Re: theos-talk Aurobindo's madman?
Oct 09, 2010 04:00 PM
by Martin
Ow here is the follow up as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYE9yY4cts
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From: Martin <Mvandertak@1XBtO2bcBWahgkx711TL-SOpJ0K_lruSjpGPsEHHLcbGJBAE73KfeQ-72-B6Eo6GjZR0sbUDJF_dFiXUacrR.yahoo.invalid>
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 10:40:18 PM
Subject: Re: theos-talk Aurobindo's madman?
Lol, thanks for joining, I left you a reply...
What is of most interest these days is as is said in my topic on Aikido:
...a synthesis of martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs,
protecting the potential attacker from injury...
Theosophy should be exactly like this, where martial studies refer to science
and experience, without guinea pigging others...
I am very Martial, hence my first name: the little warrior and my second (Mark):
the fire from war...lol, war means confusion in Dutch, check my little movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE86IJsome4
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From: jamesbergh <jamesbergh@_9gQTFM97uWlz4qQkbBV3Umz1EMJa6oPYZSK9ZjgED5owMTbD_L0JvxIQY5Il_8o7NXUP4qAM_tWqZg.yahoo.invalid>
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 9:22:06 PM
Subject: Re: theos-talk Aurobindo's madman?
Martin, just joined your site.
Besides the words on cooperation, I found your thoughts on Anarchy of Aquarius
of value.
In searching on unmattavat, I found Aurobindo's thoughts,
in The Synthesis of Yoga,
"The outer being lives in a God-possessed frenzy careless of itself and the
world, unmattavat, or with an entire disregard, whether of conventions or
proprieties of fitting human action or of harmony and rhythms of a greater
Truth. It acts as the unbound vital being, pisacavat, the divine maniac or else
the divine demonic."
At 64, and a child of the 60's while living in San Francisco, I have never been
one for conventions of the times. I would say that Ramakrishna was one of the
unmattavats. At present I am delving into the Upanishads. I can say that AAB,
opened my mind, when I became stagnated.
I have been reading Swami Ranganathananda, who holds that science is a friend of
wisdom, and his thoughts on what is modern. In The Message of the Upanishads, he
writes (from talks),
"But there is another word meaning, a more profound meaning, to this word
(modern).In this second meaning the modern man is he who is nourished on the
spirit of science, who is alert of mind and on track of truth, who has the
capacity to question,'to seek, ask,and knock' as Jesus expresses it it. That man
is modern who is inquisitive, who has a passion for truth and the power of
rational investigation, who never takes things for granted but always strives to
get at the heart of things; his heart constantly asks, 'Whats next? Whats
next?'. For in the Upanishads too there is this atmosphere of alertness, this
mood of constant seeking, a deep passion for truth, and a constant desire to
forge ahead and not take things for granted in a complacent spirit. It is here
that you find the close kinship between the Upanishads and the modern spirit."
All said, down with stagnation,
Jim
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Martin <Mvandertak@...> wrote:
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> What we need to do only is to stop fighting among eachother who is right or
> wrong but cooperate and be open minded and in doing so be open to others as
> well, without expelling people but appeal to their own judgement in clearly
> saying where they go or went wrong.
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