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

1361 UNDATED SCRIPT JOTTINGS   [1] That is the possibility that will emerge   [2]   There is no failure, only an intermission   [3]   no now indeed   [4]   There is nothing else to be done than to be careful and vigilant That cannot be so easily done, but it is certain that the result will be perfect.   [5]   The grandeur of the past is the seed of the greater grandeur of the futu

1290 UNDATED OR PARTLY DATED SCRIPT, 1912 ­ 1913   [1]   Whatever may be the limitations of the ordinary script, there is another in which an old tendency must be fulfilled, the prophetic script, not Srikrishna's, but commissioned by him. This is the only form of script which has any practical connection with the yoga, not with its fulfilment, but with the action. Wherever the action has to be coordinated, this script will arrange the coordination. There are four divisions of the Karma, literary, religious, practical, social.

1336 UNDATED SCRIPT, c. 1920   [1]   There is no possibility of immediate success in the physical siddhi or in the higher vijnana. The riot of the lower ideality stands in the way. It must quiet down before the drashtri vijnana can act with any completeness.   [2]   The Sortilege. It is to be revived once more. There is no writing this morning. The script is also to resume its movement. First, it has to be absolutely spontaneous. That is almost finished. It is a little obsta

  Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, c. 1915   Introduction   Sapta Chatusthaya   3 SAPTA CHATUSTHAYA   I. Shanti-Chatusthaya समता शान्ति: सुख हास्यमिति शान्तिचतुष्टय ।̇ Samata shantih sukham hasyam iti shantichatusthayam.   Samata The basis of internal peace is samata, the capacity of receiving with a calm and equal mind all the attacks and appearances of outward things, whether pleasant or unpleasant, ill-fortune and good-fortune, pleasure and pain, honour and ill-repute, praise and blame, friendship and enmity, sinner and saint, or, physically, heat an

1337 UNDATED NOTES, c. DECEMBER 1926   [1]   OM TAT SAT The highest interpretation hitherto made in human understanding and experience may thus be stated with the proviso that since it is human it must be incomplete.   TAT. That. The Absolute Unmanifested—Parabrahman, Purushottama, Parameswara (holding in himself the Parâshakti and in her the All).   SAT. The Existent (I Am.) The Absolute containing all the power of the manifestation. The Absolute is Parabrahman-Mahâmâyâ.