... Isha Upanishad Note on the Texts ISHA UPANISHAD comprises Sri Aurobindo's translations of and commentaries on the Isha Upanishad. His translations of and commentaries on other Upanishads, as well as his translations of later Vedantic texts and writings on the Upanishads and Vedanta in general, are published in Kena and Other Upanishads , volume 18 of THE... Upanishad in Aphorism: The Isha Upanishad. Circa 1913-14 (placed before the next piece in order to keep the three drafts of "The Life Divine" together). The first paragraph of this "commentary" consists of a translation of the first verse of the Isha Upanishad. The rest is an exploration, in aphorisms, of various related ideas. The Life Divine: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad [Draft A] . Circa 1912... had used a number of years earlier to make fair copies of literary works. He originally headed the piece "The Isha Upanishad". Later he changed the heading to "The Secret of Divine Life /A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad", and still later to "The Life Divine /A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad". "Introduction", written below the heading, was at one point changed to "Foreword". In the 18 July 1912 entry ...
... liberation be achieved. Indeed, the Isha Upanishad insists on attainment of the knowledge of reality, but it also insists that "Doing verily works in this world one should wish to live a hundred years. " It perceives that action is not an obstacle, and it declares, "action cleaves not to a man." It is obvious that the aim of life proposed by the Isha Upanishad is a composite aim, a kind of integral... and that which is known by oneness is Knowledge. But here again, the Isha Upanishad reconciles the knowledge of the One and the knowledge of the Multiplicity, and it considers that to be a true synthetic knowledge which combines the knowledge of the One and of the Many. To arrive at this knowledge is, according to the Isha Upanishad, the right aim of life. Etymologically, Upanishad means "to sit... The Aim of Life The Aim Of Life An Exploration Isha Upanishad Introduction As one hears of the Upanishads, a distinctive image arises in the mind of a quest leading to the hermitages of teachers who have practised austerities and disciplines of various kinds and have realised in experience the highest states one can conceive ...
... present the Integral vision of the ultimate Realty, but this is greatly illustrated in the Isha Upanishad. For one finds here not only a great synthesis of the supreme realizations but also a synthesis of the methods of yoga. The object of knowledge which is to be pursued, according to the Isha Upanishad, is at once the Brahman, Purusha and Ishwara. The ultimate reality is Brahman, the transcendental... to the Upanishad, indescribable or describable in the highest terms as Sachchidananda, with the qualifying phrase, 'neti, neti, 'not this, not this'. It is higher than the Highest.45 The Isha Upanishad indicates wonder and mystery of the Supreme by declaring: "That moves and That moves not; That is far and the same is near; That is within all this and That is also outside all this."46 The... the thought It vanishes."47 Both the Veda and the Upanishad describe that Supreme reality as 'It"' tat, sat, tad ékam, ékam eva advitīyam as also is He, sah, Purusa, Swayambhūh. Isha Upanishad speaks of Him that has extended Himself n the relative consciousness whose totality of finite and changeable circumstances are dependent on an equal immutable and eternal Infinity. That extension ...
... (par ā gd ṛṣṭ irun-me ṣ a ḥ pratyag ā gd ṛṣṭi rnime ṣ a ḥ 10 ). Indeed, the universe is nothing but a self-creative process of the supreme Reality. But the present 5. Rig-Veda. 6. Isha Upanishad, 15. 7. Prashna Upanishad, 4.5. 8. Ibid., 4.1. 9. The Life Divine, p. 129. 10. Trip ā dvibh ū ti-mah ā n ā r ā yana Upani ṣ ad. Page 102 cosmic manifestation... 129. 55. Ibid., p. 120. 56. Savitri, Book I, Canto II. 57. Katha Upanishad, 1.1.15. 58. The Life Divine, p. 262. Page 110 for He is in the language of the Isha Upanishad paribhu ḥ 59 , "the One who has become everywhere". The Mundaka Upanishad has this to say about this "Luminous One who is at once smaller than the minutest particle and in whom are set all... within all creatures, but it has shaped itself to form and form (r ū parh rupa ṁ pratir ū po babh ū va 68 ). This incapacity on our part to vision "the Lustre that is the most 59. Isha Upanishad, 8. 60. Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.2: "yadarcimad yada ṇ ubhyo' ṇ u ca yasmin lok ā nihit ā lokina ś ca." 61 & 62. Ibid., 1.1.6. II.2.1 (In Sri Aurobindo's translation) ...
... The Upanishad in Aphorism Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad For the Lord all this is a habitation whatsoever is moving thing in her that moves. Why dost thou say there is a world? There is no world, only One who moves. What thou callest world is the movement of Kali; as such embrace thy world-existence. In thy all-embracing stillness of vision... world self in Parabrahman or in Page 356 universalisation of the waking self & the joy of God's divine being in & beyond the world, Amritam. The last is the goal proposed for man by the Isha Upanishad. The waking ego, identifying the Jiva with its bodily, vital & mental experiences which are part of the stream of Nature's movement & subject to Nature & the process of the movement, falsely... parlance, the kingdom of heaven. To liberate man from death, suffering & ignorance and impose the all-blissful & luminous nature of the higher kingdom upon the lower is the object of the Seer in the Isha Upanishad. This liberation is to be effected by dissolving the waking ego into the Lord's divine being and experiencing entirely our unity with all other existences & with Him who is God, Atman & Brahman ...
... delight of the One in His own existence, it is by its very nature infinite and 1 The Life Divine, p. 206. 2 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 62. 3 Yastu sarvāṇi bhūtāni ātmanyevānupaśyati. Sarvabhūteṣu cātmānam. (Isha Upanishad 6) Page 257 inalienable and there is nothing whatsoever in the world that can diminish or hurt or hedge it in. In Sri... bhunjīthā, is the injunction of the Isha Upanishad. And when the individual attains to this status of enjoyment of all by renunciation of all through the total extirpation of hunger, he 'becomes the master of food and its eater', annavānannādo bhavati 4 , 'enjoys all desire', so'śnute sarvān kāmān, 5 'eats what he 1 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, pp. 28-29. 2 Cf. Katha Upanishad ...
... Katha Upanishad, II.2.7. 42 Ibid., II. 1.5. 43 Vide., Ibid., 11.1.3-9,11.2.8. 44 Mandukya Upanishad, 3-7. 45 Kaivalya Upanishad, 1. 46 Isha Upanishad, 5. 47 RV., I.170.1. 48 Isha Upanishad, 8. Page 105 40 Ibid, 4, 50 Ibid., 1, 51 Ibid.,6-7 52 Ibid., 7. 53 Mandukya Upanishad, 5. 54 Taittiriya Upanishad, Bhriguvalli,... cognition. In the Upanishads. intuition is the main instrument of knowledge, but there is also recognition and affirmation, of the reconciliation by means of supramental consciousness. In the Isha Upanishad, for example, which is a great document of synthesis; presents some riddles on account of intuitions in regard to the distinction between knowledge and ignorance and in regard to birth and non-birth... 10. 66 Ibid VI.2l, 67 Ibid., VI.23. 68 Mandaka Upanishad, 1.1,3.9. 69 Ibid,. II, 1.1. 2 70 Ibid., II, 1,10, 71 Ibid- III. 1.1-3, 72 Ibid. III 1,5-7. 73 Isha Upanishad, 1. 74 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1.1.1, 2, 75 Ibid., III. 1.1.2. 76 Ibid, III .6 77 Ibid., 11,4.1.14, 78 Vide., RV., V.2,3. 79 Kena Upanishad, IV.8, 9. 80 ...
... neti — not this, not this. It is higher than the Highest ,32 and the Isha Upanishad indicates Its mystery by declaring: "That moves and That moves not; That is far and the same is near; That Page 25 is within all this and That also is outside all this" 33 . That is tat, It, and also sah. He. Says Isha Upanishad, "It is He that has gone abroad — That which is bright, bodiless, without... and to change, individually, more and more the terms of the ignorance, the suffering and weakness into the terms of knowledge, joy and power and even death into a means of wider life. Says the Isha Upanishad, "It is by the Ignorance that one crosses beyond death and by the Knowledge enjoys Immortality,... that it is by the dissolution that one crosses beyond death and by the birth enjoys immortality... speech of our speech, that too is life of our life-breath and sight of our sight. The wise are released beyond and they Pass from this world and become immortal." 51 Or else, as in the Isha Upanishad, we turn to the Sun and effect the same realisation: Page 33 "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; 52 that do thou remove, O Fosterer (Pushan), for the law of ...
... The Life Divine [Draft A] Isha Upanishad A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors Foreword Veda & Vedanta are the inexhaustible fountains of Indian spirituality. With knowledge or without knowledge... delude ourselves if we think we have understood them entirely & need not plunge deeper for their meaning. There is much gold in the sands of the bed which no man has thought of disinterring. The Isha Upanishad is simpler in form & expression than such writings as the Chhandogya & Brihad Aranyaka which contain in their symbolic expressions,—to us obscure & meaningless, disparaged by many as violently... their true connection & relation of the thoughts to each other has been almost entirely missed. We have hold of some of its isolated truths; we have lost the totality of its purport. For the Isha Upanishad is one of the most perfectly worked out, one of the most finely and compactly stated inspired arguments the world possesses—an argument not in the sense of a train of disputatious reasoning, logical ...
... × Upásate is by some understood in the sense of adoration; but the force of the word is here the same as in the Isha Upanishad, ye avidyám upásate , which does not mean "those who adore Ignorance", but those who devote themselves to the state of Ignorance and make it the sole object of their consciousness. ... directly to the power from which those organs & functions are derived. This idea is confirmed by the apologue in which Brahman appears as a Power governing the universe, the Ish or Lord of the Isha Upanishad, in whom and by whose existence the gods exist, but also by whose active might and its victories they conquer and reign. It is therefore a self-Existence which is active in its stability and conscious... error of the mind and the senses and in the self-luminous & self-effective Consciousness beyond attain to that freedom, unity & immortality which we have seen set before humanity as its goal in the Isha Upanishad. ...
... The correspondent asked for a clarification of verse 7 of the Isha Upanishad, which ends, "...how shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief who sees everywhere oneness?"—Ed. × This term appears in verse 7 of the Isha Upanishad.—Ed. ... liberation. The Veda speaks of the Truth hidden by a Truth where the Sun looses his horses from his car and there all the myriad rays are drawn together into One and that was considered the goal. The Isha Upanishad also speaks of the golden lid hiding the face of the Truth by removing which the Law of the Truth is seen and the highest Page 423 knowledge in which the One Purusha is known ( so'ham ...
... Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad (Circa 1912) Isha Upanishad [6] Part II: The Field and Instruments of Vedanta Chapter I: Intellect and Revelation If in the progression of the ages there are always golden periods in which man recovers self-knowledge and attunes the truth of himself to the truth of his surroundings—or may it not even be, may... ion. Otherwise, we are in danger of becoming by a one-sided exaggeration self-injurers, self-slayers, atmaha, and incurring that condemnation to the sunless & gloomy states beyond of which the Isha Upanishad speaks. Religion makes this mistake when she attempts to destroy the body & the vitality in order to satisfy the aspirations of the heart; philosophy, when she stifles the heart Page 345 ...
