October 10, 2007

The Shudra, Bhaga, and Mahasaraswati

She is Mahasaraswati, the goddess of divine skill and of the works of the Spirit, and hers is the Yoga that is skill in works, yogah karmasu kauśalam, and the utilities of divine knowledge and the self-application of the spirit to life and the happiness of its harmonies. Page – 752 Location: Home > E-Library > Works Of Sri Aurobindo > Synthesis Of Yoga Volume-21 > Faith And Shakti
The Divine is the pure, the faultless, the all-embracing, the untroubled ecstasy that enjoys its own infinite being and enjoys equally all that it creates within itself; Bhaga gives us sovereignly that ecstasy of the liberated soul, its free and unfallen possession of itself and the world. Page – 444 Location: Home > E-Library > Works Of Sri Aurobindo > The Secret Of The Veda Volume-10 > The Guardians Of The Light
Varuna represents the principle of pure and wide being, Sat in Sachchidananda; Aryaman represents the light of the divine consciousness working as Force; Mitra representing light and knowledge, using the principle of Ananda for creation, is Love maintaining the law of harmony; Bhaga represents Ananda as the creative enjoyment; he takes the delight of the creation, takes the delight of all that is created. It is the Maya, the formative wisdom of Varuna, of Mitra that disposes multitudinously the light of Aditi brought by the Dawn to manifest the worlds...
Surya Savitri, who is Bhaga, stands between the Infinite and the created worlds within us and without. All things that have to be born in the creative consciousness he receives into the Vijnana; there he puts it into its right place in the divine rhythm by the knowledge that listens and receives the Word as it descends and so he looses it forth into the movement of things...Page – 289, 293 Location: Home > E-Library > Works Of Sri Aurobindo > The Secret Of The Veda Volume-10 > To Bhaga Savitri, The Enjoyer
Bhaga, enjoyment, and bhāga, share, were for the Vedic mind not different words, but one word which had developed two different uses. Therefore it was easy for the Rishis to employ it in one of the two senses with the other at the back of the mind colouring its overt connotation or even to use it equally in both senses at a time by a sort of figure of cumulative significance. Document: Home > E-Library > Works Of Sri Aurobindo > The Secret Of The Veda Volume-10 > The Philological Method Of The Veda

The honour of the Shudra which gives itself in obedience, subordination, faithful service, a disinterested attachment. Document: Home > E-Library > Works Of Sri Aurobindo > Social And Political Thought Volume-15 > The Cycle Of Society

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