The hyc website offers many youtube talks on integral yoga, the upanishads, the avataric lives of sri aurobindo and the mother, the vedas, the divine. The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. Future evolution of humanity, with debashish banerji duration. Sri aurobindo wrote books on the veda, upanishad and the gita in order to know how they shed light on integral yoga. Power within,sri aurobindo, yoga, mother,integral yoga. Sri aurobindo and integral yoga book written by sri aurobindo, read online or download in pdf format. The yoga of sri aurobindo, also known widely as the integral yoga, is a yoga of earth transformation. Pdf regards sur le mouvement spirituel fonde par sri aurobindo.
As we systematically destroy the basis of life on the planet, and wall off one another through ultimate fragmentation, we are left with the stark contrast of choosing between survival and destruction, life and death, growth or decline. First lets take a look at the planes of consciousness. The integral yoga of the mother nee mirra alfassa, 18781973 and sri aurobindo nee aurobindo ghose, 18721950 draws upon many hindu practices and philosophies like saktism, vedanta, tantra, and the yogas of the bhagavad gita, yet innovates on. Sri aurobindo studies sri aurobindos integral yoga. Download free ebooks for tablets and kindle from auro ebooks.
The integral yoga is so called because it aims at a harmonised totality of spiritual realisation and experience. Print version is available from sri aurobindo book distribution agency sabda. Sri aurobindo and integral yoga book by sri aurobindo. The following is a summary of the integral yoga, sri aurobindos teaching and method of practice. The integral yoga sri aurobindos teaching and method of. The object of integral yoga a selection from sri aurobindos letters on yoga, pp. New thinking allowed with jeffrey mishlove 16,907 views. Sri aurobindo on himself etext based on sri aurobindo birth century librarry in 30 volumes vol. To that effect ive made some modifications and added my own explanations. Our beckoning to volunteers new delhi talla ramgargh. Whatever the unpleasantness of circumstances, however disagreeable the conduct of others, you must learn to receive them with a perfect. Most yoga only develops a single aspect of the being, and has as their aim a state of liberation or transcendence. This work is not a compilation of sri aurobindos letters on yoga or of the mothers talks. It deals with theoretical aspects of integral yoga.
It is the second of four volumes of letters on yoga, arranged by the editors as follows. In a synthetic yoga all powers will be combined and included in the transmuting instrumentation. Sri aurobindo, mother, sri aurobindo ashram, integral yoga. Publishers note letters on yogaii comprises letters written by sri aurobindo on the practice of the integral yoga. Yogah prabhavapyayou, yoga is the birth and passing away of things.
There can be no firm foundation in sadhana without equality, samata. Download free pdf versions from sri aurobindo ashram website. At the sri aurobindo ashram institute of vocational training, we need teachers for our 3 months to 6 months vocational courses in. The institute for integral yoga psychology is a project of mirravision trust, financed by auroshakti foundation, a nonprofit, public charitable trust registered at pondicherry, india with offices at kolkata and delhi, to study, design and apply sri aurobindos and the mothers thought in the areas of psychology. This process has a distinct advantage if we appreciate that each center corresponds to a universal mode of consciousness or energy.
Doaj is an online directory that indexes and provides access to. The greatest legacy of sri aurobindo and the mother was the development of integral yoga. Sri aurobindo future evolution of man satprem, luc venet translator sri aurobindo or the adventure of consciousness 1993 sri aurobindo the integral yoga. Sri aurobindo and the mother access to integral yoga. Ce cahier est egalement disponible en ligne au format pdf. Each spot of the body is symbolical of an inner movement. Often, the lower centers do not even fully open until much later. In the vedas he felt that the arrangements of deities was in tune with his own experiences in yoga. About the book in this collection of letters, sri aurobindo explains the fundamental principles and practices of his system of yoga. Integral yoga, also called supramental yoga, is the yogabased philosophy and practice of sri aurobindo and the mother mirra alfassa. This monograph introduces the readers to some of the important features of integral yoga, so that they may be led to study the principal works of sri aurobindo, such as the synthesis of yoga, the life divine, also the works of the mother 18781973 who collaborated with sri aurobindo in developing and perfecting the integral yoga foreword one. Next comes a patient and persistent action on the lines laid down by this knowledge, the force of our personal effort. The integral yoga of sri aurobindo and the mother is being brought forward by present day sadhaks the world over. Know about beginning of yogic systems with veda, sri aurobindo developed new methods to create and perfect a synthesis of yoga directly relevant to humanitys needs.
