Synthesis of Yoga
The Synthesis of Yoga: Sri Sri Aurobindo’s principal work on yoga. It is at once an examination of the traditional systems of yoga as well as a most thorough explanation of his own system of Integral Yoga.This reading completes Chapter 24 Gnosis and Ananda of Part 2 The Yoga of Integral Knowledge on pages 506 – 510.
” … all takes birth from the divine Bliss; all is pre-existent in it as an absolute truth of existence … Our first absorbing impulse when we become inwardly aware of something entirely beyond what we now are and know … is to get away from the present actuality and dwell in that higher reality …
“We discover in the end that not only is that higher reality the cause of all the rest, but as more and more we possess it all this rest is transformed … finally we get close to the absolute and its supreme values which are the absolutes of all things. …the soul that has realized oneness has no sorrow … nought to fear … Fear, desire and sorrow are diseases of the mind born of its sense of division and limitation … they cease with the falsehood that begot them. … the fully evolved soul will be one with all beings … will approach and enter into this oneness by the gate of universal love … ”