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ESSAYS, SPEECHES

AND OTHER SHORTER WORKS

 

The following is a list of shorter writings and speeches by Sri Aurobindo. Only selected writings have been included from Volume 1 (Bande Mataram) and Volume 2 (Karmayogiri).

 

About Astrology [Review] 

Academic Thoughts 

Advice to National College Students [Speech]

After the War

The Age of Kalidasa

All-Will and Free-Will

Andal — The Vaishnava Poetess

Animal Souls, Subtle Bodies 

Arguments to The Life Divine 

Art

"Arya" — Its Significance 

The "Arya’s" Fourth Year

The "Arya’s" Second Year 

The Ascending Unity 

Asiatic Democracy . 

The Asiatic Role

At the Society’s Chambers

The Awakening of Gujarat

The Awakening Soul of India 

 

Bal Gangadhar Tilak 

Bande Mataram [Speech]

Bankim Chandra

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Baruipur Speech

Beadon Square Speech 

Beauty in the Real 

Bhawani Mandir

The Brain of India

 

Caste and Democracy

Certitudes

China, Japan and India 

College Square Speech 

Consciousness — Psychology 

Conservation and Progress 

The Conservative Mind and Eastern Progress 

17: 283

3: 446

 

1:515

15: 637

3: 217

16: 282

17: 371

16: 404

27: 377

3:413

17: 393

17: 399

17: 397

16: 265

1:757

1: 842

3:468

1:644

2: 36

 

17: 348

1: 666

27: 349

3: 75

1: 855

2: 25

3: 65

1: 59

3: 327

 

1: 536

17: 2

17: 185

2:112

17: 23

16: 316

 

16: 322

Conversations of the Dead 

 

Dayananda and the Veda 

Dayananda — The Man and His Work 

The Delight of Works 

The Demand of the Mother  Different Methods of Writing  The Divine Body 

The Divine Plan 

The Divine Superman 

The Doctrine of the Mystics 

The Doctrine of Passive Resistance 

The Doctrine of Sacrifice

 

The Early Indian Polity  Education: Intellectual 

Epistles from Abroad 

Europe and Asia 

Evolution 

Evolution

 

Fate and Free-Will 

The Feast of Youth [Review]  The First Rik of the Rig-Veda 

Foreword to Hymns To the Mystic Fire 

Foreword to the First Edition of War and Self Determination 

The Foundation [The Lines of Karma] 

The French Revolution 

The Future and the Nationalists 

 

The Genius of Valmiki 

The Glory of God in Man 

God, the Invisible King [Review]

3: 473

 

17: 336

 

17: 331

16: 287

1: 852

16: 406

16: 20

17: 28

17: 74

11: 21

 

1: 83

2: 107

 

1: 767

3: 125

3: 454

1: 465

16:225

17: 13

 

3: 379

17: 304

11: 439

 

11: 1

 

 

15:575

 

16: 173

17: 377

1: 867

 

3: 137

1: 714

 

17:324

 

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The Great Aranyaka

A Great God Has Been Released 

A Great Mind, a Great Will 

The Greatness of the Individual

 

The Harmony of Virtue 

Heraclitus 

The Higher Lines of Karma 

The Higher Lines of Truth 

Hindu Drama

Historical Impressions 

The Historical Method 

The Hour of God 

Hymns to the Goddess [Review]

Hymn to the Mother of Radiances

 

The Ideal of the Karmayogin 

Ideals Face to Face 

The Inconscient 

India and the Mongolian

Indian Art and an Old Classic [Review] 

Indian Culture and External Influence

Indian Resurgence and Europe

India Renascent

In Either Case 

The Interpretation of Scripture

Interpretation of the Veda

In the Society’s Chambers

Involution and Evolution 

Isha Upanishad: All That Is World in the Universe 

Ishavasyam

The Ishavasyopanishad 

 

Jhalakati Speech 

 

Kalidasa ,

Kalidasa’s Characters 

Kalidasa’s "Seasons"

Karma 

Karma and Freedom

Karma and Justice 

Karma, Will and Consequence 

Karmayoga 

12: 395

11: 490

17: 364

3: 352

 

3: 1

16:335

16: 207

16: 214

3: 302

17: 375

3: 229

17: 1

17:267

17: 3

 

2: 16

1:902

16: 257

1: 813

3:426

14:385

1: 860

1: 1

2:409

3: 115

10: 545

3: 464

16: 232

 

27: 291

12: 524

12: 447

 

2: 57

 

3:213

3:263

3:250

16: 125

16: 133

16: 162

16: 146

3:343

The Karmayogin — A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad 

Kena Upanishad

Kumartuli Speech 

 

A League of Nations

Lecture in Baroda College

Life 

The Life Divine — A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad

The Life of Nationalism

 

Man a Transitional Being

Man — Slave or Free?

