Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 612
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170588278
Description
Sri Aurobindo once wrote to a disciple: “I see that you have persisted in giving a biography – is it really necessary or useful? The attempt is bound to be a failure, because neither you nor anyone else knows anything at all about my life: it has not been on the surface for man to see.”
This book contains notes in which Sri Aurobindo spoke of his own life and work, personal letters to family members and associates and public statement. The material has been arranged by the editors into several sections, as follows:
1. Life sketches and other biographical notes
2. Corrections of statements made in biographies
3. Letters to his family
4. Letters to political and professional associates
5. Early letters on yoga and the spiritual life
6. Private letters to public figures
7. Public statement on Indian and world events
8. Public statements concerning his ashram and yoga
Contents
PART ONE
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Section One:
Life Sketches and Other
Autobiographical Notes
Sri Aurobindo: A Life Sketch
Incomplete Life sketches
Other Autobiographical Notes
Section Two:
Corrections of Statements Made in
Biographies and other Publications
Early life in India and
England, 1872-1893
Life in Baroda, 1893-1906
Political life, 1893-1910
The Departure from Calcutta, 1910
Life in Pondicherry, 1910-1950
Early Spiritual Development
Philosophy and Writings
Appendix:
Notes of Uncertain Origin
PART TWO
LETTERS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST
Section One:
Letters on Personal Practical and
Political Matters, 1890-1926
Family Letters, 1890-1919
Letters Written as a Probationer in
the Indian Civil Service, 1892
Letters Written While Employed in the
Princely State of Baroda, 1895-1906
Letters and Telegrams to Political and
Professional Associates, 1906-1926
Open Letters Published in Newspaper,
1909-1925
Section Two:
Early Letters on Yoga and the Spiritual
Life, 1911-1928
Extracts from Letters to the Mother
and Paul Richard, 1911-c. 1922
To people in India, 1914-19276
To Barindra Kumar Ghose and
Others, 1922-1928
To People in America, 1926-1927
Draft Letters, 1926-1928
Section Three:
Other Letters of Historical Interest on
Yoga and Practical Life, 1921-1938
On Yoga and Fund-raising for the
Ashram, 1921-1938
To and about Public Figures,
1930-1937
PART THREE
PUBLICA STATEMENTS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS
OF INIAN AND WORLD EVENTS, 1940-1950
Section One:
Public statements, Messages, Letters
And Telegram on Indian and World
Events, 1940-1950
On the Second World War, 1940-1943
On Indian Independence, 1942-1947
On the Integration of the French
Settlement in India, 1947-1950
Messages on Indian and World
Events, 1948-1950
Section Two:
Private Letters to Public Figures and to
The Editor of Mother India, 1948-1950
Private Letters to Public Figures,
1948-1950
Notes and Letter to the Editor of
Mother India on Indian and World
Events, 1949-1950
PART FOUR
PUBLIC STATEMENTS AND NOTICES
CONCERNING SRI AUROBINDO’S ASHRAM
AND YOGA, 1927-1949
Section One:
Public Statements and Notices concerning
the Ashram, 1927-1937
Public Statements about the Ashram,
1927 and 1934
Notices for Members of the Ashram,
1928-1937
Section Two:
Public Statements about Sri Aurobindo’s
Path of Yoga, 1934 and 1949
NOTE ON THE TEXTS