... further progress possible and therefore the tackling of a new aspect of the integrality. The Mother had many names for this new aspect. She called it the yoga of the body, the yoga of the cells, the physical yoga, the yoga of the physical vibrations, the yoga of Matter, etc. The many names of this yoga define the centre of its attention and endeavour. We are fairly well informed about this yoga of physical ...
... features of the age may be found as separate facts in ancient India: codes existed from old time; art and drama were of fairly ancient origin, to whatever date we may assign their development; physical Yoga processes existed almost from the first, and the material development portrayed in the Ramayana and Mahabharata is hardly less splendid than that of which the Raghuvamsha is so brilliant a picture ...
... found Page 93 as separate facts in ancient India: codes existed from old time; art and drama were of fairly ancient origin, to whatever date we may assign their development; physical Yoga processes existed almost from the first, and the material development portrayed in the Ramayana and Mahabharata is hardly less splendid than that of which the Raghuvamsha is so brilliant a picture ...
... of what the physical, psychological and spiritual condition of each person was before coming here. There will be a detailed description of each sadhak's progress or downturn in the spiritual and physical yoga - sadhana after coming here. Everything will be filed and documented. I've made a chart keeping all this in mind. If you look at this chart everything about a sadhak becomes clear. All the experiments ...
... features of the age may be found as separate facts in ancient India: codes existed from old time; art and drama were of fairly ancient origin, to whatever date we may assign their development; physical yoga processes existed almost from the first, and the material development portrayed in the Ramayana and Mahabharata is hardly less splendid than that of which the Raghuvamsa is so brilliant a picture ...
... calm and quiet as the true basis and atmosphere of your future development and experience, calm in the mind, the purified vital being and in the physical consciousness. A psycho-vital or psycho-physical Yoga will not be safe for you until you have this calm and an assured purity of being and a complete and always present vital and physical protection. Aurobindo. ...
... not speaking of anxiety, because for a very long time now there has been no anxiety in my body—a long time, many years—but anxiety is like swallowing a cup of poison. This is what is called physical yoga. One must overcome all that. And the only way to do it: at every second all the cells must be ( gesture of motionless offering upward ) in an adoration, in an aspiration—an adoration, an aspiration ...
... revolt against the leading. On the other hand complete samananda of siddhi asiddhi is obviously preparing & has become more normal than asamata. In shakti faith is depressed, in siddhi of physical yoga, in siddhi of karma, in siddhi of rapidity and in God & self-power. It is doubted whether the leading is directly divine,—whether the leader of the yoga is the Master of all. Mahakali-shakti is ...
... talking about anxiety because it's a long, a very long time since my body stopped having any anxiety—a long time, years—but anxiety is like swallowing a cup of poison. This is what is called physical yoga. To get over all that. And the only way to do it is for all, every one of the cells, every second, to be ( gesture of immobile offering Upward ) in an adoration, an aspiration—an adoration, an ...
... when her sadhana was the sadhana of her body, of the cells of her body, of the matter of those cells. That is why she called her yoga ‘the yoga of the body’, ‘the yoga of the cells’, ‘the physical yoga’, ‘the yoga of the physical vibrations.’ ‘It is the experience of the body, you understand, physical, material — the experience of the body.’ 16 In the levels of being above matter, everything ...
... satisfying the criterion of public shareability, provided we mean by public that public which has at its command those senses and faculties which are appropriate for the knowledge of the supra-physical. Yoga as Science and Validity of Spiritual Knowledge Indeed, if spiritual experiences were a matter of sporadic occurrence or of a sudden momentary flash, then, considering the variety ...
... satisfying the criterion of public shareability, provided we mean by public that public which has at its command those senses and faculties which are appropriate for the knowledge of the supra-physical. Yoga as Science and Validity of Spiritual Knowledge Indeed, if spiritual experiences were a matter of sporadic occurrence or of a sudden momentary flash, — then, considering the variety of ...
... the body does not help in the sadhana: "Always its vibration is on the ground." When pain came, it was no use trying to reject it; the right thing would be to endure! endure! She had found that physical Yoga or Yoga of the body comprised three stages: (1) Perfect immobility or bodily equality; (2) The surrender or spontaneous and total acceptance of the supreme Will, with a constant adoration ...
... People even speak of going to "yoga classes " or doing "yoga exercises " — as if "yoga" was some kind of callisthenics — without knowing, it seems, that Yoga, which is a word subsuming many disciplines, goes far beyond and far deeper than mere physical exercises, however remarkable they may be. It is therefore important to reflect on the deeper purpose of Hatha Yoga so as to put this great discipline... various systems of Yoga are integrated but the details of their respective methods are either dispensed with altogether or modified or retained only in their essence. In this Integral Yoga, the goal of physical perfection is an essential part; but the concept of physical perfection is much vaster than the one found in the Hatha Yoga. Again, while the methods of Hatha Yoga are accepted as valid... discipline in its proper place in the realm of physical education. Yoga is a Sanskrit word which comes from the root-verb "yuj", to unite. All Yoga is by nature an attempt and an arriving at unity with the Supreme. To attain freedom from our ordinary limitations and to become one with the Divine is the common aim of all Yogas, but there are specializations and, towards this end, they use different ...
