Archive for August 2007
Old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: August 28, 2007
In Volume III of Sri Aurobindo’s Letters to disciples, he has a whole section dedicated to Difficulties of the Path, and a related one entitled Opposition of the Hostile Forces.
The former chapter begins with a letter that reads, “All who enter the spiritual path have to face the difficulties and ordeals of the path, those [...]
Whether men love or hate, admire or despise you, is of but little moment. Speak only what is true, do only what is right
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: August 21, 2007
Jean Jacques Rousseau:
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, 1782
Thus, my young friend, have I given you with my own lips a recital of my creed, such as the Supreme Being reads it in my heart. You are the first person to whom I have made this Profession of Faith; and you are the only [...]
The most beautiful and convincing defense of man’s religious instincts ever to flow from a modern pen
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: August 21, 2007
The Politics of God
By MARK LILLA The Times Magazine: August 19, 2007
Rousseau wrote no treatise on religion, which was probably a wise thing, since when he inserted a few pages on religious themes into his masterpiece, “Émile” (1762), it caused the book to be burned and Rousseau to spend the rest of his life on [...]
- Loup Kibiloki: With due respect, simply to remind something that The Mother once told about Sri Aurobindo and his action in the world (not verbatim): that wherever t
- glass painting: Thank you very much I hope you further progress and excellence
- kavita arya: i liked it alot.
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