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

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

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

Bibliography Sri Aurobindo, The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo - 37 volumes, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 2005. Vol. Titles 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

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

PART FOUR The Problem of Death and Physical Immortality In the beginning of 1970, the Mother spoke of the replacement of knowledge-processes in her body by a new perception which was total, something that comprehended at the same time hearing, vision and knowledge. There was, she said, no differentiation among her organs. She pointed out that the new consciousness insisted on surpassing all divisions and all exclusiveness, including the great division of life and death. The Mother discovered 'over-life', which is at once life and death or which is rather something that cannot be described either as life or as death, but some other thir

PART SIX Difficulties and Remedies Psychological Difficulties and Remedies In regard to the psychological difficulties, certain impulses and instincts of the body have been found especially harmful by the spiritual aspirant. Sri Aurobindo points out that sex and sexuality and all that springs from sex and testifies to its existence had to be banned and discarded from spiritual life. Sri Aurobindo points out that though this is difficult, it is not at all impossible and can be made a cardinal condition for the spiritual seeker.73 In the practice of integral yoga, all gross animal indulgence of sex desire and impulse would have to be eliminated

Supermind in the Evolution A New humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities of mind acting as a recipient of that truth and at least a secondary action of it in thought and life. It could even be a part of what could be described as a divine life upon earth and at least the beginnings of an evolution in the Knowledge and no longer

Spiritual Religion of Humanity A spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future.  By this is not meant what is ordinarily called a universal religion, a system, a thing of creed and intellectual belief and dogma and outward rite.  Mankind has tried unity by that means; it has failed and deserved to fail, because there can be no universal religious system, one in mental creed and vital form.  The inner spirit is indeed one, but more than any other the spiritual life insists on freedom and variation in its self-expression and means of development.  A religion of humanity means the growing realisation that there is a secret Spirit, a divine Reality, i

Religion as the law of life SINCE THE infinite, the absolute and transcendent, the universal, the One is the secret summit of existence and to reach the spiritual consciousness and the Divine the ultimate goal and aim of our being and therefore of the whole development of the individual and the collectivity in all its parts and all its activities, reason cannot be the last and highest guide; culture, as it is understood ordinarily, cannot be the directing light or find out the regulating and harmonising principle of all our life and action.  For reason stops short of the Divine and only compromises with the problems of life, and culture in order to attain th