{"id":1814,"date":"2013-07-13T01:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:37:34","slug":"15-1to11-july-1913-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\/15-1to11-july-1913-vol-10-record-of-yoga","title":{"rendered":"-15_1to11 JULY 1913.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><b><br \/>\n<font size=\"5\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 \u00ad 11 JULY 1913<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">July 1st<\/font>        ..        <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">The record of June is written elsewhere.<sup>1<\/sup>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">The results up to date of the movement in May and in June are,        <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:50px\" align=\"justify\">1. Finality of the first chatusthaya in all subjective expe-        rience. The body is still subject to touches of asamata, to physical        disturbance and discomfort and to bodily depression but these rem-        nants of asiddhi are in process of elimination. Subjectively, all that        remains are occasional touches on the physical prana which more        &amp; more are rendered in terms of physical pressure, not mental, &amp;        even this pressure is being steadily converted into a physical ananda        which replaces the old discomfort and nirananda, mental &amp; bodily,        of grief, vexation, revolt, defeat, failure etc.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:50px\" align=\"justify\">2. Finality, so far as can be seen, of dasya, tejas &amp; activity,        although this is entirely manifest, only today. Here again the        obstacle is the persistence of physical weakness &amp; depression. The        fourfold dharma of virya is at work, subject to ineffective physical        touches of their opposites, but not yet energetically active. With the        same qualification the fourfold state of shakti is well established,        but still uncertain in the bodily force. Chandibhava is limited as yet        by the saumya character of the tejas which is full of dhairya and        hatha, but not yet fierce &amp; ardent except at intervals. Vali is there        always, but Narasinha intermittently. This, however, is passing        away &amp; the Narasinha tejas taking the lead. The conversion from        saumya to chanda tejas seems definitive today; for the disturbing &amp;        depressing force, viz, failure of result, is now practically ineffective.        Sraddha in God &amp; self-force is complete, but the knowledge of time        &amp; extent in result being still embryonic sraddha in rapidity &amp; in        adesh-siddhi is still very moderate.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\"><sup>1<\/sup> <i><br \/>\nWith this entry, Sri Aurobindo returned to the notebook he had set aside on 21 May<br \/>\n1913. &nbsp;Ed.<\/i>        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n275<\/i>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:50px\" align=\"justify\">3. The vijnana chatusthaya is in complete, but not perfect,        fertile or well-arranged activity.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:50px\" align=\"justify\">4. The physical siddhi is still in the stage of formation.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:50px\" align=\"justify\">5. The fifth chatusthaya is strong in Krishnakali, but only        embryonic in karmakama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:50px\" align=\"justify\">6. The Brahmachatusthaya is complete in extent, imper-        fect in detail; but the Saguna Brahman is still the basis; the Lilamaya        only as yet strongly emergent from the Saguna.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:50px\" align=\"justify\">7. The seventh chatusthaya is complete subjectively,        though imperfect, especially in siddhi; but objectively it is still        insecure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;During the day karmasiddhi of the sahitya (prose) strongly        outlined itself, although the movement of the vak is not yet entirely        sure of its detail. Work resumed. Natural and Supernatural Man;        Aryan Origins; etc. The action of the vijnana was not strong &amp;        definite, though at no time suspended or inefficient; the remnant        of asiddhi was strongly in evidence. Relapse took place in the        processes of assimilation, although the roga of tejasic looseness        is becoming more and more exclusively physical &amp; imposed from        outside on the system. The physical siddhi as a whole was mostly in        abeyance, except in dehashakti which, for the most part, resisted the        ordinary effects of these relapses. An attempt was made to revive        the perishing rogas, but it succeeded only in manifesting scattered        touches.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 2<\/font>d.        ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">A sharp touch of yesterday&#8217;s roga on awaking; free visrishti        of bad assimilation. The chanda tejas, not suspended, is somewhat        quiescent. In the morning quiescence of siddhi. In the afternoon        trikaldrishti recovered its force and a normal accuracy of vyapti        prakamya with the inspired vichara and vidhana (arrangement and        right assignment of perceptions) accompanied by a slow move-        ment of the deciding vijnana (revelative intuition viveka). At the        same time the shadow of uncertainty lingers and errors of placing        and stress still continue. The thought (perceptive) is in a similar        state of activity. Aishwarya still acts against a resistance sometimes        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n276<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;successful, sometimes partially successful[,] sometimes ineffective.        