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UNIQUE PHENOMENON
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It
may be recalled that it was in pursuit of yogic sadhana,
independently of access to Vedic knowledge at that stage, that Sri
Aurobindo acquired the key which enabled him to interpret the Vedas
in their pristine spirit. He had experiences similar to those
described in the Vedas by the great rishis and that enabled him to
know what the slokas, in fact, meant. Sri Aurobindo writes in his
book On The Vedas:
- My first contact with Vedic
thought came indirectly while pursuing certain lines of
self-development in the way of Indian Yoga which, without my
knowing it, were spontaneously covering towards the ancient and
now unfrequented paths followed by our forefathers. At this time
began to arise in my mind an arrangement of symbolic names
attached to certain psychological experiences which had begun to
regularise themselves; and among them came the figures of three
female energies, Ila, Saraswati, Sarama, representing... three
out of the four faculties of the intuitive reason - revelation,
inspiration and intuition.3
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