Sri Aurobindo Studies

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Varuna and Mitra are two of the Godheads that invoke psychological powers within the seeker to bring about the transformation of consciousness.  Sri Aurobindo provides an extensive description of these powers, and thereby also shows us the obvious psychological sense of the Rig Veda. The recordings were made at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1973.  Introductory comments from Sri Aurobindo's The...

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"The Veda speaks constantly of the waters or the rivers, especially of the divine waters ... and occasionally of the waters which carry in them the light of the luminous soloar world or the light of the Sun ... .  The passage of the waters effected by the gods or by man with the aid of the gods is a constant symbol. ... What can these rivers be whose wave is full of Soma-wine, full of the ghr...

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The recordings were made at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1973.  Sanskrit recited by Sri Vinayak.  English translation by Sri Aurobindo (Riks 1-4) recited by Santosh Krinsky.  (Secret of the Veda, pp. 104-117)

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an interview by David Riklan of Self-Growth.com of Santosh Krinsky about the current existential crisis facing humanity and the planet and the solution to this crisis of the evolution of the next stage of consciousness, as described by Sri Aurobindo.

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The Dawn of the Rig Veda is clearly a symbolic representation of the opening of the consciousness to the higher Light of the Divine.  Sri Aurobindo writes in The Secret of the Veda:   "The Rishi prays for the full epiphany of the Dawn of the light of Truth in all its lavish splendour, with all the bountiful companies of its gods and seers, the shining herds of its thought, the rushing st...

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Sri Aurobindo describes Agni as "the most important, the most universal of the Vedic gods."  (The Secret of the Veda, pg. 265).  Agni is the divine will, the mystic fire, the flame of aspiration, and the "knower of all things born".   Sri Aurobindo focuses considerable attention on Agni in both The Secret of the Veda and in his translation of the hymns to Agni in the volume tit...