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

-014_Sri Aurobindo^s Savitri and Tennysonian Blank Verse.htm SRI AUROBINDO'S SAVITRI AND TENNYSONIAN BLANK VERSE A LETTER I was much interested to read the views you have sent me of the two dons - one English, the other Irish - on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. The first of these Academics seems to me rather misguided in his evaluation of the epic's blank verse. No doubt, he is right in saying that there was plenty of end-stopped blank verse in English before Savitri - but did you actually say that the only type had been the enjambed? Most probably, when you pointed out the "originality" of Sri Aurobindo's metrical form, you had more things in mind than merely its abste

-023_Dr. V. K. Gokak and Sri Aurobindo^s Savitri.htm DR. V. K. GOKAK AND SRI AUROBINDO'S SAVITRI In the Indian Express, Saturday, September 11, 1982, p. 14, Dr. V. K. Gokak was interviewed on his latest literary work, an epic in Kannada due to be published in November of the same year. Asked why, being an English scholar who had taught the language for more than three decades, he wrote his epic in Kannada, Dr. Gokak was quoted as replying: "...I was hesitant to write in a language which I have not mastered completely. Aurobindo who had mastered the language wrote his Savitri in English and, though it contained most beautiful passages, I felt the language was a bit awkward. If a schol

AGNI IN THE RIG-VEDA AND ASWAPATHY IN SAVITRI (SOME REFLECTIONS APROPOS OF A TERM COMMENTED UPON BY NOLINI KANTA GUPTA) 1 In the Mother India of August 15, 1976 Nolini Kanta Gupta has given a very pointed and appealing interpretation of a term in Savitri which had puzzled Huta and me and led us to consult him. The term occurs in the course of a description of the Yogic development which Aswapathy, Savitri's father, undergoes. The context runs: A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time. For him mind's limiting firmament ceased above. In the griffin forefront of the Night and Day A gap was rent i