The aim of this yoga is not an escape from life or a shunning of worldly existence, but a radical change in our life even while living amidst it. Sri aurobindo argues that divine brahman manifests as empirical reality through lila, or divine play. Sri aurobindos teaching and method of practice sri aurobindo growing within. Bernards site for sri aurobindo and the mother as for the mother and myself, we have had to try all ways, follow all methods, to surmount mountains of difficulties, a far heavier burden to bear than you or anybody else in the ashram or outside, far more difficult conditions, battles to fight, wounds to endure, ways to cleave through impenetrable morass and desert and forest, hostile masses. Sri aurobindos integral yoga has enormous implications for the time we find ourselves in. The synthesis of yoga contents introduction the yoga of divine works the yoga of integral knowledge the yoga of divine love the yoga of selfperfection important note on the history of revision and publishing of the synthesis of yoga. Readers of sri aurobindo might wonder about the masters external personality. Twelve years with sri aurobindo by nirodbaran is an account of the period of his close personal contact with sri aurobindo, the time when he served as sri aurobindo s personal attendant and literary secretary from 1938 to 1950. The ashram and auroville a worldwide community literature and publications events links to websites. Its aim is integral experience of the divine reality, what the gita describes in the words samagram mam, the whole me of the divine being. Nous navons pas a suivre une realisation a lexclusion des autres, mais a embrasser dieu sous tous ses aspects et pardela tout aspect.
It explains clearly what the process of meditation is about based on profound studies of several yoga traditions, but primarily on his own experiences. A practical guide to integral yoga by sri aurobindo. Now into this pool of literature meant to make the practice of the integral yoga more accessible, has come jugal kishore mukherjees the practice of the integral yoga. Twelve years with sri aurobindo by nirodbaran auro ebooks. What i meant by some concrete method was things like repetition of a mantra, pranayama, asana, etc. Direct quotations from sri aurobindos writings are indi. Bases of yoga by sri aurobindo is a collection of 156 extracts from his letters to disciples, sri aurobindo explains the central principles and practices of his integral yoga there can be no firm foundation in sadhana without equality, samata. The integral yoga of sri aurobindo and the mother this net of sweetness woven of aureate fire. The remaining portion deals with his method of spiritual practice. The whole principle of this yoga is to give oneself entirely to the divine alone and to nobody and nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the divine mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truthconsciousness and ananda of. My attempt is to make this understandable to nonaurobindonian readers. Integral yoga from sri aurobindo and the mothersumarydefinition and philosophy sri aurobindo initiated and defined integral yoga in the early 1900s as a path of integral seeking of the divine by which all that we are is in the end liberated out of the ignorance continue sri aurobindo sri aurobindo was an indian nationalist, scholar, poet, yogi and guru who was born in calcutta, india. In a nutshell, integral yoga is the philosophy that all.
When sri krishna reveals to arjuna the greatness of his creation and the manner in which he has built it out of his being by a reconciliation of logical opposites, he says pasya me yogam aishwaream, behold my divine yoga. Information about the openaccess article traditional roots of sri aurobindos integral yoga in doaj. Its method is an integral opening of the whole consciousness, mind, heart. Sri aurobindo finds that there has always been impulse or longings in humans in search for god, light, bliss, freedom, immortality which has presented itself in a right place in a sequence, which nature is seeking to evolve beyond mind. Compiled from the writings of sri aurobindo and the mot. The philosophical and psychological foundations of his spiritual teaching are taken up in the first quarter of the book. The synthesis of yoga was not meant to give a method for all to follow.
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