Hindi

When we take up yoga, difficulties arise for several reasons. All yoga is difficult and the integral yoga is especially so. Yet we have to face it in a yogic way.

There is often a gap between the inner and the outer life. Sometimes we aspire and dwell in a beautiful consciousness inwardly but as we encounter outer life, we lose the inner state.

A key Idea in the Integral Yoga is the Supermind. It is the infinite Truth Consciousness beyond the highest layer of the Mind.

Unlike classical yogas, integral yoga accepts nature but purifies it and makes it ready for the divine. Our human nature is a distortion of the divine nature.

Life is the journey from a limited consciousness to the vast and infinite, from darkness to light and more light. But when we reject life since it is limited we also throw away the possibility of its progressive enlargement and transmutation into divinity.

The union of spirit and nature is the basis of yoga. Nature must be ready to express the spirit. Will is the central tool of ordinary man to make it happen.

Maya in Indian context is understood in a confusing and vague way. Sri Aurobindo explains that Maya is a limited and partial truth, often distorted in appearance. Instead of abandoning creation as an illusion we have to find the key to transmute it to its original divine possibility.