Materialism 

Medical Department

Meditation 

The Men That Pass

Message (to the Bulletin of Physical Education)

The Message of India

Messages 

 

Mind Nature and Law of Karma 

Mind of Light

Mr. Tilak’s Book on the Gita [Review]

The Morality of Boycott 

Mustafa Kamil Pasha 

 

Nammalwar

Napoleon 

National Education [Speech]

A National University

The National Value of Art 

National Vitality 

The Needed Synthesis

The Need in Nationalism see Ourselves

The Need of the Moment

The New Faith

The New Ideal

New Lamps for Old

The New Mantra

The New Nationalism 

The News of the Month 

1919

Notes on Bergson

Notes on the Mahabharata 

 

27: 197

12: 527

2: 150

 

15: 608

3: 130

17: 173

 

27: 299

1: 595

 

17: 7

3: 374 16:245

27: 109

16: 399

17: 367

 

16: 1

2: 29

26: 393; 27: 503

16: 190

16: 67

17:265

1: 124

1:721

 

17:373

17: 382

27: 67

1:717

17: 231

2: 34

16: 397

2: 11

1: 764

1:612

1:834

1: 3

2:431

1: 906

17: 403

15:651

17: 388

3: 141

 

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The Old Year

The One Thing Needful 

On Ideals

On Original Thinking

On Quantitative Metre

On Translating Kalidasa 

On Translating the Upanishads

An Open Letter to My Countrymen 

The Origins of Aryan Speech

Our Ideal

Ourselves [The Need in Nationalism]  Ourselves

 

Palli Samiti [Speech]

Party and the Country 

The Passing of War?

Passing Thoughts

Perfection of the Body

Philosophy of the Upanishads

Poona Speech

The Power that Uplifts

A Preface on National Education 

Preface to the First Edition of The Ideal of Human Unity

Premises of Astrology

The Present Situation [Speech]

The Principle of Evil 

The Problem of the Mahabharata

The Process of Evolution

Psychology

The Psychology of Yoga

Puma Yoga

 

Readings in the Taittiriya Upanishad 

The Real Difficulty

Rebirth

Rebirth and Karma 

Rebirth and Soul Evolution 

Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity 

The Reincarnating Soul 

The Renaissance in India

The Revival of Indian Art

1:259

1: 880

16: 301

3: 110

5: 341

27: 84

12: 53

2: 124

10: 551; 27: 161 16: 308

2: 11

16:329

 

1:884

1: 875

15: 582

3:437

16: 5

12: 1

27: 62

2: 162

17: 191

 

27: 345

17: 253

1: 652

3: 383

3: 179; 27: 77

3: 347

17: 21

17: 183

17: 61

 

12:345

17: 178

16: 79

16: 153

16: 104

16: 96

16: 89

14: 397

3: 417

Revolutions and Leadership

The Right of Association [Speech]

Riks of Madhuchchhandas

Rishi Bankim Chandra

Rupam [Review]

 

Sanskrit Research [Review]

Sapta-Chatushtaya .

Sat

The Secret of Life—Ananda

The Secret of the Isha 

The Secret Truth

Self-Determination

The Seven Suns of the Supermind

Shama’a [Review]

The Significance of Rebirth 

The Silence Behind Life 

Social Reform

The Soul and India’s Mission 

The Sources of Poetry

South Indian Bronzes [Review]

Speech at Bakergunj 

Speech at Khulna

Stead and Maskelyne

Stead and the Spirits

Stray Thoughts and Glimpses

The Strength of Stillness 

The Strength of the Idea

The Stress of the Hidden Spirit

The Superman

The Supermind

Supermind and Humanity

Supermind and Mind of Light

Supermind and the Life Divine

Supermind in the Evolution

Suprabhat: A Review 

The Supramental Yoga

Swadeshi in Calcutta [Speech]

Swadeshi Meeting [Speech]

Swaraj

Swaraj and the Coming Anarchy

A System of National Education

A System of Vedic Psychology

 

The Tale of Satyavan and Savitri

1: 668

2: 81

11:459

17: 344

17: 300

 

17:290 27:356

17: 163

17: 172

12: 520

17: 176 15:598

17: 27

17: 313

16: 113

17: 174

3: 120

1:710

3: 105

17: 274

2: 421

2:425

3: 398

3:393

3:440

3: 366

1: 411

3: 362

16: 275

17: 26

16: 50

16: 70

16: 41

16: 60

3:430

17: 70

27: 75

17: 73

1: 698

1: 728

17: 201

27: 180

 

27: 511

 

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The Tangle of Karma

A Task Unaccomplished

The Terrestrial Law

Things Seen in Symbols

Thoughts and Aphorisms

Thoughts and Glimpses

The Three Purushas

To My Brother [on the poem Love and Death]

To My Countrymen

Towards Unification

Two Pictures

 

United Congress [Speech]

The Universal Consciousness

The Unseen Power

The Upanishads in Aphorisms

Uttarpara Speech

17: 33

2: 49

16: 179

3:450

17: 77

16: 373

3: 369

 

27: 148

2: 324

17: 180

3: 421

 

1:850

16: 401

15: 588

12:512

2: 1

The Vamadeva Hymns to Agni

Vikram and the Nymph

The Village and the Nation

Vyasa: Some Characteristics

 

The Way

The Way of Works

The Web of Yoga

The Wheat and the Chaff .

Word-Formation

Words of the Master

Work and Ideal

Work and Speech

The Work Before Us

 

Yoga and Human Evolution

Yoga and Hypnotism

The Yoga and Its Objects

Yoga and Skill in Works 

11:465

3: 261

1: 736

3: 142

 

17: 39 17:351

17: 41

1: 870 11:505

17: 147 1:703

1: 474

1: 847

 

3: 357

3: 387

16: 411

16: 291

 

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