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'.
Today—
Lipi, Rupa, Thought, Vani, Trikaldrishti, Power, none absolutely perfect, but moving nearer to perfection.
Tomorrow—
Thought perfect, Vani perfect, Trikaldrishti perfect in type; Power, Rupa, Lipi moving towards perfection.
Day after
Lipi perfect, Power in full force but not yet perfect. Rupa moving towards perfection.
Samadhi waits upon Rupa
It is this time seriously intended.
The script was suspended, not renounced. Today although the commencement has been unfavourable, good progress will be made, except in the physical siddhi, in which the enemy has permission to hold his own for three days more. Trikaldrishti is to be perfected today. That is the first siddhi. Afterwards the lipi has to be brought forward. The trikaldrishti has to move perfectly in all fields & with regard to time, place & circumstance even on the intellectual level.
Perfection is used as a relative term, but should be absolute. The script is not yet used through the highest agencies; it is only a reflection of the condition of the knowledge. There is therefore no help to be had from it which cannot be had from the other instruments of knowledge—Nevertheless it has to be used & perfected. The falsehoods suggested & uncorrected prevent the dasya from
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being entirely accepted, but the movement of anrita is a relapse of the intellect in body, not a movement justified by the actual condition of the siddhi—
The revolt against the dasyam where the directing Agency is not satisfactory nor plainly authorised, must cease. There is a perfect Wisdom governing the siddhi & the intellectual infallibility is well established except in that which doubts & judges & by doubting & judging confuses the intellect—
The tejas has not to be renounced, but justified
The trikaldrishti today will throw off the doubt & judgment, but not yet the uncertainties left behind by them in the action of the faculty in intellect. Lipi will justify the prediction—Rupa at last emerge & Power overcome for the last time the general obstruction. In the physical siddhi the Ananda will once more take hold. Samadhi will develop with the rupa. All this is for today.
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Sri Aurobindo wrote these notes headed “Vijnanachatusthaya” on a loose sheet of paper that was found inserted in a notebook used, among other things, for the Record of July 1912. The sheet, however, does not appear to be connected with anything in the notebook, and may have been put there simply as a placemark. The handwriting is that of 1912-14. It is possible that these notes are the “separate detailed record of the results” of the “formulated & steady activity for the regulation of the third chatusthaya” that Sri Aurobindo wrote of having “commenced” in the Record of 1 June 1914.
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