1336 UNDATED SCRIPT, c. 1920   [1]   There is no possibility of immediate success in the physical siddhi or in the higher vijnana. The riot of the lower ideality stands in the way. It must quiet down before the drashtri vijnana can act with any completeness.   [2]   The Sortilege. It is to be revived once more. There is no writing this morning. The script is also to resume its movement. First, it has to be absolutely spontaneous. That is almost finished. It is a little obsta

  Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, c. 1915   Introduction   Sapta Chatusthaya   3 SAPTA CHATUSTHAYA   I. Shanti-Chatusthaya समता शान्ति: सुख हास्यमिति शान्तिचतुष्टय ।̇ Samata shantih sukham hasyam iti shantichatusthayam.   Samata The basis of internal peace is samata, the capacity of receiving with a calm and equal mind all the attacks and appearances of outward things, whether pleasant or unpleasant, ill-fortune and good-fortune, pleasure and pain, honour and ill-repute, praise and blame, friendship and enmity, sinner and saint, or, physically, heat an

1337 UNDATED NOTES, c. DECEMBER 1926   [1]   OM TAT SAT The highest interpretation hitherto made in human understanding and experience may thus be stated with the proviso that since it is human it must be incomplete.   TAT. That. The Absolute Unmanifested—Parabrahman, Purushottama, Parameswara (holding in himself the Parâshakti and in her the All).   SAT. The Existent (I Am.) The Absolute containing all the power of the manifestation. The Absolute is Parabrahman-Mahâmâyâ.

1349 DIAGRAMS, c. JANUARY 1927   SUPREME SELF-CONTAINED ABSOLUTE — First Absolute— Tat. The Absolute Transcendent, the Supreme, Paratpara, (containing all, limited by nothing).   Second Absolute— Sat. The supreme self-contained absolute Existence, Sachchidananda, (Ananda uniting Sat & Chit), holding in its absolute unity the dual Principle (He & She, Sa and Sâ) and the fourfold Principle, OM with its four states as one.   Third Abso

1289 DRAFT PROGRAMME OF 3 DECEMBER 1912   Programme.1 1. Rupadrishti farther developed today (3d ) & confirmed in stability tomorrow— 2. Spontaneity of Lipi tomorrow. A little tonight. 3. Trikaldrishti will begin to work perfectly from tomorrow 4. Powers to overcome resistance in the next three days 5. Samadhi to be regularised during December. — 6. Intense ananda to come first before permanence. Intensity from 3d to 10th , permanence from 10th to 31st. 7. Health in the last half of the

'Collected Poems' by Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 of 50   Part Five Pondicherry Circa 1910 ­ 1920     Two Poems in Quantitative Hexameters     Ilion   BOOK I   The Book of the Herald   Dawn in her journey eternal compelling the labour of mortals, Dawn the beginner of things with the night for their rest or their ending, Pallid and bright-lipped arrived from the mists and the chill of the Euxine. Earth in the dawn-fire delivered from starry and shadowy vastness Woke to the wonder of life and its passion and sorrow and beauty,

'Collected Poems' by Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 of 50   Urvasi   CANTO II   But from the dawn and mountains Urvasie Went marvelling and glad, not as of old A careless beam; for an august constraint, Unfelt before, ruled her extravagant grace And wayward beauty; and familiar things Grew strange to her, and to her eyes came mists Of mortal vision. Love was with her there, But not of Paradise nor that great guest Perpetual who makes his golden couch Between the Opsara's ever-heaving breasts. For this was rapturous, troubled, self-absorbed, A gracious human presence which she loved, And wondered at,