... the heading "The Yoga of Self-Perfection" began to be added above the chapter numbers. The Synthesis of Yoga was left incomplete when the Arya ceased publication in January 1921. Before abandoning the work, Sri Aurobindo wrote part of a chapter entitled "The Supramental Time Consciousness", which was meant to follow the last published chapter of "The Yoga of Self-Perfection". He never completed... combined, but this was never written. One can gauge how much of The Synthesis of Yoga remained to be written by comparing the actually completed chapters of "The Yoga Page 913 of Self-Perfection" with the outline of this part found in chapter X of Part IV. The "elements and requisites of perfection, siddhi " which are set forth discursively in that chapter are listed... more depth before concluding. When Sri Aurobindo turned his attention to The Synthesis of Yoga during the 1930s after a gap of more than a decade, he made no effort to complete "The Yoga of Self-Perfection". Instead he applied himself to the revision of already existing chapters. THE REVISION OF The Synthesis of Yoga Sri Aurobindo revised the text of The Synthesis ...
... Integral Yoga of Transformation -08_Part Six.htm Part Six Yoga of Self-Perfection The yoga of self-perfection has, as its aim, perfect manifestation of the perfect supramental consciousness and power through the perfected individual vehicles for the upliftment of the entire humanity so that the supramental manifestation on the earth can facilitate more... towards the evolution of the next supramental species. We may, in this connection, briefly indicate a few important elements in the integral yoga which reflect its thrust towards the yoga of self-perfection. In Sri Aurobindo's synthesis of yoga, the spirit in man is regarded not solely as an individual being traveling to a transcendent unity and the divine but universal being capable of oneness... wholly powerful process by starting, as it were, on three lines together. But in any case, one has to arrive at a point at every step of the development by which the conditions and means of the yoga of self-perfection are increasingly fulfilled. For it is by the yoga of elf-perfection that the supramental knowledge, supramental will and supreme Ananda become a direct instrumentation of spirit. In other words ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter II The Integral Perfection A divine perfection of the human being is our aim. We must know then first what are the essential elements that constitute man's total perfection; secondly, what we mean by a divine as distinguished from a human perfection of our being. That man as a being is capable... made a fit channel of its self-expression,—a living of man in the Divine and a divine living of the Spirit in humanity,—will therefore be the principle and the whole object of an integral Yoga of self-perfection. In the process of this change there must be by the very necessity of the effort two stages of its working. First, there will be the personal endeavour of the human being, as soon as he... meaning. To open oneself to the supracosmic Divine is an essential condition of this integral perfection; to unite oneself with the universal Divine is another essential condition. Here the Yoga of self-perfection coincides with the Yogas of knowledge, works and devotion; for it is impossible to change the human nature into the divine or to make it an instrument of the divine knowledge, will and joy ...
... satwa rajas and tamas, but they belong to the psychic entity and psychic being, the expressive stuff of which is constituted by higher nature of Para Prakriti. An important element in the yoga of self-perfection is directed towards the transformation of the Apara Prakriti by Para Prakriti through the intermediacy of the soul-power, the power of the psychic entity and psychic being, and the entire building... qualities and yet nirguna, quality less in the sense of complete transcendence. According to the integral psychology, the development of fourfold personality is a necessary part of the yoga of self- perfection. 71 It observes, however, that even though the fourfold power of the soul-force is latent in every individual being, there is normally predominance of one or the other of the soul-powers... capacity of the fourfold spirit. But at a still higher level, one begins to experience a general Presence of power, something impersonal in the personal form. Sri Aurobindo points out that the yoga of self-perfection brings out this Presence, — this soul-force, — and gives it its larger scope. All the fourfold powers are taken up and are thrown into the free circle of an integral and harmonious spiritual ...
