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Yoga and its Part in the Divine Plan

                 YOGA is the unravelling of the knot of life's difficulties. Suddhi, Mukti, Siddhi and Bhukti are the four constituent elements of Yoga. Mind, Heart, Life and Body are to do the work of the Divine. The unfolding of the Spirit, its light and its power and its joy and oneness in man upon the earth, is an essential part of the divine plan and the obvious purport of the terrestrial and human creation. Life becomes flower and sap of the Godhead from the bulb of terrestrial nature in the stock of humanity. To grow into Godhead, to live in the Divine, acting through the universalised and divinised individual is the acme of the growth into divine living.
                Thus, we can rise out of our apparent bondage into our real freedom, a double aspect, self-existent freedom and integral self-possession and mastery, svarājya and sāmrājya. Immortality is the status in the infinite spiritual consciousness. The condition of immortality and freedom is neither a disappearance of the individual into the universality of being nor an annihilation of him in some indeterminate existence. It is to live not to ourselves in the ego, but for God in ourselves, and for God in man, and in the integral harmony of the One Universal Spirit. It is the possession of Sachchidananda in oneself and the expression of him in the universe. Our mortality is only justified in the light of our immortality; earth knows all herself by opening to the heavens; the individual sees himself aright and uses his world divinely only when he has seen the light and lived in the power of the Divine.

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