Essays on the Gita -Aurobindo 269

Essays on the Gita -Sri Aurobindo

Second Series : Chapter 2

The Synthesis of Devotion and KnowledgeGita,^[1]

Still the supreme Godhead does not at all reject these devo- tees because of their imperfect vision. For the Divine in his supreme transcendent being, unborn, imminuable and superior to all these partial manifestations, cannot be easily known to any living creature. He is self-enveloped in this immense cloak of Maya, that Maya of his Yoga, by which he is one with the world and yet beyond it, immanent but hidden, seated in all hearts but not revealed to any and every being. Man in Nature thinks that these manifestations in Nature are all the Divine, when they are only his works and his powers and his veils. He knows all past and all present and future existences, but him none yet knoweth. If then after thus bewildering them with his workings in Nature, he were not to meet them in these at all, there would be no divine hope for man or for any soul in Maya. Therefore according to their nature, as they approach him, he accepts their bhakti and answers to it with the reply of divine love and compassion. These forms are after all a certain kind of manifestation through which the imperfect human intelligence can touch him, these desires are first means by which our souls turn towards him: nor is any devotion worthless or ineffective, whatever its limitations. It has the one grand necessity, faith. “Whatever form of me any devotee with faith desires to worship, I make that faith of his firm and undeviating.

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First Series
1.	Our Demand and Need from the Gita	1
2.	The Divine Teacher	9
3.	The Human Disciple	17
4.	The Core of the Teaching	26
5.	Kurukshetra	37
6.	Man and the Battle of Life	44
7.	The Creed of the Aryan Fighter	56
8.	Sankhya and Yoga	67
9.	Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta	80-81
10.	The Yoga of the Intelligent Will	92
11.	Works and Sacrifice	102
12.	The Significance of Sacrifice	110
13.	The Lord of the Sacrifice	119
14.	The Principle of Divine Works	128
15.	The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood	139
16.	The Process of Avatarhood	151
17.	The Divine Birth and Divine Works	161
18.	The Divine Worker	169
19.	Equality	180
20.	Equality and Knowledge	192
21.	The Determinism of Nature	203
22.	Beyond the Modes of Nature	215
23.	Nirvana and Works in the World	225
24.	The Gist of the Karmayoga	238
Second Series
Part-1
1.	The Two Natures	250
2.	The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge Gita	262
3.	The Supreme Divine	271
4.	The Secret of Secrets	282
5.	The Divine Truth and Way	291
6.	Works, Devotion and Knowledge	301
7.	The Supreme Word of the Gita	314
8.	God in Power of Becoming	330
9.	The Theory of the Vibhuti	340
10.	The Vision of the World-Spirit Time the Destroyer	350
11.	The Vision of the World-Spirit The Double Aspect	360
12.	The Way and the Bhakta	367
Part-2
13.	The Field and its Knower	377
14.	Above the Gunas	388
15.	The Three Purushas	402
16.	The Fullness of Spiritual Action	416
17.	Deva and Asura	429
18.	The Gunas, Faith and Works	442
19.	The Gunas, Mind and Works	458
20.	Swabhava and Swadharma	471
21.	Towards the Supreme Secret	490
22.	The Supreme Secret	503
23.	The Core of the Gita’s Meaning	525
24.	The Message of the Gita	534

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