Sunday, July 07, 2019

We see things as we are, not as they are


Assorted tweets:

Knowledge is not like a collage or a mosaic nor it's democratic. Rational quest for knowledge will certainly arrive at ontology after meandering briefly through epistemological questions. Once one is gripped by ontological concerns, the journey is bound to reach at Sri Aurobindo.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147560211441307650?s=19


Savitri Era Political Action: Gandhism as the state religion https://t.co/NZnaQDMZaj
@NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147548250410323969?s=19

"MKG was excessively anti-Hindu" begs the question, Whether being Hindu is the ultimate virtue? and Why the hell everything on earth should be tested against the Hindu touchstone? But regrettably no coolheaded analysis or answer can be expected at present. https://t.co/wUcNbl6TbE
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147735456848609280?s=19

@Good_Bipin No, sorry; Sri Aurobindo is the greatest person to have walked upon this planet. His written work alone has no parallel in world
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/234599686298796032?s=19
@Good_Bipin Personally, I don't subscribe to mythologies and their multiple, often conflicting, fictional narratives. You are free to choose

@SavitriEraParty true, but not in the way you seem to have understood. The Avatar of that time had to work on the mental plane and so did
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/627751216273977348?s=19
@SavitriEraParty Ram is darling because majority of humanity cannot grok Overmind Krishna's method of dealing with events and people

Phayllus (pronounced Faayoos), the central villain in Sri Aurobindo's tragedy "Rodogune". Charudutta Ram Prabhudesai http://t.co/khgFiHgnUO
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/314991784822460416?s=19

She once told me that had she not been an obedient daughter to our Nani, she would never have married. She would have been happy, she thought, to spend her life in books, reading, writing and looking after the family around her in hometown Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh. This was not what mothers usually told their daughters, but it stayed with me. ‘Aching loneliness is different from solitary calm’: Sharda Ugra on being single by choice https://t.co/My8ROaKEoa via @scroll_in
https://twitter.com/ArchisMohan/status/1147716780762324993?s=19
To understand complexities and depths of the human mind is one of life's great pleasures, whether that mind be another's or one's own.
https://twitter.com/HamzaBinTweetin/status/1147632948180672512?s=19

People out here describing cities but also describing themselves. It's like Oscar Wilde said..."give a man a mask and he will tell you everything".
Another reminder that we see things as we are, not as they are. So be a little inspired today to look on the bright side. Cheers ✌️
https://twitter.com/HamzaBinTweetin/status/1147554841583149056?s=19

Kochi like all port cities is a homeless whore of melancholy, always in her mid-forties who speaks many languages. She fears of menopause and her bones are prone to osteoporosis. In the night when the tide swells she listens to the music of her home. https://t.co/G6lJFU9hMr
https://twitter.com/litemeter/status/1147380517873913856?s=19
For me it embodies a feminine spirit, a neon-lit womb space. An alter ego. Should we drag in political correctness to a subjective experience? It might be different for different people. I was amused by people who see Kochi as a tantrum throwing teen.

Those who don't believe in briefcases won't believe in briefs, a western concept. Go back to langoti y'all
https://twitter.com/litemeter/status/1147080916822646786?s=19


most religions/moral frameworks/cultures/state tacitly allow prostitution as an unavoidable market phenomenon that takes care of uncontrollable fluctuations in imbalance in demand-supply of "sex" through the state/insttn preferred "marriage" mechanism.
https://twitter.com/dikgaj/status/805400991466160129?s=19
from older Christian monks, to some late Hindu texts to ppl like Gandhi - all disapprove/demote sex within marriage for "pleasure". dont interpret my words as disapproval/approval of "moralism": all I say is abt clarifying real motives and not hiding them. ppl can debate and accept or reject on the real underlying motives - there is no value judgment in itself as to why the state view is wrong or correct.


