THE SYNTHESIS OF YOGA

PART ONE & PART TWO

SRI AUROBINDO

Contents

		Pre Content
		Post Content
		Introduction
		The Conditions of the Synthesis
	I	Life and Yoga
	II	The Three Steps of Nature
	III	The Threefold Life
	IV	The System of Yoga
	V	Synthesis

		Part I
		The Yoga of Divine Works
	I	The Four Aids
	II	Self-Consecration
	III	Self Surrender in Works The Way of the Gita
	IV	The Sacrifice the Triune Path and The lord of the Sacrifice
	V	The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1
	VI	The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2
	VII	Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom
	VIII	The Supreme Will
	IX	Equality and the Annhilation of Ego
	X	The Three Modes of Nature
	XI	The Master of the Work
	XII	The Divine Work
	XIII	The Supermind and the Yoga of Works

		Part II
		The Yoga of Integral Knowledge
	I	The Object of Knowledge
	II	The Status of Knowledge
	III	The Purified Understanding
	IV	Concentration
	V	Renunciation
	VI	The Synthesis of the Disciplines of Knowledge
	VII	The Release from Subjection to the Body
	VIII	The Release from the Heart and the Mind
	IX	The Release from the Ego
	X	The Realisation of the Cosmic Self
	XI	The Modes of the Self
	XII	The Realisation of Sachchidananda
	XIII	The Difficulties of the Mental Being
	XIV	The Passive and the Active Brahman
	XV	The Cosmic Consciousness
	XVI	Oneness
	XVII	The Soul and Nature
	XVIII	The Soul and Its Liberation
	XIX	The Planes of Our Existence
	XX	The Lower Triple Purusha
	XXI	The Ladder of Self-Transcendence
	XXII	Vijnana or Gnosis
	XXIII	The Conditions of Attainment to the Gnosis
	XXIV	Gnosis and Ananda
	XXV	The Higher and the Lower Knowledge
	XXVI	Samadhi
	XXVII	Hathayoga
	XXVIII	Rajayoga

Facsimile of a page revised by Sri Aurobindo from a disciple's handwritten copy of the first few chapters of The Synthesis of Yoga from the Arya.