The extraordinary thing about Aurobindo is that he experienced first and did write later. His all the writings are supported by his years and years of yoga practices where he experimented and re-examined again and again and then he found support or identical quotes in ancient Indian treatise which are still complex and very difficult for people to understand. For instance the parts of the Veda which are still sound Greek and Latin to most of the scholars of the Veda but when you read Aurobindo with the help of his new Nirukta, the Mantra becomes much easier to understand. Once he mentioned in a letter to a friend that he wants to make a new Nirukta but unfortunately he could not complete the work in his life time. Without that special connotations and explanations of the Vedic words it is difficult to bring home the real sense of his very deep esoteric writings. Furthermore, he declared to one of his nearest disciples that almost by the end of 1910 his mind stopped thinking. He was acting and working on the intuitive guidance from within. He had made his intuition enlightened by so many special yogic practices. Now the question is whether one can decode the deeper meanings of Aurobindo's writings without deep study of his Vedic interpretations and essays on the secret of the Veda and can one use his intellectual mind and mental faculties to enter into Aurobindo's real sense of the theme?
Monday, November 13, 2006
On the painting 'Triple Consciousness'
There are three basic worlds. The first is the world of matter, the second of vital energy and life force and the third is of the mind. In ancient India these were called bhuh, bhuvah, swah. The trident on the head symbolizes the three world principle which is reflected on the human face underneath. Humanity is preparing to go to the domain of TAT the final world of Vigyaana. The Savita or sun of creative principle.
Man human to man divine
One soul's ambition lifted up the race.
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One man's perfection still can save the world.
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