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)

The Music of Silence

I have seized your soul, mighty Spirit of Time!

Now the sky veers around, iridescent in the cataract of sun-rays,

Creating the magic city of limpid Even-tide,

I wandered along river banks seeking to attune my heart-strings

To the murmur and music of life voiced by her rippling waves:

Night infinite descended with silent steps,

Casting the shadow of her coronet

Upon the wide sky, flinging the hem of her robe,

Laying down the soft darkness upon earth's expanse.

Her eyes lost in thought,

In this vast Night, plunged in the contemplation of the supreme Void,

The dark Mother of the world in her ascetic mood lies in, utter trance:

She draws deep into her bosom all creatures stilled in peace,

She plays her role of goddess Sleep,

Comes and silences the Life's noise and its ceaseless play.

Now is the honeyed banquet of stillness,

The crowded stars like bees innumerable have flown out and gathered in the heavens:

To smear with the rays of light the hearts of creatures,

The luminous amphora of cooling ecstasy,

The Moon, floats up in the night bejewelled with stars.

In this darkness illumined by dream-moonlight

The little human soul of mine

I have drowned into this infinite Life

And have heard the music of Silence.

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