The Life Divine CHAPTER XVI THE TRIPLE STATUS OF SUPERMIND     My self-existent being is that which supports all existences and that which dwells in them and that which constitutes their existence. Gita     Before we pass to this easier understanding of the world we inhabit from the standpoint of "an apprehending Truth-consciousness which sees things as would an individual soul freed from the limitations of mentality and admitted to participate in the action of the Divine Super-mind, we must pause and resume briefly what we have realised or can yet realise of the consciousness of the Lord, the Ishwara as He develops the world by His Maya out

        Vol. II       August 1915-July 1916.               The philosophical Review Arya was started in August 1914 and after six and half years it ended with the January 1921 issue. It was published under the joint editorship of Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Paul & Mirra Richard. A French edition was also issued but its publication ceased with the February 1915 issue after the first seven numbers appeared. Very few sets of this valued journal are available now and even these are crumbling and cannot be used for reference. They are being reprinted, photographically reproduced, in a limited edition for archival purposes.

  The Life Divine CHAPTER XXIV MATTER        He arrived at the knowledge that Matter is Brahman.                                                                            Taittiriya Upanishad ARGUMENT       [Life and Mind are in the fact of evolution conditioned by the body and therefore by the principle of Matter. The body is the chief difficulty in the way of a spiritual transformation of life ; it has therefore been regarded by spiritual aspiration as an enemy and the escape from the material existence has been made an indispensable condition of the final emancipation.—The quarrel begins with the struggle between Life

  ERRATUM Please read on page 266 Chapter XIII for Chapter XVI The Life Divine. CHAPTER XVII. THE DIVINE SOUL .     He in whom the self has become all existences and he has the knowledge, how shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief who' sees everywhere oneness.     Isha Upanishad.     By the conception we have formed of the Supermind, by its opposition to the mentality on which our human existence is based, we are able not only to form a precise instead of a vague idea of divinity and the divine life, expressions which we are otherwise condemned to use with looseness and as expressive of a large but almost impalpable asp

  THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER XV. THE SUPREME TRUTH-CONSCIOUSNESS.     This is the omnipotent, this is the omniscient, this is the inner control, this is the source of all.     Mandukya Upanishad.     We have to regard therefore this all-containing, all-originating, all-consummating Supermind as the nature of the Divine Being, not indeed in its absolute self-existence, but in its action as the Lord and Creator of its own worlds. This is the truth of that which we call God. Obviously this is not the too personal and limited Deity, the magnified and supernatural Man of the ordinary occidental conception; for that conception erects a too human Eidolon of a c

  The Life Divine CHAPTER XX DEATH, DESIRE AND INCAPACITY        In the beginning all was ed by Hunger that is death; that made for itself so that it might attain to possession of self.                                                                                                                                                                      Brihadaranyaka Unpunished        This Force has the multitude of its desires that it may establish' the All ; it seeks the taste of all foods and builds his home for the being.                                                                                                                  

  OUR IDEAL.     The "Arya" having completed its first year and survived the first perils of infancy, now offers itself a second time to the decisions of Time and the mind of the hour. We think it necessary to open our new year with a succinct statement of the idea this Review is intended to serve and the aim which it holds before it. For our Review has been conceived neither as a mirror of the fleeting interests and surface thoughts of the period we live in, nor as the mouthpiece of a sect, school or already organised way of thinking. Its object is to foci out for the thought of the future, to help in shaping its foundations and to link it to the best and most vital t

  The Life Divine CHAPTER XXIII THE DOUBLE SOUL IN MAN         Wince shall he have grief, how shall have deluded who sees everywhere the Oneness ?                                                                                                                                     Isha Upanishad         He who knows this self who is the eater of the honey of existence and the lord of what is and shall be, has thence forward no shrinking.                                                                                                                                                                                                          Hath

  Section One The Hour of God THE HOUR OF GOD There are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters of our being ; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny ; the second are spaces of time when much labour goes to the making of a little result. It is true that the latter may prepare the former, may be the little smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God's bounty. Unhappy is the man or the nation which, when the divine

  Section Two On Yoga THE WEB OF YOGA To be one in all ways of thy being with that which is the Highest, this is Yoga. To be one in all ways of thy being with that which is the All, this is Yoga. To be one in thy spirit and. with thy understanding and . thy heart and in all thy members with the God in humanity, this is Yoga. To be one with all Nature and all beings, this is Yoga. All this is to be one with God in his transcendence and his cosmos and all that he has created in his being. Because from him all is and all is in him and he is all and in all and because he is thy highest Self and thou art one with him in thy spirit and