The Secret of the Veda - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

616 Pages·2003·2.13 MB·English

by  Sri Aurobindo

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The Secret of the Veda
VOLUME 15
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1998
Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry
PRINTEDININDIA
The Secret of the Veda
with Selected Hymns

Publisher’s Note
ThisvolumecomprisesSriAurobindo’swritingsonandtransla-
tionsoftheRigVedathatwerepublishedinthemonthlyreview
Arya between 1914 and 1920. Most of this material appeared
under three headings:
The Secretof the Veda, August 1914–July 1916.
SelectedHymns, August 1914–July 1915.
Hymns of the Atris,August 1915–December 1917.
These series form the first three parts of the present volume.
Other translations of Vedic hymns that came out in the Arya,
butnotunderanyoftheaboveheadings,makeupPartFour.Sri
Aurobindo’sVedicwritingsandtranslationsthatdidnotappear
in the Arya are published in Vedic Studies with Writings on
Philology and Hymns to the Mystic Fire, volumes 14 and 16 of
THE COMPLETE WORKS OFSRI AUROBINDO.

Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry

CONTENTS
PART ONE
THE SECRET OF THE VEDA
I
The Problem andIts Solution 3
II
ARetrospectof Vedic Theory 10
III
Modern Theories 24
IV
The Foundations of the Psychological Theory 34
V
The Philological Method of the Veda 48
VI
Agni and the Truth 58
VII
Varuna-Mitra and the Truth 70
VIII
The Ashwins—Indra—the Vishwadevas 80
IX
Saraswatiand Her Consorts 91
X
The Image of the Oceans and the Rivers 100
XI
The Seven Rivers 109
CONTENTS
XII
The Herds of the Dawn 123
XIII
Dawn and the Truth 131
XIV
The Cow andthe AngirasLegend 138
XV
The Lost Sun and the Lost Cows 149
XVI
The Angiras Rishis 159
XVII
The Seven-Headed Thought, Swar and the Dashagwas 173
XVIII
The Human Fathers 187
XIX
The Victory of the Fathers 199
XX
The Hound of Heaven 211
XXI
The Sons of Darkness 223
XXII
The Conquest over the Dasyus 232
XXIII
Summary of Conclusions 241
PART TWO
SELECTED HYMNS
I
The Colloquy of Indra and Agastya(I.170) 253