... Hague, 1963, p. 17. 120 The Foundations of Indian Culture , SABCL, Vol. 14, p. 267. Page 467 In Savitri Sri Aurobindo has used effectively and suggestively many Vedic symbols and images. The very first canto, entitled the Symbol Dawn, reminds us of the Vedic dawn, uṣas : A glamour from the unreached transcendences Iridescent with the glory of the Unseen, ...
... If the Veda gave us the first types and figures of man, Nature and God and of the powers of the universe as seen and formed by an imaged spiritual intuition and psychological and yogic experience, the Upanishads broke through the Vedic forms, symbols and images, without entirely 'abandoning them and revealed in unique kind of poetry the ultimate and unsurpassable truths of self and God and man... are evidently witnessed. Upanishads confirm Vedic Yoga As we study the yoga of the Veda and enter into the yoga of the Upanishads, we feel struck by the rigour of the spirit of yoga that was manifest in the quest of the Rishis of the Veda as also of the Rishis of the Upanishads. The yogic knowledge of the Veda was expressed in symbols and figures which were taken largely from the rituals... because the Rishis of the Upanishads made a fresh effort, not by intellectual or philosophical thought but by the renewal of Vedic methods of yoga, and they not only confirm, by methodical verification, the truths of the Vedic yoga, but by becoming Vedanta, a book of culmination of Vedic knowledge in a higher degree than the Vedas. The Upanishadic knowledge is Jnāna, — not a mere thinking and considering ...
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