... Gods — devanam Prathamah, to Atharvan, he to Angir, Angir to Satyavaha the Bhardwaja, or Angiras in the Mundaka Upanishad or as Uma Haimavati, the Divine Mother who knows the Supreme, in the Kena Upanishad. "Arise, awake, find out the great ones and learn from them; for sharp as a razor's edge, hard to Page 21 traverse, difficult of going is that path, say the sages." 26 This is what... One who becomes everywhere, Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal". 34 Of this mysterious and hardly knowable Reality, the Rishi of the Kena Upanishad speaks as follows: "If thou thinkest that thou knowest It well, little indeed dost thou know the form of the Brahman. That of It which is thou, that of It which is in the Gods, this thou hast... Self-Being that has become all existences that are Becomings, ' for he has the Perfect knowledge, how shall he be deluded, whence sha11 he have grief who sees everywhere oneness?" 43 In the Kena Upanishad, we have a parable that describes Page 29 the process of passage from Ignorance to Knowledge. Three powers in the physical, vital and mental being, symbolised as Agni, Vayu and Indra ...
... into the supramental man and from that stage into the divine man, daivyam janam, to use the Vedic term Page 22 Illustration of other Methods of Yogic Quest: Kena Upanishad The Kena Upanishad speaks of two methods, when it states, "That of It which is thou, that of It which is in the gods, this thou hast to think out. I think It known".15 The means of knowledge are... joy of something which is cosmic and beyond themselves. What happens then is that the Ultimate Reality, the divine unnamable reflects Himself openly in the cosmic powers or in the gods. As the Kena Upanishad states, "When It is known by perception that reflects It, then one has the thought of It, for one finds immortality ........ 16 The light of the Supreme takes possession of the thinking... of the Eternal silence, which is Brahman; at the same time responses of their functionings to superconscient light, power, joy will manifest the eternal activity, which is also Brahman. As the Kena Upanishad points out, "Now this is the indication of That — as is this flash of the lightning upon us or as is this falling of the eyelid, so in that which is of the gods."17 There is also another method ...
... expressed, know that indeed to be the Brahman..." (na tatra cak ṣ ur gacchati na v ā g gacchati no mano... yad v ā c ā nabhyudita ṁ yena v ā g abhyudyate tadeva brahma tva ṁ viddhi...) (Kena Upanishad, 3, 4: Sri Aurobindo's translation.) "The man who findeth God loseth his speech.... Only the Unconscious knoweth this Consciousness." (Man a'rafa Rab-ba-h ū kal-l ā les ā nuh ū .... Mahram... and the sublimest heights of the Rishi's being and consciousness, that proceeds to the inevitable realisation of the truth it symbolises. 92.St. John, I. 1. 93.Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad (1952 ed.), p. 39. 94. Rig-Veda, XI, 81.7. 95. Ibid., X. 114.8. 96. Ibid., I. 164. 45. 97. Ibid., I. 164, 45. 98.The vaikhari v ā k of the Tantrik lore... creation of the world? Surely not: for a fuller acquaintance with the esoteric theory of sound and speech, the reader may be referred to the Commentary V (pages 35 to 41) of Sri Aurobindo's Kena Upanishad. We content ourselves with offering our readers only a few points along with a few citations taken from the above text. The Upanishads speak of Brahman as being 'the Speech of our speech' ...
... Vol. 10, 1971, p.480). " Vide., Kena Upanishad, IV.6. 12 RV.,VI.8.5. 13 Taittiriya Upanishad, Bhriguvalli, Ch. I. Page 104 14 Vide., Ibid., Ch. 1.10. 15 Kena Upanishad, 11.1. 16 Ibid., 11.4. 17 Ibid.,IV4. 18 Ibid., IV5. 19 Taittiriya Upanishad, Brahmānandavalli, Ch. IX. 20 Kena Upanishad, IV.6. 21 Vide., Katha Upanishad... 23 Ibid., 1.2.1-3. 24 Ibid., 1.2.4-8. 25 Ibid., 1.2.9. 26 Ibid., I.I.28. 27 Ibid., I.2.12. 28 Ibid., 1.2.11. 29 Ibid., 1.2.15. 30 Ibid., II.3.10-16. 31 Kena Upanishad, II.4, 5. 32 Katha Upanishad, 1.3.11,12. 33 Ibid., 1.3.10, 11. 34 Vide., Ibid., II.2.1-2. 35 Ibid., II.2.3-8. 36 Vide., Ibid., 11.1,11.2,11.3. 37 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 Sri Aurobindo, The Upanishads, Vol.12, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, pp.226-7. Page 106 ...
