss he asked for earth and men. - SAVITRI
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▼ 2007 (117) ▼ October (5)
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Even after their lifetime, The Mother and Sri Auro...
Sri Aurobindo Ashram - General Information
The true destiny of India and the role all Indians...
Auroshikha Agarbathies

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Books by Anilbaran Roy
A "free share" economy in the XXIst century
"How the Leftists and the Rightists have tried to ...
Annual Conference of Sri Aurobindo Society on 12, ...
19 September 2007 - 47th Anniversary of Sri Aurobi...
Essays on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
On the difference between art, craft and kala
The Uses of Sri Aurobindo: Mascot, Whipping-Boy or...
It will be wrong to lay too much stress on the ear...
Unveiling of the statue of Sri Aurobindo at Savitr...

► August (5)
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The Harmony of Virtue: Early Cultural Writings
The Mother's Task Force in Orissa -- August' 07
Barindra vowed to free India from the British colo...
Sri Aurobindo Purnanga Siksha Kendra

► July (8)
Matrubhaban news - Oct-02.
Doman method puts tremendous emphasis on the mothe...
The University of Human Unity
The teachings of Sri Aurobindo only represent his ...
Orissa Samata Zone - programme for 2007-08
Any person of any country in the world who is move...
Kireet Joshi, mentor and friend of his Aurovilian...
The shining Arjuna of spiritual aspirants

► June (9)
Spirituality-at-Work in the Land of Dollar God
Sri Aurobindo - 1907
The Gnostic Centre is open from 8 am to 8 pm every...
A seeker of truth beyond religious, political and ...
Sri Aurobindo Complex Trust: Mirambika School
Sri Aurobindo Spiritual Centre of Toronto
The spirit of 1972
WORLD UNION Executive body
Sri Aurobindo Society - June 2007

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From its made-to-order economy into other areas th...
The Prospectus of the Arya
We had seen the Matrimandir lit up in all its glor...
Liberty and equality for one and all
The founding of the National College of Bengal a c...
Sri Aurobindo Society - May '07

► April (19)
AUM 2007 Conference, Petaluma, California
All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Study Circle Conference S...
Annual conference of SAETG will be held at Matruks...
The Summer Refresher Training Camp of the Teachers...
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If this is not the way, then there is no way for the human kind

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If this is not the solution, then there is no solution; if this is not the way, then there is no way for the human kind.
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A third attempt
Sri Aurobindo carried this message of the spirit f...
Both secularist and subalternist histories have co...
There is no justification in calling the Mahatma ‘...
This is the first truth that our creative zeal and...
Attainment of full humanity through the cultivatio...

► September (21)
Courage, energy, valour and calm perseverance
Community means nothing if it doesn’t mean local. ...
Because the left is guided by feelings and intenti...
Sri Aurobindo provided a "post-modern" commentary ...
Pluralist Commonwealth
A high degree of centralization and planning is in...
Local self governments in rural and urban India
Socialism is not an European idea, it is essential...
Through a transformation of spirit and not merely ...
Posterity will judge between him and the petty tri...
Lindsey is on to something in his talk of a "liber...
History and harsh
Sri Aurobindo is re-infusing the resplendent and r...
We champion limited government, rule of law, free ...
Piety, wonder and distance
Smith's simultaneous advocation of free trade and ...
Aster Patel draws out some of the implications of ...
Only a handful of India's leading citizens, at hom...
ताकि आज की युवा पीढ़ी उनके विचारों से सीख ले सके
Just as art advances and elevates creation
Exercise of power resides at least partially in le...

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The vedic notions of the struggle between God and ...
Often the supreme knowledge dawns all of a sudden ...
An élite has to be formed which has an adequate un...
This formula offers a new light of hope, change & ...
International terrorism is clearly a suicidally an...
A public meeting had been organised at old Bengal ...
Such a time has now come again & such a sacrifice ...
The Message gives a deeper identity to the country...
An enlightened, intuitive spontaneity of free and ...
The Governing Board and the Secretary are still ov...
Where are the martyrs and where are the hoarse voi...
The white fire of spirit will rise up some day fro...
Even he as defence minister would not have liked t...
I wait for the day when people with true spiritual...
Govt. of India must start withdrawing its octopus-...
From this year onwards, let us put behind all weak...
Just ignore the dwarfs in our Parliament and parti...
Dwarfs rule the land today
To become in ourselves worthy inheritors of the Up...
All those who want not only to live the life enjoi...
India did not yet accept Sri Aurobindo, and as lon...
Woe to a nation that does not listen to the voice ...
The future India may question us as to why we did ...
► July (41)

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Savitri Era
If this is she of whom the world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change.
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A new commonality than commerce and a new logic th...
The Mother’s method is to heal with wholeness
We continue to long for a transcendent purpose imm...
We really know nothing about The Mother
Unexplainable valorization of the weird and the ab...
Devotion to The Mother is the precondition in the ...
Religion and region
Another "final solution"
Blogger and glory
Sonia in Shanghai
India Today and tomorrow
Savitri Era Religion is the ultimate hope of the G...
How a Western mind falls for "methodology" and "em...
Pre-existing synthesis
Sri Aurobindo was a master-dreamer
No one in the whole of Western tradition epitomize...
Sri Aurobindo not only made history but also creat...
Savitri Erans are the envoys of Unity, Mutuality, ...
Anyone can join the Savitri Era Religion
We will build democracies and common markets
We, the adherents of Savitri Era Religion, are one...
A day spent without doing a good deed is a day wit...
Lucretius, Virgil, Dante, Sri Aurobindo
Marketing Savitri Era Religion
A purna or integral state of brahmana
Sputnik and the supramental
Infraspiritual superman
Lead India lead
Bring the books to the common man
What is most deep is the skin
Hamilton on parole in Paris

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There will be a wave of entry into the Judeo-Vedic...
Cell after cell must be wrested from its darkness ...
Gutenberg to Google-Blogger
No evidence
Baudrillard
C for Confusion!
They are the only truly integrally realized avatar...
Aurobindology
Worshipping photographs
A manifesto for the 21st century has been left beh...
The man who dared to take Savitri to the people is...
A harmonious environment in which all citizens fee...
Multiple interpenetrating histories are always in ...
Sri Aurobindo had great influence on Vinoba Bhave
Savitri Era mythology
Sri Aurobindo's opinions on socio-economic issues
Savitri Era Religion is growing fast
The-Life-Divine = Sat-Chit-Ananda
The ''narrow ridge''

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