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Chapter V
The Synthesis of the Systems
BY THE very nature of the principal Yogic schools, each
covering in its operations a part of the complex human integer and attempting to bring out its highest possibilities,
it will appear that a synthesis of all of them largely conceived and applied might well result in an integral Yoga. But they are so
disparate in their tendencies, so highly specialised and elaborated in their forms, so long confirmed in the mutual opposition of
their ideas and methods that we do not easily find how we can arrive at their right union.
An undiscriminating combination in block would not be a synthesis, but a
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Chapter II
The Integral Perfection
A DIVINE perfection of the human being is our aim. We
must know then first what are the essential elements that constitute man's total perfection; secondly, what we
mean by a divine as distinguished from a human perfection of our being. That man as a being is capable of self-development
and of some approach at least to an ideal standard of perfection which his mind is able to conceive, fix before it and pursue,
is common ground to all thinking humanity, though it may be only the minority who concern themselves with this possibility
as providing the one most important aim of life. But by some the ideal is concei
Chapter VI
The Synthesis of the Disciplines
of Knowledge
IN THE last chapter we have spoken of
renunciation in its most general scope, even as we spoke of
concentration in all its possibilities; what has been said, applies
therefore equally to the path of Works and the path of Devotion as
to the path of Knowledge; for on all three concentration and
renunciation are needed, though the way and spirit in which they are
applied may vary. But we must now turn more particularly to the
actual steps of the Path of Knowledge on which the double force of
concentration and renunciation must aid us to
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Chapter II
Self-Consecration
ALL YOGA is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of
the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner
being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger
spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast inward change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may
reach it through the influence of a religion or the attracti
Chapter XXIII
The Conditions of Attainment
to the Gnosis
KNOWLEDGE is the first principle of the Vijnāna, but knowledge is not its only power. The Truth-consciousness, like every other plane, founds itself upon that particular principle which is naturally the key of all its motions;
but it is not limited by it, it contains all the other powers of existence. Only the character and working of these other powers
is modified and moulded into conformity with its own original and dominant law; intelligence, life, body, will, consciousness,
bliss are all luminous, awake, instinct with divine knowledge. This is indeed
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Chapter IX
The Release from the Ego
THE FORMATION of a mental and
vital ego tied to the body-sense was the first great labour of the
cosmic Life in its progressive evolution; for this was the means it
found for creating out of matter a conscious individual. The
dissolution of this limiting ego is the one condition, the necessary
means for this very same Life to arrive at its divine fruition: for
only so can the conscious individual find either his transcendent
self or his true Person. This double movement is usually represented
as a fall and a redemption or a creation and a destruction, — the
kindling of a ligh
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Chapter XX
The Lower Triple Purusha
SUCH is the constituent
principle of the various worlds of cosmic existence and the various
planes of our being; they are as if a ladder plunging down into
Matter and perhaps below it, rising up into the heights of the
Spirit, even perhaps to the point at which existence escapes out of
cosmic being into ranges of a supra-cosmic Absolute, — so at least
it is averred in the world-system of the Buddhists. But to our
ordinary materialised consciousness all this does not exist because
it is hidden from us by our preoccupation with our existence in a
little corner of the materi
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Chapter VI
The Delight of the Divine
THIS THEN is the way of devotion and this its justification
to the highest and the widest, the most integral knowledge, and we can now perceive what form and place it
will take in an integral Yoga. Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and delight of
the Divine, effected through the human nature with a result of development into the divine nature of being, whatever that may
be, so far as we can conceive it in mind and realise it in spiritual activity. Whatever we see of this Divine and fix our concentrated
effort upon it, that we can become or grow into s
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Chapter V
The Instruments of the Spirit
IF THERE is to be an active perfection of our being, the first
necessity is a purification of the working of the instruments which it now uses for a music of discords. The being itself, the
spirit, the divine Reality in man stands in no need of purification; it is for ever pure, not affected by the faults of its instrumentation
or the stumblings of mind and heart and body in their work, as the sun, says the Upanishad, is not touched or stained by the
faults of the eye of vision. Mind, heart, the soul of vital desire, the life in the body are the seats of impurity; it is they that must
be set right if th
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Chapter XIV
The Passive and the Active Brahman
THE DIFFICULTY which the mental being experiences in
arriving at an integral realisation of true being and world-being may be met by following one or other of two different lines of his self-development. He may evolve himself from plane to plane of his own being and embrace on each successively
his oneness with the world and with Sachchidananda realised as the Purusha and
Prakriti, Conscious-Soul and Nature-Soul of that plane, taking into
himself the action of the lower grades of being as he ascends. He
may, that is to say, work out by a sort of inclusive process of
self-enl