... versions of his translation of and commentary on the Kena Upanishad was not known. The unrevised Arya versions were published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram as Kena Upanishad in 1952, and included in the same publisher's Eight Upanishads in 1953. The revised translation (but unrevised commentary) first appeared in the second edition of Kena Upanishad in 1970. The same texts were reproduced in The... Incomplete Commentaries on the Kena Upanishad (circa 1912-1914) Kena Upanishad: An Incomplete Commentary. Circa 1912. Editorial subtitle. Sri Aurobindo wrote only the "foreword" and portions of one "part" of this planned commentary before abandoning it. It was first published in The Upanishads in 1971. A Commentary on the Kena Upanishad: Foreword. Circa 1912. This... Aurobindo's translations of three Upanishads, the Kena, Katha and Mundaka, and commentaries on the Kena and parts of the Taittiriya. Page 439 The Kena Upanishad . Sri Aurobindo first translated the Kena Upanishad in Baroda around 1900. (This translation forms part of a typewritten manuscript, hereafter referred to as TMS, which Sri Aurobindo entitled "The Upanishads rendered into ...
... Incomplete Commentaries on the Kena Upanishad (Circa 1912-1914) Kena and Other Upanishads A Commentary on the Kena Upanishad [........] - word(s) lost through damage to the manuscript (at the beginning of a piece, sometimes indicates that a page or pages of the manuscript have been lost) [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through... refer its activities to that highest Self and Deity which [we] ultimately are, so that we may be free and great, may be pure and joyous, be fulfilled and immortal,—this is the governing aim of the Kena Upanishad. I propose in my commentary to follow with some minuteness & care the steps by which the Upanishad develops its aim, to bring out carefully the psychological ideas on which the ancient system was ...
... Incomplete Commentaries on the Kena Upanishad (Circa 1912-1914) Kena and Other Upanishads Three Fragments of Commentary [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 two words of the Kena, like the first two words of the... prathamah—the epithet is used to indicate the essential life force as distinct from the particular life-functions called in Vedantic psycho-physics the five pranas. Page 313 The Kena Upanishad is remarkable for its omissions. It omits to tell us what in relation to the transcendent & immanent Brahman this mind, life, sense activity really are. It omits even to mention one tattwa which... which one would think as important as mind, life & sense-activity—there is no least reference to matter. These omissions are remarkable; they are also significant. The Sage of the Kena Upanishad has a distinct object in view; he has selected a particular province of knowledge. He is careful not to admit anything which does not bear upon that object or to overstep the strict limits of that province. Matter ...
... of all, it is emphasized that this consciousness is to be attained, while one is still in the body. This emphasis is identical with that which is to be found explicitly and emphatically in the Kena Upanishad, where also the Brahman consciousness is expounded. It states: "If here one comes to that knowledge, then one truly is; if, however, one comes not to the knowledge, then great is the perdition... Brahman exists all about them, encompasses them, and they already live in it because they Page 92 have knowledge of the Self. Once again, this is a reaffirmation of the statement in the Kena Upanishad 90 where the Brahman consciousness is described as "tad vanam”, the transcendent Delight the all-blissful ananda of which the Taittriya Upanishad speaks as the highest Brahman from which all... existences arrive in their passing out of death and birth. It is this beatitude which has been meant by the immortality in the Upanishads, and by knowing and possessing Brahman as the supreme ananda, Kena Upanishad affirms, one becomes the knower and possessor of the Brahman and towards Him the desire of all creatures is directed. In other words, he becomes a centre of the Divine delight shedding it on all ...
... Upanishad closes with the aspiration towards the supreme felicity. The Kena Upanishad is also concerned with the state of Immortality, it is also concerned with Ignorance and Knowledge with the relationship between the divine consciousness and the world and human consciousness. Like the Īśa Upanishad, the Kena Upanishad also closes with the definition of Brahman as the Delight and the injunction... most, since they reflected more closely the yoga of the Veda. These Upanishads are Brihadāranyaka Upanishad, Chhāndogya Upanishad, Taittirīya Upanishad, Aitareya Upanishad, Kausītaki Upanishad, Kena Upanishad, Katha Upanishad, Īśa Upanishad, Mundaka Upanishad, Praśna Upanishad, Māndūkya Upanishad, and Svetāśvatara Upanishad. The one common subject of all these Upanishads is brahma-vidyā, the highest... plenitude and noble catholicity the integral vision of the Brahman, and therefore, we find in the Upanishads the door of escape from any overemphasis in its own statement of the truth. As the Kena Upanishad points out, the man who knows and possesses the supreme Brahman as the transcendent Beatitude becomes a centre of that delight to which all his fellows shall come as to a well from which they can ...