... incorrigible erroneous beliefs? Yoga claims that it has developed methods, which can deal with the supra-physical as rigorously and as objectively as modern science deals with physical phenomena. Yoga claims that its methods can deal both with the physical and supra-physical, and, if needed and encouraged it could develop an integral science of both the physical and supra-physical and their interrelationship... where the domains of inquiry themselves are supra physical, which escape the boundaries of empiricism, measurability and physical objectivism. Indeed, it seems rational to admit that to insist on physical proofs of what is claimed to be supra-physical is illegitimate. But are there, it may be asked, appropriate methods of investigating the supra-physical which can give guarantee against subjective bias... in science, philosophy and religion, Yoga has emerged; for Yoga has specific characteristics which bring it closest to science, philosophy and religion and has yet the potentiality of going beyond all of them so as to provide to humanity a new mode of knowledge whereby world-knowledge, soul-knowledge and God-knowledge can all be integrated. The methods of Yoga can be pursued without recourse to ...
... which is to be changed is what both yoga and psychology deal with. The three parts of the being just mentioned - mental, vital, physical - which yoga aims at changing, constitute what in Sri Aurobindo's yoga psychology is called the outer or surface being which is distinguished from the inner being, composed of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, with the psychic or the soul as... possess and utilise them as physical science possesses and utilises the secret of the forces of Nature". 8 These deeper sources of our waking and superficial existence as discovered by yogic psychology are seen to lie below, behind and above our normal consciousness. What lies below the normal consciousness is called the subconscient in Sri Aurobindo's yoga psychology. The subconscient... Yoga and Psychology The Relationship Between Yoga and Psychology in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga AS. Dalai Sri Aurobindo, writing on his teaching and the method of its practice, refers to yoga as "the ancient psychological discipline". 1 He has also described yoga as "nothing but practical psychology.". 2 Regarding the method of yoga he states: "the whole ...
... range of the word Yoga. 18 When questioned about tests of validity of the knowledge acquired by the processes of yoga, Sri Aurobindo replied: ...the experiences of yoga belong to an inner domain and go according to a law of their own, have their own method of perception, criteria and all the rest of it which are neither those of the domain of the physical senses nor of the... phenomena which are beyond the perception of the physical senses or cognizable by the intellect. Therefore, in addition to the physical senses, yoga psychology employs subtler inner senses belonging to the subliminal consciousness. Further, unlike modern psychology which relies solely on intellectual reasoning in drawing conclusions from observations, yoga psychology utilises an intuitive perception... ultimate truth; on the contrary, ultimate truth even on the physical plane seems to recede as Science advances. Science started on the assumption that the ultimate truth must be physical and objective — and the objective Ultimate (or even less than that) would explain Page 310 all subjective phenomena. Yoga proceeds on the opposite view that the ultimate Truth is spiritual ...
... suggested below: Psychology and Yoga as Applied Psychology Psychology of Nature, Psychology of Life Life and Yoga Systems of Yoga: Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Tantra Yoga, the Synthesis of Yoga Analysis of Personality; Parts of the Being; Inconscient, sub-conscient, physical, vital, mental, subliminal, psychic, superconscient Ego... education and perpetual youth; Yoga and the mental education, vital education, physical education; Page 371 Yoga and development of latent faculties and powers; Yoga and development of spiritual experiences; Yoga and education for values; Methods of education, content of education and structure of educational organisation in the light of Yoga; Yoga and education for self-perfection... ction. A Special Note on Yoga and Physical Education Although Yoga is not identical with physical culture or the system of Asanas and Pranayama, a perfection of physical culture is a part of the total perfection that is achieved by the Integral Yoga. The perfection of the body is primarily a question of the application of consciousness and powers of consciousness on the functions ...
... them—what has to be avoided is these having any repercussion on the consciousness. These dreams even come sometimes without any psychological sex cause from a purely physical pressure. Yoga has always its difficulties, whatever Yoga it be. More- over, in each it acts in a different way. Some have to overcome the difficulties of their nature first before they get any experiences to speak of—others... self and figure. P.S. Mind, vital, physical are properly instruments for the soul and spirit; when they work for themselves then they produce ignorant and imperfect things—if they can be made into conscious instruments of the psychic and the spirit, then they get their own fulfilment—that is the idea contained in what we call transformation in this Yoga. July 8,1936 I am extremely... to come, the Mother will give you a meditation for some time and it will rather rest than at all strain her. As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the idea of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which the body belongs, one may have a certain perfection ...
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