... "One unmoving that is swifter than Mind, That the Gods reach not, for It progresses ever in front. That, standing, passes beyond others as they run." Isha Upanishad, verse 4. Sri Aurobindo's translation . See Isha Upanishad, volume 17 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, p. 6 . × ... still in existence. It may be bridged one day, but the physicist is not likely to be the bridge builder, so it is no use asking him to try what is beyond his province. Page 396 The Isha Upanishad passage 2 is of course a much larger statement of the nature of universal existence than the Einstein theory which is confined to the physical universe. You can deduce too a much larger law ...
... Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad (Circa 1912) Isha Upanishad [1] The Isha Upanishad [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors The Puranic account supposes us to have left behind the last Satya period, the age of harmony, ...
... Becomings'." (Isha Upanishad, 8). Cf. : "All this is for habitation by the Lord, whatsoever is individual universe of movement in the universal motion".(Isha Upanishad, 1 "He is below, He is above, He is behind, He is in front, He is to the, right, He is to the left, He is indeed all this that is". (Chhandogya Upanishad, VII). 5Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 25. ...
... Self, the Katha Upanishad nonchalantly affirms in the same breath: "Finer than the fine, huger than the huge... Seated He journeys far off, lying down He goes everywhere." 56 The Rishi of the Isha Upanishad also speaks in the same vein: "One unmoving that is swifter than the mind... That, standing, passes beyond others as they run.... That moves and That moves not; That is far and the same is near;... 1-2, 20, 21.) 57. "an é jadeka ṁ manaso jav ī yo... taddh ā vato'ny ā natyeti ti ṣṭ hat... tadejati tannai-jati tad dure ladvantike. Tadantarasya sarvasya tadu sarvasy ā sya b ā hyata ḥ " (Isha Upanishad, 4, 5. Sri Aurobindo's translation.) 58. The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 283. Page 164 very well exclaim: "These so-called statements are no statements of fact at all; they signify... overmental plane of consciousness, proceeding luminously from the truth, constitute the 'golden lid covering the face of the truth' ('hira ṇ mayena p ā tre ṇ a satyasy ā pihita ṁ mukha ṁ : Isha Upanishad, 15.) In order to seize the truth in its unalloyed and unmitigated Glory, we have to make a last supreme ascent in the climb of our spiritual consciousness and break through the shining shield ...
... integrate both within a fulfilled world. "Into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Ignorance, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Knowledge alone," says the Isha Upanishad (9). The Supramental is, above all, a power – a stupendous power. It is the direct power of the Spirit in Matter. All consciousness is power, and the higher we ascend, the greater the power... Foundations of Indian Culture, 1st ed. 1953.- 'Arya' Dec. 1918-Jan. 1921 (New York) On the Veda, 'Arya' Aug. 1914-Jan. 1920.- 1st ed. 1956 Hymns to the Mystic Fire.- 1st ed. 1946 Isha Upanishad (translation & commentaries), 1st ed. 1921.- 'Arya' Aug. 1914-May 1915 Eight Upanishads (translations & introduction).- 1st ed. 1953 Essays on the Gita, 'Arya' Aug. 1916-July 1920.-... × 158 Savitri, 28:325 × 159 Isha Upanishad , 7. × 160 The Hour of God, 17:62 ...
... UPANISHADS comprises Sri Aurobindo's translations of and commentaries on Upanishads other than the Isha Upanishad, as well as translations of later Vedantic texts, and writings on the Upanishads and Vedanta philosophy in general. Translations of and commentaries on the Isha Upanishad are published in Isha Upanishad , volume 17 of T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS OF S RI A UROBINDO . Sri Aurobindo's... Incomplete Work of Vedantic Exegesis. Circa 1906-8. Editorial title. This piece seems to have been written during the same period as "The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad", an extensive work published in Isha Upanishad , volume 17 of T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS . It is quite incomplete. Not all the projected chapters were finished, and some of the completed chapters contain unfinished passages... The Great Release. 6.7 9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16 17.18 It would appear that the proposed work was to be based on the Isha Upanishad, which has eighteen verses. Evolution in the Vedantic View. Circa 1912. Editorial title. It is evident from the first sentence that the piece was written as part of a larger ...
... Analysis of Isha Upanishad. Siddhi. The Samata has recovered its positive force. Samadhi is slowly reinforcing its general tone, & in antardarshi there are brilliantly perfect, but fleeting rupas. The force of satya gains always in pervasion & definiteness. 1 September 1914 The Krishnadarshan, Ananda etc are recovering tone. Karma— Analysis of Isha Upanishad Veda IV. 33-40... their state of progress at the present moment. Afterwards it glanced first at the paper Mahratta opposite where it got the first "significant word" & secondly, into the commentary in verse on the Isha Upanishad where it got the second. The agreement of these two entirely unconnected sources taken at random, seen in the light of previous "coincidences" shows that these are not coincidences, but the co... Today to finish Life Divine II & commence completion of Secret of Veda. Samadhi The state of partial organisation continues. Karma Life Divine completed (II) Analysis of I.U. [Isha Upanishad]—half finished. Secret of Veda commenced (final copy)— Script — The day has been devoted chiefly to work. It has been promised that the rapidity shall be transferred or rather extended ...
... succinctly and practically in the Isha Upanishad, Ish, Purusha, Deva as the supreme good; we recover there the perfect affirmation of God & return to the grand, original & eternal negation of all these succeeding negations. There can be no more direct contradiction to the negative element in Shankara's teaching than the uncompromising phrases of the Isha Upanishad, kurvanneveha karmani, nanyatheto'sti... The Life Divine [Draft B] Isha Upanishad Chapter IV [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors The next stride of the Upanishad brings us to one of the greatest and most resounding controversies in Indian metaphysics, the quarrel between... yearning endured. But is then this sacrifice really the ultimate sacrifice, this yearning the supreme human tendency, this goal the final & unsurpassable restingplace? If so, the gospel of the Isha Upanishad is either a vain message or a halting place for inferior souls. But the Seer will not have it so. Thou shalt act, he says; for thus has God made thee & not otherwise; other is the fruit of Vidya ...
... constitute the "Higher Hemisphere" of our being. Now the question is: Can sight travel to this Higher Hemisphere, or it has to stop at the upper border of the Overmind? Already the Rishi of the Isha Upanishad complained that the golden Overmind was blocking his vision from advancing farther upward. In fact, this Overmind links the lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance with the supramental Gnosis... Vision of this overmental plane of consciousness, proceeding luminously from the truth, constituted the "golden lid covering the face of the truth" (hiraṇmayeṇa pātreṇa satyasyāpihitaṃ mukhaṃ) (Isha Upanishad, Verse 15). In order to seize the Truth in its unalloyed and unmitigated glory, we have to make a last supreme ascent in the climb of our spiritual consciousness and break through the shining... manifestation has not yet begun and the static Sachchidananda is still absorbed in himself. What is the nature of sight there? By adapting what Sri Aurobindo has said in his commentary on the Isha Upanishad we may venture to say that we arrive, in the status of non-manifestation, at the light of the supreme superconscient in which even the intuitive knowledge of the truth of things based upon the ...
... referred to a section at the end of the third instalment of Isha Upanishad , which was published in the Arya in October 1914. He wrote that the heading of this section was "The Vision of the All". In fact the section is headed "The Vision of the Brahman" both in the Arya and in the book edition of Isha Upanishad (see Isha Upanishad , volume 17 of T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS OF S RI A UROBINDO... UROBINDO , p. 30). A section that appeared in the November instalment of the Arya is headed "The Vision of the All" ( Isha Upanishad , p. 35). A partial copy of Sri Aurobindo's letter to Gogte was published in the Standard Bearer on 13 March 1921. Another partial text was included in Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Yoga . Draft of a Letter to Nolini Kanta Gupta . A young member of Barindra Kumar ...
... poetry is image and symbol and Blake's 'minute particulars'. Having read through the extracts from Savitri with great attention I turned to Sri Aurobindo's translation and commentaries on the Isha Upanishad, and immediately was transported from vague superlatives and abstractions interwoven with cliches of English nineteenth century verse, to beautiful clarity of thought and language. I can... myself and I have, in all friendship tried to do so. I know that Raja Rao admires Savitri and so does Professor Gokak of Bangalore. I wish I found it possible to do so, but having re-opened the Isha Upanishad, 1 shall at least re-read The Life Divine. (10.9.1987) From K. D. Sethna I have just received your long letter of Sept. 10. 1 am glad you have written at some length on... Literature' silently sent me "by Prof Gokak; a reproachful letter from Sisir Kumar Ghose; a photocopy of 'The Riddle of This World', sent from America; I have just re-read Aurobindo's commentary on the Isha Upanishad! Please give me a little time. These things are important. Your point Page 69 about the 'overpoetry' which shines down from above this world's experience is an important one and ...
... 2.5,6. 41 Isha Upanishad 11,14. 42 Ibid. 6. 43 Ibid. 7. 44 Kena Upanishad III. 1. 45 Ibid. IV. 1. 46 Ibid. IV.2-6. 47 Ibid. 11.1. 48 Ibid. 11.4. 49 Ibid. IV.4. 50 Ibid. IV.5, 6. 51 Ibid. 1.2. 52 Which means, probably, the brilliant action of our aspiring faculties, of Agni, Vayu and Indra. 53 Isha Upanishad 15 , 16. ... 54 Taittiriya Upanishad, Brahmanandavalli Chapter 9. 55 Kena Upanishad IV.6. 56 Ibid., 11.5; Compare also, Isha Upanishad, 2, where it states: "Doing verily works in this world one should wish to live a hundred years. Thus it is in thee and not otherwise than this; action cleaves not to a man." See also verse 14, where it states: "(He) by Birth enjoys immortality." meaning that it is... 80 These six chakras are: muladhara, svadhishthana, nabbi or manipura, hrit or anahata, vishuddha, and ajna. Brahmarandhra or sahasrara is at the top of the skull. 81 We may remember that the Isha Upanishad had already declared its dictum, tena tyaktena bhunjithah, "by that renounced, thou shouldst enjoy." 82 Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.20, p.2. ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad IV Third Movement [1] The Lord Verse 8 8) It is He that has gone abroad—That which is bright, bodiless, without scar of imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by evil. The Seer, the Thinker, the One who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal... masculine Sa, He, or else they employ the Page 40 term Deva, God or the Divine, or Purusha, the conscious Soul, of whom Prakriti or Maya is the executive Puissance, the Shakti. The Isha Upanishad, having declared the Brahman as the sole reality manifesting itself in many aspects and forms, having presented this Brahman subjectively as the Self, the one Being of whom all existences are Becomings ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad III Second Movement [2] Self-Realisation Verses 6-7 6) But he who sees everywhere the Self in all existences and all existences in the Self, shrinks not thereafter from aught. 7) He in whom it is the Self-Being that has become all existences that are Becomings, for he has the perfect knowledge, how shall he be deluded,... sole unity, in the equation so'ham , I am He, and in that knowledge to extend one's conscious existence so as to embrace the whole Multiplicity. This is the double or synthetic ideal of the Isha Upanishad; to embrace simultaneously Vidya and Avidya, the One and the Many; to exist in the world, but change the terms of the Death into the terms of the Immortality; to have the freedom and peace of the ...
