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.
9 April 2023 marks the sixteenth death anniversary of Satprem. On this occasion—as our homage to him—we are sharing with our readers an interview of late Nirmal Singh Nahar (Founder-Member of Overman Foundation and elder brother of Sujata Nahar) on Satprem and Sujata Nahar. Conducted by Anurag Banerjee, this interview was published in 2009 on the occasion of the second death anniversaries of Satprem and his spiritual collaborator, Sujata Nahar.
To read the interview, kindly click on the following link:
http://overmanfoundation.org/on-satprem-and-sujata-nahar-an-interview-with-nirmal-singh-nahar/
With warm regards,
Anurag Banerjee
Founder,
Overman Foundation.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/people-in-pakistan-unhappy-believe-partition-was-mistake-says-rss-chief/article66686787.ece
https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/british-era-censorship-did-not-spare-aurobindos-letter-from-being-circulated-in-his-magazine/1506167/
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/sri-aurobindo-chair-established-at-pondicherry-university-to-promote-his-teachings/article66679772.ece
Nicolson’s book walks us through a wide range of English writers on mountains. The one she rightly spends the most time on is Thomas Burnet’s 1684 The Sacred Theory of the Earth, mostly forgotten now but highly influential in its own time.
In his work on the topic, Umberto Eco reminds us that medieval Europeans took from Plato a sense of rational order. Beauty was a matter of symmetry and proportion, everything in the right place. And mountains are – not that. They are craggy, irregular.
https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2023/04/are-mountains-beautiful/#more-5773
10 hours ago — In India, Sri Aurobindo's theory of Supramental Evolution is a formidable answer to Darwinism and to materialism in general.
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The internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack...but not to survive attacks from insiders who use its very openness to accumulate power and then subvert it. Much like the liberal democracies that created it.
Perhaps the two battles are one.
8 hours ago — Sethupathi,Head of the Department of Tamil, delivered a speech on “Sri Aurobindo and Subramania Bharathiyar”. This was held at Unity Pavillion. Enjoy! Auroville ...
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14 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo digs deep into the philology of ancient Sanskrit to decode the real essence of the Veda, and thus comes up with. 'psychological' interpretation.
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French Journalist meets with asking illegal favours for visas, closure of central agency investigation, gives edited page, gloats about it.
#Auroville #Nia … सामाजिक समरसता, परिवार प्रबोधन, पर्यावरण संरक्षण, स्वदेशी आचरण एवं नागरिक कर्तव्य पर जागरुकता से लाएंगे समाज में परिवर्तन
RSS vows to work on five dimensions of social change - Dattatreya Hosabale Ji
Rilke on space as an adjunct of percipient events:
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space in which you see all forms intensified.
(Out in the Open, you would be denied your self, would disappear into that vastness.)
Space reaches from us and construes the world:
to know a tree, in its true element, throw inner space around it, from that pure abundance in you. Surround it with restraint.
It has no limits. Not till it is held in your renouncing is it truly there.
Citizens with blind faith and slavish mentality are obstacles to successful democracy. Writers and journalists mortgaging their intelligence is, also, a virus for an ideal society. Glorifying mythological kings and monarchy, similarly, cuts at the root of the modern civilisation.
Instead of searching for good leaders, we should search for good citizens. Identifying the right kind of leaders is possible through free, informed, and ethical citizens. Supporting established political parties that are steeped in corruption and deception corrodes democracy.
RSS teaches nationalism by promoting mythology and religious bonding. The Constitution encourages caste-based fraternity. But modernity and democracy preach diametrically opposite values. Sri Aurobindo insists on growth of consciousness of the individual leading to an ideal society.
Savitri Era Party is an invitation for rejecting the established parties and unite for growth of true democracy in the country. Educated citizens can take a lead in this direction instead of simply hoping for the system to change. No other political party will work for any reform.
The Ashram was created by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo but can't be considered as a perfect model of social living or organisation. Auroville, conceived by The Mother, similarly, got bogged down from the very inception. Thus, an ideal socio-political structure is yet to take shape.
Indian democracy has grappled with electronic media, digital media, and EVM but the range and quality of participation is low. Lack of local level initiatives makes people aloof. Further, rival propaganda by political parties turns them confused. State level issues are key glues.
It's a defect of modernity that people come to read misleading books and many which makes them prejudiced. The aura of plurality lures them to this maze. Most get trapped and required intellectual development gets hijacked. Reading the books of Sri Aurobindo shows the right path.
Having been active in the social media since 2005 with the advantage of a thorough grounding in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy apart from being conversant with philosophy in general, I understand very well how inadequate the orientations of people are. Thankfully, Sri Aurobindo wrote.
Multiplicity of media houses is understandable in a market-driven scenario. But why can't different political ecosystems generate respective unified voices? Even, verified-official handles like RSS have precious little to say in a vast country like India. Transparency is a must.
