Abyssinia, 564, 584, 595, 597, 604, 702

Achilles, 249

Action/Activity, 83-4, 132 and right spirit, 1108 as part of sadhana, 41danger in every great attempt, 29, 94 fluctuating eternally, 684 three sources of, 252 see also Works; Karma-yoga

Adhar Das, 341-3

Aeschylus, 355, 779,780

Affection, human, see Love, human affection

Agarwal, R.S., 1065 Ahimsa, killing mosquitoes etc., 339 truth of, 225-6, 230

Allopathy, see Homeopathy, and allopathy

Amal Kiran (K.. D. Sethna), ix, 333, 493-4, 507, 516, 895. 909,911,929,930, 931, 944,945, 970,982, 991. 1070, 1071, 1102

America, 499, 789

Amrita, 920

Anacreon, 1070

Ananda, 98, 277, 482, 637, 774 Brahmananda, 793, 794, 795 Brahman's immutable delight, 1186 experience of, 36, 52, 53, 54, 71, 461, 560-1 and lower nature, 304 of existence, 279 source of all pleasures, 795 see also Happiness

Ananda [disciple of Buddha], 256

Anecdotes, incidents and illustrations,

Antigonus accepts death to save his son, 1061 ass into elephant, 133, 136, 137 a Tamilian and Nirod at the pier, 684 badger in its hole, 532 British Medical Council refusing validity to Sir Herbert Barker's cure, 427 chess: move in, 150; pawns in, 312 child of 9: Vice Chancellor, 454 chisel's pride in being used by sculptor, 363 cleaning nose with string and with water, 996 Communist in a Nazi concentration camp, 482, 756 dog pulling at his leash, 848 dried liver case, Mother's acquaintance, 1013 egg and hen, 308 "Go to the ant. . .", 852 guidance: to Chandulal and Punjalal, 885; to General Miaja, 885-6 Guru Govind Singh and Pathaboy,xi Japanese agriculturist, barren land, 147 labelling or dissecting a symbol, 763 Mahapurush with a woman for 3 years, 75 mountains in labour, 398 mulissadhika, 317-8 murder of Muse, 399 Muslim

fanatic, 349 Nazi mob inaction, 311-2 open-air zoos, 323 opening up a man for "Appendix", 434, 437 Parsi witdebts, 8 Pavitra, Khitish and the bother, 920 reaching the top without Guide, 143 rejuvenation by monkey-glands, 191, 195 sadhika attacked by a ruffian, 45-saving life of a mosquito, 340 Simpson's discovery of chloroform, 314 sorting sheep from goats, 363 Sri Aurobindo's grandfather and cousin, 429, 695-6 SriAurobindo's uncle's daughter, 129 Sultan of Johore . . . shot the wrong man, 565-6 Sun's rays of use to somebody, 172-3 system of lollipops, 543 unreal numbers in mathematics, 142 woman operated on for cancer, 346 Yuvarani's visit, 663 see also Medical matters, (5)

Anger, 216-7, 223, 227, 748 see also Work, loss of temper in

Anilbaran Roy (A. B.), 276 7, 279, 280-2, 353-4, 518, 1062, 1102, 1110

Animal(s), 1058, 1120 and man, 323 Bushv, Ashram cat, 448, 466 cats fighting, 960 monkey-glands, 191, 195 sacrifices of, 339-40, 349, 397

Antigonus of Macedon, 1061

Arjava (J. Chadwick), 684, 775, 983, 1175

Arjuna, xi, 171, 256, 479-80

Art, 208, 352, 666 beauty and Ananda in, 774 finest, appreciation of, 448, 778 greatness of different branches of, 447-50 highest, to conceal art, 1152 taking up, with Mother's approval, 245

Artist(s), 23, 261,284, 394-5, 512, 745-6, 775

Arja Publishing House, 296-7, 301-2, 312-3, 812, 859-60, 899fn

Arya [review], 77, 80, 86, 202, 369, 992

Ashram (Asram), Sri Aurobindo, 17,481,667, 887 accommodation in, 15, 549, 550-1, 632-3, 634, 636, 1007-8, 1009, 1186 and big people, xii, 285, 912, 1106-7, 1109-10 and common sense in, 156-7 and other Asrams, 348, 879, 1048 artists of, 512 atmosphere: a Force in, 307, 405, 750; and increase of numbers, 705; concentrated, 1048; disturbed, 210, 707; doubt and depression, 264, 271,702, 705-6; gossip, 290; hostile forces, 221; hostile suggestions, 24; panic, 702, 704, 707, 708-9; peace, 653; rows, 602; sorrows, 263, 264-5; Sri Aurobindo's presence, 313; suggestion

of ghost, 724; vital forces, 45; vital troubles, 212, 271 cars, 1023 chances & possibilities, 221 changing people, 564-5 complaint about eating at home, 670 considerable ability and capacity in, 987 cyclo-mania, 510, 556 Darshan days, 20, 36, 55, 57, 58, 71, 134, 155, 156, 283, 289-90, 291, 315, 388-9, 499, 501, 502, 516-7, 660, 757-8, 759, 840, 984, 986, 1006-7; significance of 24th November, 293-5. 320 death in, see Death, in Asram departures from (leaving, going out of), 14,19-20, 26-7,51,90, 120, 122-3, 133, 222, 243-4, 269, 297-8, 299-301, 302, 463, 468,517, 518, 521, 551, 591-3, 725-6, 727-8,852,911-4,1106-7, 1128-30, 1132; Ma-hakali's intervention, 848; X's bigness, 1106; X's going out, 846-51, 856, 869, 1002 Dining Room (Aroumé), 43,285-7,580-1,669-70, 918, 921, 948, 1060, 1069, 1087-8, 1140 Divine, not J, brought you here, 267-8 Divine realisation in, 80, 234, 593, 879; experiences that are summit of old yogas, 750, 879; living in Brahman Consciousness, 987, 993 doctors and faith, 705 epitome of human nature, xii-xiii, 93, 1047 establishing, at Pondi-cherry, 711 false notions in, 899 gate duty, 15, 17; talking, 1026 growth of capacities (poetry etc.) in, 69, 369-70, 459, 468,491, 515, 543, 596-7, 600, 661, 678, 850, 1106 individual affairs, 408-11 many descents in old days, 209

object of, 1106 organisation of, by the Mother, vol. 2, vi-vii patting rare, preaching more usual, 986 people in, and outside, 455, 716-7, 899-900, 1047 people pushing their way in, 122, 301, 551, 727, 1005 pocket money, 124 prestige of, 1105, 1108 protection, conditional, 45-6 sadhaks here, 74, 84,92-3, 95, 139, 156, 157, 163, 189, 220, 221, 222, 233, 237-8, 267, 285, 287-8, 304, 348, 393, 401, 485, 541-2, 544-5, 611, 653, 704, 705, 740, 748, 879. 986-7, 1047, 1048, sex-force in, 1000, 1001-2, 1004, 1015Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and, target of public criticism, 985, 1049-50, 1108 survives and grows, 912, 1107 uprush of mud . . . promise of better things, 220 view of a well-known atheist, 1049-50 what a mad Asram!, 238 why revelation of inner story, xii what a museum!, 1081

Aspiration, 31, 36, 48, 67, 73, 216, 217, 315, 346, 347, 479, 606, 628, 754, 823, 870, 902 for poetry, 25, 47-8, 50, 62, 217, 641, 840, 841; demand on thsource of poetry, 835, 836-7, 839, 841 for Supermind, 215-6, 219-20 nourishing, 72 (prayer) for patient's cure, 121, 681

Atman, 81, 82, 276

Attachment, double, 730

Augustine, St., 347

Aurobindo Bose, 290

Aurobindo, Sri, see Sri Aurobindo

Aratar, 140-1, 151, 197, 739, 1117 can a Muthu, Tom or Dick be changed into an Avatar?, 140, 147, 148 death and failure of. 168-9, 170, 175, 229 finding fault with predecessors, 223-4, 225 his example and numanity, 135,138-9, 148-50,166-77, 351 sufferings and struggles of, 165, 169, 174-5, 176, 177, 739 working of, 224, 226-7 see also Humour, (1); Sri Aurobindo, (5)

Badoglio, Pietro, 607

Bahaullah, 126

Balzac, Honoré de, 50, 366

Bande Mataram [anthem], 487

Bankim Chandra Chatterji, 487

Barin (Barindra Kumar Ghosh), 102-3, 374

Barker, Sir Herbert, 427 Baron, F., 829. 834, 836, 837, 838, 1097

Bates, Dr. W.H., 577

Baudelaire, Charles, 817. 818, 828, 829, 830

Baxter, Richard, 1146 B.

Babu, 329, 985-6

Becharlal, Dr. (Dr.B), 103. 104, 125, 305, 306

Bedlam, 1038

Beecham, Sir Thomas, 448 Being, better, getting a. 243 division in, 270. 614, 725 double, 97-8. 300 hypocrisy in, 725-6. 727-8 made of many parts, 650; see also Nirodbaran. (8): different parts of true, will prevail, 614 see also Central being: Psychic being; Surface being

Bejoykrishna Goswami, 75, 218, 219

Benjamin, 556, 742

Bhakta, 530, 531

Bhakti, 80, 238 vital, emotional, 222-3

Bhishma [Pitamah], 349 Bible, 506

Bilwamangal, 347. 364

Binyon, Lawrence, 404, 505

Blake, William, 448, 631, 635, 636, 640, 763-4. 770, 776, 780, 801, 831

Body, 11-2, 431, 732, 884 and soul, 81, 488, 560. 739 exercise and weight, 578, 580 gross and subtle, and chakras, 560-1 liberation from body-consciousness, 81, 192-3 response of, to the Force, 181, 193, 200, 381, 385, 445,613, 620,881, 1054

Brabmacharya, 391-2

Brahman consciousness, 987, 991-2, 993 living in, necessary condition for supramental descent, 992

Brunton, Paul, 483, 557, 673

Buddha, 107, 114, 115, 117, 152. 167, 169. 172, 173, 218, 219, 256, 334, 343. 575, 576, 738-9, 859, 1049 action on disciples, 335 Christ and, 235-6 death of, 169, 229, 738-9 denial of God, 224, 229 doctrine of Ahimsa, 225 6, 229, 230 Ramakrishna and, 224. 235

Buddhist sadhana, 229. 311. 334-5

Buddhist teaching, 226, 979 80

Byron, Lord George, 280, 1146

Calm, II, 36. 750, 754-6 like a Daniel, 852 see also Peace; Silence

Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 779

Central being, 303 adventure of, 277 and harmonisation, 97, 650, 651 getting into touch with, 652

Centres (chakras), 560

Chaitanya, 170, 172, 218, 219, 256, 343

Champaklal, 228-9

Chamberlain, Neville, 1157

Chand (C), 53, 75, 289, 291, 307, 308, 524-5, 540, 541,590, 806, 838, 866-7, 890, 898. 900-1, 904, 983, 989-90, 996, 1037, 1042, 1051, 1057, 1058, 1063, 1068, 1080-1, 1118, 1121, 1154-5, 1157, 1162, 1185

Chandulal Shah, 87, 121

Change, 644, 726, 1105, 1106, 1108-9 of hostile mind, 16 of humanity, 303, 564-5 outward, 745, 750; see also Nature, human, change of see also Supramental change

Charles IX (of France), 1039

Cham, 1087

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 498

Cheerfulness, 33, 68, 110. 605, 618, 754, 756,923; gladness, 523

Children, infant mortality in India, 884 purgative to, 875, 883-4, 892 with rare gift, and elders, 599-600

Christ, 137, 152, 165, 167. 172, 173, 234, 235, 236. 576, 843, 914, 1047

Coincidence, 147, 313, 1059

Columbus, Christopher, 143

Compassion, 226, 229, 334

Concentration, 11, 40, 459 and work, 78, 79, 80 before sleep and after rising, 8-9

on the Divine, 679, 872, 873 packed . . . striped, 607 see also Meditation

Confidence (self-confidence), 33 doctors* success and, 361, 384, 420, 421, 422, 426, 428, 433, 570, 824, 825, 894, 1065

Confucius, 575, 576

Consciousness, 3, 991 a concrete thing, 1063 environmental, 252 fall of, and remedy, 37 gets cut up into two, 227 growth of, and opening of capacities, 204 intuitivising the operations of, 1067 social, 301,302 supramental change of, is vital, 704 see also Dream-consciousness; Inner consciousness; Physical consciousness; Surface consciousness

Conrad, Joseph, 505, 506, 508

Coué, Emile, 1053-4 Courage, 168, 684, 685, 708

Cousins, James, 746, 749, 1146

Cowardice, 92, 684-5, 687

Cowper, William, 1146

Creation, see Manifestation

Criticism, 1065 (dispute) and lecture, 846, 964 literary, 214, 240, 404, 492, 745-6, 809-10, 1147-8 of others (paranindā), cause of, 233-4 of the Mother, 234, 411, 733, 1088, 1090, 1108 public, 216-7, 1108, 1118, 1122 see also

Sri Aurobindo, (5): criticism against C.V.Raman, 313, 314

Dante Alighiori, 926, 1046

Danton, G., 186

Datta (Dorothy Hodgson), 294, 295, 373, 374

Death, 168-9,248,812, 1061 conquest of, 189, 193-4, 702-4, 712-3 immunity from, 194-5 in the Asram, 188-9, 697, 702-3, 1027 recession of, 189 those who died had to die, 1027 warding off, 694, 712, 713 see also Vital, the, becoming ghost, after death

De la Mare, Walter, 404, 505

Depression, and despair, remedies for, 17, 47, 71, 156, 185, 231, 232, 243, 338, 376-7, 390, 399, 573, 605, 649, 854, 984-5 and opposite forces, 533 and T. B., 698-9 contagious, 6, 7, 264 opening to nightmares, 23 see also Despair; Dilip, depression; Man of Sorrows; Nirodbaran, (2)

Descartes, Rene, 307 Descent (of Light, Power, etc.), 36, 98, 104, 129, 210, 660, 700, 902 all "lacks" will be removed by, 678 and dark Force, 720 and fear, 718, 719, 721, 728, 734; see also Experience(s), and fear and illness, 718, 720-1 and sex, 555; see also Supramental descent, and sex-force and uprush of subconscient mud, 220, 221, 242, 246, 265, 287-8. 389, 502 "blocky" feeling in, 647, 651; feeling it like rain or fall of snow, 533, 555 determining causes of, 36 giving peace in cells, even

if body ill, 752-3 horizontal, 700 see also Experience(s), of descent of Power; Supramental descent

Despair, 45, 75, 176 and suicide, 53, 265, 748, 749 doesn't help, 215, 870 remorse useless, 399 shake off the hump, 232, 461 wailing, 94, 943, 975 worrying no good, 215 see also Depression; Nirodbaran, (3) Destiny, see Fate

Detachment, 47, 59, 606, 646, 657-8

Devil, 154-5, 172, 680

Dharma, 226, 570

Diana, 107

Dickens, Charles, 50, 156, 366, 681, 682

Difficulties, see Yoga, and difficulties; Life, misfortunes in Dilip Kumar Roy (D), 69, 73, 290, 504, 514, 515, 517, 580,618, 640, 667, 689, 728, 770, 829, 831, 954, 985, 1048, 1049, 1054, 1062, 1100, 1104, 1118, 1119, 1180 depression, 156, 510, 516-7, 623, 660, 721, 749 Man of Sorrows, 649, 656 hyper-sensitive, 526, 746-7, 1047 Mother's remarks about, 546 Tagore's description of, 369, 661 see also Nirodbaran, (3); affiliation and differences with Dilip; Nirodbaran, (7): and Dilip; Poetry, (1): Dilip's

Disease, see Medical matters, (3)

Dissatisfaction, twisting round one's own, 790

see also Nirodbaran,(3): about. . .

