Citations from the Vedas, Upanishads and Gita

RIG VEDA

This is the most adorable work, the loveliest deed of the Wonderful that the higher streams have fed us in the crookedness, even the four rivers of the Sea of sweetness.

I.62.6

I purify earth and heaven with the Truth and burn the great Forces of Harm that possess it not.

I.133.1

They uphold three earths and three heavens, and within them are three ways of action in the knowledge. By the Truth that greatness is great and beautiful. Three divine worlds of light they uphold — golden and pure and sleepless and invincible giving voice to the wideness for the mortal who is upright. .. . May I attain to that wide and fearless Light, may not the long nights of darkness come upon us.

II.27.8,9,14

When the world of Truth became visible by the words of Truth, when they kindled the Great Light in the Night the blind darknesses were shaken that there might be vision.

IV.16.4

Up the iron-pillar, grown golden of form in the light of the Dawn, in the rising of the Sun, you ascend to the Lair and behold from thence the Infinite Mother and the Finite.

V.62.8

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They approach the secret knowledge with its thousand branchings by the intuitions of the heart.

VII.33.9

In these there is not the Wonder nor the Might; for the harms of things cleave to the falsehoods of mortals, and your occult truths exist not for their ignorance.

VII.61.5

Three Words that carry the Light in their front and milk the teat of the honey of delight; a triple refuge,¹ a triple way of the Light.

VII.101.1,2

He discovered and drove upward the herds of light that were in the Secrecy and cast downward Vala; the luminous planes of heaven were fixed and fortified, made firm so as never to be thrust away.

VIII.14.8,9

O Soma, ascending beyond the three luminous worlds thou blazest.

IX.17.5

In his flow he begets the vast and brilliant Truth-Light and smites away the darknesses.

IX.66.24

Thrice seven the Milch cows that gave him their milk of Truth in the supreme ether; he cast into form four other worlds of beauty when he grew by the Truths.

IX.70.1

      1 Or peace

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One sea that holds all the streams of Energy, — one who has many births sees the world from our heart. In the lap of the two secret ones (mystic Mothers) is the hidden plane of the Being.

X.5.1

The Seers guard the plane of the Truth and there they hold their supreme and secret Names.

X.5.2

The ancient movements and energies of the Truth cleave to him who has come to a perfect birth.

X.5.4

Desiring the seven luminous sisters the Knower upholds the sweetnesses for the vision of the Bliss.

X.5.5

One part of him is all these beings, three parts of him are that which is Immortality in heaven.

      X.90.3

Truth and the Law of Truth were born from the kindled flame of Energy, thence Night was born and the flowing Ocean of being, from the Ocean Time arose controller of all that lives and sees, the Creator (ordered) heaven and earth and the mid-world and the world of Light.

      X.190.1-3

YAJUR VEDA

When he arises and builds a perfect world on earth let us then dig out

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the Fire in its perfect image² and climb to the supreme heaven, the world of Light.

      XI.22

He saw That hidden in the secret heart of things where all lives in a single nest, in Whom all this converges and diverges and he is the Lord self-aware in creatures. ... He encompassed all beings and worlds and approached the first born of the Truth, he tied together³ the extended thread of action done, he saw That; he became That; he was That.

      XXXII.8,11,12

MUNDAKA UPANISHAD

Truth conquers and not falsehood; by Truth is built the road of the journey of the Gods by which the seers gaining their desire enter into the supreme abode of Truth.

      III.1.6

PRASNA UPANISHAD

Whatever is a man's consciousness, he goes with that into his life force and it leads him with the self to whatever world is according to his will and conception.

      III.10

BHAGAVAD GITA

Many are my births that are past and thine also, O Arjuna, I know them all, but thou knowest not.

      IV.5

      2 Or front

        3 Or connected

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A Letter to a Sadhak

15-9-32.

The Mother refuses to relieve you of all work—work is a necessary part of this Yoga. If you do not do work and spend all the time in "meditation", you and your sadhana will lose all hold of realities; you will lose yourself in uncontrolled subjective imaginations such as those you are now allowing to control you and lead you into actions—like your absenting yourself from Pranam, becoming fanciful and irregular in your taking of food, coming to the Mother at a wrong time and place under the imagination that she has called you—actions dictated by error and false suggestion and not by Truth. It is by doing work for the Mother with surrender to her, with obedience to her expressed will, without fancies and vital self-will that you can remain in touch with the embodied Mother here and progress in the Yoga. Mere subjective experiences without control by us will not lead you to the Truth and may lead you far from it into sheer confusion and error.

