Synthesis of Yoga
The Synthesis of Yoga is the book in which Sri Aurobindo explains in detail his method of Integral Yoga, plus an examination of traditional forms of yoga. This recording is a reading of the second half of Chapter 9, Liberation of the Spirit, page 686, (which is found in Part 4 Yoga of Self-Perfection).
Our lives consist of a weaving of the gunas: Tamas, Rajas and Sattwa. The gunas must be transcended; even a Sattwic mind and nature does not mean spiritual perfection; it must rely on Rajas for all action … and there is a sattwic as well as rajasic or tamasic egoism. Whatever the type of egoism in the mind, it is incompatible with liberation.
The three gunas stand for the three essential powers of the Divine, unified in a perfect consensus of of divine action. Tamas becomes a divine calm; rajas becomes a sheer Will of the spirit; sattwa becomes the self-existent light of the divine being, jyotih. The integral perfection will aim at this greatest.
Dualities of Nature in the lower nature is a knot of ignorance; attachment to its likings and repugnances keep the soul bound in good and evil, sorrows and joys. … Flnally the liberation of the Nature becomes one with the liberation of the spirit … in this integral freedom the integral perfection is achieved.