Divine, the (God etc.), 49, 267-8, 564, 739, 1117, 1151 and old vital moorings, 278, 622 "As people approach me", 545 bears the world-burden, 175, 176; endures burden of human nature, 169 coming down of, 138-9, 169 concentration on, 679, 872, 873 (divinity) in man, 173-4, 175, 176-7 does not recede, 32 D's treatment of, 517, 602; X*s treatment of, 593-4, 964, 1002 establishing possibilities of, 303 fit instrument of, 219; see also Force, instrumentation for the Divine's sake, 344 Impersonal, 229, 477 leads us through sorrow and suffering, 276-7 love for, see Love not many, 477, 479 particular about contagion, 540-1 prayer for, 822 protection of, 532; see also Ashram, protection . . . ; Sadhana, and hostile forces . . . rasa of, 72 response of: to aspiration, 479; to prayers, 73, 542, 545 seeing, everywhere, 872 seeking, 33, 65-6, 92, 231, 344, 528, 529-31, 964 separation of soul from, 333 smiles equally on all, 551 success and failure of, 137; see also Divine omnipotence, and conditions . . . soul's turning towards, 303, 454 turning one's back on (kicking), 28, 465, 468, 532, 728 understanding the working of, 269-70, 277,312, 675, 680, 886, 897 see also Doubt, in the Divine Divine action, and sadhak's surface consciousness, 275 method of, 128-9, 337-8

Divine Force, see Force,

The Divine Grace (Grace), 468 action of, 118, 119, 142, 147 defects and, 53; see also Yoga, and fitness ... effort and, 459, 460, 461, 465-8, 469, 471 necessity of aspiring to get, 48; see also Divine Presence, necessity to... soul and, xiv-xv, 461, 465, 580 state of, 48,465 see also Doubt, in the Divine or Grace

Divine Love, bearing the pressure of, 209 universal and a special relation, 256-7, 258-9

Divine omnipotence, 27, 29, 896 and conditions of the game, 109, 128-9, 131, 133, 136-8, 140, 141-2, 146, 602, 768 and latency theory, 145-8, 151-4 "He makes the dumb talk", 147 Muthu into an Avatar, 136, 139, 140, 141, 142, 146-7, 150

Divine Power, see Descent (of Light, Power, etc.); Force, the

Divine Presence, 316 experience of, 53, 81, 870-3 necessity to concentrate and call the, 872; see also Divine Grace, necessity of Divine realisation (Realisation), 86, 217-8, 455 and a liar, 1109 and supramental realisation, 215-6 complete, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo on, 624 through love or through

knowledge, 235-7, 239-41 through work, 77-80,84-6 yoga realisation, 132 see also Ashram, Divine realisation in; Realisation

Doctor(s), see Medical matters, (2)

Donne, John, 938, 1050, 1147, 1177, 1178

Doraiswamy, S., 1105,1109, 1110

Doubt, 33, 176, 333, 639, 707, 750, 752,872 in the Divine or Grace, doing everything, 457, 458, 459, 465-6 see also Nirodbaran, (8): doubt

Dreams, 248, 686, 1005 discrimination in, 244 on vital plane, 13-4, 48-9, 54, 63, 163, 163-4, 264, 368, 481,640, 663, 760, 772, 828, 832, 1138 see also Nirodbaran, (4)

Dream-consciousness, 829, 831-2, 838 D.S. (Esculape), 90, 93-4, 99,

Durga, 66, 229, 299and Asuras, 226

Duryodhan, 137

Effort, personal, 47, 542 and reliance, 64, 65-6, 67, 215, 269, 458-9, 461and use of will, 42, 651, 659, 1129

Divine Grace and, 459, 460, 461, 465-8, 469, 471

Force and, 370-1, 512-6, 611-2, 659, 776, 867

Herculean, 459, 460, 466, 467,513,604 in Buddhism, 229, 334, 335 liking not enough, get the thing done, 316 place of, in poetry, 774; see also Inspiration, waiting for, and effort; Poetry, (1): place of ... sadhana and, 243, 522, 651, 865 without demand of result, 522

Ego, 341, 514 clash of 408-11 effaccment of, 85, 339, 406, 594 exaggerated, 440-1 Intuition and, 358, 363, 364 of bigness, 123, 330-1, 332, 337, 364, 384-5, 724, 746, 861 of instrument, 363 poetry and, 405,407, 865, 867 rajasic and tamasic, 332, 461 sadhana and, 28, 85, 258, 304, 344, 411, 465, 468, 519, 520, 605, 858, 860, 1089, 1126

Egypt, 673-4

Eliot, T.S., 507

Einstein, Albert, 205, 287, 993

English language, 161, 405

Englishmen, and language, 507

Essays on the Gita, 151, 340

Europe, 187, 198, 323, 437, 446, 596, 653, 914, 949-50

Evolution, 348, 392 earthly, 139, 148, 624-5 psychic being and, 140, 308-9, 311, 329, 333

Experience(s), spiritual, 123, 183, 514, 724-5 and fear, 11, 735, 736-7; see also Descent and Herculean labour, 460 and married life, 476 and over-reading, 52-3 and significance, 760 and stillness (slabdhatā),67-8, 603, 655, 735-6 and subtle body, 561, 760 and widening, 69, 97, 503 belittling, 23, 53, 66-7; doubt about, 872 complaints about, 458, 503, 594, 601-2, 879, 956 conditions for gaining, 755 feeling in, see Descent. "blocky" feeling . . . gets shut off, 71,461,603. 878-9 in intermediate zone, 90,519-20 in meditation, 67, 81, 91, 104 judging, from description, 719, 721 let it grow, 872-3 like gold crown on pig's head, 677-8 love for the Divine before. 528, 529-3mystical, 793, 794 of Ananda, 36, 52, 53, 54, 71, 461, 560-1 of ascent to Infinite and descent to Muladhar, 750 of cosmic Force . . . feeling of being clutched by the Divine, 455 of descent of Power, 555; see also Descent of divided mind, 72-3 of going inside, 91, 104, 725 of liberation, 73,81,192-3 of peace, 23, 52-3, 601 of people outside and of Asramites, 455

of pervading Presence, 53, 81, 870-3 of rays trying to pierce the brow, 261 of samadhi, 104, 735-6 of Self, 367-8, 530, 560 of silence, 72, 81 of warm touch on forehead, 390-1 reason for not coming, 72, 603, 755 relief of pressure by . ..104, 871 settling of, 74, 205-6, 503-4 speaking of, 324, 878-9, 898 Sri Aurobindo's visit, 82 subjective sense of, 872 testing the, 81 crickle of, 460, 461 versu more important things, 22, 289 willed by the Divine, 49 see also Sri Aurobindo, (1): experiences

Faith (belief), 137, 158, 177, 460, 508, 530, 652, 705, 755, 851, 870 and difficulties, 33, 278 and sadhana, 33, 208, \323-4, 459, 572, 625, 912, 1101 in the Force, 428, 429, 431, 572, 612 living, and death, 703, 713 of doctor, 121, 422. 426, 428, 431 of patient, 345-6, 385, 431, 707, 1125

Falstaff, 500, 671

Fame, 25, 70, 217, 224, 483, 646,1107

Fate (destiny, luck), 432, 581,674-5, 733

Fear, 34, 213, 685, 737, 738, 775, 999 and anger at the same lime, 960 and illness, 619, 738, 951 call the Mother in, 736 descent and. 718, 719, 721, 728, 734 experiences and, 11, 735, 736-7 in concentration, 11

in dreams, 13-4, 54

Flowers, see Mother, the, flowers given by

Food (diet), 34, 91, 272-3, 431, 565,648, 672, 800, 977, 1003, 1093 and sadhana, 18, 37-8, 53-4, 54-5, 58, 76-7, 108-9, 204, 274-5, 538, 859, 729-30 and whim, 627, 628 coconut, green, 957 curry 884; pot-au-feu, 791-2, 796 eggs, 523-4, 613 Indian "moon" superstition, 360, 361 Indians and Europeans, 796 onions, 1010-1 pān-supāri, 785-6 soup, 124, 617-8, 627, 1024, 1025, 1091, 1134 tea and sadhana, 6-7, 16, 18, 33, 34, 37, 58, 59-60, 62, 162, 163, 213-4, 227-8, 302, 710, 878 see also Medical matters, (8): Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's care . . .

Force, the (Divine or spiritual Force), 129,315, 316, 579, 580, 884 action of, 36, 128-9, 130, 131, 132, 306, 337-8, 372, 480, 626, 639-40, 673, 750, 755, 894-8, 957-8; and exact knowledge of circumstances, 182, 626; behind the veil, 647, 648, 753; on the subconscient, 1048; without physical contact, 478 and departures from the Ashram, 856,913 and harmonisation, 199, 201 and intuition, 907 and Knowledge, 645 and knowledge of its working, 886,894,897; see also Divine, the,

understanding the working of and personal effort, 370-1, 512-6, 611-2, 659, 776, 867 and Supramental Force, 713-4 and Supramental Nature, 192 application of, its efficacy and success, 596, 906-7 applying, in work, 87, 99-100 bringing down, 99-100, 678, 680-1 calling for, and being heard, 508-9, 595, 617, 678, 679, 681, 1040, 1170, 1179; see also Mother, the, calling; Work, calling in . . . canalisation of, 673, 677, 679 communication of, 596, 896-8 contact with, 475-6, 478, 480, 595-6, 662 cure by, (or Sri Aurobindo's Force), xiii-xiv, 67, 118, 119, 120, 122, 128, 157, 181, 182, 183, 211-2, 249, 284, 345-6, 380-1, 385-6, 422-3, 443, 445,481, 520, 524, 613,615,617,618, 619, 714, 724, 731, 737, 760, 853, 874-5, 973, 975, 1094; and body's response, 181, 193, 200, 381, 385, 445, 613, 620, 881, 1054; and critical antagonism, 510, 701; and illness of skin, hair, etc., 999; and infants, 880-1; and need of accurate report, 200, 379, 382; and need of diagnosis, doctors and medicines, 120-1, 182, 200-1, 384, 385. 420, 438, 440, 647; and opening, 345, 1014; and receptivity, 67,119, 881; and resistance of the subconscient, 1053; and right or wrong medicine, 187,384,385, 422, 645; prevents the working of, 812, 1014; three ways of, 200-1; through symptoms, 200,420,425,436, 737; see also

Medical matters, (3): cure of. .. descent of, see Descent Divine, and Yogic-Force, 129, 132 faith in, see Faith general operation of, 130, 133-4, 896-8 in

Asram atmosphere, 307, 405, 750 instrumentation (medi-umship), 121, 128, 129, 260, 261, 337,419, 421, 436; rajasic man, 568-9; sattwic man, 571; requisites and defects of a medium, 429-30, 897 intervention of, 129, 524; see also Mahakali joy of being used by, 44 not miraculous, 128, 337; see also under Divine omnipotence pulling down, 208, 701, 718, 720, 724, 726 wrong Force, 906 see also Sri Aurobindo, (3): application of his Force...; Supramental Force; Yoga-Force

Forces, and germs, 738 and suggestions, 24, 30, 724, 734 opposing, 906 play of, 121, 252, 268, 269, 270, 300, 306, 312, 313-4,315,317,329-30, 334, 532, 698, 733, 906 ready to answer a call, 520 see also Hostile force(s)

Francis of Assisi, St., 173

Frankenstein, 298

Freedom, individual, xiv, 325, 327, 409,912 of India, 323, 325, 327, 329-30, 340-1, 1185

Free will (will), 28, 269. 270, 298, 300

French language, 777, 778, 780, 781

Freud, Sigmund, 247

Friendship, 267, 615, 963

Gandhi, Mahatma, 177, 624

Gandhian resistance, 228, 243, 532 qualms about Congress corruption, 1185

Genius, see Literary activity, geniuses

Gita [Srimad "Bhagavad Gita], 256, 289, 807

Gods, 162, 299, 447-8, 565, 874, 1003, 1157

Goldsmith, Oliver, 405

Gosse, Edmond, 505, 506

Gossip, 233, 290

Govinda Das, 1141, 1150, 1151

Govind Singh, Guru, xi

Grace, see Divine Grace

Gratitude, 267, 374

Gray, Thomas, 779

Greatness (bigness), and morality, 817 and spirituality, 171, 176, 224, 344, 1107, 1111 extraordinary powers and sincere heart, 301 question of, 141, 143,312, 748, 779 see also Ego, of bigness

Hafez Shirazi, 1071

Happiness, 289, 290, 523, 750, 754 and sorrow in life, 279-80 motive power in life, 482-4, 486 the vast is the, 637

Harin (Harindranath Chatterji),70,404,491, 839, 971, 982, 1076, 1079

Hathayogic processes, 996

Henry IV (of France), 685, 688

Heredity, 169, 203, 251, 253

Higgins, Captain John, 143

Hirendranath Dutt, 793-4

Hitler, Adolf, 210, 222, 508, 518, 553, 1156-7

Holmes, Sherlock, 536

Homeopathy, 586-7, 695, 696, 1014 and allopathy, 360-1, 383, 420, 423-8, 433-40

Homer, 885,926,929,965-6, 970, 988, 1147

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 779, 1037, 1038, 1172

Horace, 252, 662, 1182 Hostile force(s), 60,112,161, 324, 533, 675, 700, 736, 906, 911 and departures from Ashram, 913, 1129 and lower nature, 27-8 awareness of, 532-3 calling back, 28, 732 hostile suggestions, 24, 30, 724, 733-4 marks of, 28 opening to, 203, 221 "out of date", 221 possession by, 203, 732, 1129 see also Sadhana, and hostile force(s)

Housman, A.E., 449, 491, 631, 763-4, 775, 781-2, 830, 833, 836, 1097

Hugo, Victor, 50

Hukumchand, 368

Human affection, see Love, human affection

Human nature, see Nature, human

Human relation, 276 see also Sadhana, relationship in

Humour, Sri Aurobindo's,

(1)Avatar:

feeding on germs, 540-1 getting frightened, 197 irrational answers, 165, 177-8

Rolls Royce machine, 149 typescript, hibernating, 180, 184, 242, 243, 525, 715

(2)Medical:

abduction of a joint, 579

Achilles' heel, 249

Allah is great, 826

Anglo-Indians, peg, 786-7 Artful Dodger, 1011 bare clothing, 354 "beaten" by a rat, 664 bottle to keep baby quiet, 1003 chart of fever temperature, 535-7, 555, 557 cod-liver oil: divine nectar, 676 counter-smoking injection, 258 cow dung handy, 157 dispensary to devil, 122 doctors: address in heaven, 378; angels!, 581: hit or miss, 119; human motorcars, 677; ill, 1170; throwing stones at a dog, 355 Durvasa, 456 eye-cases, optical illusion, 180 fallen stomach, angel, 990 "God moves in a mysterious way", 179 God's Force, Codein Phos!, 524 Golden Age: doctors— pooh!, 598 guinea-pig, luck for, 282, 284, 390 Hail, Reason, holy Light!, 186 hard to satisfy these people, 1007 injections into fountain-pens, 993-4 ladies wanting quick service, 799-800 medicine like Brahman, 185 Meibomian cyst, 182-3, 183-4 modern Mithridates!, 158, 160 Mother occupying the stomach, 710. 714 nothing without a cause, 908 "O apples, apples", 1163 Pancrinol, 714 patients* surrealist poetry, 847 phimosis, 473, 488

physician-priest, 112 Prasanna, aprasanna... dhama, 393 Rajangam kicking down Dispensary, 518 recommending smoke and wine?, 302 sending Asram to next world, 887, 892-3 servant asserting sovietic equality, 368 supramental and swelled things, 690 supramental hospital, 711 tablet of aspirin and aspiration, 307 thinking with fat, 163 tympanum-piercing howl, 874-5 weeping machine, 443 "whites", 246

(3) Nirod:

