Sri Aurobindo

The Hour of God

and other writings

III. On Yoga

The Web of Yoga [4]

To be one with the Eternal is the object of Yoga; there is no other object. All other aims are included in this one divine perfection.

To be one with the Eternal is to be one with him in being, consciousness, power and delight. All that is is summed in these four terms of the infinite, for all else are but their workings.

To be one with the Eternal is also to live in the Eternal and from him and in his presence and from his infinite nature, — sāyujya, sālokya, sāmīpya, sādrśya. These four together are one way of being and one perfection.

To live in the Eternal is also to live with the Eternal within us. Whosoever consciously inhabits his being, his conscious presence inhabits. God lives and moves and acts in us when we live and move and act in him.