Notes on the Texts       Record of Yoga: 11 November-31 December 1913. The Record of 11-23 November was kept on four pieces of writing paper folded to form sixteen narrow pages. On 24 November, Sri Aurobindo returned to the exercise book containing most of the Record for April, May, July and September 1913 (published in the last issue). Except for the period between 1 and 12 December, during which a separate Record was kept on loose sheets of paper, this notebook continued to be used daily until 21 December, when its last page was reached.       The heading "Record of Yoga / Dec 22d 1913..." was written by Sri Aurobindo on the front cover of the exercise book used for the

GLOSSARY       This glossary includes all Sanskrit words occurring in the selections from Record of Yoga published in the present issue, except for a few terms which are common in Sri Aurobindo's writings and do not have a special sense in the Record. (For these terms, see the Glossary to the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library.) Sanskrit words are spelled here according to the standard international system of transliteration.       Words are defined in this glossary only in the senses in which they are used in the present selections from the Record. For further explanation of some terms, reference is made to the Sapta Catustaya (designated SC.). The relationship of the Sapt

Bibliographical Notes SONGS TO MYRTILLA       THE DATES OF THE BARODA EDITIONS       Two editions of Sri Aurobindo's first book, Songs to Myrtilla and Other Poems, were printed by the Lakshmi Vilas press of Baroda. No copy of the first edition is available for inspection. It is possible that no copy survives. At least two copies marked "Second Edition" do survive, however, and from them the existence of a first edition may be inferred. The second edition does not give the date of publication. It will be the purpose of the first part of this article to determine with as much accuracy as possible the dates of the first and second editions of the book.       Th

Bibliographical Data SONGS TO MYRTILLA       A. Preliminary Pages       [Verbatim transcription of the preliminary pages of the MS. the Baroda Edition, and the Calcutta Edition (1923). The solidus (/) indicates the start of a new line.] Title Page       MS: Poems Baroda Edition: SONGS TO MYRTILLA, / AND / OTHER POEMS / by / AUROBIND GHOSE. / Second Edition. Calcutta Edition: SONGS TO MYRTILLA / BY / SRI AUROBINDO GHOSE / ARYA PUBLISHING HOUSE / College Street Market, / CALCUTTA. / Re. 1/4.       Imprint Page       Baroda Edition: BARODA; / Printed at the "LAKSHMI VILAS" Printing Press, Co. Ld. Calcutta Edition: Publ

Archival Notes THE RECORD, THE SYNTHESIS OF YOGA, AND SAPTA CHATUSTHAYA       This article is an expansion of one section of the instalment of Archival Notes published in April 1986.1 Its purpose is to show, more clearly than was possible in the space available then, the relationship between Sri Aurobindo's own sadhana as "recorded" in Record of Yoga and "The Yoga of Self-Perfection" as described in The Synthesis of Yoga. In fact the two are the same. The account in the Synthesis is an elaboration in discursive prose of the experiences noted in brief in the Record. The common factor in the two texts is "Sapta Chatusthaya" — the system of seven (sapta) tetrads (catustaya) compr

  Record of Yoga November-December 1913 11 Nov 1913. Routine1       Details These things have to be fulfilled; the lines represent their immediate strength. They have to be raised to the next superior strength — four lines representing consummation. Sharirananda still needs the aid of the sankalpa, but not of the aishwarya. Arogya still needs the aid of the tapas; utthapana not only of tapas, but also of some tapasya. Saundarya is still imprisoned in the Adri. This is the physical sadhana. The samata-chatusthaya is established, but allowed to be disturbed superficially. All that is needed is to get rid of the shadow of mangala-mangala, siddhya

Archival Notes IN PONDICHERRY—1910 AND AFTER       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 biographical narrative, on

Notes on the Texts       Record of Yoga: 1-15 January 1914. The heading "1914. January.", followed by part of a verse from the Rig Veda (1.13.6), was written by Sri Aurobindo on an otherwise blank page of the exercise book begun on 22 December 1913. The Record of 1-15 January 1914 occupies fourteen pages of this notebook.       Record of Yoga: 12 March-14 April 1914. The heading "Record of Yoga. March. April. /1914." was written by Sri Aurobindo on the front cover of the exercise book used to keep the Record of 12 March to 14 April 1914. The notebook he had been using for the Record of January was abandoned on the fifteenth of that month; many pages of the notebook wer

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo IN PONDICHERRY—1910 AND AFTER       LIFE IN PONDICHERRY   1       Extract from "Freedom Movement in India: Some Jottings from Old Memories", by S. Srinivasachari. Unpublished MS. [Hereafter Srinivasachari MS]   He [Sri Aurobindo] came there [to Shankara Chettiar's house] about April 1910 and remained till October when he removed to a separate house in the European quarters near the seashore. Though his stay there was only for five or six months, it was quite eventful. We kept his presence in Pondicherry a secret for a month or two, except for a few of our friends who saw him on the