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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sri
Aurobindo
N
.B. The origin of each quotation is indicated by the letters
LD
The
Life Divine
SY
The
Synthesis of Yoga
HC
The
Human Cycle
followed
by the number of the volume and/or chapter.
The
Life Divine
The
Life Divine
originally
appeared as a series in the philosophic monthly the Arya, published
at Pondicherry, between August 1914 and January 1919.
The
work was afterwards published in book form under the same title:
1st
Indian edition - Arya Publishing
House, Calcutta, 2 volumes (3 parts), 1939 (vol. I-I part, VIII + 441
pp.) and 1940 (vol. 11-2 parts, X, X + 1186 pp.).
In
this edition the order of the chapters was somewhat modified and their
text revised and enlarged in places, often considerably. This is
particularly the case in the last six chapters of the work, which are
much quoted in the present book: two of them were rewritten and four
completely new.
2nd
Indian edition -
Arya
Publishing
House, Calcutta, 2 volumes (2 parts), 1943 (vol. I-VIII + 349 pp.) and
1944 (vol. II-X + 945 pp.).
3rd
Indian edition -
(Sri
Aurobindo
International University Centre Collection, vol. III), in one volume
(VIII + 1272 pp.), Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1955.
4th
Indian edition -
same
as
above, 1960.
5th
Indian edition -
as
a
part of Sri Aurobindo Centenary set, 1972, in two volumes (1070 pp.),
also a smaller size edition for loose sale.
American
edition - The
Sri
Aurobindo Library, New York,
N.Y.,
1949, in one volume with an index (X + 1040 pp.).
French
Translations - A
translation
of the first seven chapters was published in 1947 by the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram, Pondicherry.
The
last six chapters of the work have appeared both in English and French
(translated by the Mother), with the subtitle 'The Spiritual
Evolution', in the Bulletin of Physical Education (bilingual
Quarterly), Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, from 1956, No.2 to
1957, No.4.
Translations
in Indian Languages -
The
trilingual
edition of the Bulletin of Physical Education (English, French,
Hindi) has given a Hindi translation of these six chapters between the
dates stated above.
There
exist one complete Hindi and two Bengali translations of
The Life
Divine.
Also one other Hindi translation in part.
The
Synthesis of Yoga
The
Synthesis of Yoga
originally
appeared (73 chapters) in the Arya between August 1914 and
January 1921. It was incomplete when this monthly ceased.
Partial
edition -
Sri
Aurobindo
Library, Madras, 1948, (VIII + 283 pp.). Re-issue, under the same
title but greatly revised and enlarged, of the first 12 chapters
published in the Arya (Part I. The Yoga of Divine Works).
2nd
Partial edition - same as
above, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1953.
American
edition -
The
Sri
Aurobindo Library, New York, N.Y., 1950. Reproduction of the Partial
Indian edition (12 chapters), but with Glossary and Index (VIII + 303
pp.).
1st
Complete Indian edition -
Sri
Aurobindo,
On Yoga: I.
The Synthesis of Yoga
(Sri Aurobindo
International University Centre Collection, vol. IV), Sri Aurobindo
Ashram, Pondicherry, 1955, in one volume (VIII + 1034 pp.).
Besides
a newly written Introduction (The Conditions of the Synthesis), the
work consists of four parts, of which the first (The Yoga of Divine
Works) was revised and published in 1948; a Chapter XIII, newly
written but left incomplete, has been added. The second part (The Yoga
of Integral Knowledge) was partially revised by the author. The two
other parts (The Yoga of Divine Love, The Yoga of Self-Perfection)
have been reprinted without change from the
Arya.2nd
Complete Indian edition -
same
as
above, 1957.
3rd
Indian edition -
as
a
part of Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary set, 1972 (872 pp.), also a
smaller size edition for loose sale.
French
Translations - A
translation
of the revised first six chapters from the Arya was published
in 1939 by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, and re-edited in
1953.
The
French translation (by the Mother) of the complete work (after the
1957 edition) is in the course of being published together with the
English text in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre
of Education (new name of the quarterly Bulletin of Physical
Education), Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, from 1958, No. I,
onward. Chapter VII, quoted in the present book, appeared in the
Bulletin 1959, No.3.
A
Hindi translation
is
also in the process of publication, together with the English original
and the French translation in the trilingual edition of the Bulletin
of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Sri Aurobindo
Ashram, Pondicherry, from 1958, No.1, onward. A complete Hindi
translation and Bengali translation have been published as part of the
Centenary sets in these languages.
The
Human Cycle
The
original work appeared in the Arya under the title, 'The
Psychology of Social Development', from August 1916 to July 1918.
Indian
edition-under
the
title
The Human Cycle,
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1949
(VIII + 334 pp.). Re-issue, almost without change except for a few
footnotes, of the chapters from the
Arya.
Published
for the second time as a part of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary
set, 1972 (254 pp.), also a smaller size edition for loose sale.
American
edition -
same
title,
The Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, N.Y., 1950 (VIII + 312 pp.) with
Index.
French
Translation
(by
the Mother) - Le Cycle Humain - published with the English text, in
the Bulletin of Physical Education, Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
Pondicherry, from 1954, No.3, to 1956, No. 1 (7 Nos.).
Chapters
quoted in the
present book
Bulletin
XI,
XII, XIII,
1955,
No. 1
XVII
1955, No.3
German
Translation
(by
Ursula von Mangoldt) - under the title Zyklus Der Menschlichen
Entwicklung, Otto-Wilhelm-Barth-Verlag, Muenchen-Planegg, 1955
(411 pp.).
Hindi
Translation -
published
in
the trilingual editions of the Bulletin of Physical Education, between
the dates stated above. Revised and issued in book form as part of the
Centenary set in Hindi.
Gujarati
Translation - A
complete
Gujarati translation has been published.
For
biographies of Sri Aurobindo, consult (i) Sri Aurobindo on
Himself,
revised and enlarged, 1972 (513 pp.), Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
Pondicherry. (ii) Sri Aurobindo; a biography and a history by
Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, M.A.D. Litt, with ilIuss, 2 volumes (\471
pp.), 3rd edition, revised and enlarged, Sri Aurobindo International
Centre of Education, Pondicherry. (iii) Life of Sri Aurobindo by
A.B. Purani, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. (iv) Mahayogi Sri
Aurobindo, by R.R. Diwakar, with 11 iIluss (300 pp., 5th edition
1972), Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay.
(v)
Sri Aurobindo, Publications Division, Ministry of Information
and Broadcasting, Government of India, profusely. illustrated (68 pp.,
1972). (vi) Sri Aurobindo, the story of his life, Sri Aurobindo
Ashram,
Pondicherry (93 pp., 1972). (vii) Sri Aurobindo, a brief
biography by Prema Nandakumar (54 pp., 1972), Publications Division,
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. (viii) Sri
Aurobindo by Navajata, with iIIuss (122 pp.,
1972),
National Book Trust, India, New Delhi. (ix) Sri Aurobindo, a
life sketch and his teaching, Sri Aurobindo's Action, Pondicherry (45
pp., 1971). (x) Sri Aurobindo, his life and teachings, Popular
Prakashan, Bombay (123 pp.).
(May
be obtained from Sri Aurobindo Books Distribution Agency,
Pondicherry-605002, India.)
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