Aeschylean expressions, 354-5, 386, 539, 550, 573, 866: aphoristic style, 855; Delphic oracles, 297; mysterious language, 196,211,355, 366, 538, 561, 562, 572, 573; Tacitean writer, 550, 973,1012 "almost" for accuracy's sake, 232 and Nishikanta, 292, 401, 440, 620-1 Asram doctor going mad, 209 Avatar!, 168 avoided railway train, 91, 94 being: solid ?, 228 blockhead, 647 boil, 327, 553-4, 556, 562, 563, 668, 669, 686, 690, 760, 761, 983, 989, 993, 994 born supramental, 366 bourgeois mind, 142 break your head, 311; broken

head, 756, 1144 bullying Sri Aurobindo, 979 butter

and milk-tea, 162, 163 "By the Guru", 757-8 candid baby, 502 "Cast your bread...", 372 cease to Hamletise, 396 centenary of arrival, 37 chubby cherub, 297, 298 circle M. V. Ph., handle sticky, 336 coagulate, 469 conscious ass, 390 bharat, 854-5, 867-8 critic, easiest, 214; logician, not easy, 194 Dance of Harmony!, 374 "De I'audace,.. .", 186 deserve only a cane, 359 Dhanwantari overnight, 205 diagnosis, Paradise, 973, 974-5 don't blow up Asram, 655 don't tear your hair, 549, 550, 947 easy the descent to Hell, 155 English poetry such, what of Bengali?, 262 Falstaff-like, 671 Fascist Yogi, 359 father confessor to God, 1148 forsake never, beat a lot, 151, 154 Gandhilike logician, 862 gigantic forehead, 328 golden age: 32nd year, 373 Hail, Rishi: past lives, 466 hair-raising proposal, 214 handwriting, 246, 355, 725, 751, 801 Homer etc. not a patch on you, 953-4 ignorance no defence, 145, 298 Iliad or Nirodiad, 398 "infinity-shod", 1152 "jack-in-the-boxing", 503-4 Jivanmukta, no need of prayer, 545 kicked along, 269, 285-6 laugh

and grow fat, Nirodian jollity, 156 letters in meditation, 161 licking the lips, 802, 803 low current: dynamo, 315 Madam Doubt, 423 Mahomed perhaps will help?; 268 mantra: OM Tut tut, 554, 558, 562, 563, 572, 766 many ingredients, 228, 582 medical explanation of experience, 91 medical profession, use of Rs. 20000, 99, 121 merciless whipping, 762 mess of explanation, 164 Micawber, 355 mighty hero at the pier, 684 misfortunes, 881-2 modest poet, 548, 549 mosquitos, Manubhai's mercy, 676 mules useful animals, 607 naive about women, 1119-20 neighbour of the Divine, 109, 545 Nirvana, 579 obligatory pursuits, 390 O favoured unappreciative, 317 O happy blindness, 212 Old Man of the Sea, 531, 533 O logical baby, 294 O Nirod of little faith, 318 other cats to whip, 469 "overnight", 328 Peace, fiery furious spirit, 141 "peace" like a summer dove, 210 persiflage, 143-4 perspiring idiot, 1064, 1066 petition to Inspiration, 805, 807, 808 photo, 328, 376, 442, 667 photo's treatment, 561, 562 pity for "browning", 412 poor Nirod, 92, 96, 442 "Portrait

of Nirod", 449 prescription, 156, 231, 573, 937 private "goāk", 212 profitless debate in your stomach, 399 pulverised, 799 pummelled, 620-1 queer card, 999 read Mark Twain, 701 reading The Life Divine, 354-5 say nothing, will sound less foolish, 467 secret sin: khichuri, 330, 331 shipwreck in a teacup, 376 sky's my book, 212 smelling salts, 126 smell of lime, 539 spare the poor people's eyes, 337 spelling mistakes, 198, 241,359, 450, 664, 740, 775, 781-2, 928, 1034, 1051 stupendous financial pressure, 232 supramental species, go forward, 342 surrealist poetry, too much for owls, 827 swan tumbling into dream of medicine, 910 swearing at, 905, 1166 sword at your serivce, 239, 867-8 system of lollipops, 543 Talukdar, 355, 414, 415 timber throne, 98 tummy and baldness, 998-9 Tut, tut, see above mantra: Om Tut tut "walnut" shell, 161 wealth in fisheries, 1045 weight, 578, 580 we weep before and after, 578 whipping boy, 152 why bother about being anything?, 214 word-punctures, 102,103, 154 W. P. B., 834 you are Brahman, 478, 991 your tail, 321 (4) Poetry: alchemist taking opium,

346 Baron plexus, 837-8 bird with sails, 1103 bones safe, 1012 broadcaster's announcement, 1067 calm, slam, Imam, 1067; dawn, Bernard Shawn, 1040 carle blanche, 574, 575 champagne bottle, 202 "Clamo, clamavi", 777 clouded soul, 758 condensed milk, 932 Congress prohibition law, 1156 constipation, 262 constitutional stroll, 1064 constructions ... dancing-hall, 819 coupletitis, 904, 906 crown of fruits, 1150 damn fine, tremendous superlative, 1180, 1181, 1182, 1183. 1187 Dara's style, 127, 354 defect in solar plexus, 1045, 1147, 1149 doggerels, 359, 541, 554; see also Sri Aurobindo, (2): doggerels Donne doffed, 1050 don't understand: in- stand, overstand, 836 dots too much meaning, 1050 dragged out by hair, 255 "Drunken shadows"!!, 1156 every poet a fool, 884 explain the inexplicable . . Christ, 843 fish: gleaming, 835; gold, 1044-5. pentametric, 574; sprat, 967, 1045 fisheries, 1045 flu and headache, 1167-8, 1170 forceps, 245, 254, 255, 263, 286 funniness in, 842-3, 844 Goddesses teasing tails, 356, 357 gulp the whole whale, 305, 306-7

hairs of tail need combing, 1142 illegitimate children, 414 metre: horror for a prosodist, 759; Hitlerian violences to, 552, 761 miraculous run-down store, 1010 misstressing "intestine", 453; "transparent", 497-8 moon's songs toffee, 978, 980 Nature apparelled with a poise, 1036 new soporific, 581 100 million poets writing away, 542 original, aboriginal, cooriginal, 609 oveiheadache, 1168 pangs of delivery, 52,245, 254 parent of irregular menses, 666, 667-8 poem transmogritied, 1104-5 poet like a peacock, 954 poets queer cattle, 787 posterity, reaction of, 801-2 refrain, 662 remarks on poems, 809-10, 845, 916-7; "grood", 809 "sea-shells she sells", 924 Shakespeare into shade, 398; spear shake, 490 sing with feet, 1043 sitting behind pardah, 680 sleeve empty, 691 soul's verandah, 1050 "Starry stumps" of Infinity, 1160, 1161 tankful of bank notes!, 1119 weary cat, 972 (5) Sadhana: advanced sadhaks, 332 ālubhājā and platonic love, 472 ass's bridge, 326, 328 big steamer throwing a yacht, 470

Humour, Sri Aurobindo's, (6) burst on fell day, 655 calling, not opening, 678, 681 catching head or tail, 681 crying for progress, 26, 644 departures like Japhet, 591-2 devolution, 309 disjointed machines in the lumber-shed, 149 dogs of depression bark, 444; menagerie, 445 Epstein's statues, 315 fall from Purushottama heights, 700, 701 Govt, post, 92 Grand'mere Depression, 609-10 hunting for shaktis, 117 Hurrah for the Himalayas!, 78 kerosene stoves. 852 knocks and shocks, 285 "lei us be married", 503-4 Mahomedan with tuft. 755 Maya and tit of the blues, 273 middle Narayan oil, 139, 140, 141 Namo Namo Dilipaya, 515 never to the fruits thereof, 572 not a place to graze in, 266 out of joint, 423 quickening the descent of Supermind, 222 sadhaks; happy-go-lucky, 544; lazy lot the Su-pramentals, 213; rose-leaf princess, 879; superrational men, 230-1; what delicate people, 740 seeking for safety. 91. 92, 94 seven tails, 321, 322 soul's fun in mud, 305, 311 spiritual culinary joy, 729-30 spree, 919; trip to the Himalayas, 1081 "stand and wait", 319 Supramental ass, 996; in 50 days, 319 supramental police, 197 3 ways

of meeting the collision, 607 trials of God-seekers, 231 Yudhishthir's dog, 95 (6) Sri Aurobindo: "Above" lives opposite, 545 Ahimsuk!, 103 all is well, if it ends well, 604 am I Matter?, 194, 320 and Mother: isolate in the Himalayas, 222; release into beatitude, 594-5; take tickets, 515 "Avataric" sadhana, 151 beast of burden, 905 Beauty's acquaintance, 1025 bewildered by your surrealist prose, 866 biographer's knowledge of, 79; impeccable biography, 101 blessings without garland, 653 calling Sri Aurobindo to bow down, 700 chary of remarks, 590 come down into Erebus?, 156 comfort rare, 1052 cryptic because becoming supramental, 660, 663-4, 665 curvilinear position: fell flat, 597-8 debate with Chellu, 511 Delphic oracles, my monopoly, 297 dharma pāgul, 575 dilate . . . delectations, 452 Expatiate, excavate, 715 father, 123. 126 floating on infinite plasticities, 141 fool being myself, eh?, 167, 173; imbecile, 168, 171 gone off to x loka?, 126 gone out of mind, 247 "Grand First Supramental", 179-80 groan in unAurobindian despair, 156 handwriting, 81, 86-7, 241-2, 246, 247, 538-9, 549.

572, 669, 689,711, 714-5,725, 729-30, 783, 788, 803, 855, 860, 868, 953, 1104-5, 1177 hats off, 507 head for Pacific Ocean, 622-3 imitating doctors, 210, 906 insinuate impurity, 211 Joycean neologisms, 463; apo-diaskeptic, 210 mathematics: sleep, 400 menu, pudding and mutton-pie, 541 millions of admirers, 541 modern-minded disciples, kismet!, 859 mukti, 184 my devils: expletive. 155; "why the hell": ejaculation, 1004, 1005 no pumping business for me, 553 off the list of candidates for this Yoga, 231 "overnight": inability to grasp, 328 pineal gland, 559 plague of Prasads, 525 poor in selves?, 808 promise: fulfilment of in 1997, 525; stands, 678 pure and simple. 480 quasi-Greek, 1007 respected person, more than 2 feet, 556 samata, 717, 809 shorthand, 336 stood but not delivered, 295 stylish portfolio, 180 subconscient, my King Charles's head, 254 teaified cells, 228 "Time and I both are shy", 715 verse on correspondence, 126-7 vise and revise, not previse, 722 !!!!!!!!, 101

(7) General:

adhyāropa, 123, 731, 1061 "All animals follow their nature", 1058 all animals in man, 1120 animals and Supermen, 323 baptism of S, 563 "big" balloon with gas, 1107 "Blessed be they . . . ", 234 clout an the head, 824-5 common sense uncommon, 157 dictates of masses, 1050 Divine hungry: goat-chop, 339 ejaculations and swearwords, x, 94, 155, 164, 197, 246, 302, 388, 401, 468, 474, 531, 539, 545, 578, 579,662,700,713, 857,967, 968, 980,991, 1004, 1005, 1156, 1180; Donner-wetter! Tau-send Teufel, 85; Great Jumble-Mumble, 367; Great Muggins, man, 164; Jehoshaphat, 322; Shobhanallah, 139,973 elites swarming, 860 embarking for Mecca, 1118 Englishman's right to grumble, 947 erratic genius, 838 everything done, useful, 307-8 feast and bali, 206 Gandhi's, "spotless white khaddar", 1122 glory be to English language!, 161 Glory to human reason, 139 God knows, 266,425,443, 461, 505, 560, 580, 675, 972,982 God's ways, 675 heat meets heat, 229; shout at heat, 1134 Heldil, 1186-7; Psh, 996 hieroglyphs, 355, 443, 535, 699, 868, 1104 Hitler gunfiring Supermind, 1156-7 human beings making the universe, 277 husband-god, 117 Krishna's Bronchitis, 526 look here, 143, 145 men: exceedingly silly, 108; rational idiots, 109 mosquito

curtain, 34 Mother's look at Pranam, 237 paranindā: heavenly Ananda, 233 penal servitude for Avatars, 149 pin-points, 293, 295, 296, 312 Purusha jumps up with an Ooah!, 561 "Queen Mary", 569 rubbish better appreciated, 1049 saving young brains of India, 691 scorpion incident and Socrates, 306 some day, some night, 534 stop being fools, 163 such is life, 145, 853, 874 Supermind may twirl its mustache, 327 super-Tom . . ., 148 Supramental, absolute of humour, 1035 Supramental, a queer fellow, 1142 Thompson's tongue, 504, 507 ticket for Nowhere, 727 time can't stand still, 608 time: one lock of hair, 215 touching proof of unanimity and solidarity, 138 tricks of the Lila, 557 use of connoisseurs, 1066 "Wait and see","719 What cheer, brothers?, 919, 920 Why one century?, 213 woman will wait, 107-8, 115 women: preservation of species, 116

Hutchinson, Dr. J., 824, 825

Ignorance, 248, 253, 277, 298,303, 304, 308,310, 334, 624, 850, 1063

Illness, see Medical matters, (3), (4)

Immortality, 191-2,196,197, 713

Impurity(ies), 164, 211, 218, 409, 754, 984

Inconscient, 247, 253, 303

India, 187, 230, 487-8, 691, 884, 914 freedom of, 323, 325, 327, 329-30, 340-1, 1185 people in, keep the books of others, 564 railways, 94 Swadeshi times, 351

Inner being. 38, 146, 153, 178, 183 and the psychic, 82 has to change first, 745 opening of, main thing, 62

Inner consciousness, 171, 829, 833, 1063

Inspiration, guidance from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, 885-6, 894-8 Inspiration (poetic), 21, 25, 50, 161, 408, 574, 886 and poetry, 21, 25, 31, 47-8,260.292,513,516, 542-7, 639, 661-2, 833, 839, 923, 1077, 1099, 1137, 1171, 1173 and widening, 493, 501-2, 503, 513 becoming mentalised, see Poetry, (1): mind coming in the way change in, 818 confinement to one single, 1071 flow of, 371-2, 405, 547, 748, 767-70, 774, 839 getting the, 22, 40-1, 47, 262, 373, 396, 398, 402, 405-6, 413, 546, 547, 1055

going off to another person, 358, 641 hide and seek in, 1066 letting it come through, 43-4, 405-6, 412-3, 634-5, 641, 766, 767 perilous to meddle with, 644 receptivity and, 40-1, 372, 894 transcription of, 22, 396, 405,490, 516, 545, 635, 641,769,831, 1114 vigilance to keep it up to the mark, 1137 waiting for, and effort, 292, 372, 512-6, 547. 678, 743, 747, 768-9 Word comes out of the Silence, 891 see also Mind, silent: and inspiration; Opening...

Integral Yoga, see Sri Aurobindo's Yoga

Intellectuals, 236

Intermediate zone, 90, 519 drawing one out of, 519-20

Intuition, 113, 134,204,205, 206-7, 246, 282, 678, 885, 886,907, 909 and thought, 1066-7 bubble and squeak method, 886-7 conditions for getting, 207, 356. 357-8, 364 discrimination in, 338, 358, 363, 365; for poetry, 358 ego in, 358, 363, 364 in medical field, 200, 201, 205, 338, 364-5, 421, 422, 425, 569-70, 887, 893, 1125 poetic and yogic, 487 pseudo-intuitions, 364-5 silent mind and, 356, 357-8, 364 without book-knowledge and experience, 894

Involution, 333

Italy, 564 .

