Vol. 1 August 1914 - July 1915.               The philosophical Review ARYA was started in August 1914 and after six and half years it ended with the January 1921 issue. It was published under the joint editorship of Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Paul & Mirra Richard. A French edition was also issued but its publication ceased with the February 1915 issue after the first seven numbers appeared. Very few sets of this valued journal are available now and even these are crumbling and cannot be used for reference. They are being reprinted, photographically reproduced, in a limited edition for archival purposes. It may be

NO. 9 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER IX THE PURE EXISTENT.     One indivisible that is pure existence.     Chhandogya Upanishad     When we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and look upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the grandiose products of aeons are but the dust of a moment and i

 NO.2.   THE LIFE DIVINE   _________ CHAPTER II THE TWO NEGATIONS I The Materialist Denial           He energized conscious-force (in the austerity of thought) and came to the knowledge that Matter is the Brahman. For from Matter all existences are born; born, by Matter they increase and enter into Matter in their passing hence. Then he went to Varuna, his father and said " Lord, teach me of the Brahman." But he said to him : " Energies (again) the conscious-energy in thee ; for the Energy is Brahman." Taittiriya Upanishad.       The affirmation of a divine life upon earth and an immortal sense in mortal existence can hav

NO. 6 The Secret of the Veda CHAPTER IV THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY.        A hypothesis of the sense of Veda must always proceed, to be sure and sound, from a basis that clearly emerges in the language of-the Veda itself. Even if the bulk of its substance be an arrangement of symbols and figures, the sense of which has to be discovered, yet there should be clear indications in the explicit language of the hymns which will guide us to that sense. Otherwise, the symbols being themselves ambiguous, we shall be in danger of manufacturing a system out of our own imaginations and preferences instead of discovering the real purport of the figures ch

No. 3 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER III THE TWO NEGATIONS THE REFUSAL OF THE ASCETIC All this is the Brahman ; this Self is the Brahman and the Self is fourfold. Mandukya Upanishad Beyond relation, featureless, unthinkable, in which all is still. I did     And still there is a beyond.     For on the other side of the cosmic consciousness there is, attainable to us, a consciousness yet more transcendent, —transcendent not only of the ego, but of the Cosmos itself,—against which the universe seems to stand out like a petty picture against an immeasurable background. That supports the universal activity,—or perhaps only toler

NO.10  THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER X CONSCIOUS FORCE     They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working.     Swetacwatarea Upanishad.     This is he that is awake in those who sleep.     All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience. In the ancient images by which human thought attempted to make this origin and law of being intelligible and real to itself, this infinite existence of Force was figured as a sea, initially at rest and therefore

 NO.1.   The Life Divine   BOOK I THE AFFIRMATIONS OF VEDANTA         She follows to the goal of those that arc passing on beyond, she is the firsts in the eternal succession of the dawns that are coming,— Usher widens bringing out that which lives, awakening someone who was dead...What is her scope when she harmonies with the dawns that shone out before and those that now must shine ? She desires the ancient mornings and fulfils their light ; projecting forwards her illumination she enters into communion with the rest that are to come. Kitsap Angoras. Rig Veda. CHAPTER I THE HUMAN ASPIRATION        Threefold are those su

No. 12 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER XII DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE: THE SOLUTION.     The name of That is the Delight; as the Delight we must worship and seek after It. Kena Upanishad.     In this conception of an inalienable underlying delight of existence of which all outward or surface sensations are a positive, negative or neutral play, waves and foaming of that infinite deep, we arrive at the true solution of the problem we are examining. The self of things is an infinite indivisible existence; of that existence the essential nature or power is an infinite imperishable force of self-conscious being ; and of that self-consciousness the essential natur

NO.8    THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER VIII THE METHODS OF VEDANTIC KNOWLEDGE.     This secret Self in all beings is not apparent, but it is seen by means of the supreme reason, the subtle, by those who have the subtle vision. Katha Upanishad     But what then is the working of this Sachchidananda in the world and by what process of things are the relations between itself and the ego which figures it first formed, then led to their consummation ? For on those relations and on the process they follow depend the whole philosophy and practice of a divine life for man.     We arrive at the conception and at the knowledge of a divine existence by exceeding the ev