9 January-14 February 1917       Jan 9th 1917.       Re. [Reference]                 "The Rakshasas who rush to the attack in the birth of the godheads, -O Thought-gods,1 him assail in your wheelless cars who confines your work when man seeks his self-expression and with sweat of effort creates little fragmentary desires."         This corresponds to the actual state of the siddhi. Samata is conquered; only vague unsubstantial touches of asamata can now trouble the outer physical skin of the pranakosha. Shakti on the basis of dasya is well founded, though still imperfect in the application of sraddha through uncertainty of

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  Record of Yoga   1 January-27 February 1915   During December the advance has been chiefly in the third and sixth chatusthavas.   In the first. Asiddhi has been reduced to an occasional physical depression of the sukham which does not affect the being generally bur only the nervous & physical layers of the physical consciousness. As a rule the full samata operates.   Positive Ananda is sometimes deficient. Asiddhi does not bring revolt, but only a temporary failing of positive Ananda and a depression of force and faith.   Everything being now seen as the play of the Lilamaya Krishna, revolt is no longer possible. It i

  22 April-30 JUNE 1915   April 22d(?)1   1. The vision (in Samadhi) of the Theosophical Path on the table, fulfilled next day. Suggestion of importance - fulfilled by solution of the Vedic Rishi-idea by example of Bodhi-sattwas in Japan.   2. The waking drishti of the cigarette on the table. Suggestion of certain fulfilment by exceptional means. Found on floor.   April 24th   Anandam Brahma confirmed in its final generality. Renewal of the Anandas all contained together in the Suddha. Firm general definition of Karma.   First entirely spontaneous & prolonged intensity of Vaidyuta (yesterday).   April 25th   Krishna

      Notes on the Texts   Record of Yoga: 1 January-27 February 1915. Record notations for this period were made partly in the notebook in use since 29 September 1914 and partly in another notebook. The first notebook contains entries for 1-6 and 24-30 January and 1-6, 25 and 27 February 1915. This was its last use for the Record. In the second notebook Sri Aurobindo kept an "intermediate record" for 2-23 January. There are two sets of entries for 2-6 January. They contain some repetitions. The entries are printed separately and in full , just as they oc-cur in their respective notebooks.   Two notes to the entry of 3 January in the " intermediate record" (p.

 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, as 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 in which they are used in the portion of the Record published in the present issue. For further explanation of some terms, reference is mad

 Our Political Ideal         [Official Court Translation]         "He who is wholly devoid of activity cannot enjoy anything great."         When preparations for a national awakening are begun, no matter in what country or by what nation, a large and liberal political ideal is then required for that purpose. If the noble-minded Rousseau's doctrine of equality had not been preached the stirring aspirations of the French Revolution would not have been able to awaken half-dead France and flood the whole of Europe. Unless America had felt a longing for obtaining the natural rights of man the United States would never have been created. If the sage-like Mazzini had not in

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo THE ASSASSINATION OF NARENDRANATH GOSWAMI       BENGAL GOVERNMENT FILE ON THE ASSASSINATION   CONFIDENTIAL       No 1876-C. dated 31st August, 1908 To       The Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Calcutta. Sir,       I have the honour to report that this morning at about 7 a.m. an under-trial prisoner named Norendra Nath Goswami, who had turned approver in the prosecution of some 34 persons now pending trial before the Sessions Judge of Alipore on charges under Sections 121. 121.A. I. P. C. etc.. was shot by two co-undertrial prisoners named Kanai Lal Dutt and Satyendra Nath Bo

      FROM MAN TO SUPERMAN Notes on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga           Part One PHILOSOPHY God, Nature and Man EDITORS' NOTE       In this volume of Archives and Research all of Sri Aurobindo's notes, drafts and fragments on yoga and yogic philosophy and psychology from the years 1910 to 1950 are being published. The pieces were not written in the sequence given here. They have been arranged by topic in three parts—Philosophy: God, Nature and Man; Psychology: The Science of Consciousness; Yoga: Change of Consciousness and Transformation of Nature. The first part appears in the present number; parts two and three