Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
2. Integral Yoga and Other Paths
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The language of the Gita in many matters seems sometimes contradictory because it admits two apparently opposite truths and tries to reconcile them. It admits the ideal of departure from saṃsāra into the Brahman as one possibility; also it affirms the possibility of living free in the Divine (in Me, it says) and acting in the world as the Jivanmukta. It is this latter kind of solution
on which it lays the greatest emphasis. So Ramakrishna put the “divine souls” (Ishwarakoti) who can descend the ladder as well as ascend it higher than the Jivas
(Jivakoti) who, once having ascended, have not the strength to descend again for divine work. The full truth is
in the supramental consciousness and the power to work from there on life and Matter.
1 CWSA, volume 29: salvation
2 CWSA, volume 29: the ordinary Jivas
3 CWSA, volume 29: lies
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Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
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