869 P. utth 101/2 hours (3.45 + 2.15 + 3 + 11/2 with intervals of 1/4, 3/4 and 31/2 hours)   June 13— The "first assertion" is now to a great degree fulfilled.10 All the parts and instruments of the Vijnana are in constant action and more or less organised. "Constant" is not "continual". There are periods of disorganisation and broken action, even of quiescence or mere mental action,— although the latter survival is decreasing in force and frequency. Thought and script a

1404 AUTOMATIC WRITINGS, c. 1914 (SECOND SET)   [1]   My dear friends, I am eager to join you, but I am terribly opposed by all sorts of obstacles. Pray send me your strength— ————— He is gone—I am willing to talk about Agrippa or anything you like—I don't know Agrippa, but I know about him. He was a man grave, stern, sombre, full of retained force, a great lover of Augustus, but yet they did not always get on very well together from want of sufficient intellectual comprehension of each other—Horace—No—it was a private friendship—To found the empire? Agrippa, Maecenas,—at first Antony, though they quarrelled afterwards—You see, that was a dream & dreams very often dist

1356 UNDATED SCRIPT, c. 1927-1928   [1]   There is no certitude as yet of an absolute kind; even the relative certitude is very much veiled for the present. At any rate the ground has been cleared of much of the remnants of the intelligence. It is practically certain that much more will be done tonight, but the direction is not clear. This will be done. First, in the third chatusthaya the entire elimination of the merely mental reason; the entire elimination of the original mind. The supramentalised form of these things in

1453 Appendix     Material from Disciples' Notebooks   MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, c. 1914   [1]   1454   1455   ———————— 1456   [The first piece on this page was revised by Sri Aurobindo; the next two pieces were written by him.]   1457   [2]   1458   * Viveka is not conscience but true judgment between higher and lower, true and false, right and wrong. [The last six words were added by Sri Aurobindo in his own hand.]   1459     Tat is the unknowable Brahman of which you cannot say that it exists or does not

Publisher’s Note   Record of Yoga is a diary of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga between 1909 and 1927. He kept it fairly regularly from 1912 to 1920, and also wrote a few entries in 1909, 1911 and 1927. At different times he gave this diary different names. “Record of Yoga” was the most typical and the editors have used it as the general title of the work. During the years he kept the diary, Sri Aurobindo also wrote other materials relating to his practice of yoga. These include descriptions of the seven “chatusthayas” (groups of four elements), which are the basis of the yoga of the Record. These materials are published in the Introduc