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Essays on the Gita. First Series

1926

It is then the eternal Avatar this God in man the divine Cosciousness always present in the human being who manifested in a visible form speaks to the human soul in the Gita illumines the meaning of life and the secret of divine action and gives it the light of the divine knowledge and guidance and the assuring and fortifying word of the Master of existence in the hour when it comes face to [...] The Divine is there Indra the Master of the World of Light and Immortality the power of divine knowledge which descends to the aid of the human seeker battling with the sons of falsehood darkness limitation mortality ; the battle is with spiritual enemies who bar the way to the higher world of our being ; and the goal is that plane of vast being resplendent with the light of the supreme Truth [...] Secondly not only the desire of the fruit but the claim to be the doer of works has to be renounced in the realisation of the Self as the equal the inactive the immutable principle and of all works as simply the operation of universal Force of the Nature-Soul Prakriti the unequal active mutable power. [...] What is this aspect of existence which appals his awakened mind and brings about what the title of 55ESSAYS ON THE GITA the first chapter of the Gita calls significantly the Yoga of the dejection of Arjuna the dejection and discouragement felt by the human being when he is forced to face the spectacle of the universe as it really is with the veil of the ethical illusion the illusion of selrig [...] The natural movment of the former attitude is towards the renunci76MAN AND THE BATTLE OF LIFE tion of the world sannyetsa ; of the latter towards superiority to the claims of the lower nature and its whirl of actions and reactions and its principle is equality and the inner renunciation of passion and desire.
philosophy religion
Pages
383
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144928
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv Aurobindo Ghose view
Our Demand and Need From the Gita
1-13 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Divine Teacher
14-25 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Human Disciple
26-39 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Core of the Teaching
40-54 Aurobindo Ghose view
Kurukshetra
55-65 Aurobindo Ghose view
Man and the Battle of Life
66-79 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Creed of the Aryan Fighter
80-95 Aurobindo Ghose view
Sankhya and Yoga
96-115 Aurobindo Ghose view
Sankhya Yoga and Vedanta
116-134 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Yoga of the Intelligent Will
135-150 Aurobindo Ghose view
Works and Sacrifice
151-163 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Significance of Sacrifice
164-178 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Lord of the Sacrifice
179-192 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Principle of Divine Works
193-209 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood
210-228 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Process of Avatarhood
229-243 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Divine Birth and Divine Works
244-256 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Divine Worker
257-272 Aurobindo Ghose view
Equality
273-291 Aurobindo Ghose view
Equality and Knowledge
292-309 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Determinism of Nature
310-327 Aurobindo Ghose view
Beyond the Modes of Nature
328-341 Aurobindo Ghose view
Nirvana and Works in the World
342-361 Aurobindo Ghose view
The Gist of the Karmayoga
362-379 Aurobindo Ghose view

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