FOREWORD There are twenty-six letters in this series, written between 1912 and 1921, all addressed to Sri Motilal Roy except the second one, which was to Anandrao. Sri Aurobindo's letters of this period are not only of gripping national interest to his countrymen, but are of vaster importance to a greater humanity that could read in them the extraordinary evolution of a meteoric patriot-politician emerging out of his ten years' veil to become the renowned architect of The Life Divine. It may be helpful to unknowing readers better to understand the situation in which he wrote those letters, with a little contextual preliminary background, which we shall try to supply here, briefly.

LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT ( Unpublished letters of Sri Aurobindo ) With Explanatory notes by SHREE ARUN CHANDRA DUTT and revealing annexures. PRABARTAK PUBLISHERS CALCUTTA-12 Akshoy Tritiya—1379 B. S. 1894 Saka, May 1972 Price—Rs 15.00 Published by Sri Krishna Prosad Ghosh from Prabartak Publishers, 61, Bepin Behari Ganguly Street, Calcutta-l 2 and printed by Sri Phani Bhusan Roy at Prabartak Printing & Halftone Ltd, 52-3, Bepin Behari Ganguly Street, Calcutta-12.

  LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT Contents Pre-Content Dedication   Foreword   Letters of Shree Aurobindo (Twenty-six)   Facsimile of Shree Aurobindo's letter   Appendix   A. Shree Aurobindo to Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das   B. Shree Aurobindo (from 'Standard Bearer')   C. Sreejut Aravinda Ghose (from 'Swaraj')   D. The Car of Jagannath   E. Ourselves by Shree Aurobindo Ghosh   F. Sapta-Chatustaya

-05_Facsimile of Shree Aurobindo's letter     Facsimile of first page of Shree Aurobindo's letter dated 20 August, 1914 in his own handwriting (Letter No. 17). *     *     *   Facsimile of another page of the same letter No. 17, with the closing paragraph sub-joined at the end . HOME

  LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT Contents Pre-Content Dedication   Foreword   Letters of Shree Aurobindo (Twenty-six)   Facsimile of Shree Aurobindo's letter   Appendix   A. Shree Aurobindo to Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das   B. Shree Aurobindo (from 'Standard Bearer')   C. Sreejut Aravinda Ghose (from 'Swaraj')   D. The Car of Jagannath   E. Ourselves by Shree Aurobindo Ghosh   F. Sapta-Chatustaya

GLOSSARY AHANG. AHANGKAR—Ego, Egoism AMRITA BAZAR—(Patrika) Daily newspaper in English ANGARAKSHANA, ANGARAKSHAKA—Body-protection, Body protector ANUSTHAN—Action—here tantric or terroristic action ARYA—Monthly magazine, edited by Shree Aurobindo from Pondicherry (1914) ARUPA—Formless ASTASIDDHI—Eight-fold perfections attainable by yoga-sadhana A . CHAUDHURI—Justice Ashutosh Chaudhuri, famous Barrister-at-law and a leader of Moderate Party BANDEMATARA—Nationalist daily paper in English edited by Shree Aurobindo BARIN—Barindra Kumar Ghosh, a famous revolutionary and youngest brother of Shree Aurobindo B.C. CHATTERJEE—Renowned

-04_Letters of Shree Aurobindo (Twenty-Six).htm Light to Supertight SHREE MOTILAL LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT LETTERS OF SHREE AUROBINDO The letters—dated and undated in our hand—have been arranged here in some sort of a chronological series with the dated ones placed in their given order and the undated ones taking place according to some internal evidence within them indicative of time-reference; while a few only without date or without any available data for time-indication, located uncertainly in the time-stream on a bit of probable guesswork, either before or after a near fixed one, so as to link up continuity in the great life-story running throughout this letter-ser

  LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT ( Unpublished letters of Sri Aurobindo )   With Explanatory notes by SHREE ARUN CHANDRA DUTT and revealing annexures.   PRABARTAK PUBLISHERS CALCUTTA-12 Akshoy Tritiya—1379 B. S. 1894 Saka, May 1972     Price—Rs 15.00 Published by Sri Krishna Prosad Ghosh from Prabartak Publishers, 61, Bepin Behari Ganguly Street, Calcutta-l 2 and printed by Sri Phani Bhusan Roy at Prabartak Printing & Halftone Ltd, 52-3, Bepin Behari Ganguly Street, Calcutta-12. HOME

APPENDIX—(A) Shree Aurobindo to Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das Arya Office Pondicherry. the 18th November, 1922. Dear Chitta, It is a long time, almost two years, I think, since I have written a letter to any one. I have been so much retired and absorbed in my sadhana, that contact with the outside world has till lately been reduced to a minimum. Now that I am looking outward again, I find that circumstances lead me to write first to you—I say circumstances because it is a need that makes me take up the pen after so long a disuse. The need is in connection with the first outward work that I am undertaking after this long inner retirement. Bari

DEDICATION The twenty-six letters of Shree Aurobindo were placed in my hands to be edited with an annotating commentary for the purpose of publication during the Shree Aurobindo Centenary Year. The twenty-six letters—like the twenty-six letters of the English Alphabet—were felt to be inspired with life as the days passed in deep and silent contemplation over the mute text-scraps in the Master's own hand-writing—some in mere pencil scribbling, mostly faded, somewhat defaced and rendered almost illegible after 60 years' ravages of time. I had hard labour with singular faith and patience along with my brother co-editor, Shree Durga Shankar Mahalanobis to decipher these precious te