Yogah prabhavapyayau

 Celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Rishi, Yogi, Revolutionary and Prophet—SRI AUROBINDO ——

Yoga is not a modern invention of the human mind, but our ancient and prehistoric possession. 

The Veda is our oldest extant human document and the Veda, from one point of view, is a great compilation of practical hints about Yoga. 

All religion is a flower of which Yoga is the root; all philosophy, poetry & the works of genius use it, consciously or unconsciously, as an instrument.

“Yogah prabhavapyayau”, Yoga is the birth and passing away of things. When Srikrishna 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 aishwaram”, Behold my divine Yoga. 

Yoga may be done without the least thought for the breathing, in any posture or no posture, without any insistence on concentration, in the full waking condition, while walking, working, eating, drinking, talking with others, in any occupation, in sleep, in dream, in states of unconsciousness, semiconsciousness, double-consciousness. It is no nostrum or system or fixed practice, but an eternal fact of process based on the very nature of the Universe.

Yoga stands essentially on the fact that in this world we are everywhere one, yet divided; one yet divided in our being, one with yet divided from our fellow creatures of all kinds, one with yet divided from the infinite existence.

Essays Divine & Human

Chapter - The Psychology of Yoga

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Sri Aurobindo.

Indian Yoga, in its essence a special action or formulation of certain great powers of Nature, itself specialised, divided and variously formulated, is potentially one of these dynamic elements of the future life of humanity. 

The child of immemorial ages, preserved by its vitality and truth into our modern times, it is now emerging from the secret schools and ascetic retreats in which it had taken refuge and is seeking its place in the future sum of living human powers and utilities. 

But it has first to rediscover itself, bring to the surface the profoundest reason of its being in that general truth and that unceasing aim of Nature which it represents, and find by virtue of this new self-knowledge and self-appreciation its own recovered and larger synthesis. Reorganising itself, it will enter more easily and powerfully into the reorganised life of the race which its processes claim to lead within into the most secret penetralia and upward to the highest altitudes of existence and personality.

In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. 

For we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and — highest condition of victory in that effort — a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos.

The Synthethis of Yoga

Life and Yoga

Chapter - 1

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SRI AUROBINDO

The object of our Yoga is self-perfection, not self-annulment. Let ours be the path of perfection, not of abandonment; let our aim be victory in the battle, not the

escape from all conflict.

Essays Divine & Human

Chapter - The object of our Yoga

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Sri Aurobindo.

By Yoga we can rise out of falsehood into truth, out of weakness into force, out of pain and grief into bliss, out of bondage into freedom, out of death into immortality, out of darkness into light, out of confusion into purity, out of imperfection into perfection, out of self-division into unity, out of Maya into God.

Essays Divine & Human

Chapter - The Entire Purpose of our Yoga.

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Sri Aurobindo.

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