An Incomplete Work of Vedantic Exegesis   Book II The Nature of God   Chapter I     The view of cosmic evolution which has been set forth in the first book of this exegesis,1 may seem deficient to the ordinary religious consciousness which is limited & enslaved by its creeds and to which its particular way of worship is a master and not a servant, because it leaves no room for a "Personal" God. The idea of a Personal God is, however, a contradiction in terms. God is Universal, he is Omnipresent, Infinite, not subject to limits. This all religions confess, but the next moment they n

Kena Upanishad   A Partial Translation with Notes   I     1. By whom willed falleth the Mind when it is sent on its mission? By whom yoked goeth forth the primal Breath? By whom controlled is this Speech that men utter? What God yokes the vision1 and the hearing?   2. That which is the Hearing behind hearing, the Mind of mind, utters the Speech behind speech,—He too is the Life of the life-breath and the Vision behind seeing. The wise put these away and pass beyond; departing from this world they become immortal.   3. There Sight goes not, nor there Speech, nor the Mind arrives. We know it not, nor

Kena and Other Upanishads Publisher's Note   This volume comprises Sri Aurobindo's tr

'Kena and Other Upanishads' by Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 of 50   Section Two   Complete Translations   Circa 1900 ­ 1902     The Prusna Upanishad   of the Athurvaveda   being the Upanishad of the Six Questions.   Before which one repeats the Mantra.     OM. May we hear what is auspicious with our ears, O ye Gods; may we see what is auspicious with our eyes, O ye of the sacrifice; giving praise with steady limbs, with motionless bodies, may we enter into that life which is founded in the Gods. Ordain weal

Katha Upanishad     The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda   THE FIRST CYCLE; FIRST CHAPTER     1. Vajasravasa, desiring, gave all he had. Now Vajasravasa had a son named Nachiketas.     2. As the gifts were led past, faith took possession of him who was yet a boy unwed and he pondered:     3. "Cattle that have drunk their water, eaten their grass, yielded their milk, worn out their organs, of undelight are the worlds which he reaches who gives such as these."    

'Kena and Other Upanishads' by Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 of 50 Part One   Translations and Commentaries Published by Sri Aurobindo These texts were first published between 1909 and 1920. Sri Aurobindo later revised most of them. The revised versions are printed here.   Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, c. 1915­1918 Kena Upanishad

'Kena and Other Upanishads' by Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 of 50 The Philosophy of the Upanishads   Chapter I   Prefatory   The philosophy of the Upanishads is the basis of all Indian religion and morals and to a considerable extent of Hindu politics, legislation and society. Its practical importance to [our] race is therefore immense. But it has also profoundly [affected] the thought of the West in many of the most critical stages of [its] development; at first through Pythagoras and other Greek philosophers, then through Buddhism working into Essene, Gnostic and Roman Christianity and once again in our own times through German metaph

20 La philosophie de la renaissance Ils ont une fin, ces corps d'une âme incarnée qui est éternelle; (...) elle ne naît ni ne meurt et il n'est pas vrai qu'ayant été elle ne sera plus. Elle est non née, ancienne, sempiternelle; elle n'est pas tuée lorsqu'est tué le corps. De même qu'un homme rejette ses vêtements usés et en prend de neufs, de même l'être incarné se dépouille de ses corps, et s'unit à des corps nouveaux. Certaine est la mort de ce qui naît, et certaine la naissance de ce qui meurt. Gîta. II. 18; 2'0; 22,27. Il y aune naissance et une croissance du moi. Suivant ses actes, l'être incarné revêt des formes successives en de multipl

-30_indetermines,determinations cosmiqueset l'indeterminable.htm DEUXIÈME LIVRE LA CONNAISSANCE ET L'IGNORANCE L'ÉVOLUTION SPIRITUELLE PREMIÈRE PARTIE LA CONSCIENCE INFINE ET L'IGNORANCE 1 Indéterminés, déterminations cosmiques et l'Indéterminable L'Invisible avec lequel il ne peut exister de relations pragmatiques, insaisissable, sans traits, inconcevable, qu'aucun nom ne peut désigner, dont la substance est la certitude du Moi Unique et en qui l'existence universelle est au repos, lui qui est toute paix et toute béatitude — il est le Moi, et c'est lui qu'il faut connaître.   Mândûkya Upanishad. Verset 7.   On le voit comme un mystère, on en pa

    Avant-propos   The Life Divine de Sri Aurobindo, dont nous publions ici la traduction, diffère considérablement du texte original publié dans la revue Arya entre 1916 et 1919. Sri Aurobindo l'a entièrement revu et corrigé vingt ans plus tard, pour sa première parution sous forme de livre. De tous ses ouvrages en prose, c'est sans doute celui qui a fait l'objet de la révision la plus complète. Le Livre I, " La Réalité omniprésente et l'Univers ", faisait partie du " Volume 1 " dans l'édition de 1939, publiée par l'Arya Publishing House, Calcutta. La version révisée comporte les vingt-sept premiers chapitres de l'Arya, dans le même ordre