Essays on the GitaAn exposition of the spiritual philosophy and method of self-discipline of the Bhagavad Gita. Almost all spiritual problems have been briefly but deeply dealt with in the Gita , Sri Aurobindo remarked to a disciple, and I have tried to bring all that out fully in the Essays . In his estimation the Gita is a great work of spiritual synthesis, for it built a harmony between the three great means and powers, Love, Knowledge and Works, through which the soul of man can directly approach and cast itself into the Eternal. Our object in studying the Gita , Sri Aurobindo wrote, will not be a scholastic or academical scrutiny of its thought, nor to place its philosophy in the history of metaphysical speculation, nor shall we deal with it in the manner of the analytical dialectician. We approach it for help and light and our aim must be to distinguish its essential and living message, that in it on which humanity has to seize for its perfection and its highest spiritual welfare. Contents: Our Demand and Need from the Gita; The Divine Teacher, The Core of the Teaching; Man and the Battle of Life; Sankhya and Yoga; Equality and Knowledge; Above the Gunas; The Supreme Secret; etc. Subjects: Indology, Philosophy, Yoga. |
Contents
Our Demand and Need from the Gita | 3 |
The Divine Teacher | 12 |
The Human Disciple | 20 |
The Core of the Teaching | 29 |
Kurukshetra | 39 |
Man and the Battle of Life | 47 |
The Creed of the Aryan Fighter | 57 |
Sankhya and Yoga | 68 |
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 |
Sankhya Yoga and Vedanta | 81 |
The Yoga of the Intelligent Will | 94 |
Works and Sacrifice | 105 |
The Significance of Sacrifice | 114 |
The Lord of the Sacrifice | 124 |
The Principle of Divine Works | 134 |
The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood | 145 |
The Process of Avatarhood | 158 |
The Divine Birth and Divine Works | 168 |
The Divine Worker | 177 |
Equality | 188 |
Equality and Knowledge | 200 |
The Determinism of Nature | 212 |
Beyond the Modes of Nature | 224 |
Nirvana and Works in the World | 234 |
The Gist of the Karmayoga | 247 |
Second Series | 259 |
The Synthesis of Works Love and Knowledge | 261 |
The Theory of the Vibhuti | 366 |
The Vision of the WorldSpirit Time the Destroyer | 377 |
The Double Aspect | 388 |
The Way and the Bhakta | 396 |
The Supreme Secret | 407 |
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 |
The Supreme Secret | 540 |
The Core of the Gitas Meaning | 562 |
The Message of the Gita | 572 |