Integral Yoga

Integral Yoga                                                                

THE SEEDS OF YOGA

GOD is, is the first seed of Yoga. It is Tat Sat of the Vedanta. I am, is the second seed. It is So’ham of the Upanishads. God is infinite self-existence, self-conscious force of existence, self-diffused or self-concentrated delight of existence; I too am that infinite self-existence, self-consciousness, self-force, self-delight; this is double thirdseed. It is Sachchidananda of the world-wide transcendental conclusion of all human thinking.

WHAT IS THE INTEGRAL YOGA?

It is the way of complete God-realisation, a complete Self-realisation, a complete fulfillment of our being and consciousness, complete transformation of our nature and this implies a complete perfection of life here and not only a return to an eternal perfection elsewhere.

This is the object, but in the method also there is the same integrality, for the entirety of the object cannot be accomplished without an entirety in the method, a complete turning, opening, self-giving of all our being and nature in all its parts, ways, movements to that which we realise.

Our mind, will, heart, life, body, our outer and inner and inmost existence, our superconscious and subconscious as well as our conscious parts, must all be thus given, must all become a means, a field of this realisation and transformation and participate in illumination and the change from a human into a divine consciousness and nature.

This is the character of the integral Yoga.

There are many Yogas, many spiritual disciplines, paths towards liberation and perfection, Godward ways of the spirit. Each has its separate aim, its peculiar approach to the One reality, its separate method, its helpful philosophy and its practice. The integral Yoga takes up all of them in their essence and tries to arrive at unification (in essence, not in detail) of all these aims, methods, approaches; it stands for an all-embracing philosophy and practice.