The Secret of the Veda
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAL828 |
| Author: | Sri Aurobindo |
| Publisher: | Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry |
| Language: | Sanskrit Text With English Translation |
| Edition: | 2018 |
| ISBN: | 9788170587149 |
| Pages: | 609 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 7.5 inch X 5.0 inch |
| Weight | 450 gm |
Book Description
Thus there emerged in my mind, revealing itself as it were out of the ancient verses, a Veda which was throughout the Scripture of a great and antique religion already equipped with a profound psychological discipline, - a Scripture not confused in thought or primitive in its substance, not a medley of heterogeneous or barbarous elements, but one, complete and self-conscious in its purpose and in its purport, veiled indeed by the cover, sometimes thick, sometimes transparent, of another and material sense, but never losing sight even for a single moment of its high spiritual aim and tendency.
| Part One: The Secret of the Veda | ||
| I | The Problem and Its Solution | 3 |
| II | A Retrospect of Vedic Theroy | 10 |
| III | Modern Theories | 24 |
| IV | The Foundations of the Psychological Theory | 34 |
| V | The Philological Method of the Veda | 48 |
| VI | Agni and the Truth | 58 |
| VII | Varuna - Mitra and the Truth | 70 |
| VIII | The Ashwins - Indra - he Vishwadevas | 80 |
| IX | Saraswati and Her Consorts | 91 |
| X | The Images of the Oceans and the Rivers | 100 |
| XI | The Seven Rivers | 109 |
| XII | The Herds of the Dawn | 123 |
| XIII | Dawn and the Truth | 131 |
| XIV | The Cow and the Angiras Legend | 138 |
| XV | The Lost Sun and the Lost Cows | 149 |
| XVI | The Angiras Rishis | 159 |
| XVII | The Seven-Headed Thought, Swar and the Dashagwas | 173 |
| XVIII | The Human Fathers | 187 |
| XIX | The Victory of the Fathers | 199 |
| XX | The Hound of Heaven | 211 |
| XXI | The Sons of Darkness | 223 |
| XXII | The Conquest over the Dasyus | 232 |
| XXIII | Summary of Conclustsions | 241 |
| Part Two: Selected Hymns | ||
| I | The Colloquuy of Indra and Agastya | |
| II | Indra, Giver of Light | 257 |
| III | Indra and the Thought-Forces | 266 |
| IV | Agni, the Illumined Will | 276 |
| V | Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser | 285 |
| VI | The Divine Dawn | 293 |
| VII | To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer | 299 |
| VIII | Vayu, the Master of the Life Energies | 306 |
| IX | Brihaspati, Power of the Soul | 315 |
| X | The Ashwins, Lords of Bliss | 326 |
| XI | The Ribhus, Artisans of Immortality | 336 |
| XII | Vishnu, the All-Pervading Godhead | 343 |
| XIII | Soma, Lord of Delight and Immortality | 351 |
| Part Three: Hymns of the Atris | ||
| Foreword | 363 | |
| The Doctrine of the Mystics | 370 | |
| Hymns to Agni | ||
| Agni , the Divine Will-Force | 387 | |
| Hymns to Agni | 393 | |
| Hymns to the Lords of Light | ||
| The Guardians of the Light | 473 | |
| Hymns to Mitra-Varuna | 518 | |
| Hymns to Varuna | 544 | |
| Hymns to the Dawn | 549 | |
| A Hymns to Savitri | 555 | |
| Part Four: Other Hymns | ||
| A Vedic Hymns | 559 | |
| A Hymns of the Thought-Gods | 562 | |
| The God of the Mystic Wine | 565 | |
| The Vedic Fire | 568 | |
| A Vedic Hymn to the Fire | 574 | |
| Parashara's Hymns to the Lord of the Flame | 576 | |
| Appendix | ||
| Interpretation of the Veda | 593 |
