Synthesis of Yoga
The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo is his principal work on yoga, an examination of the traditional systems of yoga and, a detailed explanation of his own method of Integral yoga.
This reading is of Part Two: The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, the first part of Chapter 24 Gnosis and Ananda, page 498, and will be continued in the next reading.
” … another and last step “(is) to take our gnostic existence into the Bliss-Self and there complete the spiritual self-discovery of the divine Infinite.
Ananda, a supreme Bliss eternal, far other and higher in its character than the highest human joy or pleasure, is the essential and original nature of the spirit. … The integral perfection can come only by a mounting ascent of the lowest into the highest and an incessant descent of the highest into the lowest until all becomes one … solid block … of the Truth infinite and eternal. … It is the Lord within who takes up the responsibility of the action adequate or inadequate, assumes its guidance and fixes its consequence.”