... Incomplete Commentaries on the Kena Upanishad (Circa 1912-1914) Kena and Other Upanishads Kena Upanishad: An Incomplete Commentary [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... actions to the high universal Self & Deity which we all are in the ultimate truth of our being—so that we may be free, may be pure & joyous, may be immortal, that is the object of the seer in the Kena Upanishad. Briefly to explain the steps by which he develops and arrives at his point and the principal philosophical positions underlying his great argument, is as always the purpose of this commentary... Therefore each word, as we proceed, must be given its due importance. We must consider its place in the thought and discover the ideas of which it was the spoken symbol. The opening phrase of the Kena Upanishad, keneshitam patati preshitam manah, is an example of this constant necessity. The Sage is describing not the mind in its entirety, but that action of it which he has found the most characteristic ...
... that our present body-bound energy can command. It is then in the direct and unlimited tapping of this Life-Energy 1 2 Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad, p. 84. 3 The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 837. 4 Kena Upanishad, p. 84. 5 The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 704. 6 The Mother as quoted by Nolini Kanta Gupta in The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo (Part Eight), p. 97... energy, but rather a different principle supporting Matter and involved in it." 4 1 See the discussion in Chapter X. 2 3 Words of the Mother, p. 203. 4 Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad, p. 84. Page 302 (ii)This universal Prana, "supports and occupies all forms and without it no physical form could have come into be ng or could remain in being." 1 ... all circumstances from the limitless source of [this] omnipotent energy in its luminous purity, ... fatigue, exhaustion, illness, age and even death become mere 1 Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad, p. 89. 2 Words of the Mother, p. 204. Page 304 obstacles on the way which a steady will is sure to surmount." 1 It is then in the opening up of our physical ...
... Sachchidananda. Page 69 19 RV, IV.50; Brihaspati becomes Brahma in the Puranic tradition. 20 RV, 1.154. 21 RV, 1.170.1; Compare the description of the Supreme in the Kena Upanishad, and Katha Upanishad. 22 RV, 1.71.2. 23 RV, 1.72.9. 24 RV. 1V.l. 17-18. 25 Rv,1v.2.19 26 Katha Upanishad 3.1.14. 27 Ibid. 2.1.23; Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.3. 28 katha... 1.24. 29 Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.4. 30 katha Upanishad 2.1.1-13. 31 Mandukya Upunishad 3-7. 32 See Kaivalya Upanishad I. 33Isha Upanishad 5. 34 Ibid.8. 35 Kena Upanishad 11.1. 2. 36 See Shwashwatara Upanishad V.20. See also VI. 1,7,8,11: "It is the might of the Godhead in the world that turns the wheel of Brahman. Him one must know, the supreme lord of all... the Taittiriya Upanishad. 38 Katha Upanishad 2.3.7-8. 39 Ibid. 1.3.5,7. Page 70 40 Ibid. 1.2.5,6. 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 ...
... A revised version was included in Eight Upanishads (See 18). The Upanishads, Vol. 12 39 . KENA UPANISHAD Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952 Revised Edition, 1970 A translation of the Kena Upanishad first appeared in the Karmayogin, June 26, 1909. A new translation with a commentary appeared in the Arya, June 1915 to July 1916... Karmayogin, June 26, 1909; another translation with notes in the Arya, June 1916, followed by a commentary in subsequent issues. This later translation and commentary were published as Kena Upanishad in 1952 (See 39). A revised version was issued in 1970. Katha: Translation in the Karmayogin, July 3, 1909 and July 31 to August 28, 1909. Later came out as Katha ...
... Incomplete Commentaries on the Kena Upanishad (Circa 1912-1914) Kena and Other Upanishads Kena Upanishad: A Partial Translation with Notes I 1) By whom willed falleth the Mind when it is sent on its mission? By whom yoked goeth forth the primal Breath? By whom controlled is this Speech that men utter? What God yokes the vision 1 and the hearing ...
