The Synthesis of Yoga is the principal work of Sri Aurobindo explaining his method of Integral Yoga. Death About This Workshop. Yoga of Synthesis. The work was left incomplete when the Arya was discontinued. To avoid the life which is given him for the realisation of that possibility, can never be either the indispensable condition or the whole and ultimate object of his supreme endeavour or of his most powerful means of self-fulfilment. The Ladder of Self-Transcendence, Chapter 23. Hardcover. The Higher and the Lower Knowledge, Chapter 1. Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, Chapter 9. Yoga of Synthesis is suitable for the vast majority of persons. A virtual meeting will be held every 2nd … All Rajayoga, for instance, depends on this perception and experience that our inner elements, combinations, functions, forces, can be separated or dissolved, can be new-combined and set to novel and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and resolved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes. He wills to possess the objects of his desires. Sri Aurobindo argues that divine Brahman manifests as empirical reality through līlā , or divine play. It can only be a temporary necessity under certain conditions or a specialised extreme effort imposed on the individual so as to prepare a greater general possibility for the race. All the Vedanta systems accept the synthesis of yoga for the realization of the goal through spiritual transcendence. Purification — The Lower Mentality, Chapter 7. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. The Realisation of Sachchidananda, Chapter 13. This reading is of the third portion (of 4) of Chapter 25,Towards the Supramental Time Vision, page 894. The true and full object and utility of Yoga can only be accomplished when the conscious Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous with life itself and we can once more, looking out both on the path and the achievement, say in a more perfect and luminous sense: “All life is Yoga.”, …Sri Aurobindo (CWSA Vol 23, The Synthesis of Yoga, Chapter 1, Life and Yoga), Sri Aurobindo and the Future of India by Debashish Banerji, The Poem Nirvana by Sri Aurobindo: A Video Presentation, Sri Aurobindo's Gayatri Mantra, Chanted by Joy, Auroville, Message of Sri Aurobindo on 15 August 1947 (All India Radio), Misunderstandings of Quantum-Mechanics / Complementarity / Copenhagen-Interpretation, A New Birth: Conversation with The Mother. The Action of the Divine Shakti, Chapter 21. In man, her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises self-conscious means and willed arrangements of activity by which this great purpose may be more swiftly and puissantly attained. Sri Aurobindo never attempted to complete the Synthesis;hedid, however, lightly revise the Introduction, thoroughly revise all The Yogin tends to draw away from the common existence and lose his hold upon it; he tends to purchase wealth of spirit by an impoverishment of his human activities, the inner freedom by an outer death. The Synthesis of Yoga is Sri Aurobindo ‘s principal work on yoga. Every such form tends towards a harmonised complexity and totality which again breaks apart into various channels of special effort and tendency, only to unite once more in a larger and more puissant synthesis. For then Yoga ceases to appear something mystic and abnormal which has no relation to the ordinary processes of the World-Energy or the purpose she keeps in view in her two great movements of subjective and objective self-fulfilment; it reveals itself rather as an intense and exceptional use of powers that she has already manifested or is progressively organising in her less exalted but more general operations. The 8 The Conditions of the Synthesis Yogin tends to draw away from the common existence and lose his hold upon it; he tends to purchase wealth of spirit by an impoverishment of his human activities, the inner freedom by an outer death. The Synthesis of Yoga is a reorganization and continuation of The Life Divine, richer in detail and potential. The Synthesis of Yoga is a reorganization and continuation of The Life Divine, richer in detail and potential. Yogic methods have something of the same relation to the customary psychological workings of man as has the scientific handling of the force of electricity or of steam to their normal operations in Nature. The Method is found in The Mother … No synthesis of Yoga can be satisfying which does not, in its aim, reunite God and Nature in a liberated and perfected human life or, in its method, not only permit but favour the harmony of our inner and outer activities and experiences in the divine consummation of both. It is the primary work on Integral Yoga, the system of yoga that Sri Aurobindo developed. No wear on the book but the first two pages hav a notch cut in the top corners where the former owner removed their name. 