Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

16 December 1940

Anilbaran in an article on the Gita has tried to bring into it Sri Aurobindo’s ideas of transformation, The Life Divine, etc. Sri Aurobindo commented on this.

Sri Aurobindo: The Gita doesn’t speak of transformation. It is his own reading of the Gita. One can say that the Gita shows the way to something further or to our Yoga. What it speaks of is the need to act from a spiritual consciousness using the instruments of the human mind, vital, etc., but not of the transformation of these instruments.

Purani: Anilbaran admits this but he says that here and there in the Gita there are hints beyond it.

Sri Aurobindo: In that case my claim that our Yoga is new doesn’t hold good, and the man who said that the Gita speaks of transformation would be right.

Purani conveyed Sri Aurobindo’s views to Anilbaran. Anilbaran admitted his mistake and said that in the future he would be more cautious and accurate in his statements.