The News of the Month   August ­ September 1914     The News of the Month    "L'IDÉE NOUVELLE"   In close connection with the intellectual work of synthesis undertaken by this Review a Society has been founded in French India under the name of the New Idea, (L'Idée Nouvelle) Its object is to group in a common intellectual life and fraternity of sentiment those who accept the spiritual tendency and idea it represents and who aspire to realise it in their own individual and social action. The Society has already made a beginning by grouping together young men of different castes and religions

'Essays in Philosophy and Yoga' by Sri Aurobindo - Page1 of 50 Heraclitus   Heraclitus   THE PHILOSOPHY and thought of the Greeks is perhaps the most intellectually stimulating, the most fruitful of clarities the world has yet had Indian philosophy was intuitive in its beginnings, stimulative rather to the deeper vision of things, —nothing more exalted and profound, more revelatory of the depths and the heights, more powerful to open unending vistas has ever been conceived than the divine and inspired Word, the mantra of Veda and Vedanta When that philosophy became intellectual, precise, founded on the human reason, it became also rigidly logical, en

    1371 YOGIC SADHAN   AUM   I   The proper course of the Sadhan is just the opposite of the thing most people do and you have also done. People begin with the body and the prana, go on to the chitta and the manas, and finish up with the buddhi and the will. The real course is to start with the will and finish with the body. There is no need of Asana, Pranayama, Kumbhaka, Chittasuddhi, or anything else preparatory or preliminary if one starts with the will. That was what Sri Ramakrishna came to show so far as Yoga is concerned. "Do the Shakti Upasana first," he said, "get Shakti and she will give you Sat." Will and Shakti are the first means necessary to the Yogin.

1323 NOTES ON IMAGES SEEN IN MARCH 1914   The Evolutionary Scale.   We shall see how the thought of God works itself out in Life. The material world is first formed with the Sun as centre, the Sun [ ]1 being itself only a subordinate star of the great Agni, Mahavishnu, in whom is centred the Bhu. Mahavishnu is the Virat Purusha who as Agni pours Himself out into the forms of sun and star. He is Agni Twashtá, Visvakarman, he is also Prajápati and Matariswan. These are the three primal Purushas of the earth life,—Agni Twashta, Prajapáti & M

1359 DIAGRAMS, c. 1931   THE SUPREME | Sachchidananda—Unmanifest, making possible every kind of manifestation. | SACHCHIDANANDA IN MANIFESTATION The Supreme Planes of Infinite Consciousness (1) Sat (implying Chit-Tapas and Ananda) (2) Chit (implying Sat and Ananda) (3) Ananda (implying Sat and Chit-Tapas.) | SUPERMIND or DIVINE GNOSIS. (The Self-Determining Infinite Consciousness)

1358 NOTES ON PROPHETIC VISION, 1929   1. Some ten days before August 15th 1929, Venkataraman at soup sees himself in a vision falling from branch to branch of a tree. Half an hour afterwards, having returned from the soup to his rooms (Mudaliar's house near treasury) for flowers to bring to the Mother, he climbs a big tree of champak, misses his hold, falls from branch to branch on to the ground and is unable to move for a few days and cannot come to the house for the 15th celebration. Prevision. 2. A lottery is arranged for