Entire subjection of the mind and the life to the body is the characteristic of an undeveloped humanity; to achieve real freedom and mastery we have to ascend to a yet higher level of our being.
Tag: Synthesis of Yoga
To make the most of this one existence ... the consciousness of the Absolute is the highest reach of the Yoga of knowledge ... the possession of the Divine is its first, greatest and most ardent object
This larger integral knowledge and freedom liberates in the end and fulfills our whole existence. In God alone, by the possession of the Divine, all discords can be resolved; the raising of men towards the Divine is the one effective way of helping mankind
07 Mar. 2018 by radoio-team
Selections par Gangalakshmi 246
Weekly selection of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother by Gangalakshmi in Frecnh. This week Le Synthese des Yogas, Les Yoga des Oeuvres, Chapter XI - Le Maitre de l'Oeuvre
This individual being of ours is that by which ignorance is possible to self-conscious mind, but also to which liberation into the spiritual being is possible, and, the enjoyment of divine mortality.
To be first in tune with the Infinite, in harmony with the Divine and then united with the Divine ... is precisely the very nature of the spiritual life and the spiritual existence.
To see things as parts, as incomplete elements is a lower analytic knowledge. The All in its mass becomes to us God. The Absolute is everywhere; it has to be seen and found everywhere. This is the secret of complete delight in God's world.
"How shall he be deluded, whence shall he have sorrow who sees everywhere the Oneness?" says the Gita. The complete realization of unity is the essence of the integral knowledge and of the integral Yoga.
"Not only Spirit is one, but Mind, Life, Matter are one. There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body.".
":He in whom the self has become all existences, how shall he have delusion, whence shall he have grief who knows entirely and sees in all things oneness" speaks the Upanishad.