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
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We of the coming day stand at
the head of a new age of
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development, which must lead to
such a new and larger synthesis.
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We are not called upon to be
orthodox vedantins of any of the
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three schools or tantrics, or to
adhere to one of the theistic
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religions of the past, or to
entrench ourselves within the
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four corners of the teaching of
the Gita.
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That would be to limit
ourselves, and to attempt to
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create our spiritual life out of
the being, knowledge, and nature
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of others, of the men of the
past, instead of building it out
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of our own being and
potentialities.
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We do not belong to the past
dawns, but to the noons of the
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future.
A mass of new material is
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flowing into us.
We have not only to assimilate
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the influences of the great
theistic religions of India and
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of the world, and a recovered
sense of the meaning of
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Buddhism, but to take full
account of the potent though
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limited revelations of modern
knowledge and seeking.
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And beyond that, the remote and
dateless past which seemed to be
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dead, is returning upon us with
an effulgence of many luminous
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secrets long lost to the
consciousness of mankind, but
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now breaking out again from
behind the veil.
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All this points to a new a very
rich, a very vast synthesis.
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A fresh and widely embracing
harmonization of our games is
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both an intellectual and a
spiritual necessity of the
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future.
But just as the past synthesis
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have taken those which preceded
them for their starting point,
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so also must that of the future
to be on firm ground.
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Proceed from what the great
bodies of realized spiritual
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thought and experience in the
past have given among them, the
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Gita takes a most important
place.
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Oh peace, peace, peace.