{"id":1953,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:30","slug":"12-notes-of-uncertain-origin-vol-36-autobiographical-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/36-autobiographical-notes\/12-notes-of-uncertain-origin-vol-36-autobiographical-notes","title":{"rendered":"-12_Notes of Uncertain Origin.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t<span lang=\"en-gb\"> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<b>APPENDIX <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<b><font size=\"4\">Notes of Uncertain Origin <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">During a whole year a slice or two of sandwich, bread and butter and a cup of tea in the morning and in the evening a<br \/>\npenny saveloy formed the only food.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t*<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">These invitations [<i>by the Maharaja<\/i>] were usually for some work to be done and could not be refused. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t*<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s policy in India was not based on Parnellism. It<br \/>\nhad more resemblance to Sinn Fein but was conceived before the Sinn Fein movement and was therefore not inspired by it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t*<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Sri Aurobindo began practising Yoga on his own<br \/>\n\t\t\taccount, starting with <i>pranayama <\/i>as explained to him by a friend, a disciple<br \/>\nof Brahmananda. Afterwards faced with difficulties, he took the help of Lele who was called for the purpose from Gwalior by<br \/>\nBarindra \u2014 this was after the Surat Congress in 1908.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t*<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">There was no difference of opinion [<i>with the College authorities<\/i>]; the resignation was because of the<br \/>\n<i>Bande Mataram <\/i>case,<br \/>\nso as not to embarrass the authorities. After the acquittal, the College recalled him to his post. The final resignation was given<br \/>\nfrom the Alipur jail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t*<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-left: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The Nationalists wanted to propose Lajpatrai as President, not Tilak. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 25pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tNo Nationalist leader was seated on the dais. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>116<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPENDIX &nbsp; Notes of Uncertain Origin &nbsp; During a whole year a slice or two of sandwich, bread and butter and a cup of tea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-36-autobiographical-notes","wpcat-42-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}