INDEX and GLOSSARY

 

OF SANSKRIT AND OTHER INDIAN TERMS

 

 

Contents

 

Pre-content

 

 

NOTE ON THE CENTENARY LIBRARY

 

 

SRI AUROBINDO: LIFE AND WORKS

  Sri Aurobindo A Life Sketch 

 

 

CHRONOLOGY

  Of Sri Aurobindo's Life

 

 

CONTENTS

  Of the Centenary Library

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Of the Works of Sri Aurobindo

 

 

PERIODICALS

  With which Sri Aurobindo was Associated

 

 

ESSAYS, SPEECHES

  And Other Shorter Works.

 

 

POEMS

  Title Index

 

 

TRANSLATIONS

  Title Index

 

 

INDEX TO THE CENTENARY LIBRARY ....

 

 

GLOSSARY OF SANSKRIT AND OTHER INDIAN TERMS

 

APPENDIX TO THE GLOSSARY

List of Longer Passages from Sanskrit Texts Cited and Translated by Sri Aurobindo

 

 

APPENDIXES

  APPENDIX 1  
    Sri Aurobindo's Notes on Certain English Terms Occurring in His Works
  APPENDIX 2  
    List of Citations Appearing in The Life Divine
  APPENDIX 3  
    List of Vedic Translations and Citations
  ERRATA

 

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

This bibliography lists all of Sri Aurobindo's writings in English which have appeared in book form. It includes not only works that came out prior to the passing of Sri Aurobindo in December 1950 but also those reproduced from manuscripts or journals after that date. Books compiled from already published works have been omitted.

Although most of these titles have run into numerous editions, this bibliography gives information about the first edition only; subsequent editions are mentioned only if they included new material or if they were revised by the author.

Where necessary, cross-references are given; for example, in title-entry number 1. After the War, the cross-reference (See 28, 100) refers to title-entry numbers 28 and 100 in this bibliography.

At the end of each entry is given the number of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL) volume in which the work can now be found.

A list of the journals with which Sri Aurobindo was associated is added at the end of the bibliography.

 

 

1. AFTER THE WAR

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1949

 

First published as an article in the Arya, August 1920.

Issued as a pamphlet in 1949. Included in War and Self-Determination since 1957 (See 28, 100).

 

SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15

 

2. THE AGE OF KALIDASA

Tagore & Co., Madras, 1921

 

Written during the Baroda period (1893-1906). First appeared in the Calcutta Review. Published in book form with Kalidasa's "Seasons" since 1929 under the title Kalidasa (See 35).

 

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

3. AHANA AND OTHER POEMS

Printed at The Modern Press, Pondicherry, 1915

 

Includes 25 poems: Ahana, Invitation, Who, Miracles, Reminiscence, A Vision of Science, Immortal Love, A Tree, To the Sea, Revelation, Karma, Appeal, A Child's Imagination, The Sea at Night, The Vedantin's Prayer, Rebirth, The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou, Life and Death, Evening, Parabrahman, God, The Fear of Death, Seasons, The Rishi, In the Moonlight.

 

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"Ahana", a poem of 172 lines, is a revised and enlarged version of     the last 160 lines of "The Descent of Ahana", an earlier draft found among Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts. This version of 172 lines, further revised and enlarged to 520 lines, was published in Collected Poems and Plays, 1942 (See 13). SABCL Volume 5 includes two versions: the first draft "The Descent of Ahana" (p. 537) and the revised and enlarged "Ahana" of 520 lines (p. 523).

"Invitation" was composed in the Alipore Jail in 1908 or 1909 and     first published in the weekly Karmayogin, November 6, 1909.

"Who" was first published in Karmayogin, November 13, 1909. In SABCL "Karma" and "Appeal" appear in Volume 8.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

Translations, Vol. 8

 

4. ANANDAMATH

Basumati Sahitya Mandir, Calcutta (no date)

 

A translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji's Bengali novel. The prologue and the first thirteen chapters of Part I were translated by Sri Aurobindo, the rest by his brother Barindra. The parts translated by Sri Aurobindo first appeared in the Karmayogin, intermittently between August 7, 1909 and February 12, 1910.

In SABCL only the prologue and the chapters translated by Sri Aurobindo are given in Volume 8.

SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8

 

5. BAJI PRABHU

Arya Office, Pondicherry, 1922

 

First appeared in the Karmayogin between February 19 and March 5, 1910 (See 13).

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

6. BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJI

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1954

 

First appeared in the Indu Prakash, Bombay between July 16 and August 27, 1894, in seven instalments.

 

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

7. BANKIM - TILAK - DAYANANDA

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1940

 

Contents:

1. "Bande Mataram", a translation of the national song (in verse and

 

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prose), first appeared as part of the translation of Chapter IX of Anandamath in the Karmayogin, November 20, 1909.

2. "Rishi Bankim Chandra", an essay, first appeared in the Bande Mataram, April 16, 1907 and was later reprinted in Rishi Bankim Chandra (See 74).

3. "Bal Gangadhar Tilak", an essay, first appeared as an introduction to Bal Gangadhar Tilak: His Writings and Speeches (Ganesh & Co., Madras, 1918).

4. "Dayananda: The Man and His Work" and "Dayananda and the Veda", essays, first appeared in The Vedic Magazine, Lahore, in 1915 and 1916 respectively (See 16).

5. "The Men that Pass", an essay on R. C. Dutt from the Karmayogin, December 4, 1909.

 

In SABCL "Bande Mataram" appears in Volume 8 and the rest in Volume 17.

 

SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8

The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

8. BASES OF YOGA

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1936

 

Extracts from letters to disciples arranged under various headings.    

In SABCL mostly incorporated into Volumes 22, 23 and 24.

