Sri Aurobindo. Essays Divine and Human: Writings from Manuscripts - 1910-1950

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SRI AUROBINDO

Essays Divine and Human

Writings from Manuscripts - 1910-1950

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Part One. Essays Divine and Human
Section One. Circa 1911
Certitudes	1911(?) / 1913(?)
Moksha	1911(?)
Man	1911(?)
Philosophy	1911(?)
The Siddhis	1911(?)
The Psychology of Yoga	1911(?)

Section Two. 1910-1913
Na Kinchidapi Chintayet	1910(?)
~The Sources of Poetry	1912(?)
~The Interpretation of Scripture	1912(?)
On Original Thinking = On the Importance of Original Thinking The attitude of mankind towards originality	1912(?)
On Original Thinking = On the Importance of Original Thinking	1912(?)
The Balance of Justice	1912(?)
~Social Reform	1912(?)
Hinduism and the Mission of India	1912(?)
The Psychology of Yoga [2]	1912(?)
The Claims of Theosophy	1910(?) / 1912(?)
Science and Religion in Theosophy	1910(?) / 1912(?)
Sat	1912(?)
Sachchidananda	1912(?) / 1913(?)
The Silence behind Life	1912(?)

Section Three. 1913
The Psychology of Yoga
Initial Definitions and Descriptions	1913(?)
The Object of Our Yoga	1913(?)
Purna Yoga
The Entire Purpose of Yoga	1913(?)
Parabrahman, Mukti and Human Thought-Systems	1913(?)
Parabrahman and Parapurusha	1913(?)
Natural and Supernatural Man
The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga	1913(?)
The Fullness of Yoga - In Condition	1913(?)
Nature	1913(?)
Maya	1913(?)

Section Four. 1914-1919
The Beginning and the End	1915(?)
The Hour of God	1918(?)
Beyond Good and Evil	1918(?)
The Divine Superman	1918(?)

Section Five. 1927-1930
The Law of the Way	1927(?)
Man and the Supermind	1930(?)
The Involved and Evolving Godhead	1930(?)
The Evolution of Consciousness	1930(?)
The Path	1930(?)

Part Two. From Man to Superman Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga (1912-1949)
Section One. Philosophy: God, Nature and Man
God: The One Reality. The Divine Eternal and Infinite
001. There are three Powers with whom we have to reckon....	1927(?)
002. All existence, whatever its appearance or its process of being....	1936(?)
003. A greater existence and consciousness than what we are now or are in our surface being....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
004. All begins from the Divine....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
005. The rooted and fundamental conception of Vedanta is that there exists somewhere....	1912(?)
006. Brahman is that which was before the beginning and will be after the end of things.... God: The One Reality	1914(?) / 1921(?)
007. One says “In the beginning was the Self....	1928(?) / 1929(?)

God: The One Reality. Ekamevadvitiyam: One Without a Second
008. All existence is existence of the one Eternal and Infinite....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
009. All existence is the existence of the one Divine Eternal and Infinite....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
010. One sole Reality constitutes all the infinite....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
011. There is one sole reality and there can be no other....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
012. All existence is one....	1942(?)
013. All existence of whatever nature is existence of the One Divine....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
014. There is one Being....	1945(?)
015. All existence is the existence of the Eternal....	1930(?) / 1939(?)

God: The One Reality. Non-Being, Being and the Absolute
016. Nothing can arise from Nothing....	1927(?)
017. All existence, — as the mind and sense know existence, — is manifestation of an Eternal and Infinite....	1927(?)
018. The Origin and eternal Supporter of all existence....	1930(?)
019. All is existence....	1927(?)
020. Being is not Parabrahman nor is Non-Being Parabrahman....	17-06-1914
021. All being is the Eternal....	1930(?) / 1939(?)

Nature: The World-Manifestation. The Divine and the Manifestation
022. All existence is Brahman....	1913(?)
023. The One and the Many are both of them eternal aspects of the Absolute Parabrahman....	1942(?)
024. The self which we have to perfect....	1913(?)
025. The Divine is the eternal Self and Spirit....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
026. All existence is one in the Reality....	1940(?)
027. God is not a Being who creates and governs the universe....	03-06-1914(?) / 17-06-1914(?)
028. The infinite Being in rest aware of its own eternal oneness....	1927(?)
029. All existence and all force proceeds from the One Supreme....	1927(?)
030. Chitshakti not mind has created the world....	01-1913(?) / 03-1913(?)
031. How, it is asked, do we make a permanent and changeless world....	1942(?)
032. A philosophy of change....	1942(?)