1. Next 13 tweets on much confusion about homosexuality in #Islam #Sufism. Per fiqh, what is permissible in Heaven can be esoteric on Earth.
https://twitter.com/Parikramah/status/624467697577766912?s=19
8. Homosexuality was accepted among public & nobility of the holy Caliphate as esoteric hobby. Adolescent boys graced the Sultan's parades.

Sufism is one of the greatest con jobs in history only comparable to the "compassion" of Christ.
By Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch
#Sufi #Sufism https://t.co/0uiuwEezxq https://t.co/hJ6jDTAZhD
https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1147076569384357888?s=19

Everything is useful but most religions are just covered with lace and jewelry by people, because people love to decorate everything, and they cover and cover what they are afraid is their ugliness... and eternity's frightening mystery.
https://twitter.com/AnaMyID/status/1026172892889763840?s=19

https://t.co/rdXhd8RcNg "Stripped of its ethical and contextual rootmindfulness-based practices borrowed from Buddhist & Zen lineages risk shoring up the very sources of suffering from which the Buddha set out to liberate himself and others." Same danger for #Ayurveda. @AyurVAID
https://twitter.com/rajivvasudevan/status/1147351206605578240?s=19


The development of multiple concentration skills seems to have a long history in India. According to Sampadananda Mishra, a Sanskrit scholar at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, the emphasis on multiple concentration began in the context of the transmission of Vedic scriptures.
https://twitter.com/ZankhanaBuch/status/1147673016819580929?s=19

A de-addiction facilitation workshop underway to train the trainers. Yet another initiative for good from the good folks at the Sri Aurobindo Society. https://t.co/kqNrediKJG
https://twitter.com/ashoklalla/status/1147750334392987649?s=19

40) Hymns 255 - 261 (Verses 2,633 - 2,671): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 03, Sukta 021 to 027 (including hymns to Agni Vaishvanara and Indra); with #SriAurobindo's words on the beginnings of European Indology and Sayana's influence on it https://t.co/EPx4wnJtsE

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1147663834196262912?s=19

@lopamudra_adak your new photograph is the Divine's favourite! But may I suggest a pic of Sri Aurobindo in the background space instead of any other person ? Once you have touched Sri Aurobindo he becomes yr ultimate love!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1147658706852597760?s=19

Nirmala Seetharaman  brught this unique budget that is the seed for the destruction of India and soon we shall have new Independent Countries with new constitutions. Watch it with dismay!
https://twitter.com/Janamejayan/status/1147459979328262146?s=19

Modi didn’t have so much public love for Gandhi while he was in Gujarat. It all started after he became PM. The only Gandhi-act he did in Gujarat was to ban a book by Joseph Lelyveld which alluded to Gandhi being Gay. In Gujarat, it was “Sardar-Sardar” all the way because Gujaratis themselves don’t revere MKG all that much. The theatre and drama of Modi started after he became PM, especially if you notice his “bowing techniques”.
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2019/07/the-gandhi-overkill.html

Kutti Revathi has been often misunderstood as one who is trying to draw attention to herself by using shock value. When Mulaigal (Breasts) was first published in 2002, needless to say it drew a huge amount of flak from the conservative Tamil society. But Kutti Revathi, which is the pen name of Dr S Revathi, is unapologetic. “As we poke into a word and turn it over,” she writes in her essay, “the history buried in its innards rises up, along with images, memories . . . and poetry too.” 

Breasts are central to a woman’s body. They are her obsession too. Needless to say, most men spend a lot of time thinking about them. 

Every woman is in one way or the other involved with her body. It is her personal domain. What is problematic is that on their own, men have set “rights” over woman’s body by snatching away even a woman’s right to speak, share thoughts about her body or parts of it, with herself or with others. Men, have made both the woman’s body, especially her breasts, objects of desire by making it a taboo subject and grabbing a woman’s claim over her own body. By trying to “hide”, place shame and guilt over a woman’s body, they have tried for centuries to make women disown her own body and hand over the “power” to men. 
Therefore, the more women speak about their bodies, the more she reclaims what is hers. 
http://juliadutta.blogspot.com/2010/03/breast-stories-of-kutti-revathi.html

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