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

9. THE BIRTH OF THE WAR GOD

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952

 

Booklet. Reprinted from the Sri Aurobindo Circle, 1952.

Three translations of the first canto of Kalidasa's epic Kumarasambhavam.

The manuscript bears the date January 15, 1918.

SABCL includes an incomplete translation of Canto Two.

 

SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8

 

10. THE BRAIN OF INDIA

Prabartak Publishing House, Calcutta, 1921

 

First published in four instalments in the Karmayogin, October 9 to November 13, 1909.

 

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

11. THE CENTURY OF LIFE

The Shama's Publishing House, Madras, 1924

 

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The Nitishataka of Bhartrihari freely rendered into English verse. The translation was completed by Sri Aurobindo during the early years of his stay in Pondicherry, although most of it was done earlier, a few pieces having been published in a magazine of the Baroda College in the 1890's. Some of the epigrams appeared in the Karmayogin, March 19, 1910 and in the Arya, December 1917 and November 1918.

 

SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8

 

12. CHITRANGADA

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1949

 

Booklet. Reprinted from Sri Aurobindo Circle, 1949.    

Fragment of a poem which had been completed by Sri Aurobindo, but of which the original manuscript was lost. Only the opening passages, which had been published in the Karmayogin, March 26 and April 2, 1910, were preserved. These passages were reprinted in the Sri Aurobindo Circle, 1949, with minor revisions by the author.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

13. COLLECTED POEMS AND PLAYS

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1942

 

Published in two volumes and arranged according to the date of composition.

Volume I, Contents:

1890-1902: Songs to Myrtilla (See 81), Urvasie (See 93), Love and Death (See 51).    

1895-1908: Poems: Ahana and Other Poems, excluding "Ahana" (See 3), Perseus the Deliverer (See 65).    

Volume II, Contents:

1895-1908: Translation: Vikramorvasie (See 97).    

1902-1915: Baji Prabhou (See 5); Nine Poems: "The Mother of Dreams", composed in Alipore Jail in 1908 or 1909 and first published in the Modern Review, July 1909; "An Image", "The Birth of Sin", "Epiphany", first published in the Karmayogin, November 20, December 11 and 18, 1909 respectively; "To R", first published in the Modern Review, April 1910; "The Rakshasas", "Kama", "The Mahatmas", first published in the Standard Bearer, November 14 and 28 and December 12, 1920; "Ahana" (revised and enlarged version of 520 lines; See 3). Translations: The Century of Life (See 11), "Hymn to the Mother" ("Bande Mataram"; See 7); "Vidula", originally appeared under the title "The Mother to Her Son" in the weekly Bande Mataram, June 9, 1907; Songs of the Sea (See 79).

1930: Six Poems (See 78); "Transformation" and other poems, first published in 1941 under the title Poems (See 67).

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Translations: "Mother India", "Mahalakshmi".

Appendix I: Essay: "On Quantitative Metre"; Poems: "Ocean Oneness", "Trance of Waiting", "Flame-Wind", "The River", "Journey's End", "The Dream Boat", "Soul in the Ignorance", "The Witness and the Wheel", "Descent", "The Lost Boat", "Renewal", "Soul's Scene", "Ascent (I): The Silence", (2): "Beyond the Silence", "The Tiger and the Deer", "Ilion" (the opening passages of the epic; See 33).

Appendix II: Bibliography.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

Collected Plays, Vols. 6, 7 

Translations, Vol. 8

 

14. CONVERSATIONS OF THE DEAD

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1951

 

Originally written in 1909 or 1910 for the Karmayogin; only two of the pieces were published in the journal: "Dinshah — Perizade" and "Turin—Uriu", February 12 and 19, 1910 respectively. The others were first published by the Standard Bearer: "Mazzini — Cavour — Garibaldi", November 7, 1920, "Shivaji — Jai Singh", December 26, 1920, "Littleton — Percival", May 29 and June 5, 1923.

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

15. CORRESPONDENCE WITH SRI AUROBINDO

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, Series I in 1954, Series II in 1959    

Combined edition in 1969

 

Sri Aurobindo's replies to a disciple's questions on matters relating to Yoga, poetry, medicine etc. The disciple's questions are given. In SABCL some of Sri Aurobindo's replies appear in Volumes 9, 22, 23, 24 and 26.

 

SABCL: The Future Poetry, Vol. 9

Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

On Himself, Vol. 26

 

16. DAYANANDA: THE MAN AND HIS WORK

Gurukula Vishvavidyalaya, Kangri, 1920

 

A reprint of two articles which first appeared in The Vedic Magazine, Lahore, in 1915 and 1916.

The second article, "Dayananda and the Veda", was reprinted 'in 1920 by the Tract Publishing Society (Arya Kumar Sabha, Calcutta).

The two were reissued together in 1939 as Swami Dayanand Saraswati (See 87) and later included in Bankim — Tilak — Dayananda (See 7).

 

SABCL: The Hour of God, Vol. 17

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17. THE DOCTRINE OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1948

 

A series of articles from the daily Bande Mataram, April 11 to 23, 1907, and an article "The Morality of Boycott" written for the Bande Mataram but not published in that journal; it was produced as an exhibit in the Alipore Bomb Case (May 1908).

SABCL: Bande Mataram, Vol. 1

 

18. EIGHT UPANISHADS

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1953

 

Translations of the Isha, Kena, Katha, Mundaka, Mandukya, Prashna, Taittiriya and Aitareya Upanishads, with texts, and an essay "On Translating the Upanishads" as an introduction.

Isha. A translation was published in the Karmayogin, June 19,1909; another translation with notes appeared in the Arya, August 15, 1914, followed by an analysis in subsequent issues. This later translation and analysis was published separately as Isha Upanishad in 1921, a Second Edition, revised and enlarged, appeared in 1924 (See 34).

