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... the pressure of the New Light is bound to modify the human mind enough to express a new mode of life, an intuitive life bringing as its outcome radical changes
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
Essays and Letters by Dr Alok Pandey on Yoga
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The paradox is that we cannot truly love man without going deep into the heart of Divine Love.
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Though one can rationally argue about the existence of the soul based on indirect evidence, the real proof of the pudding is in eating it.
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One should never do something that one is convinced about being wrong, even if the whole world says so.
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Sri Aurobindo: 'God and Titan, Deva and Asura, are indeed close kin in their differences... '
... a body becomes the field of the Yoga joining the two extreme poles of consciousness, the material and the spiritual, reconciling their opposition in a fulfilment of the Divine Intention
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The Yoga is utter freedom. It is also the royal road to Truth in all its complexity and completeness.
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Yoga takes place in two modes, consciously or unconsciously.
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"What is needed is the dual action of certain powers below and above."
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Coming back to the three main elements or consenting parties as Sri Aurobindo puts it.
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In the Srimad Bhagavad Gita Sri Krishna explains to Arjuna that he gave the ancient Yoga first to Vivaswan, the Sun-God.
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Over a hundred years back at the turn of the previous century, Sri Aurobindo wrote in a prophetic vein about the important place that yoga was going to take.
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... we look at it as part of a grand Divine plan whose original purpose is not reward and punishment but to objectify Himself through the Creation.
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... the human mind is unable to rise to the vastness of the Divine and hence is quick to reduce the Lord into small and narrow formulas.
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One question which often arises in the mind of those exposed to traditional yogic practices, is that since the first step is finding the Divine why not find Him by any means and later return to the integral yoga.
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The rule of yoga is to keep the conversation to a minimum, to speak with an inner poise, avoid animated discussions, arguments and heated exchanges.