Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

06. Sadhana through Meditation

Fragment ID: 1445

Verses of the Gita can be used as japa, if the object is to realise the Truth that the verses contain in them. If X’s father has taken the salient verses containing the heart of the teaching for that purpose, then it is all right. Everything depends on the selection of the verses. A coherent summary of the Gita’s teaching cannot easily be put together by putting together some verses, but that is not necessary for a purpose of this kind which could only be to put the key truths together – not for intellectual exposition but for grasping in realisation which is the object of japa. I have not gone through the book, so I don’t know how far it fulfils the object.