... × Kena Upanishad , I. 3. × Other is That than the Known; also it is above the Unknown. — Kena Upanishad , I. 3. × ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads I The Subject of the Upanishad The twelve great Upanishads are written round one body of ancient 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... swiftly with the idea of the supreme Self and its becomings, the supreme Lord and His workings as the key that shall unlock all gates. The oneness of all existences is its dominating note. The Kena Upanishad approaches a more restricted problem, starts with a more precise and narrow inquiry. It concerns itself only with the relation of mind-consciousness to Brahman-consciousness and does not stray ...
... still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place." 5 Thus we see that all forms and formations in the universe 1 III. 7. 2 Sri Aurobindo: Kena Upanishad, p. 87. 3 Cf., "As the spokes meet in the nave of a wheel, so are all things in Life established." (Prashna Upanishad, II.6) "All this universe... is subject to Life." (Ibid... although it is an undeniable fact that embodied life 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 ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads XIV The Transfiguration of the Self and the Gods The means of the knowledge of Brahman are, we have seen, to get back behind the forms of the universe to that which is essential in the cosmos,—and that which is essential is twofold, the gods in Nature and the self in the individual,—and then to get behind these... of the later Vedanta in its extreme monistic form and such was the sense which it tried to read into all the Upanishads; but it must be recognised that in the language whether of the Isha or the Kena Upanishad there is absolutely nothing, not even a shade or a nuance pointing to it. If we want to find it there, we have to put it in by force, for the actual language used favours instead the conclusion ...
... described as having achieved the light which is compared to the sun in its glory. At the end of the description, it is stated: "This, verily, is Upanishad, the secret of the Veda." In the Kena Upanishad, we have a more elaborate statement of the methods of yoga where the direction is given to think out: "That of it (Brahman) which is thou, that of It which is in the gods." The method is that of... (sāmrājya), conscious on all planes, master of them with Nature for its bride delivered from divisions and discords into an infinite and luminous harmony.78 The last two verses of the Kena Upanishad summarize in a few words the method and goal of the yoga of the Vedas and the Upanishads as follows: "Of this knowledge, austerity and self-conquest and works are the foundations, the Vedas ...
... 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, SABCL, 1971. Vol. 18, pp. 146-7, where we find a statement describing the supermind, which is, in the... 19-21 80 Ibid., V.18-19 81 Ibid.,V.21 82 Ibid,V.3 83 Ibid.,V.10 84 Ibid.,V.8-9 85 Ibid.,IV.23 86 Ibid., VII.4-5 87 Ibid.,V.20 88 Ibid., V.21-29 89 Kena Upanishad, II.5 90 Ibid.,IV.4 91 BG..VI.1-2 92 Ibid., VIA 93 Vide., Ibid., VI.5-7 94 Ibid., VI. 15 95 Ibid., VI. 29-30. 96 Ibid., VI.31-2. 97 Ibid.,VI.31 98 ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads IX Sense of Our Senses Mind was called by Indian psychologists the eleventh and ranks as the supreme sense. In the ancient arrangement of the senses, five of knowledge and five of action, it was the sixth of the organs of knowledge and at the same time the sixth of the organs of action. It is a common-place of ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads XII Mind and the Brahman Before we can proceed to the problem how, being what we are and the Brahman being what it is, we can effect the transition from the status of mind, life and senses proper to man over to the status proper to the supreme Consciousness which is master of mind, life and senses, another and ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads XIII The Parable of the Gods From its assertion of the relative knowableness of the unknowable Brahman and the justification of the soul's aspiration towards that which is beyond its present capacity and status the Upanishad turns to the question of the means by which that high-reaching aspiration can put itself ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads VII Mind and Supermind We arrive then at this affirmation of an all-cognitive principle superior to Mind and exceeding it in nature, scope and capacity. For the Upanishad affirms a Mind beyond mind as the result of intuition and spiritual experience and its existence is equally a necessary conclusion from the ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads XI The Great Transition The thought of the Upanishad, as expressed in its first chapter in the brief and pregnant sentences of the Upanishadic style; amounts then to this result that the life of the mind, senses, vital activities in which we dwell is not the whole or the chief part of our existence, not the highest ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads Fourth Part सा ब्रह्मेति होवाच ब्रह्मणो वा एतद्विजये महीयध्वमिति ततो हैव विदांचकार ब्रह्मेति ॥१॥ 1) She said to him, "It is the Eternal. Of the Eternal is this victory in which ye shall grow to greatness." Then alone he came to know that this was the Brahman. तस्माद्वा एते देवा अतितरामिवान्यान् देवान् यद ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads First Part केनेषितं पतति प्रेषितं मनः केन प्राणः प्रथमः प्रैति युक्तः । केनेषितां वाचमिमां वदन्ति चक्षुः श्रोत्रं क उ देवो युनक्ति ॥१॥ 1) By whom missioned falls the mind shot to its mark? By whom yoked moves the first life-breath forward on its paths? By whom impelled is this word that men speak? What god set ...