J [a sadhika], 604, 804,977 novel of, 284, 296-7, 301-2, 372, 377, 619-20, 1012 see also Poetry, (1): J's

Jadabharat, 219, 579

Jagai and Madhai, 256, 347

Jatakas, 169-70

Jatin Bal (J.B), 375-6, 442, 475-6, 477-8, 480, 531, 532-3, 534, 548-9, 550-1, 555-6, 611-2, 614, 617, 618, 622, 629, 632-3, 634, 636, 653, 660, 663, 665, 772, 776, 798-9,976, 1007-8, 1009, 1138; Anjali (J. B.'s wife), 566, 660, 663, 1008

Jeans, Sir James, 540

Jekyl, Dr., and Mr. Hyde, 97-8

Joffre, General Joseph, 161

John, St., 256

Joyce, James, 210, 463

Kabir, 558

Kali, 335, 339, 340, 397

Kalidasa, 395, 399, 498, 926

Karma [past], 308-10, 334, 432,581,605-6,979

Karmayoga, ix, x, 84-8, 411, 557, vol. 2, v, 859, 1077

Kastner, L. E., about Mallarmé, 777-81

K.D. Sethna, see Amal Kiran

Keats, John, 448; 500, 747, 770, 923, 926, 988, 997, 1070, 1172

Kemal Pasha, Mustafa, 421, 426

Khagananda, 158, 160

Khirod, 100, 915, 1110

Kipling, Rudyard, 448, 1155

Knowledge, 80, 83, 213, 240, 334, 624, 625, 645 Divine realisation through love or through, 235-7, 239-41 higher, and mental, 236 higher, and problems of ordinary life, 240 outer, and yogic, 88-9 sacrifice of, 350 supramental, and faith, 625 see also Force, the, and knowledge

Krishna (Sri Krishna), xi, 137, 141, 170, 172, 173, 177,218, 219, 227, 256, 283, 294, 320, 477, 479-80, 522, 529, 602, 859, 1001, 1003

Krishnalal, 23

Krishna Prem, 478

Kundalini, 560

Lawrence, D.H., 682, 743, 746, 747

Lele, Vishnu Bhaskar, 467, 1077

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 129 Liberation, 311,344 and past karma, 309-10, 334 from body consciousness, 81, 192-3 from Prakriti, 73, 85

Life, 14-5,139,145,239,240, 278, 435, 625, 653, 853, 874, 1064, 1185 creation of, by man, 148 happiness motive-power in, 482-4, 486 misfortunes in, 881, 882 ordinary and yogic, one's own energy in, 132 petty pleasures of, 303-4, 350, 474, 873 rasa of, 72-3 sorrow and suffering in, 276-7, 279-80, 285-6, 311-2,981 strife and struggle in, 277, 311, 350, 984; see also Avatar, sufferings and struggles of too complex for simple affirmations, 106, 348; see also Mind, mental statements and the truth

worldly, 93, 1185 see also Happiness

Literary activity (pursuits), and acquaintance with best literature, 686 and age, 789 and sadhana, 5, 21, 41, 49, 72-3, 89, 451, 683, 744; see also Poetry, (I): sadhana and best creations, 743 desire for fame, 5, 25; ambition for success, 683 geniuses, 70, 392, 491, 731, 746; great novelists, 687 growth of capacities, see Ashram, growth of capacities; Yoga-Force, growth of capacities literary man, 61,284, 744, 745 reading and reliance. 681, 682 reading big writers, 682 reading for style, 52, 61, 365, 366 reading, separate oneself while, 365, 366 sensibility and hyper-sensitiveness, 745-6 story writing: method and style, 395-6, 688-9 writers and insincerity, 352 writers and life-experience, 50-1, 686-7, 1053 writing and rasa, 642 writing as a passion, 743-4 see also Criticism, literary

Literature, 217, 666 and transformation of nature, 744 hapax legomenon, 803 impressionist method in, 781 modern novels, 366 publication and public-appreciation, 631 religious and secular, 351-2 stealing in, 284, 293, 646; see Poetry, (1): theft in

Lloyd George. David, 171, 274

Lombroso, Cesare, 731

Loneliness, and isolation, 463

Love, 591-2, 615, 637 and devotion for Mather, 268, 281, 750 and sex, 793-5 Divine realisation

through love or through knowledge, 235-7, 239-41 for the Divine, 209, 240, 530, 755; before experience of the Divine. 528, 529-31 human and real, 452 human affection, 961-4, 986-7; see also Sadhana. relationship in vital, 19, 1060 vital, for the Divine, 793 see also Divine love

Madhusudan, Michael, 404-5, 936

Mahakali, intervention of, 517, 848

Maheshwari, 299 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 632. 776-82, 801, 828, 829, 830

Man/Men, 148, 286, 430. 1058, 1120 and women, 95, 100, 104-7, 112-5, 116-8, 181-3, 581-3, 684 coating of Prakrili over, 166-7, 169. 175. 176 contradictory elements in, 582 denying the possibility of change or progress in, 142, 150-1, 154, 166-7, 173-4, 175; see also Nature, human, change of Divine (divinity) in, 173-4, 175, 176-7 everybody is a problem, 454 he-man, 341; and she-women, 492-3 nature of, see Nature, human not a steam-engine, 460 not indifferent to animals, 323

possibilities of, 430, 624-5 reasoning animal but not reasonable, 717 sattwic, 347, 348, 571, 1109,1110 unconscious of his hidden self, 460 uneducated and big brains, all alike, 717 see also under Being

Manifestation (creation), and forms, 299 object of, 277, 303

Manilal, Dr., 438, 662, 887, 1053

Man of Sorrows, 263, 264, 265, 278, 280, 317, 338, 445, 457, 461,521,531, 601, 649, 650, 656, 673, 680, 775, 799, 802 Old Man of the Sea, 531, 533

Old Nick, 244, 533 strain of, 531, 775, 802

Mantra, 486-7; see also Humour, (3): mantra

Mark Tapley, 156

Marlowe, Christopher, 923

Marriage, 476, 611, 861 of Dharmagurus, 575-6

Marx, Karl, 101

Matter, 121,194,205,294-5. 320-1, 561

Medical matters,

(1)Dispensary: management, 109-12, 178, 182, 206, 211, 254-5, 266-7, 286-7, 368-9, 386-7, 478-9, 502-3, 518, 521, 524, 535, 561-2, 666, 668, 798, 909, 1030-1, 1067-8 1069, 1081. 1134, 1140, 1169, 1184-5 medical reports, 159-60, 253, 307, 379, 443 reports confidential, 577

(2)Doctors: 119,120,210, 423, 705, 874 death by the mistake of, 429, 695-6 differ, 120, 433, 435, 437, 892 function of, 824, 825 method of, 119, 677, 883, 893

Mother dealing with, 186, 482, 590, 1137 Mother's epigram on, 456 need of, for Divine Force, 120-1 soft like butter, soothing like. .., 489, 492, 824, 825 success and intuition, 887, 893 successful qualities of, 121, 186, 384, 422, 426, 428,429, 431,489, 568-9, 570, 677, 894, 1065 see also Humour, (2): doctors

(3) Illnesses: 220, 248, 488, 705, 713, 1129 and fear, 619, 738, 951 and flies, 738, 739 and germs, 738 and imagination, 248, 767, 788, 970 and pain-bearing, 180 and peace in the cells, 752-3 and physical consciousness, 508 and physical mind, 517-8 and prayer, 129, 181, 183, 681,961 and quarrels etc., 1014 and sadhana, 60, 823, 1168 and the subconscient, 248, 518, 738, 1053, 1054, 1124, 1125 cause of infection, 738 clapping a big word on, 488 conquest of, 189, 191 constant change of medicaments, 1006 cooking at home, 34, 283-4, 788, 1094 cure of: 1065; absolute, 1054; caused by spirits, 203;doubtsabout,333; many factors—drugs, diagnosis, symptoms, confidence, Force, etc., 361,422, 426,428,430, 431, 432-40; without medicine, 613, 617, 717; see also Force, the, cure by Descent of Force and, 718, 720-1

feeling it coming, 191 help to a patient, 618, 812 human nature as cause of, 1126 interchange of, 1061,1063 knowing results of examination, 508, 811, 813 most, are connected, 436 Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's ways of dealing with, 434, 435 need of external treatment, 11-2, 183, 270, 438. 617, 707-8, 729, 877, 880, 881 nothing is incurable, 1043 prognostications are confidential, 822 something takes interest in, 230, 508, 620 ultimate psychological cause of, 1043 wrong attitude in, 1013 see also Mother, ailments of; Sri Aurobindo, (5): illness

(4) Illnesses, specific: cancer, 345-6 cholera, 738 constipation, 595, 613, 620, 866, 892 dandruff, 1033 deafness, 1123 diarrhoea, 40: see also below (5): K's baby dysentery, 739 dyspepsia, 800 eczema, 456, 531, 535, 958-9, 975, 1137; and asthma, 389, 390, 998; see also below (5): J elephantiasis, 942 epilepsy, 187-8, 203 fever, 116, 120 flatulence, 124 hydrocele, 951, 954; see also below (5); N.P. hysteric fits, 196, 198, 203 insanity, 201, 203, 439; see also below (5): D.S., madness; M, mental disturbance "internal discharges", 862-4, 866, 875 jaundice, 614-5, 618, 619, 621, see also

below (5): S(2) leprosy, 662-3 lipoma, 509-10, 520-1, 526-7, 716 menstruation: irregular, 198; vicarious, 438-9 phlebitis, 1027-8 plague, 738 pleurisy, 118, 119 skin trouble, 456, 959, 975, 976 stomach ulcer, 67, 241, 630; see also below (5): S(3) T. B., 118,439,698-9, 811, 813; see also below (5): A (2), K, N (2), T (3) varicose veins, 949-50

(5) Illnesses, cases: A(l): enlarged liver, 668, 676, 690, 844-5, 928, 934, 937-8, 946, 947, 955, 966-7, 970, 971-2, 973-4, 1003, 1010 A(2): T.B., 711,715, 730-1, 800, 801, 811, 812-3, 881, 959, 1009 B.P.: scorpion sting, 305-6,313; syphilis and eye-trouble, 319-20, 345, 352-3, 359, 361-2, 534, 535, 553, 571, 583, 584, 585-90 D [a child]: colitis, 892, 906, 908,909,911,914-5,916, 917, 918, 919, 927, 928, 932 D.L.: intestinal affection, 630, 633, 642, 643-4, 647-8, 650, 651, 652-3, 692, 693-4, 695 , 696, 697, 701, 722-4, 732-4 D.S. (Esculape): madness, 720-1, 723, 731-2, 856, 858, 861 G: dying patient with high blood-pressure, xiii-xiv, 418-28,433-6,441,443, 444-5, 464 J: eczema, 389, 390, 445-6,456-7, 494-5, 531, 535, 958-9, 975. 976, 981, 982, 1006, 1007,

1017-8, 1019, 1020-2, 1023

K's baby: diarrhoea, 875, 876-7,878,879-81,882- 4, 886, 892

K: T.B., 430-1, 432-4, 438-9, 489, 581, 582, 595, 597, 601, 694-5, 698-9, 729, 735

M: mental disturbance and D.L.'s ghost, 709, 710-1,722-4, 731

Mulshankar's accident, xiii,473, 474-5, 482, 496-7, 528-9, 578, 579, 583, 654, 761

N(l): eye-trouble and deafness, 1104, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1125-6

N(2): T.B., 112, 115, 116 118, 120, 123-4, 144, 151, 155, 181,202,203, 272-3, 868, 1017, 1019, 1020, 1021, 1022-3, 1024 1026, 1027

N.P.: eye-trouble, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 287, 588, 619, 796, 798, 1065; hydrocele, 945, 951,952, 954, 1029

P: needle stuck in her palm, 917-8, 919-20, 924

S(l): cerebral haemorrhage, 179, 181, 182, 184, 185-9, 193

S(2): jaundice and dried liver, 613,614,617,618,

619, 621, 622, 626-7, 628, 630, 631,632,644, 645, 648, 654, 660, 666, 672, 674, 688, 689, 690, 699, 706, 710, 714, 719, 722, 729, 740, 767, 783, 977, 980, 981. 982, 983, 989, 990, 998, 1005, 1011-4, 1021-2, 1024, 1030, 1035, 1039, 1044, 1112, 1126-7, 1131, 1134, 1162

S(3): stomach ulcer, xiii, xiv,228, 230, 253-4, 283-4, 377-83, 384, 385-8, 389, 394, 395, 397,401,517

T(l): atony of the stomach (ptosis), 706-7, 710, 711-2, 714, 715-6, 717-8, 719, 722, 741, 742, 989, 1112, 1113

T(2): kidney infection, 708-9,716,718

T(3): T.B., 1073, 1074-5, 1077, 1092, 1096, 1119, 1136, 1164-5

Y: descent and physical disturbance, 718, 719-22

(6)Medicines: 187, 384, 385, 422, 613, 617, 717, 877, 878 and Mother's body, 816, 820 effects of strong, 145,184, 438, 446, 456 Indian, 1015 not a science, 213, 360, 883

(7)Medicines, specific: arnica, 654 arsenic, 265, 633, 1069, 1093, 1098 atropine, 184, 1027, 1122-3 bismuth, 159, 241,613 boric solution, 185 bovril, 381, 1020 bromide, 179, 1019, 1044 calomel, 617,

618, 880 camphor lotion, 185 castor-oil, 892, 909,

1030 chicory, 784 coconut (green), 957 cod-liver oil, 671-2, 676, collosal iodine, 1124 eau de cologne, 574 eau sedative, 574 emetine, 444, 876, 877 Fandorine, 874 gland medicines, 976 "guimauve" enema, 159, 927, 1080 kājal, 1084 laxatives, 1032, 1080 Listerine, 1018, 1020 Lithinée, 120, 565 liver extract, 1011 medical salts, 990-1 mercury ointment, 179, 716,773-4, 1040 morphia, 1053 nux vomica, 632, 633, 937 onions, 1010-1 pān-supāri, 785-6 pastilles charbon, 911 picric acid, 286-7, 1140 pomegranate juice, 463-4, 613,614 purgatives, 181, 184, 577, 614, 621,875, 1032 quinine, 184, 446, 752, 788, 1044 salicylates, 185, 249, 1059 Santonin, 1089 soup, 124, 617-8, 627, 1024, 1025, 1091, 1134 spinach soup, 387 Sudarshan, 946, 1010, 1015 sulphersenol, 265 thyroid pills, 248, 976, 1044 yeast, 620, 631

(8) General: activity of glands, 523, 711 aluminium vessels, 1069 Bates' system, 577 blood-examination, 119, 928. 938-9, 970 book-knowledge useful with practice, 677 breast-milk, 880 diagnosis not infallible, 420. 697 disinfecting a house, 1021, 1024 epidemics in Asram, 202, 322, 1168 eye-glasses, 248, 796, 798 hieroglyphs, 535, 699 medical etiquette, 178, 335-6, 378-9 medical examination of candidates, 693, 699, 742 medical knowledge and Yogic Force, 213 medical theories and some other power behind, 696, 698; surgical operations and Yogic Force, 337-8

Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's care about hygiene, 118, 207, 271, 345, 352-3, 359, 361-2, 496-7, 583, 606, 651, 875-6, 889, 948, 1021, 1022, 1060, 1091

Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's care about sa-dhak-patients' diet, 124, 159, 228, 230. 253-4,254-5,259,283-4,345, 382-3, 387, 481, 496-7, 565, 583, 606, 614, 617-8, 619, 626, 627, 628-9, 630,631, 632, 644, 648, 651, 671, 672, 688, 689, 693,695, 783, 784-5, 800. 875-6, 889, 892, 915,917,918,926,948, 955, 957, 977, 1003, 1015, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1024, 1025, 1026, 1028, 1033, 1034, 1035, 1037, 1042, 1060, 1074, 1075, 1077, 1089, 1091, 1093, 1095, 1096, 1098, 1104, 1107, 1128, 1164

Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's views on, 125, 151, 158-9, 181, 185, 259, 266, 375, 401, 408 426-7, 438, 444, 473, 497, 523-4, 548, 587-8, 589,611,618, 621,622, 631,633, 642, 666, 668, 671-2, 682, 688, 691, 694,707, 709, 711-2, 715-6, 722, 740, 742, 773, 783, 784-5, 786, 792, 826, 844, 875, 876, 880, 882, 883, 887, 888, 902,918, 920, 928, 945, 952, 959, 981, 990-1. 1011, 1015, 1016, 1017-37, 1039, 1040, 1041. 1044. 1046, 1052, 1054, 1055, 1059, 1069, 1074, 1075, 1077-8. 1083, 1085, 1086-7. 1094, 1097, 1099, 1112, 1114. 1115, 1117, 1127, 1128, 1134, 1136, 1138, 1144, 1149, 1157, 1164-5, 1167, 1169, 1176, 1187

