- AUTHORS -

  Sri_Aurobindo,
  The_Mother
  Satprem
  Nolini Kanta Gupta
  A. B. Purani
  Anilbaran Roy
  A. S. Dalal
  Champaklal
  Mona Sarkar
  M. P. Pandit
  Nirodbaran
  Pavitra
  Sri Chinmoy
  M Alan Kazlev

  add also: BRUNTON, HEMSELL, HUTCHINSON, JOSHI, MONICA_GUPTA, MUKHERJEE, NAGIN_DOSHI, NAHAR_SUJATA, NARAD, PADIYATH, POSNER_ROY, PRITI_DASGUPTA, REDDY, VREKHEM, YATSENKO

- POWERS & ELEMENTS IN THE YOGA -

Aspiration ::: Aspiration is a turning upward of the inner being with a call, yearning, prayer for the Divine, for the Truth, for the Consciousness, Peace, Ananda, Knowledge, descent of Divine Force or whatever else is the aim of one's endeavour.
Balance
Bravery :::
Calm
Cheerfulness
Concentration1 ::: Concentration, for our Yoga, means when the consciousness is fixed in a particular state (e.g. peace) or movement (e.g. aspiration, will, coming into contact with the Mother taking the Mother s name); meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.
Concentration2 ::: An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which we must labour
Confidence ::: Even if things are not as they ought to be, worry does not help to make them better. A quiet confidence is the source of strength.
Consecration
Courage ::: Courage is a sign of soul's nobility.
Determination
Devotion ::: Worship is only the first step on the path of devotion. Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union.
Effort ::: In the first movement of self-preparation, the period of personal effort, the method we have to use is this concentration of the whole being on the Divine that it seeks and, as its corollary, this constant rejection, throwing out, katharsis, of all that is not the true Truth of the Divine. An entire consecration of all that we are, think, feel and do will be the result of this persistence.
Endurance ::: Ordinarily we have to begin with a period of endurance; for we must learn to confront, to suffer and to assimilate all contacts. Each fiber must be taught not to wince away from that which pains and repels and not to run eagerly towards that which pleases and attracts, but rather to accept, to face, to bear and to conquer. ... This is the stoical period of the preparation of equality, its most elementary and yet its heroic age.
Enthusiasm ::: True enthusiasm is full of a peaceful endurance.
Equality ::: Not to be disturbed by either joy or grief, pleasure or displeasure by what people say or do or by any outward things is called in yoga a state of samata, equality to all things.
Faith ::: Faith is spontaneous knowledge in the psychic.
Faithfulness
Focus
Generosity
Goodness
Gratitude ::: A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you.
Happiness ::: Real happiness is of divine origin; it is pure and unconditioned. Ordinary happiness is of vital origin; it is impure and depends on circumstances.
Heroism ::: Heroism is ... to become wholly unified - and the Divine help will always be with those who have resolved to be heroic in full sincerity.
Hope ::: One must never lose hope or faith - there is nothing incurable, and no limit can be set to the power of the Divine.
Humility ::: True humility is humility before the Divine, that is, a precise, exact, living sense that one is nothing, one can do nothing, understand nothing without the Divine, that even if one is exceptionally intelligent and capable, this is nothing in comparison with the divine Consciousness, and this sense one must always keep, because then one always has the true attitude of receptivity - a humble receptivity that does not put personal pretensions in opposition to the Divine.
Integrality
Integrity
Interiorization
Joy
Love ::: There is only one love - the Divine's Love; and without that Love there would be no creation. All exists because of that Love and it is when we try to find our own love which does not exist that we do not feel the Love, the only Love, the Divine's Love which permeates all existence.
Opening/Openness
Offering ::: Offer yourself more and more - all the consciousness, all that happens in it, all your work and action.
Patience ::: The ideal attitude of the sadhaka towards Time is to have an endless patience as if he had all eternity for his fulfilment.
Peace ::: When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us.
Perseverance ::: the decision to go to the very end
Presence :::
Prudence ::: the wise man is prudent in what he looks at, in what he listens to, and in what he says. He considers the consequences, thinks of the morrow, and if he does not know his way, he asks. :::
Progress1 ::: is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
Progress2 ::: to be ready, at every minute, to give up all one is and all one has in order to advance on the way.
Purity ::: Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine.
Rejection ::: throwing out of the being.
Receptivity ::: the power to receive the Divine Force and to feel its presence and the presence of the Mother in it and allow it to work, guiding one's sight and will and action.
Repentance ::: the first step towards rectifying mistakes.
Renunciation ::: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward
Sacrifice ::: Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and devoted self-giving to the Eternal.
Sraddha ::: the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace.
Self-Confidence
Self-Control
Self-Giving
Self-Surrender in Works
Self-Offering
Sincerity ::: Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will.
Silence
Straightforwardness
Strength1 ::: The strength is always with you to be always faithful to the Divine Will.
Strength2 ::: All our strength is with the Divine. With Him we can surmount all the obstacles.
Surrender ::: Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one's ideas, desires, habits, etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.
Surrender to the Divine Will
Tapasya ::: a discipline aiming at the realisation of the Divine
Trust
Truth
Truthfulness
Vigilence
Will
Willpower

