Q: What does this mean “the colloquy of Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity“?
A: The Mother: Sri Aurobindo considers the message of the Gita to be the basis of the great spiritual movement which has led and will lead humanity more and more to its liberation, that is to say, to its escape from falsehood and ignorance, towards the truth. .
From the time of its first appearance, the Gita has had an immense spiritual action: but with the new interpretation that Sri Aurobindo has given to it, its influence has increased considerably and has become decisive.
Q: Some say Krishna never lived, he is a myth. They mean on earth; for if Brindavan existed nowhere, the Bhagavat could not be written.
Does Brindavan exist anywhere else than on earth?
A: The Mother: The whole earth and everything it contains is a kind of concentration, a condensation of something which exists in other worlds invisible to the material eye. Each thing manifested here has its principle, idea or essence somewhere in the subtler regions. This is an indispensable condition for the manifestation. And the importance of the manifestation will always depend on the origin of the thing manifested.
In the world of the gods there is an ideal and harmonious Brindavan of which the earthly Brindavan is but a deformation and a caricature.
Those who are developed inwardly, either in their senses or in their minds, perceive these realities which are invisible (to the ordinary man) and receive their inspiration from them.
So the writer or writers of the Bhagavat were certainly in contact with a whole inner world that is well and truly real and existent, where they saw and experienced everything they have described or revealed.
Whether Krishna existed or not in human form, living on earth, is only of very secondary importance (except perhaps from a purely historical point of view), for Krishna is a real, living and active being; for his influence has been one of the great factors in the progress and transformation of the earth.
- The Mother (8th June, 1960)
(CWM Volume 10, Centenary Edition Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1976, Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry- 605002) .
A: The Mother: Sri Aurobindo considers the message of the Gita to be the basis of the great spiritual movement which has led and will lead humanity more and more to its liberation, that is to say, to its escape from falsehood and ignorance, towards the truth. .
From the time of its first appearance, the Gita has had an immense spiritual action: but with the new interpretation that Sri Aurobindo has given to it, its influence has increased considerably and has become decisive.
Q: Some say Krishna never lived, he is a myth. They mean on earth; for if Brindavan existed nowhere, the Bhagavat could not be written.
Does Brindavan exist anywhere else than on earth?
A: The Mother: The whole earth and everything it contains is a kind of concentration, a condensation of something which exists in other worlds invisible to the material eye. Each thing manifested here has its principle, idea or essence somewhere in the subtler regions. This is an indispensable condition for the manifestation. And the importance of the manifestation will always depend on the origin of the thing manifested.
In the world of the gods there is an ideal and harmonious Brindavan of which the earthly Brindavan is but a deformation and a caricature.
Those who are developed inwardly, either in their senses or in their minds, perceive these realities which are invisible (to the ordinary man) and receive their inspiration from them.
So the writer or writers of the Bhagavat were certainly in contact with a whole inner world that is well and truly real and existent, where they saw and experienced everything they have described or revealed.
Whether Krishna existed or not in human form, living on earth, is only of very secondary importance (except perhaps from a purely historical point of view), for Krishna is a real, living and active being; for his influence has been one of the great factors in the progress and transformation of the earth.
- The Mother (8th June, 1960)
(CWM Volume 10, Centenary Edition Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1976, Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry- 605002) .
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