Mother's views on, far removed, 882 Pondicherry

Hospital, 711,1181 practice here illegal, 250, 336 Presse Médicate, 822,953, 954-5 sedentary invalids, 670, 691, 730-1 surrealistic method in, 364-5, 886-7, 892-3-see also Intuition, in medical field vaccination in the Asram, viii, 888-92, 896, 900-3, 909, 911, 915-6, 918, 919, 920, 921,923, 926, 1163, 1164 washing work and nails, 187 see also Humour, (2)

Meditation, 6, 33, 65, 86, 122, 155-6, 161, 240, 526, 602, 607, 735, 820, 821 after rising, 8-9 a kasrat, 486 and adverse forces, 736 and work, 77-80, 82-6, 484-6 disturbing thoughts in, 65, 66, 68 experiences in, 67, 81, 91, 104 pressure on the head, 11, 68-9, 97, 104 sitting or walking, 2, 249 sleep in, 1-2, 7,91 utility of, 40,64, 83,484-6 when one cannot do, 7

Mental formation, 872

Mental plane, forms in, 299

Meredith, George, 935, 1172

Miaja, General Jose, 885-6, 895, 906

Middle path, 469, 859

Milton, John, 319, 448, 498. 500. 743, 747, 749, 923. 926, 935, 1053, 1147

Mind, 139, 162, 236, 252, 259, 362, 367, 404,

625, 738,795 and mystic poetry, see Poetry, (1): mystic: intellectual understanding of and vital world, 772, 828 developing into supermind, 139, 625 divided, 72-3 gathering of, 1 immortality of, 196 mastery of, 59 mental control, removal of, 14 mental statements and the truth, 106, 112-3, 189, 191, 675, 743, 1179; logical not necessarily true, 235, 347 mind-fag and rest, 654 misleading logic, 387; see also Nirodbaran, (8): bad logic nature of, 639 physical, 64,65,66,517-8, 828, 851 plummet and reality, xi-xii, 257, 259 resistance of, 311 silent (passive): 886; and inspiration, 514, 542, 546, 547, 634, 637, 641, 769, 891, 950; and intuition, 356,357-8,364; and receptivity, 753; and sadhana, 11-2, 48, 82,637,873; and thinkers, 362 sophisticated and naive, 1120 struggling with vital, 350 stumbling-block in sadhana, 72, 205, 236, 318, 571, 603, 637, 912 supporting the vital, 311, 611,1132 see also Poetry, (1): mind coming in the way

Mirabai, 1070

Miracle(s), 29,129,138,143, 149, 195, 337, 423, 874, 943, 1024 see also Sri Aurobindo, (5): and miracles

Mithridates, 158, 160

Mohitlal Majumdar, 824fn

Moliere, 360, 427

Monomohan Ghosh, 286, 331-2,401,988-9

Monoranjao Guha ThaktirIha, 476

Money, 101, 102, 869 property, 856

Morality, 432, 817

Mother, the, 49, 74, 84, 165, 168, 177, 220, 222, 228, 282, 349, 350, 400, 434, 723, 737, 885, 956, 1008, 1062 achievement of indifference, vol. 2, vii activity and withdrawal from activity, 83-4 ailments of, 813, 924; and medicines, 816, 820; and prognostications, 819, 822 "Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you", 274 at Pranam and sadhaks' reactions, 2, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19, 31-2, 37-8. 55-6, 76,162,237-9,332,518, 537-8, 539, 551, 577, 588, 657, 704, 732, 759, 773, 1033, 1089, 1132; misuse of the Pranam, 820-2; no Pranam henceforth, 819, 848; remaining silent after Pranam, 485 body-transformation, vol. 2, vi calling, 7, 9, 54, 87, 651, 736, 1040; see also Force, calling for . . . castor-oil in childhood, 892 concentration on, before writing, 783, 807, 840; see also below her photograph . . . conquest of death and illness, 189, 190 criticism of, 234,411,733, 1088, 1090, 1108 dealing with doctors, 186, 482, 590, 1137 dealing with sadhaks, 151, 237-8, 264, 920, 922,924,

1186; see also Medical matters, (8): Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's care.. . effecting transition between human and supramental consciousness, vol. 2, vii emanations of, 274,275-6, 278 flowers given by, 30-1, 274-5 Force of, 475, 694, 697, 724, 734, 853; see also under Force, the her photograph: bowing down before writing, 402, 405-6; contact through, 475-6, 480; looking at, 2-3 how many Mothers?, 475-6,477-8knowledge about happenings, 273-5, 313, 721-2 knowing Sri Aurobindo, vol. 2, vi love and devotion for, 268, 281, 750 misunderstanding statements of, 721, 887, 899 multitudinous manifestation, 244 on this correspondence, ix, vol. 2, v-vii organiser of the Ashram, vol. 2, vi-vii personal relation with, 257, 275, 276 physical nearness of, 224-5, 951; value of personal touch, 225, 820 pressure for change, 299, 850 protection of, xii, 736; see also Sadhana, and hostile force(s). . . pulling at her Force, 208, 726 remembering, in work, 16-7, 99,313, 451 seeing the Divine in, 281, 282 supramental descent in, 214-5 taking up medical correspondence, 1016 treachery to, 725-6, 727-8 views of, on medical matters, far removed, 882 wrong report to, 1040-1 see also Sadhak(s), wanting to be equal. . . ; Vision, Mother's, about . ., of Mother

Mother, The, 865, 867

Motilal Roy, 557

Mudgaokar, G. D., 996

Muladhara, 453, 560

Mulshankar, 473, 474 5, 823, 1081; see also Medical matters, (5): Mulshankar

Music, 146, 147, 208, 217, 795 highest art?, 447-50 Mussolini, Benito, 147, 340, 361, 377 Mysticism, see Poetry, (1): mystic

Naik, Dr. M., 391, 1130, 1132

Napoleon Bonaparte, 231, 421, 426, 962

National mentality, 508 Nature,

human, 45, 169, 272, 279-80, 297, 374, 564, 874, 1047, 1126 change (transformation) of, 86, 132, 138, 150-1, 233, 243, 248, 252, 275, 285, 292,311,744,745, 898, 981, 993, 1127; and freedom, 409; and inner experiences, 677-8; see also Man, denying the possibility of change double, 97 harmonised, rare, 269, 270 influence of atmosphere on, 264-5 lower, and hostile forces. 27-8; see also Sadhana, and lower nature; Soul, and Ignorance psychisation of, 327, 329

same, everywhere. 270, 285

Nature, universal, 311, 434, 739 and subconscient, 247-8, 251-3 and surface being, 252 Universal Energy, and individual. 514

Nevinson, W. Henry, I44fn

New race, 342, 343

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 101. 102

Nirodbaran,

(1)Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo and Mother: vii-viii, ix, x complaint about playing pranks with, x, 480 Mother's remarks on, ix, vol. 2. v-vii need (purpose) of, xi, xiv, 2, 10, 20, 76-7, 103, 208, 281, 1002 showing it to others, 71, 75,207-8,276,339,345, 509, 600, 714, 900, 1064, 1102, 1111 soul-stirring, 595 special favour, 103. 127, 281, 641, 1135-6 subject-matter, x

(2)Depression: 13, 715, 750, 1173 and J.B.'s letter, 531-2 from exaltation to, 47, 766; Darshan atmosphere waning, 71, 155-6, 291: rosy things and poetry died, 266 inner unquiet, 185 Jeremiad, 458- 62 moribund, gasping, 376-7 no faith in effort, 65-6,

323-4 no peace, joy, energy, 578, 605, 622, 624, 655, 790, 984 not personal: "regulation lathi" attack, 271, 272 sadness caused: by a dream, 48; by a poem, 787; by better things, 787 three Ds, 371, 390; and Dilip's best creation, 372-3 unhappy, 984; don't know why, 155, 156,157,271, 715, 855 upsurge of vital thoughts and desire, 17, 231,474

(3)Despair and dissatisfaction: 680 about poetry, 31, 64, 263, 266,317, 346, 407, 457, 498, 504, 578-9, 581, 597, 642, 649, 680, 684, 767-8, 790, 802, 826, 833-4, 854, 885, 891, 942-3, 974, 1151-2 about sadhana, 23-4, 35, 154, 231-2, 3)5, 316, 317-8, 336, 605. 628, 637, 638-9, 644, 655-9, 715, 730, 744, 748, 752, 790-1, 974, 984, 994-5 affiliation and differences with Dilip, 372-3, 374, 511, 516, 521, 523, 622-3 apprehension of failure, see Yoga, failures in, and apprehension borrowed your difficulties from X, 470, 605-6 Dilipian, 54, 156, 622-3 life seems a washout, 277-8

(4)Dreams: 3, 6, 13, 23, 48, 54, 69, 244, 727, 1131 about Buddha, 46 about Mother, 44, 163, 164-5, 215, 368, 481, vol. 2, v, 664, 665, 726-7, 956 about Sri Aurobindo, 63, 76,186,244,472,481-2, 664, 665, 916 curing an incurable disease in, 1010 music in, 264, 640, 760 of a beautiful boy (higher being), 956-7, 975 of

father, 34, 35 of hospital,993-4 of Shiva's ansha, 38 of silver coins, 356 of snakes, 64-5 see also Dreams

(5)Learning: esraj, 20-1 French, 4, 18. 199, 441, 798, 841, 1093 occult science, 199, 728, 730,913-4 reading The Life Divine, 161, 353, 354-5, 356, 730 sitar, 86 study of the English language, 161 labia, 20-1

(6)Literature: 687 critical faculty, 214, 1102 desire to be a good writer, 5, 25, 61 literary gift, 25, 42 prose writing, 39-40, 52 resistance in expression, 63-4 story writing, 395, 688-9, 709, 744, 1052

(7a) Poetry: 18, 21, 23, 25, 35-6, 38, 39, 45, 246, 262, 263, 291, 401, 407, 412-3. 452-3, 496, 533, 580, 606-7, 657, 692, 743, 744-5, 761, 788, 809, 833, 845, 868, 884, 904. 914, 918, 924-5, 933. 948,951,952, 956, 959, 960, 964, 966, 968, 972, 977, 995, 1003-7, 1011-2, 1013, 1030, 1034, 1036-8, 1039, 1041, 1042, 1044, 1051, 1055, 1056, 1057, 1058, 1059. 1064, 1066, 1073, 1075, 1076. 1080, 1102, 1114, 1118, 1134, 1135, 1139, 1140-1, 1142, 1156. 1158, 1159, 1163, 1164. 1166, 1173, 1185 "A fathomless beauty in a sphere of pain", an estimate, 1143-5 and Amal, 982, 1102-3 and Arjava, 679, 680 and Dilip, 545,683,767-8, 769 and Harin, 971, 982

and J, 744, 745, 767, 768, 943 and NK, 286, 292, 401, 440, 620-1 and Romen, 915, 917 and X, 468 anticipating trouble, and right attitude, 790 attempt at lyrics, 960, 965 Baudelairean fame, 815, 817-8 be a spider, 262, 984; try try again, 262, 372 beaten Virgil hollow, 548, 1092; equalling Shakespeare, 1180, 1181; and Homer, Milton, Keats, etc., 455, 548, 549, 747, 885, 953-4, 1172-3 Bengali, 249, 254, 440, 446, 608-9, 620-1, 637, 907-8, 909, 931; translated into English: by Nolini, 804, 808; by Sri Aurobindo, 835-6 between us we have produced something remarkable. 926-7, 1170, 1172, 1179-80 cease to Hamletise, 396 discouraged easily, 1171 dissatisfaction with his own poems, 787, 790; self-depreciation, 415, 775; see also above (3): about poetry dozing while writing, 775, 921, 932, 1162 English poems better than Bengali, 490, 1052 expression becoming authentic, 1143; found yourself in English poetry, 1016, 1038-9; gaining command of medium, 1152; getting hold of language, 933; got back your swing, 1096; maturity of poetic power, 647-8, 649; newness, 1184; possibility of finished product, 978 15 poems

in 6 months, 1172-3 foiled romantic and metaphysical poet, 1177; nineteenth century poet getting hold of, 1095-6 for the good of others, 598, 843 gift in grave things, 960 grumbler, 338, 802, 942-3, 1152 highway robbery, 965, 1009, 1086 "hower", efforter, 511, 512, 513, 542; plodding vitality, 373 immortalising depression, 537 infant in, 766, 767 joy of creation (enthousi-asmos), 43-4, 45, 371, 412-3; no joy of creation, 263, 542, 642, 649, 774; refuse to enthuse, 768, 769 logical, medical man writing poems, 263, 972, 980 magnificent poem without knowing it: Gau-deamus igitur, 948 marginal lines, 936, 956, 1068, 1076, 1112, 1114, 1143, 1156, 1159, 1160-1, 1162, 1171, 1172, 1178, 1183, 1186 Matra-brittas, 919 melancholy Jacques interfering, 965 Muse's response, 288, 317, 597, 650, 1064, 1076; exaction on the Muse, 1073 phenomenon, 1128, 1131, 1152 poet born, now turn of yogi, 254, 255, 286, 647 poetic sense in, 415 poet in the making, 398 poet undeniable, 288 possible verse-maker outside, 596-7, 600 queer moods, 943 remarks on, 249, 606-7, 641, 765-6, 809-10, 845, 902, 916-7, 918, 921, 946,

948, 9501, 968, 999, 10435, 10845, 1125, 1139, 1167, 1174, 1180, 1181, 1182, 1183, 1184, 1187 repetition of ideas, 1007repetition of words, 600, 971, 1056, 1173, 1184 resistance in, 263, 371, 407; see also Poetry, (I): mind coming in the way romanticised Wordsworth, 1084-5 romanticism, 1095, 1158 Sri Aurobindo hard master, 1158 super-Blakish poem. 1114. 1116-7 surrealist, 804-8, 813, 814, 818-9, 826-7, 828, 830, 834, 837, 864, 934, 1097, 1160; transition from, 862 syntax, Bedlamic, 1036-8 theme not clear, 766 use of writing, 1131, 1132-3, 1173 Victorian and spiritual strains, 969 vs. idleness, 1128, 1133 whole thing dropped, 43-4, 975-6

(7b) Specific poems: "alor gandhu", 902fn "ālor pākhi" ("The Bird of Light"), 608, 637 "A Throb of the Vast", 1122fn bhatiyall, 608-9 "Childhood Dream", 1085fn "Cry from the Dark", 977fn Fifty Poems of Nirodbaran, 933fn, 948fn, 1167fn, 1175fn, 1179fn "Figure of Trance", 997fn "First Word", 921fn "Flames of Vision", 1188fn "Haloed Face", 1043fn "in Moonlit Silence", 999fn "Lonely Tramp", 1076fn "My Thoughts", 1036fn

"Nirbhar", 650fn "o Light Inviolable", 1172fn "Primal Source", 1187fn "Quest Fulfilled", 1177fn "Reunion", 1143fn "Secret Hands", 1016fn "Seeds of Vision", 1142fn "Seeking Thy Light. . .", 1059fn "Silver Wonder", 1097fn "Sky Transcendent", 1058fn "Sleep of Light", 1045m "Soul's Pilgrimage", 976fn; Sri Aurobindo's success, 977 "Thy Presence", 1180fn "Your Face", 1010fn

(8) General: bad logic, 142, 144, 145, 150, 176, 193-4, 196-7, 396-7 birthday, 26, 68, 70, 373, 751. 752, 1184, 1186 breaking the old being, 228 can't understand a joke, 143, 144, 526 chubby chap: ego, 337, 341. 384 complaint from the D.R., 580-1, 669-70 coward, 92 cycle for melancholiac, 510; cyclo-mania, 556 date of arrival, 494 decision to stay in the Ashram, I "devil of despair" to "angel of hope", 870 different parts of, 199, 228, 571, 582, 610, 650 difficulties are not yours alone, xiii, 272, 461, 658, 748 doctor's confidence lacking, 186, 892 doctorship, disappointment in. 213, 677-8 doubt, 263, 371, 395-6, 431-2, 638; about urge for the Divine or spirituality, 23,