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 Synthesis of Yoga-- A Study Guide compiled by David Hutchinson, early 1990s The study guide is a point by point summary of Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga . It is this view of Yoga that can alone form the basis for a sound and rational synthesis of Yogic methods. After each chapter title there is a one-paragraph summary of the entire chapter. CE Workshop | The Synthesis for Yoga and Ayurveda. We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. So strongly has the idea prevailed, so much has it been emphasised by prevalent philosophies and religions that to escape from life is now commonly considered as not only the necessary condition, but the general object of Yoga. The Supramental Instruments — Thought-Process, Chapter 25. The Principle of the Integral Yoga, Chapter 3. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga. Man is a strange complex mixture of will, feeling and thought. If he gains God, he loses life, or if he turns his efforts outward to conquer life, he is in danger of losing God. He is a triune being. And what should be its objects? And if in some other of its forms this character of Yoga is less apparent, because they are more intuitive and less mechanical, nearer, like the Yoga of Devotion, to a supernal ecstasy or, like the Yoga of Knowledge, to a supernal infinity of consciousness and being, yet they too start from the use of some principal faculty in us by ways and for ends not contemplated in its everyday spontaneous workings. He is like a tricycle or a three-wheeled chariot. Classes are available live online, in-person at the park and on YouTube. If he gains God, he loses life, or if he turns his efforts outward to conquer life, he is in danger of losing God. In this book Sri Aurobindo examines the traditional systems of yoga and provides an explanation of certain components of his own system of integral yoga. The Release from Subjection to the Body, Chapter 8. It is not an angel that is entering on the path of yoga; it is the ordinary man, the ordinary mortal with all the foibles and idiosyncrasies of human nature who is in quest of a life of perfection through the practice of yoga. October 13, 2020, 2pm ET. No synthesis of Yoga can be satisfying which does not, in its aim, reunite God and Nature in a liberated and perfected human life or, in its method, not only permit but favour the harmony of our inner and outer activities and experiences in the divine consummation of both. The Passive and the Active Brahman, Chapter 21. Purification — Intelligence and Will, Chapter 15. The Synthesis of Yoga first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya between August 1914 and January 1921. “Truth of philosophy is of a merely theoretical value unless it can be lived,” Sri Aurobindo wrote, “and we have therefore tried in the ‘Synthesis of Yoga’ to arrive at a synthetical view of the principles and methods of the various lines of spiritual self-discipline and the way in which they can lead to an integral divine life in the human existence.” He established the All-world Sadhus Federation in 1947 and the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy in 1948. The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice, Chapter 5. The Synthesis of the Disciplines of Knowledge, Chapter 7. In man, her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises self-conscious means and willed arrangements of activity by which this great purpose may be more swiftly and puissantly attained. There are two necessities of Nature’s workings which seem always to intervene in the greater forms of human activity, whether these belong to our ordinary fields of movement or seek those exceptional spheres and fulfilments which appear to us high and divine. What exactly is meant by meditation in Yoga? The Yoga of Self-Perfection brings to completion Panditji's systematic series of talks on Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga. This synthesis was followed by the synthesis that we find in the Upanisads. In The Synthesis of Yoga Sri Aurobindo unfolds his vision of an integral yoga embracing all the powers and activities of man. The Supramental Thought and Knowledge, Chapter 23. Hathayoga similarly depends on this perception and experience that the vital forces and functions to which our life is normally subjected and whose ordinary operations seem set and indispensable, can be mastered and the operations changed or suspended with results that would otherwise be impossible and that seem miraculous to those who have not seized the rationale of their process. There is an Introduction, “The Condi­tions of the Synthesis”, and four parts: “The Yoga of Divine Works”, “The Yoga of Integral Knowledge”, “The Yoga of Divine Love” and “The Yoga of Self-Perfection”. Equality and the Annihilation of Ego, Chapter 6. By Deepak Chopra and David Simon. 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. 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