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SECTION THIRTEEN
THE DIVINE AND THE HOSTILE POWERS
I. THE DIVINE BEINGS
II. THE HOSTILE FORCES
I. THE DIVINE BEINGS
The Existence of Gods
OF course, the gods exist—that is to say, there are
Powers that stand above the world and transmit
the divine workings. It is the physical mind which
believes only what is physical that denies them.
There are also beings of other worlds—gods and
etc.
The Gods and the Divine
THE gods are Personalities or Powers put forth by the Divine—they are therefore in fact limited
Emanations, although the full Divine is behind
each of them.
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Forms of G
SECTION ONE
Integral Yoga and Partial Spiritual Paths
The Aim of Integral Yoga and the Ideal
of Supermanhood
To come to this Yoga merely with the idea of
being a superman would be an act of vital
egoism which would defeat its own object. Those
who put this object in the front of their preoccupations
invariably come to grief, spiritually and otherwise.
The aim of this Yoga is, first, to enter into the
divine consciousness by merging into it the separative
ego (incidentally, in doing so one finds one's
true individual self which is not the limited, vain
and selfish human ego but a portion of the Divine)
and, secondly, to bring down the supramental con
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SECTION TWENTY
SADHANA IN WORLDLY LIFE—KNOWLEDGE OF PAST LIVES—
PAIN AND SUFFERING, ETC.
\ Sadhana in Worldly Life
IN her condition the one thing by which she
can enter into the sadhana is to remember the Divine always, taking her
difficulties as ordeals to be passed through, to pray constantly and seek the
Divine help and protection and ask for the opening of her heart and
consciousness to the supporting Divine Presence.
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Right Way of Going through Worldly Life
THE life of saṁsāra is in its nature a
field of unrest —to go through it in the right way one has to offer
one's life and actions to the Divine and pra
SECTION EIGHT
CENTRES AND PARTS OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
Manas in the Ordinary Psychology and the Integral
Yoga
—Right Ordering of Different Parts in
Yoga
THE terms Manas, etc. belong to the ordinary
psychology applied to the surface consciousness. In our Yoga we adopt a different classification —based on the Yogic experience. What answers to this movement of the Manas there would be two
separate things—a part of the physical mind
communicating with the physical-vital. It receives
from the physical senses and transmits to the Buddhi —i.e., to some part or other of the Thought-Mind. It receives back from the Buddhi and transmits
idea and will to the organs of se
SECTION THREE
INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE AND
SPIRITUAL TRUTH
Intellect, Mind and Truth
INTELLECT is part of Mind and an instrument
of half-truth like the rest of the Mind.
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Intellect and the Truth
WHAT you have said is perfectly right. To see the
Truth does not depend on a big intellect or a small
intellect. It depends on being in contact with the
Truth and the mind silent and quiet to receive it.
The biggest intellects can make errors of the worst
kind and confuse Truth and Falsehood, if they
have not the contact with the Truth or the direct
experience.
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Need of Controlling the Intellect
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SECTION TEN
INNER SIGHT AND INNER VISION
Opening of the Inner Sight
WHEN one tries to meditate, the first obstacle in the beginning is sleep. When you get
over this obstacle, there comes a condition in which, with the eyes closed, you
begin to see things,
people, scenes of all kinds. This is not a bad thing,
it is a good sign and means that you are making
progress in the Yoga. There is, besides the outer
physical sight which sees external objects, an inner
sight in us which can see things yet unseen and
unknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or to
other worlds; it is
the inner sight which is opening in you. It is the
working of
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SECTION SIX
THE SECURE FOUNDATION OF
SADHANA
The First Foundation of the Yogic Status
EQUANIMITY and peace in all conditions, in all parts of the being is the first foundation of the
Yogic status. Either Light (bringing with it Knowledge) or Force (bringing strength and dynamism of
many kinds) or Ananda (bringing love and joy of
existence) can come next according to the trend of
the nature. But peace is the first condition without
which nothing else can be stable.
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The True Basis
YES, a settled peace and strength supporting the
intensity and poise in which everything foreign falls off, is the true basis.
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SECTION EIGHTEEN
SADHANA THROUGH WORK
Motives of Work in Ordinary Life and
Yoga—Signs of Vital's Consecration in Action
MEN usually work and carry on their affairs
from the ordinary motives of the vital being,
need, desire of wealth or success or position or
power or fame or the push to activity and the
pleasure of manifesting their capacities, and they
succeed or fail according to their capability, power
of work and the good or bad fortune which is the
result of their nature and their Karma. When
one takes up the Yoga and wishes to consecrate
one's life to the Divine, these ordinary motives of
the vital being have no longer their full and free
play; they have t
SECTION FOUR
SADHANA AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
Sadhana and Mental Development
(1)
FOR one who wants to practise sadhana, sadhana must
come first—reading and mental development can only be subordinate things.
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(2)
Mental development may or may not help sadhana
—if the mind is too intellectually developed in certain
rationalistic lines, it may hinder.
Sadhana and Mental Work
I DON'T know that it (mental work) helps the sadhana
and I don't quite understand what is meant by the
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phrase. What is a fact is that mental work like
physical work can be made a part of the sadhana,—
not as a rival