Record of Yoga Record of the Yoga 1913 February   1st       Sat or Substance is now everywhere vyakta, Tapas is in activity, Ananda emergent, Vijnana in process of organisation. The first day of February has been outwardly a day of retardation, almost of relapse; for the trikaldrishti once more lapsed into a state of murky obscurity shot with light and halflit with erring illuminations, misplaced energy worked more than satya tapas, the body was overtaken by exhaustion or weakness, Ananda failed in sustained intensity. As usual, however, the movement was one of preparation, not of relapse, for the expulsion of these remnants, not a concession t

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo MORE ON SRI AUROBINDO'S COMING TO PONDICHERRY       THE MEETING WITH PARTHASARATHI AND THE LETTER OF INTRODUCTION       1       Extract from "Diary and Almanac. 1909". MS.SA.NB R1, p. 43. [Printed portions of the diary printed here in bold.]   JULY, 1909       18 Sunday. [No entry]       19 Monday.       4 oclock. engagement with Dr K to go to G.D.[?]       20 Tuesday.       2 oclock. 2 young men of P.C.       3 oclock. Engagement with Secretary Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company.       2       Extract from "Freedom Movement in India:

Bibliographical Documents LETTERS OF MANMOHAN GHOSE TO RABINDRANATH TAGORE       1       Dacca College Dacca       Dear Mr. Tagore,       Many, many thanks indeed for your kind letter, with all the warm and cordial things you say about my poems. You cannot think how much I value your simple and sincere words of praise. I feel sure that if there is any one competent to know and criticise about poetry (whether in English or in Bengali) it is yourself; and your praise is doubly precious and encouraging to me, as coming from so distinguished and experienced a master in the art of writing verse, and the foremost living genius of my country.

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