Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo CASE AGAINST ARABINDO GHOSE       1       Chief Secretary,       I have just come [to] the end of an exhaustive study of the case against Arabindo Ghose.       The following facts are indisputable:—       (a) His declared aim was the absolute independence of India. He expressly discarded the ideal of colonial self-government:       (b) He avowed the principle that this aim could not be attained by gift from the English and that it must be attained otherwise:       (c) He worked with others towards the attainment of this aim:       (d) He himself was inspired by religious fanatici

Two Fragments       THE ORIGIN OF GENIUS       When the human being puts forth a force in himself which is considerable but acts normally, we call it talent; when it is abnormal in its working we call it genius. It would seem, therefore, that genius is in reality some imperfect step in evolution by which mankind in its most vigorous and forward individuals is attempting to develop a faculty which the race as a whole is not strong enough as yet to command or to acclimatise. As always happens in such a movement, there is a considerable irregularity in the working of the new phenomenon.       [MARBLES]       Institutions, empires, civilisations are the marb

GLOSSARY       This glossary includes most of the Sanskrit and other non-English terms and phrases occurring in the present number. Words printed in the devanagari and Bengali scripts and those that occur in translations have been omitted. A few proper names are included, especially those which might not be found in an ordinary reference work.       Definitions have been provided using Sri Aurobindo's own words as far as possible.       Sanskrit words are listed here according to the standard system of transliteration; this is followed in parentheses by the spelling that appears in the text where it differs significantly from this transliteration.       Italicised entries

   

An Interview with Sri Aurobindo   ARABINDO GHOSE.   A REMARKABLE INTERVIEW.   BIRTHDAYS AND COINCIDENCES.   DID HE EDIT "BANDE MATARAM"? ("Empire Special")   Great jubilation prevailed among the army of terrorists before and after the trial on Saturday. Notwithstanding the new turn the case has taken with regard to the threatened connection of Birendro Kumar Ghose and the Mozufferpore outrage this elation developed into a hilarious pandemonium after the Court had risen for the day. In consequence of this a regular frequenter at the Court had a unique experience. Shortly after His Honour had left the Bench the person in qu

 

Notes on the Texts   Record of Yoga: November-December 1914. The Record for November and December 1914 occupies 143 pages of the notebook begun on 29 September. As far as possible, the text is reproduced here exactly as it appears in the notebook, including any peculiarities and irregularities of punctuation and indentation. Some headings were inserted in the margin after the entries were written. Between 15 and 21 December, Sri Aurobindo put a tick in the margin next to most occurrences of the heading "Script". (For a discussion of this term, see Archives and Research 10 [1986]: 106-109.)   The sources of the Vedic "sortileges" in this instalment of Record of Yoga are ident

  Record of Yoga   November-December 1914       November     Nov. 1 -   The aims set forth for October are only now beginning to be accomplished, but the month of October was the turning-point for the action.   Lipi.   1. Already fitted for the intellectuality; fitted for the ideality. (Ak[asha]) 2 Results of the rapidity. Yogasiddhi (Ch[itra])   3 It is futile to expect results immediately.   Darshana.   The Ananda Brahman is now an entirely normal part of the Darshana. It contains implicitly

GLOSSARY   This glossary explains Sanskrit and other non-English words occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga. Quotations in Devanagari script are omitted, as are some 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 made to the Sapta Cat

Archival Notes   Limitations of space prevent us from writing more than a few lines on the new documentary material published in this issue.              A NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF SRI AUROBINDO   The photograph of Sri Aurobindo reproduced as Plate 1 was printed in the Anglo-Indian review Empress in October 1909. It was captioned "Baboo Arabindo Ghosh Giving a speech in Beadon Square". The photograph accompanied an article on the Sixteenth October (Partition Day) celebrations. The Bengalee of 17 October carried a full report of the event, from which the following is extracted: The [morning] bathing over, people distributed rakhis amongst themselves. It was