RECORD OF YOGA

CONTENTS

	Introduction
	Sapta Chatusthaya
	Sapta Chatusthaya
	Outline of the Seven Chatusthayas (Revised Order)
	Incomplete Notes on the First Chatusthaya

	Part One
	Diary Entries 1909 – 1912
	17 – 25 June 1909
	28 January – 17 February 1911
	13 January – 8 February 1912
	1 – 25 July 1912
	12 October – 26 November 1912

	Part Two
	Record of Yoga 1912 – 1920
	26 November – 31 December 1912
	1 – 31 January 1913
	1 – 14 February 1913
	1 and 12 April, 19 and 21 May 1913
	4 – 30 June 1913
	1 – 11 July 1913
	5 – 21 September 1913
	22 – 30 September 1913
	11 – 23 November 1913
	24 November – 2 December 1913
	1 – 12 December 1913
	12 – 21 December 1913
	22 December 1913 – 15 January 1914
	12 March – 14 April 1914
	15 April – 1 June 1914
	10 June – 29 September 1914
	29 – 30 September – 31 December 1914
	1 January – 27 February 1915
	22 April – 26 August 1915
	19 February – 20 March 1916
	9 January – 14 February 1917
	15 February – 31 March 1917
	15 August – 28 September 1917
	14 – 28 February 1918
	3 – 27 March 1918
	20 April – 20 May 1918
	21 May– 1 July 1918
	24 June – 14 July 1919
	15 – 26 July 1919
	27 July – 13 August 1919
	14 August – 24 September 1919
	1 – 29 February 1920
	1 March – 10 April 1920
	7 – 26 June 1920
	17 – 19 October 1920

	Part Three
	Record of Yoga 1926 – 1927
	December 1926 – 6 January 1927
	7 January – 1 February 1927
	7 – 22 April 1927
	24 – 31 October 1927

	Part Four
	Materials Written by Sri Aurobindo Related Directly to Record of Yoga, c. 1910 – 1931
	Undated Record and Record-related Notes, c. 1910 – 1914
	Sortileges of May and June 1912
	Undated Notes, c. November 1912
	Draft Programme of 3 December 1912
	Undated or Partly Dated Script, 1912 – 1913
	Sortilege of 15 March [1913]
	Accounts of 31 May – 15 June 1913
	Record Notes, 13 and 15 September 1913
	Vedic Experience, 14 and 15 December 1913
	Undated Notes, c. 1914
	Notes on Images Seen in March 1914
	Undated Script, c. 1920
	Undated Notes, c. December 1926
	Undated Notes, c. January 1927
	Notes on Physical Transformation, c. January 1927
	Diagrams, c. January 1927
	Miscellaneous Notations, c. February –April 1927
	Record of Drishti, 30 July 1927
	Undated Script, c. 1927
	Undated Script, c. 1927 – 1928
	Notes on Prophetic Vision, 1929
	Diagrams, c. 1931
	Undated Script Jottings

	Part Five
	Automatic Writing
	“The Scribblings”, c. 1907
	Yogic Sadhan
	Automatic Writings, c. 1914 (First Set)
	Automatic Writings, c. 1914 (Second Set)
	Automatic Writing, c. 1920
	Automatic Writings, c. 1920

	Appendixes
	Material from Disciples’ Notebooks
	Miscellaneous Notes, c. 1914
	Sapta Chatusthaya Scribal Version

Note on the Texts

Guide to Editorial Notation

Most of this book has been transcribed from unrevised manuscripts. The text published here is as far as possible a verbatim transcript. Problems encountered in reproducing the manuscripts are indicated by means of the notation shown below.

Notation	Textual Problem
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[ . . . ]	Illegible word(s), one group of three spaced dots for each presumed word.
[ ]1	Superfluous word(s), often duplicating what immediately precedes; a footnote shows the word(s) as they occur in the manuscript.
[? ]	Word(s) omitted by the author that could not be supplied by the editors.
[word]	Word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors.
[?word]	Doubtful reading.
[word]1	Emendation required by grammar or sense; a footnote gives the manuscript reading.
w. [word]	Abbreviation expanded by the editors.
w[o]rd	Letter(s) supplied by the editors.
word[,]	Punctuation supplied by the editors.
[note]	Textual situation requiring brief explanation. Longer explanations are provided in editorial footnotes, which are printed in italics followed by “ Ed.” (Sri Aurobindo’s footnotes are printed in roman type.)