The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo

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This book begins by setting Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga within the back- ground of India’s spiritual heritage. It provides a detailed look at not only the aims of the Integral Yoga but also the basics and practices which underpin the individual’s journey of transformation. The author gives particular importance to the chapters on Liberation, Transformation and Perfection, which de- lineate revolutionary departures from the traditional paths of Yoga, highlight Sri Aurobindo’s original contributions to spiritual achievement, and bring into focus the ultimate evolutionary destiny of man, "the manifestation of God in a transfigured humanity".

A substantial demand for this book from America has made it necessary to bring out a second edition. But as the demand is urgent, there is no time to prepare an index and make certain additions and alterations, which I should have very much liked to do. I have, however, revised the whole book, made some slight changes and corrections, and elaborated the contents. Transla- tions of some Sanskrit words and phrases have been appended in the footnotes.

The demand for this book is one of the minor indications of the growing interest the élite of the West are taking in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s Integral Yoga and philosophy. It is heartening to find that many eminent thinkers of Europe and America are turning to Sri Aurobindo as the only hope and refuge in the dismal bankruptcy of the modern rationalistic, scientific and technocratic culture, and discovering in his teachings the synthetic spiritual vision, the all-reconciling comprehensive outlook, the happy fusion of the ideals of the East and the West, and, above all, the authentic divine dynamism, capable of transforming human nature and creating a new world order, which alone can lift mankind from the morass of degeneracy into which it has sunk.

May humanity turn more and more to the delivering Light!

Book's Contents and Sample Pages