In this yoga a complete transformation of the nature is aimed at because that is necessary for the complete union and the complete liberation not only of the soul and the spirit but of the nature itself.
It is also a yoga of works and of the integral divine life; for that the integral transformation of nature is evidently necessary; the union with the Divine has to carry with it a full entrance into the divine consciousness and the divine nature; there must be not only sayujya or salokya but sadirshya or, as it is called in the Gita, sadharmya.
The full yoga, Purna Yoga, means a fourfold path, a Yoga of Knowledge for the mind, a Yoga of Bhakti for the heart, a Yoga of Works for the will and a Yoga of Perfection for the whole nature.
But ordinarily, if one can follow whole-heartedly any one of these lines, one arrives at the result of all the four.
Sri Aurobindo
(Letters on Yoga, Part 4, Section 6 "Difficulties of the Path" SABCL Volume 24, Page: 1622)
Montage made for Darshan-Day August 15, 2001
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