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The Bhagavad Gita, literally "The Song of God," is one of the most
important spiritual and religious texts of the world, and is to
Hindus what the Torah is to Jews, the Bible to Christians, and the
Quran to Moslems. With text, translation, and Sri Aurobindo's
commentary, this is probably the finest translation and commentary
on the Bhagavad Gita that we have seen.
Many of us face the difficulty of trying to change something in our nature, only to find that it is either difficult or virtually impossible. We struggle, try to suppress various actions, only to have these actions rebound on us and cause feelings of failure, shame, guilt or frustration. The key to solving this problem actually lies in a deeper understanding of the true nature of our psychological being. We are actually composed of various different "parts" or "planes" of action that combine together, interact with one another and impinge upon one another. This understanding allows us to differentiate between a
mental idea, a force of will, an emotional movement, a vital energy, or a physical structure, and thereby more clearly understand the results of our psychological efforts and growth activities.
The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a
story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as
shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic
myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine
truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death
and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun,
goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save;
Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of
Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps
us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord
of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here
fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through
that loss its kingdom of glory. Still this is not a mere allegory,
the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or
emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter
into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man
and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine
consciousness and immortal life.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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