... well as Love and Ananda). Different sadhanas emphasise one aspect or another as the highest, but it is this union of all that must be the true base of the highest realisation and experience. Vaishnava Bhakti and the Integral Yoga It is not necessary to repeat past forms [ of Bhakti Yoga ]—to bring out the bhakti of the psychic being and give it whatever forms come naturally in the development is... to nothing definite and final,—it ends where it began, midway between the two poles of human nature. An association is not enough, a transformation is indispensable. The tradition of later Vaishnava bhakti is an attempt to sublimate the vital impulses through love by turning human love towards the Divine. It made a strong and intense effort and had many rich and beautiful experiences; but its weakness... be on guard against these dangers and it is the guru who can interpose himself as a shield against them. The identification of the guru with the Divine is a common rule, not peculiar to the Vaishnava bhakti. Ordinarily, so far as the outer mind is concerned, it is a firm belief; the outer mind can believe, can by its faith have some feeling of it, can with the help of the heart worship, adore, serve ...
... Letters on Yoga we read these lines: I have Page 71 no objection at all to the worship of Krishna or the Vaishnava form of devotion, nor is there an incompatibility between Vaishnava Bhakti and my supramental yoga. There is in fact no special and exclusive form of supramental yoga: all ways can lead to the supermind, just as all ways can lead to the Divine.' "So I think the... s Yoga, for they are the base and the milieu for the supramental dynamism in the world. But if we go in for the Shiva-mantra as made effective in the past we shall hardly be Aurobindonians. Vaishnava bhakti has brought the sweetness and intensity and concreteness of the personal Divine into life and, as such, it is indispensable for us, human persons who have been doing the Integral Yoga under gurus... objective for us: a calm flickerless flaming of the heart is what Sri Aurobindo wants: no loss of true fire is here, but nothing of the dramatic, the uncontrolled, the lopsided, the fitful. Again, Vaishnava bhakti has fixed for its terminus a beyond-life of Goloka-felicity: a wonderful lila, play, here with Krishna's inner presence and then a happy storm of passage to a heaven on the other side. This ...
... like a robe the human mind and figure. He assumes the human relations which the soul affects in the mortal body and they find in God their own fullest sense and greatest realisation. This is the Vaishnava bhakti of which the seed is here in the Gita's words, but which received afterwards Page 392 a more deep, ecstatic and significant extension. And from this second suggestion a third i ...
... devotion, I think I have already answered that more than once. I have no objection at all to the worship of Krishna or the Vaishnava form of devotion, nor is there any incompatibility between the Vaishnava bhakti and my Supramental Yoga. There is in fact no special and exclusive form of Supramental Yoga: all ways can lead to the Supermind, just as all ways can lead to the Divine. "Certainly I will help ...
... sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.² I have never disputed the truth of the old yogas – I have myself had the experience of Vaishnava Bhakti and of Nirvana in the Brahman; I recognise their truth in their own field and for their own purpose – the truth of their experience so far as it goes – though I am in no way bound to accept ...
... Disciple : No, but he behaved like one. There are cases of very rapid conversions in case of people who have met him. Page 139 Sri Aurobindo : I have found that Vaishnava Bhakti – devotional path – makes for very strong and rapid progress. Disciple : There is a line of Sadhus in Gujarat, who practice the worship of the Impersonal God. Sri Aurobindo : Worship ...
... the world. We all harbour in us conflicting persons. In Dilipda's case, there was a constant tussle between his western educated disbelieving intellect and his ancestral Hindu emotion of Vaishnava bhakti. What shines through these letters is Sri Aurobindo's immense patience of guiding Dilip da through his turbulence, his despondency, and nurturing with such tender care his latent talents ...
... and devotion, I think I have already answered more than once. I have no objection at all to the worship of Krishna or the Vaishnava form of devotion, nor is there any incompatibility between Vaishnava bhakti and my supramental Yoga. There is in fact no special and exclusive form of supramental Yoga: all ways can lead to the Super-mind, just as all ways can lead to the Divine. Certainly ...
... don't believe in short cuts—at any rate none ever led me where I wanted to go. However, let it rest there. I have never disputed the truth of the old Yogas—I have Myself had the experience of Vaishnava bhakti and of Nirvana. I recognise their truth in their own field and for their own Page 185 purpose—the truth of their experience so far as it goes—. though I am in no way bound to accept ...
... nothing definite and final,—it ends where it began, midway between the two poles of human nature. An association is not enough, a transformation is indispensable. The tradition of later Vaishnava bhakti is an attempt to sublimate the vital impulses through love by turning human love towards the Divine. It made a strong and intense effort and had many rich and beautiful experiences; but its ...
... devotion, I think I have already answered that more than once. I have no objection at all to the worship of Krishna or the 'Vaishnava' form of devotion, nor is there any incompatibility between the Vaishnava bhakti and my Supramental Yoga. "There is in fact no special and exclusive form of Supramental Yoga: all ways can lead to the Supermind, just as all ways can lead to the Divine. "Certainly ...
... any rate none ever led me where I wanted to go. However, let it rest there. "I have never disputed the truth of the old Yogas — I have myself had the experience of Vaishnava bhakti and of Nirvana in the Brahman, I recognize their truth in their own field and for their own purpose — the truth of their experience so far as it goes — though I am in no way bound to accept ...
... don't believe in short cuts—at any rate none ever led me where I wanted to go. However, let it rest there. I have never disputed the truth of the old Yogas—I have myself had the experience of Vaishnava Bhakti and of Nirvana in the Brahman; I recognise their truth in their own field and for their own purpose—the truth of their experience so far as it goes—though I am in no way bound to accept the truth ...
... Gauranga, naturally both are Avatars of Krishna, Then why quarrel? SATYENDRA: There are cases of very rapid progress among people who have met Haranath. SRI AUROBINDO: I have found that Vaishnava Bhakti leads to very intense and rapid progress. SATYENDRA: There is a line of Sadhus in Gujarat who have Bhakti for the impersonal God. SRI AUROBINDO: Bhakti for the impersonal God? SATYENDRA: ...
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