Life has to change into a thing vast, calm, intense and powerful vs. its old blind, narrow, self of petty impulse and desire it now is, and become instead a conscious servant, a radiant instrument and living form of the spirit.
Tag: Synthesis of Yoga
All life is a secret yoga, Nature's growth towards the discovery of the divine principle hidden within her.
By any single power of the soul-nature we can meet with the Divine; each at its height rises up into infinite and absolute ... for all the hundred separate paths meet in the Eternal.
Each Yoga, Hatha, Raja, the ways of knowledge, devotion and works are guided in the ways of their own characteristic power. But all power is in the end one, all power is really soul-power.
Universalised, personalised, raised to its intensities, made all-occupying, all-embracing, all-fulfilling, the way of love and delight gives the supreme liberation.
The way of devotion in the Integral Yoga will take the form of a seeking after the Divine through love and delight, a perfect enjoyment of the soul's intimacy with God.
The aim of the Integral Yoga is union with the consciousness and delight of the Divine through every part of our human nature, so that the whole may be transformed into a divine nature of being. Whatever we see of the Divine we can become ...
He is Vlshnu, Krishna, Kali, the Christ, the Buddhha. Out of the unknowable the conscious Being, the divine Person, manifested here, still speaks: "This too is I; even here beyond the view of the mind, I am He."
The personal and the impersonal are the same truth seen from two different sides of our psychological activity; by either we can approach the Reality.
The bhakta, the lover-seeker of God, offers his life, all that he is, all that he has and does to the Divine. The one thing essential is the intense devotion of one's thoughts towards the object of adoration: God.