Kena: A translation was published in the Karmayogin, June 26, 1909; another translation with notes in the Arya, June 1916, followed by a commentary in subsequent issues. This later translation and commentary were published as Kena Upanishad in 1952 (See 39). A revised version was issued in 1970.

Katha: Translation in the Karmayogin, July 3, 1909 and July 31 to August 28, 1909. Later came out as Katha Upanishad (See 38). Subsequently received partial revision.

Mundaka: Translation in the Karmayogin, February 5, 12 and 26, 1910. A revised translation appeared in the Arya, November-December 1920.

Mandukya and Prashna: from manuscripts.

Taittiriya and Aitareya: from early Baroda manuscripts.

On Translating the Upanishads: from a Baroda manuscript.

The Karmayogin translations of the Isha, Kena and Mundaka were reprinted in Seven Upanishads by Ashtekar & Co., Poona in 1920.

SABCL: The Upanishads, Vol. 12

 

19. ELEMENTS OF YOGA

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1953

 

Brief answers to elementary questions about Yoga, written between 1933 and 1936.

In SABCL only some of these answers have been included.

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24 

The Mother, Vol. 25

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20. ERIC: A Dramatic Romance

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1960

 

Written in Pondicherry in 1912 or 1913.

 

SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 6

 

21. ESSAYS ON THE GITA

V. Ramaswamy Sastrulu & Sons, Madras, First Series, 1922

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, First Series in 1926, Second Series in 1928

Combined Edition:

Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1950    

Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1959

 

First published in the Arya in two series: First Series from August 1916 to July 1918, and Second Series from August 1918 to July 1920.

 

SABCL: Essays on the Gita, Vol. 13

 

22. EVOLUTION

Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Calcutta, 1921

 

Three essays from the Arya: "Evolution", August 1915; "The Inconscient", September 1915; "Materialism", October 1918.

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

23. THE FOUNDATIONS OF INDIAN CULTURE

Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1953

 

First appeared serially in the Arya under the titles: "Is India Civilised?", December 1918 to February 1919, "A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture", February 1919 to July 1919 and "A Defence of Indian Culture", which was left incomplete, August 1919 to January 1921.

The Appendix, "Indian Culture and External Influence", is an essay from the Arya, March 1919.

The original text was revised slightly by the author.

The sections on Indian art and Indian polity were published separately as The Significance of Indian Art (See 77) and The Spirit and Form of Indian Polity (See 83).

 

SABCL: The Foundations of Indian Culture, Vol. 14

 

24. THE FUTURE POETRY

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1953

 

First appeared serially in the Arya between December 1917 and July 1920. Practically a reprint of the text of the Arya, although a few new paragraphs

 

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were added by the author.

 

SABCL: The Future Poetry, Vol. 9

 

25. HERACLITUS

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1941

 

First published serially in the Arya, December 1916 to June 1917.

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

26. THE HOUR OF GOD

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1959

 

Essays and notes from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts.    

SABCL Volume 17 includes only the first three sections of this book.

SABCL: The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

27. THE HUMAN CYCLE

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1949    

Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1950

 

First appeared serially in the Arya under the title The Psychology of Social Development from August 1916 to July 1918. These articles were revised by the author for their publication in book form under the title The Human Cycle.

Subsequently published together with The Ideal of Human Unity and War and Self-Determination (See 28).

 

SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15

 

28. THE HUMAN CYCLE — THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY — WAR AND SELF-DETERMINATION

Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1962    

Combined Edition (See 27, 30,100)

SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15

 

29. HYMNS TO THE MYSTIC FIRE

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1946    

Second Edition, Enlarged, 1952

 

Most of the hymns to Agni from the Rig-veda, translated in they esoteric sense.

First Edition, Contents:

A foreword especially written for the book, and an excerpt from "The Doctrine of the Mystics", an essay which had first appeared in the

 

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Arya, September 1915, as the introduction to "The Hymns of the Atris".

Hymns of Gritsamada. II. 1-10; Hymns of Bharadwaja, VI. 1-16; Hymns of Parasara, I. 65-73: a revised version of "Parasara's Hymns to the Lord of Flame" first published in the Arya, February, June and July, 1920; Hymn of Paruchchhepa, I. 127.    

Second Edition, Contents:

The foreword, all the hymns included in the First Edition, and the     following additional material: Hymns to Agni, V. 1-28, taken from "The Hymns of the Atris" (Arya, October 1915 to July 1916) but with the translations revised; translations of some more hymns of Mandalas I and IV, and some hymns of Mandalas III, VII, VIII and X, which were found among Sri Aurobindo's earlier and later manuscripts.

In SABCL Volume 11, besides the hymns contained in the earlier editions, Suktas 59, 94 and 97 of the First Mandala (from the Arya, September 1917 and January 1920) and two more hitherto unpublished hymns, I. 14 and IV. 40, are given. "The Doctrine of the Mystics" has been given in its complete form. Some other studies found among Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts have been included as a supplement. After the publication of Volume 11, some additional material (on two hymns, I. 74 and IV. 6) was discovered which     is reproduced in Volume 27.

 

SABCL: Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Vol. 11

 

30. THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY

Sons of India Ltd., Madras, 1919    

Second Edition, Revised:

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1950    

Sri Aurobindo Library, Inc., New York, 1950

 

The First Edition was a reprint of the series of essays with the same title first published in the Arya, September 1915 to July 1918. It included a preface by Sri Aurobindo, a detailed synopsis of the chapters, and three appendices consisting of articles from the Arya.

