Perfect love casts out fear. But you still retain a shadow of exile. This will make perfection even more perfect.
L'amour parfait bannit la crainte. Mais vous conservez toujours une ombre de l'exil. Cela rendra la perfection encore plus parfaite.
I may say that the way of the Gita is itself a part of the Yoga here and those who have followed it, to begin with or as a first stage, have a stronger basis than others for this Yoga.
It is not a fact that Gita gives the whole base of Sri Aurobindo's message; for the gita seems to admit the cessation of birth in the world as the ultimate aim or at least the ultimate culmination of Yoga; it does not bring forward the idea of spiritual evolution or the idea of the higher planes and the supramental Truth-Consciousness and the bringing down of that consciousness as the means of the complete transformation of earthly life.
The idea of the supermind, the Truth-Consciousness is there in the Rig Veda according to Sri Aurobindo's interpretation and in one or two passages of the Upanishads, but in the Upanishads it is there only in seed in the conception of the being of knowledge, vijñãnamaya purusa, exceeding the mental, vital and physical being; in the Rig Veda the idea is there but in principle only, it is not developed and even the principle of it has disappeared from the Hindu tradition.
The world is a field of manifestation in which there is a progressive evolution of the soul and the nature in Matter and from Matter through Life and Mind to what is beyond Mind till it reaches the complete revelation of Sachchidananda in life. It is this that is the basis of the Yoga and gives a new sense to life.
Our Yoga is not identical with the Yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita's Yoga. In our Yoga we begin with the idea, teh will, teh aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress; or else we may make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Sri Aurobindo
CEAS YOGA
About Me
- Prof. Carlos Eduardo Souza
- Professor from Brazil, a degree in music, has an MA in Musicology and Ph.D. in history and post-doctorate in philosophy. He was a professional musician and university professor. He practiced Yoga since his teens. In the search for the perfection of the Self, has devoted himself entirely to Yoga. He began his studies of Yoga in Brazil and continuing in India, a place that he visit regularly for updates. He is also Reiki Master. Today after 25 years in the classroom, it is dedicated to the Cultural and Educational Tourism, believing in Education Outside the School.