Occasionally the resistance is non-existent or so slight as to be        only just perceptible. Communicative involuntary vyapti &amp; swift        fulfilment of lipsa-thought in small details are not infrequent. Ka-        mananda inactive yesterday has revived, but is still very occasional.        The Chanda tejas recovers force progressively. (5.30 pm).        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">For the last two or three days the siddhi of self-preservation &amp;        whiteness in the teeth has been swiftly recovering its force. For some        months past the asiddhi had returned and the yellow film returned        and deepened; now the lower teeth are again white with only a        faint suggestion of the yellow shade. In the upper teeth the film        is there in blotches, not covering the whole surface, but is rapidly        dissolving. N.B. It is now more than four years since any artificial        means of preservation or cleansing (brush, powder etc) were last        used. In other respects, there are some faint signs of advance in        saundarya, but none of these are decisive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:10px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:10px\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 3<\/font>d        ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Jnana and Trikaldrishti continue to grow in power and range,        but are overshadowed by uncertainty. Revelatory knowledge is act-        ing from above on the mind and the prakasha is not luminous.        Aishwarya in the afternoon showed a considerable increase of force        at the height of its action; but it easily falls back into a comparative        quiescence. Kamananda more active &amp; recovering its normal move-        ment. Poetry (Ilion) was resumed; the power, though still sluggish        and a little uncertain, seems freer from its baser &amp; more inefficient        elements.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:10px\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 4<\/font>th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">he final purification of the system from the physical touches        of Ashanti continues. In the morning there was only a rich and        abundant rupadrishti, very bright in colours and numerous in forms        and groups, mostly crude, in the prana akasha; this was under        stimulus. In the afternoon the depression of the tejas parted and the        Krishna Kali emerged with the Rudra personality of Krishna; the        kamananda more continuous &amp; persistent while walking. There is a        throwback in the saundarya. The continuity and intensity of sharira        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n277<\/i>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">ananda are predicted. Lipi &#8220;17&#8221; (Anandam Brahma) already ful-        filled in the strong emergence of Ananda &amp; the Anandamaya in the        environing Brahman. The necessity of aishwarya-tapas for helping        the sharirananda is now removed; it remains for the other three        members of the physical siddhi, but is to be lessened shortly and        then renounced for the arogya.        In the second half of the day there was continuity &amp; intensity        of the sharirananda and diminution of the jalavisrishti (about 8 am        and 12 midnight).        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:10px\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 5<\/font>th<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">In the morning inscription of a programme for the day. Its        seven heads &amp; their results coincided with an unusual accuracy.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(1) Lipi; express, free, perfecting its own arrangement and        spontaneity.        The spontaneity &amp; arrangement are still in course of perfec-        tion, not yet perfect; the lipi is express &amp; free only when it conquers        the resistance, but this is now frequent. Otherwise it is pale in        material and confused in sequence.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(2) Rupa emerging, shaping, sometimes clear &amp; perfect, re-        current, not spontaneous.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(3) Trikaldrishti, overcoming mental confusion and misplace-        ment.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(4) Aishwarya developing control.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(5) Ananda (shar\u00b4ra) regularising itself and preparing contin-        uous action        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(6) Arogya emerging in spite of obstinate opposition.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(7) Krishnakali possessing the whole range of the conscious-        ness        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">None of these results are complete. In the trikaldrishti the        movement is towards the exclusion of false stress &amp; ascription of        actuality in event by the mind and the accurate communication        of event from vijnana to the mind. In Aishwarya the faculty of        dictating several successive movements is accomplished and this is        done instantaneously without resistance &amp; in the majority of cases        the force is successful; but in many it has to be used with great insis-        tence &amp; coercive pressure to bring about a single result, and short        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n278<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">periods of almost entire asiddhi occur, in which the force does not        touch or hardly touches or touches ineffectively its various objects.        The arogya that emerges is chiefly the assimilative power which in        spite of denial of visrishti for four days[,] the jala visrishti being        allowed only twice daily (yesterday 8-10 am &amp; 8-20 pm), succeeds        in throwing off all tendencies to assimilative disturbance except a        fluctuating degree of flatulence which tends towards disappearance.        