1312 ACCOUNTS OF 31 MAY ­ 15 JUNE 1913   Record of Yogic details   June 1913   Credit June 1st (May 31st) Rs 15-0-0   (Rent for May) Rs 15 Rs 40-0-0   in notes     Rs 28-0-0   (Rent & servants for June)     Rs 10-0-0   reserve     Rs 7-0-0   in cash. Rs 85 Rs 70-0-0   out in loans Rs 70 Rs 150-0-0   in loan     Rs 150-0-0   in Fr. notes Rs 300           470

1485 Note on the Texts   RECORD OF YOGA is a diary of Sri Aurobindo's sādhana or practice of yoga. He wrote entries with some regularity between 1912 and 1920, as well as scattered entries during the years 1909, 1911 and 1927. Some sections of entries have titles, such as "Journal of Yoga", "Record of the Yoga", "", "Notebook of the Sadhana", "Yoga Diary" and "Yoga Record". The title he used most often is "" In the text itself he generally referred to the work as "the record" and used the verb "to record" for the act of writing in it. For these reasons the editors have chosen  as the general title of the work. In the entry of 1 July 1912, Sri Aurobindo noted that he had been doin

1467 SAPTA CHATUSTHAYA SCRIBAL VERSION   I. Samata Chatusthaya Samata, Shanti, Sukha, Hasya (Atmaprasada)   Negative Samata Positive Samata Titiksha Sama Rasa—mind and intellect Udasinata Sama Bhoga—prana Nati Sama Ananda—spirit Samata is accepting everything in the same way without any disturbance in any part of the being. Disturbance is caused [by]1 the want of harmony between the Chit-shakti in myself and the contacts of Chit-shakti outside. Pain, grief, dislike etc. are merely the system's way of saying that it objects to a particular contact because of w

    1371 YOGIC SADHAN   AUM   I   The proper course of the Sadhan is just the opposite of the thing most people do and you have also done. People begin with the body and the prana, go on to the chitta and the manas, and finish up with the buddhi and the will. The real course is to start with the will and finish with the body. There is no need of Asana, Pranayama, Kumbhaka, Chittasuddhi, or anything else preparatory or preliminary if one starts with the will. That was what Sri Ramakrishna came to show so far as Yoga is concerned. "Do the Shakti Upasana first," he said, "get Shakti and she will give you Sat." Will and Shakti are the first means necessary to the Yogin.