Nature: The World-Manifestation. Existence, Consciousness-Force, Bliss
033. The nature of the Eternal is infinite Being....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
034. Identity is the first truth of existence....	1914(?) / 1921(?)
035. The object and condition of Life is Ananda....	1912(?)
036. The world lives in and by Ananda....	1912(?)
037. The bliss of the Brahman can be described as the eternity of an uninterrupted supreme ecstasy....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
038. In experience even on the spiritual plane so long as we do not transcend the spirit in mind....	1929(?)
039. One that is Two that are Many....	1927(?)

Nature: The World-Manifestation. Manifestation, Not Illusion
040. As earth when it becomes pot....	1942(?)
041. It is said by certain Adwaitists....	1929(?)
042. The position taken up by the Illusionists must first be firmly stated....	1918(?)
043. Existence is not a fluke....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
044. All that is is the manifestation of a Divine Infinite....	1927(?)
045. All that is is the manifestation....	1927(?)

Man and Superman. Man and the Evolutionary Process
046. Man is a transitional being....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
047. Man is not final....	1947(?)
048. God is the beginning....	1917(?) / 1918(?)
049. All life and mind on earth is the story of a Being....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
050. All mind and life on earth are the progressive manifestation of a Spirit....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
051. Before there could be any evolution....	1927(?)
052. Our life is neither an accident nor a mechanism....	1942(?)
053. The world we live in is not a meaningless accident....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
054. Our existence in the cosmic order is not an accident....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
055. There are two states of being....	1942(?)
056. All existence upon earth is an evolution....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
057. All existence upon earth is an evolution....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
058. All terrestrial existence is the slow surge of a hidden Consciousness....	1927(?) / 1933(?)

Man and Superman. The Stages of Evolution. Matter, Life, Mind, Supermind
059. The evolution of the earth nature is not finished....	1927(?)
060. Matter, one might say from a certain viewpoint....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
061. Ether and material space are different names for the same thing....	1927(?)
062. Matter is but a form of consciousness....	1913(?)
063. Evolution is the one eternal dynamic law and hidden process of the earth-nature....	1927(?)
064. At each capital step of Nature's ascent....	1927(?)
065. All the trend and purpose of Nature in terrestrial existence is to manifest the yet unmanifested....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
066. But what shall be the gain won for the earth-consciousness....	1927(?)
067. Mind emerges out of life in matter....	1927(?)
068. Because man is a mental being....	1927(?)
069. Reason is a clarified....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
070. Mind can never be a perfect instrument of knowledge....	1927(?)
071. The office of intellect is not to fathom reality....	1942(?)
072. Intuition, — but what do we mean when we speak of intuition?...	1937(?) / 1943(?)
073. Nothing has the value of truth for the supramental if it is only thought or understood with the intelligence....	1927(?) / 1929(?)
074. But what is supermind and where is it in this world of half lights....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
075. I mean by the supermind a power....	1928(?) / 1929(?)

Man and Superman. The Emergence of the Superman
076. A god has veiled himself in the earth and mire and beauty and perfection lie unevolved in masses of ordure....	1914(?) / 1921(?)
077. This is the meaning of our existence here....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
078. All that baffles us in existence can find its solution....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
079. The transition from manhood to supermanhood is....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
080. Man [is a] transitional being....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
081. Man is a transitional being....	1942(?)
082. Man cannot be final....	1940(?) / 1942(?)

Section Two. Psychology: The Science of Consciousness
*The Problem of Consciousness. The Triple Enigma*
083. Existence, consciousness and the significance of our conscious being....	1940(?) / 1942(?)
084. All the problem of existence turns around three things....	1940(?) / 1942(?)

The Problem of Consciousness. What is Consciousness?
085. Consciousness — but what is consciousness?...	1937(?) / 1943(?)
086. Consciousness — but what is consciousness?...	1945(?) / 1949(?)
087. But what is consciousness and what its relation to existence....	1940(?) / 1942(?)
088. It is to a mass of ill-connected and ill-understood phenomena that we give this name of consciousness....	1927(?) / 1943(?)
089. All that exists or can exist in this or any other universe can be rendered into terms of consciousness....	1927(?)