... [Draft B] Isha Upanishad Chapter I: God and Nature [ note ] - situations requiring textual explication; all such information is printed in italics [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors GOD AND NATURE - I The Isha Upanishad opens ...
... The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad Chapter IV The Eternal in His Universe [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors I. ETERNAL TRUTH THE BASIS OF ETHICS अनेजदेकं मनसो जवीयो नैनद्देवा आप्नुवन्पूर्वमर्षत् ...
... The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad Book III Chapter I. "But he who sees all creatures in his very Self and the Self in all creatures, thereafter shrinketh not away in loathing. He who discerneth, in whom all creatures have become Himself, how shall he be deluded, whence shall he have sorrow in whose eyes all are one?" ...
... Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad (Circa 1912) Isha Upanishad [3] Chapter V: The Interpretation of Vedanta. [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors In an inquiry of this kind, so far as we have to use purely intellectual ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad IX Conclusion and Summary The isha Upanishad is one of the more ancient of the Vedantic writings in style, substance and versification, subsequent certainly to the Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka and perhaps to the Taittiriya and Aitareya, but certainly the most antique of the extant metrical Upanishads. Upanishadic thought falls naturally ...
... Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad: All that is world in the Universe The Sanscrit word जगत् is in origin a reduplicated & therefore frequentative participle from the root गम् to go. It signifies "that which is in perpetual motion", and implies in its neuter form the world, universe, and in its feminine form the earth. World therefore is that which eternally ...
... of 1914, he wrote three incomplete drafts of a commentary on the Isha Upanishad that he called "The Life Divine". Each of these drafts contains long discussions of philosophical issues. In August 1914, along with the first chapter of The Life Divine , he published the first instalment of a translation and analysis of the Isha Upanishad. From this point on, he kept his Upanishadic interpretation separate ...
... description by multiplicity and exceeds at the same time all limitation by finite conceptual oneness. Pluralism is an error...." 1 The same point is made in Sri Aurobindo's commentary on the Isha Upanishad. "Brahman is one, not numerically, but in essence. Numerical oneness would either exclude multiplicity or would be a pluralistic and divisible oneness with the Many as its parts. That is not... ground that he combats the doctrine passing by the name of one Vrittikara who propounded it. Vrittikara reduced the unity of ¹. The Life Divine. SABCL Vol. 18, pp. 335-36. ². Isha Upanishad, SABCL Vol. 12, p. 80. ³. Ibid. Page 178 Brahman to a collection of finite objects in the universe and yet declared that that unity was as real as the ...
... title) in an exercise-book of the kind he used to keep the Record of 1913 and early 1914. The exercisebook also contains a draft of the last version of the "Life Divine" commentary on the Isha Upanishad (see Isha Upanishad , volume 17 of the THE C OMPLETE WORKS). This commentary may be dated to 1914. The psychological notes apparently date from the same year. Sortileges of May and June 1912 ...
... has English blood in his veins can alone have that literary inwardness?" On and on, so charmingly unstoppable. Raine does not easily budge, but she knows how to parry: Sri Aurobindo's Isha Upanishad translation is revealing (but she has no sympathy for the archaisms used), she is happy about Amal Kiran's finding the Indian soul in Wordsworth but must needs reiterate that English remains... of chaos and old night. 14 The world is real and darkness is no illusion. But they, are not the whole truth. As for archaisms, one needs them when translating an ancient scripture like the Isha Upanishad] Poor Raine! Amal Kiran chuckles to inform her that she is "somewhat rigid in your attitudes - not plastic enough to the diversity of fact or possibility." Getting back to her state ...
... "a certain limited capacity of force of consciousness which has to 1 The Life Divine p. 207. 2 Ibid., p. 198. 3 Ibid., p. 190. 4 5 6 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 101. 7 The Life Divine, p. 191. Page 398 bear all the impact of what the soul does not regard as itself but as a rush of alien forces; against them it defends... different situations that the limited individual life has to confront and that have for their cumulative effect the inevitable decay and dissolution of this life. 1 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 102. (Italics ours) 2 The Life Divine, p. 191. Page 399 ...
... any field. It is no doubt Page 83 the realm of knowledge of the One but this knowledge, Vidya, excluded the Many and because of its apparent finality is, in the words of the Isha Upanishad, a greater Darkness — tato bh ū ya iva tama ḥ . If the Silence of the Nirvana is sought neither for its own sake nor as an end in itself and if one's aspiration is not limited by it, Nirvana points... Manifestation. The gulf is the creation of the spiritualised mind or the spiritualised heart because of their inability to hold together what appear to be sharp opposites. For, in the language of the Isha Upanishad: "It is He that has gone abroad—That which is bright, bodiless, without scar of imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by evil. The Seer, the Thinker, the One who becomes everywhere, the ...
... the Veda and the secret of the Veda, the Upanishads cannot truly be understood. Fortunately, Sri Aurobindo has also written for us at least two great commentaries on two important Upanishads: Isha Upanishad and Kena Upanishad, and he translated eight Upanishads in totality. That is tremendous help for understanding the Upanishads properly. Similarly, if one does not understand the Veda properly... the ultimate reality is simple complex. It is simple- complex at the same time. It is one that is many, it is static that is dynamic. It is the same thing which is said in the Upanishad. In the Isha Upanishad the same idea is expressed: tadejati tannaijati. It moves, it moves not." It is far, it is near. It is wonderful. Now this is the first starting point of the Vedic knowledge of reality, of God ...
... both separately and in the relation of each to all and the relation of all to the truth of the Spirit. "That being known all will be known", such is the conclusion of the Upanishadic inquiry. The Isha Upanishad insists on the unity and reality of all the manifestations of the Absolute; it refuses to confine truth to any one aspect. It declares that Brahman is the stable and the mobile, the internal and... × Ibid., 11.54 × Isha Upanishad, 6,7. ...
... from before the seer's vision a far greater truth of the reality. Did not the Rishi of the Isha Upanishad send up his passionate appeal to Pushan, the Godhead, to remove the veil of dazzlingly golden light which was covering the face of the Truth? - Hiranmayena pātrena satyasyāpihitarh mukham. (Isha Upanishad, 15) Here are some representative verses from Savitri referring to a few of the different ...
... manifestation has not yet begun and the static Sachchidananda is still absorbed in himself. What is the nature of sight there? By adapting what Sri Aurobindo has said in his commentary on the Isha Upanishad we may venture to say that we arrive, in the status of non-manifestation, at the light of the supreme superconscient in which even the intuitive knowledge of the truth of things based upon the... (1)"His gaze was the regard of eternity" (682) (2)"A diamond purity of eternal sight'' (297) (3)"... the Omniscient's eyes" (691) Sachchidananda becomes the "sole Seer" {ekarsi, Isha Upanishad); he is the only drastā, "He alone who sees". To cite a telling aphorism of Patanjali: tadā drastur svarupe avasthānam, "The Seer dwells then in His own status." His unblinking Eye shines ...
... intellectual formulation, 416-7; the Arya sequences, 417, 470; The Life Divine, 419-20; on śruti and smrti, 449; adventure in Vedic exegesis, 449-50; his intuitions backed by Veda, , 450ff; Isha Upanishad, 459ff; Kena, 461ff; Essays on the Gita, 463ff; the eternal Word, synthesis of knowledge, 470; a theorem with 2 corollaries, 471; Man, Collective Man, Mankind, 471; The Human Cycle, 472ff;... Amoldian high seriousness, 164; first and last questions, 164; science is not enough, 165; towards the Age of Gold, 165,186-87 Invitation, 161-62 Iqbal, Sir Muhammad, 446 Isha Upanishad, 337, 351, 459H; reconciliation of fundamental opposites, 460; different commentaries on, 460m; spiritual pragmatism of Isha, 461; Isha and Kena.461 Iyengar, Padmanabha, 299 Iyengar ...
... thought. Redound, in its final form, is completed & only needs a slight revision correcting an inconsiderable number of expressions. Today the Isha Upanishad 2 will be resumed & 1 Vijnana = supra-intellectual knowledge. 2 Isha Upanishad. First translation was published in the first issue of Karma-yogin, in June 1909, although Sri Aurobindo had already translated it in Baroda ...
... 1912. [A] The first version begins with a reference to an earlier work by the author expounding Vedantic philosophy as found in the Isha Upanishad . This is probably what is published as “Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad” on pages 311 to 349 of Isha Upanishad , volume 17 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. No work with the title mentioned in the last paragraph, “God & the World”, is known ...
... The Life Divine [Draft B] Isha Upanishad Chapter II: The Golden Rule of Living - Enjoyment & Renunciation [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors The first line of the Seer's first couplet has given us very briefly and suggestively... use them from above, as a man uses a machine, wields a sword or hurls a ball to its mark. These formulae of the Gita are, also, the true sense of the inner sacrifice imposed on the seeker by the Isha Upanishad. It is the sacrifice of the lower or motional parts of our being to the higher or divine part—the offering of jagat into the Lord. The renunciation demanded of us is an inner sacrifice, effected... only possible where mind and its laws are excluded. These are the fundamental ideas of Asceticism and if they were true with this scope and this force, the very foundations of the thought in the Isha Upanishad would be vitiated and annulled; but, although generally held and insisted on by numbers of great saints and lofty thinkers, they are an instance of partial truths, perfectly valid, even perfectly ...
... The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad Chapter II Salvation through Works I The law of spiritual abandonment in preference to mere physical abandonment, is the solution enounced by Srikrishna, the greatest of all teachers, for a deep and vexed problem which has troubled the Hindu consciousness from ancient times. There are... eternal truth and, leaving our body in the state of Samadhi, rise into the unrevealed & imperishable bliss of which the Lord has said, "That is my highest seat of all." VII. Retrospect The Isha Upanishad logically falls into four portions, the first of which is comprised in the three verses we have already explained. It lays down for us those first principles of Karmayoga which must govern the ...
... The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad Chapter I The Law of Renunciation [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors I. God All and God Everywhere GURU Salutation to the Eternal who is without place, time... eternal reality, and where the three meet & become one, is the end of the great journey, that highest home of Vishnu towards which it is the one object of the Upanishad to turn and guide us. The Isha Upanishad is the Scripture of the Karmayogin; of the three paths it teaches the way of Action, and therefore begins with this first indispensable condition of all Godward action, to see all things, creatures ...
... Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad (Circa 1912) Isha Upanishad [2] Chapter [ ] Sri Aurobindo did not write a chapter number.—Ed. [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors I have combated the supremacy of the European ... because of the nature & origin of the sun, Surya was also a god of a higher moral & spiritual function & Agni possessed of diviner & less palpable masteries. I will cite the single example of the Isha Upanishad in support of my point. The bulk of this poem is occupied with the solution of problems which involve the most abstruse and ultimate questions of metaphysics, ethics and psychology; yet after a ...
