Integral Yoga Its Nature and Significance

Author(s): G N Joshi
Publisher: Z_Pushkarmuni_Abhinandan_Granth_012012.pdf

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* 136 श्री पुष्करमुनि अभिनन्दन ग्रन्थ : नवम खण्ड new human (Superhuman) race will emerge. The supermind will be the directive and dictating power, and the mind will serve only as its channel and vessel for putting into action the decisions of the Supermind. The Mind of man will rise to higher levels and will act in such ways which are beyond the imagination of the present man. Sri Aurobindo says that the Supramental will be radically and qualitatively of a different kind. No effort to understand and describe it with the present available mental equipment of man will be of use to concieve it. Therefore Sri Aurobindo says that it is supra-intellectual, and no attempt should be made to mentalise, intellectualise and conceptualize the supramental. It has to be felt in a unique kind of experience, which too is beyond concepts and language. The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo thus aims at transforming radically the basic structure of the human body, mind and ego by trying to bring about an ascent of the individual soul to the Supreme Self, which too in response to its earnestness, descends down and takes the possession of the entire human life, ego, mind and body, and reveals its Light, Knowledge and Power in and through individual beings, and thus seeks to transform and create a new race of supramentalised beings. References : Sri Aurobindo-On Yoga I: The Synthesis of Yoga. Sri Aurobindo-On Yoga II : Tome One and Tome Two. Sri Aurobindo-The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. * * * nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn You are aware of the body, while waking. You ? are not aware of the body in deep sleep. Still you remained in sleep. After waking up you hold the body and say, 'I cannot realise the self.' Did you say so in your sleep? Because you were undivided then, you did not say so. Now that you are contracted within the limits of your body, you say, 'I have not realised.' Why do you feel yourself contracted with body and then become miserable ? Be of your true nature and happy. Find out wherefrom this 'l' arises. Then the self is realised. Then this l' will disappear and the self will remain. --Ramana Maharshi