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The first edition of this biography in 1945 contained corrections by Sri Aurobindo himself. The third edition in 1972 was rewritten in the light of new material

Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history

  Sri Aurobindo : Biography

K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar

The first edition of this biography in 1945 contained corrections by Sri Aurobindo himself. The third edition in 1972 was rewritten in the light of new material

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References

All of Sri Aurobindo's quotations are from the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL) published in 1972. Almost all references from A.B. Purani's The Life of Sri Aurobindo are now from the fully revised and enlarged Fourth Edition of 1978. Most of the quotations from the Mother's writings have been given their references in the Collected Works of the Mother published in the late 70s. The Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is herein referred to only as Bulletin. The other references have been left as they were in our 1972 Edition.

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Renascent India and Sri Aurobindo

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 16

2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, pp. 402-04

3. Rig Veda, 1.46.11 (Translated by Sri Aurobindo; see SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 964)

4. Ibid., 1.50.10. (Ibid., p. 919)

5. Ibid., 1.92.6. (See SABCL, Vol. 10, p. 432)

6. Ibid., VII.76.4. (See SABCL, Vol. 10, p.123)

7. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 10, p. 43

8. Isha, 1

9. Brihadaranyaka, III. VII. 3ff.

10. Taittiriya, II 7; III. 6

11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 105

12. Ibid., pp. 106, 116-17

13. Ibid., p.295

14. From Sri Aurobindo's Bengali article 'The Problem of the Past', as translated by Niranjan in Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, 1967, p. 96

15. Ibid., pp. 99-100

16. S. K. Mitra, Resurgent India (1963), p. 31

17. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 399

18. Ibid., p. 407

19. lbid.,p.408

20. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, II, 11. 395-98

21. Quoted in Arabinda Poddar's Renaissance in Bengal: Quests

and Confrontations (WO), p. 17

22. Ibid.

23. Quoted in Alien J. Greenberger's The British Image in India (1969)

24. S. K. Mitra, Resurgent India, p. 35

25. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 408

26. M. Sircar, Eastern Lights (1935), p. 183

27. Dr. Wingfield-Stratfbrd in The History of British Civilisation, p. 964

28. Quoted in S. K. Mitra's Resurgent India, p. 76

29. Quoted in A. Poddar's Renaissance in Bengal, p. 81.

30. Ibid., p. 177

31. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 419

32. Ibid., p. 411

33. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 331

34. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual (1944), P. 2

35. Quoted in S. K. Mitra's Resurgent India, p. 389

36. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual (1948), p. 191

37. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, p. 1

38. A.B. Purani, The Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 205

39. Ibid., p. ix

40. Ibid., p. 293

41. Poems on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (1954), p. 3

42. A. B. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series(1959), p. 274

43. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, p. 709

PART ONE: HUMANIST AND POET

Chapter 2: Childhood, Boyhood and Youth

1. Purani, The Life, p. 10

Page 788

2. Ibid.

3. Chinmoy in Mother India, Dec. 1961

4. Ibid.

5. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 123

6. Purani, The Life, p. 1

7. Ibid.

8. Karmayogin, No. 7, Nov. 1909

9. Ibid.

10. Purani, The Life, pp. 3 & 319

11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, pp. 1,3

12. Purani, The Life, p; 7.

13. Ibid., p. 3

14. Lotika Basu, Indian Writers of English Verse (1933), p. 101

15. Purani, The Life, p. 4

16. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 202

17. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 1

18. Purani, The Life, p. 6

19. Ibid., p. 13; also Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p.2

20. Purani, The Life, p. 8

21. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 2

22. Purani, The Life, pp. 14-15

23. Ibid., p. 15

24. Ibid., pp. 16-19

25. Ibid., p. 20

26. Ibid., pp. 327-28

27. Ibid., pp. 21-22

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid., p. 35

30. Ibid., p. 24

31. Ibid., p. 11

32. Ibid., p. 86

33. Orient Illustrated Weekly, Vol. XIII No. 21,27 February 1949, pp. 6-7.

See also Purani, The Life, p. 21.

34. Purani, The Life, p. 321

35. Ibid., p. 26

36. Ibid.

37. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 3

38. Purani, The Life, p. 26

39. Ibid., p. 328

40. Ibid., p. 335

41. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 20, p. 4

42. Ibid., p. 2

43. Purani, The Life, p. 28

44. K. D. Sethna, Sri Aurobindo — The Poet (1970), p. 2

45. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 6

46. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 1

47. Ibid., p. 3

48. Ibid., p. 4

49. Ibid., p. 5

50. Ibid., pp. 16-18

51. Ibid., p. 22

52. Ibid., p. 20

53. Ibid., p. 24

54. Ibid., p. 9

55. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 6

56. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 26

57. Ibid., p. 28

Chapter 3: Baroda

1. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo (1966), p. 191

[Cf. Purani, The Life, p. 36]

2. Purani, The Life, p. 36

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 50

4. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 22, p. 121

5. Purani, The Life, p. 50

6. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 9 ,

7. Private information given by Prof. W. L. Kulkarni of Marathavada University,

who heard the story from the historian, Sardesai,

who had been of the Maharaja's party too.

8. Sri Aurobindo — 'The Perfect Gentleman' — Mother India,

August 1970, p. 408

9. Purani, The Life, p. 49

10. Ibid., p. 4-3

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid., p. 44

13. Ibid., p. 46

14. Ibid., p. 32

15. Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram (1948), p. 5 fn.

16. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 27

17. Ibid., p. 25

18. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 855 and Vol. 2, p. 150

19. Purani, The Life (I960), pp. 53,65. [Cf. p. 38 of 1978 Edition]

Page 789

20. Purani, The Life, p. 62

21. Ibid., p. 47

22. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 123

23. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, pp. 120-1

24. Purani, The Life, p. 63

25. Ibid., p. 64

26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol 3, pp. 130-31

27. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 11. 156-8

28. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 81

29. Purani, The Life, p. 41

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 9

31. Ibid., p. 15

32. Ibid., pp. 12-13

33. Ibid., p. 29

34. Ibid., p. 52

35. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 102

36. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, pp. 12, 13

37. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 36

38. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 655

39. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 58

40. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 23

41. Ibid., p. 14

42. Lizelle Raymond, The Dedicated (1953), pp.283-84

43. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 16, 43 and

Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 46

44. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 58

45. Purani, The Life, p. 52

46. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 22, p. 199

47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 18

48. Prabuddha Bharata, March 1942, p. 127

49. R. R. Diwakar, Mahayogi (1954), p. 50

50. Ibid.

51. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 57

Chapter 4: Translations

1. 'New Lamps for Old' is included in Sri Aurobindo's Political Thought:

1893-1908, edited by Haridas and Uma Mukherjee (1958), pp. 61-123; and

 the other series is reprinted as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Sri Aurobindo

 Ashram, 1954).[In SABCL, see Vols.1 and 17 resp. See also Vol.27, p. 349]

2. The reader is also referred to R. Bangaruswami's essay on

'Sri Aurobindo's Translations' in Mother India, September 1952,

pp. 36-41 and October 1952, pp. 33-40

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 9, p. 431

4. Ibid., pp. 431-33

5. Ibid., p. 433

6. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, p. 411

7. K. D. Sethna, Sri Aurobindo — The Poet, p. 62

8. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 33

9. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, p. 409

10. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 317

11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 9, p. 432

12. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, p. 304

13. Ibid., p. 302

14. Ibid., p. 301

15. Ibid., p.228

16. Ibid., p. 221

17. Ibid., p. 231

18. Ibid., p. 269

19. Ibid., p. 214

20. Ibid., p. 271

21. Ibid., p.2S4

22. Ibid., p. 298

23. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 347

24. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, p. 311

25. Ibid., p. 309

26. Ibid., p. 383

27. Life-Literature-Yoga (1967), pp. 95-96.

Also Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 253

28. Amers has been translated into English by Wallace Fowlie,

and the bilingual edition was published in the Bolingen series

(Pantheon Books) in 1958. The English translation is entitled Seamarks.

29. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 252

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, p. 359

31. Ibid., p. 362

32. Ibid., p. 371

33. Ibid., p. 378

34. Ibid., p. 382

35. A later edition of Vyasa and Valmiki (1964) includes also a fragment of the

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Tale of Nala, a fragment of Chitrangada and a fragment of Uloupie

(another version of the Chitrangada story), all in blank verse.

36. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 284

37. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 165

38. Ibid., p. 163

39. Ibid., p. 137

40. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8» pp. 3-4

41. Ibid., p. 7

42. Ibid., pp. 10-11

43. Ibid., pp. 11-13

44. Ibid., p. 16

45. Ibid., pp. 35-36

46. Ibid., pp. 38-39

47. Ibid., p. 56

48. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 153

49. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 335

50. Ibid., pp. 315-16

51. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, pp. 63,64,65,70, 71

52. Ibid., p. 61

53. Ibid., pp. 66, 68

54. Ibid., p. 13

55. Sri Aurobindo: Vol. 30: see Bibliography, No. 11, p. 21

56. Sri Aurobindo: Vol. 8, p. 194

57. Ibid., p. 206

58. Ibid., p. 165

59. Ibid., p. 190

60. Ibid., pp. 206,179, 184, 199, 205

61. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 304

62. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, p. 97; Vol. 3, p. 308; Vol. 27, p. 84

63. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 245

64. Ibid., p. 247

65. Ibid., pp. 238, 242 ...

66. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 8, pp. 102,106,117

67. Ibid., pp. 108,120

68. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 269 ;

69. Ibid., p. 270

70. Ibid., p. 279 .

71. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 7, p. 926

72. Ibid., pp. 959, 969

73. Ibid., p.916

74. Ibid., p. 949

75. Ibid., p. 953

76. Ibid.. p. 968

77. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 272

78. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 7, p. 979

79. Ibid., p. 982

80. Ibid., p. 989

Chapter 5: Epic and Romance

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 257

2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 189

3. Ibid., p. 315

4. Ibid., p. 190

5. Ibid., p. 192

6. Ibid., p. 194

7. Ibid., pp. 195-96

8. Ibid., pp. 202-03

9. K.D. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo (1947), p. 27

10. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 205

11. Ibid., p. 206

12. Ibid., p. 210

13. Ibid., p. 211

14. lbid.,p.2l3

15. Ibid.. p. 221

16. Ibid., p. 223

17. Ibid., p. 225

18. Ibid., p.22S

19. Ibid., p. 330

20. Ibid., p. 190

21. Ibid., p. 195

22. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 268

23. Ibid., p. 267

24. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 231

25. Ibid., p. 233

26. Ibid., p. 234

27. Ibid., p. 235

28. Ibid., p. 241

29. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 270

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 244

31. Ibid., pp. 247-48

32. Ibid., p. 249

33. Ibid., pp. 253-54

34. Ibid., p. 255

35. Ibid.. p. 257

36. Ibid., p. 282

37. Ibid., p.283

38. Ibid..p.284

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39. Ibid., pp. 285-86

40. Ibid., p. 287

41. Ibid., p.289

42. Ibid., p.290

43. Ibid., p.291

44. Ibid., pp. 292-93

45. Ibid., p. 293

46. K. D. Sethna, Sri Aurobindo — The Poet, p. 19

47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 281

Chapter 6: Dramas of Conflict and Change

1. Collected Poems and Plays, Vol. 1 (1942), Publisher's Note.

2. K. D. Sethna, Sri Aurobindo — The Poet, p.349 '

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 268

4. Appendix to The Viziers of Bassora (1959), pp. 201-2

5. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 2

6. Ibid., p. 8

7. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, pp. 367-68

8. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 201

9. Ibid., p. 26

10. Ibid., p. 41

11. Ibid., p. 53

12. Ibid., p. 92

13. Ibid., p. 94

14. Ibid., p. 134

15. Ibid., p. 150

16. Ibid., pp. 150-51

17. Ibid., pp. 157-58

18. Ibid., p. 173

19. Ibid., p. 180

20. K.D. Sethna, Sri AurobindoThe Poet, p. 349

21. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, pp. 110-11

22. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 197

23. Vide Prema Nandakumar's The Viziers of Bassora:

A Study' in Sri Aurobindo Circle, XXIII (1967), pp. 40-58

24. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 7, pp. 589-90

25. Ibid., pp. 597-98

26. Ibid., p.62\

27. Ibid., p. 630

28. Ibid., p. 646

29. Ibid., p. 672

30. Ibid., p. 704

31. Ibid., p. 133

32. Ibid., p. 735

33. Ibid., p. 690

34. Ibid., p. 698

35. Sri Aurobindo Circle, XXIII (1967), p. 52

36. Prema Nandakumar's 'Rodogune: A Study' in Sri Aurobindo Circle,

XXII (1966), p. 47

37. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 337

38. Ibid., p. 336

39. Ibid., p. 341

40. Ibid., p. 376

41. Ibid., p.3S3

42. Ibid., p.391

43. Ibid., p. 392

44. Ibid., p. 403

45. Ibid., p. 410

46. Ibid., pp. 432-33

47. Ibid., p. 469

48. Ibid.

49. Ibid., pp. 433-34

50. Sri Aurobindo Circle, XXII (1966), p. 81

51. Ibid., p. 84

52. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 2

53. Ibid.. p. 477

54. Ibid.

55. Ibid.p.485

56. Ibid., pp. 485-86

57. Ibid., p.487

58. Ibid., p. 484

59. Ibid., p. 489

60. Ibid., p. 488

61. Ibid., p. 502

62. Ibid., p.511

63. Ibid., p. 512

64. Ibid., p.521

65. Ibid., pp. 528-29

66. Ibid., pp. 529-30

67. Ibid., p. 535

68. Ibid., p.41S

69. Ibid., p. 546

70. Ibid, p. 556

71. Ibid.. p. 213

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72. Sri Aurobindo Circle, XXI, p. 51

73. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 219

74. Ibid., p. 233

75. Ibid., pp. 239-40

76. Ibid., p. 243

77. Ibid., p. 249

78. Ibid., pp. 252-53

79. Ibid., p. 253

80. Ibid., pp. 254-55

81. Ibid., p. 261

82. Ibid., p. 263

83. Ibid., p.264

84. Ibid., p. 266

85. Ibid., p. 268

86. Ibid., p. 270

87. Ibid., p. 271

88. Ibid., p. 273

89. Ibid., p. 211

90. Ibid., p. 314

91. Vide Prema Nandakumar's 'The Captivity Theme in Sri Aurobindo's Plays'

in Banasthali Patrika, January 1969, pp. 162-73

Chapter 7: Musa Spiritus

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 22, pp. 198-99

2. Ibid., p. 199 

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 63

4. Quoted in K.D. Sethna's Sri Aurobindo — The Poet, p. 352

5. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 63

6. Ibid., pp. 49, 50

7. Ibid., p. 47

8. Ibid., p. 44

9. Ibid., p. 41

10. Ibid., p. 29

11. Ibid., p. 19

12. Ibid., p. 47

13. Ibid., p. 46

14. Ibid., p. 42

15. Ibid., p. 43

16. Ibid., p. 145

17. Ibid., pp. 40, 41

18. Ibid., p. 39

19. Ibid., p. 53

21.. Ibid., p. 124

22. Ibid., pp. 124,125

23. Ibid., p. 54

24. Ibid-A, p. 51

25. Ibid., p. 55

26. Ibid., p. 56

27. Ibid., p. 57

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid., p. 58

30. Ibid., p. 59

31. Ibid., p. 61

32. Ibid., p. 297

20. Ibid., p. 54

33. Ibid., p. 298

34. Ibid., p. 300

35. Ibid., p. 303

36. Ibid., p. 304

37. Ibid., pp. 307, 308, 309, 310, 311

38. Ibid., pp. 311-12

39. Ibid., p. 70

40. Ibid., p. 71

41. Ibid., pp. 71-72

42. lbid.,p.11

43. Ibid., p.81

44. Ibid., p. 85

45. Letter to Amal Kiran, quoted in D.K. Roy's Anami, p. 275

46. Letter to Dilip Kumar Roy

47. Collected Poems and Plays, Vol. 1 (1942), Publisher's Note.

48. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 306

49. Ibid., p. 48

50. Ibid., p. 75

51. Ibid., p. 46

52. Ibid.

53. Letter to Dilip K. Roy

54. K. D. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, p. 15

55. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 157

56. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 201

57. Ibid., p. 239

58. Ibid., p. 298

59. Ibid., p. 10

60. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 7, p. 984

61. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p; 246

62. Ibid., p. 252

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PART TWO: PATRIOT AND PROPHET

Chapter 8: Bhavani Mandir

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol.1, p. 32

2. Life of Swami Vivekananda (by his Eastearn and Western Disciples),

pp. 586-87

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 23

4. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, pp. 99-1.00

5. Ibid., p. 101

6. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 293

7. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 16, p. 307

8. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 61

9. The Yoga and Its Objects (1921), reprinted (1931), p. 5

10. Letter to Joseph Baptista, dated 5 January 1920.

See Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 430. (Also in Purani, The Life, p. 168)

11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 654

12. Milton, Comus, II. 73-5

13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 107

14. Ibid.

15. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 658

16. From C. C. Dutt's Puranokatha — Upasanhara (Bengali),

quoted in Bulletin, Vol. XIII, 2, April 1961, pp. 158 and 160 fn.

17. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 25

18. From Abinash Bhattacharya's Galpa Bharati, cited in Keshavmurti's

Sri Aurobindo — The Hope of Man (1969), pp. 60-61

19. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 16

20. Ibid., p. 17

21. Ibid., p. 21

22. Ibid., p.22

23. Purani, The Life, p. 49

24. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 65

25. Purani, The Life ,p.51

26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 65

27. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences (1969), p. 38

28. Purani, The Life, p. 51

29. Ibid., p. 60

30. S. K. Mitra The Liberator (1954), p. 50

31. Ibid., pp. 47-48. The account is from C.C. Dutt's Puranokatha —

Upasanhara.

32. From Jadugopal Mukhopadhyaya's Viplavi Jivaner Smriti (Bengali)

as cited in English in Bulletin, XIII, 3, August 1961, p. 124 fn.

33. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, pp. 346-47

34. Purani, The Life, p. 65

35. This secret document was first published in Sri Aurobindo Mandir

Annual (1956), and has been reprinted in Purani's Life and Keshavmurti's

Sri Aurobindo — The Hope of Man. [In SABCL see Vol. 1.]

36. Quoted in Haridas & Uma Mukherjee's Sri Aurobindo and

the New Thought in Indian Politics (1964), pp. XXV-XXVI

37. Haridas and Uma Mukherjee, The Origins of the National

Education Movement (1957), p. 74

38. Quoted in Loving Homage (1958), p. 278

39. Foreword to G. H. Langley's Sri Aurobindo:

Poet, Philosopher and Mystic (1949)

40. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 51

Chapter 9: Hour of God

1. Haridas and Uma Mukherjee, India's Fight for Freedom, p. 17

2. Quoted in Bulletin, February 1963, p. 82

3. Surendranath Banerjee, A Nation in the Making, pp. 187-88

4. Quoted in Sri Aurobindo — His Life and Work as it appeared

serially in Bulletin, April 1961, pp. 152, 156

5. Henry Nevinson, The New Spirit in India, pp.220,222,226

6. Purani, The Life, p. 66

7. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 1

8. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, pp. 481-82

9. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, pp. 380, 379, 380.

10. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 102

11. Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (1983), p. 576

12. From the English translation of the letter published in Sri Aurobindo Mandir

Page 794

Annual (1967) pp. 117-21. "Letters to Mrinalini" are also included in

Purani's Life (2nd Edition), p. 97, and Keshavmurti's Sri Aurobindo —

The Hope of Man, pp. 88 ff. Cf. also Purani, The Life (1978), p. 79ff.

13. Bhavan's Journal, 22 July 1962

14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 125

15. Ramsay Macdonald, The Awakening in India.

16. Purani, The Life, p. 85

17. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 54

18. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 24

19. Quoted from Upendranath Bandopadhyaya's Galpa Bharati,

as cited in Sisirkumar Mitra's The Liberator, p. 74.

20. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 27-28

21. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, pp. 308-09

Chapter 10: Bande Mataram

1. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences (1969), p. 3

2. Haridas and Uma Mukherjee, Sri Aurobindo and the New Thought

in Indian Politics, p. xxi

3. Prema Nandakumar, Bharati in English Verse (1958), pp. 55, 59-60

4. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 481

5. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 28,59

6. Purani, The Life, p. 90

7. From an article in Swaraj, reproduced in Karmayogin,

and later included in Character Sketches, pp. 94-95

8. Foreword to Haridas and Uma Mukherjee's Sri Aurobindo and

the New Thought in Indian Politics, p. viii

9. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, pp. 595-600

10. Purani, The Life, p. 106

11. A. C. Mazumdar, Indian National Evolution (W5), pp. 111-12

12. Ibid., p. 112'

13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 31

14. Haridas and Uma Mukherjee, India's Fight for Freedom,

or The Swadeshi Movement: 1905-6 (1958), pp. 189-90

15. Sri Aurobindo, The Doctrine of Passive Resistance (1952),

Publisher's Note.

16. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 88

17. Ibid., p. 89

18. Ibid., p. 92

19. Ibid., p. 94

20. Ibid., p. 96

21. Ibid., p. 99

22. Ibid., pp. 107-08

23. Ibid., p. 110

24. Ibid., p. 112

25. Ibid., p. 114

26. Ibid., pp. 122-23

27. Ibid., p. 308

28. Ibid.

29. Bande Mataram, 8 July 1907

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 234

31. Bande Mataram, 12April 1907

32. Ibid., 29 June 1907

33. Bulletin, November 1963, pp. 78,80

34. Bande Mataram, 9 May 1907

35. Quoted in Ronaldshay's The Heart of Aryavarta (1925), pp. 89-91

36. Ibid., p. 91

37. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, pp. 414-15

38. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 21 July 1907

39. Ibid., 18 August 1907

40. D. K. Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Jaico Edition, 1964), p. 34

41. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual (1944), pp. 2-3

42. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 546

Chapter 11: The Nation's Pace-Maker

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 31

2. Bande Mataram, 29 May 1907

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 331

4. Ibid., p. 337

5. Ibid., p. 340

6. Ibid., p. 339

7. Ibid., p. 340

8. Ibid.

9. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, pp. 336, 337

10. Ibid., p. 337

11. Bulletin, August 1964, p. 110

12. Ibid., February 1966, p. 98

Page 795

13. Ibid., p. 100

14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 516

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid., p. 507

17. Ibid., p. 526

18. Ibid., pp. 125-26

19. Ibid., p. 568

20. Bande Mataram, 25 November 1907

21. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 613

22. Bande Mataram, 13 December 1907

23. Ibid., 27 November 1907

24. Ibid., 9 November 1907

25. Ibid. (Weekly Edition) 24 November 1907

26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 623

27. Ibid., p. 405

28. Ibid., p. 520

29. Ibid., pp. 485-87

30. Ibid.. pp. 600-01

31. Bande Mataram, 30 September 1907

32. Ibid., 3 September 1907

33. Ibid., 2 September 1907

34. Ibid., 3 September 1907

35. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 570

36. Ibid., pp. 586 ff.

37. Ibid., p. 644

38. Ibid., p. 649

39. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, pp. 352-53

40. Ibid., p. 348

41. Ibid.

42. Purani, The Life, p. 95

43. A. C. Mazumdar, Indian National Evolution. Appendix B, p. xliii

44. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 47-48

45. Ibid., p. 49

46. Ibid.

47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 639

48. Ibid., p. 850

49. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 12 January 1908

50. Bande Mataram, 15 February 1908

51. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 12 January 1908

52. Ibid., 16 February 1908. Now in Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1. p. 673.

[Later this play was considered, on the basis of certain documents,

to be Sri Aurobindo's and included in the SABCL.]

53. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 82

54. Ibid., p. 79

55. Paradise Lost, IX, 11., 1004-07

56. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 84

57. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 161

58. Purani, The Life, p. 291

59. Bulletin, August 1965, p. 108. (Translated from the Marathi Kesari.)

60. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, pp. 652-53

61. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 161

Chapter 12: On the Eve

1. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences (1969), p.6

2. Purani, The Life (1960), pp. 126-27. [Cf. 1978 Edition, pp. 104-05]

3. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 12

4. Ibid., pp. 14-15. Also see article on "Bagha Jatin" by

Prithwindra Mukherjee (Mother India, October 1964) 

5. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 47

6. Bulletin, February 1962, fn. p. 96

7. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 293

8. Ibid., p. 58

9. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, pp. 21,1516 :

10. Ibid., pp. 16-17

11. Ibid., p. 31

12. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 88

13. K. D. Sethna in the All India Weekly, April 1945, reviewing the first

edition of Sri Aurobindo by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar.

14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 851

15. Ibid., p. 858

16. Ibid., pp. 884-85

17. Ibid., p. 739

18. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 365

19. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, pp. 856-57

20. Ibid., p.887

21. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 26, 1967,pp.5-6

22. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 895

Page 796

23. Ibid., p. 742

24. Ibid., p. 795

25. Ibid., p. 754

26. Ibid., pp. 761-62

27. Ibid., pp. 802-03. (The Author's italics)

28. Ibid., p. 670

29. Ibid., p. 701

30. Ibid., p. 842

31. Ibid., p. 903

Chapter 13: Sadhana in Prison

1. India: Minto and Morley (1934), edited by Mary,

the Countess of Minto, quoted on p. 52

2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 861

3. Quoted in P. C. Ray's Life and Times of C. R. Das (1927), fn p. 58.

4. Paradise Lost, Book II, 11. 796 ff.

5. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 10 May 1908

6. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, pp. 22-23, 25

7. Ibid., p. 26

8. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 10 May 1908

9. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 27, p. 121

10. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 25

11. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 27, p. 126

12. Quoted from Govt. of India's Home Dept. Proceedings for May 1908,

Nos 104-11, in Haridas & Uma Mukherjee's

Sri Aurobindo and the New Thought in Indian Politics, xii (fn).

13. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 27, P. 120

14. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 13 June 1908

15. Ibid., 26 July 1908

16. Sri Aurobindo Annual. No. 27, pp. 14347 . ,

17. Ibid., p. 149

18. Ibid., p. 151

19. Ibid., p. 127

20. Tales of Prison Life (1972). Translated by S. K. Ghose, p. 35

21. Ibid., p. 36

22. Ibid., p. 42

23. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 27, P. 140

24. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 3

25. Ibid.

26. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (1944), p. 20

27. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 3

28. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 13, pp. 563-64

29. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 4

30. Ibid., p. 5

31. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No 27, p. 141

32. Ibid., pp. 151-52

33. S. K. Mitra, The Liberator (Jaico edn.), p. 130

34. Ibid., pp. 130-31

35. Purani, The Life, p. Ill

36. Ibid., p. 112

37. Ibid., p. 113

38. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 20, p. 285

39. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No 27, p. 154

40. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 14 June 1908

41. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 30

42. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 27, p. 139

43. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 4

44. Cf. Eardley Norton's Foreword to Bejoy Krishna Bose's

The Alipore Bomb Trial (1922)

45. Ibid., pp. 4-5. [Cf. P. C. Roy Chowdhury's C. R. Das and His Times

(1979), p. 59, and Purani, The Life, p. 109]

46. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 5

47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, p. 667

48. P. C. Roy, Life & Times of C. R. DOS, p. 62

49. Ibid.

50. Ibid.. pp. 59-64

51. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, pp. 4-5

52. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 39

53. lbid.,p.68

54. Justice S. R. Das in Mother India, January

Page 797

1959, p. 51. [Cf. Collected Works of N. K. Gupta, Vol. 7 (1978), p. 391]

55. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, p. 44

Chapter 14: Karmayogin

1. Based on Sri Aurobindo's ''Kara Kahini,

Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No.27,p. 120

2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, pp. 1-2

3. P. C. Roy, Life & Times of C. R. Das, p. 71

4. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 7

5. Ibid., p. 9

6. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 34

7. ft., p. 35

8. Ibid.. pp. 37-39

9. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, pp. 13,14

10. Ibid., p. 192

11. Ibid., p. 21

12. Ibid., pp. 91-92

13. Ibid., p. 151

14. Ibid., pp. 153, 154

15. Ibid., p. 116

16. Prema Nandakumar, The Glory and the Good (1965), p. 13

17. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 153

18. Ibid., p. 114

19. Ibid., p. 154

20. Ibid., pp. 61-62

21.Ibid., pp. 63-64

22. Purani, The Life, p. 116

23. Ibid.

24. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 27, pp. 4-5

25. Ibid., pp. 21-22

26. Ibid., No. 26, p. 85

27. Ibid., p. 81

28. Ibid., p. 83

29. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 124

30. Ibid., p. 125

31. Ibid., pp. 126-27

32. Ibid., p. 128

33. Ibid., p. 133

34. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 53

35. Ibid.. p. 33

36. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 197

37. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 35

38. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 16

39. Ibid., p. 18

40. Ibid., p. 19

41. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 346

42. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 41

43. Ibid., p. 109

44. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 356

45. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 74

46. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 204

47. Ibid., pp.'210, 211

48. Ibid., p. 207

49. Ibid., pp. 245-46

50. Ibid., p. 248

51. Ibid., p. 252

PART THREE: PILGRIM OF ETERNITY

Chapter 15: Chandernagore: Inn of Tranquillity

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, pp. 124-25

2. Ibid., p. 214

3. Rig Veda, I, 164.20 (from Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 12, p. 281)

4. See Uma Mukherjee, 'How Sri Aurobindo withdrew to Pondicherry',

reprinted in Mother India, August 1969, pp. 487 ff.

Mrs. Mukherjee arrives at the date 14th February on the basis of

Motilal Roy's letter to Nagendra Kumar Guha Roy (p. 489).

[Cf. Mom's article in Mother India, August 1962, p. 22.

Also see Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 58 to 63.]

5. Vide Prithwindra Mukherjee's note on the Hardings papers,

published as a letter in Mother India, September 1971, pp. 533-34

6. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, pp. 40-41

7. Purani, The Life, p. 132

8. Satprem, Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness,

translated from the French by Tehmi (1968), pp. 26869

9. Ibid., p. 247 10. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 37

Page 798

11. S. R. Dongerkery, "The Ivory Tower'

12. Bulletin, April 1969, p. 102

13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, pp. 38,39

14. Purani, Life, p. 133

Chapter 16: Pondicherry: Cave of Tapasya

1. Bulletin, February 1969, pp. 108-12

2. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 44

3. Ibid. Also Purani, Life, p. 150

4. Purani, Life, p. 152

5. Ibid.

6. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 2

7. Purani, Life, p. 145

8. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 132

9. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 61

10. Purani, Life, p. 151. Also Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 27, p. 426.

11. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, pp. 52-3

12. Ibid., p. 41

13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 7

14. Ibid.

15. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 153

16. Ibid., p. 139

17. Ibid., p. 138

18. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 64

19. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, pp. 211-12

20. Ibid., p. 212. Also Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 68

21. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 78

22. Ibid., p. 101

23. Ibid., p.78

24. Ibid.. p. 102

25. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 53

26. D. K. Roy, Among the Great

27. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 99

28. Ibid., p. 132

29. Ibid..p. 161

30. Ibid.

31. D. K. Roy, Among the Great (Jaico edn.), pp. 219-20

32. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 85

Chapter 17: Arya: A God's Labour

1. P. Richard, The Dawn over Asia

2. From -a report of an interview by Prithwindra Mukherjee,

published in the Sunday Standard, 15 June 1969.

3. Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 2, p. 47

4. Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 65

5. Ibid., p. 87

6. Ibid., p. 92

7. Ibid., p. 93

8. Ibid., p. 107

9. Ibid., p. 113

10. Ibid., p. 114

11. Ibid., p. 115

12. Ibid., p. 122

13. D. K. Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Jaico edn. 1964), p. 33

14. Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 1, p. 163

15. Ibid., p. 164

16. Ibid., p. 168

17. Ibid., p. 170

18. Ibid., p. 213

19. Ibid., p. 215

20. Ibid., p. 216

21. Ibid., p. 221

22. Ibid.. p. 225

23. Ibid., p.22S

24. Ibid., p. 233

25. Ibid., p. 236

26. Ibid., p. 237

27. Ibid., p. 249

28. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, pp. 393,394,395

29. Ibid., p. 396

30. Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 576

31. Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 1, p. 252

32. Ibid., p. 253

33. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 16, pp. 313-14

34. N. K. Gupta & K. Amrita, Reminiscences, p. 159

35. Ibid., p. 171

36. Ibid., p. 183

37. Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 1, p. 287

38. Ibid., p. 291

Page 799

39. Ibid., p. 292

40. Ibid., p. 294

41. Ibid., pp. 294-95

42. Mother India, September 1961, p. 5

43. S. K. Mitra, The Liberator (Jaico edn.), pp. 153-4

44. This and other quotations from the correspondence are taken from Purani,

Life, p. 160.

45. Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 1, pp. 302-03

46. Ibid., p. 308

47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 38

48. The Hindu, 10 May 1959

49. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, p. 596

50. Ibid., p. 651

51. Ibid., p. 652

52. Ibid., p. 654

53. Ibid., pp. 637-38

54. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, pp. 101, 102

Chapter 18: The Supramental Manifesto

1. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, 11. 55765

2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 22, p. 159

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. M. Heidegger, What is Philosophy? Translated by W. Kluback and

J. T. Wilde (1955)

6. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 582

7. Ibid., Vol. 17, pp. 399-400

8. Aldous Huxley, Text and Pretext (Phoenix edn.), p. 75

9. Elizabeth Barren Browning

10. Gerald Manley Hopkins

11. William Blake

12. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 1

13. Keats' Ode to a Nightingale

14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, pp. 10,24

15. Ibid., Vol. 17, p. 133

16. Ibid., Vol. 18, pp. 240-41

17. Ibid., pp. 264-65

18. Ibid., p. 220

19. Ibid., p. 221

20. Ibid., p. 117

21. Ibid., p. 121

22. Ibid., p. 124

23. Ibid., p. 174

24. Ibid., p. 186

25. Ibid., p. 202

26. Alexander Pope, Art Essay on Maw Book II

27. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 217

28. Ibid., p. 249, 250

29. Ibid., p. 269

30. Ibid., p. 270

31. V. Chandrasekharan, Sri Aurobindo: Three Essays (1961), pp. 100-01

32. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, pp. 485-86

33. Ibid., p. 289

34. Ibid., p. 78

35. Ibid., pp. 318-19

36. Ibid., p. 437

37. Ibid., Vol. 28, p. .1

38. Ibid., p. 301

39. Ibid., p. 239

40. Ibid.,Vol.l8,p.408-09

41. Ibid., p..410-ll

42. Ibid., p. 566

43. Ibid., p. 580

44. Ibid., p. 592

45. Ibid., pp. 623, 624, 625

46. Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 309

47. Ibid., Vol. 19, p. 633

48. Ibid., pp. 699, 700, 701

49. Ibid., p. 724

50. Ibid., p. 764

51. Ibid., p. 790

52. Ibid., p. 857

53. Ibid., p. 882

54. Ibid., pp.916,917,918

55. Ibid., pp. 937, 938

56. Ibid., pp. 277, 278

57. Ibid., pp. 939, 944, 950

58. Ibid., p. 956

59. Ibid., pp. 971, 972

60. Ibid., p. 982

61. Ibid., p. 1012

62. Ibid., p. 1060

63. Ibid., pp. 1034, 1036

64. Ibid., pp. 1059, 1070

65. Ibid., p. 922

Page 800

66. Ibid., p. 969

67. Ibid., Vol. 16, pp. 65, 66

68. Ibid., p. 69

69. V. Chandrasekharam, Sri Aurobindo's "The Life Divine" (1941), p. 105

70. Charles A. Moore, The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo,

edited by Haridas Chaudhuri & Fredrick Spiegelberg (1960), p. 107

71. S. K. Maitra, The Meeting of the East and the West in

Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy (1968), p. 65

72. Ibid., p. 300

73. Ibid., p. 194

74. Ibid., pp. 257, 271

75. Ibid., p. 222

76. Ibid., p. 102

77. Ibid., p. 437

78. Ibid., p. 334

79. F. Spiegelberg, The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, p. 53

80. Nicolas Corte's Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, His Life and Spirit,

translated by Martin Jarett-Kerr (1960)

81. Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man,

translated by Bernard Wall, p. 72

82. Ibid., p. 301

83. Ibid., p. 358

84. Quoted by K. D. Sethna in 'The Real Religion of Teilhard de Chardin',

Mother India, December 1966, p. 33

85. The Phenomenon of Man, p. 210

86. Ephesians, 1.10

87. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 158

88. Eva Olsson, The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo in the

Light of the Gospel (1959); pp. 70-71

89. Mother India, December 1966, p. 48

90. Ibid., March 1966, p. 38

91. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 117

92. Ibid.

Chapter 19: Lights on Scripture

1. Satprem, Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness, p. 302

2. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 26 (1967), p. 43

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid., p. 53

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid., p. 61

7. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 10, p. 35

8. Ibid., p. 36

9. Ibid., p. 24

10. Ibid., pp. 36-37

11. Ibid., p. 12

12. Ibid., p. 11

13. Ibid., p. 23

14. Ibid., p. 30

15. Ibid., p. 355

16. Ibid., p. 43

17. Ibid., Vol. 11, pp. 27, 28

18. Ibid., p. 30

19. Ibid., p. 34

20. Ibid., pp. 34, 35

21. Ibid., pp. 25,26

22. Ibid., p. 19

23. Ibid., p. 39

24. Ibid., p. 19

25. Ibid, Vol. 10, p.60

26. Ibid.,Vol.11, p.206

27. Ibid., p. 212

28. Ibid., p.30'J

29. Ibid., p. 388

30. Ibid., p. 400

31. T. V. Kapali Sastry, Further Lights:

The Veda and the Tantra (1951), p. 72

32. Ibid., p. 79

33. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 10, pp. 213,214

34. Ibid., p. 113

35. lbid.,p.2S2

36. Ibid., p. 283

37. Ibid., p.261

38. Ibid., p. 314

39. Ibid., p. 233

40. M. P. Pandit: 50th Birthday Commemoration Volume (1968), p. 81

41. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 12, p. 91

42. Ibid., pp. 67, 126, 127

43. The Mother, Vol. 1, pp. 251, 252

44. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 12, pp. 161,162,207

45. Ibid., Vol. 13, p. 7

Page 801

46. Ibid.. p. 552

47. Ibid., p. 16

48. V. Chandrasekharam, Sri Aurobindo: Three Essays, p. 9

49. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 13, pp. 34, 35

50. Ibid., p. 117

51. Ibid., p. 155

52. Ibid., p. 140

53. Ibid., p. 129

54. Ibid., pp. 292, 293

55. Ibid., p. 365

56. Quoted in Yogi Sri Krishnaprem by D. K. Roy (1968)

57. Sri Aurobindo, vol. 13, pp. 574, 575

Chapter 20: Man and Collective Man

1. The Mother, Vol. 2, p. 47

2. Ibid.

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 19, pp. 1048,1049

4. K. Gandhi, The Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (1965), p. 16

5. Milton, in Areopagitica

6. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, p. 2

7. Ibid., p. 3

8. Ibid., pp. 5-6

9. Ibid., pp. 6, 7

10. Ibid., pp. 7, 8

11. Ibid., p 12

12. Ibid., pp. 15,16

13. Ibid., p. 20

14. Ibid., p. 27

15. Ibid., pp. 50-52

16. Ibid., pp. 61-62

17. Ibid., p.'!3

18. Ibid., p. 80

19. Ibid., p. 82

20. Ibid., p. 114

21. lbid., Vol. 19, pp. 859-61

22. Ibid., Vol.15,p. 193

23. Ibid., p. 169

24. Ibid., p. 171

25. A Handbook of Marxism (1933), p. 47

26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, pp. 568, 569

27. Ibid., Vol. 17, p. 117

28. Ibid., Vol. 15, p. 206

29. St. John. X, 13, 34

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 84

31. Ibid.. Vol.. 15, p. 244

32. Ibid., p. 254

33. Ibid., p. 262

34. Ibid., p. 263

35. Ibid., pp. 267, 268

36. Ibid., p. 271

37. Ibid., p. 273

38. Ibid., pp. 273, 274

39. Ibid., p. 280

40. Ibid., p. 282

41. Ibid., p. 283

42. Ibid., p. 367

43. Ibid., p. 302

44. Bande Mataram, 18 August 1907

45. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, pp. 538, 539

46. Ibid., p. 381

47. Ibid., pp. 398, 399

48. Ibid., p. 485

49. Ibid., pp. 546, 547

50. Ibid., pp. 554, 555

51. Rabindranath Tagore, The Religion of Man (1931), p. 17

52. Arnold Toynbee, Civilisation on Trial (1948), pp. 262-63

53. S. Radhakrishnan, Religion in a Changing World (1967), p. 119

54. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, p. 239

55. Ibid., p. 575

56. Ibid., p. 582

57. Ibid.. p. 587

58. Ibid., pp. 596, 597

59. Ibid., pp. 642, 643

60. Ibid.. p. 647

61. Ibid., p. 607

62. Ibid., p. 623

63. Ibid., p. 632, 635

64. Ibid., p. 636

65. Ibid., p. 654

Chapter 21: Global Comprehension

1. India and the Future by William Archer (1917).

It is about 300 pages in bulk and carries 36 illustrations.

