Notes on the Texts   Record of Yoga: November-December 1914. The Record for November and December 1914 occupies 143 pages of the notebook begun on 29 September. As far as possible, the text is reproduced here exactly as it appears in the notebook, including any peculiarities and irregularities of punctuation and indentation. Some headings were inserted in the margin after the entries were written. Between 15 and 21 December, Sri Aurobindo put a tick in the margin next to most occurrences of the heading "Script". (For a discussion of this term, see Archives and Research 10 [1986]: 106-109.)   The sources of the Vedic "sortileges" in this instalment of Record of Yoga are ident

  Record of Yoga   November-December 1914       November     Nov. 1 -   The aims set forth for October are only now beginning to be accomplished, but the month of October was the turning-point for the action.   Lipi.   1. Already fitted for the intellectuality; fitted for the ideality. (Ak[asha]) 2 Results of the rapidity. Yogasiddhi (Ch[itra])   3 It is futile to expect results immediately.   Darshana.   The Ananda Brahman is now an entirely normal part of the Darshana. It contains implicitly

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 made to the Sapta Cat

Archival Notes   Limitations of space prevent us from writing more than a few lines on the new documentary material published in this issue.              A NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF SRI AUROBINDO   The photograph of Sri Aurobindo reproduced as Plate 1 was printed in the Anglo-Indian review Empress in October 1909. It was captioned "Baboo Arabindo Ghosh Giving a speech in Beadon Square". The photograph accompanied an article on the Sixteenth October (Partition Day) celebrations. The Bengalee of 17 October carried a full report of the event, from which the following is extracted: The [morning] bathing over, people distributed rakhis amongst themselves. It was

SRI AUROBINDO'S INTERVIEW OF 15 AUGUST 1908   On pages 114 and 115 we reproduce the transcript of an interview given by Sri Aurobindo to a correspondent of the Anglo-Indian evening newspaper Empire on 15 August 1908. This day was doubly significant: first it was Sri Aurobindo's thirty-sixth birthday, secondly it was the last day on which evidence was admitted in the magistrate's enquiry that preceded the Alipore Bomb Trial. Sri Aurobindo once remarked in a letter: "15th August is usually a turning point or a notable day for me personally either in sadhana or life." (Supplement, p. 433) In the Empire interview he made the same point, mentioning important events that had taken place on

        Yoga Diary                                          August 14 [-September 24]                      1919.   August 14th Thursday         The ideality is advancing in the same steps. Thought is perfectly fixed in the gnosis and rises to the hermetic logistic and the seer logistic ideality. T2 is being transformed by the logistic drashta,— not the seer logistis, but with a touch of the hermeneusis. The old mentalities recur in the idealised incertitudes, but only to be interpreted by the light of gnosis. There is no relapse to mentality, but only some lapse to this admissibility of idealised mental suggestions; they come f

       Yoga Diary                                July 27 to Aug 13                          1919   July 27th Sunday.         The complete fulfilment of the programme for July has been prevented by the sudden relapse towards the intuitive mentality. T2 has indeed developed an initial firmness, but this is very insufficient in universality owing to the mental interference. The two first chatus-thayas have again been contradicted by the invasion of the external mentality, which brings in an element of asraddha, tamas, dissatisfaction, and some broken hints of the revolt of the mental will and its old duhkha at asatya and asiddhi, the only

      Record of Yoga   15 July—24 September 1919           Yoga Diary                             July 15-July 26                                1919         Diary of Yoga. July 1919.         July 15th Tuesday.         Today is supposed to begin the finality of initial perfect gnosis in the highest logistic ideality by the firm beginning of T2. This is due for fulfilment in the second half of July. The two first chatusthayas are at the same time to begin their higher and fuller perfection,— they have already the fundamental perfection in samara, the fundamental completeness. K. A is to confirm its c

 

Notes on the Texts       Record of Yoga ("Yoga Diary"): 15 July-24 September 1919. NB R21, 1-32; NB R22, 1-32; NB R23, 1-22. The Record of this period was kept neatly in three identical notebooks which were used exclusively for this purpose. The ruled pages of these thin exercise books have a vertical red line demarcating the left margin. At the top of each entry, Sri Aurobindo usually wrote the month and date to the left of this line and the day of the week to the right of it (occasionally the reverse). The margin was otherwise left blank.         On the cover of each notebook, Sri Aurobindo wrote "Yoga Diary", a heading not used previously. Below this are the dates of t