The Supramental Dialectic

Bhagavan Aurobindo, staunch nationalist that he was, prayed for India’s liberation !

” The athiest is in me, the agnostic is in me, all I want O Lord, is my country’s freedom “

Then suddenly He heard the Voice.

” This is the Eternal Law, the Sanathana Dharma, the Eternal Religion which I have perfected through the saints, the Yogis, the Rishies and the Avatars. When you go forth, say that it is for Dharma India exists. At the moment I am giving India her freedom”

No wonder India’s Independence and Aurobindo’s birthday coincided !

The Voice continued ” I am seated deep in the hearts of all and I overrule their actions and words. It is what I SHALL and not what others may. It is for Dharma India exists. Whatever be the impossibilities and difficulties that come, know that there is nothing impossible, there is nothing difficult. “

Aurobindo knew that all his steps were divinely ordained and founded the Supramental Dialectic and Integral Yoga, after this Vision he got in jail !

Who can describe Bhagavan Aurobindo ?

The Science of the Absolute

The Lord milked the cows ( Upanishads ) and created a master treatise, the Geetha. The Geetha is the Lamp lit by Him at the altar of humanity. It is the Upanishad sung by Him, the Science of the Absolute and the Scripture on Yoga. 

In the Upanishads, Reality is indicated by a series of negatives, because the Negative is less limiting than the Positive.

Aurobindo wrote ” The ancient sages spoke indeed of Brahman negatively. They said It is not this, It is not that”. At the same time, they took care to speak of it positively. They said It is this, It is that, It is all. Brahman, the Absolute, they said is Life, is Matter, is Life, is Supermind, is Cosmic Delight, is Sat Chit Ananda ( Being, Knowledge, Bliss ). But Brahman, the Absolute, cannot be defined by any of these terms, not even by our broadest definition of Sat Chit Ananda”.

Metempsychosis

Some doubt the Law of Metempsychosis or Reincarnation. 

The Law of Conservation of Matter states that Matter or Energy can never be created nor destroyed.

Matter exists in three forms – solid, liquid and gaseous.

Ice (solid ) when heated becomes water. Water when heated becomes vapour, which when cooled, becomes water. In other words, Substance knoweth no destruction. It merely undergoes a transformation into conditions which preexisted in other conditions.

Imagine yourself as ice. Ice had preexisted in other conditions as water. Water had preexisted in other conditions as vapour. It is only logical to assume that we had preexisted in other conditions !

Physical Life, therefore, does not begin to be. It merely enters physical conditions and assumes physical guise.

The Law of Conservation of Matter is in other words, the Law of Conservation of Being, where Being is all in all – Matter, Mind and Life !

Sai as Avatar !

In the communiion of Yoga, Aurobindo felt that the Overmind is descending on Earth. He exclaimed ” Lord Krishna will be reborn in India” ( On Nov 23 ). After that Aurobindo retired into solitude. 

To fulfill that prophecy, Bhagavan Baba was born.

Adorned with the sixteen divine graces
And resembling the orb of the Autumn Moon
The Sovereign of this Universe
Was born as Easwaramba’s beloved son
To the delight of the three worlds !

Symbolism of Animal and Self

We will explain the symbolism of Nandi and Lord Shiva. 

Why did the Rishies insist on Nandi before the Deity. Nandi represents our animal aspect. Our animal aspect has to be overcome to attain Self Actualisation, or the vision of the mighty Lord ( Lord Shiva ).

After attaining Cosmic Consciousness, Sat Prem writes about Aurobindo. ” He felt the animal grimace under the Infinite Consciousness and the material gross still intact after that beautiful aureole”. He had overcome the animal in Him !

You will find this great Symbolism in all Lord Shiva temples.

The symbolism of Kalia Mardhana

This is a glorious opportunity to explain the great symbolism of Kalia Mardana.

In the West, the seven reprehensible actions have been defined by Dante as the Seven Deadly Sins. They are Lust, greed, anger, jealousy, sloth, covetousness and gluttony.

In India, they are known as the Ari Shad Vargas, the six enemies of Man, Kama, Krodha, Mada, Moha, Matsarya & Lobha. Raga or attachment can be added as the Seventh.

