-25_Swadeshi Meeting (Speech).htm SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME - 2 KARMAYOGIN The following two speeches are reproduced as reported in the Times of India, Bombay of October 11, 1909 and October 15, 1909 respectively. Swadeshi Meeting* MR. Aurobindo Ghose next rose amid loud cheers and cries of "Bande Mataram". He said that the meeting was the last they could hold before the Partition Day, which was approaching, and so he could speak a few words about that illustrious day which should be observed with great national enthusiasm. The 16th October had become a memorable day, not only in the history of India, but in that of the world. The 7th of August was t

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME- 5 COLLECTED POEMS The following poems have all been taken from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts. The Fragments are culled from the earliest manuscript in our possession, dating from the later part (1890 -1892) of his student days in England; the sonnets and the lyric are from the author's Baroda Period. FRAGMENTS Blue lotus of the sea, on her large eyes Ocean the tincture of nocturnal seas Bestowed, the sweetness of her summer voice, The flow of her green-rippling noonday laugh: Night envied her long tresses and her cheeks Were wild autumnal olives lightly flushed With t

Reconstitution of the Congress THE new demand for a constitution for the Indian National Congress is, - as we pointed out yesterday, - only a necessary corollary to that other and more radical demand for a thorough reconsideration and reconstruction of the entire plan and programme of that great national movement which has, since some time past, been so persistently urged upon the attention of the leaders by a large and increasing body of Congress- men almost in every part of the country. The Congress originally came into being with the express object of helping the Government by furnishing it with an unauthorised, but therefore none the less useful, ins

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME - 3 THÉHARMONY OF VIRTUE 1.The problem of the Mahabharata, The Political Story: The new passage found in Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts seems to be the last passage in The Political Story and should be read in continuation of page 196 of Volume 3. Two more passages from Udyogaparva have also been appended here. 2. Sri Aurobindo's essay 'On Translating Kalidasa' is reprinted here, rearranged, with a few more passages found in his manuscripts. 3. Medical Department: This seems to be a speech prepared for the Maharaja Gaekwar. During the Baroda State Service Sri Aurobindo often wrote such speeches. The p

A Point of Honour IT IS a point of honour in more senses than one, to stoutly refuse to approach the Secretary of State with a fresh petition for the reopening of the Partition Question. Mr. Morley has publicly said his last word. He has repeatedly refused to listen to our prayers; and it cannot be consistent with our dignity as a civilised and ancient people to go a-begging to him once more on this very subject. But Mr. Morley, it is suggested, is himself willing to reopen the question. The confidential letter from London upon which this proposal for a fresh memorial is professedly based, bears internal evidence of this fact. "I am not at liberty," the writer says, "

Partition of Bengal IT SEEMS strange that few of our old leaders are able to realise the very simple fact that the bearings of this question have undergone a most radical change in the course of the last few months. We objected so strongly to this measure because it was calculated to strike a serious blow at the political power of the Bengalee-speaking race. Our second objection was that it was professedly wanted by the Government to create a Mahomedan province with Dacca as its capital, and the evident object of it was to sow discord between the Hindus and the Mahomedans in a Province that had never known it in the whole history of the present British connection. The f

No Common Ideal THE surcharged state of the political atmosphere is not favourable to the growth of Moderate politics; and the present policy of the Government has made many mild Moderates realise the utter impossibility of securing our political rights by following the old course of the so-called constitutional agitation. And we are glad to note that some of our Moderate contemporaries have begun to show a distinct liking for what they used to abhor as "Dangerous Extremist politics." The Indian Patriot of Madras, so well known for its opposition to the New Thought, has the following: - "The fight between Moderates and Extremists, which has been going on now for over

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUMES 22-24 LETTERS ON YOGA LETTER ON YOGA was written to the Maharani of Baroda. Letter on Yoga TO THE MAHARANI OF BARODA IT IS true that I have by the practice of Yoga attained to the higher spiritual consciousness which comes by Yoga, and this carries with it a certain power. Especially there is the power to communicate to those who are ready or to help them towards that spiritual state which, in its perfection, is a condition of unalterable inner calm, strength and felicity. But this spiritual peace and joy is something quite different from mental peace and happiness. And it cannot be reached without a spiritual discipline. I do not

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUMES 18-19 THE LIFE DIVINE ARGUMENTS TO "THE LIFE DIVINE" In response to the desire of some of our subscribers we shall prefix henceforth a brief summary or argument to each chapter of The Life Divine. Arya, February, 1916 These Arguments were written by Sri Aurobindo for Chapters XIX to XXXIII of The Life Divine as it appeared originally in tl1e Arya (1914-1919). The Life Divine was revised in 1939-40 and divided into two parts, the order of the chapters was rearranged in some places and several new chapters were written for it. The "Argument in Brief" and a "Synopsis" of the first chap

The Conspirators at Work THERE is a conspiracy to thwart the desire country to have Mr. Tilak as President of the coming Congress in Calcutta. This is due to the natural nervousness of the coterie that have been ruling the Congress all these years, that recognise in the sudden awakening of active interest in asses of the country in the work of the Congress a serious menace to their old and autocratic authority; and the object of conspiracy is not merely to keep Mr. Tilak out of the Congress Presidency, but also to kill at its very birth this new, and in view, dangerous democratic movement in the Congress. This is almost the first time that the message of the Co