Na Kinchidapi Chintayet         THE cessation of thought is the one thing which the believer in intellect as the highest term of our evolution cannot contemplate with equanimity. That seems to him the negation of human activity, a reversion to the condition of the stone.1 To master the fleeting randomness of thought by regulating the intellectual powers and thinking consecutively and clearly is an ideal he can understand. Yet it is certain that it is only by the stilling of the lower that the higher gets full play. So long as the body and the vital desires are active the mind is necessarily distracted and it is only when the body is forgotten and the vital part consents

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo CASE AGAINST ARABINDO GHOSE       1       Chief Secretary,       I have just come [to] the end of an exhaustive study of the case against Arabindo Ghose.       The following facts are indisputable:—       (a) His declared aim was the absolute independence of India. He expressly discarded the ideal of colonial self-government:       (b) He avowed the principle that this aim could not be attained by gift from the English and that it must be attained otherwise:       (c) He worked with others towards the attainment of this aim:       (d) He himself was inspired by religious fanatici

Two Fragments       THE ORIGIN OF GENIUS       When the human being puts forth a force in himself which is considerable but acts normally, we call it talent; when it is abnormal in its working we call it genius. It would seem, therefore, that genius is in reality some imperfect step in evolution by which mankind in its most vigorous and forward individuals is attempting to develop a faculty which the race as a whole is not strong enough as yet to command or to acclimatise. As always happens in such a movement, there is a considerable irregularity in the working of the new phenomenon.       [MARBLES]       Institutions, empires, civilisations are the marb

GLOSSARY       This glossary includes most of the Sanskrit and other non-English terms and phrases occurring in the present number. Words printed in the devanagari and Bengali scripts and those that occur in translations have been omitted. A few proper names are included, especially those which might not be found in an ordinary reference work.       Definitions have been provided using Sri Aurobindo's own words as far as possible.       Sanskrit words are listed here according to the standard system of transliteration; this is followed in parentheses by the spelling that appears in the text where it differs significantly from this transliteration.       Italicised entries

   

An Interview with Sri Aurobindo   ARABINDO GHOSE.   A REMARKABLE INTERVIEW.   BIRTHDAYS AND COINCIDENCES.   DID HE EDIT "BANDE MATARAM"? ("Empire Special")   Great jubilation prevailed among the army of terrorists before and after the trial on Saturday. Notwithstanding the new turn the case has taken with regard to the threatened connection of Birendro Kumar Ghose and the Mozufferpore outrage this elation developed into a hilarious pandemonium after the Court had risen for the day. In consequence of this a regular frequenter at the Court had a unique experience. Shortly after His Honour had left the Bench the person in qu

 

Notes on the Texts   Record of Yoga: November-December 1914. The Record for November and December 1914 occupies 143 pages of the notebook begun on 29 September. As far as possible, the text is reproduced here exactly as it appears in the notebook, including any peculiarities and irregularities of punctuation and indentation. Some headings were inserted in the margin after the entries were written. Between 15 and 21 December, Sri Aurobindo put a tick in the margin next to most occurrences of the heading "Script". (For a discussion of this term, see Archives and Research 10 [1986]: 106-109.)   The sources of the Vedic "sortileges" in this instalment of Record of Yoga are ident

  Record of Yoga   November-December 1914       November     Nov. 1 -   The aims set forth for October are only now beginning to be accomplished, but the month of October was the turning-point for the action.   Lipi.   1. Already fitted for the intellectuality; fitted for the ideality. (Ak[asha]) 2 Results of the rapidity. Yogasiddhi (Ch[itra])   3 It is futile to expect results immediately.   Darshana.   The Ananda Brahman is now an entirely normal part of the Darshana. It contains implicitly