Essays on the Gita - First Series

Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 595
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788170586128

Description

The message of the Gita," writes Sri Aurobindo in this work, "is the gospel of the Divinity in man who by force of an increasing union unfolds himself out of the veil of the lower Nature, reveals to the human Soul his cosmic spirit, reveals his absolute transcendences, reveals himself in man and in all beings.

The potential outcome here of this union, this divine Yoga, man growing towards the Godhead, the Godhead manifest in the human soul and to the inner human vision, is our liberation from limited Ego and our elevation to the Higher Nature of a divine humanity.

Contents

First Series :

1. Our Demand and Need from the Gita
2. The Divine Teacher
3. The Human Disciple
4. The Core of the Teaching
5. Kurukshetra
6. Man and the Battle of Life
7. The Creed of the Aryan Fighter
8. Sankhya and Yoga
9. Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta
10. The Yoga of the Intelligent Will
11. Works and Sacrifice
12. The Significance of Sacrifice
13. The Lord of the Sacrifice
14. The Principle of Divine Works
15. The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood
16. The Process of Avatarhood
17. The Divine Birth and Divine Works
18. The Divine Worker
19. Equality
20. Equality and Knowledge
21. The Determinism of Nature
22. Beyond the Modes of Nature
23. Nirvana and Works in the World
24. The Gist of the Karmayoga

Second Series :
Part. I : THE Synthesis OF WORKS, Love AND Knowledge :
1. The Two Natures
2. The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge
3. The Supreme Divine
4. The Secret of Secrets
5. The Divine Truth and Way
6. Works, Devotion and Knowledge
7. The Supreme Word of the Gita
8. God in Power of Becoming
9. The Theory of the Vibhuti
10. The Vision of the World-Spirit-time the Destroyer
11. The Vision of the World-Spirit-the Double Aspect
12. The Way and the Bhakta

Part. II : THE SUPREME SECRET :
13. The Field and its Knower
14. Above the Gunas
15. The Three Purushas
16. The Fullness of Spiritual Action
17. Deva and Asura
18. The Gunas, Faith and Works
19. The Gunas, Mind and Works
20. Swabhava and Swadharma
21. Towards the Supreme Secret
22. The Supreme Secret
23. The Core of the Gita's Meaning
24. The Message of the Gita