{"id":1784,"date":"2013-07-13T01:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:37:22","slug":"44-3to27-march-1918-vol-10-record-of-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/10-record-of-yoga\/44-3to27-march-1918-vol-10-record-of-yoga","title":{"rendered":"-44_3to27 MARCH 1918.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">3 \u00ad 27 MARCH 1918<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">March 1918<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">The month of February has been the month of the founding<br \/>\nof the vijnana in the type; the month of March is marked out<br \/>\nfor its confirmation and primary completion in all parts of the<br \/>\nthird chatusthaya. April for the farther confirmation and a greater<br \/>\ncompleteness.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"4\">March 3.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">After two days of oppression by the environing Intelligence,<br \/>\nthe ideality is again busy defining its form in the lipi, ideative<br \/>\nthought and vangmaya. First, there has been in the thought, in-<br \/>\ncluding telepathic thought of trikaldrishti, the entire revelatory<br \/>\nintuitional ideality in the bed of the intuitive mentality. It is now<br \/>\nseeking to get rid of the intuitive mental response and become pure<br \/>\nrevelatory inspirational ideation, the highest point reached on Feb.<br \/>\n28 in type. The surrounding Intelligence tries still to preserve its<br \/>\nhabit of response; this is still the chief stumbling-block.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">Lipi more easily confirms itself in the revelatory inspirational<br \/>\nvijnana; the lower forms occur, but are there easily discouraged.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<font size=\"4\">March 4<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">The decisive trikaldrishti has at last fixed itself in the revelatory<br \/>\nintuitional type.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">Perfect lipi, sudden, spontaneous, vividly legible, completely<br \/>\nstable of a high revelatory inspirational ideality is now beginning<br \/>\nto make itself entirely normal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">Letter in the samadhi perfect in form except for want of<br \/>\nvivid distinctness, not stable enough to be slowly deciphered, but<br \/>\nrecurrent in variation\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\tPremananda is becoming normal in the sarvadarshana.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         <i><br \/>\n1034<\/i>                    <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">March 5.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Telepathies of thoughts, intentions, impulses, tendencies which<br \/>\ndo not fulfil themselves are to be known and are now to be ad-<br \/>\ndressed to the idealised heart consciousness,<font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2014<\/font>it is not yet idealised,<font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2014<\/font>all positive fact of trikaldrishti is to be known by the vijnana<br \/>\nbuddhi<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         &nbsp;<font size=\"4\">Mar 7.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The lipi now fixed in the inspirational or middle ideality is<br \/>\nbeing firmly founded in the eight qualities, spontaneity, legibil-<br \/>\nity, stability, rapidity, fluidity, completeness, light, justice. The lipi<br \/>\nkaushalya is being finally developed and all forms occur with some<br \/>\ninitial frequency of recurrence except the pure varna. Jyotir is com-<br \/>\nmonest, tejas and agni occasional; prakasha seems to have been<br \/>\nabandoned.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Both forms of thought have replaced, when the ideality is<br \/>\nactive, the inferior by the middle or inspirational vijnana, which<br \/>\nholds in itself revelation and has taken up intuition and viveka.<br \/>\nTrikaldrishti is in course of transformation. The middle ideality<br \/>\nhas a surer certainty and lends itself less to the relapses of the<br \/>\nintuitive intelligence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Prema kamananda in the darshana have firmly combined with<br \/>\nthe shuddha. The full ananda only fails when the sarvasaundarya<br \/>\ndarshana is deficient or withheld.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Vishaya and rupa are again obstructed.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Certain and decisive trikaldrishti is enlarging itself rapidly;<br \/>\ntapas-siddhi is coalescing with the ideal knowledge and pure tele-pathic tapas is being rapidly abandoned. It is in fact no longer<br \/>\nadmitted. T<sup>3<\/sup><br \/>\n<span style=\"letter-spacing:-1.43 px\">has<\/span> received its dismissal. It only continues to exist in<br \/>\nchaotic fragments in the external suggestions which are no longer<br \/>\naccepted. This is with regard to the buddhi,<font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2014<\/font>but in the sense-mind<br \/>\nintuitively intelligential telepathy still exists.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         There are trikaldrishtic indications that March will be a month<br \/>\nof the extension of the physical Ananda and that secure continuity<br \/>\nin the Kamananda will be rapidly established. The movement has<br \/>\nalready begun.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<i>1035<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Sudden intensification, with prolonged recurrence, of the sa-<br \/>\nhaituka vaidyuta, current through the body (arms and legs).<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:5px\">                                         &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:5px\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">Mar 11<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The revelatory has suddenly today substituted itself for the<br \/>\ninspirational ideality, but it is at present the intuitional revelatory.<br \/>\nIt is taking up all the action of the ideality and enlightening and<br \/>\ntransforming the relics of the intelligential mentality.