Hyperinflation Rocks India

August 21, 1893

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

Sri Aurobindo

Indian Street Markets Are Tense As Commodity Prices Rise

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Why Jim Rogers Hates Investing In India

Among the three emerging nations, Russia, India and China, which one would you rate first as an investment destination?
• China, of course.

Why not India? Can you compare China with India?
• Indians have the worst bureaucracy in the world. India learned bureaucracy from the British. Indian bureaucracy has remained stagnant. Just stagnant. They do what they think only. There is no proper education, no infrastructure in India. It is the most wonderful country in the world. I admire India’s diversity. I tell my friends, if you can only visit one country in your life time, go to India. India is an amazing country.

But as a place for investment?
Oh, no, I would think twice. Even Indians who have been doing great business elsewhere in the world, and when they go back to India to do business, it has not been a good experience for them. Many of them get out of the business and go back to other countries to do business...read more

India Is A Functioning Anarchy-Part4

NEW DELHI, India -- The distinguished economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who served here as American ambassador, once described the country as "functioning anarchy".

It's the rich and the burgeoning middle class who complain about that anarchy, who work themselves into a lather about delayed flights, dead telephones, airconditioners that don't cool because there's no electricity, and dry taps.

But recently India scored two remarkable administrative triumphs which show that it's the poor, not the prosperous who are willing to do something about the anarchy...read+

India Is A Functioning Anarchy- Part3

Sufi And Bhakti

"To fear God really is to remove oneself to a distance from Him, but to fear Him in play gives an edge to utter delightfulness."
SRI AUROBINDO

...[Yusufali 2:165] Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides Allah, as equal (with Allah): They love them as they should love Allah. But those of Faith are overflowing in their love for Allah. If only the unrighteous could see, behold, they would see the penalty: that to Allah belongs all power, and Allah will strongly enforce the penalty...

The Sufi brotherhoods that arrived in South Asia from the Middle East and Central Asia had already been influenced by the pantheistic traditions of South Asia, and in some cases the result was theist fusions or unitarian views of God. It is, however, important to point out that some Sufi orders were quite conservative such as the Suhrawardia and Naqshbandia. They had a strong presence in the Punjab. The Naqshbandi Sufi, Ahmed Sirhindi or Mujadid Alf-Sani, who lived during the 16th century and is buried at Sirhind, played an important role in the revival of strict Islam in the Mughal Empire and, indeed, in the Punjab..read+

MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

Sufism And Bhakti Movement: Eternal Relevance
By Hamid Hussain

This book aims at reiterating the message of Sufi and Bhakti saints to thwart these evils of the society. Renowned scholars of the discipline have deliberated upon various issues pertaining to the world today and the teachings of saints on these important issues. Important saints like Rumi, Baba Farid, Nizamuddin Auliya, Maneri, Nanak, Kabir etc. and their contributions to the society from part of this exercise. The saints contributions towards intercommunity coexistence, communal harmony, humanism etc. are also important components of the work. The idea is to reiterate the messages of these saints, as these have eternal relevance. New Book

History of Sufism In India

A History of Sufism in India, Vol. II: From Sixteenth Century to Modern Century/Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi. Reprint. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1992, xii, 535 p., ISBN 81-215-0040-0.
Contents: Introduction. 1. An outline of Ibn Arabi’s mystical ideas. 2. The Qadiriyyas. 3. The Shattariyya silsila. 4. The Naqshbandiyya order. 5. The Chishtiyya. 6. Indian Sufis and the medieval Islamic world. 7. The Sufi conception of kingship and government. 8. The Sufi response to Hinduism. 9. Sufi poets of the regional languages of the subcontinent. Conclusion. Appendices: 1. Majzubs. 2. Female Sufis. 3. The letters of he Mujaddid’s descendants to Aurangzib, his family members and nobles. Bibliography. Index.

