Record of Yoga         Script, C. 6 January 1927       [On an attempt to transform the body through the renunciation of food]         4 mistakes -         1. Began on a mistaken or merely theoretic knowledge - about absorption from outside         2 Giving up of food is not the condition for finding the secret, it is the result of finding the secret.         3 Cessation of hunger, feeling fed, refusal of food by the body not a sign; it proceeds from the body vital, not from the body substance         4 The entire secret can be found and made effective only when the body is brought into the right condition. A process of adaptation i

 

            A Letter to The Hindu         Babu Aurobindo Ghose.         Babu Aurobindo Ghose writes to us from Pondicherry: —         In continuation of my last letter, I proceed to deal with the allegation that I "continue to direct Anarchist activities from Pondicherry," an allegation self-condemned by the gross implied imputation of a charge from which I have been exonerated by British tribunals. Here too a simple statement of facts will be the best answer. My political conduct has been four times under scrutiny by different tribunals and each time the result has been favourable to me. I have been twice accused of sedition. In the first case I was charged, not as responsibl

 Notice to Subscribers   This issue contains the final instalment of the Record of Yoga and marks the end of eighteen years of Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research. The primary purpose of the journal has been to bring out previously unpublished writings of Sri Aurobindo. This purpose has been largely fulfilled.         The publication of this journal will therefore be suspended until further notice. Work is now proceeding on a new set of the complete works of Sri Aurobindo which demands the full at

July 30th 1927         1. Ch.1. [Champaklal] lolling and rolling in a chair trance-awake. Intimation. "The most material will now be conscious."         2 A palm-tree of inordinate length growing from the bottom of the side of a well, climbing up and emerging above the earth level. All below now open (the subconscient awake). The palm-tree indicates the victory of conscious life and awakened spirit.         3 One in a cap standing and reading a letter. At first it appeared to be a vague form of M. which receded as the other grew clear, but was still felt reading over his shoulder.         Intimation. "A former personality (alchemist?) of Kanuga s

         7-22 April 1927   30 July 1927   24-31 October 1927   April 7. 1927 Thursday         There must be an entire submission to the transforming Power and the transforming process. However tedious it may [seem], each step, each recoil is inevitable; nothing is done unwisely or vainly in the economy of the supreme processes.         There is a sure means of distinguishing the truth from the falsehood. Pause and refer to the Light of the gnosis.         The truth that comes may not be all the truth, but it is that which is needed and effective at the moment.         Entire passivity first, a passive surrender.      

    Undated Record and Script   C. 1927   [1]         Take time to develop the next step. Strength in the organs, strength in the muscles. Hair, skin, flesh afterwards.         It is no use wasting time. Taking time means to do things thoroughly, prepare and accomplish.   [2]         The last possibility has been taken away from the hands of the opposing forces.         The T2 is now certain.   //         Now there is the perfect identity of the warrior and the slave in the imperfect Ishwara. There has to be the perfect identity with them of the king-sage. Then there will be the perfect Ishwara.         The body

    Record of Yoga   20 April-20 May 1918         Notebook of the Sadhana.         20th April 1918.         A manifest change has been the accomplishment of the Chandi personality in the Devibhava of the Prakriti. This bhava is in its nature Mahasaraswati, the Aniruddha-shakti. It has for its base Maheshwari; it is strongly coloured with Mahaluxmi. This combination was finally expressed in a strong and long-permanent personality, perfect in equality, intense in bliss, full of universal love and madhurya, but deficient in virya and shakti, [rhathumos]. The advent of the Chandi bhava, effected in accordance with lipi and other p

 GLOSSARY         This glossary explains Sanskrit and other non-English words occurring in the present instalment of Record of Yoga, omitting 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 are those of the manuscript.         Words are defined in this glossary 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 Catustaya (SC). Some familiarity with the Sapta