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Note   Eighteen volumes of Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research were published between 1977 and 1994. Each volume consisted of two numbers, one published in April and one in December. Each number contained hitherto unpublished works by Sri Aurobindo and, in a separate section at the end, documents of historical and bibliographical interest and notes and research articles by the editors. Many numbers also contained reproductions of photographs.   The contents of the eighteen volumes are here listed in five indexes:   Alphabetical Index of Works by Sri Aurobindo

Categorical Index of Works by Sri Aurobindo   In this index all texts by Sri Aurobindo published in Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research have been arranged in rough subject-categories corresponding to one or more volumes of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. Record of Yoga forms a separate category. Each text has been placed in only one category just as each SABCL text has been placed in only one book. English translations by others of texts written by Sri Aurobindo in Bengali, Sanskrit and French have not been included.     Early Political Writings (sabcl volumes 1 -

      Page-1 A Poetic Fragment       Translation       Who says our Mother is a beggar-woman,             the whole universe is her foothold, Her sons are the armies of Sikhs, Jats and Rajputs. The song of Vande Mataram infuses strength into Bengal. Even till today the glory of Shivaji is awake in Maharashtra. Each mountain-rib of hers embodies millions of her invincible sons, The band of the Bhils, Gonds and Kharwar and free Nepal, Malias and Khesias and Garos—how to enumerate, all — The Mughals, Pathans and Nagas — the sands of the beach. There is no end to the treasure that is Mother's children,

Maya         The world exists as symbol of Brahman; but the mind creates or accepts false values of things and takes symbol for essential reality. This is ignorance or cosmic illusion, the mistake of the mind and senses, from which the Magician Himself, Master of the Illusion, is calling on us to escape. This false valuation of the world is the Maya of the Gita and can be surmounted without abandoning either action or world-existence. But in addition, the whole of universal existence is in this sense an illusion of Maya that it is not an unchanging transcendent and final reality of things but only a symbolical reality; it is a valuation of the reality of Brahman in the terms of cosmic con

The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga         In the [Katha] Upanishad there occurs one of those powerful and pregnant phrases, containing a world of meaning in a point of verbal space, with which the Upanishads are thickly sown. Yogah hi prabhavapayayau. "For Yoga is the beginning and ending of things." In the Puranas the meaning of the phrase is underlined and developed. By Yoga God made the world, by Yoga He will draw it into Himself in the end. But not only the original creation and final dissolution of the universe, all great changes of things, creations, evolutions, destructions, are effected by the essential process of Yoga, tapasya. In this ancient view Yoga present

Archival Notes       A NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF SRI AUROBINDO   The photograph reproduced as Plate 1 has long remained in obscurity. It was first published in the Modem Review in November 1909. six months after Sri Auro-bindo's release from the Alipur Jail. The photographer, Sukumar Mitra, was the son of Sri Aurobindo's uncle Krishna Kumar Mitra, in whose house Sri Aurobindo was staying at the time.   CORRESPONDENCE WITH MRINALINI DEVI       Sri Aurobindo was married to Mrinalini Bose in April 1901.1 In the years that followed the two often lived apart. From this separation issued the correspondence that, since being used as evidence in the Alipur Bomb Trial, has