      If you do not want to do the B[uilding] D[epartment] account and letter work, you can take up the work of keeping the gate daily from 12 to 2; but it is better if you combine this gate work with the typing of letters whenever needed. If you do not want to do the gate work, then you must go on with the work you now have. If you take the gate work only, you must hand over the typewriter to the B[uilding] D[epartment] so that it may continue to be used for the work you were doing up till now.

      I must warn you that by withdrawing into a one-sided subjective existence within and by pushing away from you all touch with physical realities, you are running into a wrong path and imperilling your sadhana. What happens to sadhaks who do this is that they make a mental Formation and put it in place of the true embodied Mother here, and then under its inspiration they begin to lose touch with her and disobey her and follow the false suggestions of their mental Formation. The first thing it does is to instigate them not to write to her, not to come to Pranam, not to act as regards food, work etc on the lines laid down by her, to disobey her—as you have disobeyed her

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with regard to coming to Pranam this morning. Another very bad sign of this false condition is when they feel not in touch with the Mother when they meet her in the body and [are] guided only by some disembodied Mother in their own egoistic consciousness—that is a sure sign that a Falsehood is getting into their sadhana. As regards their way of life, they do not wish to do like the others, but to have a special way of life of their own, governed by some Imagination within them. All this you must stop. You must come to Pranam regularly, take your food regularly, sleep regularly, do the work given you conscientiously, following the lines laid down for this Asram by the Mother, and through a right consciousness in this life you must realise her Truth in the physical existence.

      Your unwillingness to come to the Pranam because that would interrupt some subjective experience is altogether out of place. No experience in formal meditation, not a hundred experiences together can be worth the touch of the Mother in the pranam. If you had the psychic being in front in the physical or even in the heart and the vital, you would feel that at once. Moreover, these experiences are not supra-mental as you seem to imagine. The supramental Truth could never stand behind such errors as you are making now. Moreover to get the supramental Light is not so easy as you fancy; I have warned again and again the sadhaks against the error of thinking they are already in possession of the supermind or in touch with it. One has to go through a long and patient development through many lower stages of consciousness before one can be even within measurable distance of the supermind.

      All attachment and selfindulgence are dangerous — attachment and self-indulgence in subjective experiences and remote "meditations", pushing aside the Truth in objective life is as dangerous as any other. Draw back from these errors and get back into the true balance of the sadhana. If you want the psychic in the physical, you cannot get it by merely sitting in meditation and having abstract experiences; you can get it only by seeking it in physical life and action, by work for the Mother, obedience and surrender in work to the Mother who is present in her own body here.

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A Letter to The Hindu

BABU AURABINDO GHOSE AT PONDICHERRY.

A STATEMENT.

Babu Aurobindo Ghose writes to us from 42, Rue-de Pavilion, Pondicherry, under date November 7, 1910:—

      I shall be obliged if you will allow me to inform every one interested in my whereabouts through your journal that I am and will remain in Pondicherry. I left British India over a month before proceedings were taken against me and, as I had purposely retired here in order to pursue my Yogic sadhana undisturbed by political action or pursuit and had already severed connection with my political work, I did not feel called upon to surrender on the warrant for sedition, as might have been incumbent on me if I had remained in the political field. I have since lived here as a religious recluse, visited only by a few friends, French and Indian, but my whereabouts have been an open secret, long known to the agents of the Government and widely rumoured in Madras as well as perfectly well-known to every one in Pondicherry. I find myself now compelled, somewhat against my will, to give my presence here a wider publicity. It has suited certain people for an ulterior object to construct a theory that I am not in Pondicherry, but in British India, and I wish to state emphatically that I have not been in British India since March last and shall not set foot on British territory even for a single moment in the future until I can return publicly. Any statement by any person to the contrary made now or in the future, will be false. I wish, at the same time, to make it perfectly clear that I have retired for the time from political activity of any kind and that I will see and correspond with no one in connection with political subjects. I defer all explanation or justification of my action in leaving British India until the High Court in Calcutta shall have pronounced on the culpability or innocence of the writing in the Karmayogin on which I am indicted.

