…we should be cognizant of the historical perspectives of the several early yogic formulations by Sri Aurobindo. This should imply that, their limitations were actually being tackled in their several occult-spiritual connotations. We should also be quite aware that the yoga-tapasya towards the supramental transformation was rather waiting for the Mother’s final arrival at Pondicherry, which happened in 1920. That would make a whole difference in the approach. For the larger group pursuit involving the difficulty of the lower nature, and in view of the severe hostility that is there all around, it is very necessary that the psychic being emerges as its unfailing guide. Its role in the collective spiritual undertaking started becoming determinative. Record of Yoga is great but greater things were happening in subsequent years, culminating in Savitri. Of this we do not get much of an idea in the latest biography of Sri Aurobindo.   more »