"The peculiarity of the Gita among
the great religious books of the world is that it does not stand apart
as a work by itself, the fruit of the spiritual life of a creative
personality like Christ, Mahomed or Buddha or of an epoch of pure
spiritual searching like the Veda and Upanishads, but it is given as an
episode in an epic history of Nations and their wars and men and their
deeds and arises out of a critical moment in the soul of one of its
leading personages face to face with the crowning action of his life, a
work terrible, violent and sanguinary, at the point when he must either
recoil from it all together or carry it through to its inexorable
completion... the teaching of the Gita must therefore be regarded not
merely in the light of a general spiritual philosophy or ethical
doctrine, but as bearing upon a practical crisis in the application of
ethics and spirituality to human life."- Sri Aurobindo
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Indian Identity and Cultural Continuity
“India
of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she
lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental
people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycles of the
occident’s success and failure, but still the ancient immeasurable
Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the
supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the
complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma. ” – Sri Aurobindo
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