WRITINGS IN BENGALI

 

CONTENTS

 

NOTE

 

 

 

I. HYMNS

 

VIII. NATIONALISM 

 

HYMN TO DURGA 

(Dharma, No. 9, October, 1909)

 

THE OLD AND THE NEW

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

HYMN TO DAWN

(Archives, April 1977)

 

THE PROBLEM OF THE PAST

(Dharma, No. 6, September, 1909)

     

THE COUNTRY AND NATIONALISM

(Dharma, No. 14, December, 1909)

 

II. STORIES

 

THE TRUE MEANING OF FREEDOM

(Dharma, No. 8, October, 1909)

 

 A DREAM 

(Suprabhat, 1909-1910)  

 

A WORD ABOUT SOCIETY

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

THE IDEAL OF FORGIVENESS

(Dharma, No. 26;February, 1910)

 

FRATERNITY

(Dharma, No. 23, February, 1910)

     

INDIAN PAINTING

(Dharma, No. 25, February, 1910)

 

III. THE VEDA 

 

HIROBUMI ITO

Dharma, No. 10, November, 1909)

 

THE MYSTERY OF THE VEDA

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

GURU GOVINDSINGH

(Dharma, No. 8, October, 1909)

 

AGNI THE DIVINE ENERGY

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

NATIONAL RESURGENCE

(Dharma, No. 5, September, 1909)

 

 THE RIG-VEDA

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

OUR HOPE

(Dharma, No. 20, January, 1910)

     

EAST AND WEST

(Dharma, No. 22, January, 1910)

 

IV. THE UPANISHADS

   
 

THE UPANISHADS

(Dharma, No. 15, December, 1909)

 

IX. PRISON EXPERIENCE

 

THE INTEGRAL YOGA IN THE UPANISHADS

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

TALES OF PRISON LIFE

(Suprabhat, 1909-1910)

 

THE ISHA UPANISHAD  

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

PRISON AND FREEDOM (Bharati)

     

THE ARYAN IDEAL AND THE THREE GUNAS

(Suprabhat, 1909-1910)..

 

V. THE PURANAS

 

NEW BIRTH

(Dharma, No. 2, August, 1909) ...

 

THE PURANAS

(Dharma, No. 17, December, 1909)

   
     

X. LETTERS    

 

VI. THE GITA 

 

LETTERS TO MRINALINI ( 1905-1907)

 

THE DHARMA OF THE GITA

(Dharma, No. 2, August, 1909)

 

A LETTER OF SRI AUROBINDO TO HIS BROTHER  (1920)

 

ASCETICISM AND RENUNCIATION  

(Dharma, No. 3, September, 1909)

 

LETTERS TO N.AND S.

(Published, 1951 & 1959)

OBSTACLES AND DIFFICULTIES

 

THE VISION OF THE WORLD SPIRIT

(Dharma, No. 23, February, 1910)

 

PARTS OF THE BEING

 

THE GITA: AN INTRODUCTION

(Dharma, Nos. 7-24, 1909-1910)

 

FOUNDATIONS OF YOGA

 

THE GITA: TEXT TRANSLATION

(Dharma, No. 10, 1909)

 

EXPERIENCE, DIRECT PERCEPTION AND REALISATION

 

SANJAYA'S GIFT OF DIVINE VISION

(Dharma, Nos. 11-18, 1909-1910) ...

 

DEPENDENCE ON THE MOTHER

 

THE GITA: TEXT-TRANSLATION (2)

(Dharma, Nos. 19-24, 1910)

 

INNER VISION SYMBOLS COLOURS

     

DEVOTION FAITH RELIANCE

 

VII. DHARMA  

 

THE PSYCHIC BEING

 

THE CHARIOT OF JAGANNATHA

 (Prabartak, 1918)

 

PRIDE IMPURITY GRIEF DESPAIR

 

THE THREE STAGES OF HUMAN SOCIETY

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

AHANKAR

(Dharma, No. 5, September, 1909

   
 

INTEGRALITY 

(Vividha Rachana, 1955)

 

XI. POETRY

 

HYMNS AND PRAYERS

(Dharma, No. 24, February, 1910)

 

THE MOTHER AWAKES

(Archives, April 1980)

 

OUR RELIGION

(Dharma, No. 1, August, 1909)

 

LIVING MATTER

(Archives, December 1979)

 

MAYA

(Dharma, No. 3, August, 1909)

 

THE MUSIC OF SILENCE

(Archives, April 1978)

 

NIVRITTI  OR ABSTENTION

(Dharma, No. 12, November, 1909)

 

RAVANA VANQUISHED

(Archives, April 1979)

 

PRAKAMYA

(Dharma, Nos.-17 and 18, 1909-1910)

 

A COLLOQUY

(Archives, December 1980)

     

A POETIC FRAGMENT

(Archives, April 1981)

 

Planes of Consciousness

 

From Muladhar down to the sole of the foot is called the physical plane. Below is the domain of subconscience.

 

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There are many planes above and below. But mainly there are four planes below. They are the mental, the psychic, the vital and the physical. And above there are many planes, the supermind and Sachchidananda being the highest.

 

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 If it happens that you go down at all, bring down there the Mother's light and power by your aspiration. Establish the  kingdom of the Mother below as it is above.

 

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When the consciousness descends into the physical, it does not mean that the results of all sadhana have gone, they really remain behind the veil. One has to bring down the consciousness, the light and the power of the Mother into the obscure physical. When these are established the former state will not recur. But if you are perturbed, depressed and think that nothing can be done in this life and that to die is preferable and so on, then it becomes an obstacle for the consciousness, the power and the light to descend. That is why these wrong feelings have to be rejected and you should depend on the Mother and silently aspire to Her.

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