209, 232, 454, 466-7, 468-9, 523, 609-10, 623-4; Hamlet, St. Thomas, etc., 396; Madam Doubt etc., 423; see also under Doubt elixir, 376-7 fatness, seeking from ..., 163,671,934-5 firebrand doctor, 489 fulfilling conditions without knowing, 741 future hope, 46, 57, 71, 287, 315-6, 328, 610, 647, 784, 1002; see also above (7a): poet born... Gandhian resistance, 228, 243, 532 growth of yogic consciousness, 73, 74, 82 humorous element in, 351 illness, 36, 40, 59-60, 264, 273, 327, 330, 756, 757-8, 902, 924, 937, 983, 989, 996, 1167, 1168; see also Humour, (3): boil inertia of physical nature, thick crust, 609-10, 755 installed in X's palace, 1154 "laugh and grow fat", 156, 163, 520, 523 leechlike tenacity lacking, 457, 461 love for Sri Aurobindo, 209 meditation and poetry, collision between, 607, 683 mind (mentality, brain) of, ix-x, 161, 325, 423, 466, 755; active, 48, 542,767,769; clear with deliberate strength, 199, 238; confounded and hesitant, 316, 318, 533, 683, 684; logical brain box, 312, 886; obstructive, 571, 637, 639; wooden head, xi, 467 not a Sri Aurobindo, 457, 461 opening of heart centre,

68, 240 opening of inner being, 66, 647, 1131 opening up medical channel, 916; see also Intuition, in medical field prestige, and saving the face, 108, 119 property affairs, 7, 1051, 1068, 1079-80, 1084, 1103-4, 1111-2, 1157-8 putting up a friend in one's room, 1009, 1186 quite decent, 898 receptive, 752, 753 relation with Sri Aurobindo, x, xi-xii, 126, 232, 256, 257, 259, 268-9, 270,480, 624; apprehension of Sri Aurobindo's withdrawal, 623,799; do not forsake me, 154, 158, 824 result is gratifying, 628, 629 samatā, exercises in, 29, 717, 809 sea-bath, 934-5 soul-stirring communications, 595 studying medical books, 927 testing a raw doctor, 119, 198 thirst for Knowledge, x, 208 3 mules, 607 triangle of confusion, 395-6 vairāgya, training in, 605, 606, 608 vital of, 278, 373, 638, 639,755;lazy, 470,503, 511, 542, 545, 546, 605, 1132 wanting only peace, 326 weakness, 108 what Sri Aurobindo wants him to be, 217 work in Ashram: gate duty, 17, 18; garden, 19, 35; House-painting Dept., 35; timber-go-down, 36, 55, 59, 86, 87, 98, 109; talk about Dispensary charge and

the actual charge, 98-9, 103-4, 108, 109, 486; attending the Hospital, 193, 202, 227-8. 312, 313, 742, 815-6, 1040 yogic strand in, 637 see also Humour, (3)

Nirvana, 80, 115, 117, 206, 309, 317, 579, 902, 979

Nishikanta (NK), 70, 286, 551, 641, 649, 684, 691, 945 and Dilip, 490-1 Bengali poetry, 292, 440, 472, 527, 642, 1159 Brahmaputra of inspiration, 661 English poetry, 402-4, 405-8, 411-2, 413-4, 472,490-1,492 fluency in poetry, 401, 405, 543, 547, 748 new channel opened, 642 prodigious and unusual poet, 401, 543, 547 "The Rat and the Cat", 492 vision-poems of. 453-4, 462

Nitai, 256

Nobel Prize, 70, 1155

Nolini Kanta Gupta, 63, 113, 161, 496, 518, 818

Non-violence, 226

Occult faculty, 283

Opening (openness), 16, 36, 62, 72, 203, 205, 211, 258,270, 338, 601,647, 649, 678, 680-1, 774, 873,897,902,912, 1101 and cure, 345, 1014 and inspiration, 40, 47, 50, 490, 491, 493. 514, 635, 661-2, 684 meaning of, 12, 21 of mind and

other centres, 240-1 passivity and, 514 to hostile forces, 203, 221 vertical, 235

Ouspenski, P.D., 793

Overmind, 141, 156, 477 and supermind, 141, 325, 327 descent of, into Matter, 294-5, 320 in process of supramcntalisation, 189, 195, 389

Oxford Dictionary, The, 497, 498. 499, 682

Painting, 72. 88, 146, 148, 202, 208. 369, 447, 448 in Asram, 512 modern, 449 Pallas Athene, 107, 299 Paramhansa, `,4various forms of, 219, 223 Patriotic sentiments, 348-9, 487-8 Paul, St., 1034 Pavitra (P.B. Saint-Hillaire), 211,891, 892, 920, 926, 1015

Peace, 47, 72, 85, 98, 209, 210, 223, 289,316, 326, 409, 637, 653, 655, 659. 750, 752, 753, 754, 773, 959, 986 and mental quietude, 1101 experiences of, 23, 52-3, 601 see also Calm; Silence; Stillness

Peter, St., 147

Physical, the, 76, 201, 321, 841 resistance of, 303, 304, 311 supramental descent into, 179-80, 214-5

Physical consciousness, 252, 303, 453, 483, 508, 544 fall in, 336, 337,461,840, 995 obscurity of, and its effects, 821, 822-3

Physical mind, 64, 65, 66, 517-8, 828, 851Physical world, and vital world, 163, 164. 314, 664-6, 828 expression of the supra-physical, 739

Pineal gland, 558-60

Plato, 143, 167

Poet(s), 261, 401, 487, 775, 779, 781, 1006 and dreamer, 832-3 born, and made by yoga, 458-9, 491 can't always write well, 885, 1005 epic writers, 926, 935; metaphysicals, 1178; modernists, 448; moderns, 1171-2 greater Power writes through, 1077 greatest, with labour, 922 judgment of one's own poetry, 415, 460, 468, 542, 649, 775, 790, 810, 884; Horace's rule, 662, 1182 limitation of appreciation-faculty of, 1147 manufacture of, 459; see also Ashram, growth of capacities in new chhanda, mentioning of, 1072 vicissitudes of poetic career, 1079 works in exalting excitement, 884

Poetry,

(1) General: 72, 208, 358, 447, 449, 450-1, 488, 666, 794, 795 A.K.'s, 511 and ego, 405, 407, 865, 867 and novel-writing together, 626 and time factor, 401

appreciation of, 778, 1144-5, 1147-8; see also Poet(s), judgment of... aspiration and passivity, 641 bare and rugged, 1146-7 beautiful, as a whole, 1178 Bengali, 643; laghu guru chhanda, 586, of Mo-hitlal, 824; overhead, 943; possibility of epic style, 936 best, 490, 637-8, 743

blank verse, 921-3; epic style, 910-1, 925, 935, 937, 955, 957, 969-70 "body" being born?, 1117 coining words, 803 decisive rule for, 50 different minds catching similar things, 358, 641 Dilip's (D's), 50, 69, 369, 512, 513, 515, 543, 547, 631,644,661,684,767-8,999-1000,1072,1079; and Nishikanta's, 490-1 does not give love and peace but Ananda, 637 dozing while writing; see Nirodbaran, (7a): dozing ... dream-poetry, 813, 827, 830, 831-3, 838, 982 ear, question of, 414, 495, 643,943,944,945, 1153 effort in, see below place of Force . . . epics, 926; see also above blank verse epithet, recurring, 1056-7 exceptional circumstances, 490, 493, 501-2 expecting success (exceedingly fine), 626, 810, 885 expression main thing, 1143 fear obstacle in, 775 feelings and imaginations in, 599 fine things can come without knowing, 766 fluency and inspiration, 547; see also Inspiration (poetic), flow of Grand Trunk Road, 542 greatest thing in, 1045-6, 1149 growth of capacities, see Ashram, growth of capacities (poetic etc.); Yoga-Force, growth of capacities high tone, objection to, 1053 hooking on to the right place, 915, 969, 976-7. 1078, 1079 image: excessive,

1082-3; richness of, 415-6, 491 imitation and reproduction, 552 importance of words, 598 improvement: and egoism, 865, 867; ways of, 516, 835, 839. 840, 841, 842, 845-6, 870, 923, 943, 1116 infancy in, 767 inspiration, poetic, see Inspiration (poetic) intermittent drops, 490 joy of

writing (enthousi-asmos), 43-4, 636-7, 769, 774, 923, 927 J's, 585, 634-6, 639, 641, 642, 643, 660-2, 734, 748, 761, 764, 774, 775-7, 791, 801-2, 812, 822, 826, 843-4,869-70, 902, 921-3, 943,969-70, 1059-60, 1071 labour not enough, 774 lyrical, 965, 966, 982 mass of works in, 779 matter of factness, 293, 527; see also below, sincerity and verisimilitude method of writing, 249-50, 262, 372, 396, 398, 547, 839, 840, 953. 1066; each his own technique, 923; same method, different results, 1099 metre (chhanda): 412, 643; variety and Time-spirit (yugadharma) in, 864 mind coming in the way, 371,413, 637, 767, 768, 775, 840, 904, 937, 949, 950, 1050, 1051, 1115-6; see also Mind, silent, and inspiration modern, 449, 864, 980; and our poetry: difference in substance, 1175 moon, stars, sun in, 504, 964, 1009-10, 1068-9, 1070, 1080, 1121-2, 1134-5 mystic: exact meaning not

forte of, 632; intellectual understanding of, 762-5, 770-1, 827. 830, 834-5, 836, 966, 997, 1116, subjective vision, 599; two methods of writing, 782-3; use of sex-imagery, 793 Napoleonic efforts, 468 narrative, 935, 965-6, 988 new technique, 827 not metaphysical treatise, 1188 originality in, 25 overhead, 929-31,939-40, 943,944-5, 1117 philosophy in, 35-6, 1092, 1148 place of Force, inspiration and personal effort in, 468, 512-6, 542, 1137, 1152 plodding and easy gallop, 201-2, 204, 206, 207, 215 "poetic power", 652 progress in, and in yoga, 649 pure, 775, 830-1, 1097 reading, help by, 61-2, 768, 925, 943 rhythm: 877, 1153; revolutions of, 979 right words in the right places, 944, 950 rocks aspiring, 1082-3 sadhana and, 22, 62, 70, 72, 217, 283, 410, 594, 784, 1077 sameness in, 1071-2,1128, 1131,1133 shunting the train, difficulty of, 869-70; transitional difficulty, 840 significance and feeling in, 1144-5 simple, 415-6 simplicity no test, 1182 sincerity and verisimilitude, 626, 910, 944, 946-7, 955, 958, 959, 968, 1004, 1009-10, 1011, 1013, 1025, 1036, 1038, 1041, 1043, 1059,

1066, 1075, 1076, 1082, 1102, 1103, 1134, 1135, 1141, 1152, 1156, 1163, 1166, 1169-70, 1171, 1172, 1179, 1183 "sky", use of, 1058 sources of, 832, 833 spiritual: plane of source, 941; monotony and variety in, 1070-2 sterile periods, 647 striking different sources, 810-1 style, 415-6 supermind plane of, 806, 939 Surawardy's, 965, 978, 997-8, 1000 surrealist, 813, 827-33, 838; letters to Dilip, 829-33 symbolism and impressionism, 779, 829 technique in, 1153 theft in, 965, 1009, 1086, 1165; see also Literature, stealing in thought-power in, 47 value of a poem, 291, 639 vulgarity in, 816, 817 waking up of something necessary, 42, 52 yoga is skill in works, 808, 915

(2) English poetry: accent in, 497-9, 1039 and Bengali poetry, 643 by Orientals, 404, 504-8 cadences, right sense in, 1095, 1153 conceit in, 938 metrical rules and rhythm, 402-3, 412, 414, 417-8, 495, 573-4; errors in rhythm, 552, 960, 1140 mixture of metaphors, 453,934, 1165 overtones and undertones, 933-4 "red tears", 634 rhymes, 403, 500, 546-7, 922, 1067 scansion, 495, 1042 sonnet scheme, 403, 500, 922 spiritual expression in, 405 stresses: fictitious, 453, 497-8, 574; shifting of, 950 see also Amal; Arjava; Literary activity; Nirodbaran, (7a); Nishi-kanta

(3) Specific poems: "Ahana", 746 "Baji Prabhou", 925 "Bird of Fire, The", 763, 782-3, 925fn, 940, 1009fn "Crimson Rose", 764 "Divine Comedy, The", 926, 1046fn "Flowers of Evil", 817 "Gitānjair, 505, 770fn "In the Moonlight", 746 "Jackal", 847 "Kumārsambhav", 926, 935, 936 "Le Cygne", 779fn, 780-1 "Les Fleurs", 779fn, 786 "Love and Death", 746, 925, 988 "Meghnādbodh",926,957, 970 "Nirvana", 782, 789fn, 925fn "Ode to a Nightingale", 770 "Paradise Lost", 749, 925, 926, 1053 "Paradise Regained", 749, 925 "Rājhdnsa", 527 "Rāmāyan", 926, 957 "Rape of Lucrece, The", 988 "Rishi, The", 746, 749 "Rose of God", 544, 925fn "Shonār Tari", 770fn "Skylark", 770-1 "Songs to Myrtilla", 960 "Surrealist", 790fn, 816-7 "tārā . . . nata āpan hāra" ("Millions of stars . . ."), 598-9 "Transformation", 782, 789fn, 925fn "Urvasie", 925 "Venus and Adonis", 988 see also Nirodbaran, (7b)

Pondicherry, 7-8, 46, 50, 459,711,758,979, 1157 Hospital, 711, 1181 pier, 13, 684

Pope, Alexander, 770, 771

Poverty, 101, 102

Prakriti, coating of, over man, 166-7, 169, 175, 176 liberation from, 73, 85 separation of Purusha from, 73, 81, 82, 85

Pranam, see Mother, the, at Pranam

Prayer, 36, 416, 602 and illness, 129, 181, 183, 681,961 and rejection, 659 (aspiration) and response, 73, 479, 542, 545 before going to bed, 56-7 call and recession of death, 189 for a friend, 11,24 for the Divine, 822

Predestination, and chance, 268, 269-70, 313-4

Psyche, 329, 832 and desire-soul, 304, 308

Psychic atmosphere, 533

Psychic being (the psychic), 2, 56, 174, 259, 327, 330, 336, 337, 745, 821, 964, 1100, 1138 a flame, not a spark, 140, 329 and Atman, 276 and evolution, 140, 308-9, 311, 329, 333 and inner being, 82 and Jivatman, 308 and personal relation with the Mother, 276 and psychic fire, 242, 255 and Purusha, 82 awakening of, 174, 363 bringing to the front, 85, 753-4 more developed in some, 329 retracing steps to, 33 taking the lead, 14, 45,

176, 223, 231, 522, 611 weak, 519 see also Soul

Psychic opening, 902

Psychic transformation, 218, 327, 329, 330

Psychology, criminal, 484 hedonistic, 483 modern, and hidden forces, 460

Pnnmiswami, 67

Purification, 555, 611, 1048

Purusha, and the psychic being, 82 "in the heart", figurative language, 560, 561 power of, 270, 310-1 separation of, from Pra-kriti, 73, 81, 82, 85

Pyramids, 674

Pythagoras, 167

Radhaswami sect (of Dayal- bagh), 557-61

Rama, 141, 143, 477 and the Golden Deer, 224, 226-7

Ramakrishna, 52, 89, 94, 107, 114, 115, 136, 142, 143, 147, 170, 217-8, 219, 222, 223, 224, 226, 235, 238, 256, 335, 528, 530, 576, 739, 906, 958

Ramakrishna Mission, 1048

Raman, C.V., 313, 314

Raman Maharshi, 298, 477, 483-5, 525 yogi, not Rishi, 486, 487

Raymond, Antonin, 1069fn

Realisation, of the Self, 82, 215, 367, 530, 992, 993; and Brahman realisation, 991-2 yogic, 132 see also Divine realisation; Supramental realisation