2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, pp. 44, 45

3. Ibid., p. 2

Page 802

4. Ibid., p. 13

5. Ibid., p. 33

6. Ibid., p. 37

7. Ibid., p. 48

8. Ibid., pp. 65,66

9. Ibid., p.69

10. Ibid., p. 75

11. Ibid., p. 84

12. Ibid., p. 86

13. Ibid., p. 96

14. Ibid., pp. 116, 117

15. Ibid., p. 117

16. Ibid., p. 123

17. Ibid., p. 126

18. Ibid., p. 138

19. Ibid., p. 171

20. Ibid., p. 183

21. Ibid., p. 187

22. Ibid., p. 195

23. Ibid., p. 202

24. Ibid., pp. 207, 208

25. Ibid., p. 215

26. Ibid., pp. 216-17

27. Ibid., p. 213

28. Ibid., p. 217

29. Ibid., p. 212

30. Ibid., p. 224

31. Ibid., p. 197

32. Ibid., p. 231

33. Ibid.,' Vol. 17, pp. 281, 282

34. Ibid.,' Vol. 14, pp. 203, 204

35. Ibid., p. 237

36. Ibid.,: pp. 242, 243

37. Ibid., pp. 250, 251

38. Ibid., p. 253

39. Ibid., p. 257

40. Ibid, pp. 266, 267

41. Ibid., pp. 270, 271

42. Ibid., p. 280

43. Ibid., p. 293

44. Ibid., pp. 298, 305

45. Ibid, p. 317

46. Ibid., p. 322

47. Ibid., pp. 324, 325

48. Ibid., p. 328

49. Ibid.. p. 329

50. Ibid., p. 332

51. Ibid., p. 334

52. Ibid., pp. 334, 335

53. Ibid.. pp. 340, 341

54. Ibid., p.343

55. Ibid., p. 350

56. Ibid., p.359

57. Ibid., p. 360.

58. Ibid., p. 372;

59. Ibid., pp. 380; 381

60. Ibid., p. 391

61. Ibid., p..431,432,433

62. Ibid., Vol. 16, p. 336

63. Ibid., p. 346

64. Ibid., p. 344

65. Ibid., p. 351

66. Ibid., pp. 360-61

67. Ibid., p. 352

68. Ibid., p. 370

69. Ibid., p. 371

70. T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, pp. 170-74

71. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 16, p. 371

72. Quoted in D. K. Roy's Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Jaico edn.), p. 107

73. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 110

74. The first two are from Essays on the Gita,

the third from The Renaissance in India,

the fourth from The Life Divine, and the last from The Superman.

75. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 85

76. Ibid., Vol. 16, pp. 384,382,381 and Vol. 17,pp.83,88,102,138

PART IV: ARCHITECT OF THE LIFE DIVINE

Chapter 22: Lighthouse

1. Purani, Life, p. 167-70 1 Mother India, June 1970, p. 261

3. From the English translation published in Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual

(1967), p. 123

4. Ibid., p. 124

5. Ibid., p. 126

6. Ibid., p. 127

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid., p. 129

Page 803

9. Ibid., p. 130

10. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 582

11. Ibid.. p. 39

12. From an article by the Mother, "How I became conscious of My Mission"

(Purani, Life, p. 175) originally published in a Chandernagore magazine.

Also in Bulletin, February 1976, p. 14.

13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 432

14. Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, First Series, recorded by

A. B. Purani (1959), pp. 28-30

15. Quoted in Dilip Kumar Roy's Tirthankara,p.354

16. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 169

17. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2 p. 24

18. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, p. 12

19. Ibid., Second Series (1964), p. 24

20. Ibid., First Series, pp. 60-61

21. Ibid., Second Series, pp. 20-21

22. Ibid., pp. 60-61

23. Sunday Times, 6 May 1951

24. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, pp. 64-65

25. Ibid., pp. 63-4

26. T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men 11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 68

28. The extracts are from Purani's own account given in his Life, p. 292

29. Ibid., p. 300

30. Ibid., pp. 301-02

31. D. K. Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Jaico edn.), p. 22

32. Bulletin, February 1970, p. 33

33. Ibid., April 1970, p. 41

34. Ibid., November 1970, pp. 30, 32

35. Purani, Life, pp. 177, 306

36. Ibid., p. 180

37. N. K. Gupta Reminiscences, pp. 79-80

38. Ibid., pp. 63-4

39. Purani, Life, p. 187

40. Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, p. 298

41. Ibid., pp. 298-99. Cf. 'A God's Labour' in Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 99

42. Ibid., pp. 302-04

43. Ibid., pp. 308-09

44. Ibid.,p.310

45. Ibid., p.3l2

46. Ibid., pp. 322-23

47. Ibid., p. 326

48. Mother India, 1970-72

49. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, p. 78

50. Ibid., p. 69

51. Ibid., Second series, p. 79

52. Ibid., pp. 102-05

53. Ibid., p.2SO

54. Ibid., pp. 293-94

55. Ibid., p. 395

56. Ibid., p.3l&

57. Mother India, December 1967, pp. 6678 (from her talks of 1930-1)

58. T. V. Kapali Sastry, Lights on the Upanishads(l94.1),p.95

59. Purani, Life, p. 217

Chapter 23: The Ten Limbs of the Yoga

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 280

2. Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, p. 295

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 22, p. 263

4. Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 1

5. Ibid., p. 4

6. Ibid., p. 18

7. Ibid., Vol. 21, p. 5&3

8. Ibid., p. 584

9. Ibid., p. 508

10. Ibid., pp. 515-16

11. Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 32

12. Ibid., pp. 254-55

13. Ibid., p. 274

14. Ibid., Vol. 21, p. 566

15. Ibid., p. 579

16. Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 257

17. Ibid., p.262

18. Ibid., p. 35

19. Ibid., p. 36

20. Ibid., p. 38

21. Ibid., Vol. 21, pp. 585-86

22. Ibid., Vol. 20, pp. 39, 40

23. Quoted in Satprem's Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness,

translated by Tehmi (1968), pp. 336-37

Page 804

24. Ibid., p. 340

25. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 20, pp. 263, 264

26. Ibid., p. 195

27. Ibid., p. 196

28. Ibid., Vol. 24, p. 1428

29. Ibid. Vol. 22, p. 12

30. Ibid. Vol. 24, p. 1668

31. Ibid., Vol. 22, p. 99

32. Ibid., p. 101

33. Ibid., pp. 189, 190

34. Ibid., p. 191

35. Ibid. Vol. 26, pp. 468-69

36. Ibid., Vol. 20, p.-47

37. Ibid.

38. Ibid., p.  

39. Ibid., p. 55

40. Ibid., p. 52

41. Ibid., Vol. 25, pp. 6-7

42. Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 61

43. Ibid., Vol. 25, pp. 36, 37,40

44. Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 267

45. lbid., Vol. 21, pp. 810, 834-35, 837,852

46. Ibid., Vol. 16, p. 20

47. Ibid., Vol. 29, pp. 705, 706,707

Chapter 24: The Yoga and the Ashram

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol 26, pp. 423,424

2. Ibid., p. 424,

3. Reprinted in Mother India, February 1964, and quoted in Narayan Prasad's

Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1965). pp. 176-77.

4. D. K. Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me. p. 38

5. Ibid., pp. 84-6

6. J. A. Chadwick, 'Arjava': -Poems (1939), p. 45

7. Ibid., pp. 177, 334-5

8. Mother India, October 1970, p. 560

9. Ibid., p. 563

10. Ibid., December 1970, p. 655

11. Ibid., March 1971, p. 108

12. Ibid., February 1967, p. 32

13. Ibid., p. 35

14. Nirodbaran, Sun-Blossoms (1947), p. 56

15. Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (1983), p. 127

16. N. Subbunarayanan in M. P. Pandit:

58 Birthday Commemoration Volume (1968),'p. 12

17. Narayan Prasad, Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram (1948), p. 53

18. P. B. St. Hilaire, The Message of Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram (1947),

p. 20. Also Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 20, p. 60

19. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 20, p. 61

20. Ibid., Vol. 23, p. 847

21. Ibid., p.Sl2

22. Ibid., p. 815

23. Ibid., p.818

24. Ibid., Vol. 26, pp. 502-03

25. Ibid., Vol. 16, p. 2

26. Ibid., pp. 5-6

27. Ibid.,Vol.25,p.231

28. Bulletin, April 1963, p. 23

29. Ibid., August 1964, p. 96

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 23, pp. 853, 854

31. Ibid., p. 856

32. Mother India, March 1971, pp. 114-15

33. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 23, p. 850 ,

34. Bulletin, August 1964, p. 45

35. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 25, p. 211

36. Ibid., Vol. 26, p. 425

37. Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 71

38. Mother India, December 1970, p. 650

39. Ibid., February 1967, p. 32

40. D.K. Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me, p. 51

41. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 474,475

42. Ibid., p. 159

43. Ibid., p. 153

44. Ibid.

45. D. K. Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came tit) Me, p. 51

46. Bulletin, August 1964, pp. 89-93

47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, p. 459

48. Ibid., Vol. 25, p. 282

49. Ibid., pp. 286, 287

50. Ibid., p.2&9

51. Ibid., p. 301

52. Ibid., p. 317

53. Narayan Prasad, Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 79

Page 805

54. Nirodbaran 's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (1983), p. 71

55. Ibid., p. 58

56. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 161

57. Nirodbaran, Sun-Blossoms, p. 23

58. J.A. Chadwick, 'Arjava': Poems, p. 116

59. Tehmi, Poem.p (1952), p. 1

60. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 23, pp. 859, 860

61. Ibid., Vol. 26, p. 493

62. Ibid., Vol. 23, p. 926

63. Ibid., pp. 641, 541

64. Quoted in Tirthankara (Among the Great), pp. 365-67

65. Nirodbaran's Correspondence -with Sri Aurobindo (1983), p. 605

66. Ibid., p. 542

67. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 23, pp. 637,638

68. Ibid.. Vol. 24, p. 1699, 1700

69. Ibid., Vol. 23, p. 715

70. Ibid., p. 716

71. Ibid., Vol. 24, p. 1470

72. Ibid., p. 1485

73. Ibid., Vol. 22, p. 250

74. Ibid., Vol. 23, p. 743

75. Ibid.. Vol. 24, pp. 1731,1733

76. Ibid., p. 1734

77. Ibid., Vol. 22, p. 475

78. Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (1983), pp. 461-62

79. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 9, p. 522

80. Ibid., p. 333

81. K. D. Sethna, Life-Literature-Yoga, pp. 188-89.

Also Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 342-43.