- OBSTACLES & DIFFICULTIES -

Addiction
agony
Ambition
anger ::: Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas A Kempis
anxiety:
automatic
Avoidance
challenge
circumstances
Confusion
Darkness
death
Defects
defeat
demons
Depression ::: A depression is always unreasonable as it leads nowhere. It is the most subtle enemy of the Yoga. ~ The Mother Words Of The Mother - II,
Desires
despair
difficulty/difficulties ::: The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation.
Distractions ::: If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
distress
Doubt
down
Dryness ::: Dryness is ordinarily the sign of too great a concern with oneself (whether material or spiritual) and a consequent narrowing of the consciousness, which is no longer sufficiently in communion with the divine forces.
The remedy: a completer self-giving to the Divine. With my blessings and all my love.
Ego ::: this ego-centrism is our rock of safety against the cosmic and the infinite, our defense.
emotions
emptiness/empty:
Escapism
Evil ::: Always we must repeat to the doubting intellect the promise of the Master, 'I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.' At the end, the flickerings of faith will cease; for we shall see his face and feel always the Divine Presence.
excuse ::: It is no use excusing yourself; you must have the will never to fall back into the faults you have committed.
Expectations
failure
fall
Fatigue
Fear
Greed (for Food)
grief
Habits
hard
hostile forces
ignorance
Impulses ::: We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
Impulses ::: Control over the lower impulsions is the first step towards realisation.
incapacity
Indifference
insincerity/halfheartness
Jealousy
Judging/Judgement
lack of concentration
laziness
loss
Lost
Lower movements:
Mara
Material Desires
Mistakes ::: If even then we make mistakes, yet God makes none.
Mistakes ::: Repentance: the first step towards rectifying mistakes.
Mistakes ::: A mistake recognised is a mistake pardoned.
Mistakes ::: A mistake one denies is a mistake one refuses to set right
Narrowness and One-Sidedness
negative thoughts
not knowing
obscure/obscurity
Obstacles ::: One puts veils, obstacles between oneself and the Divine. That is how one punishes oneself. The Divine does not withdraw; one makes oneself incapable of receiving him. The Divine does not distri bute in this way rewards and punishments..
obstructions
Ordeals ::: Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
oscillations
pain
Preferences
powers of the Ignorance
Pride
problem
Quarrels
resist
Sadness ::: It is always our weaknesses that make us sad, and we can easily recover by advancing one step more on the way.
self-deceit ::: Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ~ Demos thenes, Third Olynthiac, sec. 19
Selfishness
separation
Shame ::: Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. ~ Jetsun Milarepa
shortcomings
Sin
sorrow
struggle
Suffering ::: Suffering is due only to our weakness and imperfection. When external forces affect us, if we have acquired sufficient strength to assimilate them, we derive joy from them, otherwise they produce pain.
Suffering ::: Turn towards the Divine, all your sufferings will disappear.
tamas
test
the abyss
the Adversary
the Ignorance
the sevenfold ignorance
the void
tired
Tiredness ::: Tiredness shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that is lack of will for progress. Fire is always burning in you.
Torture
trial
tribulations
troubles
undivine forces
unknowable
upset
Vanity
Waste
weakness/Weaknesses ::: If you have faults and weaknesses, hold them up before the Divine to be changed or abolished.

- QUOTES -

The fundamental realisations of this yoga are:
1. The psychic change so that a compete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of the thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence.
2. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light, etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body.
3. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV

--- NO METHOD
There is no method in this Yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eyebrows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one's own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother s Power and Presence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II

to do the integral yoga ::: ...to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to surrender entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is the way. But after that one must have the five psychological virtues, five psychological perfections and we say that the perfections are:
1.Sincerity or Transparency
2.Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine)
3.Devotion or Gratitude
4.Courage or Inspiration
5.Endurance or Perseverance
~ The Mother Questions And Answers 1956

--- THE TRIPLE WAY
The triple way takes for its chosen instruments the three main powers of the mental soul-life of the human being.
Knowledge ::: selects the reason and the mental vision and it makes them by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of a God-directed seeking its means for the greatest knowledge and the greatest vision of all, God-knowledge and God-vision. Its aim is to see, know and be the Divine.
Works ::: , action selects for its instrument the will of the doer of works; it makes life an offering of sacrifice to the Godhead and by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of subjection to the divine Will a means for contact and increasing unity of the soul of man with the divine Master of the universe.
Devotion ::: selects the emotional and aesthetic powers of the soul and by turning them all Godward in a perfect purity, intensity, infinite passion of seeking makes them a means of God-possession in one or many relations of unity with the Divine Being. All aim in their own way at a union or unity of the human soul with the supreme Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Principle of the Integral Yoga, 609

three paths as one :::
We can see also that in the integral view of things these three paths are one. Divine Love should normally lead to the perfect knowledge of the Beloved by perfect intimacy, thus becoming a path of Knowledge, and to divine service, thus becoming a path of Works. So also should perfect Knowledge lead to perfect Love and Joy and a full acceptance of the works of That which is known; dedicated Works to the entire love of the Master of the Sacrifice and the deepest knowledge of His ways and His being. It is in the triple path that we come most readily to the absolute knowledge, love and service of the One in all beings and in the entire cosmic manifestation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga

way of the Integral Yogin ::: Nor is the seeker of the integral fulfilment permitted to solve too arbitrarily even the conflict of his own inner members. He has to harmonise deliberate knowledge with unquestioning faith; he must conciliate the gentle soul of love with the formidable need of power; the passivity of the soul that lives content in transcendent calm has to be fused with the activity of the divine helper and the divine warrior. ... An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which he must labour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 78

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