Unused Passages for Savitri         [Book II, Canto 6]1       Immortal secrecies, seer-wisdoms lost       In the descent towards our mortal fate       Spoke from the figures of her masquerade       In a familiar and forgotten tongue,       Or peered from the recondite magnificence       And subtle splendour of her draperies.       In sudden scintillations of the Unknown,       Glints from the opaque and strange translucencies,       Appearances and objects changed their powers;       Things without value heavenly values took,       Inexpressive sounds became veridical,       Ideas without meaning flashed apocalypse :

GLOSSARY TO RECORD OF YOGA       This glossary includes all Sanskrit words occurring in the selections from the Record 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.)       Words are defined here only in the senses in which they are used in the Record. Terms with a complex meaning in relation to Sri Aurobindo's personal sadhana are explained in some detail, quoting wherever necessary from unpublished portions of the Record. For a fuller discussion of some terms, reference is made to the

Notes on the Texts       Yoganga. This outline was written in the same notebook and at the same time as "Shanti Chatusthaya" (A & R, vol. 2 [1978], pp. 188-91). The date of writing was sometime between 1914 and 1917.       Sapta-chatusthaya: The "Scribal Version". This explanation of Sapta Chatusthaya is the most complete one available. There is no manuscript of the piece in Sri Auro-bindo's hand, but there can be no doubt that he was its author. The text survives only in the form of transcripts written down by disciples. Several of these "scribal copies", as the editors term them, have been collated in order to establish the present text.       One of the scribal copie

  Record of Yoga Sri Aurobindo gave several titles to the yogic diary he kept between 1912 and 1927. The editors have selected one of them, "Record of Yoga", to be the general title of the work. For more on the diary, see Archival Notes. Notes on the Texts contains detailed information on the three extracts published in the present issue, and a statement of editorial method. Diary Entries 17-21 JUNE 1909   17 Thursday.       Started (Amavasya Tryasparsha) for Barisal. The Amavasya is Kali's day, so favourable to me. The Tryasparsha is the moment destined for a great advance in my Yoga. The ahankara was finally removed. Only faint remnants of it left

GLOSSARIES   Two separate glossaries are included in this issue: (1) Glossary to Record of Yoga and (2) Glossary to Yogic Sadhan. Most of the Sanskrit terms in Sapta Chatusthaya are explained in the text itself.       The Glossary to Record of Yoga includes all Sanskrit words occurring in the selections from the Record 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; most of them will also be found in the Glossary to Yogic Sadhan.) Words are defined in this glossary only in the senses in which they are use

Sapta Chatusthaya Sapta Chatusthaya is the "programme" of Sri Aurobindo's own yoga, which he received soon after coming to Pondicherry in April 1910. See Archival Notes for details concerning his "reception" of the Sanskrit mantras that make up the system. The mantras themselves, together with an incomplete handwritten explanation of them by Sri Aurobindo, are published in the Supplement (Volume 27) of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library.       "Shanti Chatusthaya", another explanation in Sri Aurobindo's own hand, which covers only part of the first chatusthaya, was published in the December 1978 issue of this journal. "Yoganga", an outline of the seven chatusthaya

-08_Record of Yoga (1 July - 25 July 1912)       Record of Yoga Record of Yoga [1-25 July 1912]       Journal of Yoga.       July 1st 1912 —       August, 1912, will complete the seventh year of my practice of Yoga. It has taken so long to complete a long record of wanderings, stumbles, gropings, experiments, — for Nature beginning in the dark to grope her way to the light — now an assured, but not yet a full lustre, — for the Master of the Yoga to quiet the restless individual will and the presumptuous individual intelligence so that the Truth might liberate itself from human possibilities & searchings and the Power emerge out of human weaknesses and limitations. T

The First Hymn of the Rig-veda   MANDALA I, SUKTA 1   (1)       1. Fire I pray, the priest set in front of the sacrifice, the god Ritwik, the flamen of the call, who gives most the ecstasies.       2. Fire, desirable by the ancient sages and by the new,1 is he that brings here the gods.       3 By the Fire man enjoys a treasure that grows day by day, riches glorious, (most) armed with the heroes (to which most are joined the heroes).       4. O Fire, the pilgrim sacrifice around which thou comest into being on every side, that alone goes to the gods.       5. May the Fire, the priest of the call, the Seer-Will, true and most full of r

Nagpur Speeches 1   THE AIMS OF THE NATIONALIST PARTY         My dear countrymen, when I stopped here on my way to Surat I spoke a few words to you. The Congress had not taken place then. I merely pointed out the course our line of action should take at the Surat Congress. The motives and hopes with which we went to Surat were unfortunately not realised. But we are helpless in the matter. Several partisan papers have already begun to pass remarks such as "The Nationalist Party assembled at Surat solely with the purpose of breaking up the Congress", "It did not want the Congress", and "It had a premeditated intention of wrecking it." But I ask you, What advantage would t