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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 3, 15th October 2020

into a single life or a few years or even a life banded together, have thrown themselves
few months of bodily existence. A given upon the world, grappled with it in a loving
system of Yoga, then, can be no more than wrestle and striven to compel its consent to its
a selection or a compression, into narrower own transfiguration. Ordinarily, the effort is
but more energetic forms of intensity, of the concentrated on a mental and moral change
general methods which are already being used in humanity, but it may extend itself also to
loosely, largely, in a leisurely movement, with a the alteration of the forms of our life and its
profuser, apparent waste of material and energy institutions so that they too may be a better
but with a more complete combination by the mould for the inpourings of the Spirit. These
great Mother in her vast upward labour. It is attempts have been the supreme landmarks
this view of Yoga that can alone form the basis in the progressive development of human
for a sound and rational synthesis of Yogic ideals and the divine preparation of the race.
methods. For then Yoga ceases to appear Every one of them, whatever its outward
something mystic and abnormal which has no results, has left Earth more capable of Heaven
relation to the ordinary processes of the World- and quickened in its tardy movements the
Energy or the purpose she keeps in viewin evolutionary Yoga of Nature... (3)
her two great movements of subjective
and objective self-fulfilment; it reveals itself “The spiritual life does not need, for its
rather as an intense and exceptional use of purity, to destroy interest in all things
powers that she has already manifested or is except the Inexpressible or to cut at the
progressively organising in her less exalted roots of the Sciences, the Arts and Life. It
but more general operations…(1) may well be one of the effects of an integral
spiritual knowledge and activity to lift
“The true and full object and utility of Yoga them out of their limitations, substitute
can only be accomplished when the conscious for our mind’s ignorant, limited, tepid or
Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious trepidant pleasure in them a free, intense
Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous and uplifting urge of delight and supply a
with life itself and we can once more, looking new source of creative spiritual power and
out both on the path and the achievement, illumination by which they can be carried

say in a more perfect and luminous sense: more swiftly and profoundly towards their
‘All life is Yoga.’…(2) absolute light in knowledge and their yet
undreamed possibilities and most dynamic
“It is possible for the spiritual life in the energy of content and form and practice.
world, and it is its real mission, to change the The one thing needful must be pursued first
material life into its own image, the image and always; but all things else come with
of the Divine. Therefore, besides the great it as its outcome and have not so much to
solitaries who have sought and attained their be added to us as recovered and reshaped
self-liberation, we have the great spiritual in its self-light and as portions of its self-
teachers who have also liberated others and, expressive force... (4)
supreme of all, the great dynamic souls who,
feeling themselves stronger in the might of For the sadhaka of an integral Yoga none
the Spirit than all the forces of the material of these reasons are valid. With weakness

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