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Most Yoga has for its aim one or other of two great ends, either
\nthe abandonment of the world and departure into some reality of supracosmic existence or some form of limited perfection,
\nknowledge, bliss or mastery in the world. But there is a third objective of Yoga in which there is a harmony between world
\nexistence & supracosmic freedom. God is possessed; the world is not renounced or rather renounced as an aim in itself, but possessed as the play of God. A selfless and transcendent perfection in the divine existence is the goal in this path of Yoga.
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There are many Yogas, many spiritual disciplines, paths towards
\nliberation and perfection, Godward ways of the spirit. Each has its separate aim, its peculiar approach to the One Reality, its
\nseparate method, its helpful philosophy and its practice. The integral Yoga takes up all of them in their essence and tries to
\narrive at a unification (in essence, not in detail) of all these aims, methods, approaches; it stands for an all-embracing philosophy
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To enter into the entire consciousness of the Divine Reality with all our being and all parts and in every way of our being and to
\nchange all our now ignorant and limited nature into divine nature so that it shall become the instrument and expression of the
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Divine Reality that in our self and essence we are,\u2014this is the
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To enter into the Divine either by the way of the thinking
\nmind or by the way of the heart or by the way of the will in works or by a change of the psychological nature-stuff or a
\nfreeing of the vital force in the body is not enough; all this is not enough. Through all these together it must be done and by
\na change of our very sense and body consciousness even to the material inconscience which must become aware of the Divine
\nand luminous with the Divine.
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To be one with the Divine, to live in and with the Divine, to
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The integral Yoga is so called because it aims at a harmonised
\ntotality of spiritual realisation and experience. Its aim is integral experience of the Divine Reality, what the Gita describes in the
\nwords samagram mam<\/i>, “the whole Me” of the Divine Being. Its method is an integral opening of the whole consciousness,
\nmind, heart, life, will, body to that Reality, to the Divine Existence, Consciousness, Beatitude, to its being and its integral
\ntransformation of the whole nature[.]
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Our Yoga is the integral Yoga. Its object is the harmony of a total spiritual realisation and experience, a supreme consummation of
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This Yoga is called the integral Yoga, first because its object is integral covering the whole field of spiritual realisation and experience. It takes existence at its centre and in all its aspects and turns it into a harmony at once single and entire. It is the method
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of an integral God realisation, an integral self-realisation, an
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\tIt is the way of a complete God-realisation, a complete Self-realisation, a complete fulfilment of our being and consciousness, a complete transformation of our nature\u2014and this implies a complete perfection of life here and not only a return
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\tThis is the object, but in the method also there is the same
\nintegrality, for the entirety of the object cannot be accomplished without an entirety in the method, a complete turning, opening, self-giving of our being and nature in all its parts, ways, movements to that which we realise.
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\tOur mind, will, heart, life, body, our outer and inner and inmost existence, our superconscious and subconscious as well
\nas our conscious parts, must all be thus given, must all become a means, a field of this realisation and transformation and participate in the illumination and the change from a human into a divine consciousness and nature.
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\tThis is the character of the integral Yoga.
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The integral Yoga is a single but many-sided way of the growth of our spirit and development of our nature. A total experience
\nand a single and all embracing realisation of the integral Divine Reality is its consequence. There is too implied in it a radical
\nchange and transformation of the whole being and of every part of the nature. Our being is a nexus of the human mental-vital-physical nature of Ignorance, it is transmuted into a spiritual and supramental consciousness: it becomes a divine unity in a
\nharmony of the infinite and universal and integrated will, love, bliss and knowledge.
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The Infinite Reality presents itself to our limited consciousness in an infinity of aspects; different ways of Yoga try to realise one or other of these aspects. The integral Yoga takes all of them
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A highest aspect of the infinite Reality is the supracosmic Absolute, unthinkable, ineffable, without relation to the universe.
