February 2, 2011 – SRI AUROBINDO AND KRISHNA

The mediaeval ascetics hated women
and thought they were created by God for the temptation of monks.
One may be allowed to think more nobly both of God and of woman.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 302)

SRI AUROBINDO AND KRISHNA

You can’t expect me to argue about my own spiritual greatness in comparison with Krishna’s. The question itself would be rele vant only if there were two sectarian religions in opposition, Aurobindoism and Vaishnavism, each insisting on its own God’s greatness. That is not the case. And then what Krishna must I challenge, — the Krishna of the Gita who is the transcendent Godhead, Paramatma, Parabrahma, Purushottama, the cosmic Deity, Master of the universe, Vasudeva who is all, the Immanent in the heart of all creatures, or the Godhead who was incarnate at Brindavan and Dwarka and Kurukshetra and who was the guide of my Yoga and with whom I realised identity ? All that is not to me something philosophical or mental but a matter of daily and hourly realisation and intimate to the stuff of my consciousness. Then from what position can I adjudicate this dispute? X thinks I am superior in greatness, you think there can be nothing greater than Krishna: each is entitled to have his own view or feeling, whether it is itself right or not. It can be left there, —

Sri Aurobindo

SABCL Volm. 26, page 136

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