... comprehensive and general way, they use the neuter and call It Tat , That; but this neuter does not exclude the aspect of universal and transcendent Personality acting and governing the world (cf. Kena Upanishad III). Still, when they intend to make prominent the latter idea they more often prefer to use the masculine Sa, He, or else they employ the Page 40 term Deva, God or the Divine, or ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads II The Question. What Godhead? Mind is the agent of the lower or phenomenal consciousness; vital force or the life-breath, speech and the five senses of knowledge are the instruments of the mind. Prana, the life-force in the nervous system, is indeed the one main instrument of our mental consciousness; for it ...
... spirit desires to replace by one that is a still better and truer expression of the undying soul of the nation. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Man—Slave or Free? The Kena Upanishad Page 66 ...
... of sheets during the years 1912 and 1913. Further details on individual pieces follow. [1] Written apparently around July 1912, the approximate date of the incomplete "Commentary on the Kena Upanishad" which is referred to in the script. Note also that in the Record of 4 July 1912, Sri Aurobindo wrote "Automatic script recommenced today", and mentioned "prophetic script", a term found nowhere ...
... because in all it enjoys its eternal self unimprisoned by the divisions of Space, unoccupied by the moments of Time, undeluded by the successions of cause and circumstance. (Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad, pp. 92-93) What is desire here must there be self-existent Love; what is hunger here must there be desireless satisfaction; what is here enjoyment must there be self-existent ...
... be any extreme achievement with the label of non plus ultra. In truth, "perfection is not a static state, it is a poise and a dynamic poise.... Perfection will be 1 Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad, p. 111. 2 Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, p. 520. 3 Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, p. 315. Page 242 reached in the individual, in the collectivity, upon ...
... Seven, discusses a basic dilemma confronting man in his ascending march of consciousness. The present man is rightly proud of his power of speech and the power of his conceptual thought. But the Kena Upanishad cryptically declares that "there sight attains not, nor speech attains, nor the xxv mind.... That which remains unexpressed by the word, that by which the word is expressed, know ...
... The supreme Vak bares Her self only to the inmost perception of the highest seer (uta tasmai tanva ṁ vi sasre 46 ) and then reveals Herself 37. Genesis, 1,3. 38.Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad (1952 ed.), p. 39. 39. The Life Divine, p. 132. 40. Ibid., p. 132. 41. Rig-Veda, X. 81. 7. 42. Ibid., X. 114. 8. 43. Ibid., I. 164. 45. 44. Ibid., 164. 45. ...
... Future Poetry . It is not just an objective study of the evolution of poetry in the past and an indication of what 129 Savitri , p. 305. 130 Chandogya Upanishad, 3.14.1. 131 Kena Upanishad 1.8. 132 Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.7. 133 Savitri , p. 326. Page 470 poetry is likely to be in the future; it is also, and especially in the final chapters, a programme ...
... 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 quest and hi 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, one cannot properly ...
... Veda and is followed by a very enlightening commentary from Sri Aurobindo who consecrated many years of his life to unravel "the secret of the Veda”, Our second text is an excerpt from the Kena Upanishad. If Veda and Upanishads are the roots of Indian civilization and the supreme authority in Hindu religion, ancient Greece gave soil for the rich crop of religious imagination that has shaped ...
... Divine, p. 63) Sri Aurobindo has discussed this surprising point in great detail at four different places: in The Life Divine, in The Synthesis of Yoga, in his commentary on the Kena Upanishad, and, of course, in his Letters on Yoga. We quote here only one representative passage from his writings: "... we have to realise first that the mind is the only real sense even in ...
... (Sanskrit text with English translation and notes) 'Arya', August 1914 - May 1915 1921 Eight Upanishads (Sanskrit text with English translation and notes) 1953 Kena Upanishad (Sanskrit text with English translation and notes) 1952 Essays on the Gita, 'Arya', August 1916 - July 1920 1959 The Renaissance in India, 'Arya', August 1918 - November ...
... guiding you inward. Instead of opening out on the world of maya they may open out on the world of light and truth. . How can that happen? The clue is given in one of the Upanishads. The Kena Upanishad says: This eye does not really see, there is an eye behind that sees, and so on with the other senses. Even this mind does not know, there is a mind of the mind that knows. That is the crucial ...