The Problem of Consciousness. The Secret below the Surface
090. All life, all existence is an enigma to the human mind....	1937(?)
091. There is a meaning in the universe....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
092. Our existence in the world has a reality...	1927(?) / 1933(?)

Consciousness and the Inconscient. Inconscience
093. World and life can be looked at from one of two opposite vision-bases....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
094. If there is a consciousness in Matter....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
095. The subconscious is a fact of our mentality....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
096. As consciousness descends from the supreme and the higher to the lower levels....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
097. The figure of Inconscience is the mask of an all-conscious Creator....	1945(?) / 1949(?)

Consciousness and the Inconscient. The Inconscient Energy
098. At one end of existence....	1942(?)
099. An energy of some Inconscient Existence has created Matter and the material universe....	1942(?)

Consciousness and the Inconscient. Consciousness and Immortality
100. Our existence is not a freak of some inconscient mechanical Force....	1940(?) / 1942(?)
101. All depends upon consciousness....	1928(?) / 1929(?)

The Science of Consciousness. Vedantic Psychology
102. Body, brain, nervous system are instruments of consciousness....	1917(?) / 1918(?)
103. Psychology is the knowledge of consciousness and its operations....	1917(?) / 1918(?)
104. All psychology must result in....	1917(?) / 1918(?)
105. The knowledge at which psychology arrives in its largest generalisations....	1917(?)

The Science of Consciousness. Towards a True Scientific Psychology
106. When the ancient thinkers of India set themselves to study the soul of man in themselves and others....	1912(?) / 1913(?)
107. Psychology ought to be rather than is the science of consciousness....	1912(?) / 1913(?)
108. Psychology is the science of consciousness....	1927(?)
109. Psychology is the science of Consciousness....	1947(?) / 1949(?)

The Science of Consciousness. Yogic Psychology
110. The problem of consciousness can only be solved....	1942(?)
111. Consciousness is not an unaccountable freak....	01-09-1947
112. I mean by Yogic psychology an examination....	1936(?)

Section Three. Yoga: Change of Consciousness and Transformation of Nature
The Way of Yoga. Change of Consciousness: The Meaning of Yoga
113. Yoga is a means by which one arrives at union with the Truth behind things....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
114. Yoga is the science, the process, the effort and action....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
115. All yoga is in its essential....	1947(?) / 1949(?)
116. By Yoga is meant....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
117. Yoga is in its essence a passage from the ordinary consciousness....	1927(?) / 1933(?)

The Way of Yoga. Union: The Aim of Yoga
118. It is the aim of all Yoga to pass by a change of consciousness....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
119. Yoga is our union with some Being or some Reality....	1942(?)
120. All Yoga strives towards union with the Highest....	1930(?)
121. To be one with the Eternal is the object of Yoga....	1917(?) / 1918(?)
122. Yoga is the contact of the humanity in us with the deity in which it dwells....	1913(?)
123. To be one in all ways of thy being with that which is the Highest....	1917(?) / 1918(?)
124. The human being on earth is God playing at humanity in a world of matter....	1913(?)
125. In the end a union, a closeness, a constant companionship....	1930(?) / 1939(?)

The Way of Yoga. Yoga Partial and Complete
126. Yoga means union and the whole object of Yoga is the union....	1920(?)
127. The aim put before itself by Yoga is God....	1913(?)

Partial Systems of Yoga. Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
128. All existence is the existence of the One....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
129. God is, is the first seed of Yoga....	1915(?)
130. Self-knowledge is the foundation of the complete Yoga....	1915(?)
131. First be aware of thy inner self and spirit....	1927(?)
132. All Yoga starts from the perception....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
133. The sense of a greater or even of an ultimate Self....	1927(?)
134. This method of extinction is imposed on our mind and our mental ego....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
135. It is possible for the reason....	1928(?) / 1929(?)

Partial Systems of Yoga. Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Devotion
136. The integral Yoga of Devotion proceeds through seven stages....	1945(?) / 1949(?)
137. Three are the words that sum up the first state of the Yoga of devotion....	1945(?)

