Collated X posts in original by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
The Divine Manifestation of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo is unique and unprecedented, and hence it's erroneous to explain them or their thought in terms of old mythologies or philosophical doctrines. It's anomalous too to compare them with their contemporaries or other great names.
The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo is absolutely new and no one can understand it without reading his books in original. His prose is difficult and the concepts remote. Even then, reading with some persistence yields results. No intermediary is required.
Internet gave access to unlimited sources of knowledge and I started posting relevant reading material & links at selforum.blogspot.com in 2005. With my good grasp on The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's writings, I also started recording my own observations at savitriera.blogspot.com.
Since Meditation and Wellbeing have become commercialised, Savitri Era Religion refrains from promising spiritual realisation or mystical experiences. Devotees are encouraged to establish a direct relationship with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo through love, devotion, and surrender.
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta are now available online, in an independent site. A Century’s Salutation to Sri Aurobindo provides a profound estimate of the life and work of Sri Aurobindo. Those who find Sri Aurobindo difficult may shift to Nolini.
Modernity privileges Enlightenment values but at many points religion overrides education leading to irrationality. Savitri Era Religion, owing allegiance to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo, however, is a composite dispensation comprising best of philosophy and a captivating religion.
By opposing all other parties, Savitri Era Party pushes its own ideology and narrative tethered to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. The country is suffering due to anti-evolutionary policies as people are falling prey to vicious identity politics. I am disseminating this since 2007.
Although, Fifth Pay Commission in 1997 marks the beginning of Indian prosperity, Yashwant Sinha increasing deduction of interest on self-occupied property from 30K to 75K in his 1999-2000 Budget was a daring step for propelling India's growth story. He also gifted me VRS in 2000.
During 2021 to 2022, I was enjoying the hospitality of one hospital after another. Thus I missed many things.
[many-voiced, multiple-perspective narrative... shaking literature free of ‘single camera’ view... Perhaps the 20th century really began in 1922.]
Paucity of genuine scholars on The Mother & Sri Aurobindo on this platform is forcing those who love conversation to grapple with @grok. But AI generated prose can mislead in many ways due to limited access to authentic info and experience. Possibility of slants are always there.
Texts explore metaphysical dimensions but the practice part is under-reported. Round-the-year devotional activities in Odisha, for instance, are barely noticed. Scholarly analysis of their sociological as well as religious aspects have never been attempted.
People assume that they can be taught to become something or they were shaped by a certain books, etc. But Savitri Era narrative believes in the other way round (TOWR). Each person grows into what his or her Psychic Being opts for in terms of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's thought.
Although I became acquainted with The Mother & Sri Aurobindo in the Primary school, serious engagement happened during the College days when Centenary celebrations were on. Later I met Niranjan Mohanty, an ardent devotee at Sundargarh and was drawn into Study Circle organisation.
Mythology may have many uses, be it Sudhir Kakar or Devdutt Pattanaik, but Savitri Era Religion is against giving it a new lease of life. To assume that Indians have an inherent identity with mythological characters is nothing but a figment of imagination.
Religious discourses are common in India because of which people feel saturated as far as metaphysics or cosmology are concerned. Reading a few pages from Vivekananda turns them experts on spirituality. Thereafter, what's the necessity of reading Sri Aurobindo's interpretations?
Being born and brought up in an Odisha village, I understand the value of modernity and liberalism. Bengal Renaissance and Sri Aurobindo are indebted to Christian legacy and the Constitution too is based on Biblical ideals. Savitri Era Party steers clear of mythology and rituals.
Savitri Era Religion, as an alternative to all old belief systems, worships The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine, who are always present in their three poises. Understanding their philosophy and practice of yoga etc. should be taken up voluntarily by the devotees.
It's important for scholars and academics to be intellectually honest. It's always possible that there's a chasm between their professional work and personal beliefs. They need to be stated clearly. Peter Heehs, for instance, explains his methodology clearly but own views opaque.
There's an impression that The Mother's writings are simple and easy to understand. This may be partially true but one should be prepared to be bombarded with disruptive and revolutionary ideas within a couple of paragraphs. Sri Aurobindo would tell tacitly but her way is direct.
Although Congress has national presence, its family-owned structure can never attract people. BJP seems to have exhausted all its ammunitions. That leaves AAP as the lone contender for the future. But Sri Aurobindo might prove to be a more powerful force than any Arvind Kejriwal.
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