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Thursday, October 26
"The Synthesis of Yoga," by Sri Aurobindo. Part 1, Chapter 1, p.47, "The Four Aids"
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ronjon
on October 26, 2006 03:24PM (PDT)
Yoga-siddhi, the perfection that comes from the practice of Yoga, can be best attained by the combined working of four great instruments. There is, first, the knowledge of the truths, principles, powers and processes that govern the realisation -- sastra. Next comes ... more »
Sunday, October 1
THE SYNTHESIS OF YOGA, by Sri Aurobindo: Introduction, Chapter 3, "The Threefold Life"
by
ronjon
on October 1, 2006 02:23PM (PDT)
"...man, the head of terrestrial Nature, the sole earthly frame in which her full evolution is possible, is a triple birth. He has been given a living frame in which the body is the vessel and life the dynamic means of a divine manifestation. His activity is centred in a progressive mind which aims at perfecting itself as well as the house in which it dwells and the means of life that it uses, and is capable of awaking by a progressive self-realisation to its own true nature as a form of the Spirit. He culminates in what he always really was, the illumined and beatific spirit which is intended at last to irradiate life and mind with its now concealed splendours.
Since this is the plan of the divine Energy in humanity, the whole method and aim of our existence must work by the interaction of these three elements in the being. As a result of their seperate formulation in Nature, man has open to him a choice between three kinds of life, the ordinary material existence, a life of mental activity and progress and the unchanging spiritual beatitude. But he can, as he progresses, combine these three forms, resolve their discords into a harmonious rhythm and so create in himself the whole godhead, the perfect Man. ... more »
THE SYNTHESIS OF YOGA, by Sri Aurobindo: Introduction, Chapter 2, "The Three Steps of Nature"
by
ronjon
on October 1, 2006 01:15PM (PDT)
The progressive self-manifestation of Nature in man, termed in modern language his evolution, must necessarily depend upon three successive elements, that which is already evolved; that which is persistently in the stage of conscious evolution and that which is to be evolved and may perhaps be already displayed, if not constantly, then occasionally or with some regularity of recurrence, in primary formations or in others more developed and, it may well be, even in some, however rare, that are near to the highest possible realisation of our present humanity. ... more »
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