... yoga, and Bhakti yoga receives central emphasis, but these processes are inter-woven and perfected by the processes and objectives of what Sri Aurobindo calls the yoga of self-perfection, and the central emphasis in the yoga of self- perfection falls upon the dynamic aspects of yoga and on the detailed processes of purification and developments of powers and instruments of Prakriti. Page 61 ... yoga and the Tantra as also all other processes of yoga which are incorporated in the integral yoga need to be modified and expanded; but most importantly, the necessity and processes of the yoga of self-perfection have implications not only at the summits of the yogic processes but even initially and increasingly for all processes of the integral yoga. Page 64 ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XX The Intuitive Mind The original nature of supermind is the self-conscience and all-conscience of the Infinite, of the universal Spirit and Self in things, organising on the foundation and according to the character of a direct self-knowledge its own wisdom and effective omnipotence for the... and can easily be taken up and transformed into that higher conscious action. This movement also is founded on the truth of our nature and enters into the course and movement of the complete Yoga of self-perfection. That course, as I have described it, included a heightening and greatening of the action of our natural instruments and powers till they constitute in their purity and essential completeness ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XIV The Power of the Instruments The second member of the Yoga of self-perfection is the heightened, enlarged and rectified power of the instruments of our normal Nature. The cultivation of this second perfection need not wait for the security of the equal mind and spirit, but it is only in that ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XI The Perfection of Equality The very first necessity for spiritual perfection is a perfect equality. Perfection in the sense in which we use it in Yoga, means a growth out of a lower undivine into a higher divine nature. In terms of knowledge it is a putting on the being of the higher self and... finite things, that some highest integral perfection of our being and nature finds its own native foundation. A perfect equality not only of the self, but in the nature is a condition of the Yoga of self-perfection. The first obvious step to it will be the conquest of our emotional and vital being, for here are the sources of greatest trouble, the most rampant forces of inequality and subjection, the ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XVI The Divine Shakti The relation between the Purusha and Prakriti which emerges as one advances in the Yoga of self-perfection is the next thing that we have to understand carefully in this part of the Yoga. In the spiritual truth of our being the power which we call Nature is the power of being ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter IV The Perfection of the Mental Being The fundamental idea of a Yoga of self-perfection must be, under these conditions, a reversal of the present relations of the soul of man to his mental, vital and physical nature. Man is at present a partly self-conscious soul subject to and limited by mind ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter III The Psychology of Self-Perfection Essentially, then, this divine self-perfection is a conversion of the human into a likeness of and a fundamental oneness with the divine nature, a rapid shaping of the image of God in man and filling in of its ideal outlines. It is what is ordinarily termed... what it believes it can be and has full faith in becoming, that it changes to in nature, evolves or discovers. This power of the soul over its nature is of the utmost importance in the Yoga of self-perfection; if it did not exist, we could never get by conscious endeavour and aspiration out of the fixed groove of our present imperfect human being; if any greater perfection were intended, we should ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Appendix to Part IV Sri Aurobindo began another chapter of "The Yoga of Self-Perfection" before deciding to discontinue the publication of the Arya . He wrote two versions of the opening of this chapter, which are reproduced here from his typescript. Page 905 ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XV Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality The perfecting of the normal mind, heart, prana and body gives us only the perfection of the psycho-physical machine we have to use and creates certain right instrumental conditions for a divine life and works lived and done with a purer, greater, clearer... both itself and things, something which acts with a much greater power upon the world and uses particular power only as one means of communication and impact on man and circumstance. The Yoga of self-perfection brings out this soul-force and gives it its largest scope, takes up all the fourfold powers and throws them into the free circle of an integral and harmonious spiritual dynamis. The godhead ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VII Purification - Intelligence and Will To purify the buddhi we must first understand its rather complex composition. And first we have to make clear the distinction, ignored in ordinary speech, between the manas , mind, and buddhi , the discerning intelligence and the enlightened will. Manas... perfection is away from all domination by the lower nature and towards a pure and powerful reflection of the being, power, knowledge and delight of the Spirit and Self in the buddhi. The Yoga of self-perfection is to make this double movement as absolute as possible. All immiscence of desire in the buddhi is an impurity. The intelligence coloured by desire is an impure intelligence and it distorts ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter I The Principle of the Integral Yoga The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. In an ordinary Yoga one main power of being or one group of its powers is made the means, vehicle, path. In a synthetic Yoga all... as it were, on three lines together, on a triple wheel of soul-power. But the consideration of this possibility must be postponed till we have seen what are the conditions and means of the Yoga of self-perfection. For we shall see that this also need not be postponed entirely, but a certain preparation of it is part of and a certain initiation into it proceeds by the growth of the divine works, love ...