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         There has been a struggle in the Kamananda. Persistent con-<br \/>\ntinuous recurrence seems to have been well established, though the<br \/>\nenemy still struggles to bring about a long entire suspension; but<br \/>\nsecure continuity is not yet established.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%;text-indent:5px\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">Mar 15<br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The sadhana is going through what would formerly have been<br \/>\na relapse but is now a process of readjustment through the per-<br \/>\nmission of the intellectual action trying to reestablish itself, but<br \/>\nbringing about at each step a farther diminution of its power to<br \/>\nreturn.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The first two chatusthayas are being steadily confirmed in their<br \/>\ncompleteness and the touches of denial are being eliminated. The<br \/>\nfirst is practically complete in its armour of passive samata, almost<br \/>\ncomplete in the active. The second is feebly besieged at times, but<br \/>\nthe completion of the dasya and the chandibhava is evident. The<br \/>\nlatter is only deficient in hasya.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Continuity of ahaituka kamananda, when not suspended by<br \/>\nexclusive vismarana, is confirmed. Sahaituka has been for long<br \/>\ndepressed and only occasional.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The Ananda in darshana is complete and consolidated in its<br \/>\ncombined action, but sometimes falls momentarily back into the<br \/>\nmental form with one or two habits of dissociation, mostly omis-<br \/>\nsion of kamaprema; but this ordinarily, is instantaneously corrected<br \/>\nwith regard to living beings. The whole has still to be raised to a<br \/>\nfirmer intensity.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         &nbsp;Kamananda continued through samadhi, light and double,<br \/>\nonly suspended by the deep and complete interiority. Other former<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         <i><br \/>\n1036<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         incompatibilities initially conquered. A beginning has been made<br \/>\nin overcoming the exclusive forgetfulness, but this is not yet con-<br \/>\nfirmed. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\">Mar<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t[<\/font><i>date not written<\/i>]\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The first chatusthaya is now entirely confirmed. Even if old<br \/>\ntouches of impatience, discomfort etc arrive from outside by strong<br \/>\nhabit to touch the surface of the physical mentality, they are at once<br \/>\nstopped and either disappear or are transformed.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The second chatusthaya is now complete in all its circum-<br \/>\nstances with the one fault that the Kali element in the Devibhava,<br \/>\nwhich is constant, is not steady; the ordinary condition is that<br \/>\nof the Mahasaraswati with a strong Mahaluxmi colouring and<br \/>\nsubmerged Maheshwari basis. This is full of shama ananda, but<br \/>\ninsufficient in tapas. It is the Mahakali element that carries the<br \/>\nfull tapas, ishwarabhava and attahasya of the lila; but when the<br \/>\nMahakali element is there, the Mahaluxmi colouring and ananda<br \/>\nintensity diminishes; this defect is the cause of the unsteadiness.<br \/>\nTapas ananda has to take possession of shama ananda; Mahakali<br \/>\nhas to mould itself into the Mahasaraswati, and be the contained<br \/>\nin that continent.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         After a long period of lower working the revelatory ideality<br \/>\nis taking possession. The old physical lethargy of the mind can<br \/>\nno longer act; but in its place is the akartri-shama; into this the<br \/>\nprakasha of the revelatory vijnana (drishti) is beginning to pour<br \/>\nitself.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         The ahaituka tivrananda is recurring after a long interval of<br \/>\nrarity. It is now pervasive, more prolonged in persistence, occurs in<br \/>\nall the members.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Lipi is enforcing itself in the eightfold qualities against the old<br \/>\netheric obstruction.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         &nbsp;<i>1037<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Ishwaradarshana has taken possession of the Anandadar-<br \/>\nshana. It dwells more normally in the Ananda than in the lapse to<br \/>\nthe mentality.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         Although violently obstructed, vaidyuta ananda now occurs,<br \/>\nmore and more pervasive in its current.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         For several days the ahaituka kamananda has been violently<br \/>\nobstructed and persistently expelled, but it retains its ground,<br \/>\nthough often reduced to a minimum.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">\n\t\t\t==<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         There is a continual alternation now between the Mahakali<br \/>\nbhava and the Mahasaraswati for possession, the latter becoming<br \/>\nmore and more full of the former.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\">                                         &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         &nbsp;Mar 25. The Mahakali element has fixed itself. Eight days are given<br \/>\nby the lipi, up to April 2, for its taking full possession of the bhava.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">                                         &nbsp;Mar 27. Only momentary and rare touches affect the first two chatusthayas. The one deficiency is an infirm faith in the full extent<br \/>\nof the siddhi in the sharira and the life; the devi hasya is there,<br \/>\nbut not constant. The third chatusthaya is extending itself, but<br \/>\nexperiencing still at each step the lapse towards the mentality.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 \u00ad 27 MARCH 1918 &nbsp; March 1918 The month of February has been the month of the founding of the vijnana in the type;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-record-of-yoga","wpcat-40-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}