{"id":450,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=450"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","slug":"41-mr-tilaks-book-on-the-gita-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17\/41-mr-tilaks-book-on-the-gita-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","title":{"rendered":"-41_Mr. Tilak’s Book on the Gita.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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VIII<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n


\nREVIEWS<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Mr. Tilak’s Book on the Gita<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/font>             
\nIN AN<\/font><\/b> interview with the
\nrepresentative of an Indian journal Mr. Bal Gangadhar Tilak has given a brief account of the work on the Gita which he has been writing during his six years
\ninternment in Mandalay. He begins: \u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

"You know
\nthat the Gita is regarded generally as a book inculcating quietistic Vedanta or
\nBhakti. For myself, I have always regarded it as a work expounding the
\nprinciples of human conduct from a Vedantic ethical point of view, that is,
\nreconcil\u00ading the philosophy of active life with the philosophy of knowledge and
\nthe philosophy of devotion to God."<\/p>\n

Mr. Tilak then
\nexpresses his belief that before Shankara and Ramanuja, the great Southern
\nphilosophers, wrote their com\u00admentaries, the Gita was understood in its natural
\nsense, but from that time forward artificial and sectarian interpretations
\nprevailed and the element of Karmayoga in the Song Celestial was disre\u00adgarded.
\nHis book is intended to restore this natural sense and central idea of the
\nfamous Scripture. It will contain a word for word rendering preceded by an
\nintroduction of some fifteen chapters in which he discusses the Vedanta and the
\nethics of the Gita and compares the ethical philosophy of Western thinkers with
\nthat of the Indian schools of thought. Although the book will be published
\nfirst in Marathi, we are promised a version also in English.<\/p>\n

We look forward
\nwith interest to a work which, proceeding from a scholar of such eminence and
\nso acute an intellect, one especially whose name carries weight with all
\nHindus, must be considered an event of no small importance in Indian religious
\nthought. We welcome it all the more because it seems to be con\u00adceived in the
\nsame free and synthetic spirit as animates this Review. It is a fresh sign of
\nthe tendency towards an increasingly liberal movement of religious opinion in
\northodox India, the dissolution of the old habit of unquestioning deference to
\ngreat authorities and the consequent rediscovery of the true catholic <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 265<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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sense of the ancient Scriptures.<\/p>\n

                    Those who have
\nstudied the Gita with a free mind, still more those who have tried to live it,
\ncannot doubt for a moment the justice of Mr. Tilak’s point of view. But is not
\nthe tendency of the Gita towards a supra-ethical rather than an ethical
\nactivity? Ethics is, usually, the standardising of the highest current social
\nideas of conduct; the Song Celestial while recognising their importance, seeks
\nto fix the principle of action deeper in the cen\u00adtre of a man’s soul and points
\nus ultimately to the government of our outward life by the divine self within. <\/p>\n

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