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Integral Yoga

“If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all one-sided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula.” – Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 76 […]

Everyone forms an idea of the Divine for himself according to his personal taste, his possibilities of understanding, his mental preferences, and even his desires.

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Alongside the Integral path, I feel drawn to certain traditional spiritual practices, such as Chakra-based Mantra Meditation and chanting the Lalita Sahasranamam. Can these practices be harmoniously integrated with Integral Yoga, or would it be better to focus exclusively on the Psychic opening and surrender to the Mother? 🌀😊🙏🏻🌼❤️‍🔥[…]

Our evolution procedes along several lines through which we have moved. It is natural that some of the practices of certain spiritual paths may extend

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Sir, in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, you practice Integral Yoga. What is Integral Yoga? Where to learn about it and how to practice as a complete beginner? In the Ashram, deities are not being worshipped like Bhagwan Shiv, Maa Durga and Rituals are not performed. So what are your opinions on Rituals and Festivals like Mahashivratri or Navratri? 🏡🪷🌳🙏🌸[…]

The Integral Yoga is a way to complete God realisation, not in one or other but all aspects. Its eventual goal is a complete transformation

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How does the concept of “Morphic Resonance” in Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga explain the idea that an individual’s inner work on their unique difficulties creates a “contagion” of Divine Possibility that aids others in similar states, and why is this Collective Transformation essential for the Yoga? 👥😊🙏🏻🌷🌻✨

Mirroring is one aspect of it. That is something that takes place anyways in life. But more appropriate will be the study on morphic fields

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I got too excited after reading the Secret of the Vedas and am currently reading R L Kashyap’s translation of the Rig Veda. I find it very beautiful, but wonder at the same time how to use the Veda Samhitas for Yoga, as it seems a manual on the Yogic Experiences. Traditionalists say that learning the precise intonation is important, but how can I use it in light of Sri Aurobindo’s Teachings? 📙😊🙏🏻🌻❤️‍🔥

Vedas are the beautiful gifts of an intuitive age of mankind. It has two parts, the knowledge aspect and the ritualistic side, gyanakanda and the

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Why did Sri Aurobindo and the Mother alone descend to bring about the Supramental Transformation and elaborate a complete path of Integral Yoga, while other great souls like Sri Krishna, Mahavatar Baba, or altruistic truths-seekers, though Divine, did not undertake this specific, comprehensive work of Transforming earthly life?🌄❤️‍🔥😊🙏🏻🌷

One could answer this question in different ways. But first we need to draw a distinction between a sattwic, selfless, honest person and a spiritual

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