Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Surrender; to will what the Divine wills is the supreme wisdom

Evergreen Essays
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"
Nietzsche’s writings first made belief in cultural...
Michael Polanyi built on the work of Henri Bergson...
In Judeo-Christian America one finds the idea of e...
Romanticism is a secularized expression of religio...
Darwin makes several references to the Creator
Freud speculates that one of the strongest human d...
If there is one central category in Buber's though...
The global missionary business is one of the large...
The same system Leonardo used was the basis for ou...
My personal opinion is that Theresa did over-glori...
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...
This brand of ‘diversity in unity’ was non-existen...
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...
Kepler made this Pythagorean secret the center of ...
I want to read ten million books in my lifetime
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New Way to synthesise the Transcendent, the Cosmic...
Enlightened Masters imbued them with their own ene...
St Maximos believed the cycle of suffering could n...
Einstein speaking of religion is quite equivalent ...
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
Horsemanship, swordplay, singing, dancing, speakin...
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...
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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 ...
They challenge, teach, and inspire us by shedding ...
Our in-group relations are always fraught with con...
There is an entire Heideggerian, alethetic theory ...
The depth of Torah as an art form
Our task as individuals is to seek and reveal the ...
Nirod was aware that faculties can grow, in fact, ...
His words are alive in his works and one can read ...
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
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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
Artistic expression is a means more than it is an ...
There is an art for each aspect of the grammar of ...
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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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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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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Wheat, rice and corn are high in simple carbohydra...
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...
Auroville and spirulina
For Evolutionists this presents a problem because ...
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The body you have today is metabolized experience ...
To be healthy, you really do need to break into a ...
The spiritual man casts a deeper look
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Its application to life, mind and body had remaine...
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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Of the 15 small-medium farms in Auroville, there a...
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...
For a massage course in Auroville, Kaylani is the ...
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
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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...
Without a rational metaphysics--or worldview--and ...
The hunger for absolute leaders and absolute truth...
One is what one does
Hegel's "Love"
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Transparency, trust, gratitude, aspiration, perseverance

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Sincerity, faith, devotion, courage, endurance

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Keep yourself always open towards me – this is all that is asked from you

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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
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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...
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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
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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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Be like a flower ... open, frank, equal, generous, and kind

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The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, - God, Light, Freedom, Immortality.
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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...
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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 ...
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Kabbalistic notion of Tikkun Olam
Judeo-Vedic relationship
The history of the Church has been one sustained a...
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Work In The Ashram - General - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Mirror of Tomorrow :: “India has to reorganise herself”—Submitted by Kittu Reddy

If you make the effort to be interesting, constructive and convincing and can make them know something of the teaching of Sri Aurobindo, it will in any case be useful to you. -The Mother (1971)

The Mother's Message to Matrupuri from MATRUPURI: RISIDA

Our worth lies only in the measure of our effort to exceed ourselves, and to exceed ourselves is to attain the Divine. -The Mother