... you, guiding you inward. Instead of opening out on the world of maya they may open out on the world of light and truth. How can that happen? The clue is given in one of the Upanishads. The Kena Upanishad says: This eye does not really see, there is an eye behind that sees, and so on Page 144 with the other senses. Even this mind does not know, there is a mind of the mind that knows ...
... Zeus of course is above everybody. These gods and goddesses have their divers powers and personalities, yet they are not the ultimate Power - as Agni, Vayu and Indra are made to realise in the Kena Upanishad. In the Council of the Gods when Zeus tells Athene that she shall rule as the light of reason the Greek and the Saxon, the Frank and the Roman, the goddess answers that she knows that she too ...
... 359ff, 362H, 370, 375, 376, 390, 399, 449, 514, 531 Kathasaritsagara, 147 Katha Upanishad, 337 Kazantzakis, Nikos, 649 Keats, John, 30,41,176,177 Kena Upanishad, 337,459, 461ff, and Isha, 461; comparison with Mother's prayer, 462; and stair of consciousness, 462; and The Life Divine, 463 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 722 Khanna, Ravindra ...
... 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 ...
... 101. translated with notes. 23 May 1914 Veda I. 90—translated with notes; settling several doubtful points, owing to the brilliance of the illuminations acting on the external proof. Kena Upanishad I Kh[anda] translated with notes. Also Ved I. 91. others prepared. Lipis . 1) P. tenth 2) Soul-kinship (reference to the Rs [Richards]). 3) Effort to deflect the siddhi —ie into ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads VI The Necessity of Supermind As the Upanishad asserts a speech behind this speech, which is the expressive aspect of the Brahman-consciousness, so it asserts a Mind behind this mind which is its cognitive aspect. And as we asked ourselves what could be the rational basis for the theory of the divine Word superior ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads XV A Last Word We have now completed our review of this Upanishad; we have considered minutely the bearings of its successive utterances and striven to make as precise as we can to the intelligence the sense of the puissant phrases in which it gives us its leading clues to that which can never be entirely expressed ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads VIII The Supreme Sense The Upanishad is not satisfied with the definition of the Brahman-consciousness as Mind of the mind. Just as it has described it as Speech of the speech, so also it describes it as Eye of the eye. Ear of the ear. Not only is it an absolute cognition behind the play of expression, but also ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads X The Superlife - Life of Our Life But the Brahman-consciousness is not only Mind of our mind. Speech of our speech. Sense of our sense; it is also Life of our life. In other words, it is a supreme and universal energy of existence of which our own material life and its sustaining energy are only an inferior result ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads V The Supreme Word The Upanishad, reversing the usual order of our logical thought which would put Mind and Sense first or Life first and Speech last as a subordinate function, begins its negative description of Brahman with an explanation of the very striking phrase. Speech of our speech. And we can see that ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads IV The Eternal Beyond the Mind The Upanishad first affirms the existence of this profounder, vaster, more puissant consciousness behind our mental being. That, it affirms, is Brahman. Mind, Life, Sense, Speech are not the utter Brahman; they are only inferior modes and external instruments. Brahman-consciousness ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads III The Supramental Godhead The eternal question has been put which turns man's eyes away from the visible and the outward to that which is utterly within, away from the little known that he has become to the vast unknown he must yet grow into and be, because that is his Reality and out of all masquerade of phenomenon ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads Third Part ब्रह्म ह देवेभ्यो विजिग्ये तस्य ह ब्रह्मणो विजये देवा अमहीयन्त । त ऐक्षन्तास्माकमेवायं विजयोऽस्माकमेवायं महिमेति ॥१॥ 1) The Eternal conquered for the gods and in the victory of the Eternal the gods grew to greatness. This was what they saw: "Ours the victory, ours the greatness." तद्धैषां विजज्ञौ ...
... Kena Upanishad Kena and Other Upanishads Second Part यदि मन्यसे सुवेदेति दभ्रमेवापि नूनं त्वं वेत्थ ब्रह्मणो रुपम् । यदस्य त्वं यदस्य देवेष्वथ नु मीमांस्यमेव ते मन्ये विदितम् ॥१॥ 1) If thou thinkest that thou knowest It well, little indeed dost thou know the form of the Brahman. That of It which is thou, that of It which is in the gods, this thou hast ...
... Divine Chapter XII Delight of Existence: The Solution The name of That is the Delight; as the Delight we must worship and seek after It. Kena Upanishad. (IV. 6.) In this conception of an inalienable underlying delight of existence of which all outward or surface sensations are a positive, negative or neutral play, waves and foamings ...
