Sri Aurobindo's diary of his yogic practice between 1909 and 1927.
Sri Aurobindo's diary of his yogic practice between 1909 and 1927. This two-volume record of sadhana contains fairly regular entries between 1912 and 1920 and a few entries in 1909, 1911 and 1927. It also contains related materials Sri Aurobindo wrote about his practice of yoga during this period, including descriptions of the seven 'chatusthayas' (groups of four elements), which are the basis of the yoga of the 'Record'.
Yoganga—
Sapta Chatusthaya—
1) Siddhichatusthaya— Shuddhi, Mukti, Bhukti, Siddhi.
2) Brahma Chatusthaya— Sarvam Anantam Jnanam Anandam Brahma.
3) Karma Chatusthaya— Krishna, Kali, Karma, Kama
4) Shanti Chatusthaya— Samata, Shanti, Sukha, Hasya (Atmaprasada)
5) Shakti Chatusthaya— Virya, Shakti, Chandibhava, Sraddha.
6) Vijnana Chatusthaya— Jnana, Trikaladrishti, Ashtasiddhi, Samadhi
7) Sharira Chatusthaya— Arogya, Utthapana, Saundarya, Vividhananda
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)*. Sri Aurobindo wrote this outline during or not long after 1914 in an exercise-book used previously by one of his disciples for some of the notes published in the Appendix as “Material from Disciples' Notebooks”. In it the chatusthayas are listed in a different order from the one generally used in the Record. The “three general chatushtayas” come first, the one that Sri Aurobindo called the “means, the sum and the completion of all the rest” heading the list. Then follow the “four chatusthayas of the Adhara-siddhi”, the perfection or siddhi of the individual “vehicle” (ādhāra*).
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