THE SYNTHESIS OF YOGA

 

PART ONE & PART TWO

 

SRI AUROBINDO

   

Contents

 

 

 

Pre Content

 
   

Post Content

 
    Introduction  
    The Conditions of the Synthesis  
 

I

Life and Yoga

 
 

II

The Three Steps of Nature

 
 

III

The Threefold Life

 
 

IV

The System of Yoga

 
 

V

Synthesis

 

 

 

 

Part I

 
   

The Yoga of Divine Works

 
 

I

The Four Aids

 
 

II

Self-Consecration

 
 

III

Self  Surrender in Works  The Way of the Gita

 
 

IV

The Sacrifice the Triune Path and The lord of the Sacrifice

 
 

V

The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1

 
 

VI

The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2

 
 

VII

Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom

 
 

VIII

The Supreme Will

 
 

IX

Equality and the Annhilation of Ego

 
 

X

The Three Modes of Nature

 
 

XI

The Master of the Work

 
 

XII

The Divine Work

 
 

XIII

The Supermind and the Yoga of Works

 

 

   

Part II

 
   

The Yoga of Integral Knowledge

 
 

I

The Object of Knowledge

 
 

II

The Status of Knowledge

 
 

III

The Purified Understanding

 
 

IV

Concentration

 
 

V

Renunciation

 
 

VI

The Synthesis of the Disciplines of Knowledge

 
 

VII

The Release from Subjection to the Body

 
 

VIII

The Release from the Heart and the Mind

 
 

IX

The Release from the Ego

 
 

X

The Realisation of the Cosmic Self

 
 

XI

The Modes of the Self

 
 

XII

The Realisation of Sachchidananda

 
 

XIII

The Difficulties of the Mental Being

 
 

XIV

The Passive and the Active Brahman

 
 

XV

The Cosmic Consciousness

 
 

XVI

Oneness

 
 

XVII

The Soul and Nature

 
 

XVIII

The Soul and Its Liberation

 
 

XIX

The Planes of Our Existence

 
 

XX

The Lower Triple Purusha

 
 

XXI

The Ladder of Self-Transcendence

 
 

XXII

Vijnana or Gnosis

 
 

XXIII

The Conditions of Attainment to the Gnosis

 
 

XXIV

Gnosis and Ananda

 
 

XXV

The Higher and the Lower Knowledge

 
 

XXVI

Samadhi

 
 

XXVII

Hathayoga

 
 

XXVIII

Rajayoga

 

 

 

Facsimile of a page revised by Sri Aurobindo from a disciple's handwritten copy of the first few chapters of The Synthesis of Yoga from the Arya.