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1:Limitation is mortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics,

2:Mortal delight has its mortal danger. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda The Guardians of the Light,

3:Limited and divided being is ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics,

4:By Truth is the progress towards the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda The Ashwins,

5:Falsehood is merely a wrong placing of the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 1.19 - The Victory of the Fathers,

6:All our existence is a constant creation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda Surya Savitri,

7:Truth is followed as the path to the divine beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda To Bhaga Savitri,

8:All world is expression or manifestation, creation by the Word. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda Brihaspati,

9:That which refuses to give itself, is still the food of the cosmic Powers ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 2 - Other Hymns to Agni,

10:Self-fulfilment by self-immolation, to grow by giving is the universal law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 2 - Other Hymns to Agni,

11:Force and Love united and both illumined by Knowledge fulfil God in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 2 - Other Hymns to Agni,

12:Love illuminated fulfils the harmony which is the goal of the divine movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 2 - Other Hymns to Agni,

13:Equality of soul created by the surrender to the universal Wisdom gives us a supreme peace and calm. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 2 - Other Hymns to Agni,

14:Nothing has to be rejected, all has to be raised to the pure levels of the divine consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 2.03 - Indra and the Thought-Forces,

15:All things have their justifiable cause of being, their good use and their right enjoyment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda Surya Savitri,

16:Once the Ananda, the divine delight in all things is attained, it sets right all the distortions, all the evil of the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda To Bhaga Savitri,

17:Man cannot seize or hold at once all that the illumination brings to him; it has to be repeated constantly so that he may grow in the light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda The Ashwins,

18:The source of all error is misapplication, wrong placing of truth, wrong arrangement, wrong relation, wrong positing in time and place, object and order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda To Bhaga Savitri,

19:In the same Upanishad, Agni is invoked for purely moral functions as the purifier from sin, the leader of the soul by the good path to the divine Bliss, and he seems to be identified with the power of the will and responsible for human actions ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret Of The Veda Agenda Vol 7,

20:...the conception of a Truth-consciousness supramental and divine, the invocation of the gods as powers of the Truth to raise man out of the falsehoods of the mortal mind, the attainment in and by this Truth of an immortal state of perfect good and felicity and the inner sacrifice and offering of what one has and is by the mortal to the Immortal as the means of the divine consummation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret Of The Veda Agenda Vol 8,

21:Agni is the power of conscious Being, called by us will, effective behind the workings of mind and body. Agni is the strong God within (maryah, the strong, the masculine) who puts out his strength against all assailing powers, who forbids inertia, who repels every failing of heart and force, who spurns out all lack of manhood. Agni actualises what otherwise remain as an ineffectual thought or aspiration. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret Of The Veda ,

22:the central notion of the Veda ::: The sense of the first two verses is clear enough when we know Saraswati to be that power of the Truth which we call inspiration. Inspiration from the Truth purifies by getting rid of all falsehood, for all sin according to the Indian idea is merely falsehood, wrongly inspired emotion, wrongly directed will and action. The central idea of life and ourselves from which we start is a falsehood and all else is falsified by it. Truth comes to us as a light, a voice, compelling a change of thought, imposing a new discernment of ourselves and all around us. Truth of thought creates truth of vision and truth of vision forms in us truth of being, and out of truth of being (satyam) flows naturally truth of emotion, will and action. This is indeed the central notion of the Veda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret Of The Veda ,

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1:or as Sayana interprets it, "by sacrifice lasting for a year". ~ Sri AurobindoThe Secret of the Veda,

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   2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire

1.01_-_Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The interpretation I have put forward was set out at length   in a series of articles with the title "The Secret Of The Veda"   in the monthly philosophical magazine, Arya, some thirty years   --      Arya are now published in The Secret Of The Veda with Selected Hymns, volume 15 of   THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. - Ed.

