Archival Notes IN PONDICHERRY—1910 AND AFTER       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 the classic biographical narrative, on

Notes on the Texts       Record of Yoga: 1-15 January 1914. The heading "1914. January.", followed by part of a verse from the Rig Veda (1.13.6), was written by Sri Aurobindo on an otherwise blank page of the exercise book begun on 22 December 1913. The Record of 1-15 January 1914 occupies fourteen pages of this notebook.       Record of Yoga: 12 March-14 April 1914. The heading "Record of Yoga. March. April. /1914." was written by Sri Aurobindo on the front cover of the exercise book used to keep the Record of 12 March to 14 April 1914. The notebook he had been using for the Record of January was abandoned on the fifteenth of that month; many pages of the notebook wer

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo IN PONDICHERRY—1910 AND AFTER       LIFE IN PONDICHERRY   1       Extract from "Freedom Movement in India: Some Jottings from Old Memories", by S. Srinivasachari. Unpublished MS. [Hereafter Srinivasachari MS]   He [Sri Aurobindo] came there [to Shankara Chettiar's house] about April 1910 and remained till October when he removed to a separate house in the European quarters near the seashore. Though his stay there was only for five or six months, it was quite eventful. We kept his presence in Pondicherry a secret for a month or two, except for a few of our friends who saw him on the

India and the British Parliament         A great critic has pronounced that the aim of all truly helpful criticism is to see the object as it really is. The Press is the sole contemporary critic of politics, and according as its judgments are sound or unsound, the people whose political ideas it forms, will be likely to prosper or fail. It is therefore somewhat unfortunate that the tendency of journalists should be to see the object not as it really is, but as they would like it to be. In a country like England this may not greatly matter; but in India, whose destinies are in the balance, and at a time when a straw might turn the scale, it is of the gravest import

GLOSSARY       This glossary explains non-English words (Sanskrit, Bengali, Greek) occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga. Sortileges and words written in Deva-nagari 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 pres

  Record of Yoga   1 January-14 April 1914 1914. January.     Let the divine doors swing wide open for him who is not attached, who increases in himself the Truth. Jan 1.       The day was chiefly occupied with the struggle of the manasa-ketu to survive as an active factor in the consciousness instead of a passive unreacting recipient. At first, all the justifications that could still be advanced for its survival had to be allowed to rise in order that they might be refuted & destroyed. Subsequently, the manasa element in the tapas had to be rejected. As a result the action of the Mahakali tapas has been cleared of its besetting difficu

Notes on the Texts   Record of Yoga: 1 March-10 April, 7-26 June 1920. NB R24: 1-37; NB R25: 1—20. The Record of this period was kept in two thin exercise books used only for this purpose. The Record was discontinued between 10 April and 7 June 1920, as noted and explained in the entry of 7 June. After 26 June, the only dated entries for the remainder of 1920 are those of 17—19 October.         Some of the terminology of this portion of the Record has been explained in an article in the last issue, "Planes of Vijnana in the Record of Yoga, 1919-20". The use of the word "revelatory" in the present instalment requires further clarification. Several of its occurrences

    19 October 1920   Oct. 17. 1920.      Morning         Freedom of the inferior ideality. It is subject still to intrusions of the mental intuitivity from the environment mind, but these are compelled to see or to transform themselves. The stuff of mind in the physical conscience still contains unilluminated movements of obscure matter, but the pressure of the light on them is constant.         The lipi is the most perfect of the members of the vijnana, free in its action, free from the lower elements, established in the vijnana. T3 is now developing with a certain freedom in the lipi.         Thought and T3 in the thought are moving constantly to the sam

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