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In "Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of the Systems, Chapter V from The Synthesis of Yoga", Sri Aurobindo describes how the various systems of yoga work and how Integral Yoga seizes on a central principle common to all the various yoga systems to form a broad synthesis. To begin with, he discusses how Tantra Yoga works on a different principle compared to the various Vedantic forms of yoga he had previously discussed in the first four chapters. He says, "We have in this central Tantric conception one side of the truth, the worship of the Energy, the Shakti, as the sole effective force for all attainment. We get the other extreme in the Vedantic conception of the Shakti as a power of Illusion and in the search after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy." Sutra-like in its cadenced sequencing of logic, Sri Aurobindo brilliantly explains the need for a synthesized yoga and then goes about this, as only Sri Aurobindo can. There is no audio in this offering, only the scrolled text, with background art behind.
In "Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of the Systems, Chapter V from The Synthesis of Yoga", Sri Aurobindo describes how the various systems of yoga work and how Integral Yoga seizes on a central principle common to all the various yoga systems to form a broad synthesis. To begin with, he discusses how Tantra Yoga works on a different principle compared to the various Vedantic forms of yoga he had previously discussed in the first four chapters. He says, "We have in this central Tantric conception one side of the truth, the worship of the Energy, the Shakti, as the sole effective force for all attainment. We get the other extreme in the Vedantic conception of the Shakti as a power of Illusion and in the search after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy." Sutra-like in its cadenced sequencing of logic, Sri Aurobindo brilliantly explains the need for a synthesized yoga and then goes about this, as only Sri Aurobindo can. There is no audio in this offering, only the scrolled text, with background art behind.