... uncertain, but at a conservative level, Vedas can be Page 77 said to belong to 2000 B.C.E., and Upanishads to 1000 B.C.E.. The oldest Upanishads like the Taittiriya Upanishad and the Isha Upanishad may be even older than 1000 B.C.E.. (Between the Vedas and the Upanishads there had intervened a period during which Brahmanas were composed. Brahmanas advocated the view that the Vedic system... science. As far as the word "Knowledge" is concerned, the Vedic Page 85 and Upanishadic systems refer to jnāna, which is. knowledge by identity of the subject and the object (Isha Upanishad verse 7). To use the modern terminology, jnāna is the subject matter of epistemology, which discusses various modes of knowledge, namely, knowledge by description, knowledge by acquaintance or... deeming themselves very learned, men bewildered are they who wander about stumbling round and round helplessly like blind men led by the blind.ˮ ( First Cycle, Second Chapter, Verses 4-5). In the Isha Upanishad, it is laid down that that man of knowledge should also have the knowledge of ignorance, for then only one can cross over the ocean of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance and attain to ...
... of the Truth hidden by the truth and the same idea of the supermind in which all the multiple rays of light are held together in comprehensiveness is to be found in the following verses of the Isha Upanishad: "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for Sight. O Fosterer, 0 sole Seer, of illumining Sun, 0 power of the... well in which the difficulties of affirmations and negations of spiritual experiences have been met and overcome. There is, for instance, the following statement of supramental experience, in the Isha Upanishad which, in its entire text dwells upon synthesis, integrality and all-comprehensiveness: "But he who sees everywhere the Self in all existences and all existences in the Self, shrinks not ... That which is Supreme and Wonderful? It has motion and action in the consciousness of another, but when It is approached by the thought, It vanishes." Or let us take the following from the Isha Upanishad, which is also the last part of the Yajur Veda: "One unmoving that is swifter than Mind, That the Gods reach not, for It progresses ever in front. That, standing, passes beyond others as they ...
... Aspiration, Rejection, Surrender. The Isha Upanishad, as interpreted by Sri Aurobindo, lays stress on the right Knowledge of the Lord and total submission (or surrender) to Him. In the Gita, too, the stress is on aspiration, abandonment (or rejection) and complete surrender. Sri Aurobindo thus traces the seeds of his yoga to the Gita, the Isha Upanishad, and the Veda generally. Sri Aurobindo's... yoga. Besides systematically expounding his own yoga in The Synthesis of Yoga and some of his other writings, Sri Aurobindo has also given us brilliant commentaries on the Isha Upanishad and the Bhagavad Gita. Elucidating the last (the eighteenth) stanza of the former, Sri Aurobindo says that, "the sign of right action is the increasing and finally the complete submission of ...
... Spirits Stead and Maskelyne Fate and Free-Will The Three Purushas The Strength of Stillness The Principle of Evil The Stress of the Hidden Spirit Volume 17. Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad Volume 18. Kena and Other Upanishads The Kena Upanishad The Katha Upanishad Moondac Upanishad of the Atharvaveda Page 468 ...
... Yogin is to avoid the confusion which comes from an abundant but hurried and ill formed mental activity and to effect a perfect distinctness in the forms of his knowledge—the rashmín vyùha of the Isha Upanishad. We are given, finally, an object for this calling of Indra and this abundance of mental perceptions and thought-images, útaye, and a circumstance of the calling, dyavi dyavi. Útaye, Sayana... or in the luminous throng of thoughts from above, vraja in the sense of herd or assemblage. The rays of thought, descending from above, are assembled in their movement, the rashmín vyúha of the Isha Upanishad, and among them the man of full substance, right thought & action protected & energised by the Maruts moves a formed and complete thinker & knower, freed from the darkness and the twilight of lower ...
... The Life Divine [Draft C] Isha Upanishad Chapter II [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors The perfect truth of the Veda, where it is now hidden, can only be recovered by the same means by which it was originally possessed. Revelation... down to us as illumination from our Higher self to be confirmed in life & experience, constantly and regularly, by our lower instruments. We have, for instance, the remarkable passages in the Isha Upanishad about the sunless worlds, the luminous lid concealing Truth, the marshalling & concentration of the rays of Surya & his godliest form of all, that form which, once seen, leads direct to the supreme ...
... The Life Divine [Draft B] Isha Upanishad Chapter III: The Golden Rule of Life - Desire, Egoism and Possession [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors [........] - word(s) lost through damage to the manuscript (at the beginning of... Atman, the many Purushas in the One. The present phrase, understood as an ordinary ethical rule, would be a contradiction and not an affirmation of the one ever-present and unifying thought of the Isha Upanishad. It would provide us with a preliminary rule of life founded upon the acceptance & not the denial of the dividing ego-sense. The ethical rule against covetousness is an ordinary human rule and ...
... The Life Divine [Draft C] Isha Upanishad Chapter III [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors We have, then, to choose between two methods, one historic & modern, in possession of the field, easily applied in its fullness, the other... For grammatically, textually, he is within his rights. Nor can Shankara at least complain of this amazing tour-de-force; for he himself has used the very same device, in his commentary on the Isha Upanishad, in order to read, for the convenience of his philosophy, asambhútyá, by the not coming into birth, where tradition, metre, sentence-structure Page 581 & context demand sambhútyá, by ...
... Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad (Circa 1912) Isha Upanishad [5] Part II: The Field and Instruments of Vedanta Chapter I [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors Historically, then, we have our Hindu theory of the Vedanta ...
... . The rest of sahitya will be added gradually, as soon as the present work is sufficiently organised. 1) Philosophy—(1) The Life Divine, 2) The Synthesis of Yoga—, 3) The Secret of Veda, 4) Isha Upanishad.) 2) Veda.—(Bk V. IV. translated & studied, Notes for General Interpretation, Bks I. II. III. finally read.) 3) Vedanta.—(The Upanishads restudied.) 4) Correspondence— 5) Notes on the... ritam. Meanwhile the physical siddhi will work against its barriers and bring itself into line with the rest of the siddhi 11 October 1914 St. Arya .. The Wherefore of the Worlds .. Isha Upanishad— What will now be done is to idealise all the perceptions & impulses, normally and spontaneously and so convert the whole being, including the two lower mentalities and the prana, into the ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad II Second Movement [1] Brahman: Oneness of God and the World Verses 4-5 4) One unmoving that is swifter than Mind; That the Gods reach not, for It progresses ever in front. That, standing, passes beyond others as they run. In That the Master of Life establishes the Waters. 5) That moves and That moves not; That is far and... consciousness the others who run. Page 22 TRANSITIONAL THOUGHT [The series of ideas under this heading seem to me to be the indispensable metaphysical basis of the Upanishad. The Isha Upanishad does not teach a pure and exclusive Monism; it declares the One without denying the Many and its method is to see the One in the Many. It asserts the simultaneous validity of Vidya and Avidya and ...
... Isha Upanishad Ish and Jagat The Isha Upanishad in its very inception goes straight to the root of the problem the Seer has set out to resolve; he starts at once with the two supreme terms of which our existence seems to be composed and in a monumental phrase, cast into the bronze of eight brief but sufficient words, he confronts them and sets them ...
... Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad (Circa 1912) Isha Upanishad [4] Part II: The Instruments and Field of Vedanta. Chapter I: Textual Inference. The three principal means of intellectual knowledge are anumana, pratyaksha and aptavakya. Anumana, inference from data, depends for its value on the possession of the right data, on the right observation ...
... according to Sayana and according to the psychological interpretation. Written in a notebook used previously for work on "The Life Divine: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad [Draft B]" (circa 1913 or early 1914, published in Isha Upanishad , volume 17 of THE COMPLETE WORKS, pages 429 - 550). [15] Text of the first two verses of RV I.77, with notes on many of the words and translations of the ...
... Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad ईशा वास्यमिदं सर्वं यत् किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् । तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद् धनम् ॥१॥ 1) All this is for habitation 1 by the Lord, whatsoever is individual universe of movement in the universal motion. By that renounced thou shouldst enjoy; lust not after any man's possession. कुर्वन्नेवेह कर्माणि ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad Prefatory Plan of the Upanishad The Upanishads, being vehicles of illumination and not of instruction, composed for seekers who had already a general familiarity with the ideas of the Vedic and Vedantic seers and even some personal experience of the truths on which they were founded, dispense in their style with expressed transitions... transitions of thought and the development of implied or subordinate notions. Every verse in the Isha Upanishad reposes on a number of ideas implicit in the text but nowhere set forth explicitly; the reasoning also that supports its conclusions is suggested by the words, not expressly conveyed to the intelligence. The reader, or rather the hearer, was supposed to proceed from light to light, confirming ...
... truths of this world or of the other worlds or beyond all phenomenal existence,—"All this is the Brahman." In the third issue of Arya, at the end of the second instalment of the Analysis of the Isha Upanishad, you will find a description of this vision of the [Brahman] 1 which may be of help to you in understanding the idea. (October number now in the Press.) 2 3) Conditions internal and... MS All. See Note on the Texts, page 586 .—Ed. × See "The Vision of the Brahman" in Isha Upanishad, volume 17 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, p. 30 . The passage was first published in the third issue of the Arya, dated October 1914.—Ed. ...
... life and body; this too is not mere survival, it is timelessness translated into Time manifestation." 5 1 Sri Aurobindo, The Problem of Rebirth, pp. 13-14. 2 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 106. 3 Ibid., p. 107. 4 5 The Life Divine, p. 738. Page 345 As a matter of fact, in the midst of our aspiration for physical immortality, we must... towards the perfection of the body and bodily being (kāyāsiddhi), including as its last term the physical conquest over death. 1 Letters on Yoga, p. 1231. 2 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 107. 3 Ibid., p. 116. Page 349 ...
... constitute the "Higher Hemisphere" of our being. Now the question is: can sight travel to this Higher Hemisphere, or, it has to stop at the upper border of the Overmind? Already the Rishi of the Isha Upanishad complained that the golden Overmind was blocking his vision from advancing farther upward. In fact, this Overmind links the lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance with the supramental Gnosis or... consciousness, proceeding luminously from the truth, constitutes the "golden lid covering the face of the truth" (hiranmayena pātrena satyasyāpihitam Page 66 mukham). (Isha Upanishad, 15) In order to seize the truth in its unalloyed and unmitigated Glory, we have to make a last supreme ascent in the climb of our spiritual consciousness and break through the shining shield ...
... its essential characteristic, the Rigveda states: सर्वभुतेषु चात्मान॑ ततो न विजुगुप्सते । ।6। । यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भुतान्यात्मैवाभुद्विजानतः | तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वमनुपश्यतः । ।7। । Isha Upanishad, 6,7 Page 273 They held the truth, they enriched its thought; then indeed, aspiring souls (aryah), they, holding it in thought, bore it diffused in all their being. 4 ... तत् त्व॑ पूषन्नपावृणु सत्यधर्माय दृष्टये । ।15। । पूषन्नेकर्षे यम सूर्य प्राजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन् समूह । तेजो यत् ते रुप॑ क्ल्याणतम॑ तत्ते पश्यामि योऽसावसौ पुरुषः सोऽहमस्मि । । 16 | Isha Upanishad,15,16 Page 274 It is significant that the yogic process which began with the Veda, culminated in the first cycle of knowledge in the Upanishads, which are called Vedanta, giving us ...
