If
we put aside for the moment religious or philosophical dogma and simply look at
the world around us and our position within it, we can see that humanity did
not simply “appear” without “context”… Not only is there an obvious continuum
here which places the human being squarely in the midst of the evolutionary
process of the world, but there is also a clearly symbiotic relationship that
makes it impossible for the human being to live without the environment and the
other beings in the environment to support, nurture and create the conditions needed
for our existence. We require oxygen to breathe, and plants create oxygen. We
have beneficial bacteria in our intestines that are important to our digestive
process. Our skin creates an essential vitamin from sun rays. The entire
creation is One and unified and depends on each part to manifest the whole.
India: This country has rotten to the core. Now, it is at the
verge of collapse from The Mother India
What
is it that a nation that once gave key of the supreme knowledge to the whole
world has become deaf and dumb, weak and meek? What is it that a nation that
first gave the message of sacrifice to the whole world now clings to kill
spouse/blood-relations for a flat, a loan? What is it that makes a mother think
about the utility/return of the money she is investing in her kid’s education?
Is education about “Career” and “Utility” and “medals”? Is life about buying
flats? Is intelligence about the art of betraying skillfully and coming out
neat? Is competition about dumping others? Is career about medals? Is it for
this greed, this indifference, this ignorance, this charlatanism, this
megalomania, this narcissism, this filth that you were brought in? Do these
questions make you restless, sleepless? What happened to the ideals of love,
humanity, universal brotherhood, peace, sacrifice?
The
fact, my dear friend, is this that this nation has rotten to the core. Now, it is
at the verge of collapse. If at all it is surviving today, it is because of
some good deeds of our ancestors and some divine wish… This is nothing but a
preface to a series of 4-5 articles that I am to write on “Integral Education
System: A Panacea for all ills”. I shall deal about this system of education as
conceived by Sri Aurobindo with relevance to today’s needs in details in coming
articles. I welcome others too to put their ideas. Regards Mihir Jha
Why should therefore the
Ashram Trustees write such an uncouth letter and force the servile and
intellectually incompetent Chairman of the Sri Aurobindo Society to
publish it in a magazine dedicated to the spreading of Sri Aurobindo’s works?
The Chairman also lets the Ashram Trust backstab Helios Books after
being paid for the advertisement in the magazine. This is simply not
fair! If he really did not believe in the first edition of Savitri,
he should not have allowed the advertisement in the first place! But why allow
such nasty and spiteful objections after the advertisement has been printed? Or
did he yield to this demeaning act because the members of the Society will be
deprived of food in the Ashram Dining Room or cinema in the Ashram Playground?
I would not be surprised at all if these were the actual mundane considerations
which made him allow such a vicious attack! And to think that, in the early
days of the Ashram, the first disciples left everything (wife, children,
property, name and fame, position and power) for the sake of the spirit! Times
have surely changed! …
However, the spineless
Chairman of Sri Aurobindo Society and the equally inept and incompetent
Management Committee of SAS chose to prostrate themselves in front of the
Ashram Trustees, not out of genuine academic consideration but out of fear of
losing petty privileges granted to them by the Ashram Trustees! … Good paper and printing is expensive
nowadays. Publishers have to make both ends meet even if they don’t want to
make profits unlike the highly subsidised editions of the Ashram Trust which
floats irresponsibly on the donations of thousands of devotees and disciples of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. If these devotees knew the way things function in
Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Sri Aurobindo Society, they would be shocked and stop
all further donations.
Some
individuals, including myself, have spontaneously experienced the spiritual
reality and did not relate it to any faith. To receive guidance from a guru
and/or apply yogic discipline to come to the realization of the spiritual state
is a necessity although there might be exceptions whose inner development
happens by destiny. Well you do not see evidence but others do. Your poise is –
if I cannot see it then it does not exist- while conveniently ignoring that
others see/experience it and know. In the end it is a matter of knowing not believing.
Again the evidence is in the experience. And, such individuals do contribute in
making the world a better place as they guide others to attain a consciousness
and the realization of it that takes them out of ignorance. That is quite a
change in the world and definitely has an affect on others.
You
are right about what is happening with the fundamentalist and religious
movement at the Ashram, there is no evidence that it is based on the inner
experience of Divinity. Hence my essay.
Tweets
2h - Arpit Agarwal @arpitagarwal1 - @Sri_Aurobindo why would you
tweet in the name of #SriAurobindo?
You KNOW that he passed on eons ago right?
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