Reason, 29 or feelings as guide, 134-5

Rebirth, 38-9, 308 change of sex, 117

Receptivity, 100, 363, 753, 897, 1009 and cure, 67, 119, 881 and inspiration, 40-1,372, 894 wideness and, 69, 502, 503

Rejection (of wrong movements), 3, 24-5, 30, 33, 56, 67, 85, 610, 657, 659, 848, 912, 1047, 1048 procedure, 252-3

Relation, human, 276 see also Sadhana, relationship in

Reliance (nirbhar), 650, 651, 657, 658,914, 1129 and reading literature, 681, 682 effort and, 64, 65-6, 67, 215, 269, 458-9, 461

Religious fanaticism, 349

Religious literature, 351-2

R (homeopathic doctor), 359-61, 378-88, 389, 418-40,441,445-6,464, 493, 508, 510, 563-4, 568-9, 584, 585-90, 679, 691-2, 693-7, 701, 742, 995, 1011, 1030-1 Riddle of this World, The, 277, 280

Rimbaud, Arthur, 829, 830

Rishi, and yogi, 486-7

Romen, 512, 914, 915, 917, 955

Roosevelt, F.D., 171, 289

Rudrabhava, 227 Rules, observance of, 685

Sacrifice, 206, 339 depends on inner attitude, 987 of animals, 339-40, 349, 397 self-sacrifice, 349 spiritual, 350-1 (yajna) of works and knowledge, 350

Sadhak(s), 301,710 advanced, 330, 332, 1168 amateur Yogis!, 593, 748 and the supramental descent, 142-3, 197-8,210, 212, 221, 388-9, 440-1, 544.5, 594, becoming supramental or great "overnight", 324, 328, 330-1 bodies abnormally sensitive, 884 civilising the, 669 complete attitude of, 57, 58-9, 289 fashion not to sleep, 206, 700, 772 favourite phrase: "indicate", 1013 following their own ideas about Yoga, 470-1, 522-3, 593-4, 602, 847, 849, 1100, 1101 homo-intellectualis and homo-psychicus, 235-7, 239-40 intelligence and interest rare in, 524 lion-hearts, 531 living in inner self, 253, 750, 751, 753, 819, 820 modern-minded, 859 no Force can take a man away, 1002 quarrel among, 212, 228-9, 257-8, 408-11, 502, 598, 628-9, 676, 1087, 1130 revolt and upsetting of: . D.S., 93-4; K, 851; Naik, 1129-30, 1132; U, 911-2; X (kitchen), 1087-91; Y(l), 297-8, 299-301; Y(2), 725-6, 727-8; Y(3), 1091; remedy for revolters, 1089, 1132 sheepishness, 592 shindy in, 653 speeding the, 288 supposing themselves supermen, 1101 supramentalised, greater

than Krishna?, 140-1 surface consciousness of, and divine action, 275 three possibilities for. 469 wanting to be equal to Mother and Sri Aurobindo, 140, 141, 142-3, 300, 400, 700 yet they arrive, 316, 755, 914 see also Ashram, sadhaks here; Humour,(5): sadhaks; see also under Mother, the; Sri Aurobindo,(3)

Sadhana, 110, 273, 720 alternations in, 11, 45, 47 "Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you",274 and appearances, 750, 1048 and conquest of death, 704, 712-3 and contact with the world and hostile forces, 532-3, 555-6 and difficulties, see Yoga, and difficulties; Vital, the, source of difficulties and hostile forces, 23-4, 30, 55, 56, 532-3,555-6, 700, 720,757, 821,914, 1002; and Divine's pro-lection, 27-9, 109, 275, 299-301, 468, 728, 732, 1129; and safeguards, 29, 96, 222, 253, 555, 914 and illness, 60, 823, 1168 and lower nature, 72, 75, 86, 302, 303, 304, 308, 726, 847-8, 914 and personal effort, see Effort, personal and sex, 19, 51-2,476, 532 555. 992-3 and silent mind, 48, 82, 637, 873 and wideness, 69,

97, 312, 503, 639 Buddha's maxim and Krishna's injunction, 859 building up an inner life, 750-1 comfortable doctrine in, 194-5, 197, 213 conditions for getting things, 48,85, 185,208, 211, 216, 243 conscious at every step, 522 conversion of sinners, 347 dark periods in, 593 descent of, into physical consciousness, 705 dryness in, 35, 231, 243, 603, 604 dull moments in, 14-5, 605 effective way of, 216 emptiness in, 7, 243, 841 energies directed to, 70 Epicurean austerity in, 197 essential thing: change of consciousness, 704; inner touch, 820 formula in, 199, 316,465, 651 fruits by the measure of the soul, 215, 217 getting back the thread, 8 Grand Trunk Road, 542 harmonisation: of different elements. 97, 199, 201,269,650,651; of literature (poetry) and, 607, 683 Heaven in a gallop, 594 increasing pressure for, 710 interruption to, 856 literary activity and, 5, 21, 41, 49, 72-3, 89, 451,683,744 living in Asram and outside, 899-900 necessary things in, 10, 14, 35,48, 57, 112, 166, 210, 217, 268, 281, 465, 681, 710, 841, 853, 870, 873, 907,914,975, 1101 need of doing, 129, 273, 703, 704, 712-3, 897, 907. 943 need of pcrfectioning the instrument,

128, 337, 419, 897 newspapers and, 5 nirbhar, see Reliance of vital plane, 793 Path (Way), 93, 96, 165, 231,914; following the, 166, 168, 172-5, 177 peace, balance, sanity, 209, 210, 223, 376 poetry and, 22, 62, 70, 72, 217, 283, 410. 594, 784, 1077 priggisfiness in 1126-7 progress in, 47, 57, 281, 601, 751 rational attitude, 219 reading and, 3, 52-3,60-1, 681, 682 relationship in, 8, 19, 114-5, 266-7, 376, 463, 610,615-6, 629,729-30, 852-3, 873, 1000-1. 1119-21, 1133 relatives and, 3, 30. 410, 492 resistance in, 58, 63-4, 311; strong resolution and resistance, 243, 757; see also Vital, the, resistance of Rome was not built in a day, 605 satisfaction of desire, 75, 848; lingering look, 311-2 sattwic deeds, 334 secret of, 650, 651, 750 sensible attitude, 24, 376-7, 755 serious mood, 3 singing on the way, 745, 748, 749 slow laborious work, 745 sticking on, xiv-xv, 3, 24. 243, 318, 461, 462, 466, 610. 741, 975, 995 swiftness in, 210 taking, by the right end, 750, 755 talk and, 35 tamasic stage in, 995 through heart. 964 through heart or through mind, 235-7, 239-41

through literary activity or through work, 451 through one's own line: an excuse, 1060 time taken in, 210, 217, 231, 316-7, 454, 593-4, 673, 755, 912; rule of 12 years, 744, 745, 748, 879 trance, falling down in, 958 ugly things in, 1048 waiting for things to happen, 579-80 wrong way of, 594, 602, 700, 858-9 zeal and patience, 199 see also Ego, sadhana and; Faith, and sadhana; Food, and sadhana; Mind, stumbling block in sadhana; Sri Aurobindo, (3): application of his Force for

sadhana; Yoga

Sahana, 1071, 1072

Samata (equanimity), x, xiv, 29, 170, 605, 717, 809, 1001

Sammer, Francicheck, 1055th, 1080

Sanjiban, 16

Sanjib Chowdhury, 1155

Sannyasi, bad temper of, 223, 227

Santayana, George, 505

Sarojini Naidu, 505, 506

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 828

Science, 122, 191, 427, 523, 559, 822, 892, 903 and truth, 561 medical, 813

Self, see Experience(s), of Self; Realisation, of the Self

Sex (sexuality), 33. 75, 117, 215, 366, 519, 582,

610, 687, 748,754 and death, 476 and love, 793-5

and self-control, 21, 796-7 and women, 107,114,115, 616 emissions, 56-7, 862-3, 866 for the preservation of species, 116, 582-3, 795 freedom from, 611-2 malpractice, 212-3 sex-energy, 391-5 sex-glands, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396-7 sex-pleasure and Brah-mananda, 793-5 see also Ashram, sex-force in: Sadhana, and sex

Shakespeare, William, 224, 398,490,500,631,639, 794, 803, 922, 923, 929, 940, 954, 988, 1046, 1145, 1147, 1180, 1181, 1 182, 1183, 1187

Shankara [Shankaracharya], 78, 343

Shaw, G.b., 240, 1040, 1181

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 404, 599,770,794, 935, 1172

Silence, 72, 73, 74, 81, 891 see also Mind, silent

Sincerity, 19-20, 29, 217, 270, 352, 910, 911-2, 914; earnestness, 281, 755 sincere heart and extraordinary powers, 301

Sircar, Dr. Mahendranath. 591, 722, 730, 1048

Sleep, 59-60, 80, 108-9, 116, 161, 206, 408, 707, 772 859, 871 best time for, 38 conscious, 4-5 in meditation, 1-2, 7, 91 pass into, in concentration, 8-9, 10, 11

Smiles, Samuel, 102

Socrates, 306

S of Dayalbagh, 557 Somnath, 346, 347, 348, 349, 351

Sophocles, 498, 779, 789

Sorrow, 263 see also Life, sorrow and suffering in

Soul, 560 and body, 81, 488, 560. 739 and Grace, xiv-xv, 461. 465, 580 and Ignorance, 303-5, 310-2, 333-4, 606,850 and Karma, 309-10, 334 turning of, towards the Divine, 303, 454; see also Psychic being, awakening of see also Psychic being; Sadhana, fruits by the measure of the soul

Southey, Robert, 547

Spirit-entity, and pineal gland, 558-61

Spiritual consciousness, 54, 173, 639 and praise and blame, 301, 1108 and reading Dickens, 681, 682

Spiritual experience, see Experience), spiritual

Spirituality, and greatness, 171, 176, 224, 344 and marriage, 476, 575-6, 611 and moralising the character, 1106, 1108-9 and sattwic man, 1109 and work in the world, 557-8 high qualities and, 1105 understanding, not by the intellect, 770, 1049 vs. social scale and university education, 142, 144, 145

Spiritual light, and idealistic or religious notions, 352, 363

Sri Aurobindo, (1) Yoga/Sadhana: 80, 142, 150, 177, 204, 316 accident to carriage, 368 achieving overmind, 150, 194 and the Divine's help (Grace), 149, 170 anger, upsurge of, 748, 749; shouting, 1130 beginning of Yoga, 367-8; motive behind, 1077 bore every attack, 176; worked on each problem, 204

concentration 4-5 hours a day!, 457, 459 doubt and despair, 176 dropped several times, 879; if 1 fall out, 95 dull moments, 605 experiences: after contact with Lele, 170, 459-60, 467; of Brahman, 467; of Nirvana, 80, 170, 202, 206, 902; of Self, 367-8, 530; of Vasude-va, 367; spiritual, 371 getting out of mind, 170, 247; have never anything in my head, 538; I don't think, 578, 1066, 1141 growth of capacities by Yoga, 62, 70, 88, 133, 148-9, 202, 204, 205, 366, 369-71, 683

Integral Yoga not easy even for me, 149, 282 joyous sacrifice, 350 meditating while walking, 249 mukti, 138, 185, 1151 no spirituality before \taking up Yoga, 206 no struggle about Self, 530 physical work, 73-4, 80 Pranayam, 370, 371, 459, 467 retirement, 79,125-6,295, 663; question of coming out, 663, 789 samatā (equanimity), x, xiv, 170, 605, 717, 809; not upset, 188 subtle images, 65 suicide, no thought of, 265 vairagya period, 605 see

also below (3): his sadhana. . . (2) Poetry/Prose: 165, 204,416, 684, 1143 aim in writing poetry, 405, 543-4 alterations in poetry, 544, 846, 929 Cousins' criticism, 746, 749 doggerels, 126-7, 489-

90, 493, 494, 497, 520, 668, 756, 1163 fluency in poetry, 748 inspiration, capricious, 260, 516, 1170 labour for, 516, 1056, 1165 method of writing, 62, 1066 must be a bad critic, 1148 mystic poetry, 782-3 no expert: in Bengali chhanda, 416, 633, 634, 636, 903, 911, 923; in Bengali overhead poetry, 943, 1159, 1161 not follower of yuga- dharma, 864 no time for creative production, 398-9. 544, 686 overhead poetry, 939 poetry and sadhana, 1077 reading, 61, 62, 366; ignorance of other literature, 682 Saritri, 464, 939, 1072, 1146; writing and rewriting of, 543-5, 548, 929, 1165, 1166 scratching my head for words, 1173 self-depreciatory criticism, 775 sonnets, 418, 500, 501, 544, 789, 1165 surrealism, limited province, 815,

838 Surrealist poetry, 489, 790, 807, 814, 816-7 time taken for a poem, 401, 791 "12 recent poems", 925 writing out of silent mind, 356, 362, 370 writing style, 242-3, 366, 370 wrote a lot in England, 748 (3) Help to others: 28-9, 79. 82,92,96, 263, 268, 300,624,842,885, 1009 application of his Force: 127-9, 133, 553, 596; for cure, correspondence, 78-9, 103, 126-7, 178, 187, 206,212,296, 326, 331, 353, 367, 370, 454-5, 469, 473, 501, 509, 525, 541, 553. 584, 597, 604, 609,618,623, 641,655, 678-9, 722-3, 762, 795-6, 799, 800, 804, 811,812,921, 1149-50; answers cryptic, 660, 663-4, 665, 679; envelope system, 43; getting letters in vernacular, 589, 658; help through reading letters, 183, 595, 874-5; inner work delayed, 679; misinterpreting (misunderstanding) his writings, 221,275, 329, 467, 543, 682, 837, 982, 1090-1; no light, 549, 676, 702, 1003-4; no time, 80, 130,206,260,295, 423, 441,465,472,500, 533,

618, 678, 701, 806, 858, 887, 903, 1091, 1149; poem, Bengali, 126-7; poem, "Tautology", 103; slip of pen, 305, 460, 527-8; Sundays, 138, 295,418, 534; suspension of, 127, 134, 281,501,641,658,664, 1016, 1025; telling the Mother, 418; writing (one day) about: the Avatar, 243; Force, 130, 133-4, 192, 338, 596, 600-1, 714; Intuition, 204, 205, 206-7, 246, 678, 909; physical transformation, 321; supermind, 295, 344, 907; women, 107-8, 115; work, 80; see also Nirodbaran, (1) dealing with sadhaks, xii, 75, 93, 256, 284, 296, 298, 300, 389, 409-11. 502,600, 851,861,924, 1087-9, 1091, 1109; see also Ashram, departures . . .; Medical matters, (8): Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's care...; Sadhak(s), quarrelling . . . , revolt. .. doesn't profess to transform men against their will, 298 his sadhana and terrestrial consciousness, 135, 138-9, 144, 148-9, 151, 166,216, 288,704; his difficulties and struggles, 165, 167-8, 174-5, 176, 177; his own example as proof, 80,135,138, 140,148-9, 151, 165, 172-3, 351 meeting, in dreams, 663, 664-5, 772; see also Nirodbaran, (4) receiving S.O.S.'s, 1179; see also Force,

calling "Trust in Me" . . ., 232

(4) Work [mission]: advancing (travelling forward), 161, 220, 287, 289, 291,604 aim of, not Divine Rule, 479 and common clay, xi, xii and hostile forces, 161, 911 and humanity (world), xii-xiii, 61, 79, 93, 139, 171,285, 303 and new race, 341-3 and past seers, 343 and the subconscient, 246,247, 254, 271,287. 288, 289, 388, 389, 840-1 and the supramental, 79, 121, 131, 137, 142-3, 171, 179-80, 194, 195-6, 197-8, 205, 210, 211, 212, 216, 220, 222, 287-8, 293-5, 301, 320-1, 322, 342, 344, 388, 544, 590, 594, 660, 663-4, 698, 759, 903; Einsteinian formula, 287, 288-9, 291, 388 concentration on work, 78-9, 549, 553 concerned with getting things done, not with words, 192, 344, 852 digging, 852 everything depends on my success, 704 falling flat and recovery, 597-8 not understanding his work, 1049 opened the way, 138, 165, 166, 168, 172, 288 quarrel with Matter, 121, 205;am I Matter?, 194, 320 stillness and march, 604, 608 transformation of over-mind, 389 trying to get: a new consciousness in the world, 119,177; some damned thing done, 584, 1150; supramental