The Second Edition was revised by the author before the Second World War, and a Postscript Chapter dealing with contemporary world conditions was added later in order to bring it up to date.

In the American Edition, the Postscript Chapter appears as the introduction. Subsequently published together with The Human Cycle and War and Self-Determination (See 28).    

In SABCL the preface to the First Edition is given in Volume 27.

 

SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15

 

31. THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN

Sadhana Press, Chandernagore, 1918

Second Edition, 1919

Revised Edition, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1937

 

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Articles from the Karmayogin.

The First Edition contained only "The Ideal of the Karmayogin" and "Karmayoga", both from the Karmayogin of June 19, 1909.

The Second Edition was enlarged to include the following Karmayogin articles: "In Either Case" (March 26, 1910), "The Awakening Soul of India" (June 26, 1909), "The Doctrine of Sacrifice" (July 24, 1909), "The Process of Evolution" (September 18, 1909); "The Strength of Stillness" (February 19, 1910), "The Three Purushas" (February 12,1910), "The Stress of the Hidden Spirit" (February 26, 1910) and "The Greatness of. the Individual" (July 24, 1909). The Second Edition also included two articles by Sister Nivedita taken from the Karmayogin of March 12, 1910.

In SABCL some of the articles are given in Volume 2 and some in Volume 3.

 

SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol.

The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

32. IDEALS AND PROGRESS

Barindra Kumar Ghose, Calcutta, 1920    

Revised Edition, Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1922

 

Five essays from the Arya: "On Ideals" (June 1916), "Yoga and Skill in    

Works" (July 1916), "Conservation and Progress" (May 1916), "The Conservative Mind and Eastern Progress" (July 1916) and "Our Ideal" (August 1915).

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

33. ILION

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1957

 

An epic in quantitative hexametres, left incomplete. The manuscript seems to date from the Pondicherry period.

The five opening passages (lines 1-371) of the poem were first recast for inclusion as an appendix in Collected Poems and Plays, 1942. The rest of Book One, Books Two to Eight, and fragments of Book Nine were in various stages of revision among Sri Aurobindo's papers and are published as they were found. An essay "On Quantitative Metre" (See 60) and a letter "An Answer to a Criticism" are included as appendices.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

34. ISHA UPANISHAD

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1921    

Revised and Enlarged Edition, 1924

 

Translation and Analysis. First appeared in the Arya, August 1914 to May 1915. An earlier translation had appeared in the Karmayogin, June 19, 1909.

 

SABCL: The Upanishads, Vol. 12

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35. KALIDASA

Arya Sahitya Bhawan, Calcutta, 1929    

Revised Edition, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1950

 

Reprint of The Age of Kalidasa (See 2) and Kalidasa's "Seasons" (See 37).    

 

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

36. KALIDASA (Second Series)

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1954    

Second Edition, 1964

 

From Sri Aurobindo's Baroda manuscripts: "Hindu Drama", "The Historical Method", "On Translating Kalidasa" and the four studies making up "Kalidasa's Characters".

"On Translating Kalidasa" and "Pururavas" (published as "The Character of the Hero") appeared as Introduction and Appendix to Vikramorvasie (See 97).

The First Edition included a fragmentary translation of Malavica and the King, dating from the Baroda period. The Second Edition, however, omitted this and substituted the translation of the first canto of Kumarasambhavam. The Birth of the War God (See 9).

In SABCL "On Translating Kalidasa" has been given in Volume 3 and, in a more complete form, in Volume 27.

 

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol.

Translations, Vol. 8

 

37. KALIDASA'S "SEASONS"

Tagore & Co., Madras, 1921

 

First appeared in three issues of the Karmayogin, July 31 to August 14, 1909.     Parts of an early draft of the essay have been found among Sri Aurobindo's Baroda papers.

A revised version was included in Kalidasa, 1950 Edition (See 35).

 

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

38. KATHA UPANISHAD

Ashtekar & Co., Poona, 1919    

Revised Edition, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952

 

The First Edition was a reprint of the translation from the Karmayogin,

July 3 and July 31 to August 28, 1909.

A revised version was included in Eight Upanishads (See 18).

 

SABCL: The Upanishads, Vol. 12

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39. KENA UPANISHAD

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952    

Revised Edition, 1970

 

A translation of the Kena Upanishad first appeared in the Karmayogin, June 26, 1909. A new translation with a commentary appeared in the Arya, June 1915 to July 1916. This was published in book form in 1952 and later included in the Eight Upanishads (See 18). A revised translation was found after 1952 and was issued as the Revised Edition in 1970.

 

SABCL: The Upanishads, Vol. 12

 

40. LAST POEMS

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952

 

Forty-eight poems, mostly sonnets, composed between 1937 and 1944. A facsimile of each poem is given on the facing page. A few of these poems first appeared in The Advent, an Ashram quarterly.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

41. LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO (First Series)    

Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947

 

Extracts from letters to disciples. These letters as well as those of the other     three series listed below were written mostly in the 1930's. The dates of most letters are given.    

Subsequently incorporated in On Yoga II (See 63).

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

42. LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO (Second Series)    

Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949

 

Subsequently incorporated in On Yoga II (See 63).

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

43. LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO (Third Series, On Poetry and Literature)    

Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949

 

SABCL: The Future Poetry, Vol. 9

 

44. LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO (Fourth Series)    

Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1951

 

Subsequently incorporated in On Yoga II (See 63).

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

45. LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO ON THE MOTHER

Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1951

 

Extracts from letters written mostly during the 1930's. The dates of most of the letters are given.

Published in 1953 with additional matter and in a slightly different form as Part III of Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother (See 84).

SABCL: The Mother, Vol. 25

 

46. LETTERS ON "SAVITRI"

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1951

 

Letters to a disciple. Reprinted from Mother India.    

