... A Yoga of Transformation Letters on Yoga - II Chapter I Distinctive Features of the Integral Yoga The Meaning of Purna Yoga Purna Yoga means (1) that instead of approaching the Divine through the mind alone (Jnana) or the heart alone (Bhakti) or through will and works alone (Karma Yoga), one seeks the Divine with all the parts and powers of the c... Telugu language and cannot read the original, but from the account given in English I have formed some idea of the substance. I gather that it is in the main a statement and justification of the Purna Yoga and of my message; I believe you have rightly stated the two main elements of it,—first, the acceptance of the world as a manifestation of the Divine Power, not its rejection as a mistake or an illusion ...
... always worth pursuing. Only that which aims at possessing the fullness of God is purna Yoga; the sadhaka of the Divine Perfection is the purna Yogin. Our aim must be to be perfect as God in His being and bliss is perfect, pure as He is pure, blissful as He is blissful, and, when we are ourselves siddha in the purna Yoga, to bring all mankind to the same divine perfection. It does not matter if for ...
... they merely express, unwittingly, the fact that it has no equivalent in any other known yoga. Here, experientially, we touch upon the fundamental difference between Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga ( purna yoga ) and the other yogas. If one has practiced other methods of yoga before Sri Aurobindo's, one experiences an ascending Force (called kundalini in India), which awakens rather brutally at the... Mother says, that aspiration, that one-pointed and linear push is no longer enough; you must embrace everything and contain everything in your consciousness. Hence the integral yoga or "full yoga," purna yoga . We sought to get rid of the individuality as a burden preventing us from fluttering at will in the spiritual and cosmic expanses, but without it we can do nothing for the earth; we cannot draw ...
... Opening to the Mother and the Integral Yoga I cannot understand whether I am doing Yoga. Can it be said that I am doing your Purna Yoga? Everyone who is turned to the Mother is doing my Yoga. It is a great mistake to suppose that one can "do" the Purna Yoga—i.e. carry out and fulfil all the sides of the Yoga by one's own effort. No human being can do that. What one has to do is to put ...
... own reality, must know, love and perceive that Reality. Page 48 PURNA YOGA The Entire Purpose of Yoga Our aim must be to be perfect as God in His being and bliss is perfect, pure as He is pure, blissful as He blissful, and, when we are ourselves in Purna Yoga, to bring all mankind to the same divine perfection. It does not matter if for the present ...
... still standing away from Him so that we may enjoy that infinity of human relation with God which is the wonder and beauty and joy of dualistic religions. To accomplish this is the full or the Purna Yoga and the Sadhak who can attain to it is in his condition the complete Yogin." When we are face to face with Sri Aurobindo's spiritual integration, problems like those you raise assume a different ...
... dualist, but still standing away from Him so that we may enjoy that infinity of human relation with God which is the wonder & beauty & joy of dualistic religions. To accomplish this is the full, the purna Yoga, and the sadhak who can attain to it, is in his condition the complete Yogin. Is such a triune condition of the soul possible? Logically, it would seem impossible; logically, all trinities are ...
... conversations with the Mother in the last twelve years of her life. 54 Their establishing of the path of the “Integral Yoga”, as Sri Aurobindo named it – in the beginning he also sometimes called it Purna Yoga (complete yoga) or “Synthetic Yoga” – would allow others to follow in their footsteps; for creating a divine life necessitated collaboration from the flower of humanity. Sri Aurobindo would call ...
... whether I am doing yoga or not. Can it be said that I am doing your integral yoga? Everyone who is turned to the Mother is doing my Yoga. It is a great mistake to suppose that one can “do” the Purna Yoga, i.e. carry out and fulfil all the sides of the Yoga by one's own effort. No human being can do that. What one has to do is to put oneself in the Mother's hands and open oneself to her by service ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Messages and their Colours A request had come from the Purna Yoga Kendra for a message. Mother gave a blank white card and said, “It is a silent message.” Later she indicated: Blue for Hindi messages Pink for Bengali messages Yellow for Gujarati messages. ...
