Notes on the Texts       Notes on the Mahabharata [Second Version]. This untitled essay on the Maha-bharata occupies a later part of the notebook containing the draft of "Notes on the Mahabharata" published in the last issue. It is essentially another version of the same article. A large portion of the earlier writing was evidently meant to be incorporated in the new version, either verbatim or in a rewritten form (see footnotes on pp. 124 and 145). For a discussion of the date of the article, see Notes on the Texts in the last issue. Most of the version published in the present issue appeared under the editorial title "The Problem of the Mahabharata" in Vyasa and Valmiki (195

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo   THE INDIA INTERVIEW Article from India (Tamil weekly) 18 September 1909   la   Page-206 Page-207 lb       A Conversation with Sriman Aravinda Ghosh       A few days ago one of our correspondents went to Calcutta and spoke to Mahajnani Sriman Aravinda Ghose on several topics. We give here excerpts from the conversation.       Our correspondent had the darshan of Aravinda-babu at 6, College Square Street [sic], Calcutta. The house belongs to Babu Krishna Kumar Mitra, who has been deported. The family of Babu Krishna Kumar resides downstairs, wh

GLOSSARY       This glossary explains non-English words (Sanskrit, Greek, 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 pre

      Record of Yoga       10-30 June 1914 June l0th Sortilege   The Pure Mind & the Sense-Pleasure borne up together by the Ananda are to be full of the sense-delight & so carried & wedded to the Inspired Thought in the Vijnana, ie known & taken cognizance of by it. In the streams of conscious being they are to form in an universal fashion the planes of activity of the siddhi & to remove from the "heart" of the vijnanamaya being the obscurations that still remain.       Script.       The lines of the subjective siddhi have now been fixed.       1. Ananda as the base, free & joyous Tapas & Prakasha as the special instruments.       2

      A Speech Written by Sri Aurobindo          For Delivery by the Maharaja of Baroda         THE REVIVAL OF INDUSTRY IN INDIA          A Speech delivered by His Highness at the Opening of an Industrial Exhibition at Ahmedabad on the 15th of December 1902.         GENTLEMEN,—If I hesitated to accept your invitation to preside at the opening of this Exhibition, the importance of the occasion must be my excuse. You called me to step into the breach, to face publicly the most tremendous question of our times and to give you my solution of a problem on which no two people agree, except that it is urgent.         But I do not thin

      Archival Notes         MORE ON SRI AUROBINDO IN DARJEELING AND IN ENGLAND         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

     Notes on the Texts         Record of Yoga: July 1914. The Record for this month was kept in the small, thick, handbound notebook already used for the Record of 10-30 June 1914. The heading "July 1914" is written on an otherwise blank page following the entry for 30 June. The Record of 1-31 July occupies the next 67 pages of the notebook.         In July 1914, Sri Aurobindo sometimes used the Sanskrit word "Vachas" to refer to what he normally called "sortilege" (i.e., printed or written words found by chance, as by opening a book at random, and then interpreted). The sources of the Sanskrit sortileges in this instalment of Record of Yoga are identified below.  

      Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo   I. EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF ANNETTE BEVERIDGE (NÉE AKROYD) [IOR MSS Eur C176]         1       Selections from pocket diary of 1871     June       19 Mon Messiah performance with Dr Ghose       Handel Festival       W. W. C. [Working Woman's College]       23 Fri Israel in Egypt & Dr Ghose's lecture       25 Sun To Wood Lane with Dr Ghose     July       13 Th Told F. [her sister Fanny] of my wish to go to India.       15 Sat 10/- Given to Dr Ghose.       16 Sun Call on MrsS. Banerjea 18 Tu To Store with Fanny