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The heart of the integral Yoga is in a triple spiritual endeavour. It is a realisation of the Divine, of all the Divine by our whole being
\nand through all the parts of our being. It includes a discovery and harmonisation, a unification of our total consciousness
\nsubliminal as well as supraliminal, the now superconscient and subconscient as well as the now conscient and its surrender to
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The integral Yoga is integral by the totality or completeness of its aim, the completeness of its process and the completeness of
\nthe ground it covers in its process. This kind of integrality must by its nature be complex,
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The aim the Yoga puts before itself is in essence the same as the object of other Yogas\u2014the realisation of the Divine. But it
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That Yoga is full or perfect which enables us to fulfil entirely
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God’s purpose in us is that we should fulfil His divine being
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\tWith regard to the universe God manifests Himself triply,
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In order to fulfil God in the individual, we must exceed the individual. The removal of limited ego and the possession of
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In order to fulfil God in the cosmos, individually, we must
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\tAll Yoga aims at oneness or union or a close communion or
\ncontact with the Divine, infinite and eternal. To reach to this union or come by this contact it is necessary to enter or at least
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\nbody. To arrive wholly at the union or the constant communion one must enter the consciousness of the Divine,\u2014whether into
\nits infinite cosmic consciousness or that of its supracosmic eternity. Or else, uniting both these terms, one may add to them that
\nof the individualised Divine in oneself and through this trinity arrive at a perfect union, one, satisfying and complete.
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\tBut the Divine Consciousness can manifest itself through any and every plane, on the mental, on the vital, on the physical,
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All Yoga done through the mind alone or through the heart or the will or the vital force or the body ends in some one aspect of
\nthe infinite and eternal Existence and rests satisfied there, as the mind imagines for ever. Not through these alone shall thy Yoga
\nmove, but through all these at once and, supremely, through that which is beyond them. And the end of thy Yoga shall be the
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integrality of thy entrance not into one aspect, but into all the
\nInfinite, all the Eternal, all the Divine in all its aspects indivisibly unified together.
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Whatever is beyond mind and life and body is spirit. But spirit can be realised even on these lower levels, in the spiritualised mind, in the spiritualised life-force, even in the spiritualised physical consciousness and body. But if thou rise not
\nup beyond the mind-level, then in these realisations the spirit must needs be modified by the medium through which thou
\nattainest to it and its supreme truth can only be seized in a reflection, partial even in widest apparent universality, and the
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Rise rather into the supramental levels and then all the rest
\nshall remain a part of thy experience, but wonderfully changed, transfigured by a supreme alchemy of consciousness into an
\nelement of the supramental glory. All that other Yogas can give thee, thou shalt have, but as an experience overpassed, put in its
\nplace in the divine Whole and delivered from the inadequacy of an exclusive state or experience.
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All Yoga is in its very nature a means of passing out of our surface consciousness of limitation and ignorance into a larger
\nand deeper Reality of ourselves and the world and some supreme or total Existence now veiled to us by this surface. There is a Reality which underlies everything, permeates perhaps everything, is perhaps everything but in quite another way than the world
\nnow seen by us; to It we are obscurely moving by our thought, life and actions; we attempt to understand and approach by
\nour religion and philosophy, at last we touch directly in some partial or, it may be, some complete spiritual experience. It is
\nthat spiritual experience, it is the method, it is the attainment of this realisation that we call Yoga.
