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Sri Aurobindo’s Own Experience of Yoga, Spirituality and Integration of Life in the World · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI aurobindo has given a concise view of his own
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  experience and ways of relating to the practice of yoga life in
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  the world. And the focus of his spiritual
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  efforts, SRI aurobindo, observes, quote, my own life.
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  And my yoga have always been since my coming to India.
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  Both this worldly and otherworldly without any
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  exclusiveness on either side. All human interests are, I
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  suppose this worldly and most of them have entered into my mental
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  field and some like politics into my life.
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  But at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil, on
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  the Apollo bandar in Bombay. I began to have spiritual
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  experiences. But these were not divorced from
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  this world, but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as
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  a feeling of the infinite. Material space in the imminent
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  inhabiting material objects and bodies.
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  At the same time, I found myself entering Supra, physical worlds,
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  and planes with influences and an effect from them upon the
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  material plane. So I could make no sharp divorce
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  or irreconcilable opposition between what I have called, the
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  two ends of existence and all that lies between them for me.
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  All is Brahman. On and I find the Divine
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  everywhere. Everyone has the right to throw
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  away this worldliness and choose other worldliness only and if he
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  finds Peace by that choice he has greatly blessed.
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  I personally have not found it necessary to do this in order to
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  have peace in my yoga. Also, I found myself moved to
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  include both worlds in my purview, the spiritual and
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  material and to try to establish the Divine Consciousness and the
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  divine power in men's hearts and Earthly life, not for a personal
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  salvation only, but for a life Divine here, This seems to me as
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  spiritual a name as any and the fact of this life, taking up
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  Earthly Pursuits and Earthly things into its scope, cannot I
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  believe tarnish its spirituality or alter its Indian character.
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  This at least has always been my view and experience of the
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  reality and nature of the world and things.
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  And the Divine, it seemed to me as nearly as possible, the
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  integral truth about them and I have therefore spoken of the
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  pursuit of it as the integral yoga.
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  Everyone is, of course, free to reject and disbelieve in this
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  kind of integrality or to believe in the spiritual
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  necessity of an entire other worldliness altogether, but that
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  would make the exercise of my yoga impossible.
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  My yoga can include indeed a full experience of the other
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  worlds, the plane of the Supreme Spirit and the other planes in
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  between, and their possible effects upon our life and the
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  material world. But it will be quite possible
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  insist only on the realization of the Supreme Being or ishwara.
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  Even in one aspect Shiva Krishna is Lord of the world and master
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  of ourselves and our works. Where else the universal set?
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  Cheat Ananda and attained to the essential result?
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  So this yoga and afterwards to proceed from them to the
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  integral results. If one accepted the ideal of the
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  Divine Life and this material world conquered by the spirit
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  And quote. Reference SRI aurobindo,
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  integral yoga, SRI, aurobindo teaching and method of practice,
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  the integral yoga, and the ordinary life Pages, 17 and 18.