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CIAO DATE: 08/02
World Affairs
Vol. 6, Number 1 (January-March, 2002)
Eternal India: Resounding Voices of Silence—Emerging Images of the Future
A letter from the Editor-in-Chief, J C Kapur .
Message of Sri Aurobindo
Karan Singh provides some glimpses on Sri Aurobindo's contribution to Indian resurgence. Sri Aurobindo was a political and social rebel and in the process of his transformation to a sage delineated highly inspiring supramental pathways to the future.
A World in Turmoil—"Eternal India" Points an Arrow into the Future
Mira Aster Patel seeks clarity in the perception of the present human state. The thoughts of Sri Aurobindo resounding with voices of the silent Indian contribution to the human future.
Sri Aurobindo, the Divine Mother and a New Global System
William Netter insights some of the inspired contributions of Sri Aurobindo, which contain all of Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary vision from the big bang to the descent of the supramental stage of evolution.
Gandhi and Non-Violence
B R Nanda discusses the genesis of the Gandhian movement for the freedom of India, based on Satyagraha or, the holding on to truth. Out of this not only came the freedom of India but also emerged a personality, a point of hope for the human future in a strife torn world.
Religious Diversity and Biodiversity
The principle and recognition of diversity within a whole naturally questions and even rejects the principle of Darwinian evolution or survival of the fittest. Biodiversity extended to cultural diversity and religious diversity is the law of nature. David Frawley dwells upon this.
The Asymmetric Dialogue of Civilisation
Rajiv Malhotra analysis the asymmetries of power and intellectual representation that prevent genuine dialogue among the peoples of the world. In the Indian context this is the last hold out of colonialism in trivialising her thought and culture.
India: A Bridge to the Future
Subhash Kak provides understanding of the processes through which Indian thought, culture and knowledge were systematically trivialised by the colonialist thus creating a considerable disconnect with the reality of life.
Raimon Panikkar suggests that the multi-millennial Indic cultures impose on India the burden and responsibility of following her own dharma even if difficult and against modern winds, not for her alone but for the whole world.
Caste, Culture and Cosmos
Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet reflects on the ways in which the Dharma can be eternal and on the cosmic linkages of the caste system. She also explains the root of the astrological knowledge as the hallowed time-axis that integrated and harmonised Vedic civilisation.
If India Were India, She Could Lead the World
Anindita Niyogi Balslev through her philosophical reflections explores the supramental, spiritual and social journeys of great sages, dreamers and rebels to connect India to her sacred roots and eternal values.
The Broken Pitcher of Dogmas
Lokesh Chandra contrasts the technosphere and biosphere diversity. Technosphere has to be an auxiliary of the biosphere and must not intrude into its functions. The forest is as deep a culture as spiritualism.
Transformation of Consciousness: The Power Of Om
Audrey E Kitagawa through an intensely personal statement of experience, communicates convincingly the power of OM, the Pranava and its healing and transforming capacities.
The Hindu Predicament and Indian Music
Late Raghava R Menon a few days before his unfortunate demise sent his contribution. Similarly Indian music is not just an art but a process of inner transformation which goes beyond religious belief.
Sarasvati: River and Civilisation
S Kalyanaraman presents overwhelming historical, archeological and satellite surveys tracing its points of origin, flow and entire journey to the Arabian Sea.
Vedic Ritual and its Symbolism
Usha Choudhuri elucidates the many coordinates to different levels of time, space and life. The vedic yajna is the paradigmical construct. It is the instrumentality of relating the cosmic, the terrestrial and the individual.
Eternal India: An Epilogue
Kapila Vatsyayan provides a scholarly postscript on the understanding of Eternal India. She has woven together different presentations into a richly textured flowing, narrative which makes the implicit eternal, explicit and relevant for the here and now of our self.
Documents
Why India Still Lives, Swami Vivekananda, Chicago.
January 25, 1897
The Realisation of Life, Rabindranath Tagore, 1913
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