Included in the 1954 Edition of Savitri (See 76).

 

SABCL: Savitri, Vol. 29

 

47. THE LIFE DIVINE

Book One: Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1939    

Book Two (in two parts): 1940

Second Edition, Revised: Book One, 1943; Book Two, 1944    

Complete in one volume:

Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1949

Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, 1955

India Library Society, New York, 1965

 

First published serially in the Arya from August 1914 to January 1919. The fifty-three chapters from the Arya, "thoroughly revised and enlarged" by the author, were subsequently issued in book form: Book One in 1939 and Book Two, in two parts, in 1940. In some later editions, Book One and Book Two were called Volume I and Volume II. 

Book One consists of twenty-eight chapters, twenty-seven in the order in which they appeared in the Arya and an additional new chapter, "Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya".

Book Two includes most of the remaining chapters from the Arya, completely recast and extensively enlarged: the titles of some chapters were changed, the order of many chapters rearranged, and many new chapters were added.

The Second Edition underwent further revision of a comparatively minor nature.

 

SABCL: The Life Divine, Vols. 18, 19

 

48. LIFE — LITERATURE — YOGA

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1967

 

Letters written during the 1930's and 1940's. Reprinted from Mother India.

 

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In SABCL most letters on poetry, literature, etc. are included in Section VI of Volume 26.

 

SABCL: On Himself, Vol. 26

 

49. LIGHTS ON YOGA

Sri Aurobindo Library, Howrah, 1935

 

Extracts from letters to disciples. The later printings included an appendix containing explanations by the author of some passages in the book.

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

50. LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT

Prabartak Publishers, Calcutta, 1972

 

Twenty-six letters from Sri Aurobindo, one to Anandarao and the rest to Motilal Roy, and, as an appendix, Sapta-Chatushtaya (incomplete). In SABCL Volume 27, the letters, with editorial revisions, appear in the supplement to Volume 26 and Sapta-Chatushtaya (complete) in the supplement to Volume 17.

 

SABCL: Supplement, Vol. 27

 

51. LOVE AND DEATH

The Shama's Publishing House, Aghora Mandir, Madras, 1921

 

A narrative poem written at Baroda, in June and July 1899.

Reprinted from the review Shama's, January 1921.    

Later included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13).

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

52. MAN — SLAVE OR FREE?

First Edition [for private circulation]:

Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore, 1922    

First [Trade] Edition:

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1966

 

The 1922 Edition contained five essays from the Karmayogin: "Man — Slave or Free?" (June 26, 1909), "Yoga and Human Evolution" (July 3, 1909), "Yoga and Hypnotism" (July 17, 1909), "Fate and Free-Will" (January 29, 1910) and "The Principle of Evil" (February 26, 1910).

The 1966 Edition contained, in addition, "The Need in Nationalism" (published as "Ourselves" in the Karmayogin, June 19, 1909), "The Power that Uplifts" (Karmayogin, August 21, 1909), and three "Historical Impressions" which had been written for the Karmayogin but were first published in the Standard Bearer: "Napoleon" (November 20, 1920) and

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"The French Revolution" (November 28 and December 5, 1920). In SABCL the first five of the above essays are included in Section Seven of Volume 3; "The Need in Nationalism" appears under its original title "Ourselves" on page 11 and "The Power that Uplifts" on page 162 of Volume 2; "Historical Impressions" comes under Section X of Volume 17.

SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2

The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

The Hour of God, Vol. 16

 

 

53. THE MIND OF LIGHT

E. P. Button & Co., New York, 1953

 

American Edition of The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth (See 86), published under this new title.

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

54. MORE LIGHTS ON YOGA

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1948

 

Extracts from letters.

In SABCL incorporated into Volumes 22, 23, 24.

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

55. MORE POEMS

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1957

 

Poems from manuscripts, in three sections with an appendix. Section I: early poems including three sonnets from Sri Aurobindo's Baroda period; Section II: seventeen poems, eight being fragmentary or incomplete, from Sri Aurobindo's later writings, and one translation; Section III: seventeen sonnets; Appendix: metrical experiments, some dated 1934 to 1938.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

Translations, Vol. 8

 

56. THE MOTHER

Arya Sahitya Bhawan, Calcutta, 1928

 

Parts of this book were written originally as letters to disciples.

 

SABCL: The Mother; Vol. 25

 

57. THE NATIONAL VALUE OF ART

Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore, 1922

 

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First appeared in the Karmayogin, November 20 to December 25, 1909

 

SABCL: The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

58. THE NEED IN NATIONALISM and Other Essays

S. Ganesan, Triplicane, Madras, 1923

 

Five essays from the Karmayogin: "The Need in Nationalism" (published in the Karmayogin as "Ourselves"), "The Power that Uplifts", "The Principle of Evil", "Man — Slave or Free?" and "Fate and Free-Will".

Of these, the last three had appeared in the 1922 Edition of Man — Slave or Free?"; the remaining two were included in the 1966 Edition of that book (See 52).

In SABCL "The Need in Nationalism" appears under its original title "Ourselves" in Volume 2. The other essays are included in Volume 3.

SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol.

The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3

 

59. ON NATIONALISM (First Series)

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1965

 

Thirty-four editorial articles from the Bande Mataram, July 1907 to May 1908.

In SABCL only twenty-eight of these have been included in Volume 1; the rest are of doubtful authorship.

 

SABCL: Bande Mataram, Vol. 1

 

60. ON QUANTITATIVE METRE

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1942

 

Reprinted from Collected Poems and Plays (See 13).

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

61. ON THE VEDA

Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, 1956

 

Writings from the Arya: "The Secret of the Veda" (August 1914 to July 1916), "Selected Hymns" (August 1914 to July 1915), "Hymns of the Atris" (August 1915 to December 1917), "Other Hymns" (published intermittently between August 1915 and January 1920).

