All Life Is Yoga: Human Unity. Sri Aurobindo

      

      Omsriaurobindomira

      All

      Life

      Is

      Yoga

      “All life is Yoga.” – Sri Aurobindo

      Human Unity

      Sri Aurobindo | The Mother

      SRI AUROBINDO

      DIGITAL EDITION

      Copyright 2020

      AURO MEDIA

      Verlag und Fachbuchhandel

      Wilfried Schuh

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      ALL LIFE IS YOGA

      Human Unity Selections from the Works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother Second edition 2020 ISBN 978-3-937701-53-0

      © Photos and selections of the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother:

      Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

      Puducherry, India

      Flower on the cover:

      Dahlia. White. Spiritual significance and explanation given by the Mother: Superhumanity The aim of our aspirations.

      Publisher’s Note

      This is one in a series of some e-books created by SRI AUROBINDO DIGITAL EDITION and published by AURO MEDIA under the title All Life Is Yoga. Our effort is to bring together, from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, simple passages with a practical orientation on specific subjects, so that everyone may feel free to choose a book according to his inner need. The topics cover the whole field of human activity, because true spirituality is not the rejection of life but the art of perfecting life.

      While the passages from Sri Aurobindo are in the original English, most of the passages from the Mother (selections from her talks and writings) are translations from the original French. We must also bear in mind that the excerpts have been taken out of their original context and that a compilation, in its very nature, is likely to have a personal and subjective approach. A sincere attempt, however, has been made to be faithful to the vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. These excerpts are by no means exhaustive.

      Bringing out a compilation from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which have a profound depth and wideness unique, is a difficult task. The compiler’s subjective tilt and preferences generally result in highlighting some aspects of the issues concerned while the rest is by no means less significant. Also without contexts of the excerpts the passages reproduced may not fully convey the idea – or may be misunderstood or may reduce a comprehensive truth into what could appear like a fixed principle.

      The reader may keep in mind this inherent limitation of compilations; compilations are however helpful in providing an introduction to the subject in a handy format. They also give the readers a direct and practical feel of some of the profound issues and sometimes a mantric appeal, musing on which can change one’s entire attitude to them.

      The excerpts from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother carry titles and captions chosen by the editor, highlighting the theme of the excerpts and, whenever possible, borrowing a phrase from the text itself. The sources of the excerpts are given at the end of each issue.

      We hope these compilations will inspire the readers to go to the complete works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and will help them to mould their lives and their environments towards an ever greater perfection.

      “True spirituality is not to renounce life, but to make life perfect with a Divine Perfection.” – The Mother

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      ContentsTitle PageCopyrightPublisher’s NoteQuotationHUMAN UNITY1. The Inevitability of Human Unity2. The Possible Forms – The Difficulties3. Unity in Diversity4. The Ideal Solution5. The True Unity6. Words of the Mother7. Messages of the MotherAPPENDIXReferencesGuideCoverTable of ContentsStart Reading

      In a profound sense it is the call and attraction of the future that makes the past and present, and that future will be more and more seen to be the growth of the godhead in the human being which is the high fate of this race that thinks and wills and labours towards its own perfection. This is a strain that we shall hear more and more, the song of the growing godhead of the kind, of human unity, of spiritual freedom, of the coming supermanhood of man, of the divine ideal seeking to actualise itself in the life of the earth, of the call to the individual to rise to his godlike possibility. — Sri Aurobindo

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      Stop thinking that you are of the West and others of the East. All human beings are of the same divine origin and meant to manifest upon earth the unity of this origin. — The Mother

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HUMAN UNITY

      Chapter 1

      The Inevitability of Human Unity

      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      Today the ideal of human unity is more or less vaguely making its way to the front of our consciousness. The emergence of an ideal in human thought is always the sign of an intention in Nature, but not always of an intention to accomplish; sometimes