Archival Notes SRI AUROBINDO, THE MOTHER AND PAUL RICHARD 1911-1915       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 the classic bio

"ARYA" ————— MONTHLY REVIEW. —————       The "ARYA" is a Review of pure philosophy.       The object which it has set before itself is twofold:—       1. A systematic study of the highest problems of existence;      2. The formation of a vast Synthesis of knowledge, harmonising the diverse religious traditions of humanity occidental as well as oriental. Its method will be that of a realism, at once rational and transcendental,—a realism consisting in the unification of intellectual and scientific discipline with those of intuitive experience.       This Review will also serve as an organ for the various groups and societies founded on its

Notes on the Texts       Notes on the Mahabharata. This article (part of which will be published in the next issue of A & R) was written not long after September 1901, when an article by Velandai Gopala Aiyer entitled "The Date of the Mahabharata War" was published in The Indian Review (Madras). In the portion of Sri Aurobindo's article to be published in the next issue, he referred to Aiyer's study as "a recent article of the Indian Review, an unusually able and searching paper on the date of the Mahabharata war". In the portion published in the present issue, he alluded to the argument of a scholar named Weber, which was cited by Aiyer in his article. The physical evidence o

GLOSSARY       This glossary explains non-English words (Sanskrit, Greek, Bengali, etc.) occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga. Sortileges and words written in Devanagari script are omitted, as are Sanskrit terms which are common in Sri Aurobindo's writings and do not have a special sense in the Record. Words are Sanskrit unless otherwise indicated. 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 p

  Record of Yoga       15 APRIL-1 JUNE 1914 April 15th Wednesday.       Today the siddhi is beginning to reemerge decidedly from its obscuration. The same movement, however, continues. Mahakali personality & dasya resist all attempts at disturbance; but the former is diminished in force by being confined to personality and barred from control over the bhava and the action in which the other three vary their combinations. Prema & kama of Mahasaraswati (the Sudrani) generalise themselves more & more & with them grows the dasya to individuals arising out of the dasya to God as well as the general dasyalipsa. This is today confirmed in universal atma-samarpana. The B

The Gods of the Veda [SECOND VERSION]   [Al] The Gods of the Veda —   An enquiry into the true significance of the hymns of the Rigveda.   The Vedas are the roots of Indian civilisation and the supreme authority in Indian religion. For three thousand years, by the calculation of European scholars, for a great deal more, in all probability, the faith of this nation, certainly one of the most profound, acute and intellectual in the world, has not left its hold on this cardinal point of belief. Its greatest and most rationalistic minds have never swerved from the national faith. Kapila held to it no less than Shankara[.] The two great revolt

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo THE DEPARTURE TO CHANDERNAGORE   1   Extract from A. B. Purani notebook PT MS9. pp. 79-80: talk of 27 September 1925 with Moni (Sureshchandra Chakravarty).   What strikes Moni most is that all along he [Sri Aurobindo] has been a passive instrument & the external circumstances have, it may seem, moulded him. . . . ... He described how A.G. [Aurobindo Ghose] decided to leave politics. Very dramatic. As usual A. G. came to the Karmayogin office (Routine) & then there was talk about the warrant   against him. He remained thoughtful for five minutes — said th

The Religion of Vedanta   If it were asked by [anyone] what is this multitudinous, shifting, expanding, apparently amorphous or at all events multimorphous sea of religious thought, feeling, philosophy, spiritual experience we call Hinduism, what it is characteristically and essentially, we might answer in one word, the religion of Vedanta. And if it were asked what are the Hindus with their unique and persistent difference from all other races, we might again answer, the children of Vedanta. For at the root of all that we Hindus have done, thought and said through these thousands of years of [our] race-history, behind all we are and seek to be, there lies concealed, t