... secret fountains of mental and vital energy with which they are connected more than upon the minor aid of physical aliments. This aspect of self-discipline is however more important in the Yoga of self-perfection than here; for our present purpose the important point is the renunciation by the mind of attachment to or dependence on the things of the body. Thus disciplined the mind will gradually... of the work whether physical or mental which can be done with this bodily instrument marvellously increased, doubled, tripled, decupled. This side of the method belongs properly to the Yoga of self-perfection; but it is as well to speak briefly of these things here both because we thereby lay a basis for what we shall have to say of self-perfection, which is a part of the integral Yoga, and because ...
... eternity—everything, without exception, that is to be manifested here.... In detail? In a certain state of consciousness (I no longer remember what he calls it—I think it's in the 'Yoga of Self-Perfection'), one is perfectly identified with the Supreme, not in his static but in his dynamic aspect, the state of becoming. In this state, everything is already there from all eternity, even though... me that she knew who had been there to see that all went well. And this feeling of the thing being already accomplished is a beginning of the consciousness Sri Aurobindo speaks of in the 'Yoga of Self-Perfection,' where one is simultaneously both here and there. Because, as Sri Aurobindo says, some people have managed to be entirely 'there,' but what he has called the 'realization' is to be both there ...
... exerted myself, concentrated, wrote slowly, slowly, like a pupil in school, and it came back! So you may come across some passages that aren't all that legible. But the last part ["The Yoga of Self-Perfection"] is the longest, and it's difficult, too. He didn't complete it. He never completed the last chapter, he even told me, "You will complete it when I have completed my yoga," and then... I am not a good medium, I am too conscious—the consciousness is immediately awake in the background and watches the phenomenon, so it stops working. But your Agenda is the end of the "Yoga of Self-Perfection"! Well, it'll be a long end! ( Mother laughs ) In other words, when it's over (we must first wait for it to be over), when it's over, with those notes, we could establish something—you'll ...
... the fully revised Part I ('The Yoga of Divine Works'), the slightly revised Part II ('The Yoga of Integral Knowledge'), and the unrevised Parts III and IV ('The Yoga of Divine Love' and 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection'). An additional, incomplete chapter entitled Page 550 'The Supermind and the Yoga of Works' had been appended to Part II, opening up some more vistas of possibility. Although... spiritual ideal, degrees of spiritual advancement. 30 In The Synthesis of Yoga we see how the essence and methods of the older Yogas are taken up in the inclusive and integral Yoga of Self-Perfection, and hints are also scattered regarding the supramental Yoga. In his letters, Sri Aurobindo went a little further, but even there everything could not be developed "systematically" or schematically ...
... Later a disciple asked Mother: "Why did you say 'almost'? Isn't then the disappearance complete?" To which Mother answered: "Somewhere, I believe it is in 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection' [ The Synthesis of Yoga ], regarding those who wish to merge in the Supreme, Sri Aurobindo says or rather hints that this cannot be done, for the Supreme wants it otherwise. But Sri Aurobindo ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XVIII Faith and Shakti The three parts of the perfection of our instrumental nature of which we have till now been reviewing the general features, the perfection of the intelligence, heart, vital consciousness and body, the perfection of the fundamental soul powers, the perfection of the surrender ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter V The Instruments of the Spirit If there is to be an active perfection of our being, the first necessity is a purification of the working of the instruments which it now uses for a music of discords. The being itself, the spirit, the divine Reality in man stands in no need of purification; it ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter IX The Liberation of the Nature The two sides of our being, conscious experiencing soul and executive Nature continuously and variously offering to the soul her experiences, determine in their meeting all the affections of our inner status and its responses. Nature contributes the character of ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VIII The Liberation of the Spirit The purification of the mental being and the psychic prana—we will leave aside for the time the question of the physical purification, that of the body and physical prana, though that too is necessary to an integral perfection,—prepares the ground for a spiritual ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XIII The Action of Equality The distinctions that have already been made, will have shown in sufficiency what is meant by the status of equality. It is not mere quiescence and indifference, not a withdrawal from experience, but a superiority to the present reactions of the mind and life. It is ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter X The Elements of Perfection When the self is purified of the wrong and confused action of the instrumental Nature and liberated into its self-existent being, consciousness, power and bliss and the Nature itself liberated from the tangle of this lower action of the struggling gunas and the dualities ...
... plane of the mental nature. We can get a luminous shadow of that perfect harmony and light. But this belongs to another part of our subject; it is the knowledge on which we must found our Yoga of self-perfection. Page 418 × The Gita speaks of the Jiva as a portion of the Lord. ...