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But the Reality is an Absolute or an Infinite; our consciousness, even our spiritualised consciousness is that of a finite being. It is inevitable therefore that our spiritual experience should be
\nnot that of a concrete integrality of this Absolute or Infinite, but of aspects of it; we are, so long at least as we are mental beings,
\nthe blind men of the story trying to tell what the Elephant Infinite is in its totality by our touch upon a part of it, some member
\nof its spiritual body, tanum svam. One experiences it as Self or Spirit. It may be a Self of himself in which he finds his spiritual
\nconsummation, integrality, infinity, perfection. It may be a Self of the universe in which his individuality loses itself forever. It may
\nbe a Self transcendent in which the Ego disappears, but cosmos too is annulled forever in a formless Eternal and Infinite. Another
\nmay experience it as God; and God may be either the All of the Pantheist, a cosmic Spirit, an individual Deity, a supracosmic
\nCreator; or all of these together. A Personal Godhead may be the spiritual Form in which He presents Himself to us or rather
\nHe may reject forms from his being [and] resolve Himself into an impersonal Existence. Moreover each of these aspects of the
\nReality can be variously experienced; for each suits itself to the grasp of our consciousness, even though it can be very apparent
\nthat it is the same Reality that these variations differently account for. But also there may [be] other realisations of the
\nReality such as the Zero of the Nihilistic Buddhists which is yet a mysterious All, a negation that is a positive Permanence. It is an
\nerror to take these variations as a proof that spiritual experience is unreliable. All religions, all philosophies are equally desperate
\nin their attempts to give an account of the Real and Ultimate; science itself for all its matter of fact physical positivism draws
\nback bewildered from the attempt to touch the Real and Ultimate. It is the nature of Mind to arrive at this result of uncertain
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All Yoga has one supreme object; a permanent liberation from the ignorance and weakness of this limited and suffering human
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\ndifferent seekers, for in itself it is to the mind unseizably infinite. One, but multitudinously one, it presents itself in a million
\naspects. To some it appears as a great permanent Negative or a magnificent, a happy annihilation of all that we know as an
\nexistence. To others it is a featureless Absolute; the annihilation of personality and world-Nature is its key and silence and
\nan ineffable peace its gate of our entrance. To others it is a Supreme, positive beyond all positives, an Existence, an absolute
\nConsciousness, an illimitable Beatitude. To others it is the one Divine beyond all Divinities, an ineffable Person of whom all
\nthese three supreme things are the attributes. And so through an endless chapter. As is the power of our spirit and the cast of our
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This Eternal and Infinite, however we conceive it, is the one
\nultimate aim of Yoga. Other smaller aims there are that can be achieved by it and are pursued by many seekers; but these are
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\none with the universal and infinite; not to abolish consciousness, but to exchange ignorance for a supreme and all-containing
\nKnowledge, not to blot out joy but to renounce human pleasure for a divine griefless beatitude, not to give up but to transform
\nall world-nature and world-existence into a power of the Truth of the Divine Existence. Asceticism is not the final condition
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To become one in our absolute being with the ineffable Divine
\nand in the manifestation a free movement of his being, power, consciousness and self-realising joy, to grow into a divine
\n\tTruth-consciousness beyond mind, into a Light beyond all human or earthly lights, into a Power to which the greatest strengths of
\nmen are a weakness, into the wisdom of an infallible gnosis and the mastery of an unerring and unfailing divinity of Will,
\ninto a Bliss beside which all human pleasure is as the broken reflection of a candle-flame to the all-pervading splendour of an
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\nand seize all the nature, then and then only its supramental transformation becomes possible.
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There must be an opening and surrender of the whole nature to receive and enter into a greater divine consciousness which
\nis there already above, behind and englobing this mortal half-conscious existence. There must be too an increasing capacity
\nto bear an ever stronger and more insistent action of the divine Force, till the soul has become a child in the hands of the infinite
\nMother. All other means known to other Yoga can be used and are from time to time used as subordinate processes in this Yoga
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In the end it will be found that this Yoga cannot be carried through to its end by any effort of mind, life and body, any
\nhuman psychological or physical process but only by the action of the supreme Shakti. But her way is at once too mysteriously
\ndirect and outwardly intricate, too great, too complete and subtle to be comprehensively followed, much more to be cut out
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\nman, but he can call down the divine Truth and its power to work in him. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise
\nthe human receptacle. Self-surrender to a supreme transmuting Power is the key-word of the Yoga.
