Written work
The Secret of the Veda
It proposes a “psychological” interpretation of the Rig Veda against Sayana’s ritualist reading and the naturalist one of European Indologists: the hymns would encode a spiritual path, and Agni, Indra, Soma or the cows and horses would be symbols of forces and states of consciousness. It includes philological studies and translations of hymns to Agni, Indra and other gods. Contested by academic philology and influential in esoteric readings of the Veda.
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Authorship note
Published in Arya between 1914 and 1916, with translations of hymns; it did not appear in book form until after his death (On the Veda, 1956). CWSA 15.
Editions and translations
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English
Sri Aurobindo
Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, vol. 15 (1998)
The Conscious LibraryComplete Works of Sri Aurobindo, vol. 15 (1998)
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, Pondicherry
Edición de referencia (CWSA); PDF gratuito para uso personal en la web del ashram.
Secret of the Veda (U.S. edition)
Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, 1995
ISBN 9780914955191
Français
Le Secret du Véda
Fayard, París, 1975
ISBN 2213002762
Introducción de Jacques Masui.
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- The Life Divine · 1939
- The Synthesis of Yoga · 1948
- Essays on the Gita · 1922
- Hymns to the Mystic Fire · 1946
- Isha Upanishad · 1914
- Kena and Other Upanishads · 1915
- The Human Cycle · 1949
- The Ideal of Human Unity · 1919
- War and Self-Determination · 1920
- The Future Poetry · 1953
- The Renaissance in India · 1920
- A Defence of Indian Culture (The Foundations of Indian Culture) · 1953
- The Problem of Rebirth · 1952
- Heraclitus · 1941
- The Mother · 1928
- Lights on Yoga · 1935
- Bases of Yoga · 1936
- More Lights on Yoga · 1948
- The Riddle of This World · 1933
- Letters on Yoga · 1958
- Letters on Himself and the Ashram · 2011
- Letters on Poetry and Art · 2004
- Thoughts and Glimpses · 1920
- Thoughts and Aphorisms · 1958
- Essays Divine and Human · 1994
- Essays in Philosophy and Yoga · 1998
- The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth · 1952
- The Hour of God · 1959
- Record of Yoga · 2001
- Yogic Sadhan (attributed) · 1911
- New Lamps for Old · 1893
- Bhawani Mandir · 1905
- Bande Mataram: Political Writings and Speeches 1890–1908 · 2002
- The Doctrine of Passive Resistance · 1948
- Uttarpara Speech · 1909
- Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909–1910 · 1997
- The Ideal of the Karmayogin · 1918
- A System of National Education · 1921
- The Brain of India · 1921
- Bankim — Tilak — Dayananda · 1940
- Tales of Prison Life (Kara-kahini) · 1910
- Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit · 2017
- Early Cultural Writings · 2003
- Kalidasa · 1929
- Vyasa and Valmiki · 1956
- The Significance of Indian Art · 1947
- Vedic and Philological Studies · 2013
- Translations · 2003
- Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol · 1950
- Collected Poems · 2009
- Songs to Myrtilla · 1895
- Urvasie · 1896
- Love and Death · 1921
- Ahana and Other Poems · 1915
- Poems Past and Present · 1946
- Last Poems · 1952
- Ilion: An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters · 1957
- Collected Plays and Stories · 1998
- Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest · 2006
- Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) · 1997
- Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo · 1959
- Talks with Sri Aurobindo · 1966
- The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (Peter Heehs) · 2008
- Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness (Satprem) · 1964
Sources
- Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA). 37 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, 1997–2025. Sustituye a la Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL, 30 vols., 1972).
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