Record of Yoga

1529 Pages·2003·4.62 MB·English

by  Sri Aurobindo

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Record of Yoga
VOLUME10 and 11
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO
©SriAurobindoAshramTrust 2001
Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry
PRINTEDININDIA
Record of Yoga
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Publisher’s Note
Record of Yoga is a diary of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga between 1909
and 1927. He kept it fairlyregularlyfrom 1912 to 1920, and also
wrote a few entries in 1909, 1911 and 1927. At different timeshe
gave this diary different names. “Record of Yoga” was the most
typicalandtheeditorshaveuseditasthegeneraltitleofthework.
During the years he kept the diary, Sri Aurobindo also wrote
other materials relating to his practice of yoga. These include de-
scriptions of the seven “chatusthayas” (groups of four elements),
which are the basis of the yoga of the Record. These materialsare
published in the Introduction, in Parts Four and Five, and in the
Appendix.
Sri Aurobindo wrote the diary and related materials by hand
in various notebooks and on loose sheets of paper. He used a
specialterminologywhichincludedwordsfromSanskritandother
languages, as well as abbreviations, symbols and markings, some
of which are difficult to represent in a printed book. The special
terminology is explained in a separate glossary. The editors have
triedtoreproduce thedetailsofthemanuscriptsasexactlyaspos-
sible. Editorial problems arising from damage to the manuscripts,
illegibility, etc. are indicated by means of the system explained in
theGuidetoEditorialNotationonthenextpage.
Thetextofthediaryentriesandrelatedmaterials,transcribed
and arranged by the editors, appears here for the first time as a
book.
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Guide to Editorial Notation
Mostofthisbookhasbeentranscribedfromunrevisedmanuscripts.
The text published here is as far as possible a verbatim transcript.
Problemsencounteredinreproducingthemanuscriptsareindicated
bymeansofthenotationshownbelow.
Notation TextualProblem
[......] Word(s)lostthroughdamagetothemanuscript.
[. . .] Illegible word(s), one group of three spaced dots for
eachpresumedword.
[ ]1 Superfluous word(s),oftenduplicatingwhatimmedi-
ately precedes; a footnote shows the word(s) as they
occurinthemanuscript.
[? ] Word(s) omitted by the author that could not be
suppliedbytheeditors.
[word] Word(s)omittedbytheauthororlostthroughdamage
to the manuscript that are required by grammar or
sense,andthatcouldbesuppliedbytheeditors.
[?word] Doubtfulreading.
[word]1 Emendationrequiredbygrammarorsense;afootnote
givesthemanuscriptreading.
w.[word] Abbreviationexpandedbytheeditors.
w[o]rd Letter(s)suppliedbytheeditors.
word[,] Punctuationsuppliedbytheeditors.
[note] Textual situationrequiringbrief explanation. Longer
explanations are provided in editorial footnotes,
which are printed in italics followed by “ Ed.” (Sri
Aurobindo’sfootnotesareprintedinromantype.)
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CONTENTS
Introduction
SaptaChatusthaya
SaptaChatusthaya 3
OutlineoftheSevenChatusthayas(RevisedOrder) 24
IncompleteNotesontheFirstChatusthaya 25
PartOne
DiaryEntries1909–1912
17–25June1909 33
28January–17February1911 38
13January–8February1912 47
1–25July1912 74
12October–26November1912 104
PartTwo
RecordofYoga1912–1920
26November–31December1912 117
1–31January1913 175
1–14February1913 228
1and12April,19and21May1913 240
4–30June1913 246
1–11July1913 274
5–21September1913 287
22–30September1913 302
11–23November1913 305
24November–2December1913 324
1–12December1913 334
12–21December1913 342
22December1913–15January1914 353
12March–14April1914 382
15April–1June1914 444
10June–29September1914 484
CONTENTS
29–30September–31December1914 631
1January–27February1915 779
22April–26August1915 830
19February–20March1916 909
9January–14February1917 919
15February–31March1917 958
15August–28September1917 994
14–28February1918 1021
3–27March1918 1033
20April–20May1918 1038
21May–1July1918 1083
24June–14July1919 1095
15–26July1919 1125
27July–13August1919 1147
14August–24September1919 1169
1–29February1920 1184
1March–10April1920 1200
7–26June1920 1225
17–19October1920 1239
PartThree
RecordofYoga1926–1927
December1926–6January1927 1245
7January–1February1927 1249
7–22April1927 1265
24–31October1927 1271
PartFour
MaterialsWrittenbySriAurobindoRelatedDirectlyto
RecordofYoga,c.1910–1931
UndatedRecordandRecord-relatedNotes,
c.1910–1914 1277
SortilegesofMayandJune1912 1285
UndatedNotes,c.November1912 1287
DraftProgrammeof3December1912 1289
CONTENTS
UndatedorPartlyDatedScript,1912–1913 1290
Sortilegeof15March[1913] 1311
Accountsof31May–15June1913 1312
RecordNotes,13and15September1913 1317
VedicExperience,14and15December1913 1319
UndatedNotes,c.1914 1321
NotesonImagesSeeninMarch1914 1323
UndatedScript,c.1920 1336
UndatedNotes,c.December1926 1337
UndatedNotes,c.January1927 1344
NotesonPhysicalTransformation,c.January1927 1345
Diagrams,c.January1927 1349
MiscellaneousNotations,c.February–April1927 1352
RecordofDrishti,30July1927 1353
UndatedScript,c.1927 1354
UndatedScript,c.1927–1928 1356
NotesonPropheticVision,1929 1358
Diagrams,c.1931 1359
UndatedScriptJottings 1361
PartFive
AutomaticWriting
“TheScribblings”,c.1907 1367
YogicSadhan 1371
AutomaticWritings,c.1914(FirstSet) 1400
AutomaticWritings,c.1914(SecondSet) 1404
AutomaticWriting,c.1920 1410
AutomaticWritings,c.1920 1411
Appendixes
MaterialfromDisciples’Notebooks
MiscellaneousNotes,c.1914 1453
SaptaChatusthaya ScribalVersion 1467
NoteontheTexts 1485
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