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\nThe Integral Yoga in the Upanishads<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nThe Integral Yoga, the divine life founded on the Self, in a
\nhuman body, and the integral Lila conducted by the Divine
\nPower, these we preach to be the supreme goal of our human
\nbirth; the fundamental basis of this conclusion does not rest
\nupon a mentally constructed new thought, nor does it derive
\nits authority from the letters of any ancient manuscript, the
\nproof of any written scripture or the formula of any philosophy. It is based upon a spiritual knowledge more integral; it is based upon the burning experience of the Divine Reality
\nin the soul, life, mind, heart and body. This knowledge is not
\na new discovery but old and indeed eternal. This experience
\nis the experience of the ancient Vedic Rishis, of the supreme
\nTruth-Seers of the Upanishads. It is the experience of those
\nTruth-Hearing Poets. It sounds new in the low-aspiring,
\nfruitlessly busy and despondent life of a fallen India of the Kaliyuga. Where most people are content to lead a semi-
\nhuman existence, and so few ever make an effort to develop ; even their full manhood, there cannot be any question about
\nthe new godhood. But it was with this ideal that our strong
\nAryan forefathers shaped the first life of the nation. At the
\nrapturous dawn of the Sun-knowledge, the fervent call of the
\nVedic chants sung by the bird of felicity, self-lost with Soma
\nwine in its voice, rose to the feet of the Universal Being. The
\nhigh aspiration of enshrining the glorious image of the
\nimmortal Universal being in the soul of man, in the life of
\nman, by shaping an all-round divinity, was the primary
\nmantra of the Indian civilization. Gradual enfeeblement, de-
\nformation and forgetting of that mantra are the causes of the
\ndecline and the misfortune of this country and the nation. To <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nutter that mantra again, to strive for that realisation again,
\nare the only perfect path, the only irreproachable means for
\ntheir revival and progress because this mantra is the eternal
\ntruth where both the individual and the collectivity find their
\nfulfilment. This is the profound significance of the effort of
\nman, the building up of nations, the birth and the gradual
\ndevelopment of civilisation. All other aims whose pursuit
\ntires our mind and life are minor and partial aims, aids to the
\ntrue intention of the gods. All other fragmentary realisations
\nwhich gratify us are no more than rest-houses on the way,
\nfixing of victory flags on the peaks along the path. The true
\naim, the true realisation is the unfolding of the Brahman, its
\nself-manifestation, the visible diffusion of the Power of the
\nDivine, the Lila of His Knowledge and Ananda, not in a few
\ngreat souls, but in everybody in the nation and the entire humanity.  <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWe see the first form and stage of this knowledge and this
\nsadhana in the Rigveda, the earliest characters inscribed on
\nthe Stupa near the entrance to the temple of the Aryan
\ndharma at the beginning of history. We cannot say with
\ncertainty that it finds expression for the first time in the
\nRigveda, because even the Rishis of the Rigveda admit that
\nthose who were before them, the early ancestors of the
\nAryan race, ‘the primeval fathers of the human race’, had
\ndiscovered this path of truth and immortality for the later
\nman. They also say that the new Rishis were only following
\nthe path which had been shown to them by the ancient
\nRishis. We find that the mantra of the Rigveda is the echo of
\nthe words of the ‘fathers’, of the Divine speech they uttered; <\/font><\/p>\n

\nconsequently, the form of the dharma that we see in the
\nRigveda can be said to be its earliest form. The knowledge of
\nthe Upanishads, the sadhana of the Vedanta are only a very
\nnoble and generous transformation of this dharma. The
\nknowledge of the supreme Divine and the sadhana for <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nattaining the Divine life of the Vedas, the Self-knowledge
\nand the sadhana for realising the Brahman of the Upanishads, both of them are based on a synthetic dharma; various aspects of the cosmic Purusha and the cosmic Shakti,
\nthe supreme Divine unifying all the truths of the Brahman,
\nthe experience and the pursuit of the All-Brahman are its
\nintimate subject-matter. Then started the age of analysis.
\nThe Purva Mimansa, the uttara Mimansa, the Sankhya, the
\nYoga, the Nyaya, and the Vaisheshika of the Vedantas, each
\nof them took up a partial philosophy of the truth and
\n.developed different ways of the sadhana. Finally, the parts of
\nthe partial philosophies gave rise to Monism, Dualism,
\nQualified Monism, the Vaishnava and the Shaiva schools,
\nthe Puranas and the Tantras. The attempt at synthesis also
\nnever stopped. We find that effort in the Gita, the Tantras
\nand the Puranas; each of them has been successful to a
\ncertain extent; many new experiences have been gained but
\nno longer do we find in them the comprehensiveness of the
\nVedas and the Upanishads. It looks as if the ancient spiritual
\nmessage of India took its birth in some all-pervading brilliant
\nlight of knowledge where even to reach, let alone the
\nquestion of crossing beyond it, became impossible or difficult
\nfor the predominantly intellectual later ages. <\/font><\/p>\n

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