... necessity to transcend the level of ethics and arrive at the luminous perception of the divine will and equally luminous and even devoted submission to the divine will. 5 BG.,II.50 6 Isha Upanishad, 5 7 BG.,III..I 8 Ibid.,IV.33 9 Vide., Ibid., II.61, III.30, IV.10 10 Ibid.,VII.2 11 Ibid., XV. 17 12 Ibid.,XV.16 13 Ibid.,VII.5 14 Ibid., XVIII.65, 66 ... Ibid., VII.4, 5, 7 34 Ibid.,VIII.23 35 Ibid., IX. 4-8, 10, 12-16, 24, 26, 27 36 RV ., X.l29.2 37 Ibid.I.170.1 38 Ibid 39 Ibid., IV.58.3 40 Ibid.X.90 41 Isha Upanishad, 5 42 Katha Upanishad, II.3.8 43 Mundaka Upanishad, II.1.2 44 Kena Upanishad, III. 12 45 5G.XV.7 46 Ibid.,IX.8 47 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, ...
... Life Divine, Vol. 19, p. 949. 24 Ibid., The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 21, p. 777. 25 Ibid., Vol. 20, pp. 267-8. 26 Ibid., The Life Divine, Vol. 18, p. 278; vide also, Isha Upanishad, Verse 15. 27 Ibid., p. 279-80. Page 85 27 Ibid., p.775. 28 Ibid., p. 130. 29 Vide., Ibid., Vol. 19, pp. 919-63. 30 Ibid., Letters... 131. 32 Ibid., The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 21, p. 854. 33 Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 283. 34 Ibid., The Life Divine, Vol. 18, pp. 21-2. 35 Ibid., pp. 22-3; vide also, Isha Upanishad, verse 8. 36 Ibid., p. 27; vide also, Taittiriya Upanishad, II.7. 37 Mundaka Upanishad, II. 1.2. 38 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol., 18, pp. 28-30 ...
... another translation with notes appeared in the Arya, August 15, 1914, followed by an analysis in subsequent issues. This later translation and analysis was published separately as Isha Upanishad in 1921, a Second Edition, revised and enlarged, appeared in 1924 (See 34). Kena: A translation was published in the Karmayogin, June 26, 1909; another translation with notes in the... published as they were found. An essay "On Quantitative Metre" (See 60) and a letter "An Answer to a Criticism" are included as appendices. SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol.5 34 . ISHA UPANISHAD Arya Publishing House,' Calcutta, 1921 Revised and Enlarged Edition, 1924 Translation'and analysis. First .appeared in the Arya, August 1914 to May 1915. An earlier translation ...
... Sri Aurobindo. June 1 Decision to publish the Arya. August 15 First issue of the Arya. First instalments of The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Secret of the Veda, The Isha Upanishad. 1915 Ahana and Other Poems published. February 21 First celebration of the Mother's birthday at Pondicherry. February 22 The Mother departs for France... declining the presidentship of the Nagpur Congress. November 24 The Mother moves to the house on Rue Francois Martin where Sri Aurobindo is living. 1921 Publication in book form of Isha Upanishad and Kalidasa's "Seasons". January Love and Death published. January 15 Last issue of the Arya. 1922 January The Mother takes charge of the management of Sri Aurobindo's ...
... Aurobindo. June 1 Decision to publish the Arya. August 15 First issue of the Arya. First instalments of The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Secret of the Veda, The Isha Upanishad. 1915 — Ahana and Other Poems published. February 21 First celebration of the Mother's birthday at Pondicherry. February 22 The Mother departs for France. ... the presidentship of the Nagpur Congress. November 24 The Mother moves to the house on Rue François Martin where Sri Aurobindo is living. 1921 — Publication in book form of Isha Upanishad and Kalidasa's "Seasons". January Love and Death published. January 15 Last issue of the Arya. 1922 — January The Mother takes charge of the management of Sri Aurobindo's ...
... divine being. The latter is to be in us protected from the ordinary tendency of our human existence, from subjection to the sons of Danu or Diti. The idea is evidently identical with that of the Isha Upanishad which declares the possession of the Knowledge and the Ignorance, the unity and the multiplicity in the one Brahman as the condition for the attainment of Immortality. We then come to the seven ...
... two dogs in the Rig Veda. In the later ideas Yama is the god of Death and has his own special world; but in the Rig Veda he seems to have been originally a form of the Sun,—even as late as the Isha Upanishad we find the name used as an appellation of the Sun,—and then one of the twin children of the wide-shining Lord of Truth. He is the guardian of the dharma, the law of the Truth, satyadharma , which ...
... Upanishad has its smaller province; each takes its own standpoint of the knower and its resulting aspect of the known; to each there belongs a particular motive and a distinguishing ground-idea. The Isha Upanishad, for example, is occupied with the problem of spirituality and life, God and the world; its motive is the harmonising of these apparent opposites and the setting forth of their perfect relations ...
... have to resort to other Scriptures. The subject of the Talavakara Upanishad is indicated and precisely determined by its opening word, Kena, very much as we have seen the subject of the Isha Upanishad to be indicated and precisely determined by its opening words Isha Vasyam. To reveal the true Master of our mental life, the real Force of the Vitality which supports it and of the sense-activities ...
... of its eternal peace and its omniscient and omnipotent force is also conscious of our cosmic existence which it holds in itself, inspires secretly and omnipotently governs. It is the Lord of the Isha Upanishad who inhabits all the creations of His Force, all form of movement in the ever mobile principle of cosmos. It is our self and that of which and by which we are constituted in all our being and ...
... his sâdhanâ. In 1914 after four years of silent Yoga he began the publication of a philosophical monthly, the Arya . Most of his more important works, those published since in book form, the Isha Upanishad, the Essays on the Gita, and others not yet published, the Life Divine, the Synthesis of Yoga, 5 appeared serially in the Arya . These works embodied much of the inner knowledge that had come ...
... draw together, the sympathy of the heart can alone unite. But the one is a good preparation for the other. Page 31 OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Karmayoga The Isha Upanishad Page 32 ...
... writers of theUpanishads give a clear & definite answer to this question.The Page 27 Upanishads everywhere rest their highly spiritual & deeply mystic doctrines on the Veda.We read in the Isha Upanishad of Surya as the Sun God, but it is the Sun of spiritual illumination, of Agni as the Fire, but it is the inner fire that burns up all sin & crookedness. In the Kena Indra, Agni & Vayu seek to know ...
... consciousness proper to Vidya, achittim, vṛijiná, ditim to the multiple divided consciousness proper to Avidya. The verse expresses briefly what is expressed at greater length in three slokas of the Isha Upanishad—9-11. 12) Kavim sh a sh ásuh kavayo adabdhá, nidhárayanto duryásu áyoh; Atas twam dṛishyán Agna etán, paḍbhih pa sh yer adbhután arya evaih. The seer the Seers unconquered expressed ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad VI Third Movement [3] Birth and Non-Birth Verses 12-14 12) Into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Non-Birth, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Birth alone. 13) Other, verily, it is said, is that which comes by the Birth, other that which comes by the Non-Birth; this is the lore ...
... I suggest, one of the Titans who deny a higher ascent to man, a Titan who possesses but withholds & hides the luminous realms of ideal truth from man,—interposing the hiranmayam patram of the Isha Upanishad, the golden cover or lid, by which the face of truth is concealed, satyasyapihitam mukham. “Tat twam Pushan apavrinu”, cries the Vedantic sage, using the same word apavri, but he calls to Surya ...
... The Life Divine [Draft A] Isha Upanishad Appendix [ note ] - situations requiring textual explication; all such information is printed in italics [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors [.....] - word(s) lost through damage to ...
... knowledge; but they approach it from different sides. Into the great kingdom of the Brahmavidya each enters by its own gates, follows its own path or detour, aims at its own point of arrival. The Isha Upanishad and the Kena are both concerned with the same grand problem, the winning of the state of Immortality, the relations of the divine, all-ruling, all-possessing Brahman to the world and to the human ...
... दिदृक्षेयः I take as an adjective from दिदृक्षा, the Page 626 sight referred to being the ideal दृष्टि of the Rishis, or सत्यदृष्टि, which belongs to the vijnana & is referred to in the Isha Upanishad, सत्यधर्माय दृष्टये सूनवे. सूनुः means son, "that which is produced or begotten"; it means "producer of Soma", "Soma-sacrificer" & "sacrificer" generally. But it may also bear another sense ...
... incomplete, perfected and imperfected"? जीवातवे. For increase of life, of vitality & perhaps length of days—a frequent prayer of the Vedic Rishis who followed unhesitatingly the rule of the Isha Upanishad, jijivishech chhatam samah. प्रतरं swiftly, or else forcibly. साधया धियो. The same prayer as in the third verse. There is no reason to interpret धियो otherwise than faculties of धी, the ...
... Isha Upanishad The Ishavasyopanishad with a commentary in English [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors 1. With God all this must be invested, even all that is world in this moving universe; abandon therefore desire ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad VII Fourth Movement [1] The Worlds - Surya Verses 15-16 15) The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight. 16) O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad VIII Fourth Movement [2] Action and the Divine Will Verses 17-18 17) The Breath of things is an immortal life, but of this body ashes are the end. OM! O Will, remember, that which was done remember! O Will, remember, that which was done remember. 18) O god Agni, knowing all things that are manifested, lead us by the good ...
... devoted to the formulation of the early Vedantic philosophy of the Upanishads—and especially to that philosophy as we find it massively concentrated into some of its greatest principles in the Isha Upanishad, I hazarded the theory that the Vedas were not a collection of sacrificial hymns to material Nature-gods, as supposed by the Europeans, but something more profound and noble, that they were indeed ...
... Sun, for the Law of the Truth, for sight. O Sun, O sole Seer, marshal thy rays, gather them together,—let me see of thee thy happiest form of all; that Conscious Being everywhere, He am I. Isha Upanishad. (Verses 15, 16.) The Truth, the Right, the Vast. Atharva Veda. (XII. 1. 1.) It became both truth and falsehood. It became the Truth, even all this that is. Taittiriya ...
... × Gita , XVIII. 61. × Isha Upanishad , Verse 8. × prajñāna. ...
... cidghana or dense self-luminous consciousness. It must transform its conscious substance into a gnostic self or Truth-self of infinite Sachchidananda. These three movements are described in the Isha Upanishad, the first as vyūha , the marshalling of the rays of the Sun of gnosis in the order of the Truth-consciousness, the second as samūha , the gathering together of the rays into the body of the ...
... One, in the infinite unifying Truth, Right, Vast of the divine existence. × jagatyāṁ jagat. Isha Upanishad. ...
... edge and world-knowledge must be made one in the all-ensphering knowledge of the Brahman. Page 373 × Isha Upanishad. ...
... auspicious and that I shall not be carrying a copy of the TLS. I might have been Page 260 carrying a very good paper by Tagore, on 'Personality' based on his interpretation of the Isha Upanishad. No doubt you know it. (1.1.1989) From K. D. Sethna Your letter of Jan.l was a pleasure with its varied looking before and after and its basic optimistic note in spite of ambiguous ...
