The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo’s principal work on yoga, an examination of the traditional systems of yoga and a comprehensive explanation of his own method of Integral Yoga is his Synthesis of Yoga. This reading consists of Part Three Chapter 1, page 545: Love and the Triple Path.
The integrality of will, knowledge and love, the three divine powers in human nature and the life of man are the foundation of an integral Yoga.
“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, integral knowledge to a rounded and multitudinous richness of love. …The weakness of the mind limits itself by its thoughts, its positive and negative ideas, the aspects of the Divine Reality that it sees and tends too much to pit one against the other. … knowledge of the Divine gives to love of the Divine its firmest security, opens to it its own widest joy of experience.”
“If knowledge is the very state of oneness and love its bliss, divine works are the living power of its light and sweetness.” The Gita states: “… he, because he has the integral knowledge, seeks me by love in every way of his being”.