Sri Aurobindo Studies

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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 steeds of its force, the luminous impulsions with which it comes -- companioned, as they are, by the burning rays of the Sun of gnosis.  Let the Dawn arrive and the work will no longer be long and tardy."  The recordings were made at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1973.  Sanskrit recited by Sri Vinayak.  English translation and any excerpts from Sri Aurobindo's commentary recited by Santosh Krinsky.  (Secret of the Veda, pp. 524-526)

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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 titled Hymns to the Mystic Fire.   He devotes an entire chapter in The Secret of the Veda to Agni.   It is this chapter covered here with extracts from Sri Aurobindo's commentary and the first hymn of the Rig Veda, Mandala I, Sukta 1, recited in the Sanskrit to illustrate that commentary.  (The Secret of the Veda, Chapter VI, Agni and the Truth, pp. 54-64).  The English translation of this hymn is from Hymns to the Mystic Fire, pp. 39-40 The Rig Veda sets forth in symbolic language the spiritual aspirations and teachings of the Vedic sages.  The outer sense and symbolism often breaks down as the true, inner, psychological meaning breaks forth to reveal the profound meaning of the Veda.  The Secret of the Veda provides an expansive review of the psychological method of interpretation that Sri Aurobindo employed, along with numerous illustrations of the method.  Hymns to the Mystic Fire provides translation of the large number of hymns of the Rig Veda devoted to Agni. The recordings were made at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1973.  Sanskrit recited by Sri Vinayak.  English translation and any excerpts from Sri Aurobindo's commentary recited by Santosh Krinsky

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