The minor rogas (cold etc) which are being expelled still appear        momentarily or in isolated touches as external intrusions appearing        with or without provocation. Exposure to cold is still effective in        assisting this kind of uneasiness. The Kali consciousness aware of        Krishna as the Iswara attached itself to all the acts &amp; experiences;        but the Krishna personality was held back &amp; the anna given over        to other influences.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">This last movement was the result of the attempt to execute        with force of tejas a second programme, the attempt going through        the usual stages. A violent attack of asiddhi, bringing confusion        &amp; sunlessness to all the vijnana siddhis &amp; general nirananda of        impatience &amp; asraddha, occupied the outer parts of the system.        The first chatusthaya remained constant in the system proper, but        the physical parts of mind responded to strong though unstable        &amp; unpoignant touches of doubt, depression of faith, impatience of        asatya &amp;, to a less degree, of asiddhi. In the system proper positive        hasyam was alone affected, but atmaprasada remained intact.        The programme non-effectualised contained three consider-        able items        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">1. Second chatusthaya complete in faith and force, (the two        elements still most imperfect) and the third complete in knowledge.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">2. Ananda complete in continuity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">3. Arogya triumphant over obstacles.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Sleep, for the last two days, has diminished its hold; on the th, from 12 to 5.40 with two half hours of continuous nidravishta        4 samadhi, the 5th from 12 to 4 (about), with half an hour &amp; an hour        of broken nidravishta samadhi. Dasya is growing more &amp; more        concrete in its hold on the system &amp; the movements of the body        no longer depend even partially on the will, but are often enforced        contrary to the immediate will of the body or the will in revolt of the        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n279<\/i>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">Jiva; the latter circumstance is rare &amp; came yesterday after a long        interval of passive submission as a result of the sudden revival of        asraddha &amp; weariness of physical tapasya. The element of tapasya        is now much reduced, but still persists in the physical siddhi. For        the most part all action is now a passivity supporting more or less        effective tapas, not tapasya. In Samadhi coherent sentences of lipi        are now common, but in the mass the lipi is incoherent. Isolated        figures or momentary groups still prevail. Antardrishta jagrat is        confined to the most elementary crude forms and even these come        with difficulty and rarely; antardrishta speedily passes into sushupta        or swapna samadhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 6th.<br \/>\n<\/font>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">The morning has been a continuation of yesterday&#8217;s confused        movement and obstruction, but with a fading stress of asiddhi.        In the afternoon an almost perfect trikaldrishti has manifested,        some twenty minute movements of the same object (a spider) be-        ing accurately predicted. The old defects, overstress, intention or        aishwarya mistaken for event, still continue, but have less force        and are much more infrequent. Chinmayaishwarya also increases        rapidly in effectiveness.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">As the result of the day&#8217;s programme an extensive &amp; minute        trikaldrishti defective only in a slight uncertainty, occasional mis-        placements and errors of detail and a tendency to fatigue, when the        tamasic or sunless movement tries to resume its hold, is definitely        achieved. Telepathy (prakamya vyapti of thought) is now begin-        ning to advance towards self-regularisation &amp; a freer movement        &amp; range. The difficulty is only in recognising the thought when        it is seen; for it is usually taken as an idea in one&#8217;s own mind        and not recognised as the thought of another, owing to our egoistic        appropriation of whatever comes to us in our subjective experience.        This difficulty once surmounted, aprakasha alone will remain to        be overcome, itself due to egoistic limitation of our subjective        experience &amp; attention to so much as interests or can be made        useful to our own activity; an infinite openness &amp; the ear of the        mind alert for all shabda is required in order that these siddhis may        be perfected.        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n280<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;        Aishwarya increases considerably &amp; rapidly in force &amp; effec-        tiveness, no longer in the old field of exercise mainly (movements        of birds, beasts, insects, people around) but in the wider range        of life. Certain remarkable instances occurred during the course        of the day, eg the easy surmounting of the housing problem and        the change in the temper of the intermediary. In the outside world        events in the Balkans show a considerable increase in the particular        effectiveness, but this is not entirely recent as it dates from the        closing period of the war. Therapeutic power is on the increase,        eg. Bharati&#8217;s hysteric patient not cured by him in spite of strong        effort &amp; personal contact and suggestion, cured after a distant &amp;        moderate application of Will by myself in two days; Lebian pere        given up as hopeless by the doctor, rid in less than two days of        his worst symptoms (difficulty of breathing at once, difficulty of        urination in a day), young Dutambey, regarded as a complicated        case, cured of all but a slight residuary symptom after one brief        relapse brought on by his own imprudence etc. The most desperate        cases still offer a stronger resistance. The control of the will over        my own bodily states has also increased.