... come to My state of being.... They have reached likeness in their law of being to Me. Gita. (IV. 10; XIV. 2.) Know That for the Brahman and not this which men cherish here. Kena Upanishad. (I. 4.) One controlling inner Self of all beings.... As the Sun, the eye of the world, is not touched by the external faults of vision, so this inner Self in beings is not touched ...
... covers the new system of philology, explanation of Veda with scholastic justification, more translation & comment on Sanscrit writings. To begin with—you have to complete The Commentary on the Kena Upanishad, The Introduction to the Study of the Upanishads and a book on Yoga (Philosophy); the two dramas and a third; the revision of your other poems; the completion of the Stone of Ishtar and a number ...
... For the kriti all preconceived notions must be renounced; only the Sahitya is sure in its details. Vedanta 1) The Life Divine (I.U [Isha Upanishad]) 2) The Mind & its Master. (K.U [Kena Upanishad]) 3) The Kingdom of Heaven. (T.U [Taittiriya Upanishad]) 4) Heredity & Evolution. (A.U [Aitareya Upanishad]) 5) The Realm of the Idea. (Vijnana) 6) The Play of God (Ananda) 7) The ...
... expressions have been caught at by Theistic minds as significant of a denial of polytheistic worship. I have heard the phrase, nedam yad idam upasate, not this to which men devote themselves, of the Kena Upanishad given this sense by reading the modern sense of upasana, worship, into the old Vedantic text. It can easily be shown from other passages in the Upanishads that upasate here has not the sense of ...
... be immortal, to rise towards the highest divine nature and to assume the eternal Dharma. Page 449 × Kena Upanishad. × Chhandogya Upanishad : Verily all this that is is the Brahman. ...
... the Vedic gods? As material Nature Powers called only to give worldly wealth to their worshippers? Certainly, the Vedic gods are in the Vedanta also accredited with material functions. In the Kena Upanishad Agni’s power & glory is to burn, Vayu’s to seize & bear away. But these are not their only functions. In the same Upanishad, in the same apologue, told as a Vedantic parable, Indra, Agni & Vayu ...
... revision necessary—probably not very extensive alterations are needed. The Katha Upanishad . This also needs revision before it can be published; but it is not likely to take very long. The Kena Upanishad . My present intention is not to publish it as it stands. This must be postponed for the present. It would be no use coming to see me, as I am seeing nobody, not even those who are living ...
... but by dealing with it from above and, as Coleridge would put it, "defecating it to a transparency" through the use of "That which thinks not with the mind but by which the mind is thought". (Kena Upanishad) The oldest Indian seers also used this "That": what they did not succeed in keeping alive was the fine distinction between — to use Sri Aurobindo's terminology — Supermind and Overmind. ...
... 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 Mahabharata show, I may draw ...
... — Sri Aurobindo Page 14 The name of That is "That Delight"; as That Delight one should follow after It. He who so knows That, towards him verily all existences yearn. — Kena Upanishad Page 15 ...
... passed through a subtly analogous process. As the physical sight can present to us the actual body of things of which the thought had only possessed an indication or 8.Sri Aurobindo, Kena Upanishad (1952 ed.), p. 76. (Readers wishing to pursue the point further may consult Chapters VIII and IX of this book). 9.Compare the following expressions occurring in Savitri: "All-vision" ...
... life-evolution does not and cannot abrogate the basic fact that the true sense-action is in the mind and not in the optical apparatus. Here is an illuminating passage from Sri Aurobindo's Kena Upanishad: "Mind, subconscious in all Matter and evolving in Matter, has developed these physical organs in order to apply its inherent capacities of sight, hearing, etc. on the physical plane ...
... Gods and the World The Upanishads The Parable of the Gods The Kena Upanishad (third part) brahma ha devebhyo vijigye tasya ha hrahmano vijaye deva amahiyanta, ta aiksantasmakamevayam vijayo smakamevayam mahimeti. 1 1. The Eternal conquered for the gods and in the victory of the Eternal the gods grew to greatness. This was what ...
... omnipresent, which informs, embraces, governs all existences." (Ibid., pp.384-6) 'Ibid., Vol. 18, pp. 386-7. In due course, it appears that another method also was employed; and in the Kena Upanishad, it is clearly mentioned that there are two methods. It is mentioned in that Upanishad (II. 1): "If thou thinkest that thou knowest it (Brahman) well, little indeed dost thou know the form of the ...
