Sunday, September 27, 2009

Champaklal speaks

Q. I cannot understand whether I am doing yoga or not. Can it be said that I am doing your Integral Yoga?

(Sri Aurobindo) Ans.:
Everyone who is turned to the Mother is doing my Yoga. It is a great mistake to suppose that one can "do" the Purna Yoga, i.e., carry out and fulfill all the sides of the Yoga by one's own effort. No human being can do that. What one has to do is to put oneself in the Mother's hands and open oneself to her by service, by bhakti, by aspiration; then the Mother by her light and force works in him so that the sadhana is done. It is a mistake also to have the ambition to be a big Purna Yogi or a supramental being and ask oneself how far have I got towards that. The right attitude is to be devoted and given to the Mother and to wish to be whatever she wants you to be. The rest is for the Mother to decide and do in you.
Sri Aurobindo

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