... upon circumstances and is not modified by response or absence of response. So we shall deal with all the movements of the soul; but of these things we shall speak farther when we consider the Yoga of self-perfection. As with action and inaction, so it is with this dual possibility of indifference and calm on the one side and active joy and love on the other. Equality, not indifference is the basis. ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXIV The Supramental Sense All the instruments, all the activities of the mind have their corresponding powers in the action of the supramental energy and are there exalted and transfigured, but have there a reverse order of priority and necessary importance. As there is a supramental thought ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXIII The Supramental Instruments - Thought-Process The supermind, the divine gnosis, is not something entirely alien to our present consciousness: it is a superior instrumentation of the spirit and all the operations of our normal consciousness are limited and inferior derivations from the s ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXII The Supramental Thought and Knowledge The transition from mind to supermind is not only the substitution of a greater instrument of thought and knowledge, but a change and conversion of the whole consciousness. There is evolved not only a supramental thought, but a supramental will, sense ...
... something that wasn't exactly the Lord, but like an expression of the Lord, telling me (not with words, of course, but... how can I explain?... Sri Aurobindo describes it very well in the "Yoga of Self-Perfection": it's a very new thing which has to do with action, feeling, sensation and consciousness all at the same time; it's all of them together—none of those things, yet all of them), so it was there ...
... Works,’ appended to The Synthesis of Yoga. The editor of this book writes the following in a biographical note: ‘The Synthesis of Yoga as a whole was never completed. Not only was the “Yoga of Self-Perfection” left unfinished, a proposed additional section was not begun. It also should be remembered that only the first part, “The Yoga of Divine Works,” was issued during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime ...
... at what was happening in the body, as though asking it, "Let's see, how does this feel to you?" And I have told you how it feels. Page 195 ( silence ) I am translating "The Yoga of Self-Perfection": what the body must be and must become to serve as an instrument. It's touching.... But one thing has happened practically without my noticing it. In the past, before that experience [ ...
... country in the world and every possible kind of person—and, well, I made some more discoveries, and I am making still more. There's such a wonderful passage in The Synthesis of Yoga (" The Yoga of Self-Perfection "), where he mentions four things (you surely remember this), four things the disciple needs (I have just translated it). I knew this, of course, but the passage is especially timely now—p ...
... of devotion is the path that leads to union with the Divine through perfect, total and eternal love. In the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the two combine with the yoga of works and the yoga of self-perfection to make a homogeneous whole, culminating in the yoga of supramental realisation. 5 February 1960 Sweet Mother, What are the "supreme faculties"? It is difficult to reply ...
... that day and night, when I walk and when I speak and when I eat. It's constantly like that. As if the whole earth were ... it's like kneading dough to make it rise. But when I read his Yoga of Self-Perfection and see ... simply what we are ... phew! What yeast we would need to make all that rise! But this is not true: HE alone is doing it, it's always He. And sometimes things stagnate, they ...
... There are successive curves, each second of which would have to be noted down; and in the course of one of these curves, something is suddenly found. For example, at the beginning of The Yoga of Self-Perfection , Sri Aurobindo reviews other yogas, beginning with Hatha Yoga. I had just translated this when I remembered Sri Aurobindo saying that Hatha Yoga was very effective but that it amounted to ...
... spontaneous. Therefore, I have told her (to put it simply): provided you are sincere in your attitude, all is well. Later: Here is something interesting. I am translating the 'Yoga of Self-Perfection.' My first look at it stiffened me—now it's a delight! And I have done nothing in between but simply let it work within; it's so easy! My translation is poorly written, hardly French at ...
... here. The others have constant trouble because their desires are not satisfied. 2 October 1959 Page 127 If you want to be happy here, you must come with the will to do the yoga of self-perfection; for if you do not come for that, you will be shocked at every moment by things that are contrary to your habits and to the principles of ordinary life, and it will not be possible for you ...
... XII.724 ) It heralds the Supermind. But I had a feeling he hadn't completed his revision. When I read this, I felt it wasn't the end, just as when I read the last chapter of the "Yoga of Self-Perfection," 2 I felt it was unfinished. He left it unfinished. And he said so. He said, "No, I will not go down to this mental level any more." But in Savitri's case... (I didn't look after ...
