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My column: “The Viswaguru Imperative” - Part:II:
Sri Aurobindo renounced politics in his thirties and took to the path of his sadhana for India’s regeneration and human transformation. Swami Vivekananda was twenty-nine when he plunged into the sea at Kanyakumari and swam across the shark-infested stretch to meditate on the last rock at the confluence of the three seas, at the end of his countrywide travels as a parivrajak. It was here, while meditating on the plight of his countrymen and compatriots, who were downtrodden and under subjection, that he evolved a plan for India’s regeneration and went on to generate a storm in both the West and India. When Nanu Swami transformed into Sree Narayana Guru, descending from his intense penance on the Maruthwamala Hills, he was thirty-one. It was as Sree Narayana Guru that he founded the Sivagiri Mutt and led the historic and transformative educational, social and religious reform movement that has left a lasting and living imprint on the national psyche…
Which icons do the Modi abusers, whom some tell us can make India Viswaguru, then follow or draw inspiration from? They reject Sri Aurobindo, remain silent on Vivekananda, and have betrayed Ambedkar. Who, then, are their idols? Self-styled Sri Aurobindo experts who pat the self-styled Gen Z Modi abusers on the back and repose faith in their ability to make India Viswaguru must instead ask them to read, absorb and internalise, if at all possible, Sri Aurobindo’s advice to the students of the National College. His appeal to them to “Work that she [India] may prosper. Suffer that she [India] may rejoice…” remains relevant and striking across generations and decades. That appeal, that earnest injunction, is the surest recipe, formula and ideal for India’s rise. It is the only counter to the Grammar of Anarchy and its false harbingers. It is the only authentic way for India to become Viswaguru.
https://www.millenniumpost.in/opinion/the-viswaguru-imperative-670797
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"Elections may change governments, but societies change only when people begin to question existing patterns and imagine better possibilities..
Throughout his campaign, @PrashantKishor repeatedly spoke about education as the foundation for addressing unemployment, improving livelihoods, and creating long-term opportunities"
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Those who won power by using WhatsApp lies are upset about Instagram Reels and suddenly discovering the virtue of news. Credibility is earned by character and intellectual clarity, not by trolling, twisting and narrative-fixing or blind patriotism.
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So we have kings from all 4 varnas. This means that the varna system is not something that is enforced but just a guideline
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Essential reading for anyone who really wants to understand Varna function and how it is to be understood and advanced. The innate mapped to function in a fractal way.
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This is where we need clarity and distinction between the social construct and the concept. Varna is macro and also micro, but operates in a pervasive way. "system", "organization" reading of it is a very recent one, inspired by normative colonial morality. There are varna dharmas. It is not described as a social organization in the shastra. All the language you see is "a brahmin should do xyz, king should apply abc rule in case of a brahmin". So you are treating individual based on his varna, not treating a group in a certain way. It is not just a guideline - alignment between one's innate nature and one's vocation is ideal. But seers know the complexity of human mind and collectivity too. So alignment is sought and achieved with effort and evolution, not normatively imposed. Over the millennia, biggest empires have been ruled by sudras and that is not a collapse of varna but demonstrative of how upward mobility works in a society that understands varna.
Collapse of varna is the loss of political-military leadership and brahmin taking it up in 18th century - Maharashtra and UP for example. From that point, knowledge function suffered irreversibly, not by brahmin's choice as a crisis measure. So what is needed today is that sanyasi is relieved from social service into brahma vidya, and that brahmin is relieved from social service into knowledge function and anushthana. Without which we cannot generate what is needed for our collective rise. This is the way to understand varna dharmas - the knowledge generation can only happen when relatively satvik dharmikas are devoted to knowledge function, and unless that happens you keep getting controlled by foreign ideas. So in short no decolonizing is possible. And no genuine kshatra can be created without brahma shakti. One with fighting spirit may fight, but that will not become kshatra unless the satva-rajas are systematized. In turn, it cannot happen without satva being systematized. Bottom up wont fly.
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Technically Hindu goddesses are not all fierce, since they are all essentially mother goddesses. And therefore all are kind and benevolent
They may have their fierce forms like Kali (a form of Shakti), but they become fierce only when called upon by the male gods, these forms are fierce only to do their bidding. The concept of a goddess is quite patriarchal, where even her anger should be let out when needed to protect the patriarchal ethos.
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What can Buddhism teach us about the self?
Oxford Professor of Indian Philosophy Monima Chadha explains how “substance” – the philosophical idea of something existing independently – doesn’t exist in Buddhism. And if separate entities don’t exist, the notion of the self as an independent substance falls apart.
Join Chadha alongside Slavoj Žižek, Martine Nida-Rümelin, Federico Faggin in “The mystery of the self and the body”. iai.tv/video/the-myst…
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Will there ever be consensus on consciousness? | iai.tv/video/the-mira…
Join as Tim Crane, Bernardo Kastrup, and Susan Blackmore debate if the key to consciousness can ever be explained in terms of the physical.
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What remains when identity dissolves? Discover the profound reflections of “An Embryo of Space” from the collection Satya: Poems to My Father with @PariksithSingh and @MakrandParanspe. youtu.be/McN8JjMrbUI?si… @AmazingVedas
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