An incomplete essay from manuscripts, "The Origins of Aryan Speech", is added as an appendix.

In SABCL On the Veda is published under the title The Secret of the Veda, Volume 10, with the following additions and alterations: in Part Three, translations of a number of hymns to Indra, found among Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts and later published in The Advent, have been included. A letter,

 

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"Interpretation of the Veda" has been appended. The hymns to Agni from "Other Hymns" and "The Doctrine of the Mystics" from "The Hymns of the Atris" have been shifted to Volume 11.

 

SABCL: The Secret of the Veda, Vol. 10 

Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Vol. 11

 

62. ON YOGA I: The Synthesis of Yoga

Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, 1955 (See 88)

 

SABCL: The Synthesis of Yoga, Vols. 20, 21

 

63. ON YOGA II (in two tomes)

Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, 1958

 

Letters on Yoga brought together under one title. Tome One was reprinted in an enlarged edition in August 1969, with the subtitle Letters on Yoga.

The SABCL Edition of these letters is considerably enlarged and covers three volumes: 22, 23 and 24 (See 41, 42, 44).

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

64. AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS COUNTRYMEN

Manmohan Ghose, Calcutta, 1909

 

First appeared as "An Open Letter to My Countrymen" in the Karmayogin,    

July 31, 1909. Subsequently included in Speeches (See 82).

SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2

 

65. PERSEUS THE DELIVERER

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1955

 

A drama. Written in Calcutta or Deoghar between 1906 and 1907. First appeared in the weekly Bande Mataram, June 30, to October 13, 1907. Reproduced with the author's revisions and some additional passages in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13). In the 1955 edition two more scenes have been included which were not available for the earlier printings.

 

SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 6

 

66. THE PHANTOM HOUR

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1951

 

One of the short stories written under the general title "Idylls of the Occult", during the early years of Sri Aurobindo's stay at Pondicherry, probably between 1910 and 1912.

 

SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 7

 

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67. POEMS

Government Central Press, Hyderabad, 1941

 

Contents: "Transformation", "Nirvana", "The Other Earths" (these three first appeared in the Calcutta Review of October 1934), "Thought the Paraclete", "Moon of Two Hemispheres" and "Rose of God". Included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13) as "Transformation and Other Poems".

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

68. POEMS FROM BENGALI

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1956

 

Translations from Nidhu Babu, Horu Thakur, Jnanadas and Chandidas, done in the early years of the author's stay at Baroda. The first of the translations from Chandidas first appeared in Ahana and Other Poems (See 3), the second and third in Songs to Myrtilla (See 81). All were included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13).

 

SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8

 

69. POEMS—PAST AND PRESENT

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1946

 

Contents: "Musa Spiritus", "Bride of the Fire", "The Blue Bird", "A God's Labour", "Hell and Heaven", "Kamadeva", "Life", "One Day—The     Little More". The first four and the last of these poems were written in the late 1930's.

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

70. PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS OF THE MOTHER

Sri Aurobindo Library, Madras, 1941

Selections from the Mother's Prières et Méditations, translated by Sri Aurobindo.

 

SABCL: The Mother, Vol. 25

 

71. THE PROBLEM OF REBIRTH

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952

 

Essays from the Arya, reprinted with minor revisions by the author. Section I: "Rebirth" (November 1915), "The Reincarnating Soul" (December 1915), "Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity" (March 1919), "Rebirth and Soul Evolution" (April 1919), "The Significance of Rebirth" (May 1919), "The Ascending Unity" (June 1919), "Involution and Evolution" (July 1919), "Karma" (August 1919), "Karma and Freedom" (September 1919), "Karma, Will and Consequence" (October 1919), "Rebirth and Karma"

 

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(November 1919), "Karma and Justice" (December 1919). Section II: "The Foundation" (August 1920), "The Terrestrial Law" (September 1920), "Mind Nature and the Law of Karma" (October and November-December 1920). Section III: "The Higher Lines of Karma" (November-December 1920), "The Lines of Truth" (January 1921).

The Second Printing contained, as an appendix, a letter by the author in reply to a question about this series of articles.

In SABCL "The Ascending Unity" and "Involution and Evolution" are given in Section III, the rest in Section II of Volume 16.

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

72. THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA

Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore, 1920

Four essays from the Arya, August to November 1918.

 

SABCL: The Foundations of Indian Culture, Vol. 14

 

73. THE RIDDLE OF THIS WORLD

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1933

 

Extracts from letters.    

In SABCL, incorporated into Volumes 22, 23, and 24.

 

SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24

 

74. RISHI BUNKIM CHANDRA

Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore, 1923

 

Translations in prose and verse of "Bande Mataram" from the Karmayogin, November 20, 1909; an essay, "Rishi Bunkim Chandra", from the Bande Mataram, April 16, 1907; a poem, "Bunkim Chandra Chatterjee", from Songs to Myrtilla (See 81). The translations and the essay were subsequently included in Bankim — Tilak — Dayananda (See 7). In SABCL the translations appear in Section II of Volume 8, the essay in Section IX of Volume 17 and the poem in Section I of Volume 5.

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5 

Translations, Vol. 8

The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

75. RODOGUNE

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1958

 

A tragedy. From Sri Aurobindo's Baroda period.

 

SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 6

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76. SAVITRI—A Legend and a Symbol

Part I, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1950    

Parts II and III (in one volume), 1951    

Complete in one volume, 1954

 

An epic poem. Sri Aurobindo worked on a poem entitled "Savitri" while at Baroda. The epic as it now stands took shape over the several decades of the author's stay in Pondicherry. The cantos of Part One (Books One to Three) were issued separately in fascicule and as instalments in various Ashram journals between 1946 and 1948. In 1950 "The Book of Fate" was issued in fascicule.    

