21 May-1 July 1918   May 21st         The sadhan is now concentrated on the vijnana-chatusthaya with an initial stress on the physical siddhi which is still secondary except in the sharira ananda, mainly the kamananda.         At present the ideality is passing through a stage of what would formerly have been called relapse, but is now recognised as a reversion to a lower movement in order to get rid of still existing defects or possibilities of defect and transform the remnants of the lower into the spirit and the form of the higher movement.         Script. "Develop T2 and ideation, restore kamananda. Persist in rupa and

  Archival Notes   THE LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SRI AUROBINDO This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers of Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research. The writer, a member of the staff of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library, accepts full responsibility for the contents of the article, which is the result of his own research and his own interpretation. The purpose of the biographical portions of Archival Notes is to present materials dealing with the period of Sri Aurobindo's life covered by the current instalment of Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo. The form of presentation selected is a variety of

  Record of Yoga AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914       August 1914.   August 1st Script The work done in July is still incomplete, since even the samata & faith are capable of temporary and partial obscuration, although no longer of serious disturbance or actual eclipse. Hasya has to be strengthened and faith in sharira & kriti made imperturbable, so as to end this persistent imperfection. Rapidity & complete organisation have to be brought into the vijnana. Sharira has to be brought to the level of Vijnana. Kriti has to be made effective. = The obstruction to the power has been restored and although

 

  Notes on the Texts Record of Yoga: August-October 1914. The Record for August and September 1914 occupies 53 pages of the notebook begun on 10 June. After the incomplete entry for 29 September, the last four pages of the notebook were left blank. The heading "October - 1914." is written inside the front cover of a small, thick, hand bound notebook used for the Record of 29 September 1914 to 27 February 1915. The Record for October begins with a long entry marked "Sept 29-30. / Preliminary". The sources of the "sortileges" from the Veda and Upanishads in this installment of Record of Yoga are identified below. A few Sanskrit sortileges taken from little-known te

GLOSSARY   This glossary explains Sanskrit and French words occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga. Ouotations in Devanagari script from the Veda and other texts are omitted, as arc terms which are common in Sri Aurobindo's writings and do not have a special sense in the Record. Sanskrit words are spelled in the glossary according to the standard international system of transliteration. In the text of the Record, the spellings and diacritics are. those of the manuscript. Words are defined in this glossary only in the senses in which they are used in the portion of the Record published in the present issue. For further explanation of some terms, reference is m

  Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo   THE LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SRI AUROBINDO Written documents nave been reproduced verbatim, unedited except within square brackets. Oral and transcribed documents have been edited for clarity but not altered in substance. The fact that a historical document comes from an authentic source does not guarantee the truth of every statement in it. Observant readers will find many statements in the present series of documents that are not consistent with one another or simply untrue. Many of these inconsistencies and inaccuracies are discussed in Archival Notes. I. The Photographs Taken by Henri Carti

      FROM MAN TO SUPERMAN Notes on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga EDITORS' NOTE       In the last volume of Archives and Research, most of Sri Aurobindo's notes, drafts and fragments on Yoga and yogic philosophy and psychology from the years 1910 to 1950 were published under the title From Man to Superman. Ten pieces which posed special problems of transcription were held over to the present number. These pieces were written during the late 1940s, when Sri Aurobindo's eyesight was failing, and they are legible only with difficulty. Because the possibility of wrong transcription is much greater with such pieces, it was thought advisable to segregate the

Na Kinchidapi Chintayet         THE cessation of thought is the one thing which the believer in intellect as the highest term of our evolution cannot contemplate with equanimity. That seems to him the negation of human activity, a reversion to the condition of the stone.1 To master the fleeting randomness of thought by regulating the intellectual powers and thinking consecutively and clearly is an ideal he can understand. Yet it is certain that it is only by the stilling of the lower that the higher gets full play. So long as the body and the vital desires are active the mind is necessarily distracted and it is only when the body is forgotten and the vital part consents