Sri Aurobindo’s concept of The Bhagavad Gita: reconstruction and actuality Cover Image

Sri Aurobindo Bhagavadgytos samprata: rekonstrukcija ir aktualumas
Sri Aurobindo’s concept of The Bhagavad Gita: reconstruction and actuality

Author(s): Daiva Tamošaitytė
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų
Keywords: action; actuality; dharma; Divine; evolution; karma; maya; oneness; prakriti; principal idea; purusha; (re)integration; secret; synthesis; Vedanta

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author analizes the Aurobindonian concept of one of the most famous of ancient scriptures, The Bhagavad Gita. The analysis consits of representation and explanation of the five „ principle ideas“, which have been laid as a background in his Essays on The Gita for reconstruction of the old but always fresh Vedantic truths. These principles are: 1) disinterested action rising from the inner renunciation 2) the triple status of the one consciousness with a priority of the central purusottama 3) the real meaning of maya as not an illusion, but the working of the lower prakriti in the terms of the decisive higher prakriti 4) the dharma of the avatar as a human leader to the future, and 5) the equality and synthesis of the three paths (karma, jñana and bhakti). According to Sri Aurobindo, actualization of these main principles leads to the integral perception and experience of the eternaly living truths, which have been revealed in the forceful language of The Bhagavad Gita.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 319-333
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Lithuanian