1.02_-_The_Doctrine_of_the_Mystics, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   But the Dasyu is the natural enemy. These dividers, plunderers, harmful powers, these Danavas, sons of the Mother of division, are spoken of by the Rishis under many general appellations. There are Rakshasas; there are Eaters and Devourers, Wolves and Tearers; there are hurters and haters; there are dualisers; there are confiners or censurers. But we are given also many specific names. Vritra, the Serpent, is the grand Adversary; for he obstructs with his coils of darkness all possibility of divine existence and divine action. And even when Vritra is slain by the light, fiercer enemies arise out of him. Shushna afflicts us with his impure and ineffective force, Namuchi fights man by his weaknesses, and others too assail, each with his proper evil. Then there are Vala and the Panis, miser traffickers in the sense-life, stealers and concealers of the higher Light and its illuminations which they can only darken and misuse, - an impious host who are jealous of their store and will not offer sacrifice to the Gods. These and other personalities - they are much more than personifications - of our ignorance, evil, weakness and many limitations make constant war upon man; they encircle him from near or they shoot their arrows at him from afar or even dwell in his gated house in the place of the Gods and with their shapeless stammering mouths and their insufficient breath of force mar his self-expression. They must be expelled, overpowered, slain, thrust down into their nether darkness by the aid of the mighty and helpful deities.     1 This excerpt is reproduced from the 1946 edition of Hymns to the Mystic Fire. The complete essay which appeared in the Arya is published in The Secret Of The Veda with Selected Hymns, Part Three. - Ed.

1.06_-_Agni_and_the_Truth, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda    which is the active or effective power of the Truth-consciousness.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    illumined or obscure, there must be a constant submission and reference of all activities to the divine control.

1.09_-_Saraswati_and_Her_Consorts, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    spiritual, from a purely naturalistic to an increasingly ethical and psychological view of Nature and the world and the gods - and this, though by no means certain, is for the present the accepted view,1 - we must suppose that the Vedic poets were at least already advancing from the physical and naturalistic conception of the Gods to the ethical and the spiritual. But Saraswati is not only the goddess of Inspiration, she is at one and the same time one of the seven rivers of the early Aryan world. The question at once arises, whence came this extraordinary identification? And how does the connection of the two ideas present itself in the   --      The Secret Of The Veda    the stroke of the God Indra when he smote the Python who coiled across their fountains and sealed up their outflow. It seems impossible to suppose that one river only in all this sevenfold outflowing acquired a psychological significance while the rest were associated only with the annual coming of the rains in the   --      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda    if we wish to form with any accuracy an idea of this ancient and far-off system.

1.10_-_The_Image_of_the_Oceans_and_the_Rivers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    mental Truth. But it is impossible to give Saraswati so important a place with regard to the other gods as would be implied by interpreting the phrase mahna mahato arn.avasya in the sense   --      Let us note, in passing, that since the wine and the clarified butter are symbolic, the sacrifice also must be symbolic. In such hymns as this of Vamadeva's the ritualistic veil so elaborately woven by the Vedic mystics vanishes like a dissolving mist before our eyes and there emerges the Vedantic truth, The Secret Of The Veda.      --      The Secret Of The Veda    verse he speaks of the whole of existence being triply established, first in the seat of Agni - which we know from other riks to be the Truth-Consciousness, Agni's own home, svam damam r.tam br.hat, - secondly, in the heart, the sea, which is evidently the same as the heart-ocean, - thirdly, in the life of man.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    transparent to the eye that chooses to see. What he means is that the divine knowledge is all the time flowing constantly behind our thoughts, but is kept from us by the internal enemies who limit our material of mind to the sense-action and senseperception so that though the waves of our being beat on banks that border upon the superconscient, the infinite, they are limited by the nervous action of the sense-mind and cannot reveal their secret. They are like horses controlled and reined in; only when the waves of the light have nourished their strength to the full does the straining steed break these limits and they flow freely towards That from which the Soma-wine is pressed out and the sacrifice is born.   --      The Secret Of The Veda

