Date: March 25, 2025 Part 1: Introduction “…the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.” ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 12, p. 427 Srimad Bhagavad Gita is one of those rarest scriptures of the world in which lie the deepest and lasting solutions to most of our life’s day-to-day problems. This universal and timeless […]
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Date: August 26, 2024 People are angry. The atrocious, most horrible crimes that took the life of a young doctor at the very hospital where she worked has made the nation angry. The disgusting manner in which the state administration, which is supposed to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of citizens, is
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Date: August 7, 2024 Sri Aurobindo once wrote that more than the disunity, it was the lack of national feeling among Indians which made the British so easily conquer India. In this context he described the essential difference between national consciousness and patriotism, which he said are two different qualities. “The patriot lives in a
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Date: July 4, 2024 Today is 4th July, the independence day of the USA. And also the anniversary of the Mahasamadhi of Swami Vivekananda. It was Swami ji who sowed the seeds of Indian spirituality in the “land of the free” showing the “Sisters and brothers of America” the path to a real, truer inner
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Date: July 1, 2024 “I always thought it [cinema] could be used to good purpose.” ~ The Mother, Agenda, 10: 270 In this series of jottings I will periodically share a few reflections or thoughts on some films which I feel serve an important purpose of making people aware of some of the uncomfortable truths
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Date: June 24, 2024 While speaking of the nature of Indian Renaissance Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is an attempt and impulse of a “reawakened national spirit” expressing itself in new forms which shall give the spiritual force for a great reshaping and rebuilding. Out of this awakening vision and impulse, the future tendency
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