The First Hymn to Agni   A HYMN OF THE MORNING SACRIFICE   [The Rishi hymns the awakening of Agni the Divine Force to conscious action in the coming of the Dawn. Agni rises towards the luminous Paradise, his goal, feeding on the works of the Discernment which distributes the gifts and activities of the sacrifice, becomes a pure energy leading our days and ascends to the Vastness and the Truth. By the Truth he fashions anew our two firmaments, the physical and mental consciousness. This is the golden Affirmation of him in our heavens.]     1. Strength is awake by kindling of the peoples and he fronts the Dawn that co

The Nineteenth Hymn to Agni   A HYMN OF THE REVEALING RAY AND CONQUERING WILL   [That epiphany of the soul is sung in which all the coverings of its higher states are penetrated and open to the divine light. It is the opening of the whole third plane of our existence which was before as a fortified city with its gates closed to the soul embodied in Matter. By this new action of the Divine Force the mental and physical consciousness are wedded to the high supramental which was till now separated from them and the life-force blazing in its works with the heat of the divine Sun is harmonised with the play of the sun-ray of

The Eighth Hymn to Agni   DIVINE WILL, THE UNIVERSAL FULFILLER   [The Rishi having declared the continuity of the great effort and aspiration from the earliest times hymns divine Will harboured in us, inmate, priest of the sacrifice, master of this dwelling, who fulfils the universal impulse in all its multiplicity and both stimulates and leads it in act and knowledge.]       1. Will who art by force created in us, thee the pristine Power the pristine seekers of the Truth kindled entirely that they might grow in their being, the god in the sacrifice, who be cause he has the multitude of his delights establishes

' ' by Sri Aurobindo Page 1 of 50 V   Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser   Rig Veda V.81     1. Men illumined yoke their mind and they yoke their thoughts to him who is illumination and largeness and clear perceiving. Knowing all phenomena he orders, sole, the Energies of the sacrifice. Vast is the affirmation in all things of Savitri, the divine Creator.     2. All forms he takes unto himself, the Seer, and he creates from them good for the twofold existence and the fourfold. The Creator, the supreme Good, manifests Heaven wholly and his light pervades all as he follows the

XIII   Soma, Lord of Delight and Immortality   Rig Veda IX.83     l. Wide spread out for thee is the sieve of thy purifying, O Master of the soul; becoming in the creature thou pervadest his members all through. He tastes not that delight who is unripe and whose body has not suffered in the heat of the fire; they alone are able to bear that and enjoy it who have been prepared by the flame.     2. The strainer through which the heat of him is purified is spread out in the seat of Heaven; its threads shine out and stand extended. His swift ecstasies foster the soul that purifies him; he asc

Chapter III   Modern Theories   IT WAS the curiosity of a foreign culture that broke after many centuries the seal of final authoritativeness which Sayana had fixed on the ritualistic interpretation of the Veda. The ancient Scripture was delivered over to a scholarship laborious, bold in speculation, ingenious in its flights of fancy, conscientious according to its own lights, but ill-fitted to understand the method of the old mystic poets; for it was void of any sympathy with that ancient temperament, unprovided with any clue in its own intellectual or spiritual environment to the ideas hidden in the Vedic figures and parables. The result has been of

RELIGION, MORALE, IDÉALISME ET YOGA La vie spirituelle (adhyâtma-jîvana), la vie religieuse (dharma-jîvana) et la vie humaine ordinaire, dont fait partie la morale, sont trois choses très différentes; il faut savoir laquelle on désire et ne pas confondre les trois. La vie ordinaire est celle de la conscience humaine moyenne séparée de son vrai Moi et du Divin et régie par les habitudes courantes du mental, de la vie et du corps qui sont les lois de l'ignorance. La vie religieuse est un mouvement de la même conscience humaine ignorante qui se détourne ou essaie de se détourner de la terre pour se diriger vers le Divin, mais sans avoir encore la conna

INDEX Action, doit venir de l'intérieur, 178 Activité, libre, 153, 154, 155 Adesh(a), 49 Adwaita. 52-53 réaliste (dans La Vie Divine), 53 voir aussi Monisme Agnosticisme, 183-84 de la conscience physique, 128 Ahanâ. et autres poèmes, 243 Âme, un tout qui ne se désintègre pas, 54 Amour, de l'âme pour le Divin, de Râdhâ,202 et consécration, 225-26 Ânanda. 202-03 montée au plan de l'Ânanda, sentiment de la conscience de l'Ânanda, 24 n'est pas la seule voie vers le transcendant, 94-95 Art, musique, littérature (poésie) peuvent faire partie du yoga, 233-35 Ârya, 58 Asat, 77 Ascension, et centres (chakra), 88-89 et expériences de

LA SÂDHANÂ PAR LE TRAVAIL   La vie ordinaire consiste à faire un travail dans un but personnel et pour satisfaire ses désirs sous une direction mentale ou morale, parfois influencée par un idéal mental. Le yoga de la Guîtâ consiste à offrir son travail en sacrifice au Divin, à conquérir le désir, à agir sans ego et sans désir, à avoir de la bhakti pour le Divin, à entrer dans la conscience cosmique, à sentir son unité avec toutes les créatures et à s'unir au Divin. Notre yoga y ajoute la descente de la Lumière et de la Force supramentales (ce qui est son but ultime) et la transformation de la nature.1 •   En général les hommes travaillent et vaquent à leurs

LA SÂDHANÂ PAR LE TRAVAIL La vie ordinaire consiste à faire un travail dans un but personnel et pour satisfaire ses désirs sous une direction mentale ou morale, parfois influencée par un idéal mental. Le yoga de la Guîtâ consiste à offrir son travail en sacrifice au Divin, à conquérir le désir, à agir sans ego et sans désir, à avoir de la bhakti pour le Divin, à entrer dans la conscience cosmique, à sentir son unité avec toutes les créatures et à s'unir au Divin. Notre yoga y ajoute la descente de la Lumière et de la Force supramentales (ce qui est son but ultime) et la transformation de la nature.1   •   En général les hommes travaillent et vaquent à leu