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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Synthesis of Yoga_1950 Edn/STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND SPIRITUAL FREEDOM.htm
CHAPTER VII
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND SPIRITUAL FREEDOM
The knowledge on which the doer of works in Yoga has to found all his action and development has for the keystone of its structure a more and more concrete perception of unity, the living sense of an all-pervading oneness; he moves in the increasing consciousness of all existence as an indivisible whole: all work too is part of this divine indivisible whole. His personal action and its results can no longer be or seem a separate movement mainly or entirely determined by the egoistic "free" will of an individual, himself separate in the mass. Our works are part of an indivisible cosmic action; they
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Synthesis of Yoga_1950 Edn/THE ASCENT OF THE SACRIFICE ( I).htm
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CHAPTER V
THE ASCENT OF THE SACRIFICE (1)
THE WORK OF KNOWLEDGE-THE PSYCHIC BEING
THIS then is in its foundations the integral knowledge of the Supreme and Infinite to whom we offer our sacrifice, and this the nature of the sacrifice itself in its triple character,—a sacrifice of works, a sacrifice of love and adoration, a sacrifice of knowledge. For even when we speak of the sacrifice of works by itself, we do not mean the offering only of our outward acts, but of all that is active and dynamic in us; our internal movements no less than our external doings are to be consecrated on the one altar. The inner heart of all work that is made into a sacrifice is a
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Synthesis of Yoga_1950 Edn/THE ASCENT OF THE SACRIFICE(2).htm
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CHAPTER VI
THE ASCENT OF THE SACRIFICE (2)
THE WORK OF LOVE- THE WORKS OF LIFE
mental preference, vital passion or physical craving, but on the recognition of soul by soul,—love restored to its fundamental spiritual and psychic essence with the mind, the vital, the physical as manifesting instruments and elements of that greater oneness. In this change the individual love also is converted by a natural heightening into a divine love for the Divine Inhabitant immanent in a mind and soul and body occupied by the One in all creatures.
All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it; even when it is offered ignorantly and to a limite