The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo In the history of mankind, the advent of Sri Aurobindo represents a turning point; it has opened the world to a new life and consciousness and ultimately to a new race. To attain to that consciousness, he has given us the way – the Integral Yoga. We shall mention briefly in this article some of the characteristics of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. For this Yoga as its name implies takes up the whole of human life in its fold. Let us see in Sri Aurobindo’s words the characteristics of the Integral Yoga. The first question that arises in our mind is: what is Yoga?

Secularism, Religion and Spirituality A new word has recently been cast into the shifty language of politics, — a language of self-illusion and deliberate delusion of others, which almost immediately turns all true and vivid phrases into a jargon, so that men may fight in a cloud of words without any clear sense of the thing they are battling for, —it is the word “secularism”. The Late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, introduced this word into the Indian Constitution in the mid-seventies, during the Emergency. Since then, the word secularism has become the battle cry of political parties, intellectuals and opinion maker

Indian culture and Hinduism Indian culture has been from the beginning and has remained a spiritual, an inward-looking religio-philosophical culture. Everything else in it has derived from that one central and original peculiarity or has been in some way dependent on it or subordinate to it; even external life has been subjected to the inward look of the spirit. 1. Sri Aurobindo It is this inward-looking religio-philosophical culture which goes by the name of Hinduism. However, in modern times, both in India and abroad, it is under severe attack and is often branded as communal, n