A Treacherous Stab WE HAVE seldom read anything more disgraceful, more unpatriotic, more opposed to all ideas of decency, than the sneering and ill-natured attack on Lala Lajpatrai which the Tribune has chosen this particular moment to deliver. It is a time when all over India men of all shades of opinion, except the worshippers of the bureaucracy, are putting aside their differences with this modest and self-sacrificing patriot in order to express their unanimous fellow-feeling with him in his hour of trial. It is precisely this moment that the Tribune chooses for its stab at Lala Lajpatrai who is no longer there to speak for himself. If this unseemly conduct is dict

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME 7 COLLECTED PLAYS The beginning of a play from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts Act One S C E N E I Mathura A Street in Mathura: Ocroor House OCROOR - SUDAMAN SUDAMAN Who art thou? OCROOR One that walks the night. SUDAMAN No Ogre, But Ocroor by thy voice. OCROOR Sudaman? The children Of Surasegn, hadst thou made such reply Would otherwise have answered. SUDAMAN So they would. An Ogre, I ? Yes, one to eat all up. Ocroor, I have a belly to digest Much more than Mathura. OCROOR So Ravan had And yet he perished. Walk not thus alone When the black night has draped the c

CHAPTER I The Way of Works TO CREATE the union of his soul with the Divine Presence and Power through a perfect surrender of the will in all his activities, is the high aspiration of the seeker on the Way of Works. To put off like a worn-out disguise the ignorant conscious- ness and stumbling will that are ours in our present mind and life-force and to put on the light and knowledge, the purity and power, the tranquillity and ecstasy of the divine Essence, the spiritual Nature that accosts us when we climb beyond mind, is the victory after which he reaches. To make mind and heart and life and body conscious, changed and luminous moulds of this supramental Spirit,

Udyogaparva BUT the mighty-armed Keshava when he heard these words of Bhima, packed with mildness, words such as those lips had never uttered before, laughing a little, - for it seemed to him as the lightness in a mountain or coldness in fire, to him the Showrian, the brother of Rama, the wielder of the bow of horn, - thus He spake to Bhima even as he sat sub- merged with sudden pity, awoke the heat and flame of him with his words as wind the fire hearteneth. The Mahabharata, Udyogaparva, 75. 1-3 (Insert the above passage on page 151, Vol. 3 after the second para.) But when Sanjaya had departed, thus spake the just King, Yudhishthira to the Dasarhan, the Bull

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME 4 WRITINGS IN BENGALI The following writings in Bengali, except the last one, are from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts of the Baroda Period. The last one, "Korea and Japan", is from the Dharma of November 8, 1908 and is now identified as Sri Aurobindo's. It should be read after page 157 of Volume 4. Page-117 KAROTOYAR BARNANA Page - 119

SAPTA-CHATUSHTAYA I. SHANTI-CHATUSHTAYA Samatā sāntih sukham hāsyam iti śānticatusţayam. Samata The basis of internal peace is samatā, 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 and cold etc. There are two forms of samatā, passive and active, samatā in reception of the things of the outward world and samatā in reaction to them. 1. PASSIVE Passive samatā consists of three things: Titik

The Pro-Petition Plot IT IS impossible, we think, to condemn too strongly the attempt that is being made, by means of confidential circulars from Calcutta, to get up a fresh memorial to the Secretary of State for India for the revocation or modification of the Partition of Bengal. We are strongly opposed, it is well known, to sending any fresh memorial on this subject, but this general objection apart, the methods that have been adopted to get up new memorial are open to serious objection, and it is to these that we desire to call public attention today. A telegraphic message was received in Comilla about the middle of last month n one of the Calcutta leaders, asking

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-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