What's New on the Website?

• September 16, 2000
  • Added The Mother: Helping Humanity [and the aim of the Integral Yoga] (November 1954) from "On Education" (19 Kb)
  • Added The Mother: The Problem of Woman (April 1955) from "On Education" (14 Kb)
• September 6, 2000
  • Added from Sri Aurobindo: Hymns to the Mystic Fire (translation of the Veda)
    
    • Introduction: The Doctrine of the Mystics (September 1915) (fulltext - Html - 42 Kb)
  • Added from Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri"
    
    • Part 3 - Book 7 - The Book of Yoga - Canto 1: The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Fore-Knowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain (23 Kb)
    • Part 3 - The Book of Yoga - Canto 2: The Parable of the Search for the Soul (32 Kb)
      = Current Canto of Savitri studied by the Savitry Study Group (for subscribing, write "subscribe" in the body, not in the subject)
    • Part 3 - Book 7 -The Book of Yoga - Canto 3: The Entry into the Inner Countries (34 Kb)
    • Part 3 - Book 7 -The Book of Yoga - Canto 4: The Triple Soul-Forces (42 Kb)
    • Part 3 - Book 7 -The Book of Yoga - Canto 5: The Finding of the Soul (25 Kb)
    • Part 3 - Book 7 -The Book of Yoga - Canto 6: Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute (42 Kb)
    • Part 3 - Book 7 -The Book of Yoga - Canto 7: The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness (19 Kb)
      
      
    • Part 3 - Book 8 - The Book of Death - Canto 3 (unique Canto): Death in the Forest (16 Kb)
• September 4, 2000
  • Added The Mother: Transformation (First step = transformation of the consciousness) (August 1950) (09 Kb)
  • Added from Sri Aurobindo's "Letters on Yoga":
    From Part 4 [downloading Zip-file requires that you press the RIGHT button of the mouse, then click on "save as..." You must have a unzipping software]
    • Section 3 "Transformation of the Vital [You can download here the fulltext of that section - Txt-format zipped - 85 Kb]
    • Section 4 "Transformation of the Physical" [You can download here the fulltext of that section - Txt-format zipped - 102 Kb]
    • Section 5 "Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient " [You can download here the fulltext of that section - Txt-format zipped - 14 Kb]
    • Section 6 "Difficulties of the Path" [You can download here the fulltext of that section - Txt-format zipped - 76 Kb]
    • Section 7 "Opposition of the Hostile Forces" [You can download here the fulltext of that section - Txt-format zipped - 29 Kb]
• August 31, 2000
  • Added two talks of The Mother:
    • 21 August 1957: On Collective Yoga [alleged lower consciousness in the Ashram - personal and collective progress - necessity for a communal life since the manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness in 1956]
      There are two versions (and translations):
      - Version of the Bulletin IX:4 of November 1957 (10 Kb)
      - Version from "Questions and Answers 1957-1958" [transcript of the real conversation] (11 Kb)
      - Original in French : Entretien du 21 août 1957: Nécessité d'un Yoga collectif (13 Kb)
      
    • 6 August 1958: Effect and value of the collective prayer (09 Kb)
• August 29, 2000
  • Added from Sri Aurobindo's "Letters on Yoga":
    From Part 4
    • Section 1 "The Triple Transformation: Psychic - Spiritual - Supramental" [You can download here the fulltext of that section - Txt format zipped - 87 Kb]
      There are 5 sub-sections: [titels are mine]
      • 1 of 5: Psychicisation (fulltext - Html - 88 Kb)
      • 2 of 5: Spiritualisation 1-Ascent (fulltext - Html - 95 Kb)
      • 3 of 5: Spiritualisation 2-Descent (fulltext - Html - 144 Kb)
      • 4 of 5: Supramentalisation 1-The supermind (fulltext - Html - 22 Kb)
      • 5 of 5: Supramentalisation 2-Body Transformation & Immortality (fulltext - Html - 30 Kb)
    • Section 2 "Transformation of the Mind" [You can download here the fulltext of that section - Txt format zipped - 25 Kb]
      The 5 sub-sections are on this page: (fulltext - one page Html - 101 Kb) [titles are mine]
      
      • 1/5: The Intellect - The thinking Mind - The Thoughts 2/5: Questions and Knowledge 3/5: The Physical Mind 4/5: Mental development - Reading 5/5 - Mental development - Others (fulltext - one page Html - 101 Kb)
• August 27, 2000
  • Added Sri Aurobindo: Numerous Poems (see here Index page)
    • Poems before 1914
    • Poems between 1930 and 1938
    • The Sonnets (1937-1939)
    • Poems 1940-1950
      There are at today's date 71 poems, a few not yet published. Classification and verifications have been made according to the book in bilingual (English-French) edition: "Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo" [The poems of Sri Aurobindo] published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry, diffusion by SABDA (Email). SABDA has now its own website (catalog and prices)
  • Added link to Sri Aurobindo: Bhawani Mandir (= Temple of the Mother, in Bengali), scheme of a first community, according to his brother Barin's idea (1906) . The reference of the text is not mentioned on this site: it comes from A.B. Purani's "The Life of Sri Aurobindo" published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, pages 67-79. Also in SABCL, volume 1. (External site) (25 Kb)
  • Added link to The Ideal of the Karmayogin (19 June 1909) (External site) (14 Kb)
  • Added link to Sri Aurobindo: The Present Situation - very important lecture delivered under the auspice of the Bombay National Union at Bombay on 19th January, 1908 (and not 1907 as falsely indicated on the site!) a few days after Sri Aurobindo's experience of the Silent Brahman with Lele. The reference, not indicated on the site: Sri Aurobindo "Speeches" in SABCL volume 1, or in a booklet with same title., pages 22-42. Published in "Bande Mataram" January 19, 1908. (External site) (35 Kb)
  • Added link to Sri Aurobindo: Essays on the Gita, Second series Chapter 23: The Core of the Gita's meaning (excerpt) (External site) (18 Kb) on the Arya-Page.
• August 16, 2000
  • Redesigned Satprem's page according to his biography (before and after the clash with the Ashram and after his own experiences), multilingual.
  • Added on Satprem's page Sri Aurobindo and the Earth's Future (written December 1971, broadcast February 1972) (internal) (HTML 19 Kb) and the original French text Sri Aurobindo et l'avenir de la Terre (écrit en décembre 1971, diffusé à la radio en février 1972) (interne) (HTML 20 Kb)
• August 15, 2000 - Darshan Day - New montages
  • JPG Version August 15, 2000 Exceptionally: Two montages (in the same page) on The importance of Ramakrishna for India according to Sri Aurobindo (JPG 58 Kb) and Sri Aurobindo on Ramakrishna (JPG 62 Kb) with related texts and numerous links to websites on Ramakrishna.
  • GIF Version August 15, 2000 Exceptionally: Two montages (in the same page) on The importance of Ramakrishna for India according to Sri Aurobindo (GIF 208 Kb) and Sri Aurobindo on Ramakrishna (GIF 104 Kb) with related texts and numerous links to websites on Ramakrishna.
• August 10, 2000
  • Added Sri Aurobindo, from "Letters on Yoga" (1926-1942)
    
    • Part 1 Section 7 "The Purpose of Avatarhood" (full section - 77 Kb)
  • Added information for download: [The huge full text of Sri Aurobindo's "Letters on Yoga" can be downloaded in txt-format: volume 1 here or here, volume 2 here or here, and in Word6-format volume 1 here, volume 2 here - more than 1 Megabyte each one!]
  • Added link to Satprem's Neanderthal Looks On (1999) (Word6-format 46 Kb) on Satprem's page