The 1954 Edition includes the author's 'Letters on Savitri' (See 46).

SABCL: Savitri, Vols. 28, 29

 

77. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INDIAN ART

Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947

 

Reproduction of Chapters XII to XV of the series entitled "A Defence of Indian Culture" (See 23) first appeared in the Arya, January to April 1920.    

In SABCL these chapters appear in Section III of Volume 14, under the title "Indian Art".

 

SABCL: The Foundations of Indian Culture, Vol. 14

 

78. SIX POEMS OF SRI AUROBINDO

Rameshwar & Co., Chandernagore, 1934

 

Contents: "The Bird of Fire", "Trance", "Shiva", "The Life Heavens", "Jivanmukta", "In Horis Aeternum", with notes from the author's correspondence and parallel translations in Bengali by different disciples of Sri Aurobindo.

Included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13).    

In SABCL the poems and the notes are included in Section VI of Volume 5.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

79. SONGS OF THE SEA

Ganesh & Co., Madras, 1923

 

A translation of C. R. Das's Bengali poems, Sagar Sangit, done by Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry around 1912.     Included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13).

 

SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8

 

80. SONGS OF VIDYAPATI

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1956

 

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Translations from the Maithili poet, written in Baroda.

SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8

 

81. SONGS TO MYRTILLA

First Edition [for private circulation only]:

Lakshmi Vilas Printing Press, Baroda, 1895    

Authorised [Trade] Edition:

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1923

 

The 1923 edition contains twenty-one poems, all except five written between 1890 and 1892 while Sri Aurobindo was a student at Cambridge: "Songs to Myrtilla", "O Coil, Coil", "Goethe", "The Lost Deliverer", "Charles Stewart Parnell", "Hic Jacet", "Lines on Ireland", "On a Satyr and Sleeping Love" (translation), "A Rose of Women" (translation), "Saraswati with the Lotus", "Night by the Sea", "The Lover's Complaint", "Love in Sorrow", "The Island Grave", "Estelle", "Radha's Complaint in Absence" (translation), "Radha's Appeal" (translation), "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji", "Madhusudan Dutt", "To the Cuckoo", "Envoi".

Included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13).    

In SABCL the four translations noted above are included in Volume 8: the first two appear without title as numbers I and II of the "Selected     Poems of Chandidas" on pages 302 to 304; the last two, translations from Plato and Meleager respectively, appear on page 411.

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

Translations, Vol. 8

 

82. SPEECHES

Prabartak Publishing House, Calcutta, 1922

 

Contents of the First Edition:

Part I: "Advice to National College Students" (See 92) from Dawn, September 1907, "The Present Situation" (See 92), "Bande Mataram", "United Congress", "Baruipur Speech", "Palli Samiti"; the first, third and fifth of these had been published in the Bande Mataram during 1908.

Part II: "Uttarpara Speech", first published in the Karmayogin, June 19 and 26, 1909, issued separately in brochure form since 1919 (See 94); "Beadon Square Speech", "Jhalakati Speech", "The Right of Association", "College Square Speech", "Kumartuli Speech", all published in the Karmayogin in 1909.

Appendix: "An Open Letter to My Countrymen" (See 64).    

The 1969 Edition included as an appendix a second open letter "To My Countrymen" from the Karmayogin, December 25, 1909.    

In SABCL all of these, and some additional speeches, are arranged chronologically in Volumes 1 and 2. The two open letters are included in Volume 2.

 

SABCL: Bande Mataram, Vol.

Karmayogin, Vol. 2

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83. THE SPIRIT AND FORM OF INDIAN POLITY    

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1942

 

Reprint, with minor revisions by the author, of Chapters XX to XXIII of "A Defence of Indian Culture", from the Arya, October 1920 to January 1921.

In SABCL these chapters are included in Section III of Volume 14, under the title "Indian Polity".

 

SABCL: The Foundations of Indian Culture, Vol. 14

 

84. SRI AUROBINDO ON HIMSELF AND ON THE MOTHER

Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, 1953 -

 

Compiled from notes and letters, mostly published in this book for the first time. Contents in three parts:

Part I: Sri Aurobindo on Himself. Part II: Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother. Part III: Sri Aurobindo on the Mother. Most letters of Part III were first published separately in 1951 under the title Letters of Sri Aurobindo on the Mother, (See 45); in addition some early letters of Sri Aurobindo, most of them to the Mother, are included in Part III.

In SABCL, Parts I and II, revised and considerably enlarged, comprise Volume 26; Part III has been enlarged and rearranged to form Part Two of Volume 25.

 

SABCL: The Mother, Vol. 25 

On Himself, Vol. 26

 

85. THE SUPERMAN

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1920 .

 

Three essays from the Arya: "The Superman" (April 1915), "All-Will and Free-Will" (March 1915) and "The Delight of Works" (August 1915). "The Superman" had earlier appeared in the Arya under the title "The Type of the Superman".

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

86. THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION UPON EARTH    

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952

 

The last of Sri Aurobindo's prose writings, reproduced from the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education (presently called the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education), February 1949 to November 1950. Reprinted in New York in 1953 as The Mind of Light (See 53).

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

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87. SWAMI DAYANAND SARASWATI

N. K. Kapadia, Bombay, 1939

 

Reprint of Dayananda: The Man and His Work (See 16), comprised of two articles which were subsequently included in Bankim — Tilak — Dayananda (See 7).

