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THE CREED OF THE ARYAN FIGHTER
The Divine Compassion
"Whence has come to thee this dejection, this stain and darkness of the soul in the hour of difficulty and peril?" asks Krishna of Arjuna. The question points to the real nature of Arjuna's deviation from his heroic qualities. There is a divine compassion which descends to us from on high and for the man whose nature does not possess it, is not cast in its mould, to pretend to be the superior man, the master-man or the superman is a folly and an insolence, for he alone is the superman who most manifests the highest nature of the Godhead in humanity. This compassion observes with an eye of love and wisdom an
THE GITA
For the Youth
CONTENTS
Pre-Contents
Introduction
Our Demand and Need from the Gita
The Divine Teacher
The Human Disciple
The Core of the Teaching
Kurukshetra
Man and the Battle of Life
The Creed of the Aryan Fighter
The Gist of the Karma yoga
The Divine Worker
Avatar hood
The Vision of the World-Spirit
The Yoga of Divine Love
The Message of
THE GIST OF THE KARMAYOGA
Beyond Fear through Yoga
I have declared to you the poise of a self-liberating intelligence in Sankhya, says the divine Teacher to Arjuna. I will now declare to you another poise in Yoga. You are shrinking from the results of your works, you desire other results and turn from your right path in life because it does not lead you to them. But this idea of works and their result, desire of result as the motive, the work as a means for the satisfaction of desire, is the bondage of the ignorant who know not what works are, nor their true source, nor their real operation, nor their high utility. My Yoga will free you from all bondage of the sou
THE GITA
For the Youth
CONTENTS
Pre-Contents
Introduction
Our Demand and Need from the Gita
The Divine Teacher
The Human Disciple
The Core of the Teaching
Kurukshetra
Man and the Battle of Life
The Creed of the Aryan Fighter
The Gist of the Karma yoga
The Divine Worker
Avatar hood
The Vision of the World-Spirit
The Yoga of Divine Love
The Message of
THE CORE OF THE TEACHING
The Gita with its rich and many-sided thought, its synthetically grasp of different aspects of the spiritual life and the fluent winding motion of its argument lends itself, even more than other Scriptures, to one-sided misrepresentations born of a partisan intellectuality.... The Gita lends itself easily to this kind of error, because it is easy, by throwing particular emphasis on one of its aspects or even on some salient and emphatic text and putting all the rest of the eighteen chapters into the background or making them a subordinate and auxiliary teaching, to turn it into a partisan of our own doctrine or dogma.
A wrong Interpretation
THE HUMAN DISCIPLE
Arjuna, as we have seen, is the representative man of a great world-struggle and divinely-guided movement of men and nations; in the Gita he typifies the human soul of action brought face to face through that action in its highest and most violent crisis with the problem of human life and its apparent incompatibility with the spiritual state or even with a purely ethical ideal of perfection.
... Arjuna is the man of action and not of knowledge, the fighter, never the seer or the thinker.
From the beginning of the Gita this characteristic temperament of the disciple is clearly indicated and it is maintained throughout. It becomes first evident in t
THE GITA
FOR THE YOUTH
A Compilation from the Writings of
Sri Aurobindo
SRI AUROBINDO SOCIETY
PONDICHERRY
First edition 1989
Second impression 1995
ISBN 81-7060-039-1
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1989
Compiled by Guru Pershad
Published by Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry
Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry
PRINTED IN INDIA
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KURUKSHETRA
Before we can proceed, following in the large steps of the Teacher of the Gita, to watch his tracing of the triune path of man, — the path which is that of his will, heart, thought raising themselves to the Highest and into the being of that which is the supreme object of all action, love and knowledge, we must consider once more the situation from which the Gita arises, but now in its largest bearings as a type of human life and even of all world-existence. For although Arjuna is himself concerned only with his own situation, his inner struggle and the law of action he must follow, yet, as we have seen, the particular question he raises, in the manner in which he raises
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THE VISION OF THE WORLD-SPIRIT
Time the Destroyer
The vision of the universal Purusha is one of the best known and most powerfully poetic passages in the Gita, but its place in the thought is not altogether on the surface. It is evidently intended for a poetic and revelatory symbol and we must see how it is brought in and for what purpose and discover to what it points in its significant aspects before we can capture its meaning. It is invited by Arjuna in his desire to see the living image, the visible greatness of the unseen Divine, the very embodiment of the Spirit and Power that governs the universe. He has heard the highest spiritual secret of existence,