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A Primary Difference Between Traditional Understanding of Yoga and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Yoga has historically focused on liberation of the individual
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  soul from the illusion of the outer world.
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  The secret is advised to see through the transitory nature of
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  all external rewards, undertake practices that helped him to
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  discover his true self. And once that is done live, a
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  life free from the normal sense of human bondage, until such
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  time, as he can escape the cycle of rebirth entirely.
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  The practice is focused on individual salvation.
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  The goal is otherworldly, the external world the society in
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  which the individual lives is given little consequence and is
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  treated either as a dream, an illusion or an inconvenience or
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  impediment. It is of course, essential that
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  the Seeker find a way to free himself from the illusory.
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  Pursuits of the external World Liberation.
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  In that sense is a basic requirement.
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  In the Buddhist tradition. There is a bodhisattva vow that
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  the Seeker will not undertake his own Liberation until such
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  time as his presence in the world.
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  Can Aid The Liberation of every other sentient being.
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  We see here, a purpose, infused into the life in the world, and
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  that is to Aid other beings who are misled about the illusory,
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  nature of the outer existence, SRI aurobindo takes a different
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  view of the matter as he does not accept the duality of World
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  versus spirit. Rather the world is a
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  manifestation of spirit, the creation, has a Divine Purpose,
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  and the objective of the Seeker is not to escape from existence,
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  but to participate in the manifestation and the unfoldment
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  of its objective, which he shows to be intimately tied to a
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  progressive, unfoldment were evolution of Consciousness and
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  the increasing unification between matter and spirit that
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  such An increasing awareness makes obvious.
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  There is one reality, it is real.
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  Not illusory in its Essence. The illusion is the fixation on
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  the external ego personality. And it's short-term ideas about
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  success and enjoyment in the world.
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  When the Seeker aligns with the larger Universal Consciousness,
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  he achieves Union with the Divine and can act in the world,
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  as a node or Nexus of the spiritual energy that is in
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  process of creating the universal manifestation.
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  Dr. Dalal observes quote, traditionally the term yoga
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  which literally means Union has been generally understood as a
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  path which aims at achieving the union of the individual self
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  with the universal self. So as to lead to Liberation from
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  the ignorance and suffering of life on Earth.
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  Entry aurobindo yoga, which aims at not only the liberation of
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  the individual soul, but the transformation of Earthly life.
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  Yoga implies, not only Union of the individual soul with the
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  Divine, but also the union of the outer being with the soul
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  and the unification of ones being around the soul for
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  according to Sri, aurobindo and the mother, it is only through
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  such a unification of ones. Being But the Divine can be made
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  to manifest and transform the Earthly life in quote, reference
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  SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our many selves practical yogic
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  psychology preface page, Roman 15.