As Integral Yoga is an unending Yoga, how can there be an “aim”? If there is an aim, then after attaining it, what remains for a Sadhak to do?
Traditional systems of Yoga usually have a definite end goal or final state to be attained, whereas Integral Yoga is a continuous process of growth and transformation in itself.
[The Mother – I: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-i]
The great and difficult aim that Sri Aurobindo speaks of here is the supramental transformation, the divinisation of human nature. It means taking the process of evolution out of the zone from ignorance to knowledge and establish it into the zone of knowledge to greater knowledge, delight to greater delight. So while the evolutionary unfolding is unending, the aim here is the divinisation of the human consciousness, just as the ape grew into a man through a long process of humanisation and transformation of the ape. So we can surely speak of an aim in this sense. We can say, for example, that the aim is to evolve the superman and the supramental being or the transformation of the human species into a new divine race.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
