Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, c. 1915   Introduction   Sapta Chatusthaya   3 SAPTA CHATUSTHAYA   I. Shanti-Chatusthaya समता शान्ति: सुख हास्यमिति शान्तिचतुष्टय ।̇ Samata shantih sukham hasyam iti shantichatusthayam.   Samata The basis of internal peace is samata, the capacity of receiving with a calm and equal mind all the attacks and appearances of outward things, whether pleasant or unpleasant, ill-fortune and good-fortune, pleasure and pain, honour and ill-repute, praise and blame, friendship and enmity, sinner and saint, or, physically, heat an

1337 UNDATED NOTES, c. DECEMBER 1926   [1]   OM TAT SAT The highest interpretation hitherto made in human understanding and experience may thus be stated with the proviso that since it is human it must be incomplete.   TAT. That. The Absolute Unmanifested—Parabrahman, Purushottama, Parameswara (holding in himself the Parâshakti and in her the All).   SAT. The Existent (I Am.) The Absolute containing all the power of the manifestation. The Absolute is Parabrahman-Mahâmâyâ.

1349 DIAGRAMS, c. JANUARY 1927   SUPREME SELF-CONTAINED ABSOLUTE — First Absolute— Tat. The Absolute Transcendent, the Supreme, Paratpara, (containing all, limited by nothing).   Second Absolute— Sat. The supreme self-contained absolute Existence, Sachchidananda, (Ananda uniting Sat & Chit), holding in its absolute unity the dual Principle (He & She, Sa and Sâ) and the fourfold Principle, OM with its four states as one.   Third Abso

1289 DRAFT PROGRAMME OF 3 DECEMBER 1912   Programme.1 1. Rupadrishti farther developed today (3d ) & confirmed in stability tomorrow— 2. Spontaneity of Lipi tomorrow. A little tonight. 3. Trikaldrishti will begin to work perfectly from tomorrow 4. Powers to overcome resistance in the next three days 5. Samadhi to be regularised during December. — 6. Intense ananda to come first before permanence. Intensity from 3d to 10th , permanence from 10th to 31st. 7. Health in the last half of the