The Upanishads - I: Isha Upanishad (Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo Volume 17)

607 Pages·1993·1.77 MB·English

by  Aurobindo Sri

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Isha Upanishad
VOLUME17
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO
©SriAurobindoAshramTrust2003
Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry
PRINTEDININDIA
Isha Upanishad
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Publisher’s Note
This volume contains Sri Aurobindo’s translations of and
commentaries on the Isha Upanishad. His translations of and
commentaries on other Upanishads and Vedantic texts, and his
writings ontheUpanishads andVedantaphilosophy ingeneral,
are published in Kena and Other Upanishads, volume 18 of
THE COMPLETE WORKSOF SRI AUROBINDO.
Thepresentvolumeisdividedintotwoparts.Thefirstcon-
sistsofSriAurobindo’sfinaltranslationandanalysisoftheIsha
Upanishad. This is the only work in this volume that was pub-
lishedduringhislifetime.Itcontainshisdefinitiveinterpretation
of the Isha Upanishad.
Before publishing this final translation and analysis, Sri
AurobindowrotetenincompletecommentariesontheIshaUpa-
nishad. These appear in approximate chronological order in
Part Two. Ranging in length from a few pages to more than a
hundred,theyshowthedevelopmentofhisinterpretationofthis
Upanishad from around 1900 to the middle of 1914, when he
began work on his final translation and analysis.
The texts in both parts have been checked against the rele-
vant manuscript and printed versions.
Guide to Editorial Notation
ThecontentsofPartTwoofthisvolumewereneverpreparedby
SriAurobindoforpublication.Theyhavebeentranscribedfrom
manuscripts that sometimes present textual difficulties. In this
editiontheseproblemshavebeenindicatedasfaraspossibleby
means of the notation shown below.
Notation Textual Problem
[.......] Word(s)lostthroughdamagetothemanuscript(at
the beginning of a piece, sometimes indicates that
a page or pages of the manuscript have been lost)
[word] Word(s)omittedbytheauthororlostthroughdam-
agetothemanuscriptthatarerequiredbygrammar
or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors
[note] Situations requiring textual explication; all such
information is printed in italics
CONTENTS
Part One
Translation and Commentary Published by SriAurobindo
Isha Upanishad 3
Part Two
Incomplete Commentaries fromManuscripts
Isha Upanishad:
All that is world in the Universe 95
The Ishavasyopanishad
with a commentary in English 101
The Karmayogin:
A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad 169
Ish and Jagat 303
The Secretof the Isha 307
Chapters for a Work on the Isha Upanishad 311
The Upanishad inAphorism 351
The Life Divine [Draft A] 361
The Life Divine [Draft B] 429
The Life Divine [Draft C] 551
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Sri Aurobindo in 1908