In December 2005, I had completed composing all but the Editorial of the online cultural journal "Jyoti" which was taking its new incarnation in the house of SCIY. For five years or so, Jyoti had been sporadically in operation, first as a quarterly, later as a bi-annual and somtimes as an annual - depending on my time constraints. Apart from my academic pursuits, I was serving  also as the president of the Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles and 'Jyoti'  was seen by me as somewhat of an extended cultural mouthpiece of the community life of that Center. It thus had sections on "news", "sales and exchanges" and "projects" which were specific to the Center. However, its wider interest areas were the "studies", "articles", "themes" and "creative" sections which, though sometimes related to the Center's life, were independent of it and took in contributors from the "extended family" of Sri Aurobindo disciples.

Prior to 2005, Jyoti had surfaced last early in 2004, so I felt some pressure to produce it by the end of 20065, to keep up at least the annual schedule of the journal. However, the proper inspiration for an "editorial" was lacking and I could not muster it - in spite of much trying - before setting out for India with a number of friends to travel and tour the art and spirituality sites of that country. This trip, first to the Sri Aurobindo ashram for a couple of weeks and then around India, was to occupy me completely until now, accompanied by major and forced unfortunate life-changes in the background which have brought me to this present point. In short, I am no longer connected with the Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles, having been "politically ousted" by disgruntled elements. However, I continue to be the editor of Jyoti.

Hence, I realized the occult wisdom in the failure to produce the journal in 2005. It no longer has anything to do with the Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles and now stands as an independent cultural journal of the entire Sri Aurobindo community. The first thing I needed to do to reflect this change was to recategorize the journal. This I have done by removing the Center-specific sections from it and grouping these under the LA Center Live category. Then, I have shifted the journal itself from its status as a branch of the LA Center Live under the 'Communities" section to the 'Publications" area under "Culture". I am in the process of writing the editorial at present and will annouce the new incarnation of the journal soon.

- Debashish