About the Author
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. He studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college.
In 1906 Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he became one of the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement. As editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram, he put forward the idea of complete independence from Britain. Arrested three times for sedition or treason, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
Sri Aurobindo began the practice of Yoga in 1905. Within a few years he achieved several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in French India in order to concentrate on his inner life and work. Over the next forty years, he developed a new spiritual path, the Integral Yoga, whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental consciousness. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His vision of life is presented in numerous works of prose and poetry, among the best known of which are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950.
Contents
First Series |
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I |
Our Demand and Need from the Gita |
3 |
II |
The Divine Teacher |
12 |
III |
The Human Disciple |
20 |
IV |
The Core of the Teaching |
29 |
V |
Kurukshetra |
39 |
VI |
Man and the Battle of Life |
45 |
VII |
The Creed of the Aryan Fighter |
57 |
VIII |
Sankhya and Yoga |
68 |
IX |
Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta |
81 |
X |
The Yoga of the Intelligent Will |
94 |
XI |
Works and Sacrifice |
105 |
XII |
The Significance of Sacrifice |
115 |
XIII |
The Lord of the Sacrifice |
124 |
XIV |
The Principle of Divine Works |
134 |
XV |
The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood |
145 |
XVI |
The Process of Avatarhood |
158 |
XVII |
The Divine Birth and Divine Works |
168 |
XVIII |
The Divine Worker |
177 |
XIX |
Equality |
188 |
XX |
Equality and Knowledge |
200 |
XXI |
The Determinism of Nature |
212 |
XXII |
Beyond the Modes of Nature |
224 |
XXIII |
Nirvana and Works in the World |
234 |
XXIV |
The Gist of the Karmayoga |
247 |
Second Series |
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Part I - |
The Synthesis of Works, Love and Knowledge |
|
I |
The Two Natures |
263 |
II |
The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge |
278 |
III |
The Supreme Divine |
289 |
IV |
The Secret of Secrets |
301 |
V |
The Divine Truth and Way |
311 |
VI |
Works, Devotion and Knowledge |
322 |
VII |
The Supreme Word of the Gita |
337 |
VIII |
God in Power of Becoming |
355 |
IX |
The Theory of the Vibhuti |
366 |
X |
The Vision of the World-Spirit |
|
|
Time the Destroyer |
377 |
XI |
The Vision of the World-Spirit |
|
|
The Double Aspect |
388 |
XII |
The Way and the Bhakta |
396 |
Part II |
The Supreme Secret |
|
XIII |
The Field and its Knower |
409 |
XIV |
Above the Gunas |
421 |
XV |
The Three Purushas |
435 |
XVI |
The Fullness of Spiritual Action |
450 |
XVII |
Deva and Asura |
463 |
XVIII |
The Gunas, Faith and Works |
477 |
XIX |
The Gunas, Mind and Works |
493 |
XX |
Swabhava and Swadharma |
507 |
XXI |
Towards the Supreme Secret |
526 |
XXII |
The Supreme Secret |
540 |
XXIII |
The Core of the Gita's Meaning |
562 |
XXIV |
The Message of the Gita |
572 |
About the Author
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. He studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college.
In 1906 Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he became one of the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement. As editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram, he put forward the idea of complete independence from Britain. Arrested three times for sedition or treason, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
Sri Aurobindo began the practice of Yoga in 1905. Within a few years he achieved several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in French India in order to concentrate on his inner life and work. Over the next forty years, he developed a new spiritual path, the Integral Yoga, whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental consciousness. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His vision of life is presented in numerous works of prose and poetry, among the best known of which are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950.
Contents
First Series |
|
|
I |
Our Demand and Need from the Gita |
3 |
II |
The Divine Teacher |
12 |
III |
The Human Disciple |
20 |
IV |
The Core of the Teaching |
29 |
V |
Kurukshetra |
39 |
VI |
Man and the Battle of Life |
45 |
VII |
The Creed of the Aryan Fighter |
57 |
VIII |
Sankhya and Yoga |
68 |
IX |
Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta |
81 |
X |
The Yoga of the Intelligent Will |
94 |
XI |
Works and Sacrifice |
105 |
XII |
The Significance of Sacrifice |
115 |
XIII |
The Lord of the Sacrifice |
124 |
XIV |
The Principle of Divine Works |
134 |
XV |
The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood |
145 |
XVI |
The Process of Avatarhood |
158 |
XVII |
The Divine Birth and Divine Works |
168 |
XVIII |
The Divine Worker |
177 |
XIX |
Equality |
188 |
XX |
Equality and Knowledge |
200 |
XXI |
The Determinism of Nature |
212 |
XXII |
Beyond the Modes of Nature |
224 |
XXIII |
Nirvana and Works in the World |
234 |
XXIV |
The Gist of the Karmayoga |
247 |
Second Series |
|
|
Part I - |
The Synthesis of Works, Love and Knowledge |
|
I |
The Two Natures |
263 |
II |
The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge |
278 |
III |
The Supreme Divine |
289 |
IV |
The Secret of Secrets |
301 |
V |
The Divine Truth and Way |
311 |
VI |
Works, Devotion and Knowledge |
322 |
VII |
The Supreme Word of the Gita |
337 |
VIII |
God in Power of Becoming |
355 |
IX |
The Theory of the Vibhuti |
366 |
X |
The Vision of the World-Spirit |
|
|
Time the Destroyer |
377 |
XI |
The Vision of the World-Spirit |
|
|
The Double Aspect |
388 |
XII |
The Way and the Bhakta |
396 |
Part II |
The Supreme Secret |
|
XIII |
The Field and its Knower |
409 |
XIV |
Above the Gunas |
421 |
XV |
The Three Purushas |
435 |
XVI |
The Fullness of Spiritual Action |
450 |
XVII |
Deva and Asura |
463 |
XVIII |
The Gunas, Faith and Works |
477 |
XIX |
The Gunas, Mind and Works |
493 |
XX |
Swabhava and Swadharma |
507 |
XXI |
Towards the Supreme Secret |
526 |
XXII |
The Supreme Secret |
540 |
XXIII |
The Core of the Gita's Meaning |
562 |
XXIV |
The Message of the Gita |
572 |