The world today rests upon a false basis, shaped by the sense-bound mind. Life is seen as fragmented—self against other, mine against not-mine—and from this division arise desire, fear, and suffering.
The Vedic seers discerned this error. Humanity is not merely a creature of the senses but a child of the infinite Truth, called to ascend from division to unity. The gods of the Veda—Agni, Surya, Indra, the Maruts, Varuna, and Mitra—are inner powers of consciousness guiding this ascent.
Agni, flame of the heart, kindles aspiration. Surya, sun of Truth, illumines the path. Indra, lord of luminous intelligence, tests intuition with peace and harmony. The Maruts, storm-gods of force, shatter ignorance and release new powers. Varuna, lord of immensities, opens consciousness to infinite wideness. Mitra, power of concord and friendliness, fills that wideness with compassion and mutuality.
The Rig Veda sings:
“mitrasya mā cakṣuṣā sarvāṇi bhūtāni samīkṣanta… varuṇasya dhāma”
— “By the eye of Mitra may all beings behold one another in harmony, within the law of Varuna.”
Sri Aurobindo shows that humanity’s destiny is not escape but transformation. The “self” and the “other” are expressions of one indivisible Reality, an infinite ocean of Consciousness-Force. Awakening to this truth reveals life as the dance of a single Energy, not a play of division.
The individual ceases to feel bound, discovering limitless force within. What seemed impossible in the narrow sense-mind becomes natural in the wideness of Truth-consciousness. Ordinary joy, tied to circumstance, gives way to a delight that is intrinsic, inexhaustible, and eternal—the rasa, the honey of existence.
The Rig Veda declares:
“surya ātmā jagatastasthuṣaśca”
— “The Sun is the soul of all that moves and all that stands still.”
This reveals that behind the flux of circumstance shines the one Delightful Soul—Surya, the truth-conscious Sun.
In the supramental light that Sri Aurobindo envisions, conflicts would dissolve, replaced by creative harmony. Varuna’s vastness and Mitra’s concord would guide human relations, turning power into compassion and difference into mutuality. Energy, no longer wasted in opposition, would serve higher growth and the collective flowering of Spirit.
Thus the new spirituality, prefigured in the Veda and fulfilled in Sri Aurobindo’s vision, does not reject the world but illumines it. It calls us to see life as a manifestation of the One, an indivisible ocean of Consciousness-Force, and to partake in its delight—not as fleeting pleasure but as the eternal bliss of existence.
O Agni, flame of aspiration, kindle within us the fire that never dies.
O Surya, sun of Truth, illumine our mind with your golden light.
O Indra, lord of luminous strength, guard our thoughts with peace and harmony.
O Maruts, powers of the storm, break the walls of ignorance and release new force for the Spirit.
O Varuna, vast and infinite, widen our consciousness till it embraces the whole.
O Mitra, friend of beings, fill that wideness with compassion, concord, and goodwill.
May we live as waves of the one ocean of Consciousness-Force.
May we see in each other not division but delight.
And may this delight be the honey of existence, inexhaustible and eternal.