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PART SEVEN
Integral Yoga: Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
The integral yoga as developed by Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother is, although perfected in all its aspects, still an
unfinished chapter opening itself to the future that is in the
making. It is impossible to turn this yoga into a religion; it
has no dogmas and rituals that can be mechanically believed
in or practised. It is a multisided Way that is still being
traversed; it is open to any individual for his or her free
choice to traverse in the way that is suitable to his or her own
law of nature and development; it is also available to
humanity as an indispensable aid to its advance towards the
highest ideals o
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PART ONE
Yoga and Evolution
Evolution can, when examined in its inner processes of
development, be seen to be basically a process of yoga; and
yoga can, when examined from the point of view of the
instruments which are selected for application for
purification and concentration, be considered to be a process
of evolution. However, yoga and its processes aim at
acceleration of the processes of natural evolution, and they
eliminate more and more effectively the ordinary tardy
method of slow and confused growth that we find in the
processes of natural evolution. As Sri Aurobindo points out:
".. .the natural evolution is at its best an uncertain growth
under cov
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PART THREE
Experimental Nature of the Integral Yoga
The unique feature of the integral yoga is that it is not
based on speculation but it has been built and is even being
built by rigorous methods of experimentation, based on the
relevant accumulated knowledge of the past experiences and
realizations as also on the basis of a constant thrust towards
what is needed unprecedentedly for the evolutionary
manifestation of the supramental consciousness and power
on the earth. Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's works testify
to the long and arduous process of experimentation carried
on day after day for years and decades. If we study the life and
wor
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Preface
Yoga has for long been conceived as the discipline that
necessitates rejection of life and its activities. The Integral
Yoga, on the contrary, maintains that all life is Yoga and that
life can greatly be helped if we apply the principles of yoga
to the problems of life. All life must be accepted, but all life
must be transformed by the application of the Integral Yoga. It is further contended that the contemporary problems of
life have reached a critical stage and that criticality can be
resolved only if we apply principles of Integral Yoga to the
problems of the contemporary crisis.
The purpose of this book is to elucidate this view of the Integral Yoga and to br
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Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and
law at the Bombay University. He was selected
for the I. A. S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned
in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the
study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He
taught Philosophy and Psychology at the Sri Aurobindo
International Centre of Education at Pondicherry and participated in numerous educational
experiments under the direct guidance of The
Mother.
In 1976, the Government of India invited him
to be Educational Advisor in the Ministry of
Education. In 1983, he was appointed Special
Secretary to the Government of India, and he held the post until 1988. He
was Member
Sec
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Integral Yoga
Its Aid to Humanity
and to the
Evolutionary Mutation of Human Species
This book is addressed to all young people -who,
I urge will study and respond to the following
message of Sri Aurobindo:
"It is the young who must be the builders of the new world, —
not those who accept the competitive individualism, the
capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as
India's future ideal, nor those who are enslaved to old
religious formulas and cannot believe in the acceptance and
transformation of life by the spirit, but all those who are free
in mind and heart to accept a completer truth and labour for
a greater ideal. They
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PART TWO
Human History and the Problems of the Harmony
between the Individual and the Collectivity
The spiritual consciousness is spontaneously universal,
and spirituality, in its embrace of universality, is drawn to
work for humanity, to uplift humanity and to establish in
humanity the operation of an instrument greater than the
instrument of the mind, to develop supramentality by which a
new world order can be securely established, - a new world
order which has come to be glimpsed from time to time, such
as that of the kingdom of heaven on the earth. That new world
order has still to be worked out and realized, not merely for
th
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PART FIVE
Stages of the Evolutionary Mutation of the Human
Body into the Divine Body
There are various factors to be considered for developing
the yoga of the evolutionary process leading to the
fabrication of the Divine Body, which will be the
supramentalised robe for the eternal Spirit as its appropriate
habitation. The development of the divine body, which will
be free from the limitations of the human body subject to the
necessity of dissolution and death, is implied, according to
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, in the evolutionary urge
embedded in the Inconscience. For Nature seeks complete
harmony; life and matter have been harmonized in th
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Bibliography
Sri Aurobindo, The Complete Works of Sri
Aurobindo - 37 volumes,
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 2005.
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1 Early Cultural Writings
2 Collected Poems
3 Collected Plays and Stories -I
4 Collected Plays and Stories-I I
5 Translations
6 Bande Mataram -1
7 Bande Mataram - II
8 Karmayogin
9 Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit
10 Record of Yoga-I
11 Record of Yoga-II
12 Essays Divine and Human
13 Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
14 Vedic Studies
15 The Secret of the Veda
16 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
17 Isha Upanishad
18 Kena and Other Upanishads
19 Essays on the Gita
20 The
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Notes and References
1 Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary
Library (SABCL), Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 20, p. 83.
2 Vide., Ibid., p. 2.
3 Vide., Ibid., p. 44.
4 Vide., Ibid., The Life Divine, Vol. 19, p. 832.
5 Ibid., pp. 841.
6 Ibid., pp. 841-2.
7 Ibid., p. 842-3.
8 Ibid., p. 844.
9 Ibid., pp. 1066.
10 Vide., Ibid., p. 882-3.
11 Vide., Ibid., Vol. 18,p.l0.
12 Vide., Ibid., Vol. 19,p. 884.
13 Ibid., p. 885.
14 Vide., Ibid., pp. 889-90.
15 Vide., Ibid., p. 1046.
16 Vide., Ibid., p. 1050.
17 Ibid., Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15, pp.63-4.
18 Vide., Ibid., chapters