... and that what he calls the Supramental is the supreme Truth, the Divine Truth. It corresponds to what I noticed while translating that last chapter on "the perfection of the being" in the "Yoga of Self-Perfection": I kept thinking, "But that's only the aspect of Truth; all that he expresses is the aspect of Truth; always and everywhere, it's the angle of Truth; and his supramental action is an action ...
... Instead of drawing back from manifested Nature and its difficulties, he confronted them, seized and conquered. 2 Part Four of The Synthesis of Yoga spells out the steps of the Yoga of Self-Perfection. This is no time-bound system but is to be a life-long affair since the plan involves an endless progression: 1 The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 46. 2 Ibid., ...
... determine the principle of the synthesis of yoga. It is that synthesis which, in Sri Aurobindo's view, has to serve the higher and the highest aims of the yoga of supramental perfection or the yoga of self-perfection. The supramental perfection implies a complete enjoyment and possession of the whole divine and spiritual nature; and it is complete lifting of the whole nature of man into its higher and highest ...
... three transformations, psychic transformation, spiritual transformation, and supramental transformation. In the literature relating to the integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo has presented the yoga of self-perfection and described in detail the psychology of what he calls, the Page 66 Gnostic Being, a being that is thoroughly supramentalised by the consciousness and force of the supermind. ...
... of life who proceeds to realise the ideal in himself and then to build up an integral method for others to follow. And what is the efficacy of this preconised method called the Integral Yoga of Self-Perfection? Well, let us listen to him (the unbiased rationalist might get an abundance of conviction from his significant utterance): "I must remind you that I have been an intellectual myself ...
... Part I: The Yoga of Divine Works; Pan II: The Yoga of Integral Knowledge. Volume 21 — The Synthesis of Yoga , PARTS THREE 'AND FOUR. Part III: The Yoga of Divine Love; Part IV: The Yoga of Self-Perfection. Volume 22 — Letters on Yoga, PART ONE: The Supramental Evolution; Integral Yoga and Other Paths; Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga; Reason, Science and Yoga; Planes and Parts ...
... psychic strength, some few - many are called, only a few are chosen! - may want, and be permitted, to join the Ashram permanently to participate at close quarters in the Aurobindonian Yoga of self-perfection and ultimate supramental transformation, and for them "the stay here in the atmosphere, the nearness are indispensable". 24 In another letter of about the same time (1 August 1931) ...
... equality. A perfect, unperturbed equality in the face of all happenings of the nature makes the detachment invulnerable and itself becomes the base of the most powerful action of a dynamic Yoga of self-perfection. Detachment and equality are, there- fore, the indispensable primary means of the conquest of desire. The other means is surrender. Detachment and equality by themselves can purify the ...
... guide the spiritual seekers, to help them to their destination—to realize the Divine, and in addition something new and unprecedented, to help divinize the human consciousness by a special Yoga of self-perfection, a stream of spiritual seekers from all sides, especially from Gujarat and Bengal, began to flow towards the beaconlight of the Ashram, for guidance and help in their strivings to break the ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXV Towards the Supramental Time Vision All being, consciousness, knowledge moves, secretly for our present surface awareness, openly when we rise beyond it to the spiritual and supramental ranges, between two states and powers of existence, that of the timeless Infinite and that of the Infinite ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XIX The Nature of the Supermind The object of Yoga is to raise the human being from the consciousness of the ordinary mind subject to the control of vital and material Nature and limited wholly by birth and death and Time and the needs and desires of the mind, life and body to the consciousness ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXI The Gradations of the Supermind The intuitive mind is an immediate translation of truth into mental terms half transformed by a radiant supramental substance, a translation of some infinite self-knowledge that acts above mind in the superconscient spirit. That spirit becomes conscient to us ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXVI The Supramental Time Consciousness Version A The supermind in its supreme status is the truth-consciousness of the Infinite, the inherent light and power of self-knowledge and all-knowledge of the Supreme who is the self of all, the living eternal truth of all that is and of whom all objects ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XII The Way of Equality It will appear from the description of the complete and perfect equality that this equality has two sides. It must therefore be arrived at by two successive movements. One will liberate us from the action of the lower nature and admit us to the calm peace of the divine ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VI Purification - The Lower Mentality We have to deal with the complex action of all these instruments and set about their purification. And the simplest way will be to fasten on the two kinds of radical defect in each, distinguish clearly in what they consist and set them right. But there is ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XVII The Action of the Divine Shakti This is the nature of the divine Shakti that it is the timeless power of the Divine which manifests itself in time as a universal force creating, constituting, maintaining and directing all the movements and workings of the universe. This universal Power is ...
