The Gita In The Vision And The Words Of Sri Aurobindo
Author
Sri Aurobindo and Galeran d'Esterno
ISBN
8170589355
Publisher
Sri Aurobindo Publications Department/Pondicherry/India; 1st edition (December 1, 2009)
Edition
Paperback
Book Description
he book presents a near complete "translation" of the Bhagavadgita in the words of Sri Aurobindo.In the course of his research,the Editor found that nearly all 700 slokas of the Gita have actually been translated,or rather,rendered by Sri Aurobindo,mostly in his "Essays On The Gita",but in other books as well.Extracting them from their various sources,he succeeded in weaving them together,respecting the order of the Gita's slokas.Reading this book,we understand better why the Yoga of the Gita is an important part of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga,and how it leads to a vaster,all embracing vision of life and of man's spiritual evolution. This book offers to the reader not merely a translation and interpretation of this sacred Scripture,but something infinitely more precious to us the secret of the Gita as it has been seen and experienced by Sri Aurobindo.
About the Author
Sri Aurobindo,studied in England and moved to India fter completing his education.Worked as a Professor in the college at Baroda run by the Princely administration. After participating in the Indian freedom struggle Sri Aurobindo began the pratice of Yoga and achieved several fundamental spritual realisations.He moved to Pondichery and over the next forty years he developed a new spiritual path,the iIntegral yoga,whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental manifestation.His vision of life is presented in numnerous works of prose and poetry,among the best known of which are The Life Divine,The Synthesis of Yoga,Essays on the Gita and Savitri.
