Nalanda
Commentary
Sri Aurobindo
48 essays · 3 parts

Essays on the Gita

गीता प्रबन्धाः

A philosopher's reading of the Gita

Sri Aurobindo's long meditation on the Bhagavad Gītā — the First Series (1916–18) and the Second Series (1918–20), from The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.

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"The Gita is not a weapon for dialectical warfare; it is a gate opening on the whole world of spiritual truth and experience."

Written between 1916 and 1920, the Essays on the Gita read the teaching of Krishna not as a scholastic system but as a living synthesis of works, devotion and knowledge. Sri Aurobindo returns again and again to the central demand of the Gita: an integral surrender of the whole being to the Divine, and a divine action carried out in the world rather than a flight from it.

Essays

48

across both series

Parts

3

First Series and Second Series I–II

Paragraphs

652

of continuous prose

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Sri Aurobindo's prose

The Essays on the Gita as first serialised in the Arya, preserved paragraph by paragraph.

Two series, three parts

The First Series and both parts of the Second Series, arranged in their original order.

Commentary, not translation

A philosopher's reading of the Gita — its synthesis of works, love and knowledge.

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