Synthesis of Yoga
The Synthesis of Yoga is Sri Aurobindo’s extraordinary volume of explanation to the most minute detail of his method of Integral Yoga. He also examines methods of traditional yogas.
This recording is of the first half of Chapter 7 Purification – Intelligence and Will, page 663, part of Part 4 The Yoga of Self-Perfection.
What we are physically is a soul asleep in matter, partially wakened, of a body pervaded by external consciousness, attentive to outward impacts of the external world …in which we try to develop our conscious being.
To arrive at the complete truth of our self and Spirit is obviously the object of the purification, liberation and perfection of the buddhi (discerning intelligence and enlightened will); the buddhi discovers more real truths but must discover the real truth of the Self. The knowledge of the pure Self and Spirit is the only real knowledge … Possession of the being, consciousness, delight, power of the Self is the condition of perfection.