Synthesis of Yoga
Continuing with Part Two The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, Chapter VIII The Release from the Heart and the Mind.
Sri Aurobindo explains how life’s characteristics are movement, action, attraction or repulsion. We give a mental value as we perceive and accept whatever comes, in the form of action, desire, liking, disliking, pleasure and pain. The result is a tangle of confusion. It is this confusion that is the evil of our psychological existence. And in that confusion the law that seems to reign, is the law of desire.
The universal Divine Being acts, moves, enjoys for the satisfaction of divine Delight whereas the individual in life moves, acts and enjoys for the satisfaction of desire. “The proper function of the life-energy is to do what it is bidden by the divine principle in us, to reach and enjoy what is given to it by that indwelling Divine, and not to desire at all.”
“Equality, not indifference is the basis. Equal endurance, impartial indifference, calm submission to the causes of joy and grief without any reaction of either grief or joy …. are the basis of equality ….. but equality is not fulfilled till it takes it positive form of love and delight.”