Reference: Subject: The Vedas
Lecture series delivered December 23 – 30, 2011
Restoring the Vedas (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTqkxTVKYc (15:34)
The first commentary on the Vedas was Brahmanas, and the next was Upanishads. Vedas are eternal, they have always been there. In a sense, THE VEDAS represent a fully assimilated universal matrix of knowledge, of which the individual mental matrix is a part. They are connected through meditation.
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Restoring the Vedas (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMLyRfnckBU (15:28)
Even when not all knowledge is spelled out in the Vedic texts, the seeds of knowledge are there. From those seeds the knowledge has been evolving. According to Vedas the real knowledge is that which can be used to rise from mortality to immortality. Immortality is the highest attainment.
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Restoring the Vedas (Part 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcciM-TpMwg (15:30)
Immortality has something to do with the physical being. This physical being breaks its limits. When the limits are broken it opens out to the light. It becomes very wide in its consciousness that is infinite. This is Vedic immortality according to Sri Aurobindo.
As far as I can see, the physical body has never achieved immortality. But one may say that a person, while living, who has attained the level of awarenes of Nirakar Brahman has attained immortality. The physical body may die, but he has knowingly become one with the living universe.
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Restoring the Vedas (Part 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCELJUi_k4 (14:25)
The difference between outer being and the inner (psychic) being is that the outer being accumulates knowledge, but the inner being assimilates knowledge. In this universe there are cycles within cycles within cycles. The topmost (broadest) cycle that contains all the other cycles is the closest to immortality. When the topmost cycle within one is integrated (assimilated) with all the cycles that it contains than one has reached the ultimate depth of immortality.
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Restoring the Vedas (Part 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02shufBWcM (15:03)
It is not just the immortality of the spiritual being, or the mental being that one is after. The ultimate immortality that Vedas are after, is the immortality of the whole body-mind-spirit system. The body must also be part of that immortality. This is central to the understanding of the Vedas. It appears that evolution is moving in the direction of the immortality of the body also.
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Restoring the Vedas (Part 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLHEsJsvoZ4 (15:04)
Ignorance is not something original. It has been created; and, therefore, it can also be ended. Ignorance occurs and bondage is created during the process of evolution because it is all based on trial and error. And it is upon reviewing the trial and error process and sorting it out that knowledge comes about and ignorance and bondages are dissolved. The purpose of being on earth is to immortalize this whole earth system and not to run away from it.
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Restoring the Vedas (Part 7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_aUq76anB0 (15:08)
The Vedic rishis had reached this point where even body could be immortalized, but the evolutionary process does not end there. The task is the immortalization of all the body-mind-spirit systems in an integrated form. Veda talks about widening of the consciousness of the physical being. Emphasis on this idea is the newness of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga. The evolution must lead to a new kind of a body-mind-spirit system that is immortal. The lecture ends here.
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Restoring the Vedas (Part 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnenWvrf2GM (13:45)
End of the lecture series.
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