Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo has written this work as his principal, most thorough explanation of his method of Integral Yoga.
This reading is of the first half of Chapter 12, The Way of Equality, pages 709-714. The second half of the chapter comes in the next reading.
” …the mind is voluntarily bound by the petty joys and troubles of life; in reality these can have no inner hold on it if the soul simply chooses to cast off its habit of helpless determination by external and transient things. … There grows on us … an inner separate calm which watches the commotion of the lower members without taking part … or giving any sanction. … finally the outer mind accepts this calm and indifferent serenity, ceases to be attracted by pains, griefs to which it had the habit of attaching unreal importance. …
to hold only one thing of importance, to approach God … in tune with the Divine, his channel, instrument, servant, lover, rejoicing in him and our relation to him, having no other object or cause of joy or sorrow. … Then all within us is … the one silent bliss that passes understanding … ”