Partial Systems of Yoga. Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Works
138. All spiritual paths lead to a higher consciousness....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
139. To create the union of his soul with the Divine Presence and Power....	1926(?) / 1927(?)
140. The progressive surrender of our ignorant personal will....	1927(?)
141. Desire is always sinning against the Truth....	1927(?)
142. To do works in a close union and deep communion with the Divine in us....	1927(?)
143. A peace and bliss inconceivable to the pleasure-bound and pain-racked mind....	1927(?)

Integral Yoga. Integrality
144. Most Yoga has for its aim one or other of two great ends....	1912(?)
145. There are many Yogas....	1938(?)
146. To enter into the entire consciousness of the Divine Reality....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
147. The integral Yoga is so called because it aims....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
148. Our Yoga is the integral Yoga....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
149. This Yoga is called the integral Yoga....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
150. What is the integral Yoga....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
151. The integral Yoga is a single but many-sided way....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
152. The heart of the integral Yoga is in a triple spiritual endeavour....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
153. That Yoga is full or perfect which enables us to fulfil entirely God'....	1913(?)
154. All Yoga aims at oneness or union or a close communion or contact with the Divine....	1930(?)
155. All Yoga done through the mind alone or through....	1930(?)

Integral Yoga. The Supramental Yoga
156. All Yoga is in its very nature a means of passing....	1937(?) / 1943(?)
157. All human Yoga is done on the heights or levels of the mental nature....	1930(?)
158. All Yoga has one supreme object....	1930(?)
159. The supramental Yoga is at once an ascent of the soul towards God and a descent....	1930(?)
160. The supramental Yoga is a path of integral seeking of the Divine....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
161. It is at the high line where the surrender can become absolute....	1928(?) / 1929(?)
162. The first word of the supramental Yoga is surrender....	1928(?) / 1929(?)

Integral Yoga. The Yoga of Transformation
163. This is a Yoga of transformation of the being....	1930(?) / 1939(?)
164. In the integral Yoga there is a progressive discovery of our spiritual status....	1937(?) / 1943(?)
165. Yoga is not only a discovery of our concealed spiritual status but a dynamic spiritual self-creation....	1927(?) / 1933(?)
166. I mean by the integral Yoga a manysided way or means of self-liberation and self-perfection....	1937(?) / 1943(?)
167. Our Yoga is a Yoga of transformation....	1936(?)
168. The ascent to supermanhood will be a radical change of consciousness....	1927(?)
169. The boon that we have asked from the Supreme is the greatest that the earth can ask from the Highest....	1927(?)
170. Victory in this effort depends upon the sincerity within you....	1927(?)
171. Two things are needed if thou wouldst follow the steep and difficult way of Yoga....	1926(?) / 1927(?)

Part Three. Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects
Section One. The Human Being in Time
The Marbles of Time	1910(?) / 1914(?)
A Theory of the Human Being	1912(?) / 1914(?)
A Cyclical Theory of Evolution	1910(?) / 1913(?)

Section Two. The East and the West
A Misunderstanding of Continents	1918(?)
Towards Unification	1912(?)
China, Japan and India	1912(?)

Section Three. India
Renascent India	1916(?) / 1918(?)
Where We Stand in Literature	1916(?) / 1918(?)
National Education*	1916(?) / 1918(?)

Section Four. Genius, Poetry, Beauty
The Origin of Genius	1910(?) / 1914(?)
~Poetic Genius The greatest poets are usually those	1912(?)
~The Voices of the Poets Out of the infinite silence of the past...	1912(?)
Pensees	1912(?)
A Dream	1910(?) / 1914(?)
The Beauty of a Crow's Wings	1910(?) / 1912(?)

Section Five. Science, Religion, Reason, Justice
Science	1914(?) / 1921(?)
Religion	1927(?)
Reason and Society	1930(?) / 1949(?)
Justice	1947(?) / 1949(?)

Part four. Thought and Aphorisms
Jnana: Thoughts and Aphorisms	1913(?)
Karma: Thoughts and Aphorisms	1913(?)
Bhakti: Thoughts and Aphorisms	1913(?)
Additional Aphorisms: Thoughts and Aphorisms	1913(?)
Additional Aphorisms: Thoughts and Aphorisms	1913(?) / 1919(?)

APPENDIX
Hymn of the God of Wealth* Hymn to the Mother of Radiances	1927(?)
Notes

* Included at Sri Aurobindo. Essays Divine and Human with Thoughts and Aphorisms.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1994. ISBN 81-7058-365-9