Suchhanda Sarkar

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[Sri Aurobindo @integralyog]

For what is a nation? What is our mother-country? It is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind.

#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness
#IndependenceDay

[Sri Aurobindo @integralyog]

The changes which this age of reconstruction portends will certainly come, but the gain they will bring to humanity depends on the spirit which governs us during the time of their execution.

#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

[She The Supreme @SheTheSupreme]

Men’s way of doing things well is through a clear mental connection; they see things and do things with the mind and what they want is a mental and human perfection.
When they think of a manifestation of Divinity, they think it must be an extraordinary perfection in doing ordinary human things—an extraordinary business faculty, political, poetic or artistic faculty, an accurate memory, not making mistakes, not undergoing any defeat or failure.
Or else they think of things which they call superhuman like not eating food or telling cotton-futures or sleeping on nails or eating them. All that has nothing to do with manifesting the Divine…. These human ideas are false.
The Divinity acts according to another consciousness, the consciousness of the Truth above and the Lila below and It acts according to the need of the Lila, not according to man’s ideas of what It should or should not do. This is the first thing one must grasp, otherwise one can understand nothing about the manifestation of the Divine.

Sri Aurobindo
18-5-1934

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Honoured and grateful for @TheEmmys nomination for RAFA.

This documentary tells a very personal part of my journey, and none of it would have been possible without everyone who was part of it.

Thank you to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, to @netflix, Skydance, and to the entire team behind this project. This nomination belongs to all of you 👏🏻

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Imagine the skill it took to make marble look wet. In The Nymph (1858), Italian sculptor Giovanni Lombardi carved solid stone to resemble water rippling around her bare feet.

Completed in 1858 for a private palazzo in Brescia, La Ninfa showcases the astonishing skill of Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Lombardi, a master of 19th-century realism who pushed marble to its limits. At a time when sculptors competed to make stone resemble fabric, flesh, and flowing water, Lombardi created a figure so lifelike it seems to react to the cold stream beneath her feet.

Though influenced by Neoclassicism, Lombardi favored sensual realism over idealized gods, focusing instead on subtle human details like shifting weight and toes pressing into a streambed. The sculpture required extreme undercutting and polishing, where a single mistake could ruin weeks of work. Commissioned for an elite patron, it also reflected a broader fascination with artistic mastery. Lombardi was part of a small group of Italian sculptors sometimes called “the illusionists,” artists who challenged marble’s hardness by making it appear soft, fluid, and alive.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Being wrong is part of being a scientist. We’re wrong all the time. One of the jokes that I use all the time, but it’s not a joke, it’s really true, is when we got to the point of trying to identify this gene, we had 20 possible genes it could be. I prioritised those genes. The gene that was responsible was the last gene, which means I could not have been more wrong in my prioritisation. It’s absolutely the most wrong thing I could have done. We got it eventually, so it was still there, but it was because there was nothing left. It’s not because I was smart or had any foresight.”

In our official interview with medicine laureate Fred Ramsdell, he told us about the importance of handling failures and being persistent.

Watch the full interview: https://t.co/F0U2k5CXSI

[WorldUnion HQ @WorldUnion_Hqrs]

"Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born, against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest and we may be ready to receive them." #TheMother

#Yoga #SriAurobindo #India

[NP @nadalprop_]

If you’re a tennis player and you:

- rank as World No. 1
- win multiple Slams
- win Slams on different surfaces
- win Slams without dropping a set

you’ve basically cemented your place in tennis history.

Now, if you’ve done all this in 3 different decades, you're Rafael Nadal.

[Sri Aurobindo @integralyog]

The Shankara knowledge is, as your Guru pointed out, only one side of the Truth; it is the knowledge of the Supreme as realised by the spiritual Mind through the static silence of the pure Existence.

#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

[Netflix @netflix]

His relentless grit is his greatest legacy. This is the definitive documentary on an all-time great: Rafa Nadal.

Rafa premieres May 29.

[Sri Aurobindo @integralyog]

At times moral notions also intermix and falsify the judgment but we must throw far away from us all moral notions; for morality and Truth are very far from each other.

#TheMother #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

[𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓪𝓻 @yansan]

"India is a country which will never be a client state. We do not want to be a satellite of any power, however great."
- Indira Gandhi
© Raghu Rai
Photo Courtesy : Magnum Photos
#InternationalWomensDay

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

One of my favourite poems
"In days gone by I used to be
A potter who would feel
His fingers mould the yielding clay
To patterns on his wheel;
But now, through wisdom lately won,
That pride has gone away,
I have ceased to be the potter
And have learned to be the clay."
Written by someone who wrote India's first rap song - Rail Gadi, was a Lok Sabha MP, and also enacted memorable roles in films like Bawarchi. Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Sarojini Naidu's younger brother, was a man of many parts.

[Suchhanda Sarkar @suchhandasarkar]

@TheOscarRace All of them...however, Skywalk is special for me

[Sri Aurobindo @integralyog]

So, when you take a body it is to make progress, and when you leave it the period of progress is over.

#TheMother #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

[Suchhanda Sarkar @suchhandasarkar]

@RafaelNadal May Divine's grace be always with you & your lovely family! @RafaelNadal

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

𝗢𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗼, 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱 𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗱.

Es un inmenso honor haber sido el primer deportista investido como Doctor Honoris Causa por esta universidad que ha dejado una huella tan profunda en la cultura, la en la sociedad y en el pensamiento de España.

Gracias a la @usal y a toda Salamanca por el cariño recibido. Este día me acompañará siempre y me anima a seguir siendo fiel a los valores que el deporte me ha enseñado.

¡Muchísimas gracias!

[Arianna Huffington @ariannahuff]

What an extraordinary life Jane Goodall led, and what an incredible impact she had on the planet and all the creatures in it.

[Sri Aurobindo @integralyog]

If I cannot be Rama, then I would be Ravana; for he is the dark side of Vishnu.

#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness #HappyDussehra

[Naba. @KhuntiaNaba]

Faith fights for God, while Knowledge is waiting for fulfilment.

Sri Aurobindo...
Karmayogin:

#SriAurobindo
#TheMother
#Faith