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
The Two Natures
263
The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge
278
The Supreme Divine
289
The Secret of Secrets
301
The Divine Truth and Way
311
Works, Devotion and Knowledge
322
The Supreme Word of the Gita
337
God in Power of Becoming
355
The Theory of the Vibhuti
366
The Vision of the World-Spirit
Time the Destroyer
377
The Double Aspect
388
The Way and the Bhakta
396
Part II
The Supreme Secret
The Field and its Knower
409
Above the Gunas
421
The Three Purushas
435
The Fullness of Spiritual Action
450
Deva and Asura
463
The Gunas, Faith and Works
477
The Gunas, Mind and Works
493
Swabhava and Swadharma
507
Towards the Supreme Secret
526
540
The Core of the Gita's Meaning
562
The Message of the Gita
572
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