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Sleep 11.45 to 5.50.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Faith &amp; tejas are growing in the second chatusthaya.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 7<\/font>th<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">The transference of the siddhi from the mental to the ideal        plane is indicated in the lipi. For this transference to be entirely        effective, three preliminary conditions are required.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(1) The perception of the truth underlying &amp; contained in ev-        ery subjective experience, thought, thought-suggestion, speculation        etc, since all thought proceeds from the vijnana which is satyam &amp;        not asatyam.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(2) The acceptance of every act of will, effort, impulsion, ef-        fectuating movement as a step in some process of God&#8217;s effective        tapas, the perception of the final object of the process &amp; of the        immediate object effected, and the rejection of the idea of failure,        sterility &amp; inutility as attached to anything that happens in God&#8217;s        world; since all action, event &amp; impulse proceed from the vijnana        which is entirely ritam &amp; failure &amp; inutility would be anritam.        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n281<\/i>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(3) The acceptance of every feeling &amp; sensation as part of one        divine thousand-faceted ananda without distinction of satisfaction        or disappointment, right pleasure &amp; perverse pleasure, comfort        or discomfort, since all emotions &amp; sensations proceed from the        vijnana which is brihat &amp; bhuma &amp; duality belongs to the alpam        &amp; the bheda.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">These conditions have been partially effected, but the lacunae        &amp; defects in their siddhi must be got rid of and corrected, finally,        for the upward movement.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">A second programme was given and partially effected        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(1) Enthusiastic faith and tejas commenced.        There was the first commencement only followed by the inter-        position of strong obstacles to the growth of either; in the result        a calm and firm faith and a strong &amp; steady tejas easily expulsive        of shadows of doubt and despondency was established. The con-        tinued uncertainty of result and confirmation due to the surviving        imperfections of knowledge &amp; force alone prevent the rudra tejas        &amp; the avegamaya sraddha from taking possession of the system.        They occur in it from time to time, sometimes baffled, but no longer        rebuked.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(2) Ananda overcomes the obstacle to continuity and then to        intense continuity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;Ananda (sharira) was active throughout the day, continuous        in spite of asmarana due to distraction of attention or absorption        in thought or act, mildly intense sometimes, but towards the end        of the day uncertain, interrupted and, finally, during the night,        quiescent        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(3) The lacunae of knowledge begin to be filled up, the basis        being already formed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;The improvement was chiefly in the more ordinary and spon-        taneous action of telepathy of idea, right perception of unseen        fact, memory, sahityasmriti, acceptance of distant trikaldrishtis,        etc. Scenes &amp; incidents forgotten for decades begin to recur to the        memory, isolated, not usually complete, but in the details restored        quite vivid and precise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;(4) The arogya gets the better of its remaining difficulties.        There was constant proof of the power of the arogya, when        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n282<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;        touched or attacked, to resist the attack and right itself swiftly after        even strong touches. But the movement is as yet only in its initial        stage of decisiveness, not yet wholly decisive.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(5) The lipi in its tertiary stage begins to take possession of the        akasha. The tertiary stage has as its features, fixity, immediate leg-        ibility, spontaneity of long lipis, variety &amp; lipikaushalya in forms,        colours etc. The movement is still embryonic.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">A beginning in the predominance of aishwarya was subse-        quently predicted and took the shape of prayogas initially suc-        cessful, then successfully baffled by opposing forces of habitual        resistance, then fulfilled by unexpected circumstances suddenly in-        tervening &amp; showing the direct hand of the Ishwara. Samadhi was        once more active, but has not recovered normal coherency or long        continuity of action. Sleep resumed its force, bringing one hour of        nidravishta samadhi in the afternoon and more than seven hours        sleep at night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;Saundarya generally is forcefully obstructed &amp; makes no        progress; but in one detail there has been unexpected and rapid        progress, a rounding off of the sharp angles of those fingers which        were formerly square. This was noticed two or three days ago, but        farther progress was sensible even in the course of a single day. In        only two or three of the fingers are there still traces of the old sharp        angles. This isolated rapidity is a strong contrast to the occasional        slow &amp; slight progress covering many months &amp; the usual failure        of all success in other attempts of the psychic body to alter by        mental force the physical sheath into its own image.