... intellectual truth. × This subject will be dealt with more in detail when we come to the Yoga of self-perfection. ...
... Synthesis of Yoga, volume 23 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, pp. 269-70 . × "The Yoga of Self-Perfection", Part IV of The Synthesis of Yoga. —Ed. × The sixteen essays published since 1952 as ...
... the balcony I recognize all my people.) And it's that vision (but with open eyes!) which.... It is of another order. I am going to study what Sri Aurobindo says when I come to it in The Yoga of Self-Perfection . He says there comes a time when the Page 244 senses change—it's not that you employ the senses proper to another plane (we have always known we had senses on all the different ...
... Here's my original manuscript—although it's not very 'original.' It's a message for the first of January. One day... (I'm translating the last section of The Synthesis of Yoga , 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection'—it plunges you into bottomless gulfs...) and one day (I think I've told you this), I had a vision of the gap between... not even what ought to be, because we probably haven't the slightest ...
... later published as The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. × The third section, 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection,' which was never completed. ...
... realization. And those who wrote the Vedas, who composed all these hymns, remembered or kept the tradition of that experience. And oh, mon petit, it had the same effect on me as when I read the 'Yoga of Self-Perfection' in The Synthesis of Yoga ( Mother catches her breath ): there is such a gulf between what we are, what life on earth and human consciousness now are, even among the most enlightened, the ...
... but since I'm at least two or three years ahead of the Bulletin , it doesn't matter, I won't be delaying the work! I have almost finished 'The Yoga of Divine Love'; now there's only 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection'—that's quite a job, oh!... I miss it—this translation was my pleasure.) But the work on the body is useful—something must be attempted in life; we are here to do something new, aren't we? ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 11, 1960 I'm just now finishing the Yoga of Self-Perfection ... When we see what human life is and, even in the best of cases, what it represents in the way of imbecility, stupidity, narrowness, meanness Page 430 (not to mention ignorance because that is too flagrant) ... and even those who believe themselves ...
... difficulty. I tried every possible way... To get out of it is relatively easy. But then it doesn't change. The problem appeared again to me very intensely when I read Sri Aurobindo's The Yoga of Self-Perfection . I was confronted with a whole formidable world to be transformed—to transform what is already luminous is quite easy, but to transform that!... ugh—this stuff of life, so low and so coarse ...
... how to play bridge, how to play tennis, the art of carving a chicken... Fine. (Satprem:) 'All-in-One,' it's rather like yoga! (After Pavitra leaves) I'm continuing The Yoga of Self-Perfection . It's really something ... I shall never tire of saying it's 'fabulous.' Everything, absolutely everything, in detail, everything is there. And he foresaw—foresaw, gave the remedy; foresaw ...
... time to remember and it gets erased. But then, you know, with all that's coming you could write volumes! From a documentary standpoint, my nights are getting quite interesting. In the Yoga of Self-Perfection , Sri Aurobindo describes precisely this state you reach in which all things assume meaning and a quality of inner significance, clarification of various points, and help. From this point of ...
... it comforted me, and I thought, "All right, then." He said that he who has purified his mind and so on and so forth, who is ready to work towards Perfection (it's in the Synthesis , "The Yoga of Self-Perfection"), "He is ready and patient for lapses and the recurrence of old errors, and he works quietly, waiting patiently till the time comes for them to leave." I thought, "Very well, that's how it ...
... Yet THE TIME HAS COME to change habits. It's just a bad habit. I can see I am still (and God knows how long it will last!) in that transitional period Sri Aurobindo describes in "The Yoga of Self-Perfection." A period when the true thing is getting established but the tail of the old thing trails behind, mixes in and colors things. Well, it's an old habit, and it takes SUCH a long time to go away ...
... the famous Dr. Schweitzer wrote to the Ashram that he found it extremely important) - The Ideal of Human Unity - The Synthesis of Yoga (which expounds all the past Yogas and goes on to the Yoga of Self-Perfection) -Commentaries on the Isha Upanishad and the Kena Upanishad - The Future Poetry & Letters on Poetry, Art, Literature. These books have the rare quality of literary charm on top of profound ...
