15 August

15 August
Sri Aurobindo was born on 15 august 1872. Here I am not interested to write his life history. I just want to write a little on his philosophy, on his yoga. He invented a new path of yoga. In his path the aim of human life is not Moksha. He said that we leave our parts namely mental, vital and physical untransformed in the path of Moksha. He wanted to transform these parts and for that descent of a God-Consciousness-he named it Supramental-Consciousness- is necessary. This Supramental-Consciousness is present in the creation. Some old Rishis ( The Seers ) had seen it but due to unprepared conditions of the earth they did not try for its descent. Sri Aurobindo was trying from the very beginning of this earth to prepare the conditions of the earth to descend this Supramental-Consciousness with his perennial Divine –Collaborator the Mother. In this birth he realized that now the conditions of the descent upon earth are fully ripe. So he started the work of descent with the Mother.

This Supramental-Consciousness works twofold. It descends to earth and awakes the aspiration through soul of man to come upward. Only man among all the creatures of the universe can participate in this work because he alone has psychic ( A spark of Divine- consciousness ). But this Supramental-Consciousness never allows the soul to come and live in the highest world of Supramental- Consciousness. It inspires soul to change his mental, vital and physical. And it is the aim of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga which he named Integral Yoga.

It is a very childlike description of Integral Yoga. We see the main thing in this yoga is an aspiration. Although each and every man has it and the Supramental-Consciousness is trying to awaken it but a man can expedite this process by his personal efforts. We see as per philosophy it is so high that it goes beyond Moksha and so far its sadhana is concerned it is the easiest one. If we aspire and open our self to Supramental-Consciousness to descend into us then we can go very quickly towards the Goal.