ISBN 0-941524-92-2 By the same Author: Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Evolution Mankind on the March (The Movement) Sapphires of Solitude (Poems) Celebration Future: The Next Millennium Savitri: Epic of the Eternal Meta-History The University of Tomorrow Avatarhood and Human Evolution Values and Value Theories Yoga of the Rishis Champaklal: Lion of Light and Love Nolini-da: A Loving Tribute 7 Studies in Sri Aurobindo Books edited: The Flame of Truth Nolini — Arjuna of Our Age Education and Society Towards Eternity (Sri Aurobindo"s Birth Centenary Volume) Eternity is

2. Yoga: The Psychology of Self-Perfection Yoga is one of the means of knowing man and the workings of cosmic forces through Nature and life. It is the study of the human mind, and of the greater mind expressing itself in all beings and things. It leads to the perception of the divine Intelligence and Will working through individual and cosmic evolution. Yoga is a powerful and perfected method of union with this divine Intelligence and Will. It provides a path of quick and conscious seeking and union with the Divine on one or more planes of our being. While the physical and vital mind looks upon outer things, Yoga penetrates the surface appearances

3. The Triple Liberation The world is the self-manifestation of Brahman in the figure of phenomenal consciousness. While Brahman exists in the world to represent Itself in the vital and mental, Life and Mind exist in Brahman in order to progress and discover it in themselves. "Therefore man's importance in the world is that he gives to it that development of consciousness in which its transfiguration by a perfect self-discovery becomes possible. To fulfil God in life is man's manhood. He starts from the animal vitality and its activities, but a divine existence is his objective."7 Brahman is not extra-cosmic, It is supra-cosmic. It embraces and includes the universe

6. Integral Yoga Psychology vis-a-vis Western Approach to Personality — Freud, Jung and Adler (i) Over the years Western psychology has undergone several changes. Originally, it was regarded as a science of the soul, but then it shifted its emphasis and came to be considered as the science of mind, and of late its main focus has been mere behaviour. This limits the subject to an infinitesimally small segment of its vast field. And with the advent and rise of physical sciences, psychology itself has come to be a natural science. Psychology today presents a plethora of points of view in regard to the nature of man; it is in fact a group of

PART ONE The Fundamentals The Fundamentals 1. Man and the Universe: Inseparable Companions on the Journey The soul of man is a traveller in the totality of the universe, unconscious of its identity with it, and with the all-inclusive and yet transcendent Brahman. A progressive revelation of the omni-truth of the Omnipresent Reality is the meaning and aim of world-existence and human existence. It is this luminous unfoldment, the dawn, that the ancient Rishis looked for, and devoutly worked for. The seers saw its fulfilled perfection as the summit-step of life's endless journey, guided and guarded by the Grace of the omnipotent Sachchidananda, im

GLOSSARY* ahamkara: Ego-sense. ajndna: The operation by which the consciousness dwells on an image of things so as to govern and possess it in power. Ananda (ananda): Bliss, delight, beatitude, spiritual ecstasy. Annamaya-Kosha (annamaya-kosa): The physical sheath. annamaya purusa: Soul in body; physical conscious being; material being. antah-karana: The inner instrument; mind; mind and vital as opposed to the body. anumdna: Inference. asat: Non-Being, Non-Existence, Nothingness; that which is not manifested and beyond manifestation and is not contained in the basis of manifestation. asmitd: Egotism. Atman (atman): Self; Spirit; the orig

6. The Knowledge and the Ignorance The seven principles of existence are essentially one, for they all are the statuses of one Spirit, powers of one Power, and inseparable in action. "They are the seven colours of the light of the divine consciousness, the rays of the Infinite."24 But the world we live in is the very opposite of divinity. It is based on Inconscience and Ignorance, falsehood and division. The Inconscience appears to be the beginning and the end of the earth-phenomenon. For the superficial analyst and the surface-observer, reconciliation between the Superconscient and the Inconscient seems impossible. The antinomy, the dichotomy is apparently

PART TWO Integral Yoga Psychology Integral Yoga Psychology 1. Psychology: The Perpetual Discovery While physical and life-sciences have made rapid advances and known Nature to some extent, psychology— the science of human thought — has not made similar progress. It has yet to know the many hidden possibilities of our mind. Modern Western psychology basically suffers from the materialistic error of making the study of the mind dependent upon our knowledge of the body. It suffers, too, from "a sceptical error which prevents any bold and clear-eyed investigation of the hidden profundities of our subjective existence; the e

PREFACE With any new area of study, it is necessary to define the relationship of that area to existing schools of thought. This is a crucial question in psychology today. Within the last three decades psychology has seen a radical development. Following the psychoanalytic and behavioristic traditions there emerged a 'third force' and a 'fourth force' known as humanistic and transpersonal psychologies. In addition, there are in the field the phenomenological and existential schools. Alongside these recent "forces" in the Western psychological tradition, there has been the development of another psychological approach based on the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. This may be called the Integral

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