Congress and Democracy THE principles of Democracy, so difficult to learn everywhere, are the most difficult to imbibe in a country has been, like ours, for so many centuries under foreign despotism. We are not, therefore, surprised at the autocratic ways of our own democratic leaders. Ever since the birth of the Congress, those who have been in the leadership of this great National movement have persistently denied the general public in the try the right of determining what shall and what shall not be or done on their behalf and in their name. The delegates been gathered from all parts of the country, not to deliberate , public matters, but simply to lend their s

The Constitution of the Congress CONSIDERABLE misconception seems still to exist in many quarters regarding the character of the constitution that is being demanded for the Congress by those who hold that a reform of the methods and ideals of that great national movement has become absolutely imperative owing to the altered conditions of public life in the country. A constitution for the Congress has been wanted for some time past; but the main idea of those who had hitherto been crying for it was clearly to secure a due recognition of the views and opinions of the general body of Congressmen in the country in the management of its affairs, and to ensure regula

Lala Lajpatrai Deported THE sympathetic administration of Mr. Morley has for the present attained its records; - but for the present only. Lala Lajpatrai has been deported out of British India. The fact is its own comment. The telegram goes on to say that indignation meetings have been forbidden for four days. Indignation meetings? The hour for speeches and fine writing is past. The bureaucracy has thrown down the gauntlet. We take it up. Men of the Punjab! Race of the lion! Show these men who would stamp you into the dust that for one Lajpat they have taken away, a hundred Lajpats will arise in his place. Let them hear a hundred times louder your war-cry-Jai Hin

CHAPTER XIX Life ARGUMENT MIND as a final action of Supermind is a creative and not only a perceptive power; in fact, material force itself being only a Will in things working darkly as the expression of subconscious Mind, Mind is the immediate creator of the material universe. But the real creator is Supermind; for wherever there is Mind conscious or subconscious, there must be Supermind regulating from behind the veil its activities and educing from them their truth of inevitable result. Not a mental Intelligence, but Supermind is the creator of the Universe. - Mind manifests itself in the form of Force to which we give the name of Life, and Life

Yoga and its Part in the Divine Plan YOGA is the unravelling of the knot of life's difficulties. Suddhi, Mukti, Siddhi and Bhukti are the four constituent elements of Yoga. Mind, Heart, Life and Body are to do the work of the Divine. The unfolding of the Spirit, its light and its power and its joy and oneness in man upon the earth, is an essential part of the divine plan and the obvious purport of the terrestrial and human creation. Life becomes flower and sap of the Godhead from the bulb of terrestrial nature in the stock of humanity. To grow into Godhead, to live in the Divine, acting through the universalised and divinised individual is the acm

-24_National Education (Speech).htm National Education * THE meaning of national education is now well understood in Bengal, but the case seems to be quite otherwise in this part of the country. Even the Honourable Mr. Gokhale showed his ignorance of the matter by tampering at Surat with the wording of the resolution on national education passed at the Calcutta Congress. Some of these people appear to think that there can be no "national" education for India, where, according to them, the existence of various conflicting creeds and races makes the growth of a feeling of nationality an impossibility. This view is utterly wrong. The very geographical position of the country, isolating it from othe

The New Situation THE circular letter addressed to the leaders of public opinion in East Bengal by Babu Ananda Chandra Roy of Dacca, on the new situation created by the dismissal of Sir B. Fuller, which 'has been noticed already in the last two issues of this paper, does not seem to have at all grasped the real significance of this situation, which therefore cannot be properly met by the policy which is suggested in that letter. The Partition of Bengal is a settled fact; and we agree with Babu Ananda Chandra Roy that we cannot refuse to accept it as such, though we do not see how, consistently with this view, he can say that our protest against it must still be kept up, or

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME 1 BANDE MATARAM Some more articles from the Bande Mataram are reproduced here as recent information allows us to consider them Sri Aurobindo's. It is evident from an article1 of Suresh Chandra Deb, a worker in the Bande Mataram office, that Sri Aurobindo wrote every day for the Daily from the 8th or 9th August 1906 till the last week of September when Bepin Chandra Pal, the Editor, returned from his tour of East Bengal. Ail the issues of this period are not available, but from the few we have in our possession we have selected some of the Editorials and Notes which seem to us to be from Sri Aurobindo's pen. A few others i

Not to the Andamans! IT IS evidently with a sigh of relief that the Indian Mirror learns the news that Lala Lajpatrai is to be sent not to the Andamans but to Mandalay. It says: - "Soon after his arrest, it was reported widely that Lala Lajpatrai was going to be taken to the Andamans. But instead of being sent to that penal settlement, he has been conveyed as a State prisoner to Mandalay, in Upper Burma where there is a large fort. Mandalay is certainly a far better place than the Andamans." To those like us outside the esoteric circle, - and they by no means form a microscopic minority, - the distinction between the two places, on the present occasion, seems immateria

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME 10 THESECRETOFTHEVEDA 1. This draft of "The Origins of Aryan Speech" seems to be an earlier one. It was found in this incomplete form in Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts. 2. "A System of Vedic Psychology" is an incomplete study written probably in the early days at Pondicherry, 1910-14. The Origins of Aryan Speech IN THAT pregnant period of European knowledge when physical Science, turned suddenly towards its full strength was preparing to open for itself the new views, new paths and new instruments of discovery which have led to the astonishing results of the nineteenth century, an opportunity was offere