Vol. 20 of the ‘Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo’ (CWSA) series consists of thirty-two essays, which were first published in the monthly journal Arya, with each essay written immediately before its publication.
They appeared as three series of essays and one single essay as follows:
– ‘The Renaissance in India’, Aug. – Nov. 1918;
– ‘Indian Culture and External Influence’, March 1919 ( a single essay);
– ‘Is India Civilised?’, Dec. 1918 – Feb. 1919;
– ‘A Defence of Indian Culture’, Feb. 1919 – Jan. 1921.
The first talk of this series gives us a general overview of Sri Aurobindo’s writings and the necessity of reading them.
Today we start Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo Vol. 15, which comprises writings on and translations of the Rig Veda and some other Vedic...
This talk is centered around CWSA 17 especially the portion titled Isavasyopanishad.