... as a guru? “No,” my soul assured me, “Sri Aurobindo is more than a guru.” Was it as a great seer or a great yogi? “No,” was the reply, “Sri Aurobindo is not even that.” As a creator of Purna Yoga? “Even if it be so he is not that alone.” As what then? “Only as Sri Aurobindo.” Sri Aurobindo is Sri Aurobindo. He does not fall into any category. He is one without a second. He is ...
... have heard Sri Aurobindo say that only the Divine Shakti can accomplish the integral yoga of this transformation. He consequently also said: ‘It is a great mistake to suppose that one can “do” the Purna Yoga [the complete or integral Yoga] … No human being can do that.’ 52 No species can break through its own ceiling all by itself. The Unity-Consciousness, which will be the essence of the supramental ...
... Divine] but sadrsya [likeness to the Divine] or, Page 196 as it is called in the Gita, sadharmya [becoming of one law of being and nature with the Supreme]. The full yoga, Purna Yoga, means a fourfold path, a Yoga of Knowledge for the mind, a Yoga of Bhakti for the heart, a Yoga of Works for the will and a Yoga of Perfection for the whole nature. But ordinarily, if one can ...
... accept the activity of the vijnanamayi shakti; or there may be a regular & effective use of limited powers by fixed Tantric processes (kriyas). The latter should be shunned by the sadhakas of the purna Yoga. The Conditions of Jnana It should also be noted that perfect jnana and trikaldrishti are only possible by complete shuddhi of the antahkarana, especially the exclusion of desire and vishuddhi ...
... . Circa 1913. This essay is found in the notebook containing the pieces that make up the next group, but seems to go better here. It has no title in the manuscript. Purna Yoga. Editorial title. The three pieces are headed I, II, III in the manuscript. I. The Entire Purpose of Yoga . Circa 1913. II. Parabrahman, Mukti & Human ...
... with it a full entrance into the divine consciousness and the divine nature; there must be not only sāyujya or sālokya but sādṛśya or, as it is called in the Gita, sādharmya . The full Yoga, Purna Yoga, means a fourfold path, a Yoga of knowledge for the mind, a Yoga of bhakti for the heart, a Yoga of works for the will and a Yoga of perfection for the whole nature. But, ordinarily, if one can follow ...
... leading to God or the Life Divine. Aurobindo took these and other ideas from the older yogas and evolved a dynamic and truly multiform yoga of his own, which he called Integral or Purna Yoga. It was not necessary, he thought, to isolate this or that faculty or instrument; all could be simultaneously used to bring about the desired union with God or the desired transformation of man. ...
... Page 42 PART II THE SYNTHESIS OF THE STATES OF BRAHMAN THERE are three basic postulates of the synthesis which: forms the heart of Sri Aurobindo's Integral or Purna Yoga. The first is that no union with the Supreme can be called. perfect unless it is a union in all His states, poises, and modes of being. The supreme Purusha or the omni- present Reality has four poises ...
... only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother.’ And: ‘Everyone who is turned towards the Mother is doing my Yoga. It is a great mistake to suppose that one can “do” the Purna [Integral] Yoga – i.e. carry out and fulfil all sides of the Yoga by one’s own effort. No human being can do that. What one has to do is to put oneself in the Mother’s hands and open oneself to her by... three essential realizations of their yoga, the other two being the spiritual and the supramental. During the working out of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, an important change had taken place. At the beginning he practised and recommended the technique of distancing the inner being from the outer, the Purusha from the Prakriti, according to the Sankhya system of yoga. Gradually, however, and especially after... rubbish.’ 18 This being an Integral Yoga in which all aspects of life have to be tackled, 91 the prescription of fixed rules and guidelines was not feasible. (This has led to much confusion concerning the Integral Yoga, and a repeated effort, in spite of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s integrality and openness, to write books about their ‘system’ of yoga.) The simple reason of this individuality ...
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