RECORD OF YOGA

 

CONTENTS

 

Pre Content

Publisher's Note

Guide to Editorial Notation

 

 

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

24 ­ 31 OCTOBER 1927

 

October 24th . 1927

A day of great and rapid progress. The supreme supermind forms have begun to be normalised and taken up by the gno- sis. T2 has made some, although still a hampered progress. T3 is now normal. Telepathies are becoming automatic but still need for their manifestation a slight sanyama. Ananda (sharira) rapidly progresses. Samadhi has made some advance.

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Today the gnosticised supreme supermind even to its highest forms will become normal.(1)

There will be the beginning of the promised progress in all the vishayas.(2)

Samadhi will break its barriers.(3)

Ahaituka Ananda within the body will be definitely founded.(4)

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(1) Fulfilled to a certain degree.1 But neither the gnosticity nor the normality are at all complete, rather they are in this field only initial.

(2) A meagre fulfilment; just the beginning in each if it is main- tained, but hitherto the development of the vishayas has always been dropped after a brief movement

(3) Fulfilled but not completely. The obstruction is still there.

(4) Uncertain; it seems to have begun, but it is not clear that it is definitely founded.

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1 The fulfilment of the above predictions was written afterwards in a different ink. The numbers after the items of the programme were added when their fulfilment was recorded.Ed.  


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October 25th 1927

Today, there is something of a recoil into the hampered semi- mental movement, although the progress still continues. However, the movements or rather the touches from outside of Asamata etc, the contradictions of the first two chatusthayas, were not only me- chanical, but though they pierced could not hold the consciousness in the body or even the environmental conscious atmosphere; few, they were almost immediately or immediately flung outside.

Intensity in the sahaituka physical Ananda is rapidly increasing in all the Anandas including the raudra.

Rupa is at last moving forward towards prolonged stability of the perfect and initially real and not only the crude, dense or [developed]2 figures.

There is an attempt to return to the evolution of primary utthapana, ie abolition of fatigue and its symptoms

Prognosis is now no longer in the script and lipi only, but in the thought speech and vani.

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(Oct 27th )

The semi-mental movement increased and the sadhana fell back from the rapidity it had gained to a movement of return on old elements still imperfectly transfigured. This relapse has lasted two days but was not so intense as before and has created no reaction. Moreover, it has been visibly the preparation of most important transitional movements that have come to a head today, the 27th October.

 

Oct 29. 1927

A day of relaxation, dismissal of out-of-date elements and preparation for the descent of gnosis into the overmind system.

These four days are for the transition to gnosis. Afterwards the whole system will be perfected and applied before there is the ascent to the supermind plane.

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1273

Oct 30. 1927

Today the transition from T3 to T2 became decisive and with it there came the conception of the Ishwara in the bodily conscious- ness. The passive attitude of the T3 movement in which the nature is the plaything of the powers of the Overmind has been definitely abandoned and the passive-active attitude of T2 movement in which the Ishwara determines and the Powers may for a time resist and even modify temporarily what he has determined, but must now or in the end help to carry out his will, has begun to take its place. As yet the gnostic movement is imperfect and the Overmind powers are still powerful to determine results according to their choice, provided there is some supramental sanction behind it. All are powers of the Ishwara, but the play of disagreement and mutual opposition or emulation continues. T3 is entirely supramental or gnostic, T2 only has partially reached the same siddhi.

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Oct 31. 1927

Today T2 (anishwara) has acquired the supramental and gnos- tic character. Not that all movements have entirely eliminated the mental element, but all are supramental or supramentalised or else even (now to some extent) gnostic overmind. Infallible T2 is beginning more freely to emerge.

Iswara consciousness is growing both below and above and Ishwara T2 is beginning.

The supermind is increasing in the supramentalised movements and gnosis in the supramental movements.

Ananda is taking possession and becomes automatic, needing only memory or a little attention to act at once. All vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch is now anandamaya; even all that is seen, heard, sensed is beginning to be felt as full of ananda and even as if made of Ananda. Sahaituka Ananda of all except event is now automatic. Ahaituka Ananda within the body shows signs of reaching the same state, but has not quite reached it. This is the only physical siddhi that promises to be soon initially complete; for arogya is still hampered by obstinate minute fragments of illness.

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