The last set of Sri Aurobindo’s prose writings appeared in the Bulletin d' Education Physique (Bulletin of Physical Education) beginning with 21 February 1949. The Mother approached Sri Aurobindo and requested him for a message for the newly started periodical to be brought out on the occasion of each Darshan, four times in a year. The message was dictated for it on 30 December 1948 and published in the inaugural issue of the Bulletin. The title of this quarterly bilingual journal was altered in 1959 to Bulletin du Centre International d'Éducation Sri Aurobindo (Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) and it continues to appear so to this day.

It seems that Sri Aurobindo took this as an opportunity to disclose some of the aspects of his occult-yogic work connected with the supramental descent and manifestation upon earth. We should indeed be thankful to the Mother for this wonderful request of hers without which, we are not sure, if Sri Aurobindo would have come out at all. He had already established dynamically in his physical the supramental light and force and now it had to become a part of the vaster terrestrial manifestation. One of the primary conditions for that to happen was the opening of the physical’s mind to the supramental which he called as the Mind of Light. It is this Mind of Light which will become the formative power to effect the first desired change. The process and the details were detailed out in the articles. The Mother’s important and celebrated but arduous work of the cellular transformation began with it.

Sri Aurobindo’s writing career began with a series of eight articles he contributed to Indu Prakash from Bombay during 1893-94, which was being edited by his Cambridge friend KG Deshpande. And now here is the last set of eight articles. Between these two magnificent rivers of truth, one young and zealous and swift-moving and full of honey-fire, and the other deeply occult-spiritual loaded with the luminous charge of the spirit, like a burning diamond descending in our midst, they both together making the first and the last sets of distinctive articles, lies or spreads the vast ocean of his knowledge expressed in prose and poetry. We have just concluded the first series under the title New Lamps for Old and now begin the second for which we provide the title New Suns for the Old. The first article is A Message from Sri Aurobindo: the Place of Sports in Educational Institutions and it appeared first on 21 February 1949. Awakening of the essential instinctive body consciousness itself is the new dimension that has entered into the spiritual-yogic progress as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo.

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