Integral Yoga Path
SUDIP TALUKDAR
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Integral yoga, or the yoga of self-perfection, synthesises the collective potential of traditional disciplines like bhakti, gyan and karma yogas, to reorient human nature into bringing the supramental, or the highest octave of consciousness, down to the earth plane.Integral yoga, which is more comprehensive in its sweep, aims at the total perfection of not one but all parts of the being. It directs the flow of consciousness from soul downwards into the lower levels, rather than begin from the bottom up, purifying as it descends.
Integral yoga strips successive layers of the body and mind of every vestige of inertia, falsehood and lower nature, down to the very innards of its tiniest cell, in order to unclog channels for the descent of divine consciousness. Once empowered, it taps into and co-opts nature to hasten ongoing evolution of (divinised) beings.
Every voluntary or involuntary effort, activity or drive to better individual or community life is yoga. As a sentient being, man is capable of cooperating with the inexorable evolutionary movement and bring about desired changes in a compressed time frame, which would have taken aeons.
The key is integral yoga with a threefold approach: intense aspiration for the Divine, rejection of all that is inimical to the path and total surrender or opening oneself to the Divine.It perceives Godhead as the fundamental unity permeating every atom, or the centrality of the spirit underlying nature, growth, life, material and nonmaterial phenomena.
Integral yoga strips successive layers of the body and mind of every vestige of inertia, falsehood and lower nature, down to the very innards of its tiniest cell, in order to unclog channels for the descent of divine consciousness. Once empowered, it taps into and co-opts nature to hasten ongoing evolution of (divinised) beings.
Every voluntary or involuntary effort, activity or drive to better individual or community life is yoga. As a sentient being, man is capable of cooperating with the inexorable evolutionary movement and bring about desired changes in a compressed time frame, which would have taken aeons.
The key is integral yoga with a threefold approach: intense aspiration for the Divine, rejection of all that is inimical to the path and total surrender or opening oneself to the Divine.It perceives Godhead as the fundamental unity permeating every atom, or the centrality of the spirit underlying nature, growth, life, material and nonmaterial phenomena.
