GLOSSARY         This glossary explains Sanskrit and other non-English words occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga. Quotations in Devanagari script are omitted, except for words and short phrases transliterated in brackets in the text. Also omitted are some terms which are common in Sri Aurobindo's writings and do not have a special sense in the Record. 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 relevant to the portion of the Record published in t

         Record of Yoga         July 1914         July lst         St [Sortilege] ft                                   Script         The lines of development suggested in the Vachansi and in the affirmations1 have reached a stage when they are all in movement & in progressive & victorious movement, but still denied, by force, by those interested in their defeat, the Arya & Dasa enemies, but more now by the outdistanced Aryas than the Dasas. The month of June has closed on this note of imperfect success.         The renewal of the struggle between the Siddhi and the powers of limitation has assumed a new aspect; it is no longer

Citations from the Vedas, Upanishads and Gita       RIG VEDA       This is the most adorable work, the loveliest deed of the Wonderful that the higher streams have fed us in the crookedness, even the four rivers of the Sea of sweetness. I.62.6       I purify earth and heaven with the Truth and burn the great Forces of Harm that possess it not. I.133.1       They uphold three earths and three heavens, and within them are three ways of action in the knowledge. By the Truth that greatness is great and beautiful. Three divine worlds of light they uphold — golden and pure and sleepless and invincible giving voice to the

Archival Notes THE KARMAYOGIN CASE       In a previous issue (Archives and Research, vol.7, no. 1) we examined the British Government's three-pronged attack against Sri Aurobindo during the year 1909. From the moment of his acquittal at Alipore on 6 May, the bureaucracy attempted to remove him from the political field by means of appeal, prosecution or deportation. Legal experts began their study of Beachcroft's judgment the same month that it was delivered; by August the idea of appeal was effectively abandoned, and by November it became legally impossible. (See Documents, A & R, vol. 7, no. 1.) Meanwhile the police were keeping close track of Sri Aurobindo's writings and spe

Notes on the Texts       A Comment by Sri Aurobindo. This note was written by Sri Aurobindo below the observation by Nolini Kanta Gupta printed here in italics. The exchange took place sometime during the 1930s.       Two Poetic Fragments. LSS GA7c, d. These two pieces seem to have been written on 31 December 1934 — the day "Thought the Paraclete" was written — or else a day or two after or (in the case of "Konarak") before.       The Hymns of Madhuchchhandas. NB V2, 52-59. These two chapters — both called "Chapter I" by Sri Aurobindo, distinguished as [A] and [B] by the editors — are all that was written of a proposed "book". The first chapter begins with a

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo THE KARMAYOGIN CASE       1       Extracts from Government of India, Home Department, Political-A, Proceedings, December 1910, Nos. 14-42, "Prosecution, under section 124-A., Indian Penal Code, of the Editor and Printer of the Karmayogin newspaper."1       [a]   Vide Appendix   Attention is invited to the letter from Arabindo Ghose at pages 4 and 5 of  the issue of the Karmayogin of the 25th December. It will be seen that this has been reprinted in the Mahratta of the 2nd of January. It seems to me to be seditious and I recommend that we should ask Bengal to consult its legal

GLOSSARY       This glossary omits: (1) words listed in the Glossary to the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, unless used in these texts in a different sense; (2) terms and quotations adequately translated or explained by Sri Aurobindo where they occur; (3) proper names except of divine or legendary figures; (4) words cited as linguistic examples.       All Sanskrit words, as well as some terms from modern Indian languages, are printed below in italics with diacritical marks according to the now standard system of transliteration which exactly represents the Devanagari spelling and the correct pronunciation. In the texts themselves, these words have been left as Sri Aurobind

A Comment by Sri Aurobindo APROPOS OF A NOTE BY NOLINI KANTA GUPTA         Consciousness is existence turning back upon itself in order to experience that it is.       Knowledge is consciousness turning back upon itself in order to experience what it is.       This is true of consciousness and knowledge in overmind and on the lower planes; but in the supermind consciousness is existence eternally aware both that it is and of what it is and also of what it intends to do with itself and become for its own Ananda. Consciousness and knowledge there are one. Page-1 Two Poetic Fragments       Bugles of Light, bugles of Light, shatte

The Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad   This is the first chapter of a commentary on the Isha Upanishad done in Baroda or Calcutta after 1904 or 1905 and before 1908. The second chapter will be given in our next issue. a portion of the same commentary has already been published in Centenary Volume 27 (pp. 201-88).       Chapter I   The Law of Renunciation   I. GOD ALL AND GOD EVERYWHERE         GURU: Salutation to the Eternal who is without place, time, cause or limit. Salutation to Him who rules the Universe, the Lord of the Illusion, the Master of manifold life. Salutation to the Self in me, who is the Self in all creatures. Brahman