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Rees's Venom-spitting

"A certain man named" Rees was a Civilian in this country. Now he is a member of Parliament. It was he, posing as a friend of the Indian farmer, who gave evidence of his superior intellect by saying that the tigers of India ought not to be killed, for if the tigers were killed the deer would multiply — and the deer would devour the crops. Annoyed at his foolish speech on the subject of deportation, a member of Parliament proposed in jest that he ought to be deported himself. Recently in the Indian budget debate in Parliament he said that no movement in India could be considered legal. There is no shadow of doubt in his mind that the Indian newspapers were full of hatred for the English. He said that a certain man named Ghose (aiming no doubt at Srijut Aurobindo Ghose) had with difficulty gained release from imprisonment, and now was telling the youth of the country that imprisonment was not really so terrifying as it was thought to be, so they must not be turned into cowards. The Government of India must deport him forthwith. We are not inclined to sink to the level of such meanness by giving a "repartee" to this utterance. Further, Rees said that Surendranath Banerjea has come out in favour of boycott. Do not those who have been elected to Parliament by advocating Free Trade know that the meaning of boycott is precisely that shoes and beer will no longer be able to come into India from England? How monstrous! As to how youths like Dhingra are corrupted, Rees says that he is in possession of a book named "The Sacrifice of the Sikh". The author of this book is the daughter of a certain deportee (Miss Kumudini Mitra, daughter of the respected Krishnakumar Mitra). This deportee is the editor of a certain seditious newspaper (the Sanjivani). And Surendranath has praised this book by affirming that it should be in the hands of every Bengali student. We are not unaware of the extent of Rees's intellect and learning; that we have mentioned him is merely to show how great is the range of knowledge of English experts on India. It is not men like Rees who can understand the glory of the self-sacrifice of the Sikh. Truly has Bharatchandra said: "A diamond falling on a ram's horn will lose its edge."

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Trade Report

A REPORT ON TRADE IN BARODA STATE CIRCA 1902 COMPILED BY SRI AUROBINDO

GENERAL SUGGESTIONS.

——

      1. Trade throughout the Raj is in a state of depression and decline.

      I European competition and that of such towns as Ahmedabad, Poona &c.

      II The Introduction of machinery.

      III The abandonment of ancestral professions.

      IV The continual drain of money from the State effected by

      (1) Immense purchases from Europe, Bombay &c,

      (2) Employment of officials from outside the Raj,

      (3) Preference of foreign to local contractors, and other similar causes.

      2. To combat these evils there are certain general measures which

      3. Wherever such goods are produced locally as for their combined

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      encouragement from the Revenue authorities to be able to make up the deficiency. But such improvement is impossible if Government instantly withdraws its custom.

      4. The State should make inquiries on a large scale for

      (a) means of improving local production to the European standard;

      (b) means of improving country hand-machines.

     Weaving, for instance, was once a great and famous industry in every division of the Raj. A Committee should be appointed to find out in each place where the most excellent hand-woven cloths used to be made, the real causes of decline and to discover and apply measures by which they may compete successfully with European cloths. This would not be so difficult a matter as it appears at least with regard to several woven and dyed cloths. These are inferior to European in appearance and fineness but superior in strength and durability. It ought not to be impossible to supply the missing qualities. Much may be done by experiments under sub-head (b), and such are very necessary as European machinery is too costly to be introduced on the scale required. Similarly with regard to dyeing attempts should be made to discover pucca country dyes and improve such as are already in use.

      5. Besides this the State should push forward the same object by

      (a) help and inducements.

      (b) patronage.

      (c) spread of knowledge.

      6. The help may come in the shape of tasalmat. This should especially

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      haphazard fashion, but after careful inquiry and stringent tests and with due and constant supervision.

      7. Help may also be given in the shape of machinery, which should

      8. Often only polish is required, or better implements, to bring

      9. Those who first manufacture locally from material which is at

      10. Inducement should be held out to

      (a) those who bring up country goods to the European Standard;

      (b) those who bring such improved commodities into the market.

      This inducement should take the shape of grants (bucksheesh, inams) or of a poshak given in durbar.

      11. The State should patronize all country commodities thus improved

      Lists should be prepared from each khata of the articles in use

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there and over against each item, details should be entered as to whether, how far, and where they are prepared in the State, along with the price, quality and other necessary particulars. With these lists as a basis, there should be a stringent rule enforced on all departments that wherever country goods equal or even a little inferior to European can be had, European goods should be eschewed in their favour.

