Synthesis of Yoga
The Synthesis of Yoga explains the methodology of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. It also examines traditional yogas and religions. In this particular chapter we find the difficult, troubling question of the divine Personality; page 577 Chapter 5 The Divine Personality of Part 3 The Yoga of Divine Love.
“There can be no love without a lover and a beloved … the way of devotion is impossible if the personality of the Divine cannot be taken as a reality … The sadhaka of the Integral Yoga will seek and know the ultimate Truth, will not persist in the delight of a non-personality, a shadow.
“Spiritual intuition is always a more luminous guide than the discriminating reason … addresses itself not only through the reason, but through the heart and the life … the intellect will be more deeply satisfied if it accepts the truth of the heart and the life and gives to them their absolute spiritual value. The pure intellectual direction travels away from life … the intuition is an integral truth-finder. ”