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This divinisation of the nature of which we speak is a metamorphosis, not a mere growth into some kind of superhumanity,
\nbut a change from the falsehood of our ignorant nature into the truth of God-nature. The mental or vital demigod, the Asura,
\nRakshasa and Pishacha,\u2014Titan, vital giant and demon,\u2014are superhuman in the pitch and force and movement and in the
\nmake of their characteristic nature, but these are not divine and those not supremely divine, for they live in a greater mind power
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\nTruth-consciousness, but this truth is something beyond mind and this consciousness is far above the highest mind-consciousness. For truth of mind is always relative, uncertain and partial, but this greater Truth is peremptory and whole. Truth of mind is
\na representation, always an inadequate, most often a misleading representation, and even when most accurate, only a reflection,
\nTruth’s shadow and not its body. Mind does not live in the Truth or possess but only seeks after it and grasps at best some threads
\nfrom its robe; the supermind lives in Truth and [is] its native substance, form and expression; it has not to seek after it, but
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\npower for knowledge. If it is [to] be complete and stable, it must be a divine transmutation of our will too, our emotions, our
\nsensations, all our power of life and its forces, in the end even of the very substance and functioning of our body. Then only can
\nit be said that the supermind is there upon earth, rooted in its very earth-substance and embodied in a new race of divinised
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\tSupermind at its highest reach is the divine Gnosis, the
\nWisdom-Power-Light-Bliss of God by which the Divine knows and upholds and governs and enjoys the universe[.]
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\tThe supramental Yoga is a path of integral seeking of the Divine
\nby which all that we are is in the end liberated out of the Ignorance and its undivine formations into a truth beyond the Mind,
\na truth not only of highest spiritual status but of a dynamic spiritual self-manifestation in the universe.
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\tThe object of this Yoga is not to liberate the soul from Nature, but to liberate both soul and nature by sublimation into
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the Divine Consciousness from whom they came.
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The aim of the ordinary Yoga is to liberate the soul from Nature or, perhaps sometimes, to liberate the soul in Nature.
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Our aim is to liberate both soul and nature into the Divine. Our aim is to pass from the Ignorance into the Divine Light, from
\ndeath into Immortality, from Desire into self-existent Bliss, from limited human-animal consciousness into all-consciousness and
\nGod-consciousness, from the ignorant seeking of Mind into the self-existent knowledge of Supermind, from obscure half animal
\nlife into luminous God-force, from the material consciousness [sentence not completed<\/i>]
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It is at the high line where the surrender can become absolute that
\na divine gnostic consciousness commences and the first authentic and unconditioned workings of the supramental Nature.
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The first word of the supramental Yoga is surrender; its last
\nword also is surrender. It is by a will to give oneself to the eternal Divine, for lifting into the divine consciousness, for perfection,
\nfor transformation, that the Yoga begins; it is in the entire giving that it culminates; for it is only when the self-giving is complete
\nthat there comes the finality of the Yoga, the entire taking up into the supramental Divine, the perfection of the being, the
\ntransformation of the nature.
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This is a Yoga of transformation of the being, not solely a Yoga
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attainment is its basis without which no transformation is possible. In this transformation there are four elements, the psychic opening, the transit through [the] occult, the spiritual release,
\nthe supramental perfection. If any of the four is unachieved, the Yoga remains incomplete.
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I mean by the psychic the inmost soul-being and the soul nature. This is not the sense in which the word is used in ordinary
\nparlance, or rather, if it is so used, it is with great vagueness and much misprision of the true nature of this soul and it is given
\na wide extension of meaning which carries it far beyond that province. All phenomena of an abnormal or supernormal psychological or an occult character are dubbed psychic; if a man has a double personality changing from one to another, if an
\napparition of a dying man, something of his mere vital sheath or else a thought-form of him, appears and stalks through the room
\nof his wondering friend, if a poltergeist kicks up an unseemly row in a house, all that is classed under psychic phenomena and
\nregarded as a fit object for psychic research, though these things have nothing whatever to do with the psyche. Again much in
\nYoga itself that is merely occult, phenomena of the unseen vital or mental or subtle physical planes, visions, symbols, all that
\nmixed, often perturbed, often shadowy, often illusory range of experiences which belong to this intervening country between
\nthe soul and its superficial instruments or rather to its outermost fringes, all the chaos of the intermediate zone, is summed up as
\npsychic and considered as an inferior and dubious province of spiritual discovery. Again there is a constant confusion between
\nthe mentalised desire-soul which is a creation of the vital urge in man, of his life-force seeking for its fulfilment and the true
\nsoul which is a spark of the Divine Fire, a portion of the Divine. Because the soul, the psychic being uses the mind and the vital
\nas well as the body as instruments for growth and experience it is itself looked at as if it were some amalgam or some subtle
\nsubstratum of mind and life. But in Yoga if we accept all this chaotic mass as soul-stuff or soul-movement we shall enter into a
\nconfusion without an issue. All that belongs only to the coverings of the soul; the soul itself is an inner divinity greater than mind
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or life or body. It is something that once it is released from
\nobscuration by its instruments at once creates a direct contact with the Divine and with the self and spirit.