      Artisans who can work up to the European level, besides receiving costly Inams, should be favoured with the State custom, half the price being advanced as tasalmat.

      12. In order to spread knowledge the State should adopt the following methods.

      (a) A monthly technical magazine should be issued, containing among other things reliable accounts of the raw material of each mahal and the capabilities of that material.

      (b) A pamphlet in very simple Guzerati should be circulated containing every information useful to those who may think of establishing factories, viz the necessary cost, the nature, use and procurability of the necessary machinery etc.

      This will encourage the manufacture of raw material which is at present exported and brought back as manufacture to be sold at heavy prices. There are many who would undertake such enterprises if they only had the information described.

      (c) Public lectures by competent people.

      (d) Industrial exhibitions.

      An exhibition of specimens of the best European work should be held in different places, having regard to the articles that are there produced, and the artisans should be allowed to take the specimens home with a view to reproduction.

      In addition a triennial exhibition should be held in each great Kasba, a grant of Rs. 1500 to 3000 per division being sanctioned for the purpose, where the work of different localities, etc., may be collected.

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      13. The abandonment of ancestral trades is mainly due to the at-

      Each pupil should be instructed in his own craft, and after that instruction is complete, he may be directed to extend his attention to other trades. A rule should be enforced to the effect that work turned out by artisans so instructed should be utilized by the State departments in preference to any other. Pecuniary and other encouragement should be held out wherever necessary. This instruction should be made compulsory in the Kasbas as also in the case of Dheds and other low castes for whom education is specially provided by the Government.

      14. With regard to contracts the following rules should be made and strictly enforced.

      Contracts.

      I Izara tenures should as far as possible be held by permanent residents of the Raj.

      II Contracts should be similarly given to permanent residents if they can do the work well and cheaply; otherwise they should be given by preference to outsiders who have become resident in the Raj.

      III A committee of officials and respectable non-officials (sowkars etc.) should be appointed to supervise contracts.

      IV Annual patraks should be drawn up and circulated among thousands showing,

      (a) what articles are to be supplied from each Prant;

      (b) in what lines contractors are needed;

      (c) what knowledge and fitness they must possess;

      (d) where the required articles can be had cheap and good.

      V Whatever goods can be had at convenient rates within the Raj should be procured there and not from outside.

      VI Officers who do not observe these rules, and favour their own men should be degraded to a lower post.

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      15. The main hindrances to expansion of trade are

      Obstacles to

      expansion.

      (a) the want of technical education;

      (b) burdensome and unequal duties;

      (c) difficulty of procuring capital;

      (d) insufficient means of communication.

      16. Technical and agricultural education are both imperatively

      17. A technical school should be established in each division and

      (a) manufactures which are in great demand but have to be brought from outside;

      (b) trades in which the supply of workers falls below the demand.

      Some boys from each division should be taught at the Kalabhavan at State expense and Kalabhavan students who start factories should be helped by Government loans. From each mahal some boys should be taught at Government expense at Baroda or the Victoria Technical Institute, the money being recovered by instalments from their monthly earnings.

      18. Students should also be sent to foreign parts for technical instruction; but their line should be rigidly fixed from the beginning and they should first receive what book knowledge and practical knowledge is possible and then, if necessary, be sent to a foreign workshop to complete their instruction. It is equally useless to send raw and uninstructed youths and to send students to acquire theoretical knowledge merely. They should be sent only for work in which

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      factories are likely to be opened and for knowledge about the discovery and working of metals.

      19. Except in backward parts and among very ignorant people, the subjects of the Raj almost everywhere express their willingness to send their children to Europe or elsewhere for technical and agricultural instruction. Parents are often unwilling to send boys to the Kalabhavan because they have no clear idea what will be taught to them. The Revenue officials ought to be able easily to remove this difficulty.

      20. The question of duties is a difficult one; complaints come from

      21. The Commission makes the following recommendations.

      Necessary measures with

      regard to taxation.

      (a) Where opening industries are hampered or ruined by duties, the Revenue officers should be expected to report the fact.

      (b) Throughout the State anomalous cesses are levied, although the reasons originally alleged for levying them no longer exist or although there are very few houses left of the castes on which the cess was laid. These should be abolished.

