Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research Trust, Pondicherry ISBN: 978-93-85391-17-0
About Discourses on The Synthesis of Yoga - Volume I
The first five chapters of The Synthesis of Yoga serve as an introduction to the book. Chapter One looks at the relationship between yoga and life, noting Nature’s evolutionary trend to converge towards unity and diverge into multiplicity, to develop forms and then break up forms. Sri Aurobindo concludes that when the conscious yoga in man becomes like the subconscious yoga in nature, outwardly connected to life in all its forms, one begins to see that “in a more perfect and luminous sense, all life is Yoga.” Subsequent chapters summarise the three steps of Nature’s yoga and analyse the threefold life—the material, the mental, and the spiritual. The final two chapters look at the core of the three traditional forms of yoga and the ways in which they differ from and connect to each other, and how Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga proposes a new synthesis, providing the flexibility to suit each aspirant on the path.
