Turning the human emotion Godwards finds its full meaning ... all its essential instincts raised, satisfied by oneness in the Ananda of the divine existence ... where love is absolute, eternal and unalloyed.
Tag: Synthesis of Yoga
Selections par Gangalakshmi 262
Weekly selections of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother by GangaLakshmi in French. This week - La Synthese des Yoga; Chapitre XVIII, La Liberation de l'Ame.
The principle of Yoga is to turn Godward all or any of the powers of human consciousness ... that there may be union. Realising God as the higher self, the guiding Will, Master, whom we love and serve, not fear of him but love of him ...
When we approach the Supreme, we receive a response in kind.To all he answers, taking us in the stage of progress in which we are. All in nature is the Divine; through Love the Divine takes possession and enjoys.
Love is the delight of conscious union with the Being in whom we live, act and move, by whom we exist ... knowledge is the foundation of a constant living in the Divine. ... Perfect knowledge indeed leads to perfect love,
In Rajayoga mind is the key. Although the first insistence is on a moral purification of the mentality: moral self-control ie. truth-speaking, non-killing, etc. to create a moral calm leading to death of egoism.
For in a Yoga which embraces all life completely and without reserve, the full use of Samadhi comes only when its gains can be made the normal possession and experience in the human being.
"In Yoga various devices are used to seal up the doors of the physical sense (as in trance) .... but the one all-sufficient means is a force of concentration by which the mind is drawn inward ..."
The end of Yoga of Knowledge is God-possession, to possess God and be possessed by him through consciousness, through identification, not away from our present existence, the Divine in all things and in all beings
Fear, desire and sorrow are diseases of the mind born of its sense of division and limitation ... the fully evolved soul will be one with all beings ... will approach and enter into this oneness by the gate of universal love ... "