      (c) Heavy duties should be imposed on the import of such goods as are already made within the Raj, and duties on the import of raw materials which are manufactured in the Raj and exported should be entirely removed.

      (d) Duties should not be levied twice on the same article i.e. on goods passing through Savli to Baroda once at Savli and again at Baroda.

      (e) Municipal taxes should only be levied on articles used in the town and not on goods which enter it only to be again exported. Where possible duties should be abolished and a

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      light cess placed in their stead on the cultivators.

(f) In many places there are duties in Gaekwari villages which in neighbouring foreign villages do not exist or only in a lighter form. It would be well if an understanding could be arrived at between this State and the British and other Governments. Until then such duties should be abolished or reduced to the level of the corresponding foreign duties.

      22. The difficulty of procuring capital for industrial enterprise or

      23. In every division and every mahal the means of communication

      24. Some measures should be taken to encourage indigenous medicine. The following are suggested.

      Indigenous

      Medicine.

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(1) A list of herbs growing in Songhad Vyara should be prepared.

(2) A skilful Hakim or Vaid should be kept in each hospital in the big towns with some patients always under his treatment and the results registered under the supervision of the Civil Surgeon.

(3) In some small villages the whole medical work should be intrusted to such Hakims or Vaids.

(4) Two or three matriculated students should be taught at State expense both Native and English Medicine and put in charge of hospitals or dispensaries or set to make researches into the powers of herbs and publish books on the subject.

      25. A trade in the horn, bone, skin, hair and fat of animals might

Agriculture.

      26. The main features of agricultural decline are,

      Causes of

      agricultural

      depression.

      (a) deterioration of the soil;

      (b) deterioration of cattle;

      (c) ignorance of the best methods;

      (d) difficulty of procuring capital.

      27. The deterioration of the quality of the soil is very marked and

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      In the first place they lead to continuous cultivation of the soil, the land never being left fallow, as assessment has to be paid whether the land is cultivated or not. The soil must obviously lose its productive power under such circumstances. It would be better for the State not to exact assessment from lands left fallow.

      In the second place they lead to extensive cultivation, no provision being left for pasture.

      Thirdly they lead to more land being undertaken by the cultivator than he can properly cultivate. Its full value is therefore not realized from the soil; less labour and less manuring results in a poorer outturn over a larger area.

      Fourthly they lead to the soil being taken up by Brahmins, Vaniyas and others ignorant of agriculture, the real agriculturists remaining as labourers without any interest in the soil.

      A smaller area carefully cultivated by cultivators with an interest in the soil, sufficient land being left for pasture, would be far better than the present condition of large cultivated areas with a poor out-turn, deteriorating soil and deteriorating cattle.

      27.¹ With regard to the deterioration of the soil a committee of

      (a) what is the extent of the deterioration;

      (b) what are the elements of fertility which have been lost;

      (c) what are the materials (manure etc.) by which the lost elements can be recovered;

      (d) which of these are the cheapest and most plentiful;

      (e) as to divisions of soil what materials are required for each and in what amounts;

      (f) in what tappas to introduce them;

      (g) by what means to impart the knowledge of them to the kheduts;

      (h) in what way to make their use compulsory on the cultivators.

      The committee should be empowered to make the necessary experiments and after a year's experience make a report.

      1 This number is repeated in the original report.

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      28. The most obvious means of enriching the soil are irrigation and

      Abyssinian and Artesian wells should be constructed.

      When cultivators dig wells and make the land bagayat they should be excused bagayat assessment for ten years as otherwise they will have to pay both assessment and the interest of Government money.

      29. An universal complaint comes from every taluka against the

      30. It appears that in several Talukas the people are not allowed to

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      31. From every division and every Taluka there is reported deterioration

(a) Failure of pasture owing to the cultivation of uncultivated and auction of Kharaba land. Consequent to this result of the vighoti system, hardly any land is left for the cattle and what there is, is of the very poorest quality so that the cattle can get little nourishment from it. The cultivators are too poor to provide good and sufficient fodder. Some measure must immediately be taken for this; a proper share of the land in each village (one fourth would not be too liberal an allowance) should be left for pasture. Goats should not be allowed to graze in gochar.

