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Notes on the Texts

Record of Yoga: 1 January-27 February 1915. Record notations for this period were made partly in the notebook in use since 29 September 1914 and partly in another notebook. The first notebook contains entries for 1-6 and 24-30 January and 1-6, 25 and 27 February 1915. This was its last use for the Record. In the second notebook Sri Aurobindo kept an "intermediate record" for 2-23 January. There are two sets of entries for 2-6 January. They contain some repetitions. The entries are printed separately and in full , just as they oc-cur in their respective notebooks.

Two notes to the entry of 3 January in the " intermediate record" (p. 145) were written by Sri Aurobindo sometime after the entry had been completed. The pen and the ink used for the notes are the same as those used for the Record of January-February 1917, which was kept in the same notebook. Apparently, when Sri Aurobindo took up this notebook again after a lapse of two years, he read over the entries of 1915 and wrote these comments.

Record of Yoga: 22 April-30 June 1915. During this period the Record was kept in a letter-pad of the kind used by Sri Aurobindo for writing Arya material. It begins abruptly; no mention is made of the gap between 27 February and 22 April. Sri Aurobindo put a question-mark after the date "April 22d " .

The year of the entries from 22 April to 26 August in this letter-pad is not mentioned. The year 1915 can, however, be inferred from the entry dated "February 1916" which occurs after that of 26 August, with a few blank pages in between. This entry begins with the words, "In the interval since August . . .", making it clear that the earlier entries were made in the preceding year.

The sources of the " sortileges" or " references" from the Veda and Upanishads in this instalment of Record of Yoga are identified below. The sources of a few quotations from other Sanskrit texts (p . 165) have not been traced.

TABLE OF SANSKRIT SORTILEGES

Page	Source
141	Rg Veda 1.144.1
147	Rg Veda 1.144.1
152	Rg Veda 5.79.1
152	Rg Veda 1.13.2
154	Rg Veda 1.138.1
165 (2)	Chand. Up. 8.3.4
165(4)	Svet. Up. 3.6
165(5)	Svet. Up. 3.7
169	Rg Veda 1.144.1
170	Rg Veda 1.144.1
173	Rg Veda 1.144.1
174	Rg Veda 1.144.1
175	Rg Veda 1.144.1

179	Rg Veda 9.37.1
189	Rg Veda 1.144.1
192	Rg Veda 5.79.1
194	Rg Veda 3.51.5

Our Political Ideal. This article was published in the third issue of the Bengali weekly newspaper Yugantar on 8 April 1906 (25 Chaitra 1312, Bengali era). It was written by Sri Aurobindo. In On Himself (p. 24) he noted in passing: "Sri Aurobindo himself wrote some of the opening articles in the early numbers [of Yugantar] and he always exercised a general control." Bhupendranath Datta, the sub-editor of the paper in 1906, was referring to the present article when he wrote in 1950: "Few people are aware that Aurobindo wrote a long article for the third issue of 'Yugantar'... The heading of the last part of the article was 'Cut the Golden Chain'" (Galpa Bharati 6 [Paush 1357]: 55). The text of Our Political Ideal was reproduced in the booklet Mukti Kon Pathe? (Which Way Freedom?) in 1907. This booklet was later put in as evidence by the prosecution in the Alipore Bomb Case. The official translation used by the court (Victoria Memorial Alipore Bomb Trial collection) is published here for its historical interest. A few obvious errors have been corrected. The Bengali text is reproduced from Bharater Swadhinata Andolane "Yugantar" Patrikar Dan (The Contribution of Yugantar to the Indian Freedom Movement), edited by Uma and Haridas Mukherjee (Calcutta, 1972).