... Appendix IV Delight of Existence: The Solution The name of That is the Delight; as the Delight we must worship and seek after It. Kena Upanishad.* In this conception of an inalienable underlying delight of existence of which all outward or surface sensations are a positive, negative or neutral play, waves and foamings of that infinite ...
... — 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 The Psychology of Social Development ...
... guiding you inward. Instead of opening out on the world of maya they may open out on the world of light and truth. How can that happen? The clue is given in one of the Upanishads. The Kena Upanishad says: This eye does not really see, there is an eye behind that sees, and so on with the other senses. Even this mind does not know, there is a mind of the mind that knows. That is the crucial ...
... the instrument remains and the arms and the weapons-they are cleansed and sanctified: instead of the Asura wielding them, it is now the gods, the Divine Himself who possess and use them. ¹Kena Upanishad,I.1 Page 162 ...
... These forces become powerful in proportion as they are instruments and functions of that one mother energy. The truth is most beautifully illustrated in the story of Brahma a and the gods in the Kena Upanishad. The gods conquered and were proud of their conquest; each thought that it was due to his own personal prowess that he conquered. But they were utterly discomfited and shamed when the Divine Powter ...
... neither the senses nor even the mind or intellect but the subtle concentrated insight and perception of the inner Being. In its introspection for discovering this fundamental power of knowledge the Kena Upanishad says, "By whom missioned falls the mind shot to its mark?.. That which is hearing behind the hearing, mind of the mind, the word behind the speech, that too is life of the life-breath, sight behind ...
... 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 Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1953). ...
... ambience of certainty, nevertheless he found in the Veda, Upanishads and the Gita valuable * The interested reader may refer also to T.V. Kapali Sastry's article on 'Sri Aurobindo and the Kena Upanishad' included in his Lights on the Ancients ( 1954). Page 463 hints for the structuring of The Life Divine; nor did he make any secret about it for the epigraphs to the chapters ...
... 468, 548, 613-4, 621, 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 ...
... on. That is where the Supermind came in. That New Power does not admit of any mixture. It makes no compromise with the lower forces, with 1 From Sri Aurobindo's commentary on the Kena Upanishad (II, 5): "It is here, ihaiva, in this mortal life and body that immortality must be won.... 'If here one find it not, great is the perdition.' " Page 312 the powers of Falsehood ...
... met the Mother - that is, after March 29, 1914. A light perusal of some of his pre-1914 writings, including The Yoga and Its Objects, Thoughts and Aphorisms, early commentaries on the Isha and Kena Upanishads and early essays in Vedanta, Hinduism, Yoga, etc. (commentaries and essays published in Archives and Research) shows not a single instance of the term "the Divine" and hundreds of instances of... whatever happens to you, you have offered to the Divine with ah intense faith and devotion. Accepting your offering, the Divine has made the "Purusha no bigger than the thumb of a man", which is the Upanishad's vision of the evolving soul in us, grow in bliss and beauty within you and come closer to the splendour and strength of the Supreme Himself. The vivid picture you have drawn of the emergence ...
... 'Remember me and fight' and 'Yoga is skill in works.' Week after week Sri Aurobindo contributed articles of rare inspiration. The early issues also carried his translations of the Isha, Katha and Kena Upanishads. There were literary contributions as well — several of his poems, 'Baji Prabhou', 'The Birth of Sin', 'Epiphany' and others appeared in the paper for the first time; it also published his translation ...
... shorter works that first appeared in the journal were Ideals and Progress, The Superman, Evolution, The Renaissance in India, War and Self-Determination, and the commentaries on the Isha and Kena Upanishads. Translations, reviews, aphorisms and epigrams, miscellaneous essays, comments on the progress of the war or on the prospects of perpetual peace, discussions on Page 404 ...
... rehash of Veda, Upanishad and Gita. It certainly is Page 77 not that and Sri Aurobindo has emphasised this point time and again. What he has granted is that in them there were intuitions or even experiences whose true development would be a sign-post towards the Aurobindonian vision. Thus he has given original interpretations of the Rigveda, the Isha and Kena Upanishads and the Gita... was revised, emerges from another statement of Sri Aurobindo's in a series that has not received revision. There we obtain a more particular focus on the "veil". In the commentary on the Isha Upanishad's verse on Surya, the Sun of Truth, Sri Aurobindo writes: "The face of this Truth is covered as with a brilliant shield, as with a golden lid; covered, that is to say, from the view of our human... 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 ...
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