"The first volume of the History of Sufism in India outlined the history of Sufism before it was firmly established in India and then went on to discuss the principal trends in sufi development in that country from the thirteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Naturally it laid great emphasis on the Chishtiyya, Suhrawardiyya, Firdausiyya and Kubrawiyya orders, but the contributions made by Qalandars and legendary and semi-legendary saints were also discussed. The interaction of medieval Hindu mystic traditions and Sufism formed a significant chapter in that book.
"The present volume starts with a brief discussion of the mystical philosophy of Ibn ‘Arabi, which played a pivotal role in the development of sufic thought and practices in India, as it did in other Islamic countries. The work then deals with the Qadiriyya, Shattariyya, Naqshbandiyya and the Chishtiyya orders. It also analyses the role of Indian Sufis in the wider Islamic world, as well as sufi perception of politics and Hinduism."

Naqshbandi Sufi Brij Mohan Lal

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The True Meaning Of Caste System

If we have thus to transform the Indian mind's attitude to the caste system, we must begin not from a mere social or humanitarian angle but from a spiritual perspective. And to do so we have to separate the from the 'spirit' and go back to the seed-ideas in the Purushasukta of the Vedas from which the Caturvarna was born, to see if we can combine the elements to form a novel and innovative synthesis.
The four orders of the Caturvarna figuratively sprang from the limbs of the creative deity -- the cosmic godhead, from his head, arms, thighs and feet. Ordinarily this is construed to indicate that Brahmins were pure men of knowledge, Kshatriyas were men of power, Vaishyas were the producers and support of the society and the Sudras were its servants. But this is a too superficial reading of the imagery which actually tried to depict how the Divine expresses itself in man and his myriad activities -- the Divine as knowledge in man, the Divine as Power, the Divine as production, enjoyment and mutuality and the Divine as service, obedience and work. These divisions correspond to the four cosmic principles whose efflorescence need the help of the four great powers of the Divine Shakti -
(a) Wisdom that conceives the order and principle of things and manifested by Maheswari, Goddess of supreme knowledge;
(b) The Power that sanctions, upholds and enforces it, aided by Mahakali, Goddess of the supreme strength;
(c) The Harmony that creates the arrangements of its parts with the help of Mahalakshmi, the Goddess of love and beauty; and
(d) The Work that carries out what the rest directs with the sanction of Mahasaraswati, Goddess of skill and perfection. *
These four principles justified the four-fold order of the society. They can also be used to justify and build up an ideal four-fold personality as the same Reality expresses itself equally in man and the collectivity. Sri Aurobindo describes that the very nature of our life is such that it is at every moment subject to the influence of these four principles at work -'Our life itself is at once an Inquiry after truth and knowledge, a struggle and battle of our will with ourselves and surrounding forces, a constant production, adaptation, application of skill to the material of life and a sacrifice and service.' (25) ...READ MORE

K.D Sethna (Amal Kiran) Vision

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New Light on Ancient IndiaThe Historical Vision of K.D. Sethna
Sri Aurobindo, the seer of modern India, blamed new trails in several worlds of human enterprise and had followers of signal eminence in many of them. Some made their mark in more than one sphere of activity. Integral Yoga and Overhead Poetry are two such areas in which a number of luminaries have left their mark. No follower of Sri Aurobindo, however, has not only penetrated these areas but also ventured into territories such as science and history. Here is where K.D. Sethna, or Amal Kiran as he was named by his Master, stands distinctly apart. This remarkable mind has taken virtually all knowledge for its domain and the clear ray of his piercing insight has probed not only profound issues of philosophy, such as the question of free-will or the spirituality of the future, but has investigated Einsteinian physics, detected Shakespeare's mysterious Dark Lady, Mr. W.H. and the Rival Poet, published 750 pages of poetry and followed the approach of Sri Aurobindo in plumbing the riches of European literature and the practice of Integral Yoga. However, that which is unique is his signal contribution to historiography. Here I shall not go into his remarkable investigations into Jewish history to fix the date of the Exodus, or into the question of the Immaculate Conception which patiently awaits a publisher of vision and courage. My attempt will be to highlight Amal Kiran's deep-delving reconstruction of ancient Indian history...READ+