Sri Aurobindo

The Synthesis of Yoga

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Sri Aurobindo begins at the same time 'The Life Divine'

• Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis
  • 01 - Life and Yoga
  • 02 - The Three Steps of Nature
  • 03 - The Threefold Life
  • 04 - The System of Yoga
  • 05 - Synthesis

• Part 1 - The Yoga of Divine Works
  • *01 - The Four Aids (Arya January 1915 - moderately revised in 1932) (46 Kb)
  • 02 - Self-Consecration
    (22 February 1915: The Mother leaves Pondicherry)
  • 03 - Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita
  • 04 - The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice
  • 05 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice (1)
  • 06 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice (2)
  • 07 - Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom
  • 08 - The Supreme Will
  • 09 - Equality and the Annihilation of Ego
  • 10 - The Three Modes of Nature
  • 11 - The Master of the Work
  • 12 - The Divine Work
  • 13 - The Supermind and the Yoga of Works

• Part 2 - The Yoga of Integral Knowledge
  • 01 - The Object of Knowledge
  • 02 - The Status of Knowledge
  • 03 - The Purified Understanding
  • 04 - Concentration
  • 05 - Renunciation
  • 06 - The Synthesis of the Disciplines of Knowledge
  • 07 - The Release from Subjection to the Body
  • 08 - The Release from the Heart and the Mind
  • 09 - The Release from the Ego
  • 10 - The Realisation of the Cosmic Self
  • 11 - The Modes of the Self
  • 12 - The Realisation of Sachchidananda
  • 13 - The Difficulties of the Mental Being
  • 14 - The Passive and the Active Brahman
  • 15 - The Cosmic Consciousness
  • 16 - Oneness
  • 17 - The Soul and Nature
  • 18 - The Soul and its Liberation
  • 19 - The Planes of our Existence
  • 20 - The Lower Triple Purusha
  • 21 - The Ladder of Self-Transcendence
  • 22 - Vijnana or Gnosis
  • 23 - The Conditions of Attainment to the Gnosis
  • 24 - Gnosis and Ananda
  • 25 - The Higher and the Lower Knowledge
  • 26 - Samadhi
  • 27 - Hathayoga
  • 28 - Rajayoga
    

• Part 3 - The Yoga of Divine Love (May to December 1918 - never rewritten)
  The Yoga of Divine Love Fulltext in 8 Chapters (from May to December 1918) (155 Kb) or in chapters below:
  • 01 - Love and the Triple Path
  • 02 - The Motives of Devotion
  • 03 - The Godward Emotions
  • 04 - The Way of Devotion
  • 05 - The Divine Personality
  • 06 - The Delight of the Divine
  • 07 - The Ananda Brahman
  • 08 - The Mystery of Love
    
    (Sri Aurobindo has now written the final chapter of 'The Life Divine')

• Part 4 - The Yoga of Self-Perfection (January 1919 to January 1921)
  Note: No chapter in this part was ever revised by Sri Aurobindo. The texts of these twenty-five chapters are identical to those of Arya chapters 49–73. They were renumbered 1-25 by the editors of the 1955 edition. The 26th chapter consists of two incomplete versions of a chapter Sri Aurobindo began to write in 1920 or 1921, just before he discontinued the Arya.
  • 01 - The Principle of Integral Yoga
  • 02 - The Integral Perfection
  • 03 - The Psychology of Self-Perfection
  • 04 - The Perfection of the Mental Being
  • 05 - The Instrument of the Spirit
  • 06 - Purification: The Lower Mentality
  • 07 - Purification: Intelligence and Will
  • 08 - The Liberation of the Spirit
  • 09 - The Liberation of the Nature
  • 10 - The Elements of Perfection
  • 11 - The Perfection of Equality (November 1919) (36 Kb)
  • 12 - The Way of Equality (December 1919) (38 Kb)
  • 13 - The Action of Equality (January 1920) (25 Kb)
  • 14 - The Power of the Instruments
  • 15 - Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality
  • 16 - The Divine Shakti
    (24 April 1920: The Mother's final arrival at Pondicherry)
  • 17 - The Action of the Divine Shakti
  • 18 - Faith and Shakti (June 1920) (36 Kb)
  • 19 - The Nature of the Supermind (July 1920) (43 Kb)
  • 20 - The Intuitive Mind (August 1920) (35 Kb)
  • 21 - The Gradations of the Supermind (September 1920) (44 Kb)
  • 22 - The Supramental Thought and Knowledge (October 1920) (47 Kb)
  • 23 - The Supramental Instruments - Thought-Process (November 1920) (60 Kb)
  • 24 - The Supramental Sense (December 1920) (64 Kb)
  • 25 - Towards the Supramental Time Vision (January 1921) (53 Kb)
  • 26 (Appendix - not published) - The Supramental Time-Consciousness (13 Kb)