... delivered his Sun out of our material darkness."4 Significance of the Vedic Synthesis of Yoga The reason why so much space has been devoted in this book to the exposition of the synthesis of Yoga in the Veda is that the entire history of the synthesis of yoga would remain inexplicable if the Vedic synthesis of yoga is not properly grasped and underlined. The Upanishads and the synthesis... brought back the knowledge contained in the Vedic syntheses and, even though their new synthesis breaks a new ground, this yoga cannot be understood if the Vedic synthesis of yoga is not understood. It may, therefore, be said that the Vedic synthesis of yoga pervades the entire atmosphere of the development of yoga in India, and even in this Introduction, it would be useful to expound, in some broad terms... a book of yoga, and when we study this system of yoga, we find in it a complexity and a synthesis of many lines of enlightenment and self-culture that had developed earlier. In due course, the Vedic synthesis broke down in specialised lines of Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, as also those of Mantra Yoga and of several other esoteric systems. In developing the psychological theory, Sri Aurobindo ...
... knowledge or divine love. These conflicts became prominent in India soon after the period of the original and esoteric system of the Vedic synthesis of yoga and they have continued to fuel controversies right up to the present day. It is true that the ancient Vedic synthesis of yoga has aided a great deal in securing, during the long history of yoga, the attitude of larger understanding, tolerance, ac ...
... could achieve with incredible rapidity can not be represented as something generally realisable. There have been several other examples of the synthesis of yoga. There was, for example, the Vedic synthesis of yoga. In this synthesis, the psychological powers of the intellect, will, and feeling were sought to be raised up to their highest flights and widest rangings of divine knowledge, power, joy... time we come to the Gita, we witness a great conflict between the path of knowledge and the path of works. The yoga of the Gita confronted this conflict and recovered the Upanishadic and even Vedic synthesis, and it built upon the basis of the essential ideas of that synthesis another harmony and synthesis of three great means and powers, Love, Knowledge and Works, through which the soul of man can ...
... their seers had delivered his Sun out of our material darkness." 62 page - 110 The Vedic synthesis was a synthesis of the Ultimate Reality that was at once 'tad ekam' (That One), the Deva, the supreme person, and also the source of cosmic forces and gods, the sons of Aditi. The Vedic synthesis was a synthesis of the Divine as the transcendental, cosmic, and individual. It was also a synthesis... Existence, Sat. The conquest ofSwar and the arrival at Surya, the abode of comprehensive light, could be regarded as epical victories. Synthesis of Yoga in the Upanishads It was the Vedic synthesis which provided the foundation for the synthesis of yoga in the Upanishads. As Sri Aurobindo points out, the Upanishads "draw together into a great harmony all that had been seen and experienced ...
... maps out, but it does not cut up or build walls or hedges to confine our vision. Page 56 There have been other syntheses in the long history of Indian thought. We start with the Vedic synthesis of the psychological being of man in its highest flights and widest ranging of divine knowledge, power, joy, life and glory with the cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of ...
... supreme region. It maps out, but it does not cut up or build walls or hedges to confine our vision. There have been other syntheses in the long history of Indian thought. We start with the Vedic synthesis of the psychological being of man in its highest flights and widest rangings of divine knowledge, power, joy, life and glory with the cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of ...
... is an integration of the past systems and the new methods that he himself has discovered and perfected. Page 24 This new synthesis embraces within its wide embrace the truth of the Vedic synthesis of the psychological being of man in its highest flights and widest ranging of divine knowledge, power, joy and glory which had its crowning experience of the transcendental and blissful reality ...
... increases, and it swells in due course of time into the rejection of all cosmic life whatever, and that becomes finally in India almost the one dominant and all-challenging cry. In the earlier Vedic synthesis, the liberation of the individual is regarded as a means towards a great cosmic victory, — swarājya as an indispensable step towards Page 16 sāmrājya.10 The Vedic yoga also declares ...
... both in the world and beyond all universe. {Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 20, pp. 41-43.) * * * There have been other syntheses in the long history of Indian thought. We start with the Vedic synthesis of the psychological being of man in its highest flights and widest rangings of divine knowledge, power, joy, life and glory with the cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols ...
... Upanishads and the Gita as a grand succession of syntheses of all current and previous spiritual experience and speculative thought on the issue of right action here and now. The crown of the Vedic synthesis was the visioned possibility and experienced actuality of man's self-transcendence towards divine heights through the invocation and intervention of the powers of the cosmic godheads. The Upanishadic ...
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