82. Ibid.,p.l80

83. Ibid., p. 222. Also in Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 336-37.

84. Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, p. 180

85. Ibid., First Series, p. 115.

Also Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, p. 738.

86. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 24, pp. 1608-09

87. Quoted in D. K. Roy's Suryamukhi. p. 411

88. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 22, p. 501

89. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 23, p. 628

90. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 9, p. 548

91. Ibid., p. 539

92. D. K. Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me, p. 155

93. Ibid., pp. 123-24

94. Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (1983), p.156

95. Ibid., p. 423

96. K. D. Sethna, Life-Literature-Yoga, p. 2

Chapter 25: Poet of Yoga

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 9, p. 8

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid., p. 16

4. Ibid., p. 24

5. Ibid., p. 21

6. Ibid., pp. 29, 30

7. Ibid.,p.36

8. Ibid., p. 43

9. Ibid., p. 44

10. Ibid., pp. 60-61

11. Ibid., pp. 65, 66

12. Ibid., pp. 83, 84, 85

13. Ibid., pp. 116, 117

14. Ibid., pp. 149, 150

15. Ibid., p. 160

16. Ibid.. p. 199

17. Ibid., pp. 203, 204, 207

18. Ibid., pp. 211, 212

19. Ibid., p. 217

20. Ibid., p. 231

21. Ibid., p. 233

22. Ibid., pp. 243,244

23. Ibid., p. 250

24. Ibid., pp. 278, 279

25. Ibid., p. 287

26. Ibid., p. 288 21. Ibid.

28. Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 523

29. Ibid., p. 524

30. Ibid., p. 575

31. Ibid., p. 526

32. Ibid.

33. Ibid., p. 531

34. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book, IV, pp. 323-24

Page 806

35. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 533

36. Ibid., p. 534

37. Ibid., p. 535

38. Ibid., pp. 535, 536

39. Ibid., p. 528

40. Ibid., p. 533

41. Ibid., p.356

42. Ibid., p. 375

43. Ibid., p. 381

44. Ibid., p. 533, 534

45. Ibid., p. 382

46. Ibid., p. 523

47. Ibid., Vol. 9, p. 10

48. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 375

49. Ibid., p. 810

50. Ibid., Vol. 9, pp. 392, 393

51. The Times Literary Supplement, July 3, 1943

52. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 571

53. Ibid., p. 578

54. Ibid., p. 582

55. Ibid., p. 571

56. Ibid., Vol. 26, pp. 274-75

57. Quoted in W. H. Garrod, The Profession of Poetry, p. 39

58. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, p. 36

59. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 589

60. Ibid., p. 103

61. K. D. Sethna, Sri Aurobindo—The Poet, p. 264

62. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 584

63. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 557

64. Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 101

65. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 728

66. Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 572

67. Ibid., p. 558

68. Ibid., p. 563

69. Ibid., p. 567

70. Ibid., p. 118

71. Ibid., p. 109

72. Ibid., p. 101

73. Ibid., p. 573

74. Ibid., p. 575

75. Ibid., p. 161

76. Ibid., p. 162

77. Ibid., p. 561

78. Ibid., p. 566

79. Ibid., p. 88

80. Ibid., p. 118

81. Ibid.,-p.615

82. K. D. Sethna, Sri Aurobindo — The Poet, p. 357

83. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo (1966), pp. 169-61.

Also Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, p. 280.

84. George Steiner, The Death of Tragedy (1961), p. 5

85. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 391

86. Ibid., p. 396

87. K. D. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, p. 74

88. Sri Aurobindo Vol. 5, p. 400

89. Ibid., 395

90. Ibid., 494

91. Ibid., pp. 506, 507

92. Ibid., pp. 503, 504

93. Ibid., p. 517

94. Ibid., pp. 452, 454

95. Ibid., p. 489

96. Ibid., p. 412

97. Ibid., p. 515

98. Quoted from Wright's Milton's Paradise Lost (1962) pp. 95-6,

as in Prema Nandakumar's article Approaches to 'Ilion'  in

Sri Aurobindo Circle, No. 20, p. 73

99. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, pp. 392, 393

100. Ibid., p. 422

101. Ibid., 481

102. Ibid., pp. 392,392,404,406,413,463, 483,489,512,519

103. Ibid., p. 391

104. Ibid., pp. 465, 466

105. Sri Aurobindo Circle, No. 20, p. 80

106. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 136

107. Ibid., p. 163

108. Ibid., p. 145

109. Ibid., p. 153

110. Ibid., p. 133

111. Ibid., p. 164

112. Ibid., p. 157

113. Quoted in P. Nandakumar's A Study of 'Savitri'(1962),p.469

114. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 140  

Page 807

115. Ibid.

116. Ibid., p. 151

117. Ibid., p. 131

118. Ibid., p. 134

119. Ibid., p. 152

120. Ibid., p. 148

121. Ibid., pp.166, 167

122. Ibid., p. 145

123. Ibid., p. 168

124. Ibid., p. 130

125. Ibid., p. 132

126. Ibid.. p. 137

127. Ibid., p. 150

128. Ibid.

129. Ibid, p. 155

Chapter 26: Savitri

1. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, pp. 154, 155

2. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 728

3. Sri Aurobindo Circle, No. 32 (1976)

4. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, p. 727

5. Ibid., pp. 728, 729

6. Ibid., p. 730

7. Ibid., p.731

8. Nirodbaran's ''Our Association with Sri Aurobindo',

in Mother India, February 1970,p. 32

9. Ibid., p. 31

10. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo (1966), p. 156

11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, pp. 731-32

12  Ibid., Vol. 28, p. 3

13. Ibid., pp. 46, 47

14. K. D. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, p. 114

15. Raymond F. Piper, The Hungry Eye:

An Introduction to Cosmic Art, pp. 131-32

16. Sri Aurobindo Circle, No. 32 (1976)

17. Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (1983), pp. 543-44

18. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 9, p. 267

19. Ibid-.Vol. 28, pp. 12, 15, 19

20. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, p. 294

21. Mother India, June 1971, p. 328

22. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, pp. 2, 3, 9

23. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 724

24. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo (1966), p. 155

25. Mother India. June 1971, p. 312

26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, pp. 435,436

27. Ibid.,Vol.28,p.11

28. Ibid., p.

29. Wintemitz, A History of Indian Literature, Vol. 1,

translated by Mrs. S. Ketkar, p. 397

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 6, p. 534

31. Ibid.,Vol.28,p.l7

32. Ibid., pp. 14-15

33. Ibid., p.22

34. Ibid., p. 27

35. Ibid., p. 34

36. Ibid., p.44

37. Ibid., pp. 79, 80

38. Ibid., p.9\

39. Ibid., p. 88

40. Ibid., p. 3,00

41. Ibid., pp. 312, 313, 314

42. Ibid., pp. 341, 345

43. Ibid., p. 346

44. Ibid., Vol. 29, pp. 353, 349, 349, 351, 355

45. Ibid., p. 356

46. Ibid., pp. 372, 373

47. Ibid., p. 379

48. Ibid.. p. 393

49. The Advent, August 1964, p. 50

50. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, pp. 409,411

51. Ibid., p.475

52. Ibid., pp. 475,476

53. Ibid., p. 557

54. Ibid., p. 565

55. Ibid., p. 574

56. Ibid.. pp. 664,665

57. Ibid., pp. 667, 668

58. Ibid., p. 679

59. Ibid., pp. 686, 692

60. Ibid., p. 694

61. Ibid.. pp. 698, 699

62. Ibid., p. 759

63. Ibid., p.794

64. Ibid., Vol. 28, p. 1.

65. Ibid., Vol. 29, pp. 733-34

Page 808

66. Ibid., pp. 734, 735, 753, 736

67. Ibid., pp. 788, 789, 790

68. Ibid., p. 743

69. Ibid., p. 759

70. Ibid., p. 804

71. Ibid., p.802

72. Ibid., p..813,814

73. Ibid., pp. 814, 815, 816

74. Ibid., Vol. 28, pp. 1,4, 15, 74, 119

75. Ibid., p. 137

76. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 418

77. Ibid., p. 445

78. Ibid., p.738

79. Ibid., Vol. 28, pp. 206, 207

80. Ibid.,p.208

81. Ibid., pp. 211, 212

82. Ibid., p. 216

83. Ibid., p..291,292

84. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 785

85. Ibid., p. 750

86. Huta, Meditations on Savitri, Prefatory statement

87. Letter dated 21 July 1960 to Prema Nandakumar,

whose thesis has since been published as A Study of 'Savitri' (1962).

