tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post7211581589505693333..comments2024-03-19T00:02:51.116-07:00Comments on shivers up the spine: YOGA: The Architecture of A Trojan Horse, An Interview with Ravi Ravindra, Phdpriya thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17104604630551238443noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-54757269436716633832012-12-11T04:34:12.556-08:002012-12-11T04:34:12.556-08:00Hi
It is great to have this post, especially for o...Hi<br />It is great to have this post, especially for one who has listened to J Krishnamurti for almost three decades and a yoga practitioner who does a low key yoga teaching.<br /><br />V.Raghavan<br />Chennai 88aiming archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16091759170048570905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5670725056880541135.post-57473744974221784702011-09-22T21:17:10.254-07:002011-09-22T21:17:10.254-07:00This is really good stuff, thanks for posting it. ...This is really good stuff, thanks for posting it. There's an entire yogic anthropology, for lack of a better word, that's missing from western philosophy.<br /><br />I have trouble thinking about a politics that does not begin say from silence, or on another ground altogether, If I don't begin prior to language, I am somehow lost. Surrealism attempted a way though-certainly worth thinking through (Aurobindo did automatic writing before he had his awakening in Alipore jail).<br /><br />--still working through my problems with Aurobindo. The way some of his writings reproduce 19 th century discourses on race...and his seemingly antimuslim remarks, same as Vivekanada. <br /><br /> In another post, you start to think through the effect of yoga on language, a thought which I found fascinating...<br /><br />This notion of presence that you both speak of reminds me of that wonderful and eccentric book "The Practice of the Presence of God." I guess I'm a bit conservative in this regard: I know that presence is always situated in a tradition, a cosmology. And if I happen to feel Christ, does this make me a Christian...a dilemma when one starts to open up to presence...<br /><br />What does a politics mean that refines presence - a calmness upon which action is based. Politics and alchemy. I think of Cesaire. <br /><br />Or working on the basis of what Aurobindo and the Mother once called the psychic being...<br /><br />-what Aurobindo called 'psychic sorrow' in 'letters' It seems to be what Mr. Ravindra speaks of...a sadness which comes when what Aurobindo and the Mother seem to suggest that the other parts of the being can't be properly organized around the 'psychic being' -- an empty center, so to speak, not to be mistaken with 'psychic experiences' (i.e. occultism).<br /><br />I'm so far from this now, it's good to read up on it again from an intelligent person. This is refreshing stuff...! <br /><br />AsherJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10848051487247507286noreply@blogger.com