Vikram
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Tweets at the intersection of art, culture and religion.
Joined April 2012
Aurobindo limned the states of consciousness and intuited his grand evolutionary metaphysics not in the Himalayas but in this chair in his room in Pondicherry. Begin where you are.
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Walking in the overwhelming presence of nature, whether mountains or the sea, is ego-effacing - an effortless spiritual practice where the mind empties out and becomes a mirror.
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A bracing translation of the most “Indian” of the ancient Greek philosophers, who Aurobindo likened to a ṛṣi.
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A darn good point. Sāyaṇa wrote ~3k years after the Vedic samhitas. Śaṅkara wrote ~1500 years after the early Upanishads.
Excerpt from Shri Aurobindo's "The Interpretation of Scripture": . "The interpretation of the Veda is hampered by many human irrelevancies. Men set up an authority and put it between themselves and knowledge. The orthodox are indignant that a mere modern should presume to differ.
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H1-Bs and their dependents might make up 20% of Indians in America. The community would still be 1% of the US population and continue to grow with radical curtailment. But this is not about H1-Bs - it’s about all Indian-Americans.
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Anne Applebaum notes that the rise of modern antisemitism in Poland is attributable to the “permission” such views obtain from X. Anglophone anti-Indianism and anti-Hinduism will follow the same path - in politics and in the street. Western social media is the grand enabler.
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The radical beauty of Indic civilization - whether Hindu, Buddhist, Jain - is that you could walk away and refuse to be measured as a unit - of “productivity” or of “progress”. As Ramana might have said, to save yourself is to save the world.
hot take i know many friends will disagree with me on: this is a deeply selfish act of theft from civilization. if you’re a smart capable young person, society poured millions of dollars into raising you. you have a moral obligation to pay it back with the surplus of your labor.
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From the censor’s archive of WW1 letters from Indian soldiers in France. Later they would play a significant - sometimes decisive - role in wresting Palestine from the Ottomans.
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The former Zen monk Ryunosuke Koike recommends private journaling as a spiritual practice to recognize emotional patterns. Public journaling, in contrast, is unavoidably performative.
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World’s most followed “spiritual leader” on YouTube. An engaged Vedanta - enquiry + ethical activism (veganism, environmentalism, etc.) in the tradition of Vivekananda/Narayana Guru. The future of spirituality and religion will be shaped by influencers who command vast reach.
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RT @nickcollins1953: 1/ The world’s first maritime trade network emerged from India’s Indus-Sarasvati civilisation, the most economically p….
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Has the merit of being short - but, for me, too much fragmentation, intensity, and over-indulgent enigma. Bergman is a student of Jung (“persona” being the Jungian mask we wear in the world) but lack’s Jung’s Vedantic hope in integrative wholeness - I liked the Scandinavian
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RT @AmitMajmudar: The kind of headline authors daydream of! 12 years out from publication, this is an unexpected second wind for the book.….
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Adamson and Ganeri on the influence of BN Matilal on prominent 20th c. Oxford philosophers, including Derek Parfit. From their delightful introduction to Indian philosophy.
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RT @ZoharAtkins: My life has been enriched by joyful learning. Few things give me greater joy than sharing my love of learning with others.….
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