1.11_-_The_Seven_Rivers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    or svarvath., the floods of this higher consciousness pouring on the mortal mind from that plane of immortality?   --      The Secret Of The Veda    madhuscutah. and speaks of the Gods enjoying in them the intoxication of the energy, urjam madanti; from this we can gather that the honey or sweetness is the madhu, the Soma, the wine of the Ananda, of which the Gods have the ecstasy. But in the forty-seventh hymn he makes his meaning unmistakably clear.   --      The Secret Of The Veda   4. Avardhayan subhagam sapta yahvh., svetam jajnanam arus.am mahitva;   --      The Secret Of The Veda    holding thy bright and rapturous embodiments; out flow the streams of the sweetness, the clarity, where the Bull of the abundance has grown by the Wisdom. (8)   --      The Secret Of The Veda    varied inspiration." Agni is the Deva, the All-Seer, manifested as conscious-force or, as it would be called in modern language,   --      The Secret Of The Veda    of desires and instincts, all about the life of the Waters (vs.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    moment. Simply, easily, without straining there disengages itself the profound and luminous doctrine of the ancient Mystics, The Secret Of The Veda.

1.12_-_The_Herds_of_the_Dawn, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    hand these words are symbolic, the sense will run, "Confirm in us a state of bliss full of light, of conquering energy and of force of vitality." It is therefore necessary to decide once for all the significance of the word go in the Vedic hymns. If it proves to be symbolic, then these other words, - asva, horse, vra, man or hero, apatya or praja, offspring, hiran.ya, gold, vaja, plenty   --      The Secret Of The Veda    symbol of light, (I.92.4). We may note also that in this hymn   --      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda    of the Ashwins when they find satisfaction in the ecstasy of the

1.13_-_Dawn_and_the_Truth, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    all apply; there would be no meaning in a constant affirmation that Dawn follows the path of the sacrifice or follows the path of the water. We can only escape from the obvious significance if we choose to understand by pantha r.tasya the path, not of the   --      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda    perfectly-seeing force of divine will in its works, V.1.4) is entirely symbolical2 and that the "varied riches" she brings with her are also a figure and certainly do not mean physical wealth.

1.16_-_Man,_A_Transitional_Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   But he wrote in an unusual manner not one book after another, but four and even six books concurrently, on the most varied subjects,   such as The Life Divine, his fundamental "philosophical" work and spiritual vision of evolution; The Synthesis of Yoga, in which he describes the various stages and experiences of the integral yoga, and surveys all the past and present yogic disciplines; the Essays on the Gita, which expounds his philosophy of action; The Secret Of The Veda, with a study of the origins of language; and The Ideal of Human Unity and The Human Cycle, which approach evolution from its sociological and psychological standpoints and examine the future possibilities of human societies. He had found   301

1.17_-_The_Seven-Headed_Thought,_Swar_and_the_Dashagwas, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    true godhead of these shining gods and these divine, luminous sages.   --      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda    sunrise and the continuous dawns was made by the Mystics the figure of the spiritual night and its difficult illumination. But that this idea of Time, of the months and years is used as a symbol seems to be clear from other passages of the Veda, notably from   --      The Secret Of The Veda    created in us by the movement of Time, yet in a sense against it.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    one of the seven rays of Brihaspati; therefore they are the seven seers, sapta viprah., sapta r.s.ayah., who severally personify these seven rays of the knowledge. These rays are, again, the seven brilliant horses of the sun, sapta haritah., and their full union constitutes the seven-headed Thought of Ayasya by which the lost sun of Truth is recovered. That thought again is established in the seven rivers, the seven principles of being divine and human, the totality of which founds the perfect spiritual existence.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    periods of the sacrifice of the Navagwas and it is effected by the force of the Soma-wine and the sacred Word.   --      The Secret Of The Veda