 

SABCL: The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

88. THE SYNTHESIS OF YOGA

Part I—The Yoga of Divine "Works:

Sri Aurobindo Library, Madras, 1948

Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1950

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1953

Complete in one volume as On Yoga IThe Synthesis of Yoga:

Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, 1955

 

The Synthesis of Yoga first appeared in the Arya serially, in seventy-two chapters together with five introductory chapters, from August 1914 to January 1921. The first eleven chapters were revised and enlarged and published as twelve chapters in book form in 1948 as The Synthesis of Yoga (Part I: The Yoga of Divine Works). Chapters VI to XII in their revised form first appeared serially in the quarterly Advent from August 1946 to April 1948. In 1950 The Yoga of Divine Works was published in an American edition with a glossary and an index.

In 1955, under the imprint of the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre Collection, the complete Synthesis of Yoga was published as On Yoga I: The Synthesis of Yoga. This edition contained the introduction, the twelve revised chapters of Part I and an unfinished thirteenth chapter found among Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts. Of the remaining three parts, Part II had undergone some revision before publication in book form, but Part III and Part IV were printed largely as they appeared in the Arya

The SABCL edition is a reproduction, in two volumes, of the University     Edition, On Yoga I: The Synthesis of Yoga.

 

SABCL: The Synthesis of Yoga, Vols. 20, 21

 

89. A SYSTEM OF NATIONAL EDUCATION    

Tagore & Co., Madras, 1921

 

An incomplete series of articles from the Karmayogin, February 12 to April 2, 1910. The first edition was unauthorised. In 1924 an authorised edition was issued with a note by the author.

 

SABCL: The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

90. THOUGHTS AND APHORISMS

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1958

 

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From unrevised manuscripts. A portion of the original work was revised and published as Thoughts and Glimpses (See 91).

 

SABCL: The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

91. THOUGHTS AND GLIMPSES

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1920

 

First published in the Arya as "Aphorisms" and "Thoughts and Glimpses", between March 1915 and August 1917.

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

92. TWO LECTURES OF SRIYUT ARAVINDA GHOSH

G. P. Mundeshwar, Bombay, 1908

 

Includes "Advice to National College Students" from the Dawn, September 1907, and "The Present Situation" from the weekly Bande Mataram, February 23, 1908. Both were subsequently included in Speeches (See 82).

 

SABCL: Bande Mataram, Vol. 1

 

93. URVASIE: A Poem

First Edition [for private circulation]:

Lakshmi Vilas Press Co., Ltd., Baroda, no date (c. 1896)

 

Included, with some revisions, in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13).

 

SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5

 

94. UTTARPARA SPEECH

Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore, 1919

 

Speech delivered at Uttarpara on May 30, 1909. Published in the Karmayogin, June 19 and 26, 1909.    

Included in Speeches (See 82).

 

SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2

 

95. VASAVADUTTA

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1957

 

A dramatic romance. Written between October 18 and 30, 1915; revised in April 1916.

 

SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 6

 

96. VIEWS AND REVIEWS

Sri Aurobindo Library, Madras, 1941

 

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Reprinted from the Arya. Part One ("The Question of the Month"): "The Needed Synthesis" (August 1914), "The Significance of Arya' " (September 1914), "On Meditation" (October 1914), "On Universal Consciousness" (January 1915). Part Two (Reviews): "Hymns to the Goddess" (May 1915), "South Indian Bronzes" (October 1915), "God the Invisible King" (July 1917), "Rupam" (April 1920), "About Astrology" (November 1917). In SABCL all the articles of Part One are included in Section VII of Volume 16, except "The Significance of 'Arya'" which appears in Section XI of Volume 17. The reviews which make up Part Two are included in Section VIII of Volume 17.

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16 

The Hour of God, Vol. 17

 

97. VIKRAMORVASIE (The Hero and the Nymph)    

R. Chatterjee, Calcutta, 1911

 

A translation done by Sri Aurobindo at Baroda, of Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama. The 1952 edition included "On Translating Kalidasa" and "The Character of the Hero" (Pururavas) as Introduction and Appendix (See 36).

 

SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 7

 

98. THE VIZIERS OF BASSORA

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1959

 

A dramatic romance written by Sri Aurobindo at Baroda and seized alongwith other manuscripts by the British police in May 1908 when he was arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case. The manuscripts were not recovered until 1951. The history of their loss and recovery is detailed in an appendix to the 1959 edition.

 

SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 7

 

99. VYASA AND VALMIKI

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1956

 

Essays, notes and translations from the author's Baroda period. Vyasa: "Notes on the Mahabharata", "The Problem of the Mahabharata" and translations (done in 1893) from the Sabha Parva and Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata. Valmiki: "The Genius of Valmiki" and translations from the Bala Kanda, Ayodhya Kanda and Aranya Kanda of the Ramayana.

 

SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol.

Translations, Vol. 8

 

100. WAR AND SELF-DETERMINATION

S. R. Murthy & Co., Madras, 1920 

Third Edition, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1957

 

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The First Edition contained three essays from the Arya: "The Passing of War" (April 1916); "The Unseen Power" (December 1918); "Self-Determination" (September 1918); and a fourth, "A League of Nations", written especially for the volume; with a foreword. In the Third Edition another Arya essay, "After the War" (August 1920), which had been issued in pamphlet form in 1949 (See 1), was included.    

In 1962 War and Self-Determination was published along with The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity (See 28); in this edition yet another unpublished Arya article, "1919" (July 1919), was included..

 

SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15

 

101. THE YOGA AND ITS OBJECTS

Sadhana Press, Chandernagore, 1921

 

Sri Aurobindo worked on an early version of this work sometime before 1913.

The 1968 edition included a note by Sri Aurobindo and an appendix containing explanations given by Sri Aurobindo apropos of some passages in the book.

 

SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16

 

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