Light down, 903, 913; see also above and the supramental what is in the mind of the sadhaks, matters, 301 working easy with nobody, 1110 work of, and big personalities, 1106-7, 1110-1 work of. and Dayalbagh sect, 557-8

(5) General: and miracles, 119, 128, 135, 148,204, 283,300, 317-8, 464, 798, 973, 974 aspiration by post, 479 austere, grave!, 144-5, 156-7, 162 autobiographical hints, 367 Avatar, 138, 139,165,169, 174, 177, 748 body-transformation, vol. 2, vi brilliant career!, 170-1 call (fish for) nobody, 92-3, 171, 1107. 1110 "catch you", 634 choose to be deceived, 557 coming to Pondicherry, 203-4, 549fn, 711 common sense, 157, 340 contact with political heroes, 1111 cowards changed into heroes, xi, 133, 136 criticism against, 149 296, 297, 341-3, 411, 570-1, 602, 691, 789, 851, 1108 daily programme, 295, 296, 464, 553, 595, 628, 672, 765 delightful time, 549 dhotis, 653 did what the Divine wanted, 683 Divine largesse, xiv, xv, vol. 2, v don't believe in complexes, 732 emanations of. 275 Englishman does not terrify me, 507 facsimiles of, 1, 78, 134 feast, 757

Goddesses and the Vedas, 356 heredity, 169, 253 horoscope of, 444 humour, 103, 143, 318, 351, vol. 2, vii, 1035, 1141-2; can't joke in public, 489; remarks and criticisms not meant to hurt, xiv, 103, 827; see also Humour, Sri Aurobindo's I.C.S., 942, 1084 illness: eczema, 456, 959; eye-trouble, 178, 180, 186-7, 190, 1016; fragments of, 190; giddiness, 179, 190; pain in heels, 249; smallpox, 901 illness, way of dealing with, 435 immortality, 193-4, 196; conquest of death and illness, 189-94, 712-3; fancy to die, 196, 199-200, vol. 2, vi inconsistencies in statements, 83, vol. 2, vii independence and revolutionary movement, 102-3, 170, 488; Swadeshi times, 351 India as the Mother, 487-8 Indian mind and spirit, 506 ink, pad, pen, 496, 500, 521, 525, 541 intellect not dashing, 236 joking all the time. vol. 2, vi judging, 296, 301 knowledge ineffable, 762 laughing all the time, ix lifting things from his writings, 646 lived dangerously, 92, 100-3 many-sided Guru, ix, xiv marriage, 575, 576 Master, 221, 285, 1158 menu, 541,973 military capacity, 895 misfortunes usual, 881 modern Guru, x multitudinous manifestations, 244,

808 need nothing, 138, 148 no latent medico, 200, 204-5, 645, 885; not a doctor, 123, 678, 868 no spree, 857 not a moralist, 565 no time to laugh, 667 not jumping at conclusions, 440 occult faculty, 283 opening to Force of Inspiration, 684 outside world for, vol. 2, vii pān-supāri, 786 pomegranate juice, 464 poverty no terror, 102 publication of his literary work, 631-2 reaction to criticism, 809-10 "reading" photographs, 328, 375-6, 566 safety 1 would like, 92 science in school, 941,942 scientific person, 164 seen much of the world, 437 Shiva clement, 76 source of Peace, 773, 986 suffering the Divine Law, 984 Supreme!, 478 lea-habit, 228, 878 understanding of, flexible, vol. 2, vii Upanishads untiring, 1070 vairagya and samatā, 605 vishwarup pacifist (amiable), 162, 480 weight, 578 witnessing plague, 738 see also Sadhak(s), wanting to be equal . . .; Vision, of Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, see Ashram, Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo's Yoga (Integral Yoga), 80, 84, 86, 141, 149, 150-1,231, 681,848, 1054 accepts life, xii, xiii, 86, 1077 and former Yogis, 218-9, 993 and

Man of Sorrows, 263-5 and old Yogas, 77-80 223, 593, 750 and other Yogas, 879, 898 and paternal or filial love, 591-2 and psychic transformation, 327 cardinal principle of, xii, xiv denial of, 149, 151 for the Divine, 342, 343-4 Grand Trunk Road, 231, 282 need of balance, 223, 376 no short cuts in everything, 204 not a Vaishnava Yoga, 264 privacy better for work, 860 queer, cold and strange, 858-9 realisation of the Self, a beginning only in, 593, 993 scepticism stupid, 1100, 1101 test in, 593, 993 two kinds of understanding, 1101 why so difficult, 593

Stillness (stabdhatā), 67-8, 603, 604, 655, 735-6

Subconscient, the, 254, 592, 594,829 and illness, 248, 518, 738, 1053, 1054, 1124, 1125 and the general Nature, 247-8, 251-3 revolt of, 221; see also Descent, and upsurge of subconscient mud subconscious belt, 831 see also Sri Aurobindo, (4) Work: and the subconscient

Subliminal, the, 146, 147, 252, 665, 829, 833

Success, 137, 224, 355, 683, 1107 and "blue moon", 432, 523, 572 and morality, 432 contemporary, 1155 see also Medical matters, (2)

Suffering, see Life, sorrow and suffering in

Suicide, 53, 265, 608, 616, 674-5, 748, 749

Sukhdev, 107

Sultan of Johore, 565-6

Superman, 93 and man, 323

Supermind (the Supramental), 141, 192, 236, 1100, 1101 and freedom of the individual, 327,912 and Krishna etc., 219 aspiration for, 215-6, 219-20 does not take away any capacity, 1130 fixing the possibilities of, by the mind, 236-7, 323, 999 highest planes not so accommodating, 544 in physical consciousness, 544 language, 243 mind developing into, 139,625 nature of, 625 no jurisdiction, 584 only "dead cert" for physical things, 201 peace, poise and sanity first, 209, 210 supramentalisation and divinisation, 342 supramentalisation in parts, 189. 195, 294 tail of, 321, 324. 325. 327, 328, 388. 389. 590-1, 857-8. 1067. 1088, 1130 taking anything other as, 342,455, 1101 understanding of, 1100-1 will respect Truth only, 327 see also Overmind, and Supermind; Sadhak(s), becoming supramental; Sri

Aurobindo, (4): and the supramental

Supramental change, 704 first step in, 1067

Supramental Consciousness, and human consciousness, vol. 2, vii

Supramental descent (bringing down the Supermind), 79, 195-6, 301, 344, 388, 590, 905-6, 999, 1130 and death and illness, 189, 191-4, 703, 704, 712-3 and departures from the Ashram, 913 and human race, 171 and necessity of sadhana, 703, 704, 712-3. 907; 30 years not too slow, 673 and sex-force, 1000, 1004; see also Descent, and sex and time factor, 213, 214-5,673,679 help by, 210, 324, 326-7, 703 in Sri Aurobindo, 194, 293-4, 320 into earth consciousness, 705, 712-3 into the material, 294, 320-1 into the physical!, 179-80, 214-5 necessary- condition for, 992 postponement of, 913 why first in Sri Aurobindo and Mother?, 142-3 see also Descent; Sadhak, and the supramental descent

Supramental Force, 907 and Divine Force, 713-4

Supramental Knowledge, and faith, 625

Supramental race, see New race

Supramental realisation, 216 219-20

Surface being, 147, 252

Surface consciousness, 12, 73, 275

Surrender, 29,177,208,344, 466, 471, 522, 652, 859, 865

Swinburne, A.C., 652

Symbols, bird, 527 Blue Bird, 822 colours; blue, 686; gold, 686; pale blue, 51; pink, 51; red, 289; violet, 454; white. 686 colours, play of, 31 cross, 76 east, 31 full moon, 76 golden cup, 454 incense sticks, 356 lights; red-crimson, 242; White, 764-5 sea, 33, 208, 1138 silver, 356 silver coins, 356 snakes, 65, 643 Sphinx, 674 sun, 33 swan, 527, 782.910 wire. 643 Synthesis of Yoga, The, 242-3

Tagore, Rabindranath, xi, 39, 70, 125, 129, 369, 505, 631, 661, 770, 803, 850. 1070, 1071, 1072. 1083

Tennyson, Alfred, 398, 412

Theory, 698

Thomas a Kcmpis, 173

Thompson [a visitor], 504, 509, 511

Thompson, Francis, 448. 1038, 1172, 1175 Thoughts), 17, 474, 738, 1066 coming of, 357, 358, 362-3, 1062 disturbing, in meditation, 65, 66, 68 hostile, 3, 23-4 "I think, therefore I am". 307

thought-substance in different persons, 362-3

Tota Puri, 335

Transformation, xi, xiii, 135, 166, 173, 223, 288, 298, 321,593, vol.2, vi, 900, 993 complete, 218 of defects, 10 of the nature, see Nature, human, change (transformation) of of the whole nature, required in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. 593, 993 personal, and of world and hostile forces, 555 physical, 321 psychic, 218, 327,329,330 psychic, spiritual and supramental, 218 supramental and spiritual-mental, 219 see also Supramental change

Truth, 83, 226, 304, 327,483 and error, 986 and shocked reverence for the past, 343 essential and conditional, 142 home-truths, 823 in every proposition, 506, 961 intellectual and real, 764. 771 lies, and observance of, 873, 1001, 1048, 1109 see also Mind, mental statements and the truth

Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo, ix

Underhill, Evelyn, 793

Universal Nature, see Nature, universal

Urvasi, 528

Vairagya, 605-6, 637, 638, 995

Valéry, Paul, 829

Valle, Dr., 379, 383, 386, 418, 435,697, 877, 888, 890, 891,892, 926

Valmiki,201,202,498, 1147

Verlaine, Paul, 781,828,829

Vidyasagar, Ishwarchandra, 374

Virgil, 401, 548, 743, 747, 926, 970, 988

Virtue, 347, 432

Vision, 31, 33, 208, 643,686, 689, 832,1153 Mother's, about Sri Aurobindo and Nirod, xi of complexion becoming golden, 685-6, 687-8 of J lying dead, 616 of Mother, 617 of Mother and Sri Aurobindo at Cape Comorin, 1090 or Sri Aurobindo, 67 of Sri Krishna, 39 of Sun-Goddess, 415 of violet stream and golden cup, 453-4

Vital, the, 55, 252, 453, 483, 616, 665, 793, 1002 becoming ghost, after death, 723, 733 dealing with, 17, 21, 33, 278 , 657, 658, 1089. 1132 magnetic, 961-2 mind struggling with, 350 mind supporting, 311, 611, 1132 nature of, 271, 615, 653, 730, 787 needed qualities of, 164 needs something to hook on to, 1133 non-cooperation, 655-6, 995; Gandhian, 228, 243, 532 old vital moorings, 278 622 resistance of, 14, 64, 278, 303, 304, 311, 655-6, 849,850, 851, 1129 source of difficulties in sadhana, 56, 72, 113, 463, 470, 519, 605, 606, 1126, 1132

Vital attraction, double, 730

Vital interchange, 7, 1060-2 building a wall against, 1062-3

Vital love, see Love, vital

Vital plane (world), 793 and physical world, 163, 164, 314, 664-6, 828 forms in, 298-9 truth of happenings on, 664-6 understanding, by mind. 772, 828 see also Dreams, on vital plane

Vivekananda, 252, 256, 277, 394, 478, 737, 906

Voronoff, Serge, 191, 195

Vyasa,498, 1147

War, and India, 340-1 and justice, 565

Will, 36, 42, 522, 651, 652, 659, 1129 see also Free will

Wodehouse, P.G., 365

Woman/Women, 492-3,581, 616, 708, 716-7, 735, 1119-20, 1133 and sex, 107,114,115,616 asexual friend, 1121 eternal and Real, 270 "feminine women", 749 "girls" almost always complex, 1094 womanly woman, 823 see also Man, and women

Wordsworth, William, 498, 599, 966, 1084, 1085, 1172

Work, 35, 72 and happiness, 486 and meditation, 77-80, 82-6, 484-6 anticipating trouble, and the right attitude, 790 as an offering, 12, 70, 73-4, 859 calling in the Force for. 87, 99-100 concentration and, 78,79, 80

gelling interest in, 55 highest realisation through, 77-80, 84-6 loss of temper in, 87, 257-8, 287, 368-9, 1130 physical, 73-4, 80 physical, and literary, 87, 451 reading when at, 15, 59 remembering the Mother in, 16-7, 99, 313, 451 sacrifice of, 350 spiritual value of, 49 yogic, 73, 85-6, 87 see also Action; Effort; Karmayoga; Sri Aurobindo, (4)

World, 94, 128, 175, 239, 454, 555,582,602,1002, 1052 at present, 279, 280, 292, 826 Divine's way of acting upon, 128-9,602 Law and Great Wheel, 564 outside, for Sri Aurobindo, vol. 2, vii riddle of this, 277, 280 things look bad enough, 322-3, 1157, 1185 see also Physical world; Vital plane (world)

Yoga, 24, 29, 231, 239, 361, 649, 764, 808, 872, 915, 1001 aim of, 58, 70, 310, 344, 376, 460, 683, 704, 964 and brilliance, 858 and difficulties, xiii, 14. 17, 32, 33, 92, 93, 96, 113, 168, 263. 264-5, 278, 297, 409, 502, 532-3, 555, 592, 614, 651, 657, 658, 898,914, 981, 1081; of sattwic and rajasic man, 346-7 and fear, 737 and great personalities (bigness), 171, 176, 1107, 1111 904 and past karma, 309-10 and physical science, 559, 561 and quarrels, 411 and sociability, 851, 858,

861-2, 1108 and sound body, 11-2; health not enough, 735 andtea-talketc.,851,858. 861-2, 907, 988, 1062 becoming conscious: of forces by, 306, 314, 532-3; of one's pretences by, 1047, 1048 building up of a new consciousness, 975 Charvak's way, 858 demanding rational explanation from, 511-2, 514 denial of all possibilities of, 129, 167, 173 effects of, 14, 40, 306, 314, 362, 1060, 1062; see also Yoga-Force, growth of capacities by failures in, and apprehension, xiv, 26-30, 90-1, 94-5,298,302, 303,308, 592-3, 700-1, 726, 727, 741-2, 748, 750-1, 851-2, 858, 912, 1089 fall in, 95, 96, 593, 700, 748, 797, 914, 975 fitness and unfitness in, 461 food and sleep, 58, 108-9 good "adhar" in,281,282 higher being (things) once gained can be regained, 956-7, 975 if absolute surrender, faith, etc. from the beginning were essential . . ., 177 Integral Yoga, see Sri Aurobindo's Yoga interest in, 72 lila-attitude, 882 not devoid of all reason, 29, 602 not safe or easy, 29, 94-6, 170, 272, 582,914 one man doing yoga for all, xiii pressure of, xiii, 14, 30, 592-3, 851 presumptuous demand in, 460 safeguards in, see Sadhana, and hostile force(s). . . seeking for safety, 29, 91, 92-6, 1129; see also above failures in, and apprehensions Sound-Yoga, 558 steps in, 112 ties and, 43, 267, 1000-1 turn

for, each has his own time, 11, 24 ups and downs in, 45, 310, 975 see also Sadhana; Sri Aurobindo's

Yoga

Yoga-Force (Yogic Force), 133 growth of capacities by, 69-70,88,133,138,146, 148-9, 202, 204, 206, 207, 208, 369-71, 405, 491,661,850,1106;and inborn qualities, 260, 261, 491, 569; price for, 207, 1151 pressure of, 639-40, 643 producing spiritual results more easily than mental results?, 371

Yogi, xiv, 155-6, 158, 219, 307,486,487,514, 539, 559, 993

Yogic poise, 646, 652

Yogic strand, 637, 638

Yogic vision, about patients, 201, 205

Yogic work, 73, 85-6, 87

Yudhishthir, 95