New Folder (2)           Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo         SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER 1914-1920         DISCIPLES AND FRIENDS OF SRI AUROBINDO IN PONDICHERRY   1   Note prepared by Samir Kanta Gupta on the basis of conversations with Nolini Kanta Gupta between 16 and 20 June 1981. First published in Mother India in October 1981. The editors of Archives and Research have corrected the spelling of some proper names.       A Personal Note on Olden Days    Long long ago, when we were a few people here, we knew some local young men, some of whom were brilliant academicians, a few very liberal thinkers, and some good and enthusiastic

  Automatic Writing   C. 1920   [1]         Manek.         Manek is the name of the introducer of the writing. Let us get rid of him at once. My name does not greatly matter. I am a spirit of the higher realms not present on the earth, but communicating from above.         First, let me tell the purpose of the script. It is to open a first means of embodied communication with the other worlds. There can be other means, but this was the readiest at the time. In all respects it was the most suitable. As a beginning only.         The object now is to introduce the wider knowledge of past, present and future beyond the range of

            Record of Yoga         Script, C. 6 January 1927       [On an attempt to transform the body through the renunciation of food]         4 mistakes -         1. Began on a mistaken or merely theoretic knowledge - about absorption from outside         2 Giving up of food is not the condition for finding the secret, it is the result of finding the secret.         3 Cessation of hunger, feeling fed, refusal of food by the body not a sign; it proceeds from the body vital, not from the body substance         4 The entire secret can be found and made effective only when the body is brought into the right condition. A process of adaptation i

 

            A Letter to The Hindu         Babu Aurobindo Ghose.         Babu Aurobindo Ghose writes to us from Pondicherry: —         In continuation of my last letter, I proceed to deal with the allegation that I "continue to direct Anarchist activities from Pondicherry," an allegation self-condemned by the gross implied imputation of a charge from which I have been exonerated by British tribunals. Here too a simple statement of facts will be the best answer. My political conduct has been four times under scrutiny by different tribunals and each time the result has been favourable to me. I have been twice accused of sedition. In the first case I was charged, not as responsibl

 Notice to Subscribers   This issue contains the final instalment of the Record of Yoga and marks the end of eighteen years of Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research. The primary purpose of the journal has been to bring out previously unpublished writings of Sri Aurobindo. This purpose has been largely fulfilled.         The publication of this journal will therefore be suspended until further notice. Work is now proceeding on a new set of the complete works of Sri Aurobindo which demands the full at

July 30th 1927         1. Ch.1. [Champaklal] lolling and rolling in a chair trance-awake. Intimation. "The most material will now be conscious."         2 A palm-tree of inordinate length growing from the bottom of the side of a well, climbing up and emerging above the earth level. All below now open (the subconscient awake). The palm-tree indicates the victory of conscious life and awakened spirit.         3 One in a cap standing and reading a letter. At first it appeared to be a vague form of M. which receded as the other grew clear, but was still felt reading over his shoulder.         Intimation. "A former personality (alchemist?) of Kanuga s

         7-22 April 1927   30 July 1927   24-31 October 1927   April 7. 1927 Thursday         There must be an entire submission to the transforming Power and the transforming process. However tedious it may [seem], each step, each recoil is inevitable; nothing is done unwisely or vainly in the economy of the supreme processes.         There is a sure means of distinguishing the truth from the falsehood. Pause and refer to the Light of the gnosis.         The truth that comes may not be all the truth, but it is that which is needed and effective at the moment.         Entire passivity first, a passive surrender.      

    Undated Record and Script   C. 1927   [1]         Take time to develop the next step. Strength in the organs, strength in the muscles. Hair, skin, flesh afterwards.         It is no use wasting time. Taking time means to do things thoroughly, prepare and accomplish.   [2]         The last possibility has been taken away from the hands of the opposing forces.         The T2 is now certain.   //         Now there is the perfect identity of the warrior and the slave in the imperfect Ishwara. There has to be the perfect identity with them of the king-sage. Then there will be the perfect Ishwara.         The body

    Record of Yoga   20 April-20 May 1918         Notebook of the Sadhana.         20th April 1918.         A manifest change has been the accomplishment of the Chandi personality in the Devibhava of the Prakriti. This bhava is in its nature Mahasaraswati, the Aniruddha-shakti. It has for its base Maheshwari; it is strongly coloured with Mahaluxmi. This combination was finally expressed in a strong and long-permanent personality, perfect in equality, intense in bliss, full of universal love and madhurya, but deficient in virya and shakti, [rhathumos]. The advent of the Chandi bhava, effected in accordance with lipi and other p