Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Secret of the Veda
Aurobindo's 1956 'Secret of the Veda' — symbolic-philosophical reinterpretation of the Rig Veda against the Sayana / Max Müller readings
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Secret of the Veda (Early-to-middle) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Secret of the Veda
1914-1916 serialisation; 1956 posthumous book publication. Aurobindo was 42-44 at original composition.
Space
The Secret of the Veda
Pondicherry, French India — Aurobindo's residence from 1910 until his 1950 death. The Pondicherry community was the institutional context for the Arya monthly publication.
Matter
The Secret of the Veda
Vedic hermeneutical treatise (~500 pages in the Complete Works edition). Form is sustained interpretive essay with extensive engagement with specific Rig Vedic hymns.
Observer
The Secret of the Veda
Early-to-middle Aurobindo. The observer is the philosopher-yogi articulating an alternative to both the orthodox-ritualist and the European-philological readings of the Rig Veda.
Energy
The Secret of the Veda
Hermeneutical-mystical energies. The book combines philological scholarship (Aurobindo read Sanskrit deeply) with the symbolic-spiritual interpretive framework distinctive to his integral-yoga philosophy.
Information
The Secret of the Veda
Single book derived from Arya serial. The discussions of specific gods (Indra, Agni, Soma, Saraswati) and of specific hymns (especially Rig Veda IV.50 — the hymn to Brihaspati that opens the symbolic-cosmological framework) are the central informational material.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Foundational Aurobindonian Vedic hermeneutics. Continuously read in the Aurobindonian community and in the broader Hindu-philosophical Vedic interpretation tradition; the symbolic-spiritual reading has been productive in subsequent integral-yoga philosophy but is not the standard scholarly view in Indological-philological scholarship outside the Aurobindonian community.