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The Delight of Krishna

Bhagavad Gītā · in the light of Sri Aurobindo

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The Bhagavad Gita in the light of Sri Aurobindo: the Sanskrit text with Sri Aurobindo’s translation, verse and chapter recitations, word-by-word grammar, sentence wheels, his complete Essays on the Gita, and sixteen companion essays with eighteen chapter gateways.

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The eighteen gateways

The Ascent of the Soul

Each chapter is a threshold: the soul enters in one state and leaves in another. Follow the river from the field of the Dharma to the refuge beyond all dharmas; the ring about each station fills as you read its verses.

  1. arjunaviṣādayogaḥ

    Chapter 1: The Soul of Action at the Breaking of Its Law

    dharma to viṣāda

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  2. sāṅkhyayogaḥ

    Chapter 2: The Immortal Self and the Yoga of the Intelligent Will

    viṣāda to brāhmī sthiti

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  3. karmayogaḥ

    Chapter 3: The Law of Sacrifice and the Lord of Works

    brāhmī sthiti to yajña

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  4. jñānakarmasaṃnyāsayogaḥ

    Chapter 4: The Divine Birth and the Works of Knowledge

    yajña to divyaṃ janma karma

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  5. karmasaṃnyāsayogaḥ

    Chapter 5: The Inner Renunciation and the Peace of the Brahman

    divyaṃ janma karma to brahmanirvāṇa

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  6. ātmasaṃyamayogaḥ

    Chapter 6: The Mastery of the Self and the Yogin Who Loves

    brahmanirvāṇa to śraddhāvān bhajate

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  7. jñānavijñānayogaḥ

    Chapter 7: The Two Natures and the Integral Knowledge

    śraddhāvān bhajate to vāsudevaḥ sarvam

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  8. akṣarabrahmayogaḥ

    Chapter 8: The Imperishable and the Remembrance That Fights

    vāsudevaḥ sarvam to mām anusmara yudhya ca

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  9. rājavidyārājaguhyayogaḥ

    Chapter 9: The King-Knowledge and the King-Secret

    mām anusmara yudhya ca to matparāyaṇaḥ

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  10. vibhūtiyogaḥ

    Chapter 10: God in the Powers of His Becoming

    matparāyaṇaḥ to vibhūti

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  11. viśvarūpadarśanayogaḥ

    Chapter 11: The Vision of the World-Spirit: Time the Destroyer and the Friend

    vibhūti to viśvarūpa

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  12. bhaktiyogaḥ

    Chapter 12: The Way of Love and the Bhakta Dear to God

    viśvarūpa to madbhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ

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  13. kṣetrakṣetrajñavibhāgayogaḥ

    Chapter 13: The Field and Its Knower

    madbhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ to kṣetrajña

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  14. guṇatrayavibhāgayogaḥ

    Chapter 14: The Soul Above the Modes of Nature

    kṣetrajña to guṇātīta

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  15. puruṣottamayogaḥ

    Chapter 15: The Supreme Person Beyond the Mutable and the Immutable

    guṇātīta to puruṣottama

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  16. daivāsurasampadvibhāgayogaḥ

    Chapter 16: The Divine and the Titanic Endowment

    puruṣottama to daivī sampad

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  17. śraddhātrayavibhāgayogaḥ

    Chapter 17: Faith, the Substance of the Soul

    daivī sampad to oṃ tat sat

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  18. mokṣasaṃnyāsayogaḥ

    Chapter 18: Renunciation, Swadharma and the Supreme Secret

    oṃ tat sat to mām ekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vraja

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Sixteen Essays in Four Ascents

Companion Essays

Written after Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita, whose words they quote exactly and whose light they follow. Each opens one movement of the teaching, draws its shape as a figure, and closes in a contemplation.

Anugītā · The Companion

Ascent I The Field and the Charioteer

The crisis of the human soul in action, the Teacher who takes it up, the nature of the disciple and the questions by which he climbs.

  1. iThe Crisis of the Human Soul in Action19 minKurukshetra, the chariot between the armies, and the dejection that becomes a Yoga
  2. iiThe Divine Teacher19 minHow the Friend in the chariot takes up the human soul part by part and reveals himself as the truth he teaches
  3. iiiThe Nature of the Disciple20 minArjuna, the rajasic Kshatriya with a sattwic ideal, and the taking up of his whole nature into the divine man
  4. ivThe Questions of the Seeker and the Answers of the Master18 minHow each question of Arjuna rises from a deeper plane of his being, and how the Teacher answers the questioner more than the question

Ascent II The Yoga of Divine Works

Action lifted from desire to sacrifice and from sacrifice to the Divine; the ascending law; the ego unseated; the modes of Nature exceeded.

  1. vFrom Desireful Works to Divine Works17 minHow the Gita takes up the whole labour of man and returns it to him as the work of God
  2. viThe Ascending Law15 minFrom the dharma of family and order to the Divine who is the source of every law and is bound by none
  3. viiThe Doer and the Instrument17 minHow the knot of the ego is loosed and the human nature becomes the conscious bow of the divine Archer
  4. viiiThe Three Modes of Nature and Their Transcendence17 minTamas, rajas and sattwa: the triple cord of the lower nature, and the love that carries the soul beyond it into the being of the Purushottama

Ascent III The Lord of All Existence

Self, Nature and the Lord; one yoga of works, knowledge and love; the unfolding of the doctrine; the vision of the World-Spirit.

  1. ixSelf, Nature and the Lord20 minHow each truth of the Gita’s metaphysics rises to meet a necessity of the soul in action, until all are gathered in the Purushottama
  2. xThe One Yoga of Works, Knowledge and Love18 minNot three roads set side by side, but a single cord of three strands drawn upward to the Purushottama
  3. xiThe Unfolding of the Doctrine20 minHow the eighteen chapters rise, each answering the next necessity of the soul, from a broken will to the secret of self-giving
  4. xiiThe Vision of the World-Spirit16 minWhy the soul must behold Time the Destroyer before it can act, and the love that waits behind the terror

Ascent IV The Supreme Secret

The Gita as a science of consciousness, the living drama of the Charioteer, the great verses given back their movement, and the living words.

  1. xiiiThe Gita as a Science of Consciousness20 minThe senses, the mind, the intelligent will, and He who is beyond: the soul’s instruments given back to their Master
  2. xivThe Drama of the Divine Charioteer19 minFrom the clamour of the conches to the rapture of the witness: the Gita as a living drama of the soul’s deliverance
  3. xvThe Great Verses Restored to Their Movement20 minThe Gita’s most quoted lines, lifted out of the living argument, harden into maxims; returned to it, they become again the Charioteer’s speech to the soul
  4. xviThe Living Words19 minThe Gita’s great Sanskrit terms followed from their roots through their verses into the powers of consciousness they name

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