... held that once one definitely entered "the gates of the sun", symbolising the Supermind, there could be no return to earth-concerns. (2) The Upanishadics came more and more to mistake what the Isha Upanishad calls the "golden lid, covering the face of Truth", as the ultimate dynamic side of the Divine. The "golden lid" Sri Aurobindo distinguishes from the Supermind as the Overmind, a similar-dissimilar ...
... man or nation out of great fear. स्वल्पमध्यस्य धर्मस्य त्रायते महतो भयात् । It is an error, we repeat, to think that spirituality is a thing divorced from life. "Abandon all" says the Isha Upanishad " that thou mayst enjoy all , neither covet any man's possession. But verily do thy deeds in this world and wish to live thy hundred years; no other way is given thee than this to escape the ...
... experience the truth of the Upanishads, आनन्दं ब्रह्मणो विद्वान् न बिभेति कतश्चन । "He who possesses the delight of the Brahman has no fear from anything in the world," and that other in the Isha Upanishad, यस्मिन् सर्वाणि भूतानि आत्मैवाभूद् विजानतः । तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वमनुपश्यतः ।। "When all created things become one with a man's self by his getting the knowledge ( vijñāna ), ...
... without food intake has not yet become feasible. What are then the impediments and how can they be possibly removed? 1 Sri Aurobindo: Kena Upanishad, p. 84. 2 Sri Aurobindo: Isha Upanishad, p. 145. Page 231 ...
... of his “Selected Hymns.” Before 15 August, when Arya’ s first issue was published, he had written one or more installments of four different books: The Secret of the Veda, The Life Divine, The Isha Upanishad, and The Synthesis of Yoga.’ Two of these works, The Life Divine and The Synthesis of Yoga, are among the most important books of the twentieth century, an evaluation not lessened by the ...
... Aphorism - 307 307—Three times God laughed at Shankara, first, when he returned to burn the corpse of his mother, again, when he commented on the Isha Upanishad and the third time when he stormed about India preaching inaction. The Lord laughed when this man, who thought himself so wise, complied with conventions, wrote useless words and gave an ...
... what does it evoke in the spiritual vision? Somewhere in the Upanishads there is a phrase with some such suggestion as: "Where there is one, there is no fear: fear comes where there are two." The Isha Upanishad Page 240 asks about the spiritual seeker in whom the One Self has become all creatures: "How shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief, who sees everywhere oneness?" Evidently ...
... follow the same plan, so that when their fathers reached almost 100 years the sons would have their children. The Upanishadic limit appears to be less than the Rigvedic. Don't we read in the Isha Upanishad the injunction about desireless and detached activity: "Doing verily works in this world, one should wish to live a hundred years"? In ancient Greek books too the longest life-span was put at a ...
... drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha, and the lower half, aparardha. The ¹ . The Life Divine (American Edition, 1949), p. 243. ². The Isha Upanishad (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1924), pp. 95-96 Page 36 higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) - the lower half of mind, life. Matter ...
... of the synthesis of yoga of the Upanishads and the role that these Upanishad, have played in the development of the true genius of Inc One should, of course, study Sri Aurobindo's comment on the Isha Upanishad and Kena Upanishad, in order understand the meaning of the Upanishads in a new illuminating light. This book aims at providing to the reader a bi introduction to the real object of the Yogic ...
... Pupil. The four aims of life have been illustrated with the help of contents from the following books: Page 683 Aim Book (i) Integral aim of life Isha Upanishad and the drama written by the Mother Ascent to Truth (ii) Cosmic terrestrial aim of life Essay on Philosophy of Life in the Discovery of India by Jawaharlal ...
... p. 891-5. 19 Ibid., pp. 895-7. 20 Katha Upanishad, U.I.5. 21 Brahmāndvalli of Taittiriya Upanishad, chapters I - V. 22 Mundaka Upanishad, IL1.2 and 10. 23 Vide., Isha Upanishad, 16. 24 BG, VII.5. 25 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 20, p.283. Page 90 26 Ibid., Letters on Yoga, Vol. 22, pp. 282-4 ...
... brahmacharya (example of Dayananda Saraswati). Study of passages from Plato, particularly from the Apology and The Republic. Study of passages from the Upanishads, particularly Isha Upanishad Contemplation on the concept of "Universals". Topic for deep study and reflection:' 'What is my role in the world?" Reflection: What is the aim of learning languages? How to enrich ...
... brahmacharya (example of Dayananda Saraswati). 2. Study of passages from Plato, particularly from the Apology and The Republic. 3. Study of passages from the Upanishads, particularly Isha Upanishad. 4. Contemplation on the concept of "Universals". 5. Topic for deep study and reflection: "What is my role in the world?" 6. Reflection: (a) What is the aim of learning languages ...
... The Foundations of Indian Culture, 'Arya', Dec. 1918 Jan. 1921 1953 On the Veda, 'Arya', August 1914 -July 1916 1956 Hymns to the Mystic Fire 1946 Isha Upanishad (Sanskrit text with English translation and notes) 'Arya', August 1914 - May 1915 1921 Eight Upanishads (Sanskrit text with English translation and notes) 1953 ...
... conscious force keeps HimseIf concealed. It is under that secret Impulse that the creation moves. It is this Fire that gives Nachiketas his ultimate realisation. We may say, in the words of the Isha Upanishad, that first, by virtue of the second boon, he crosses beyond death by the knowledge of the Ignorance; next, by his third boon, he wins Immortality on mastering the supreme Knowledge. This is the ...
... conscious force keeps Himself concealed. It is under that secret Impulse that the creation moves. It is this Fire that gives Nachiketas his ultimate realisation. We may say, in the words of the Isha Upanishad, that first, by virtue of the second boon, he crosses beyond death by the knowledge of the Ignorance; next, by his third boon, he wins Immortality on mastering the supreme Knowledge. This is the ...
... and mental—Bhur, Bhuvar and Swar—including the highest mind regions. I wanted to explain other things also but at present the whole matter remains pending. SATYENDRA: Why did you take up the Isha Upanishad? SRI AUROBINDO: Because it agreed with my line of sadhana and experience. SATYENDRA: So many paths have been tried and I believe the other Yogas also have some truth. SRI AUROBINDO: Why ...
... that of Shankara or the Buddha. Our aim is to accept the world and its activities and yet not be bound by it, to go beyond it, in fact. Tyaktena bhuñjītāh, enjoyment through renunciation, as the Isha Upanishad puts it. My aim was the independence of my motherland, not yogic realisation. When it became clear to me that the pursuit of Yoga could bring various occult powers within man's reach, I decided ...
... × Entretiens, 5.28.1958 × Isha Upanishad, 12:67 × Gopi Upanishad × ...
... him to break his fast, "In this Purusha (i.e. in me) there are many desires running in various directions. I am full of many diseases (maladies of the mind). I shall not eat.” ¹ In the Isha Upanishad we have, however; "Lust not after anyone's possession," Page 220 (3) In the Kathopanishad Yama says to Nachiketa, "Hardly ...
... × Savitri, V.3.407 × Isha Upanishad, 12:65 × Vishnu Parana, VI.L28-30 ...
... the infrarational level but finds its fulfilment only at the suprarational or supramental level; and reason is the necessary realm between, though not the secure resting place. Even * Cf. Isha Upanishad: "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight." Page 477 in a predominantly infrarational period ...
... or Shakti in itself which I have got already, but knowledge and Shakti established in the same physical self and directed to my work in life. "... I am now busy with an explanation of the Isha Upanishad in twelve chapters. I am at the eleventh now and will finish in a few days. Afterwards I shall begin the second part of the series and send it to you when finished. "I have also begun but ...
... nākasya pṛṣṭhe , which is the supreme stride or supreme seat of the all-pervading deity. Vishnu is the wide-moving one. He is that which has gone abroad—as it is put in the language of the Isha Upanishad, sa paryagāt ,—triply extending himself as Seer, Thinker and Former, in the superconscient Bliss, in the heaven of mind, in the earth of the physical consciousness, tredhā vicakramāṇaḥ . ...
... between the true & the false. Fulfilled, to be perfected. (7) April 12ṭḥ. See explanation. In course of fulfilment. The sortilege of Mar 31 remains unfulfilled even in its beginnings. Isha Upanishad translated with notes. A period of progressive fulfilment has been indicated from day before yesterday. There are some signs of its fulfilment. The basis of the triloka has been formed. In the ...
... (Gr. πύλƞ ) door, gate, पुर्, पुरः, पुरी front, wall, fortified town, Gr. IIύλος, πóλɩς) etc. एव in later Sanscrit means "indeed", giving emphasis, or has a limiting and restricting sense, eg Isha Upanishad कुर्वन्नेव कर्माणि, "Thou shalt verily do actions (and not refrain from them)." But in old Sanscrit its original force was that of एवम्, so, this, thus; and then "and, also" In the latter sense ...
... in Tamil which means mind. But from the sense "to do", क्रतु means (1) work, (2) power of work, strength, cf Grk. kratos, strength, (3) will or working force of the mind. For this last sense, cf Isha Upanishad क्रतो कृतं स्मर where the collocation क्रतो कृतं shows that that power of the mind is meant which conducts or dictates the work or action. Agni is the divine Seer-Will that works with the perfect ...
... [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors Foreword As the Isha Upanishad is concerned with the problem of God & the world and consequently with the harmonising of spirituality & ordinary human action, so the Kena is occupied with the problem of God & the Soul and the ...
... original question. The Truth behind Mind, Life, Sense Page 23 must be that which controls by exceeding it; it is the Lord, the all-possessing Deva. This was the conclusion at which the Isha Upanishad arrived by the synthesis of all existences; the Kena arrives at it by the antithesis of one governing self-existence to all this that exists variously by another power of being than its own. Each ...
... the Eternal with the Transient, the Transcendent with the Phenomenal, the One with the Many, are what we have first to study. Chapter II: The Brahman in His Universe Three verses of the Isha Upanishad describe directly the Brahman & His relations with the Universe, the [fourth] and [fifth:] Anejad ekaṁ manaso javīyo nainad devā āpnuvan pūrvam arṣat Tad dhāvato 'nyān atyeti tiṣṭhat tasminn ...
... adorability of Surya-Agni, Indra and a host of other deities; yet not polytheistic, because they regard them as only powers and names & personalities of the one Brahman. Thus it is possible for the Isha Upanishad to open with the idea of the indwelling God, Isha vasyam jagat, to continue with the idea of the containing Brahman, Tasminn apo Matariswa dadhati, and at the same time to assert the world, the ...
... The Life Divine [Draft B] Isha Upanishad Chapter V: The Soul, Causality and Law of Nature. [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors What then of this causality that we see everywhere? What then of this law and fixed process in all ...
... the Revels looses Himself when we have given Him and ourselves the intended and perfect satisfaction. It is in the spirit of this knowledge that the hymns of the Rigveda have been written. The Isha Upanishad is the Upanishad of the Rigveda and it is there that its spiritual foundations are revealed. To make of Avidya a bridge to immortality and of Vidya the means of keeping our grasp on immortality ...
... Destiny of the Individual By the Ignorance they cross beyond Death and by the Knowledge enjoy Immortality.... By the Non-Birth they cross beyond Death and by the Birth enjoy Immortality. Isha Upanishad. (Verses 11, 14.) An omnipresent Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether ...
