Book Chapters

Abstract Whereas all major theosophical literatures of the Abrahamic religions have pondered over the act of creation and the cataclysm of the cosmos, none did ever venture to scientifically elucidate its identity. Let alone be Abrahamic faiths, tracing the identity of the cosmos has also lurked in obscurity even in the pagan and heathen cultures […]

Abstract If theosophy has to be feminized and femininity has to be theosophized, the opus would perhaps embosom the nomenclature of the Caṇḍī Saptaśatī. Just like the Bhāgavad Gītā, the Caṇḍī Saptaśatī is not an independent text by itself, but rather a compendium extracted from the Mārkaṇdeya Purāṇa, namely the seven hundred ślokas asserted from

Abstract Whenever the word ‘poverty’ pierces our eardrums, our brain instantly conceptualizes it as a paradigm of “lack of money”, almost without any hesitation. Undoubtedly, this is the first and the foremost of all, but it is certainly inadequate to express the plethora of problems that are associated with the word, or the ‘term’ as

“Soul, exceed life’s boundariness; Spirit, surpass the universe.” — Sri Aurobindo Introduction During the Golden Era of the Roman Empire, it was ruled by the triumvirate of Augustus Caesar, Mark Antony, and Marcus Lepidus. It would not be a hyperbole if we state that the Golden Era of Bengali literature was also dominated by the

Abstract The literature of the yoga, from Patañjali’s Yogasūtra to Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine, has been exuberantly esoteric in nature. Most of them have been tantalizingly ciphered in such a way that grasping them often appears to be a Herculean task for an ordinary person. Even our contemporary masters of yoga are not free