Partial Systems of Yoga       JNANA YOGA: THE YOGA OF KNOWLEDGE   124       All existence is the existence of the One, the Eternal and Infinite, the beginning and middle and end, the source and substance and continent and support of all things. There is not and cannot be any other existence, anything that is other than or outside of or above or below or beyond or in any way separate from the existence of the one Eternal and Infinite. All that appears as finite, temporal, multiple and phenomenal is still in reality being of the being of the Infinite and the Eternal. Ekam evadvitiyam.       This is the first and abiding truth without which no other c

       15 August - 28 September 1917          Aug 15th 1917. Wednesday,         The siddhi has reached a fresh turning-point.         The first chatusthaya is firm, complete, universal — except for occasional and quite momentary touches which have no power to fix themselves in the consciousness or outlast their moment or acquire intensity,— except, again, rarely in the failure of samadhi. But this is quite exceptional. Even the earth of the system (called in lipi, yn [ge], territoriality) is subjected to the law of the samata. Only the positive ananda is still weak in [siddhi]1         The second chatusthaya is complete, fixed,

  Record of Yoga   15 February - 31 Marach 1917           Record of Yoga   Feb 1917       Feb 15         Programme laid down in script on 14th         (1) Today T2 [trikaldrishti-tapas] combination of knowledge-tapas         From 15th to 28th perfectioning of knowledge-tapas         (2) Today. Spontaneity of rupa-drishya with tendency to precision + variety + stability.         From 15th to 28th perfectioning of spontaneous precision-variety-stability.         (3) Today — breaking down of habit of relapse in samadhi Completion of elimination of relapse and normalising of the       elements of the

      Notes on the Texts         Record of Yoga: 15 February-31 March 1917. NB R16, 58-68, 74-108. The Record of 15 February to 31 March 1917 was kept in a small bound notebook similar to the one used between 9 January and 14 February. Like that notebook, the present one had previously been used for notes on the Veda. After the entry of 31 March, the notebook was abandoned, many of its pages being left unused. No record was kept (or has survived) for the period from 1 April to 14 August 1917.         Record of Yoga: 15 August-28 September 1917. NB R17, 6-43. The Record of this period was kept in an old exercise book, a few pages of which had been used in 1913 or 1914 fo

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 and diacritics 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), two versions of which hav

    14 - 28 February 1918     Feb 14.         After a long interval, mainly end of December and January, devoted to poetry, there has been during February a steady Yogic activity.         Results.         (1) Siddhi of first chatusthaya finally complete. Momentary touches of asamata in asiddhi alone remain, but are being rapidly replaced by ananda, which is now not only the passive, but the active Brahmabhava occupying the whole conscious being.         (2) Second chatusthaya finally completed though still not quite perfect in devibhava (aishwaryabodha, attahasya). Dasya absolute except for some remnant of the habit of responsible effo

  3 -27 March 1918         March 1918         The month of February has been the month of the founding of the vijnana in the type; the month of March is marked out for its confirmation and primary completion in all parts of the third chatus-thaya. April for the farther confirmation and a greater completeness.        March. 3.         After two days of oppression by the environing Intelligence, the ideality is again busy defining its form in the lipi, ideative thought and vangmaya. First, there has been in the thought, including telepathic thought of trikaldrishti, the entire revelatory intuitional ideality in the bed of the intuitive mentality. It is now s

Draft of a Letter       Dear Saurin,       I have received your letter and I reply first to the one or two points in it which demand an answer. We have changed the name of the review from the New Idea to the Arya. We are bringing out a prospectus with specimens of the content which will have to be distributed so as to attract subscribers. It will probably be out in the middle of the month. Please let us know before then how many copies we should send to you to distribute. The address of the Review will be 7 Rue Dupleix & subscriptions should be sent to the Manager, Arya at that address. This is the house that has been found for M & Madame Richard; they have not occupied it

Deux Cartes Postales Ecrites par la Mere en 1911 A JOHANNES HOHLENBERG Cluses. Le 21 Septembre -11 —       Mon cher Hohlenberg      Voici, en attendant une lettre, de quoi vous rappeler les bonnes soirees de Paris et nos longues conversations philo-sophiques.... Je souhaite que ce soit aussi un rappel de vos enthousiasmes et de vos espoirs.... n'oubliez pas qu'ils sont toujours en vous, attendant seulement que votre conscience exterieure veuille bien les laisser vivre au grand jour.       Nous vous envoyons nos pensees les meilleures, en toute affection       M. P. Richard       Ne soyez pas si silencieux : nous serons heureux d'avoir de vos nouvelles. Dans