1.18_-_The_Human_Fathers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    have conquered immortality by the work, have attained the goal and are invoked to assist a later mortal race in the same divine achievement. Quite apart from the later Yama hymns of the tenth   --      The Secret Of The Veda    aditayah., adityaso. Mitra and Varuna, we must remember, are powers of Surya Savitri, the Lord of the Light and the Truth.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    the cave of the subconscient in which they were penned; Indra master of Swar is the Bull, the lord of these herds, gopatih..   --      The Secret Of The Veda    three gods Surya, Indra and Soma, and the Soma also is offered in three parts, on the three levels of the hill, tris.u sanus.u. We may hazard the conjecture, having regard to the nature of the three gods, that Soma releases the divine light from the sense mentality, Indra from the dynamic mentality, Surya from the pure reflective mentality. As for the pasture of the cow we are already familiar with it; it is the field or ks.etra which Indra wins for his shining comrades from the Dasyu and in which the   --      The Secret Of The Veda    these conclusions we have not to wrest the sense of words, to interpret the same fixed term by different renderings according to our convenience of the moment or to render differently the same phrase or line in different hymns, or to make incoherence a standard of right interpretation; on the contrary, the greater the fidelity to word and form of the Riks, the more conspicuously the general and the detailed sense of the Veda emerge in a constant clearness and fullness.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    diminish not (limit not or hurt not) the workings of the gods, not violating them they move (to their goal) by (the strength of) the

1.19_-_The_Victory_of_the_Fathers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda    is to say, the physical being visited by the greatness of the infinite planes above and by the power of the great godheads who reign on those planes breaks its limits, opens out to the Light and is upheld in its new wideness by the infinite Consciousness, mother   --      The Secret Of The Veda    of one action, the achievement of the truth and immortality by men, r.tam sapanto amr.tam evaih..   --      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda    things and the crooked in mortals. Thereafter indeed they awoke and saw utterly (by the sun's separation of the straight from the crooked, the truth from the falsehood); then indeed they held in them the bliss that is enjoyed in heaven, ratnam dharayanta dyubhaktam. Let all the gods be in all our homes, let there be the truth for our thought, O Mitra, O Varuna"; visve visvasu duryasu deva, mitra dhiye varun.a satyam astu. This is evidently the same idea as has been expressed in different language by   --      The Secret Of The Veda    work the bliss with its vast delight for his increasing, satisfying the doer of the work (or, the man, cars.an.iprah.). Now, O Agni, of all that we have done with our hands and our feet and our bodies the right thinkers (the Angirases) make as it were thy chariot by the work of the two arms (Heaven and Earth, bhurijoh.); seeking to possess the Truth they have worked their way to it (or won control of it)," r.tam yemuh. sudhya asus.an.ah.. "Now as the seven seers of Dawn the Mother, the supreme disposers (of the sacrifice), may we beget for ourselves the gods; may we become the   --      The Secret Of The Veda    in the triple world is frequent in the Veda; this image of the dappled Bull and the pure-bright udder or source of the waters only repeats therefore, like the other images, the idea of the multiple manifestations of the human life purified, tranquillised in its activities, fed by the waters of the Truth and the Infinity.

1.20_-_The_Hound_of_Heaven, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Secret Of The Veda      --      The Secret Of The Veda    that attack and divide, dves.amsi); let us go forward towards the Master of the sacrifice. Come, let us create the Thought, O friends, (obviously, the seven-headed Angiras-thought), which is the Mother (Aditi or the Dawn) and removes the screening pen of the Cow." The significance is clear enough; it is in such passages as these that the inner sense of the Veda half disengages itself from the veil of the symbol.   --      The Secret Of The Veda    seven seers set them moving forward (or upwards towards the supreme), they found the entire path (goal or field of travel) of the Truth; knowing those (supreme seats of the Truth) Indra by the obeisance entered into them," vl.au satr abhi dhra atr.ndan, praca ahinvan manasa sapta viprah.; visvam avindan pathyam r.tasya, prajanann it ta namasa vivesa. This is, as usual, the great birth, the great light, the great divine movement of the Truthknowledge with the finding of the goal and the entry of the gods and the seers into the supreme planes above. Next we have the part of Sarama in this work. "When Sarama found the broken place of the hill, he (or perhaps she, Sarama) made continuous the great and supreme goal. She, the fair-footed, led him to the front of the imperishable ones (the unslayable cows of the   --      The Secret Of The Veda    own doors," pra sunr.ta disamana r.tena duras ca visva avr.n.od apa svah.; that is to say, he opens the doors of his own world,   --      The Secret Of The Veda    the shining glory of the supreme state with its thrice seven seats of the Godhead. Such an ascent can have no other meaning than the ascent of the divine powers in man out of their ordinary cosmic appearances to the shining Truth beyond, as indeed   --      The Secret Of The Veda    guardians, protecting man on the road by their divine vision, yau te svanau yama raks.itarau caturaks.au pathiraks. nr.caks.asau, and Yama is asked to give them as an escort to the soul on its way. These dogs are "wide-moving, not easily satisfied" and range as the messengers of the Lord of the Law among men.

