... the Rigveda will prove to be a modern legend & not ancient history, & even if a half-savage Aryan civilisation existed in India in early times, the astonishingly elaborate modern descriptions of Vedic India will turn out a philological mirage & phantasmagoria. The wider question of an early Aryan civilisation must equally be postponed till we have sounder materials. The present theory is wholly illusory; ...
... purpose. Merely to draw back from all identification with form is to draw away towards the Stillness, the Infinity & the cessation of all this divine play of motion. Ever since Buddhism conquered Vedic India and assured the definite enthronement of the ideal of Sannyasa in opposition to the ideal of Tyaga, this consummation has been constantly praised and held up before us in this country as the highest ...
... as he says, loves to be hidden, is full of mysteries, ever occult. It is a sign that the lore of the early Mystics had been lost, the spiritual sense had departed out of their symbols, even as in Vedic India; but there took place in Greece no new and powerful movement which could, as in India, replace them by new symbols, new and more philosophic restatements of their hidden truths, new disciplines, ...
... Letters, 27:437 × Actually, since Buddhism. Pre-Buddhist India was not like that, especially not Vedic India. × This Vishnu Purana, which dates back roughly to the third century A.D., says many other i ...
... occult and spiritual knowledge and preparing the ascent of the evolution beyond mental man into spiritual and supramental being. Sometimes this minority has exercised an enormous influence as in Vedic India, Egypt or, according to tradition, in Atlantis, and determined the civilisation of the race, giving it a strong stamp of the spiritual or the occult; sometimes they have stood apart in their secret ...
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... p. 211. 42. The Richest Vein, p.45. 43. Humanity and Deity, p. 89. 44. Jacobi, Complex, Archetype, Symbol, p. 91. 45. Sec Abinas Chandra Das, Rig-Vedic India Vol. I, pp. 420-1. 46. Rig Veda, V, 81, 5 (Tr. by Sri Aurobindo). 47. ibid, V, 82, 4 (Tr. by Sri Aurobindo). 48. Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, p. 347. ...
... an office. The "Commander" with the stripes of the Salvation Army, offered us a small place after the Monday service — we could stay there until the next service. But the Salvation Army in ... Vedic India, it was a little too much. Neither Sujata nor I wanted to be housed by the Salvation Army. We took to the road again. It was disturbing, this first meeting with India through the Salvation Army ...
... the Europeans have systematised a radical misunderstanding of them," he was alluding to the linguists, or philologists as they were then called. "The astonishingly elaborate modern descriptions of Vedic India will turn out [to be] a philological mirage and phantasmagoria." The task given to Sri Aurobindo by the Master of the Yoga was to dispel the misinterpretation of the Sacred Books. If you turn ...
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