WRITINGS IN BENGALI

CONTENTS

	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)

Integrality

You have stepped on to the path of integral Yoga. Try to fathom the meaning and the aim of the integral Yoga before you advance. He who has the noble aspiration of attaining the high summit of realisation should know thoroughly these two things; the aim and the path. Of the path I shall speak later on. First it is necessary to draw before your eyes, in bold outline, the complete picture of the aim.

What is the meaning of integrality ? Integrality is the image of the Divine being, the dharma of the Divine nature. Man is incomplete, striving after and evolving towards the fullness and moving in the flow of gradual manifestation of the Self. Intergrality is his destination; man is only a half-disclosed form of the Divine, that is why he is travelling towards the Divine integrality. In this human bud hides the fullness of the Divine lotus, and it is the endeavour of Nature to bring it into blossom gradually and slowly. In the practice of the Yoga, the Yoga-shakti begins to open it at a great speed, with a lightning rapidity. That which people call full man- hood—mental progress, ethical purity, beautiful development of the faculties of mind, strength of character, vital force, physical health—is not the Divine integrality. It is only the fullness of a partial dharma of Nature. The real indivisible integrality can only come from the integrality of the Self, from the integrality of the Supramental Force beyond the mind, because the indivisible Self is the real Purusha, and the Purusha in mind, life or body is only a partial outward and debased play of the Supermind. The real integrality can only come when the mind is transformed into the Supermind. By the Supramental Force, the Self has

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created the universe and regulated it; by the Supramental Force, it raises the part to the Whole. The Self in man is concealed behind the veil of mind. It can be seen when this veil is removed. The power of the Self can feel in the mind the half-revealed, half-hidden, diminished form and play. Only when the Supramental Force unfolds itself, can the Self fully emerge.

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