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The Synthesis of Yoga

Alok da, in The Synthesis of Yoga, Chapter 2: The Three Steps of Nature, in the 7th para, Sri Aurobindo says, “the sane, robust, longlived human body is ordinarily found only in races or classes of men who reject the effort of thought, its disturbances, its tensions, or think only with the material mind.”🧬🤔👥🌼🦋[…]

Sri Aurobindo is speaking largely of an earlier humanity that was not touched by modern mind and its ways of life. That humanity is hardly

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Namaste Alokda, I have been reflecting on the following passage from The Synthesis of Yoga: “But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important.” (page-566-567) 📖😊🙏🏻🪷[…]

This is absolutely correct understanding. Very simply put the Divine Will is not a mechanical determinism but a living conscious process. It will fulfil itself

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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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