2.02_-_Indra,_Giver_of_Light, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga

2.03_-_Indra_and_the_Thought-Forces, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga

2.04_-_Agni,_the_Illumined_Will, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga

2.2.4_-_Taittiriya_Upanishad, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   good for what they are and delivereth Spirit, who knoweth the   Eternal. And this is Upanishad, The Secret Of The Veda.   Together may He protect us, together may He possess us,   --   he singeth, who hath the knowledge. This verily is Upanishad,   The Secret Of The Veda.   Together may He protect us, together may He possess us,

2.3.1_-_Svetasvatara_Upanishad, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   6. This is that secret mystery which is hidden in Upanishads;   for the Upanishad is The Secret Of The Veda. This is that   which Brahma knoweth for the Womb of the Eternal and

3.3.1_-_Agni,_the_Divine_Will-Force, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga

Agenda_Vol_2, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   over; and SO COMPACTLY POWERFUL that it was almost uncomfortable. The feeling of: what to   18Later, on the 27th, Mother remarked: 'I was reading about this very thing yesterday in The Secret Of The Veda, in the first   hymn translated by Sri Aurobindo (the reference is to the colloquy between Indra and Agastya, Rig Veda 1.170 - cf. The   --   (long silence)   I must say that after this, when I read The Secret Of The Veda as I do each evening.... In fact, I am in   very close contact with the entire Vedic world since I've been reading that book: I see beings, hear   --   Oh, what a treasure that is - a gold mine!   And part of 'The Secret Of The Veda,' as well as two other things because they contain many of Sri   Aurobindo's letters: I re-read Z's book on Sri Aurobindo, since there are many letters in it, and....   --   you!   229The day before, Mother had listened to the passage of the manuscript concerning 'The Secret Of The Veda.' Several   extracts from it are included in the Addendum to this conversation.   --   ADDENDUM   The Secret Of The Veda   (Extracts from the passage in 'Sri Aurobindo and the Transformation of the World' read to Mother by   --   and exact light....'232 And it was through these experiences of his 'own' that Sri Aurobindo came to   230The Secret Of The Veda, Cent. Ed., Vol. X, p. 34.   231Ibid., p. 38.   --   how many other notions of rite, truth, divinity, wisdom, etc., etc.... In my view, and the solution is going   to appear cruel to you, for you certainly value these twenty-one pages [on The Secret Of The Veda], they   should purely and simply be deleted, for everything you say there, which is very rich in meaning, can

Agenda_Vol_3, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   always been very nice!   188This must refer to the colloquy of Rishi Agastya and Indra (The Secret Of The Veda, Cent. Ed., X. 241), commented on   by Mother in the 1961 Agenda (Vol. II, p. 37).

BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   indeed "he whose seven forefathers have drunk the juice of the moon-plant (Soma)," and who is a   "Trisuparna," for he has understood The Secret Of The Vedas.   And, to this day, such Brahmins know that, during its early beginnings, psychic and physical intellect

Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   SRI AUROBINDO: I don't remember if I have written anything against Sayana in   my introduction to The Secret Of The Veda. I have to ask Purani.   When Purani came in, Sri Aurobindo asked him the question.   --   28 JANUARY 1940   PURANI: I have read The Secret Of The Veda. There is no pronouncement   against Sayana. I don't know if Nolini's introduction to his own madhhuchanda has any reference to him. (Sri Aurobindo read the introduction.)