Citations from the Vedas, Upanishads and Gita       RIG VEDA       This is the most adorable work, the loveliest deed of the Wonderful that the higher streams have fed us in the crookedness, even the four rivers of the Sea of sweetness. I.62.6       I purify earth and heaven with the Truth and burn the great Forces of Harm that possess it not. I.133.1       They uphold three earths and three heavens, and within them are three ways of action in the knowledge. By the Truth that greatness is great and beautiful. Three divine worlds of light they uphold — golden and pure and sleepless and invincible giving voice to the

Archival Notes THE KARMAYOGIN CASE       In a previous issue (Archives and Research, vol.7, no. 1) we examined the British Government's three-pronged attack against Sri Aurobindo during the year 1909. From the moment of his acquittal at Alipore on 6 May, the bureaucracy attempted to remove him from the political field by means of appeal, prosecution or deportation. Legal experts began their study of Beachcroft's judgment the same month that it was delivered; by August the idea of appeal was effectively abandoned, and by November it became legally impossible. (See Documents, A & R, vol. 7, no. 1.) Meanwhile the police were keeping close track of Sri Aurobindo's writings and spe

Notes on the Texts       A Comment by Sri Aurobindo. This note was written by Sri Aurobindo below the observation by Nolini Kanta Gupta printed here in italics. The exchange took place sometime during the 1930s.       Two Poetic Fragments. LSS GA7c, d. These two pieces seem to have been written on 31 December 1934 — the day "Thought the Paraclete" was written — or else a day or two after or (in the case of "Konarak") before.       The Hymns of Madhuchchhandas. NB V2, 52-59. These two chapters — both called "Chapter I" by Sri Aurobindo, distinguished as [A] and [B] by the editors — are all that was written of a proposed "book". The first chapter begins with a

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo THE KARMAYOGIN CASE       1       Extracts from Government of India, Home Department, Political-A, Proceedings, December 1910, Nos. 14-42, "Prosecution, under section 124-A., Indian Penal Code, of the Editor and Printer of the Karmayogin newspaper."1       [a]   Vide Appendix   Attention is invited to the letter from Arabindo Ghose at pages 4 and 5 of  the issue of the Karmayogin of the 25th December. It will be seen that this has been reprinted in the Mahratta of the 2nd of January. It seems to me to be seditious and I recommend that we should ask Bengal to consult its legal

GLOSSARY       This glossary omits: (1) words listed in the Glossary to the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, unless used in these texts in a different sense; (2) terms and quotations adequately translated or explained by Sri Aurobindo where they occur; (3) proper names except of divine or legendary figures; (4) words cited as linguistic examples.       All Sanskrit words, as well as some terms from modern Indian languages, are printed below in italics with diacritical marks according to the now standard system of transliteration which exactly represents the Devanagari spelling and the correct pronunciation. In the texts themselves, these words have been left as Sri Aurobind

A Comment by Sri Aurobindo APROPOS OF A NOTE BY NOLINI KANTA GUPTA         Consciousness is existence turning back upon itself in order to experience that it is.       Knowledge is consciousness turning back upon itself in order to experience what it is.       This is true of consciousness and knowledge in overmind and on the lower planes; but in the supermind consciousness is existence eternally aware both that it is and of what it is and also of what it intends to do with itself and become for its own Ananda. Consciousness and knowledge there are one. Page-1 Two Poetic Fragments       Bugles of Light, bugles of Light, shatte

The Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad   This is the first chapter of a commentary on the Isha Upanishad done in Baroda or Calcutta after 1904 or 1905 and before 1908. The second chapter will be given in our next issue. a portion of the same commentary has already been published in Centenary Volume 27 (pp. 201-88).       Chapter I   The Law of Renunciation   I. GOD ALL AND GOD EVERYWHERE         GURU: Salutation to the Eternal who is without place, time, cause or limit. Salutation to Him who rules the Universe, the Lord of the Illusion, the Master of manifold life. Salutation to the Self in me, who is the Self in all creatures. Brahman

Passing Thoughts   RELIGION IN EUROPE         There is no word so plastic and uncertain in its meaning as the word religion. The word is European and, therefore, it is as well to know first what the Europeans mean by it. In this matter we find them, — when they can be got to think clearly on the matter at all, which is itself unusual, — divided in opinion. Sometimes they use it as equivalent to a set of beliefs, sometimes as equivalent to morality coupled with a belief in God, sometimes as equivalent to a set of pietistic actions and emotions. Faith, works and pious observances these are the three recognised elements of European religion. From works, however, the ordin

The Veda         AT THE root of all that we Hindus have done, thought and said through these many thousands of years, behind all we are and seek to be, there lies concealed, the fount of our philosophies, the bedrock of our religions, the kernel of our thought, the explanation of our ethics and society, the summary of our civilisation, the rivet of our nationality, a small body of speech, Veda. From this one seed developing into many forms the multitudinous and magnificent birth called Hinduism draws its inexhaustible existence. Buddhism too with its offshoot, Christianity, flows from the same original source. It has left its stamp on Persia, through Persia on Judaism, through Judaism,