-50_Dayananda .htm IX  DAY ANANDA - BANKIM - TILAK ANDAL - NAMMALWAR Dayananda      THE MAN AND HIS WORK AMONG the great company of remarkable figures that will appear to the eye of posterity at the head of the Indian Renascence, one stands out by himself with peculiar and solitary distinctness, one unique in his type as he is unique in his work. It is as if one were to walk for a long time amid a range of hills rising to a greater or lesser altitude, but all with sweeping contours, green-clad, flattering the eye even in their most bold and striking elevation. But amidst them all, one hill stands apart, piled up in sheer strength, a mass of bare and puissant granite, with verdure

The Men That Pass                          Romesh Chandra Dutt is dead. After a long life of the most manifold and untiring energy, famous, honoured, advanced in years, with a name known in England as well as in India, the man always successful, always favoured of Fortune, always striving to deserve her by skill and diligence, type of a race that passes, of a generation that to younger minds is fast losing the appearance of reality and possibility, has passed away at the height and summit of his career before his great capacities could justify themselves to the full in his new station, but also before the defects of his type could be thoroughly subjected to the s

The Divine Superman THIS is thy work and the aim of thy being and that for which thou art here, to become the divine superman and a perfect vessel of the Godhead. All else that thou hast to do, is only a making thyself ready or a joy by the way or a fall from the purpose. But the goal is this and the purpose is this and not in the power of the way or the joy by the way but in the joy of the goal is the greatness and the delight of thy being. The joy of the way is because that which is drawing thee is also with thee on thy path and the power to climb was given thee that thou mightest mount to thy own summits. If thou hast a duty, this is thy duty; if thou askest what

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE I, II,III.. The writings in these three sections were collected from Sri Aurobindo's unrevised manuscripts. Under the title of the first article, The Hour of God, they were brought together in book-form in 1959. The same title has been given to this Volume No. XVII of the Centenary Edition. IV. Thoughts and Aphorisms and Words of the Master are also from unrevised manuscripts. A few extracts culled from Sri Aurobindo's letters and published in the Standard Bearer in 1922 under the title Words of the Master have also been included here. THOUGHTS AND APHORISMS first appeared in book-form in 1958. V. Except for The Real Difficulty which has

The Divine Plan A THE SUPREME SELF-CONTAINED ABSOLUTE FIRST ABSOLUTE — TAT The Absolute Transcendent, the Supreme, parātpara (containing all, limited by nothing). SECOND ABSOLUTE— SAT The supreme self-contained absolute Existence, Sachchidananda, (Ananda uniting Sat and Chit), holding in its absolute unity the dual Principle (He and She, sah and sā) and the four-fold Principle, OM with itsfour statuses as one. THIRD ABSOLUTE — ADITI Aditi is the indivisible conscious-force and Ananda of the Supreme; the Mother, its living dynamis, thesupreme Love, W

The Supramental Yoga ALL Yoga done through the mind alone or through the heart or the will or the vital force or the body ends in some one aspect of the infinite and eternal Existence and rests satisfied there, as the mind imagines for ever. Not through these alone shall thy Yoga move, but through all these at once and, supremely, through that which is beyond them. And the end of thy Yoga shall be the integrality of thy entrance not into one aspect, but into all the Infinite, all the Eternal, all the Divine in all its aspects indivisibly unified together.          Whatever is beyond mind and life and body is spirit. But spirit can be realised even on these lower l

Rupam* THE appearance of this superb quarterly admirable in its artistic get-up and its fine reproductions of Indian sculpture and painting, admirable in the accomplished excellence of its matter, - the name of the editor, Mr. O. C. Gangoly, the one man most especially fitted by his knowledge and capacity for this work, is of itself a sufficient guarantee of excellence, - is a significant indication of the progress that is being made in the revival of the aesthetic mind of India. Assailed and corrupted in a time of cultural decline and arrest of its creative and artistic faculty by an alien aesthesis and ideals antithetic to its own spirit, it is returning to a right view and unde

Andal THE  VAISHNAVA  POETESS PREOCCUPIED from the earliest times with divine knowledge and religious aspiration the Indian mind has turned all forms of human life and emotion and all the phenomena of the universe into symbols and means by which the embodied soul may strive after and grasp the Supreme. Indian devotion has especially seized upon the most intimate human relations and made them stepping-stones to the supra-human. God the Guru, God the Master, God the Friend, God the Mother, God the Child, God the Self, each of these experiences - for to us these are more than merely ideas, - it has carried to its extreme possibilities. But none of them has it pursued, embraced,

VII PREMISES OF ASTROLOGY CHAPTER I Elements ASTROLOGY depends on three things, the position of the planets in the heavens and with regard to each other, the condition of the planets at the natal hour or at the moment of enquiry, and the general character or tout-ensemble of the horoscope. Any error or deficiency with regard to any of these three elements separately or with regard to their mutual relations will affect the work of the astrologer and vitiate its correctness or its completeness. To cast a horoscope completely is one of the most difficult operations known to science. The astrologer is born not made. It 'is as impossible to manufacture a perfect astrologer b

TWO The Powers of the Mind THE instrument of the educationist is the mind or antahkarana, which consists of four layers. The reservoir of past mental impressions, the citta or storehouse of memory, which must be distinguished from the specific act of memory, is the foundation on which all the other layers stand. All experience lies within us as passive or potential memory; active memory selects and takes what it requires from that storehouse. But the active memory is like a man searching among a great mass of locked-up material; sometimes he cannot find what he wants; often in his rapid search he stumbles across many things for which he has no immediate need