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 8<\/font>th        ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Programme.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(1) Aishwarya begins to reign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;For a time the power and the knowledge both seemed to have        retrograded &amp; the first to be almost annulled; in the evening aish-        warya reemerged with an increased force and effectiveness, fulfilling        with an unprecedented frequency &amp; persistence.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">(2) Ananda overcomes the obstacle.        Intense ananda continuous for long periods has commenced        today to be the rule of the body, but it is varied by long periods        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n283<\/i>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">of subdued ananda and occasional lapses into quiescence. In the        night quiescence is still the rule, but is varied by strong touches of        activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;(3) Lacunae of knowledge fill more completely.        Only a slight movement took place in this direction.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;(4) Lipi takes stronger possession.        Formerly the ordinary rule of the lipi was the single word with        occasional brief phrases &amp; rare extensions, the rule is now the word        or the brief phrase with a tendency to complete sentences. But the        legibility, vividness &amp; spontaneity are still combated and restricted        by the obstinate resistance of the material akasha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;(5) Arogya yet stronger.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">It resisted with general success, but not entire immunity, the        conditions which have in the past usually or invariably provoked a        retrograde movement.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;(6) Obstacles to enthusiasm of faith &amp; tejas remove[d].        The chief obstacle removed was dependence on favourable        result &amp; success; but the tendency to temporary depression of force        from subjective causes is not yet altogether eliminated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;(7) Samadhi &amp; rupa active.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Rupa (crude) was only briefly active in a few images, but these        evinced a perfection and stability in various circumstances (image        on background, crude image, group, developed image) not yet so        decisively combined. Samadhi recovered coherency &amp; is developing        application to life. (eg Alpt carrying a cane chair through a veranda;        Bh. [Bharati] offering to Rg &amp; another some food, three glasses on        a table &amp; pieces of cocoanut (?)).        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;(8) Utthapana.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Utthapana of the arm in the horizontal position was enforced        for an hour and a half; during the later part of this period an        abnormal stiffness was produced and an artificial pressure from        above strove to depress the arm; nevertheless after three minutes        rest, it could again be continued, but in recumbent posture, for        another half hour. A slight stiffness in the shoulder is the only after        result. Typical utthapana of leg &amp; neck were effected for half an        hour, in order to get rid of the habit of adhogati which had again        reasserted itself. The physical depression still continues.        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n284<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;        (9) Saundarya.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">No definite forward movement as yet distinguishable. In the        teeth etc the movement is retrograde.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;The articulate thought, long silent, manifested for a minute        or two, but with an absolute perfection of style &amp; substance, in-        evitable, with the full illumination &amp; inspiration of phrase, even in        the effective &amp; adequate forms of the inevitability. This is a striking        instance of involved siddhi, done without process or sadhan, behind        the veil, illustrating the double action of Night &amp; Dawn, naktoshasa swasara ekam shishum [dhapayete].<sup>2<\/sup><br \/>\n<span style=\"letter-spacing:-0.46 px\">There<\/span> are also other instances,        but these are slighter and less definite. Owing to the rush of the old        inferior movements which used to rise whenever the avegamaya        sraddha &amp; tapas manifested, the trikaldrishti was clouded &amp; dis-        turbed, &amp; the old tejasic misinterpretations abounded. But there        was no disturbance, revolt or nirananda in the system &amp; only the        shadow of the old tamasic reaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;July 9<\/font>th. <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">\nThe programme for the next three days is yesterday&#8217;s with        additions. The utthapana and saundarya especially must move for-        ward. Trikaldrishti has already reasserted itself, but is imperfect in        circumstance; this imperfection will now disappear. Aishwarya is        inconstant in its action &amp; often effective only against resistance;        the action must be regular &amp; the effectiveness spontaneous. Lipi        must get a complete hold on the akash and the difficulty of the        stability in rupa, especially in lifelike rupa must at last disappear.        