(b) Want of good bulls and male buffaloes. The Government should keep cattle for breeding in each village on the responsibility of the Patel and the cultivators should take turns to provide fodder. In Kamrej it is the custom to allow bulls marked as belonging to the village to graze anywhere; under this system there would be no expense of keep to the Government. Where bid is kept for grazing good cattle should be kept for breeding purposes and sold cheap to the cultivators.

(c) Cowslaughter. A duty should be imposed on cattle taken to the slaughter houses or to foreign parts.

(d) The shingoti duty upon bullocks and other cattle in Amreli should be reduced.

(e) Neglect, driving of sick oxen, over driving, over-loading, ignorant methods of pasturing, use of the same cattle for agricultural labour and for conveyance owing to the enforcement of veth. Rules should be issued to put a stop to all this.

(f) Cattle have to be imported. These are brought on credit involving risk, delay in payment and law suits, considerations which increase the cost. An arbitration court should be established for such cases.

(g) Buffaloes are not used for agriculture in many talukas and the males are allowed to die instead of being reared. Revenue

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officials should be directed to instruct the people in this matter and a yearly patrak should be submitted showing the extent to which the use of buffaloes in agriculture increases.

      32. The increasing scarcity and cost of cattle has resulted in an

      33. Along with deterioration there is a great increase of cattle

            Otherwise the most effective remedy for each of the chief cattle diseases should be ascertained and distributed with a printed list to each village. To very poor cultivators or owners of cattle they should be given free. Ordinary diseases should be treated on the spot and gratis.

      34. Agricultural instruction should be imparted by the following methods:—

      Agricultural

      instruction.

      (a) Agricultural schools or classes teaching the children of cultivators free and other classes for a light fee. Scholarships should be given and some of the students employed.

      (b) Public lectures by competent persons.

      (c) Publication of Agricultural pamphlets, books or a magazine.

      (d) Skilled cultivators should be sent to Europe along with English-knowing students to learn. They should take implements with them to compare with the European. It is useless to send students alone.

              Those who thus study the subject should be intrusted

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      with agricultural improvement and rewarded for any notable success.

      (e) Agricultural Exhibitions.

      (f) Model Farms.

      35. If model farms have not had any notable success in the State

      (a) Cultivators knowing local and foreign methods should be appointed to teach.

      (b) The method of comparative experiments should be adopted to show the cultivators

      I the superiority of improved methods and manures;

      II the effect of nehers and wells;

      III the difference between well-fed cattle and cattle nurtured by themselves and between their milk, butter and ghee.

      (c) The profit of cultivating by steam-ploughs should be shown to the zamindars and the use of European machinery to the students.

      (d) The conditions under which coffee, tea, cinnamon, cloves etc., are grown should be taught to the cultivators.

      (e) Model farms should be opened under varying climatic conditions.

      (f) A model Farm should be opened with specimens of all the chief crops of the world.

      (g) An annual or biennial agricultural exhibition of the crops thus produced should be held.

      (h) The expenses of all such experiments should be published in so lucid a manner that all may understand.

      36. Means of procuring capital easily and at easy rates, are, as has

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      auction at the first failure to pay. A rule should be made that the sowcars must receive their dues by instalments.

      37. Complaints of lands being too heavily assessed come from

      38. Agricultural expansion depends partly on the cultivation of  

      39. In pushing on the introduction of new crops the following considerations must be kept in view.

      Introduction

      of new crops.

(1) The crops which are cheapest in sowing, are most profitable.

(2) Those crops should by preference be introduced which have to be bought dear from outside.

(3) A new crop should not be introduced near a place where it is already largely grown.

(4) No new crop should be so introduced as to drive out of production any crop which is already largely and profitably grown or the loss of which would have to be made up by purchases at a high price from outside.

      To settle this point a good cultivator should be got to sow both old and new in his land. The loss and profit of both should be carefully compared and the results published among the cultivators. Those who are exceptionally successful in introducing new crops, should receive grants.

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      40. As in many places there is a want of vegetables, an attempt should be made to introduce the growth of potatoes in each division, the State selling the seed. The introduction of Italian potatoes and bhoymug might be successfully carried out, but the experiment is too costly for any one except the Sarkar, unless special facilities in the nature of patents, &c. are given.

GENERAL.

      41. A special officer should be appointed to watch over agricultural

      42. Subas, Naib Subas and Vahivatdars should be asked to send in  

      43. Copies of the Commission's Report should be printed and

      Note.—The Commission has a suggestion that for articles over

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