GLOSSARY         This glossary explains Sanskrit and other non-English words occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga, omitting 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 are those of the manuscript.         Words are defined in this glossary 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 made to the Sapta Catustaya (SC). Some familiarity with the Sapta

         24 June-14 July 1919   Tuesday 24th June 1919.         Today the condition of a general low tone of the being with yet a continued progress in the Yoga still continues; no depression, but a ghost of languor in the body which obstructs the channel action of the mind. The vijnana acts, but irregularly, not with a rapid or normal flow. It has not yet recovered its brightness, but is a clouded sunlight.         According to the lipi there should be today some blaze of the gnosis. Now it is suggested to the mind that trikaldrishti-tapas which yesterday founded itself in this halflight is to develop farther, telepathy be farther taken up,

Notes on the Texts   Record of Yoga: 20 April-20 May 1918. NB R19, 1-64. The Record of this period fills a 64-page "Aryan Store Exercise-Book" which Sri Aurobindo entitled "Notebook of the Sadhana". (The manager of the Aryan Store was Saurin Bose, the "S" or "Sn" of the Record.) This was the first notebook to be used exclusively for the Record since June—September 1914.         In this notebook, Sri Aurobindo twice used the Latin word sors for what he usually called "sortilege". The sors of 30 April is from the Bhagavad Gita (7.8), that of 10 May from the Rg Veda (9.69.10).       Record of Yoga: 21 May-1 July 1918. NB R20, 1-17. Sri Aurobindo continued the Reco

          21 May-1 July 1918   May 21st         The sadhan is now concentrated on the vijnana-chatusthaya with an initial stress on the physical siddhi which is still secondary except in the sharira ananda, mainly the kamananda.         At present the ideality is passing through a stage of what would formerly have been called relapse, but is now recognised as a reversion to a lower movement in order to get rid of still existing defects or possibilities of defect and transform the remnants of the lower into the spirit and the form of the higher movement.         Script. "Develop T2 and ideation, restore kamananda. Persist in rupa and

  Archival Notes   THE LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SRI AUROBINDO 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

  Record of Yoga AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914       August 1914.   August 1st Script The work done in July is still incomplete, since even the samata & faith are capable of temporary and partial obscuration, although no longer of serious disturbance or actual eclipse. Hasya has to be strengthened and faith in sharira & kriti made imperturbable, so as to end this persistent imperfection. Rapidity & complete organisation have to be brought into the vijnana. Sharira has to be brought to the level of Vijnana. Kriti has to be made effective. = The obstruction to the power has been restored and although

 

  Notes on the Texts Record of Yoga: August-October 1914. The Record for August and September 1914 occupies 53 pages of the notebook begun on 10 June. After the incomplete entry for 29 September, the last four pages of the notebook were left blank. The heading "October - 1914." is written inside the front cover of a small, thick, hand bound notebook used for the Record of 29 September 1914 to 27 February 1915. The Record for October begins with a long entry marked "Sept 29-30. / Preliminary". The sources of the "sortileges" from the Veda and Upanishads in this installment of Record of Yoga are identified below. A few Sanskrit sortileges taken from little-known te

GLOSSARY   This glossary explains Sanskrit and French words occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga. Ouotations in Devanagari script from the Veda and other texts are omitted, as arc 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 m