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The Triple Path of Yogic Sadhana · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In the synthesis of yoga. SRI, aurobindo provides, an
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  overview of the psychological methods of yogic practice in the
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  path of jnana, yoga, The Yoga of knowledge bhakti, yoga, The Yoga
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  of love, and devotion and Karma Yoga, The Yoga of Works.
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  He also provides extensive commentary to the teachings on
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  these methods as expounded in the bhagavad-gita, in his essays
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  on the Gita. Each of these paths seizes on a
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  mainspring of human activity, whether it is the mind, the
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  heart, where the life force and directs, and guides the Seeker
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  toward the realization based on his own natural predilections,
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  and situation. There instances of course, where
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  the ego personality becomes arrogant and the advantage of
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  his own particular path, or method, and looks down upon
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  those who follow other. Our paths.
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  However this arrogance is a deformation caused.
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  By the ego. Realization can come through any
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  of these methods if followed with sincerity and constancy.
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  It must also be noted that each individual may find benefit from
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  any one of the paths at various times in his life, as he
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  addresses, the difficulties posed by his nature.
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  Each path has not only its advantages, but its own
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  limitations or weaknesses when mixed with the All Too Human
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  ego. The Path of Knowledge can lead
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  to a brittle and narrow form of understanding and limits on the
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  ability to To actually take on the challenges of life and the
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  need to change human nature. The path of devotion can detour
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  into religiosity or frivolity. The path of Works can place
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  outer accomplishment ahead of inner development in their
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  truest forms. However they each lead to the
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  desired goal and one can find at the end and integration that
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  incorporates the fruits of each path within the results of the
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  chosen method. SRI aurobindo right, quote, the
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  growth out of the ordinary mind into the spiritual,
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  consciousness can be affected either by meditation, dedicated
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  work or buck tea for the divine. The object of the sadhna is
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  opening of the Consciousness to the Divine and the change of the
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  nature meditation or contemplation is one means to
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  this, but only one means. But T is another work is another
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  work octi and meditation are the three supports of yoga.
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  One can do with all three or two or one.
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  There are people who can't meditate in the set way.
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  That one calls meditation. But they progress through work
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  or through bhakti or through the two together by work and bhakti.
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  One can develop a Consciousness in which eventually a natural
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  meditation and realization becomes possible and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 5 growth of
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  Consciousness means and methods ages. 84 285.