88. Quoted by J. B. Leishman, in his Introduction to Rilke's Poems, pp. 18-19

Chapter 27: Identity with God

1. Quoted in Sri; Aurobindo by Navajata (1972), p. 92

2. Nirodbaran's Sri Aurobindo: 'I am here, I am here',

in Mother India, May 1951

3. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series p. 111

4. Ibid., p.304

5. Ibid., p. 270

6. Ibid., p. 136

7. Ibid.

8. Nirodbaran, 'Talks with Sri Aurobindo', Mother India, March 1971, p. 89

9. Ibid., July 1969, p. 396

10. Ibid., March 1971, p. 89

11. Purani, Evening Talks, First series, p. 124

12. Mother India, January, 1970, p. 789

13. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, P. 132 .

14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 110

15. Ibid., Vol. 26, p. 38

16. Nirodbaran, 'Talks with Sri Aurobindo', Mother India, May 1969, p. 250

17. Mother India, October 1969, p. 612

18. Ibid., January 1970, p. 786

19. Ibid., April 1970, p. 142

20. Ibid., May 1970, p. 204

21. Ibid., April 1970, p. 143

22. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 112

23. Ibid., Vol. 28, pp. 214, 215

24. Mother India, May 1971, p. 255

25. From a lecture delivered at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry,

early in 1971, and reproduced in Mother India, February 1971, p. 29.

26. Mother India, June 1970, p. 266

27. Ibid. p. 267

28. Ibid., p.268

29. Ibid., February 1971, p. 20

30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 38-39

31. Ibid., Vol. 26, p. 170

32. S. K. Mitra, The Liberator (Jaico edn. 1970), pp. 217-18

33. The Advent, November 1954, pp. 30405  

34. Mother India, December 1969, p. 691

35. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, p. 215

36. The letter, dated 3 Sept. 1943, appears along with Dilip Kumar Roy's

in Mother India, May 1971, pp. 241-46;

37. Mother India, August, 1970, p. 401

38. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 169

39. Ibid., pp. 169, 170

40. The Advent, August 1947, pp. 129-30

41. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 171

42. Mother India, September 1949

43. Bulletin, August 1949, pp. 41-43

44. Ibid., April 1950, p.l7

45. Ibid., August 1950, p. 9

46. Ibid., November 1950, p. 25

47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, p. 567

48. Harry S. Truman, Memoirs, Vol. 2, (Signet edn.), p. 386

Page 809

49. Ibid., p. 413

50. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 25, pp. 230, 231

51. Letter to Dilip, quoted in Sri Aurobindo Prasange, p.92

52. Mother India, March 1953, p. 57

53. Liselle Raymond's "The Role of Flowers' in Mother India,

February 1954, p. 14

54. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 196

55. N. K. Gupta, The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Part 1, pp. 50-1

56. The Advent, November 1950, pp. 26465

57. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, p. 66

58. Ibid., Vol. 29. p. 531

59. K. D. Sethna, Mother India, August 1949

60. Translated Tinkori Mitra, Mother India, December 1955, pp. 64-65

61. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 16, p. 411

62. The Mother, Vol. 3, p. 2

63. Vide Dilip's article 'My Last Week with Gandhiji' in

Mother India, August 1959

64. Mother India, August, 1949, translated from Bengali by Dilip

65. Ibid.

66. Ibid., September 1952, p. 2

67. Sri Aurobindo, Vol 26, p. 507

68. Ibid.

69. Ibid., p. 209

70. Reported by Dr. P. Sanyal in 'A Call from Pondicherry',

Mother India, December 1953, p.187

71. Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, Published by the Sri Aurobindo International

Centre of Education (1954). Editor's Note, p. 817

72. Mother India, February 1954, pp. 46-47

73. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 132

74. Mother India, March 1971, pp. 112-13

75. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, p. 91

76. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 445

77. 'My Last Darshan of Sri Aurobindo', Mother India, February 1951

78. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, p. 7

79. Ibid.,Vol.29,p.447

80. Ibid., p. 459

81. Ibid., pp. 460, 461

82. K. D. Sethna, The Passing of Sri Aurobindo, p. 5  

83. Chimanbhai D. Patel's talk on 'What Sri Aurobindo Stands For' at

Bangalore on 5 February 1967, Mother India, August 1967, pp. 435-36.

84. Mother India, February 21, 1951

85. D. K. Roy's Among the Great (Jaico edn.), p. 359

86. Talk on 'Sri Aurobindo — The Perfect Gentleman' on

12 June 1970 (Mother India, August 1970, p. 413)

87. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, pp. 446-47

88. Mother India, February 1955, p. 12

89. Nirodbaran's Sri Aurobindo: 'I am here I am here', p. 24

90. Stephen Langton's Sequence in Mass of Pentecost,

translated by Robert Bridges. 

EPILOGUE

Chapter 28: Sri Aurobindo's Action

1. A. R. Ponnuswami Iyre's article in Sunday Times (Madras),

Sri Aurobindo Memorial Number, 17 December 1950

2. Mother India, December 1969, p. 696

3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 456

4. Ibid., pp. 455, 456

5. Ibid., Vol. 25, pp. 33, 34, 35

6. Mother India, June 1968, p. 355

7. Ibid., 15 August 1951

8. Ibid., September 1952, p. 3

9. Ibid., p.2

10. The Advent, April 1951, p. 134

11. Quoted in Ravindra Khanna's article on 'The Master's Compassion'

in the Advent, February 1951, pp. 44-45

12. Mother India, January 1955, p. 40

13. Ibid., June 1953, p. 27

14. Ibid., March 1955, pp. 19-20

15. Ibid., p. W

16. Bulletin, April 1949, p. 28

17. Mother India, February 1971, p. 13

18. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, p. 707

19. Mother India, May 1956, p. 1

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20. Bulletin, August 1958, pp. 85-86

21. The Advent, February 1952, pp. 8-9

22. Mother India, August 1970, p. 398

23. Quoted by Jay Smith in Mother India, July 1957, p. 51

24. S. N. Jauhar, Pioneer of the Supramental Age (1958), pp. 14-15

25. Ibid., pp. 57-60

26. Melville de Mello's AIR broadcast on 5 December, 1957,

Pioneer of the Supramental Age, p. 21)

27. Mother India, March 1971, p. 115

28. Vide report of the Convention published in The Advent,

August 1951, pp. 207-28

29. Mother India, December 1952, p. 72

30. Ibid., September 1952, p. 6

31. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 204. Also in A Scheme of Education,

edited by Pranab Bhattacharya (1952), p. 32

32. The Mother, Vol. 12, pp. 37-38

33. The Mother, Vol. 2, pp. 47-48

34. The Mother, Vol. 1, p. 113

35. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, p. 231

36. Ibid., p. 24-2

37. Ibid., p. 251

38. Ibid., p. 554

39. Mother India, July 1954, pp. 49-50

40. Ibid., September 1968, pp. 651-52

41. Ibid., April 1969, pp. 175-76

42. Ibid., December 1969, pp. 706-7

43. Ibid., April 1970, pp. 164, 166

44. Ibid., March 1971, pp. 116-17

45. Ibid., pp.33-36

46. Ibid., February 1971, pp. 40-42

47. Ibid, June 1971: Gene's "A Poet's Letter from Auroville",

addressed to Amal, pp. 334-35

48. The Mother, Vol. 13, p. 3

49. Ibid., p. 10

50. Sri Aurobindo, Vol 17, p. 1

51. Ibid., Vol 29, p. 705

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