The Synthesis of Yoga
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAK606 |
| Author: | Sri Aurobindo |
| Publisher: | Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2021 |
| ISBN: | 9788170586142 |
| Pages: | 928 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 9.0 inch x 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 690 gm |
Book Description
About the Author
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. He studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college.
In 1906 Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he became one of the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement. As editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram, he put forward the idea of complete independence from Britain. Arrested three times for sedition or treason, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
Sri Aurobindo began the practice of Yoga in 1905. Within a few years he achieved several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in French India in order to concentrate on his inner life and work. Over the next forty years, he developed a new spiritual path, the Integral Yoga, whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental consciousness. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His vision of life is presented in numerous works of prose and poetry, among the best known of which are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950.
Publisher's Note
The Synthesis of Yoga first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya between August 1914 and January 1921. Each instalment was written immediately before its publication. The work was left incomplete when the Arya was discontinued. Sri Aurobindo never attempted to complete the Synthesis; he did, however, lightly revise the Introduction, thoroughly revise all of Part I, "The Yoga of Divine Works", and significantly revise several chapters of Part II, "The Yoga of Integral Knowledge". More than thirty years elapsed between the first appearance of the Synthesis in the Arya and the final stages of its incomplete revision. As a result, there are some differences of terminology between the revised and unrevised portions of the book.
In 1948 the chapters making up "The Yoga of Divine Works" were published as a book by the Sri Aurobindo Library, Madras. No other part of The Synthesis of Yoga appeared in book-form during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime. In 1955 an edition comprising the Introduction and four Parts was brought out by the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre. The present edition, which has been checked against all manuscripts and printed texts, includes for the first time the author's revisions to the Introduction and Chapters XV -XVII of Part II, and an incomplete continuation of Part IV entitled "The Supramental Time Consciousness".
Contents
| INTRODUCTION | |
| THE CONDITIONS OF THE SYNTHESIS | |
| I. | |
| LIFE AND YOGA | 5 |
| II. | |
| THE THREE STEPS OF NATURE | 9 |
| III. | |
| THE THREEFOLD LIFE | 20 |
| IV. | |
| THE SYSTEMS OF YOGA | 31 |
| V. | |
| THE SYNTHESIS OF THE SYSTEMS. | 41 |
| PART I | |
| THE YOGA OF DIVINE WORKS | |
| I. | |
| THE FOUR AIDS | 53 |
| II. | |
| SELF-CONSECRATION | 69 |
| III. | |
| SELF-SURRENDER IN WORKS - THE WAY OF THE GITA | 89 |
| IV. | |
| THE SACRIFICE, THE TRIUNE PATH AND THE LORD OF THE SACRIFICE | 106 |
| V. | |
| THE ASCENT OF THE SACRIFICE - 1 | |
| THE WORKS OF KNOWLEDGE - | |
| THE PSYCHIC BEING . | 134 |
| VI | |
| THE ASCENT OF THE SACRIFICE - 2 | |
| THE WORKS OF LOVE - THE WORKS OF LIFE | 158 |
| VII | |
| STANDARDS OF CONDUCT A D SPIRITUAL FREEDOM | 188 |
| VIII | |
