Yoga and Its Objects, The

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An early essay by Sri Aurobindo on the aim and objectives of the integral Yoga.

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This essay sets down some of the aims and objectives of the integral Yoga: “to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity”. It also discusses the processes of yoga and the conditions required for sadhana. In 1934 Sri Aurobindo wrote that it represented an early stage of his sadhana and only a part of it was applicable to the Yoga as it had evolved after more than twenty years.

“The yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda–Christ’s kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga–upon the earth. Of moksa we have no personal need; for the soul is nityamukta and bondage is an illusion. We play at being bound, we are not really bound. We can be free when God wills; for he, our supreme Self, is the master of the game, and without his grace and permission no soul can leave the game. It is often God’s will in us to take through the mind the bhoga of ignorance, of the dualities, of joy and grief, of pleasure and pain, of virtue and sin, of enjoyment and renunciation: for long ages, in many countries, he never even thinks of the yoga but plays out this play century after century without wearying of it. There is nothing evil in this, nothing which we need condemn or from which we need shrink,–it is God’s play. The wise man is he who recognises this truth and knowing his freedom, yet plays out God’s play, waiting for his command to change the methods of the game.”

– Sri Aurobindo, The Yoga and Its Objects

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ISBN

978-81-7058-677-7

Cover Type

Soft Cover

Page Count

39

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