The giant Kalia reprents our Ego. And his seven hoods are the Seven Deadly Sins, Kama, Krodha etc.

Let Him dance on our Ego, destroying the Sins in us, so that we become eligible for Self Actualisation !

Ego, strength, arrogance,
Lust, anger, hatred
Overcoming all these
Eligible he becomes
For the Divine Crown !

Ahamkaram Balam Darpam
Kamam Krodham Parigraham
Vimuchya Nirmala Shantho
Brahma bhooyaya Kaplathe

– The Holy Geetha

Grace us O Almighty Lord!

Praseeda Devesha Jagannivasa !

Dialectical Integralism

Marx was a great philosopher and his Dialectical Materialism checked the advance of Evangelist Churchianity. International Communism became so formidable that its strength equalled the strength of United Churchianity !

One gentleman by the name of Upadhyaya, son in law of Dange, has written a book called ” Marxist Brahman”. This is about Divine Communism. He proved that Dialectical Materilism existed even before Marx in the Upanishads. Padartham Brahma means that Matter is the Brahman. Aurobindo Philosophy also begins with the staetement that Matter is the Brahman, Annam Brahma.

Dialectical Idealism reversed ( Hegelian Idealism ) is Marxism. Marx was a Jewish intellectual. Spinoza, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Marx, Trotsky etc were all Jews.

Aurobindo integrated both Dialectical Idealism and Dialectical Materialism and founded Dialectical Integralism, that Matter and Spirit are the obverse and the reverse of the same coin of Realit

Vedic Symbolism

All sastras have two types of meaning 

The Exoteric – Outer – Bahya Artha
The Esoteric – Inner – Antarika Artha

Bahya Abhyantara Bhedath Dvivida

While we can understand a mythological story and its Bahya Artha, the Antarika Artha or the inner symbolic meaning is explained only by the Guru. It can only be got via the Guru Shishya Bandha.

Here is the symbolism of the Lord on a chariot, giving instructions to the Prince of India.

The Lord symbolises the Self
Arjuna represents the Discriminative Intellect, Prajna
The Five Horses are the Five Senses, Pancha Indriyas
The reins are the Mind.

Pramana

Athmanam Sardhim Viddhi
Shareeram Ratham Eva Cha
Indriyanam Hayaneshu
Mana pragrahameva Cha

Know that the Self is the rider
The Body the Chariot
Senses five the five horses
And Mind the reins !

Vande Guru Paramparam

We thank the tradition of Masters, who gave us this symbolic meaning. Hail Bhagavan Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Bhagavan Sai, Mahesh Yogi etc.

Gain Peace immense !

Dr Paul Brunton hailed Him as one of the greatest sages. ‘ I thank the hour when I first met thee, O Illustrious Sage of Arunachala” wrote he. On seeing Him, Dr Brunton records that ” I felt immense peace enter into the inner realms of my being”!

When Dr Brunton was sitting in an apartment in US, he heard the voice of this Great One. ” Are you just wasting time, when humanity is thirsting for crumbs of Wisdom?”. Impelled by that Call, Dr Brunton came to India and wrote 20 books on Yoga.

Says Raman

“In the Infinite Sky of Consciousness ( Chit Akasha ), the Sun of Self Realisation shines bright and brilliant. Disperse the cloud of Ego obstructing the moonlight of Consciouness and the bud of Truth begins to blossom.

The Absolute Brahman becomes the cosmic world and spreads this world. This world is its thought, an imagination.

The mind gets peace by meditating on the Unity of the Ultimate Reality. The Self fills the Universe, being  colorless, formless, nameless !

Humanity’s first martyr !

In his essay ” Giadarno Bruno “, Robert Ingersoll writes

Christian ignorance, bigotry and hatred have destroyed the vast treasures of our race. The Sun was blotted out from the intellectual horizon, every star extinguished. And there descended into our planet the period known as the Dark Ages.

This world class philosopher and poet, Bruno, was burnt alive by RC. ( by the triumphant Beast ).

He was humanity’s first martyr.

The murder of this great one can only be avenged, until from Rome
shall be removed every vestige of priest and Pope, after the ruins of St Peters, the fallen Cross and the crumpled Vatican, shall rise a monument to Bruno, the thinker, the philosopher, the martyr !