... present subject, also since death and dissolution are no necessary attributes of life but have rather been introduced as a temporary expedient to serve the purpose of life itself, the Integral Yoga of Self-Perfection has set for its ultimate goal the annulment of 1 Bulletin, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, pp. 73, 75. Page 411 this doom of physical mortality . But does this ...
... The book will, we hope, interest the growing circle of devotees and disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, especially those who want to know the method of actual practice of the Integral Yoga of Self-perfection and Self-transformation. We are thankful to Dr. A. S. Dalai for contributing a scholarly and perspicacious 'Foreword' to this book. ...
... being is itself a difficult programme, and the other two preparations of perfection will also need to be undertaken in varying degrees along with the first programme of perfection. In this yoga of self-perfection, as described in his ''The Synthesis of Yoga', Sri Aurobindo analyses perfection as consisting of six elements. The first consists of the perfection of equality (samata) and of the action ...
... Divine Works; Part II: The Yoga of Integral Knowledge. Volume 21 The Synthesis of Yoga , PARTS THREE AND FOUR. Part III: The Yoga of Divine Love; Part IV: The Yoga of Self-Perfection. Volume 22 Letters on Yoga, Part One: The Supramental Evolution; Integral Yoga and Other Paths; Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga; Reason, Science and ...
... Sri Aurobindo outlines the dynamics of the three classical paths—the Yoga of Divine Work, the Yoga of Integral Knowledge, and the Yoga of Divine Love, and in the final part describes the Yoga of Self-Perfection which uses all three disciplines in a bold way: To arrive by the shortest way at the largest development of spiritual power and being and divinise by it a liberated nature in ...
... Aurobindo for All Ages (1990) Memorable Moments with the Mother (2d ed. 1st imp. 1993) Mrinalini Devi (1988) Dream Cadences (1946) The Yoga of Works (1976) The Yoga of Self-Perfection (1983) Commentaries on the Mother's Ministry in 4 vols. (1983, 1983, 1985, 1988) The Mother and I (1984) The Yoga of Transformation (1989) An Early Chapter in the Mother's ...
... of devotion is the path that leads to union with the Divine through perfect, total and eternal love. In the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the two combine with the yoga of works and the yoga of self-perfection to make a homogeneous whole, culminating in the yoga of supramental realisation. 5 February 1960 * * * Sweet Mother, I have not understood the passage Sri Aurobindo has quoted ...
... Divine and Human Circa 1913 Essays Divine and Human The Object of Our Yoga The object of our Yoga is self-perfection, not self-annulment. There are two paths set for the feet of the Yogin, withdrawal from the universe and perfection in the Universe; the first comes by asceticism, the second is effected by tapasya; the first receives us when we... movement, play out His play, work out His formula, execute His harmony, express Him through ourselves in His system. This is our joy and our self-fulfilment; to this end we who transcend & exceed the universe, have entered into universe-existence. Perfection has to be worked out, harmony has to be accomplished. Imperfection, limitation, death, grief, ignorance, matter, are only the first terms of... reinterpreted the formulary; they are the initial discords of the musician's tuning. Out of imperfection we have to construct perfection, out of limitation to discover infinity, out of death to find immortality, out of grief to recover divine bliss, out of ignorance to rescue divine self-knowledge, out of matter to reveal Spirit. To work out this end for ourselves and for humanity is the object of our Yogic ...
... supraterrestrial heavens, but an attainment of divine perfection of human being and living here upon earth is the central aim of our existence. "All life is a secret Yoga, an obscure growth of Nature towards the discovery and fulfilment of the divine principle hidden in her which becomes progressively less obscure, more self-conscient and luminous, more self-possessed in the human Page 23 ... within". The idea may perhaps sound queer Page 12 to those readers who are not well acquainted with the spiritual teachings of Sri Aurobindo, the propounder of the Yoga of Integral Self-Perfection. Constraints of time and space do not allow us to elaborate further on this topic here. However, we may content ourselves with mentioning in brief a few salient principles that the Master-Yogi... can find their last perfection only by opening out to the Divine. The education of the future should be designed to help man in fulfilling this ideal of integral perfection. (Vide, SABCL, Vol. 21, pp. 590, 591) So we see that education changes its meaning and content in Sri Aurobindo's vision of the education of the future. The revealing and finding of the divine Self in man should, in Sri ...
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