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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter XVIII The Soul and Its Liberation.htm
Chapter XVIII   The Soul and Its Liberation   WE HAVE now to pause and consider to what this acceptance of the relations of Purusha and Prakriti commits us; for it means that the Yoga which we are pursuing has for end none of the ordinary aims of humanity. It neither accepts our earthly existence as it is, nor can be satisfied with some kind of moral perfection or religious ecstasy, with a heaven beyond or with some dissolution of our being by which we get satisfactorily done with the trouble of existence. Our aim becomes quite other; it is to live in the Divine, the Infinite, in God and not in any mere egoi
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter XVII The Soul and Nature.htm
Chapter XVII   The Soul and Nature   THIS IS the result of the integral knowledge taken in its mass; its work is to gather up the different strands of our being into the universal oneness. If we are to possess perfectly the world in our new divinised consciousness as the Divine himself possesses it, we have to know also each thing in its absoluteness, first by itself, secondly in its union with all that completes it; for so has the Divine imaged out and seen its being in the world. To see things as parts, as incomplete elements is a lower analytic knowledge. The Absolute is everywhere; it has to be seen and found everywhere. Every finite is an
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter XXIV Gnosis and Ananda.htm
Chapter XXIV   Gnosis and Ananda   THE ASCENT to the gnosis, the possession of something of the gnostic consciousness must elevate the soul of man and sublimate his life in the world into a glory of light and power and bliss and infinity that can seem in comparison with the lame action and limited realisations of our present mental and physical existence the very status and dynamis of a perfection final and absolute. And it is a true perfection, such as nothing before it has yet been in the ascension of the spirit. For even the highest spiritual realisation on the plane of mentality has in it something top-heavy, one-sided and e
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter X The Realisation of the Cosmic Self.htm
Chapter X   The Realisation of the Cosmic Self   OUR FIRST imperative aim when we draw back from mind, life, body and all else that is not our eternal being, is to get rid of the false idea of self by which we identify ourselves with the lower existence and can realise only our apparent being as perishable or mutable creatures in a perishable or ever mutable world. We have to know ourselves as the self, the spirit, the eternal; we have to exist consciously in our true being. Therefore this must be our primary, if not our first one and all-absorbing idea and effort in the path of knowledge. But when we have real
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter I The Principle of the Integral Yoga.htm
  Part IV  The Yoga of Self-Perfection        The first page of "The Yoga of Self-Perfection" as it appeared in the Arya of 15 December 1918     Chapter I   The Principle of the Integral Yoga   THE PRINCIPLE of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. In an ordinary Yoga one main power of being or one group of its powers is made the means, vehicle, path. In a synthetic Yoga all powers will be combined and included in the transmuting instrumentation. In Hathayoga the instrument
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter V Renunciation.htm
Chapter V   Renunciation   IF DISCIPLINE of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine li
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter XI The Modes of the Self.htm
Chapter XI   The Modes of the Self   SINCE the Self which we come to realise by the path of knowledge is not only the reality which lies behind and supports the states and movements of our psychological being, but also that transcendent and universal Existence which has manifested itself in all the movements of the universal, the knowledge of the Self includes also the knowledge of the principles of Being, its fundamental modes and its relations with the principles of the phenomenal universe. This was what was meant by the Upanishad when it spoke of the Brahman as that which being known all is known.¹  It has
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter XIX The Planes of Our Existence.htm
Chapter XIX   The Planes of Our Existence   IF THE Purusha in us has thus to become by union with its highest self, the Divine Purusha, the knower, lord, free enjoyer of its Prakriti, it cannot be done, evidently, by dwelling on the present plane of our being; for that is the material plane in which the reign of Prakriti is complete; there the divine Purusha is entirely hidden in the blinding surge of her activities, in the gross pomp of her workings, and the individual soul emerging from her involution of spirit in matter, subject in all its activities to its entangling in the material and vital instruments is u
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter VIII The Supreme Will.htm
Chapter VIII   The Supreme Will   IN THE light of this progressive manifestation of the Spirit, first apparently bound in the Ignorance, then free in the power and wisdom of the Infinite, we can better understand the great and crowning injunction of the Gita to the Karmayogin, "Abandoning all dharmas, all principles and laws and rules of conduct, take refuge in me alone." All standards and rules are temporary constructions founded upon the needs of the ego in its transition from Matter to Spirit. These makeshifts have a relative imperativeness so long as we rest satisfied in the stages of transition, content
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-23-24_The Synthesis of Yoga/Chapter I Love and the Triple Path.htm
  Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, c. 1915-1918     Part III The Yoga of Divine Love   Chapter I   Love and the Triple Path   WILL, KNOWLEDGE and love are the three divine powers in human nature and the life of man, and they point to the three paths by which the human soul rises to the divine. The integrality of them, the union of man with God in all the three, must therefore, as we have seen, be the foundation of an integral Yoga. Action is the first power of life. Nature begins with force and its works which, once conscious in