| THE SUPREME WILL | 208 |
| IX | |
| EQUALITY AND THE ANNIHILATION OF EGO | 221 |
| X | |
| THE THREE MODES OF NATURE | 231 |
| XI. | |
| THE MASTER OF THE WORK | 243 |
| XII. | |
| THE DIVINE WORK | 264 |
| APPENDIX TO PART I | |
| XIII | |
| THE SUPERMIND AND THE YOGA OF WORKS. | 279 |
| PART II | |
| THE YOGA OF INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE | |
| I. | |
| THE OBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE | 287 |
| II | |
| THE STATUS OF KNOWLEDGE | 300 |
| III. | |
| THE PURIFIED UNDERSTANDING | 308 |
| IV. | |
| CONCENTRATION | 317 |
| V. | |
| RENUNCIATION | 326 |
| VI. | |
| THE SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCIPLINES OF KNOWLEDGE | 335 |
| VII. | |
| THE RELEASE FROM SUBJECTION TO THE BODY | 343 |
| VIII. | |
| THE RELEASE FROM THE HEART AND THE MIND | 350 |
| IX. | |
| THE RELEASE FROM THE EGO | 356 |
| X. | |
| THE REALISATION OF THE COSMIC SELF | 368 |
| XI. | |
| THE MODES OF THE SELF | 374 |
| XII. | |
| THE REALISATION OF SACHCHIDANANDA | 383 |
| XIII. | |
| THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE MENTAL BEING | 391 |
| XIV. | |
| THE PASSIVE AND THE ACTIVE BRAHMAN | 400 |
| XV. | |
| THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS | 409 |
| XVI. | |
| ONENESS | 419 |
| XVII. | |
| THE SOUL AND NATURE | 426 |
| XVIII. | |
| THE SOUL AND ITS LIBERATION | 436 |
| XIX. | |
| THE PLANES OF OUR EXISTENCE | 446 |
| XX. | |
| THE LOWER TRIPLE PURUSHA | 457 |
| XXI. | |
| THE LADDER OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE | 465 |
| XXII. | |
| VIJNANA OR GNOSIS | 475 |
| XXIII | |
| THE CONDITIONS OF ATTAINMENT TO THE GNOSIS | 488 |
| XXIV | |
| GNOSIS AND ANANDA | 498 |
| XXV | |
| THE HIGHER AND THE LOWER KNOWLEDGE | 511 |
| XXVI | |
| SAMADHI | 519 |
| XXVII | |
| HATHAYOGA | 528 |
| XXVIII | |
| RAJAYOGA | 536 |
| PART III | |
| THE YOGA OF DIVINE LOVE | |
| I. | |
| LOVE AND THE TRIPLE PATH | 545 |
| 11 | |
| THE MOTIVES OF DEVOTION | 552 |
| III. | |
| THE GODWARD EMOTIONS | 561 |
| IV. | |
| THE WAY OF DEVOTION | 571 |
| V. | |
| THE DIVINE PERSONALITY | 577 |
| VI. | |
| THE DELIGHT OF THE DIVINE | 587 |
| VII. | |
| THE ANANDA BRAHMAN | 593 |
| VIII. | |
| THE MYSTERY OF LOVE | 599 |
| PART IV | |
| THE YOGA OF SELF-PERFECTION | |
| I. | |
| THE PRINCIPLE OF THE INTEGRAL YOGA | 609 |
| II | |
| THE INTEGRAL PERFECTION | 616 |
| III. | |
| THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-PERFECTION | 623 |
| IV. | |
| THE PERFECTION OF THE MENTAL BEING | 632 |
| V. | |
| THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE SPIRIT | 643 |
| VI. | |
| PURIFICATION - THE LOWER MENTALITY | 654 |
| VII. | |
| PURIFICATION - INTELLIGENCE AND WILL | 663 |
| VIII. | |
| THE LIBERATION OF THE SPIRIT | 674 |
| IX. | |
| THE LIBERATION OF THE NATURE | 682 |
| X. | |
| THE ELEMENTS OF PERFECTION | 691 |
| XI. | |
| THE PERFECTION OF EQUALITY | 698 |
| XII. | |
| THE WAY OF EQUALITY | 709 |
| XIII. | |
| THE ACTION OF EQUALITY | 721 |
| XIV. | |
| THE POWER OF THE INSTRUMENTS | 729 |
| xv. | |
| SOUL-FORCE AND THE FOURFOLD PERSONALITY | 740 |
| XVI. | |
| THE DIVINE SHAKTI | 752 |
| XVII. | |
| THE ACTION OF THE DIVINE SHAKTI | 762 |
| XVIII. | |
| FAITH AND SHAKTI | 771 |
| XIX. | |
| THE NATURE OF THE SUPERMIND | 783 |
| XX. | |
| THE INTUITIVE MIND | 799 |
| XXI. | |
| THE GRADATIONS OF THE SUPERMIND | 811 |
| XXII. | |
| THE SUPRAMENTAL THOUGHT AND KNOWLEDGE | 825 |
| XXIII. | |
| THE SUPRAMENTAL INSTRUMENTS - THOUGHT-PROCESS | 841 |
| XXIV. | |
| THE SUPRAMENTAL SENSE | 862 |
| XXV. | |
| TOWARDS THE SUPRAMENTAL TIME VISION | 885 |
| APPENDIX TO PART IV | |
| XXVI. | |
| THE SUPRAMENTAL TIME CONSCIOUSNESS | 907 |
