Now it’s no more Divine Secret, as Krishna keeps telling Arjuna “गुह्यतमं”. Here in Savitri, Sri Krishna, as Sri Aurobindo, completely unfolded the Highest Secret of Creation, Creator, and all of ourselves. This Bhagavad Gita is in His own handwritten form, available all over the world for humans to read and realise.
This is the sailor on the flow of Time,
This is World-Matter’s slow discoverer,
Who, launched into this small corporeal birth,
Has learned his craft in tiny bays of self,
But dares at last unplumbed infinitudes,
A voyager upon eternity’s seas.
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-secret-knowledge#p185)
Beautiful way to express. Yes, reading Sri Aurobindo, especially Savitri, with a receptive mind opens the doors to the true understanding and can lead someone who is ready to the doors of the experience itself.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
(Follow-up Question:)
Because the words I wrote from the Bhagavad Gita, chapters 13, 14, 15, are not decodable by me. Now I understand, I am not sure of the words Sri Aurobindo used for those terms. So I can’t give the equivalent words from the Canto to those specific terms in the Bhagavad Gita.
I can fully understand the natural need to collate anything new that we read and come across with something with which we are familiar. The mind always operates like that in everyone. This has its own advantages but also creates limitations.
In my personal experience, however, I feel it is best to understand the words used by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother as they have used and described them. It is because even where some of them have been used in the tradition, Sri Aurobindo gives them a new scope and a deeper significance. For example, the psychic being is mentioned in the Katha Upanishad, but its evolutionary nature, origin and destiny are not revealed. So best to take them as Sri Aurobindo reveals and then later, much later, we will see the correspondence as well as the subtle differences.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
