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This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/24/the-vital-is-attached-to-suffering/

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 titled Hymns to the Mystic Fire. The translation of this hymn appears in Hymns to the Mystic Fire, pages 81-84. The Rig Veda s...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/understanding-the-moods-of-the-vital-consciousness/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/22/addressing-the-difficulties-of-the-transformation-of-the-vital-nature/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/21/transformation-of-the-vital-nature-of-man-background-and-introduction/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/21/dealing-with-the-physical-mind-in-the-integral-yoga/

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 titled Hymns to the Mystic Fire. The translation of this hymn appears in Hymns to the Mystic Fire, pages 66-69. The Rig Veda s...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/19/the-role-nature-and-action-of-the-physical-mind/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/understanding-the-role-nature-and-action-of-the-vital-mind/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/the-need-for-silence-of-the-thinking-mind-for-the-spiritual-transformation/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/16/the-transformation-of-the-mind/

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 titled Hymns to the Mystic Fire. The translation of this hymn appears in Hymns to the Mystic Fire, pages 42-43 (Verses 1-5). T...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/the-intellect-does-not-have-direct-knowledge/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/the-limitations-of-the-thinking-mind/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/spiritual-experiences-and-transformation-of-the-nature/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/immortality-in-this-body-is-not-the-transformation-sought-by-the-integral-yoga/

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 titled Hymns to the Mystic Fire. The translation of this hymn appears in Hymns to the Mystic Fire, pages 40-42. The Rig Veda s...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/11/death-the-conquest-of-death-and-the-supramental-transformation/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/10/the-supramental-force-and-the-quest-for-the-conquest-of-disease-decay-and-death/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/09/the-supermind-and-the-transformation-of-the-physical-body/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/08/conditions-for-preparation-for-the-supramental-change-part-2/

In The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo showed that there is a deep, esoteric sense to the Vedic hymns that is the real sense of the hymns. As part of his review, Sri Aurobindo translated and commented on a number of Hymns to Indra. While there is a chapter devoted to Indra and the Ashwins (Chapter 8, pp. 75-85), and 3 of the Selected Hymns deal wholly or in part with Indra, there is an entire section devoted to Hymns to Indra. Sri Aurobindo also directly translates this hymn again later in the...

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/conditions-for-preparation-for-the-supramental-change-part-1/

In The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo showed that there is a deep, esoteric sense to the Vedic hymns that is the real sense of the hymns. As part of his review, Sri Aurobindo translated and commented on a number of Hymns to Indra. While there is a chapter devoted to Indra and the Ashwins, and 3 of the Selected Hymns deal wholly or in part with Indra, there is an entire section devoted to Hymns to Indra. The final one in this section is Mandala X, Sukta 54, Hymn to Indra. (The Secret of the Ve...