Essays on the Gita, Chapter 1, Our Demand and Need from the Gita, Extracts
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English commentary of Sri Aurobindo drawn from Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita and Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
The USA editions of these books are published by Lotus Press
The recording features English introduction recitation by Santosh Krinsky. The recording was made in 1973 at Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
All introductory notes have been extracted from Sri Aurobindo's writings on the Bhagavad Gita from the sources noted above
More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at http://www.aurobindo.net
An in depth review of Essays on the Gita is available at the daily blog http://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com
Additional recitations can be found at the following YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871
0:00 We of the coming day stand at the head of a new age of development, which must lead to such a new and larger synthesis. We are not called upon to be orthodox vedantins of any of the three schools or tantrics, or to adhere to one of the theistic religions of the past, or to entrench ourselves within the four corners of the teaching of the Gita. That would be to limit ourselves, and to attempt to create our spiritual life out of the being, knowledge, and nature of others, of the men of the past, instead of building it out of our own being and potentialities.
0:43 We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future. A mass of new material is flowing into us. We have not only to assimilate the influences of the great theistic religions of India and of the world, and a recovered sense of the meaning of Buddhism, but to take full account of the potent though limited revelations of modern knowledge and seeking. And beyond that, the remote and dateless past which seemed to be dead, is returning upon us with an effulgence of many luminous secrets long lost to the consciousness of mankind, but now breaking out again from behind the veil.
1:29 All this points to a new a very rich, a very vast synthesis. A fresh and widely embracing harmonization of our games is both an intellectual and a spiritual necessity of the future. But just as the past synthesis have taken those which preceded them for their starting point, so also must that of the future to be on firm ground. Proceed from what the great bodies of realized spiritual thought and experience in the past have given among them, the Gita takes a most important place. Oh peace, peace, peace.