1936 January 2,1936 Very remarkably smooth and strong and flowing—your metre. Enjambments are supposed to break the lyric flow and wholeness of the stanza structure, but they do not do so here, only carry over the stream into its next curve. The letter progresses but like a crab : I had to recast the first part last night and tonight there was too much correspondence, etc. to do. However Part I cannot fail to be soon finished, for it is all there in my head or, to speak with a greater physical accuracy, formed above it. Nirvana by the way is not Nirvanic, it is only mute and withdrawn till it is overtaken by Harmony. It can't go out by i

Editorial 1936-1937 - In many ways these two years were very significant. For Sri Aurobindo. I have not counted but I think that he wrote a maximum number of letters in 1936 : Terrible night the last! (...attacked... by the demon of correspondence.} Night after night have to write letters, letters, letters, not to speak of other things. Such as preparing something for the Arya Publishing House otherwise the house will collapse, as they have been long without a fresh book. Apart from writing explanations of the poems sent up by some of the disciples. And what about his own work: The descent of the Supermind ? To a query from a disciple, Sri Aurobindo answered: Tail i

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A Few Words On 9th April and 4th May 2007, within a gap of one month, Revered Satprem, the heart and soul of "Mira Aditi", and his spiritual companion. Respected Sujata Nahar, left their mortal bodies. Their sudden withdrawal from the physical world came as a shock to all of us who were close to them and were associated in their endeavours. We remember the assurance given by Lord Krishna in the Gita (2-23): Nainang Chindanti Shastrani Nainang dahati pavakah Na chainang kledayantapo Na Shoshoyati marutah Weapons can never cleave nor fire burn Neither water drench nor wind desiccates the soul. (Translation DKR) Hence they are

Notes pardaaashin, living behind the purdah. 2. The four sonnets are: Arpan Bahan Arpan - Vairagya Arpan - Nithari Arpan - Aarhal E. (Eli) Stanley Jones (1884-1973): A 20th Century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian, remembered for his interreligious lectures in India. Subash Chandra Bose (23.1.1897). Dilipda's intimate from their college days; a great patriot, highly intelligent; great organizational skill; politician of no mean repute; founder of the political party "Forward Block"; during WWII he formed the Indian National Army (INA) outside India. Popularly known as 'Netaji'. See Hark His Flute,

1937 January 3,1937 Having led a faultless, nay, immaculate life for long I have had a fall of frivolity today. I was going to the pier this morning to write there another diaphanous poem when I sat down to scribble a few lines to Professor Sarcar and Professoress as they have just sent a tin of mustard oil and some muri [puffed rice], when lo, dushta [mischievous] sarasvatī tripped onto my pen and this Shuk- Sārī Sangbad77 of unpardonable unyogic levity was the horrific result. You know the rural style of Shuk-Sārī Sangbad, eh ? My father wrote a la Shuk Sārī Sangbad a rollickingly undevout Krishna-Radha Sangbad (Shuk says something in praise of his Kri

FOURTH CHAPTER THE DIVINE WORKER (To attain to the divine birth,—birth of the soul into a higher consciousness,—and to do divine works both as a means towards that before it is attained and as an expression of it after it is attained, is then all the Karma-yoga of the Gita. The Gita does not try to define works by any outward signs through which they can be recognisable to an external gaze, measurable by the criticism of the world; it deliberately renounces even the ordinary ethical distinctions by which men seek to guide themselves in the light of the human reason. The signs by which it distinguishes divine works are all profoundly intimate and subjectiv

ELEVENTH CHAPTER THE DOUBLE ASPECT 35. Sanjaya said: Having heard these words of Keshava, Kiriti (Arjuna), with clasped hands and trembling, saluted again and spoke to Krishna in a faltering voice very much terrified and bowing down. 36.Arjuna said: Rightly and in good place,O Krishna, does the world rejoice l and take pleasure in Thy name; the Rakshasas are fleeing from Thee in terror to all the quarters and the companies of the Siddhas bow down before Thee in adoration. 2 ____________________________________________________ 1 Even while the effects of the terrible aspect of this vision are still upon him, the first word

TENTH CHAPTER II. GOD IN POWER OF BECOMING 12. Arjuna1 said: Thou2 art the supreme Brahman, the supreme Abode, the supreme Purity, the one Permanent, the divine Purusha, the original Godhead, the Unborn, the all-pervading Lord. ___________________________________________ 1 Arjuna accepts the entire knowledge that has thus been given to him by the divine Teacher. His mind is already delivered from its doubts and seekings; his heart, turned now from the outward aspect of the world, from its baffling appearance to its supreme sense and origin and its inner realities, is already released

INDEX (The reference is to the chapters and slokas of the Gita under which the subject is treated.) Action—is done by Prakriti, XIII-30, III-27; three essential elements of, XVII-7; of the liberated man, XVIII-6, iof; of three kinds—Sattwic, Rajasic and Tamasic, XVIII-23f; the secret of, XVII-78. See Works. Adhibhuta—VIII-4. Adhiyajna—VIII-4. Adhyatma—is swabhava, VIII-3. Akshara—II; higher than the Buddhi, tll-43 ; the foundation of self-mastery and equality, VI-7f; XIV-23 ; the supreme Brahman, VIII-3 ; asceticism as the path of, XV-6. See the Immutable. Ananda—spiritual delight, XVII-ig. Arjuna—the symbolic companionship of Arjuna