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In the integral Yoga there is a progressive discovery of our
\nspiritual status; this progression is accompanied by a dynamic new-creation of our nature. A triple transformation is its process
\nand the revelation of its entire significance.
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A first discovery is the unveiling of the soul out of its disguising mask, concealing curtain, blockading wall of mind, life and body\u2014the psychic entity, the divine element in our nature
\nwhich gives it its permanence and immortality, becomes the open ruler of our instruments and transmutes them into conscious spiritualised agents so that they are no longer a changing formulation of the nature of the Ignorance.
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Yoga is not only a discovery of our concealed spiritual status but
\na dynamic spiritual self-creation; a triple transformation is the heart of its process and the revelation of its entire significance.
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Its first step is the unveiling of the soul, the psychic entity, now covered by the
\nsuperficial activity of mind and life and body. The soul is the deep hidden natural divine element in us, a permanent portion of the Godhead which persists in a spiritual
\npermanence and ensures our immortality of being; for without it there could be only a temporary mechanical formation and action of nature-energy and its phenomenon of
\nsubstance. This unveiling is accompanied by a psychic transformation of the nature; mind, life and body become truly ensouled and ready for a spiritual change.
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Its second step is the revelation of a self and spirit which supports our individual soul manifestation and soul development, but knows itself to be one being with cosmic
\nGodhead and universal Nature and can stand back from that even as a transcendent spirit. By this discovery the being in us exceeds its separate individuality, enters into a
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out of its seclusion where it lives like a spiritual king without
\napparent power served and replaced by its ministers, so that it may take over the whole active government of the nature is
\nthe first great unfolding, the initial potent self-discovery of the Yoga. Mind the thinker is the prime minister in us who covers
\nthe king, but mind too is dominated and led by the vital powers, the strong and violent of the realm, who force it to serve their
\npurpose and these too can only act with the means given them by the body and physical nature, the inert hardly conscious subject
\nexistence whose passive assent and docile instrumentation is yet indispensable to its rulers. This is our present constitution and
\nit amounts to no more than a sort of organised confusion, a feudal order that is an ignorant half anarchy and cannot make
\nthe most of the possibilities and resources even of the limited tract of nature which we inhabit, much less reveal to us and
\nexploit our spiritual empire. To reinstate the king-soul is the first step in a needed revolution\u2014the soul directing the mind will
\nexercise through it its sovereign power over the powers of life and subject to them in their turn an enlightened and psychically
\nconsenting body. But this is not all; for soul-discovery is not complete without a psychic new creation of the mental, vital
\nand physical instrumentation of nature. The mind will be recast by the soul’s intuition of Truth, the vital being by its perception
\nof power and good, the body and whole nature by its command for light, harmony and beauty. Our nature will become that of a
\ntrue psychic entity, not a brute creation unified by a precarious life and illumined by the candlelight of a struggling intelligence.
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\n\tself-liberation and self-perfection, a radical change of our entire being by which we grow out of its present mental, vital and
\nphysical human ignorance into a large and integral spiritual and divine Consciousness;\u2014as a result of this liberation, this
\nchange or transformation there is a union in the spirit with our Divine Origin in its integral Reality, an ascent of all our being
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and nature into the Divine Existence, the Divine Consciousness,
\nthe Divine Bliss or Ananda, and a descent of the Divine infinite Wideness, Light, Knowledge, Force, Joy, Ananda into our entire
\nnature.