... one logical criterion of Reality, for Reality for him is not of the nature of logical truth. It is a living whole and transcendent which escapes completely the net of a circumscribing logic. The Isha Upanishad is a case in this point for Sri Aurobindo. Let us see what Sri Aurobindo has to say. "Synthesis of knowledge, synthesis of dharma, reconciliation of harmony of the opposites form the very ...
... reflect Him who is the shining One; everything shines by his shining.) tad ejati tan naijati tad dure tad u antike/ tad antarasya sarvasya tad u sarvasydsya bahyatah // (Isha Upanishad, 5) (That moves and That does not move; That is far and That is also near; That is inside everything and That also is outside everything.) These lines express the Real not through ...
... descendant of a previous civilisation … Barbarism is an intermediate sleep, not an original darkness …” 26 The following text on this topic by Sri Aurobindo, part of a commentary on the Isha Upanishad, deserves to be quoted extensively. “The Puranic account supposes us to have left behind the last Satya period, the age of harmony, and to be now in a period of enormous breakdown, disintegration ...
... matter ‘nothing moves, apparently, in a formidable Movement’; that vibration there ‘is so fast that it is imperceptible, that it is as it were coagulated [into forms] and immobile. 20 In the Isha Upanishad we find: ‘The Self is one. Unmoving, it moves faster than the mind. The senses lag, but Self runs ahead. Unmoving, it outruns pursuit … Unmoving, it moves; is far away, yet near; within all, outside ...
... Infinite, the Eternal, the Divine is of prime importance and they must see (being "seers"!) that this quest does not suffer by the lure of the Many getting excessive. However, the voice of the Isha Upanishad in tune with that of Sri Aurobindo has to be heard, insisting on a due regard for the apparently finite, temporal, non-divine. According to this voice, exclusive knowledge of the One is, in the ...
... it evoke in the spiritual vision ? Somewhere in the Upanishads there is a phrase with some such suggestion as: "Where there is one, there is no fear: fear comes where there are two." The Isha Upanishad asks about the spiritual seeker in whom the one Self has become all creatures: "How shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief who sees everywhere oneness ?" Evidently the delusion, ...
... ‘a Light that is golden and absolutely immobile, with such an inner intensity of vibration that it cannot be perceived, it escapes all perception.’ 29 In a letter Sri Aurobindo quoted the Isha Upanishad : The One unmoving is swifter than thought, the gods cannot overtake It, for It travels ever in front; It moves and It moves not, It is far away from us and It is very close.’ 30 That motionless ...
... Chapter IV The Divine and the Undivine The Seer, the Thinker, the Self-existent who becomes everywhere has ordered perfectly all things from years sempiternal. Isha Upanishad. (Verse 8.) Many purified by knowledge have come to My state of being.... They have reached likeness in their law of being to Me. Gita. (IV. 10; XIV. 2.) Know That ...
... the cosmic and the Absolute coincides fundamentally with our own; for it implies that the Ignorance too is a half-veiled part of the Knowledge and world-knowledge a part of self-knowledge. The Isha Upanishad insists on the unity and reality of all the manifestations of the Absolute; it refuses to confine truth to any one aspect. Brahman is the stable and the mobile, the internal and the external, all ...
... The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance The Life Divine Chapter III The Eternal and the Individual He am I. Isha Upanishad. (Verse 16.) It is an eternal portion of Me that has become the living being in a world of living beings.... The eye of knowledge sees the Lord abiding in the body and enjoying and going forth from it. ...
... Page 199 × Kavir manīṣī paribhūḥ svayambhūr yāthātathyato'rthān vyadadhāt śāśvatībhyaḥ samābhyaḥ. — Isha Upanishad , Verse 8. × These considerations drawn from recent scientific researches are brought in here ...
... of what is and shall be, has thenceforward no shrinking. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 5.) Whence shall he have grief, how shall he be deluded who sees everywhere the Oneness? Isha Upanishad. (Verse 7.) He who has found the bliss of the Eternal has no fear from any quarter. Taittiriya Upanishad. (II. 9.) The first status of Life we found to be characterised ...
... parārdha and aparārdha . × The Seer, the Thinker, He who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent. — Isha Upanishad , Verse 8. × Turīyaṁ svid , "a certain Fourth", also called turīyaṁ dhāma , the fourth placing ...
... Chapter XVII The Divine Soul He whose self has become all existences, for he has the knowledge, how shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief, he who sees everywhere oneness? Isha Upanishad. (Verse 7.) By the conception we have formed of the Supermind, by its opposition to the mentality on which our human existence is based, we are able not only to form a precise instead ...
... kevalair indriyair. Gita. × na karma lipyate nare. Isha Upanishad. × pravilīyante karmāṇi. Gita. ...
... Goddess of Learning; Vishnu and Rudra of the Vedas are now the supreme Godhead, members of a divine Triad and expressive separately of conservative and destructive process in the cosmos. In the Isha Upanishad we find an appeal to Surya as a God of revelatory knowledge by whose action we can arrive at the highest truth. This, too, is his function in the sacred Vedic formula of the Gayatri which was for ...
... defect is removed, the Power will be perfect, like the Knowledge. The karmasiddhi will now begin in sahitya, dharma, kriti, sri, not yet káma. Sahitya — Rig-Veda—reading only— Vedanta—Isha Upanishad Commentary (The Life Divine), Brihad Aranyaka, translation. Philology—Dictionary. Vowel Roots, Origins of Aryan Speech. Poetry—Ilion, Eric, Idylls of Earth & Heaven. Bhasha—Sanscrit, French ...
... compassing an entirely flawless expression at the first thought. Rodogune, in its final form is completed & only needs a slight revision correcting an inconsiderable number of expressions. Today the Isha Upanishad will be resumed & steadily pursued till it is completed in a perfect form. Farther rewriting will be unnecessary. Page 108 15 November 1912 The fulfilment of yesterday's predictions ...
... s of knowledge, force and joy. × The One, the Deva veiled by his form of the divine Sun. Cf. Isha Upanishad, "That splendour which is thy fairest form, O Sun, that let me behold. The Purusha who is there and there. He am I." × ...
... interpretation are there to prove it as well as the constant appeal of the Upanishads to Vedic riks or Vedic symbols taken in a psychological and spiritual sense, eg, the four closing verses of the Isha Upanishad. Hermes, Athena represent in classical mythology psychical functions, but were originally Nature gods, Athena probably a dawn goddess. I contend that Usha in the Veda shows us this transmutation ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad V Third Movement [2] Knowledge and Ignorance Verses 9-11 9) Into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Ignorance, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Knowledge alone. 10) Other, verily, it is said, is that which comes by the Knowledge, other that which comes by the Ignorance; this ...
... Analysis Isha Upanishad I First Movement The Inhabiting Godhead: Life and Action Verses 1-3 1) All this is for habitation by the Lord, whatsoever is individual universe of movement in the universal motion. By that renounced thou shouldst enjoy; lust not after any man's possession. 2) Doing verily works in this world one should wish to live a hundred ...
... Isha Upanishad The Secret of the Isha It is now several thousands of years since men ceased to study Veda and Upanishad for the sake of Veda or Upanishad. Ever since the human mind in India, more & more intellectualised, always increasingly addicted to the secondary process of knowledge by logic & intellectual ratiocination, increasingly drawn away ...
... × Mandukya Upanishad : The Self is the Brahman. × Isha Upanishad. × samagraṁ mām. ...
... nevertheless do thou act in the world as God intended thee. 306) Three times God laughed at Shankara, first, when he returned to burn the corpse of his mother, again when he commented on the Isha Upanishad and the third time when he stormed about India preaching inaction. Page 463 307) Men labour only after success and if they are fortunate enough to fail, it is because the wisdom and ...
... 4. Late 1920s to early 1930s. 5. Circa 1912. Heading: "Ishavasyam". On the next two pages of the same notebook is written a fragmentary commentary on the Isha Upanishad. The present piece clearly is related to that commentary. 6. Arya period (1914-21). 7. Circa 1928-29. 8. Late 1920s to early 1930s ...
... secret names of the gods. Shankaracharya recognised this truth so perfectly that he uses the gods and the Page 177 senses as equivalent terms in his great commentary. Finally in the Isha Upanishad,—itself a part of the White Yajur Veda and a work, as I have shown elsewhere, full of the most lofty & deep Vedantic truth, in which the eternal problems of human existence are briefly proposed ...
... half I understand uncertainly and at second hand a large portion, and, certainly and perfectly, a lesser portion more or less considerable.” If we dwell a little upon the eighteen verses of the Isha Upanishad,—one of the briefest, simplest and plainest of these Scriptures,—we shall soon realise how little we have really understood. We understand of the first three slokas what Shankara Page 83 ...
... they were evidently not the stones chosen. 5 September 1936 The Mother's prayer of 12 December 1914 begins: "Il faut à chaque instant savoir tout perdre pour tout gagner" [p. 311]. The Isha Upanishad says: "tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ". To gain all by losing all comes to the same thing as to enjoy by renouncing. Both ideas seem to have the same source in the depths. Yes, certainly. It is ...
... first part which gives the path, not the objects or the circumstances. If you print it, print it as the first of a series, with the subtitle, the Path. I am now busy with an explanation of the Isha Upanishad in twelve chapters; I am at the eleventh now and will finish in a few days. Afterwards I shall begin the second part of the series & send it to you when finished. I have also begun, but on a ...
... Master of Death, O child of God, dissipate thy beams, gather inward thy light; so shall I behold that splendour, thy goodliest form of all. For the Spirit who is there and there, He am I. The Isha Upanishad. × MS (typed) territorial ...
... Facsimiles of the Mother's Handwriting in Various Languages The following eight pages contains examples of the Mother's handwriting in these languages: Sanskrit (Isha Upanishad, with French translation) Hebrew Phoenician Chinese Japanese Bengali Page 223 Page 224 Page 225 Page 226 ...
... Ashram that he found it extremely important) - The Ideal of Human Unity - The Synthesis of Yoga (which expounds all the past Yogas and goes on to the Yoga of Self-Perfection) -Commentaries on the Isha Upanishad and the Kena Upanishad - The Future Poetry & Letters on Poetry, Art, Literature. These books have the rare quality of literary charm on top of profound thought. Coming to the wonderful M ...
... there are many things I do not know or understand, and that I MAY BE WRONG. I shall be delighted to receive your book on Mallarme. It has not yet reached me. I had forgotten that the Isha Upanishad by Sri Aurobindo had in fact been your gift and had indeed thought it must have been an old friend who died some years ago who had possessed it with other books of hers I inherited at her death ...
... itself, albeit obscurely in its depths, to be the Lord, the divine Enjoyer, bhoktā maheśvara ḥ , for whose food this whole world has 1 Aitareya Upanishad, I .2. 2 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 24. 3 Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, p. 575. Page 247 been brought into being, annabhūtamidaṁ jagat. And this being so, "a physical, vital, moral, mental increase ...
... Savitri, Book X, Canto III, p. 629) Death is the constant denial by the All of the ego's false self-limitation in the individual frame of mind, life and body. (Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, p. 103) It was the conditions of matter upon earth that have made death indispensable. The whole sense of the evolution of Matter has been a growth from a first state of unconsciousness ...