Ananda delivered from interruption and arogya triumphant over        attack must reach a more solid state of security (vajasatih); uttha-        pana recover itself and saundarya, now constantly obstructed and        thrown back, share in the general victorious movement.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">\nThe 9th<br \/>\n<span style=\"letter-spacing:-1.43 px\">has<\/span> been a day of failure &amp; recoil. The attempt to        establish the avegamaya tejas &amp; sraddha without reaction has bro-        ken down; the avega became manomaya and resulted in confusion        of knowledge, misplacement of tejas &amp; final return of asamata,<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><sup>2<\/sup> <\/font><i><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Blank left in the manuscript by Sri Aurobindo; cf. the sortilege of 7 December 1912<br \/>\nand other Vedic verses. &nbsp;Ed.<\/font><\/i>        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n285<\/i>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">ashanti, duhkha in strong &amp; then violent touches (10th) which, at        first violently expelled, again &amp; successfully invaded the system,        supported by the revolt of the Jiva against the asatya. The saun-        darya has broken down or gone back in the parts not irrevocably        fixed &amp; the violent return of asaundarya is successful everywhere.        Aishwarya is not entirely ineffective, but subject to frequent fail-        ure &amp; almost universal resistance. The touches of roga returned        where they were on the point of evanescence and there has been        some diminution in the force of continuity of the kamananda. The        promises of finality held out to the mind in the first &amp; second        chatusthayas, as well as in some details of the third &amp; fourth, have        proved, as always, to be tejasic and deceptive. On the other side,        there has been enforced a more general perception of the unity of        all movements of the Prakriti and of the unity of the mover of        the Prakriti &amp; their unity also with the same Purusha &amp; Prakriti        in this adhara. The Jiva also is made to recognise its unity with        the Prakriti, but not yet with the Purusha, except in occasional        glimpses.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">The rounding of the fingers still progresses; the only definite        trace of the sharp angles is in one corner of the third finger of the        left hand where it is represented by a horn of dried &amp; callous skin        empty of flesh; otherwise they appear only in the excessive fullness        of the curves or in slight unevennesses representing the lost angle        (especially on one side of the right thumb). This fullness appears in        all except the first fingers which were always pointed &amp; the lefthand        little finger which is now of the full pointed variety to which the        righthand little finger has also progressed more than others. No        other decisive improvement is noticeable in the saundarya, although        there is a similar tendency in the feet.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">Samadhi is more vigorous &amp; dream recovering continuous        coherence, but the movement of samadhi towards long continuity        of single incident is not yet effective. Lipi is pressing slowly upon        the akasha for removal of its habitual defects.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:10px\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 10<\/font>th        ..<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">A stronger attack of asiddhi not removed till the evening;        &amp; then not entirely. The only siddhi which advanced during the        &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><i><br \/>\n286<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">day was the lipi. The successful movement from manas to mahat        predicted in the script as the result of the attack.<sup>3<\/sup>        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n<font size=\"4\">July 11<\/font>th        .. <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">In accordance with the prediction the movement of the vijnana        from action in the slight, petty &amp; detailed to action in the satyam,        ritam, brihat was commenced. At first the knowledge was merely        brihat in manas, hundreds of perceptions coming without order or        right direction; then the satyam in this infinity came to be revealed        not the ritam; every perception was found to be true, but not always        true at the time &amp; in the place &amp; order of circumstance indicated        by the mind. Subsequently the ritam commenced, the trikaldrishti        occurring with perfect accuracy even in the mental &amp; sunless per-        ceptions, but before it could be completed, other preoccupations        commenced which filled the rest of the day (kriti). The movement        of dasya, tejas, aishwarya, samadhi to mahattwa were similarly        interrupted. Kamananda, only occasional the day before, <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:25px\" align=\"justify\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">[<\/font><i>This entry was left incomplete. Three blank pages follow.<\/i>]        <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"justify\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><sup>3<\/sup> <\/font><i><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">The last sentence of this entry appears to have been added on the eleventh.<br \/>\nEd.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 \u00ad 11 JULY 1913 &nbsp; July 1st .. 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