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Our Yoga is a Yoga of transformation, but a transformation of the whole consciousness and the whole nature from the top to
\nthe bottom, from its hidden inward parts to its most tangible external movements. It is neither an ethical change nor a religious conversion, neither sainthood nor ascetic control, neither a sublimation nor a suppression of the life and vital movements
\nthat we envisage, nor is it either a glorification or a coercive control or rejection of the physical existence. What is envisaged
\nis a change from a lesser to a greater, from a lower to a higher, from a surface to a deeper consciousness\u2014indeed to the largest,
\nhighest, deepest possible and a total change and revolution of the whole being in its stuff and mass and every detail into that
\nyet unrealised diviner nature of existence. It means a bringing forward of what is now hidden and subliminal, a growing conscious in what is now superconscient to us, an illumination of the subconscient and subphysical. It implies a substitution of
\nthe control of the nature by the soul for its present control by the mind; a transference of the instrumentation of the nature
\nfrom the outer to the now more than half-veiled inner mind, from the outer to the inner vital or life-self, from the outer
\nto an inner subtler vaster physical consciousness and by this transference a direct and conscious instead of an indirect and
\nunconscious or half conscious contact with the secret cosmic forces that move us; a breaking out from the narrow limited
\nindividual into a wide cosmic consciousness; an ascension from mental to spiritual nature; a still farther ascension from the spirit
\nin mind or overspreading mind to the supramental spirit and a descent of that into the embodied being. All that has not only to
\nbe achieved but organised before the transformation is complete.   
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The ascent to supermanhood will be a radical change of consciousness, force and bliss-power, a potent building of all that is
\nnecessary to manifest the new godhead in mind, life and body. There will be at once an inner revelation and an outer transformation. Something will be born that was not here or was latent and hidden in its own invisible radiances and at the same
\ntime there will be a metamorphosis and reversal in our existing structure.
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\tA creation by a consensus of superior and nether powers is the condition demanded by the Spirit for its decisive works; and
\nthis double action, this meeting, consensus, unification of the superconscient and subconscient gods in a growing consciousness
\nis the key to the critical revolutions of Nature.
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\tThe creation of conscious supermind on the terrestrial plane
\nwill be done therefore not only from above by the Spirit but from below by the Earth-Power. The sun of supramental Truth will
\ndescend into the body, but also it will awake another secret sun of supramental Truth that was asleep in the foundations and
\nvery principle of Matter.
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The boon that we have asked from the Supreme is the greatest that the earth can ask from the Highest, the change that
\nis most difficult to realise, the most exacting in its conditions. It is nothing less than the descent of the supreme Truth and
\nPower into Matter, the supramental established in the material plane and consciousness and the material world and an integral
\ntransformation down to the very principle of Matter. Only a supreme Grace can effect this miracle.
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The supreme Power has descended into the most material consciousness but it has stood there behind the density of the
\nphysical veil demanding before manifestation, before its great open workings can begin, that the conditions of the supreme
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that the Truth shall be accepted within you entirely and without
\nreserve before it can be manifested in the material being and Nature.
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A total surrender, an exclusive self-opening to the divine influence, a constant and integral choice of the Truth and rejection
\nof the falsehood, these are the only conditions made. But these must be fulfilled entirely, without reserve, without any evasion
\nor pretence, simply and sincerely down to the most physical consciousness and its workings[.]
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Two things are needed if thou wouldst follow the steep and
\ndifficult way of Yoga, the need and will within thee and the call of the Spirit.
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The need is the need of the soul, awakened or awaking or striving to come to the surface. For all other may be transitory
\nor false; but the soul’s need is lasting and true.
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Thy soul’s need of divine light and the spirit’s perfection can
\nalone bear thee across the darkness of the many nights through which thou must pass, beyond the open or hidden pitfalls of the
\nroad, past the dangers of the precipice and the morass, through the battle with giant forces and the clutching of hands that
\nmislead and the delusions of the night and the twilight, through false light and illusive glamour, triumphant over the blows and
\nordeals and nets and temptations of the gods and on and up to the immeasurable summits[.]
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