GLOSSARY GLOSSARY (Meanings and explanations are from Sri Aurobindo's writings) A Abhaya Fearlessness Ācāra Custom Ādhāra Vehicle Adharma Not-dharma Adhibhūta The elemental, the objective phenomenon of being Adhidaiva The divine element in the becom- ing Adhyātma The spiritual Aditi The infinite mother of the gods Adri Hill, rock Adṛṣṭa The unseen thing Advaita One-existence Advaitavāda The doctrine of advaita Ādyā mahāśakti The original mahāśakti Agni

II THE MOUNTING FLAME OF FAITH Faith is heroic; it is the first condition of success in any spiritual endeavour. No difficulty is insurmountable for men of faith. It is heroic faith that ignores the impossible and turns the most difficult and unattainable into the feasible and attainable. It is inspiring in its vision and penetrating in its action. It was the invincible weapon of the Rishis in their march towards a luminous future. They had a flaming faith in themselves and in their endeavour, and had the essential courage to accomplish the task set before them. It was faith in their summit objective that was the mainspring of their strivings. Their pur

-002_Author's Note.htm AUTHOR'S NOTE The present work is based on Sri Aurobindo's epoch-making exposition, The Secret of the Veda, which is the profoundest expression of his own luminous experience of the Vedic Truth and the World. To retain the original deep vibration and the subtle import, translations of the Riks quoted herein have been provided, as far as it was possible, from Sri Aurobindo. They all bear an asterisk mark(*) in the text. The rest are free renderings by the author and not literal translations made with a view to bring out their esoteric sense and significance. The Riks are mostly from the Rig-Veda. The present work is the third and final volume, and has a Glossa

V EXPERIENTIAL EPISTEMOLOGY There is in each individual an immanent Omnipresence and Omniscience; there is also in him the infinite Consciousness-Force working creatively and constantly, manifesting itself more and more in Matter. It is therefore imperative that we understand the process of Nature's self-unfoldment and the progressive evolutionary manifestation of consciousness. Initially, logical reasoning is useful and even cardinal in its own area of operation for it gives the mind the necessary clarity, definitiveness and refinement in dealing with its own ideas, as well as steers clear of the obscurities created by the average human in

THE VEDIC EPIPHANY Volume Three THE VEDIC FULFILMENT THE VEDIC EPIPHANY An exposition and celebration of the Inaugural Dawn in the Light of Sri Aurobindo Volume Three THE VEDIC FULFILMENT V. Madhusudan Reddy Institute of Human Study Hyderabad, India THE VEDIC EPIPHANY Volume Three: The Vedic Fulfilment First Indian Edition: 15 August 1996 by V. Madhusudan Reddy Chairman, Institute of Human Study Hyderabad, India. © INSTITUTE OF HUMAN STUDY 1996 Published by Institute of Human Study

IX VISION OF ṚTA Ṛtam is the master-word of the Vedic teaching; it is the "truth in the soul, truth in vision, truth in the intention, truth in the act."1 Usha is described as 'following effectively the path of Truth', Ṛtasya panthām anveti sādhu.2 Dawn is repeatedly represented as awakening to a sublime vision, right perception and right movement impelling men to move rightly in the direction of supreme happiness. Rtam is the key — locution and declaration of the Vedic vision and its spiritual interpretation. It is the principle of bṛhat, the Vast and leads upward to Bliss. It is the path leading to the supreme fe

XXIII. The Apocalypse of Aspiration Is this world an unchanging succession of the same phenomena always or is there in it an evolutionary urge, an evolutionary fact, a ladder of ascension somewhere from an original apparent Inconscience to a more and more developed consciousness, from each development still ascending, emerging on highest heights not yet within our normal reach? If so, what is the sense, the fundamental principle, the logical issue of that progression? According to Sri Aurobindo everything seems to point to such a progression as a fact, to a spiritual and not merely a physical evolution the Inconscient from which all starts is apparent only," S

XIX. Supermind and the Integra I Know ledge The face of Truth is hidden by a golden lid; that re- move, O Fostering Sun, for the Law of the Truth, for sight. O Sun, O sole Seer, marshal thy rays, gather them together, — let me see of thee thy happiest form of all; that Conscious Being everywhere, He am I. Isha Upanishad, 15, 16. Mind is not in its very nature an inventor of errors, a father of lies bound down to a capacity of falsehood... "it is in its origin a principle of light, an instrument put forth from the Supermind and, though set to work within limits and even set to create limits, yet the limits are luminous b

XXVIII. The Flaming Vision Beholding the higher Light beyond the darkness we came to the divine Sun in the Godhead, to the highest Light of all. Rig Veda1 O Immortal, thou art bom in mortals in the law of the Truth, of Immortality, of Beauty... Bom from the Truth, he grows by the Truth, — a King, a Godhead, the Truth, the Vast. Rig Veda2 The perfection of psychic and spiritual transformations would be "the perfection, wholeness, consummated unity of a knowledge and experience which is already part of things realised, though only by a small number of human beings. But the supramental change in its process carrie

III. The Evolution of Evolution Perhaps the greatest and the most universal of the problems which have intrigued the mind of man are those which deal with his own place in the world in which he lives. But before he can even formulate these problems, before he can set himself out as something apart from the rest of the world and inquire about his relations to it, he must construct some picture or model or theory of the universe as a whole. He must, in the learned jargon which he has invented to help keep his thoughts in order, develop a cosmology. He may wish, however, at times to go beyond a mere description of his universe and speculate on its inner nature, or