Sri Aurobindo

Autobiographical Notes

and Other Writings of Historical Interest

Part One. Autobiographical Notes

2. Sri Aurobindo’s corrections of statements in a proposed biography

Philosophy and Writings

Essays on the Gita [1]

[Dharma = devoir (duty)]

Devoir is hardly the meaning of the [word]¹ Dharma. Performing disinterested[ly] one’s duty is a European misreading of the teaching of the Gita. Dharma in the Gita means the law of one’s own essential nature or is described sometimes as action governed by that nature, swabhava.

¹ MS (dictated) phrase

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