Sunday, August 19, 2012

Dharma Sangha and Sri Aurobindo II part










Unfortunately to study the message of D.S. and compare it with that of Sri A. is an arduous task as it means to meet immediately with the additional problem of low quality translations of D.S. speaches. 
His words were translated in a chain of approximate translations which too often were coloured by the concepts already within the mind of the translator.
But a special receptiveness is necessary when new concepts are transmitted.
D.S. himself expressed his wish that the translations of his teaching should be revised and his message coherently expressed.
We know that recently a group was formed self-appointing to the translations, but some of them should humbly recognize the task far exceeds their good will and leave it to more prepared people.
That said, we should proceed.

D.S.  "The true knowledge, Maitri knowledge (loving kindness), has not been recognized by anybody...Today the world is in search of non violence and the way to Maitreya (loving kindness), it has not been found yet".

comment:
has not been recognized by anybody...it has not been found yet... 
please note: This, even if said by D.S. is not to be taken as an absolute.
We positively know that at least Sri Aurobindo and Mother knew perfectly that,
though they used other words, because their "overmental" and
 "supermental light-consciousness" and gnostic being are of a general value, a general circumstance in which Dharma Sangha himself is included.
 From their teachings we are led to drive a correspondence between sambhodi(D.S.) and gnostic being (Sri A.).
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D.S.  "In today's world there is the Maitreya idea between the soul and the super soul that is slowly taking root".

comment: in effect, today just for the clarifying writings of Sri A., the  concept of the Oversoul is much more close to us, and the necessity of the Oversoul as a realization  has entered the mind of the spiritual researcher. Moreover, Sri A. perfectly individualized the involved powers, and he unmistakenly referred to the soul (which he also called psychic being*) as a central point of his yoga. 

D.S. "If we have the knowledge of Maitri between the soul and super soul"

comment: in that imaginary line we traced in the previous post
PERSONALITY---------------SOUL---------------OVERSOUL, 
                          1th segment          2nd segment
 
the Maitri knowledge is what is manifested in the 2nd segment.it is a superior path, justifying the words of Sri Aurobindo: "This Yoga starts where all the other ends".

D.S. "Being absorbed in between the soul (Atma) and the Super Soul (Paramatma) I received a direct vision face to face (darshan) with Maitreya Nath".

comment: in between Atma and Paramatma.
We should bear in mind D.S. was talking of an ongoing realization which may have been altered by later consecutions, as he is describing a "space" or "condition" between Atma and Paramatma, but we positively know Sri Aurobindo described with his "gnostic being" the consciousness definitely focused in the Paramatma or Oversoul.
What we see is an important interchangeability of terms, as here "Oversoul" and "Paramatma" have an identical meaning.
But the Paramatma is another word for "Purushottama", the highest of the three Purusha, so that it refers both to levels of identification and at the same time takes in the concept of the Three Purusha.
But we have an important and clarifying aspect of D.S.´s yoga in the following words:

D.S. 100. There is direct manifestation of the Truthful Being (purush), the Great Being (maha purush) and the Buddha Being (buddha purush).

comment: we understand from here that, even with the manifestation of the Buddha Being/Purushottama, the manifestation of the other two Purusha is concomitant,the three Purusha are meant as a combination of the three,  and we see the imaginary line uniting the points Personality, Soul, Oversoul as a fulfillment of each of them in their respective positions.
Sri Aurobindo mentioned the personality as to be transformed by the soul, but in no moment spoke of a complete annihilation of that center or a factual disappearance.
It is only a re-definition of our own triune nature which acquire its truer aspects.
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As a conclusion of this post, I wish to make present here that "The Yoga of the Future Action" has a strong resemblance with this kind  of trine yoga of D.S.(the manifestation of the three Purusha). Naturally, you are free to accept or not the result of this comparation, it only unswer to a personal need of mine and require a much more extense work, so it should be interpreted as ideas, and surely you can produce your own comparation.









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