... the divine Ideation. When that is removed, sight replaces mental thought, the all-embracing truth-ideation, Manas, Veda, D ṛṣ ti, replaces the fragmentary mental activity." (Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, pp. 166-67.) 32. Rig-Veda, X. 37-8. 33. Rig-Veda, I. 50-10. Page 137 ...
... (example of Dayananda Saraswati). 2. Study of passages from Plato, particularly from (he Apology and The Republic. 3. Study of passages from the Upanishads, particularly Isha Upanishad. 4. Contemplation on the concept of "Universals". 5. Topic for deep study and reflection: "What is my role in the world?" 6. Reflection: (a) What is the aim. ...
... ________ 1 Rig Veda. l 10.1,2 2 Rig Veda, V. 15 3 Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.20, p.2 4 Isha Upanishad, 6,7 5 Distinguishing features of spirituality are the following: (a) awakening to the inner reality of our being, to a spirit, Self, Soul, which is other than our mind, life and body; ...
... LifeDivine, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.18, pp.21-22 13. Ibid., Collected Poems, Vol.5, 1971, p.134 14. Ibid., The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol.20, pp.401-2 15. Isha Upanishad, 6,7. 16. Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.21, p.545 17. Ibid., p.579 18. Ibid., The Life Divine, Vol.19, p.774 19 ...
... of no or little significance in the pursuit of Knowledge. There is, however, a reference in the Upanishads where the words Knowledge and Ignorance had less trenchant opposition. We have in the Isha Upanishad the following three verses: "Into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Ignorance, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Knowledge alone." "Other ...
... the balanced synthesis of the yoga of the triple path, each is a mean, and each is an end; all are complementary, and all unite in a complex harmony. Works do not bind the doer, that is what the Isha Upanishad had declared. And the Gita reiterates it with an expanded emphasis: "And by doing all actions always lodged in Me, he attains by My grace the eternal and imperishable status." 77 In that state ...
... Record of Yoga-II 12 Essays Divine and Human 13 Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 14 Vedic Studies 15 The Secret of the Veda 16 Hymns to the Mystic Fire 17 Isha Upanishad 18 Kena and Other Upanishads 19 Essays on the Gita 20 The Renaissance in India 21 The Life Divine -1 11 The Life Divine -11 23 The Synthesis of Yoga -1 ...
... for the Arya. These were: The Life Divine — August 1914 to January 1919 The Synthesis of Yoga — August 1914 to January 1921 The Secret of the Veda — August 1914 to July 1916 Isha Upanishad — August 1914 to May 1915 Kena Upanishad — June 1915 to July 1916 The Ideal of Human Unity — September 1915 to July 1918 Essays on the Gita (First Series) — August 1916 to July 1918 ...
... spiritual and material utility. 'Kurvanneva iha karmani jijivishet shatam samah', (one should aspire to live a hundred years while performing actions here itself) that is what is declared by the Isha Upanishad, which is the most compact enunciation of the quintessence of the Upanishadic teaching. The same insistence on action is to be found in the Gita where Sri Krishna expounds his greatest gospel ...
... are manifested, lead us by the good path to the felicity; remove from us the devious attraction of sin. To thee completest speech of submission we would dispose."²) This last utterance of the Isha Upanishad derives from a mantra in the Rigveda. Rishi Agastya begins his Agni Sukta (Hymns to the Mystic Fire) (1.189) with this mantra. Thus the Upanishads have made liberal use of innumerable Vedic mantras ...
... possess the All at the same time. Conflict is nothing else but each one trying to eliminate all others. When one possesses the All in consciousness, one does not run after things. That is what the Isha Upanishad says: "Then all this becomes fit habitation for the Lord." When one realizes that whatever movement of the cosmic energy takes place is a movement of that supreme, all-governing, Infinite Power ...
... silence lonelier? — Ahana. "Or his soul dream shut in sainthood's brilliant cell Where only a bright shadow of God can come". —Book VII, Canto 4. Compare for a similar idea Isha Upanishad: "A denser darkness they (enter) who get entangled in Vidya alone" "And found herself amid great figures of gods Conscious in stone and living without breath, Compare: ...
... Publishing House, Calcutta, 1941). Hymns to the Mystic Fire (Ashram, 2nd Edition, 1952). On the Veda (Ashram, 1956). Eight Upanishads (Ashram, 1953). Isha Upanishad (Ashram, 1951). Kena Upanishad (Ashram, 1952). Essays on the Gita (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Library Inc., New York, 1950) The Foundations of Indian Culture (Sri ...
... draw them together; let me see the Lustre, thy most blessed form of all. Isha Upanishad I Introduction It was on 15 August 1946, when Sri Aurobindo was seventy-four, that the opening canto of Savitri was first published. 1 The title-page ...
... synthesis,' which validates and explains the realisation of each of the three Vedantic schools, and fuses them all into its manifold comprehensiveness. According to Sri Aurobindo, there, ¹"Isha" Upanishad by Sri Aurobindo. Page 54 are three poises of the creative Supermind. "The first founds the inalienable unity of things, the second modifies that unity so as to support the man ...
... is the ground of understanding? Where is the true source of the divers activities of the mind, life-force, * The reader is also referred to C.C. Dutt's article on 'Sri Aurobindo and the Isha Upanishad' in Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 2 (1943). Page 461 speech and the sensory faculties? The power of thinking - of nervous life-energy - of speech - of sensory cognition is ...
... were beginning to "influence the life and practice of America and Europe". And Vedanta didn't mean a flight from life, and Yoga wasn't simply a series of exercises: "Abandon all," says the Isha Upanishad, "that thou mayest enjoy all, neither covet any man's possession. But verily do thy deeds in this world and wish to live thy hundred years...." It is an error to think that the heights of religion ...
... primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last,- God, Light, Freedom, Immortality. 8 The same issue carried the first instalments of The Secret of the Veda , Isha Upanishad and The Synthesis of Yoga , as also Paul Richard's The Eternal Wisdom and The Wherefore of the Worlds . "The world to-day presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things ...
... 629, 696, 793, 842 The Life Divine 39, 101, 103,110,119-20,152,182,198, 214, 324, 370, 389, 408-9, 417, 468, 548, 650, 653-4, 656, 664ff, 667, 672, 680, 682, 793, 830 Kena Upanishad 101 Isha Upanishad 101, 110 The Secret of the Veda 101, 110, 119 The Human Cycle 182, 198, 548 The Ideal of Human Unity 182, 198, 385, 487, 548, 573, 685 The Future Poetry 182, 198, 203, 491 Uttarpara Speech ...
... of the Arya were as follows: The Life Divine The Wherefore of the Worlds The Secret of the Veda a) The Problem and its Solution b) Selected Hymns Annotated Texts - Isha Upanishad The Synthesis of Yoga The Eternal Wisdom Varieties - The Soul of a Plant The Question of the Month The News of the Month We find that Sri Aurobindo started in the Arya ...
... javīyo nainaddevā āpnuvan pūrvamarṣat, taddhāvato'anyānatyeti tiṣṭhat tasminnapo mātariśvā dadhāti. 4 yastu sarvāṇi bhūtāni ātmanyevānupaśyati, sarvabhūteṣu cātmānaṁ tato na vijugupsate. 6 Isha Upanishad 1 , 4 , 6 All this is for habitation by the Lord, whatsoever is individual universe of movement in the universal motion. By that renouncedthou shouldst enjoy; lust not after any man's ...
... Does that amount to saying they are not moving at all? Perhaps the right way of putting it is that they are moving as if a stillness and an immobility were on the move. This reminds me of the Isha Upanishad's declarations: ."One unmoving that is swifter than Mind, That the Gods reach not, for It progresses ever in front. That, standing, passes beyond others as they run.... That moves and That moves... within all this and That also is outside all this." Yes, such would be the true report of the life here and of its seekings and its arrivals. But let me whisper in your ear - or, as the Upanishad would say, in the Ear behind your ear - that life in the Ashram would be a little brighter if a certain face with a notable nose and a certain head with the surprising hair-do of a Roman Senator were ...
... it remains near the earth, they say. The Guru's power can materialise the subtle body more easily. Sometimes another force can take up a vital form. 1 Sri Aurobindo has often emphasised the Isha Upanishad's parallel passage: The face of the truth is covered with the brlliant golden lid: O fostering Sun, that uncover for the law of the truth, for sight. O Fosterer, O Sole Rishi, O Controlling Yama... Veda is in everybody's heart. PURANI: You are quoting Sri Aurobindo to himself. (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: The Upanishads came after the Vedas and they put in more plain language the same truth that was in the Veda. In the Veda it is in symbolic language. But the Upanishads, of course, are equally great. Even in the Veda there are passages which clearly show that the Vedantic or Upanishadic... is the One: I have seen the Supreme Godhead of the embodied gods." It is clear that this refers to the Vedantic truth. Similarly the Upanishads speak of the Sun, Surya, and Fire, Agni, which are Vedic symbols, and the significance of these expressions in the Upanishads is the same as in the Veda.1 SATYENDRA: The Europeans can't imagine that the Vedic Rishis were so advanced in those primitive times ...
... my own and they point in the same direction in general as the end of your latest letter to me. "Love" was the cry of your being, love for the universal as well as the transcendent "That" of the Isha Upanishad's ending. This "That" is hit off in a slightly different but essentially similar vein by those two verses in Savitri: Page 141 The triune being who is all and one And yet is no... actually nothing in Savitri which looks philosophical is coin of the speculative intellect: everything carries the stab of revelation and presents a pull towards realisation. If I may use some words of the Isha-quotation, "That is far and the same is near." It seems a vision gleaming in the distance, but the living language which conveys it makes us feel it like a truth already embodied by the one who has ...
... his residence at 9, rue du Val de Grace, where 1'Idee, her group of seekers, continues to meet. 1912-14 Translates (from English) parts of Buddhist texts, the Amritabindu, Kaivalya and Isha Vasya Upanishads, the Narada Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and some of the sayings of Sri Ramakrishna. 1912 May 7 Speaks of the work to be done: To become conscious of and unite with the Divine Presence; to ...
... or manifestation of God. The emanation does not exist in the same way as That from which it derives, but it has an essential unity with it behind its phenomenal appearance. Here, too, as the Isha Upanishad's invocation quoted by you (p. 18) says - 'That is full, this is full. The full comes out of the full. Taking the full from the full, the full itself remains' - God essentially remains unchanged... a Supramentalised physical. I did not learn the idea from Veda or Upanishad and I do not know if there is anything of the kind there. What Page 50 I received about the Supermind was a direct, not a derived knowledge given to me; it was only, afterwards that I found certain confirmatory revelations in the Upanishad and Veda." 3 Mark the turns: "a new evolution" - and "a direct... the Supermind. The "certain confirmatory revelations in the Upanishad and Veda" allude to general hints or glimpses, almost by the way or at best in a kind of broad background. They could not be anything else since the concrete conscious possession of the Veda's satyam ritam brihat ("the true, the right, the vast") and of the Upanishads' vijnana or prajna would bring the knowledge and the force ...
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