Explanation of the Gita

Explication of the Gita, Path revealed by Githai, Geetai Kattum PathaiAuthor: Dr. Shuddhananda BharatiThe great messageThe teaching of the Gita is yoga, spiritual truth applied to external life and action; it may be any action and not necessarily an action resembling that of the Gita. It is the principle of the spiritual consciousness applied to action that has to be kept. By turning (from the present world-consciousness) to the Divine and entering into the Divine consciousness one can possess through the world also the Eternal. The language of the Gita sometimes admits two apparently opposite truths and turns to reconcile them. It admits the ideal of departure from Samsara into the Brahman as one possibility; also it offers the possibility of living free in the Divine (in me, it says) and acting in the world as the Jivan Mukta. It is the latter kind of solution on which it lays the greatest emphasis.The full truth lies in the supramental consciousness and the power to unite from there life and matter. One has first to conquer the lower nature, deliver the self involved in the lower movement by means of the higher self which rises into the divine nature; at the same time one offers all one’s actions including the inner action of the yoga as a sacrifice to the Purushottama, the transcendent and the immanent Divine. When one has risen into the higher-self, has the knowledge and is free, one makes the complete surrender to the Divine, abandoning all other Dharmas living only in the Divine consciousness, the Divine will and force, the Divine Ananda.Sri AurobindoEditions ASSA, Christian Piaget