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)

Pride—Impurity—Grief—Despair

When the consciousness becomes wide and universal and sees the Mother in the whole universe, then the ego does not stick. Only your true being, which is the Mother's child and her portion, rests on the Mother's lap.

To be sure, we have not left you. When depression comes in then you brood over this kind of thought. At times you come to the outer consciousness and do not feel the Mother. And simply because of that it is not proper to think that the Mother has forsaken you. Once more go deep within, you will feel Her there.

It means that the stamp of pride, ignorance and desire remains for a long time even in the good periods of good sadhaks. But when the consciousness becomes purer—as it has begun to become in you—then the mixture of ignorance will disappear.

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These difficulties are useless disturbances of the vital. One has to proceed silently along the path of spirituality. No

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quarter should be given to sorrow and despair.

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Of course, in this kind of talk much impurity of the vital can get in. Irritation and dislike towards the Mother, envy of others, depression, sorrow—these are the things one has to get rid of.

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Always one has to keep this condition, this true knowledge. One should see men and things with a spiritual sense, with the vision of the psychic and not in the pride of knowledge.

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