In this part, the author focuses on the first 4 verses of Isha Upanishad. He reminds that this Upanishad addresses itself to the question of world-existence, the problem of harmonising human life and activity with the Reality of Immutable Brahman. The solution it finds is one of the most remarkable found by the ancient Indian mind.
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In this six-part series, we present an essay by M.P. Pandit which summarises some of Sri Aurobindo’s commentaries on the Isha Upanishad. The first introductory part highlights Sri Aurobindo’s comments on translating the Upanishads, and the errors made by Max Muller and other Indologists who fail to capture the spirit of the scripture because they lack the inner vision of the Truth expressed in scripture.
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The author speaks of the inner light that illumines the aspirant’s path, and emphasises the value of sincerity, openness and an inner discernment.
Volume 1, Issue 10Author: Kishor Gandhi Editor’s Note: This essay was first published in the 1966 issue of Sri Aurobindo Circle. We are presenting here in 4 parts, with a few minor formatting revisions for the ease of reading. References to Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s works have all been updated. Destruction: The First Condition
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Volume 1, Issue 10Author: Kishor Gandhi Contined from PART 1 True Meaning of the Destroyer Aspect of the Divine This Gita’s conception of God as the Time-Spirit in the aspect of the Destroyer should not be identified with the crude Semitic religious idea of God as a stern and wrathful almighty Creator and Judge who
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Volume 1, Issue 10Author: Kishor Gandhi Continued from PART 2 The Two Choices Before Humanity These are the two alternatives facing humanity from which it will have to make its choice. The Mother has drawn our pointed attention to this choice in a recent message: “The Future of the Earth depends on a Change of
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Volume 1, Issue 10Author: Kishor Gandhi Continued from PART 3 Furthering the Evolutionary Transition Therefore whether at the present moment the manifestation of the supramental Truth will or will not be preceded by destruction will depend upon the choice that humanity makes. It may, however, be argued that ultimately it is not the human choice
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Volume 1, Issue 9Author: Rishabhchand Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Sri Aurobindo Circle in 1955, and is presented here in four parts. Rishahbchand walks us through selected poetic and prose writings (primarily poetry) of Sri Aurobindo to illustrate the deep love Sri Aurobindo, the Self-realised Purna Yogi, has for the man and
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Sri Aurobindo’s love of man and earth is a love of God in man and earth, or rather of God as man and earth. That he did not develop it but was born with it, will be amply illustrated and confirmed by his writings, prose and poetical. No greater lover of man has ever been born, – of the entire being of man, and not only of his soul; and no greater prophet of man’s divine destiny.
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A dizzy height of lyrical magnificence is reached in the ‘Rose of God’, the crest-jewel of Sri Aurobindo’s shorter mystical poems, the iridescent Mantra of supra-mental transformation. His love of man and earth attains here a depth and concentrated intensity of expression which makes the poem at once an invocation and a revelation, a prayer, a prophecy and a promise.
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