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title="Hindu texts">Major texts</a></b></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Aruti" title="Śruti">Śruti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sm%E1%B9%9Bti" title="Smṛti">Smṛti</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dd><b><a href="/wiki/Vedas" title="Vedas">Vedas</a></b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rigveda" title="Rigveda">Rigveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yajurveda" title="Yajurveda">Yajurveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samaveda" title="Samaveda">Samaveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atharvaveda" title="Atharvaveda">Atharvaveda</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><b><a href="/wiki/Upanishads" title="Upanishads">Upanishads</a></b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Principal_Upanishads" title="Principal Upanishads">Principal Upanishads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upanishads#Classification" title="Upanishads">Minor Upanishads</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><i>Other scriptures</i></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agama_(Hinduism)" title="Agama (Hinduism)">Agama (Hinduism)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vachanamrut" title="Vachanamrut">Vachanamrut</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Shastra" title="Shastra">Shastras</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">Sutras</a></b></i></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brahma_Sutras" title="Brahma Sutras">Brahma Sutras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samkhyakarika" title="Samkhyakarika">Samkhya Sutras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purva_Mimamsa_Sutras" title="Purva Mimamsa Sutras">Mimamsa Sutras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ny%C4%81ya_S%C5%ABtras" title="Nyāya Sūtras">Nyāya Sūtras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vai%C5%9Be%E1%B9%A3ika_S%C5%ABtra" title="Vaiśeṣika Sūtra">Vaiśeṣika Sūtra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali" title="Yoga Sutras of Patanjali">Yoga Sutras</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pramana" title="Pramana">Pramana Sutras</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Puranas" title="Puranas">Puranas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra" title="Dharmaśāstra">Dharmaśāstra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthashastra" title="Arthashastra">Arthashastra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kama_Sutra" title="Kama Sutra">Kama Sutra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naalayira_Divya_Prabandham" title="Naalayira Divya Prabandham">Naalayira Divya Prabandham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tirumurai" title="Tirumurai">Tirumurai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiva_Samhita" title="Shiva Samhita">Shiva Samhita</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dd><b><a href="/wiki/Secular_ethics" title="Secular ethics">Secular ethics</a></b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kural" title="Kural">Kural</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_philosophy" title="Indian philosophy">Other Indian philosophies</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Hindu_philosophy" title="Template:Hindu philosophy"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Hindu_philosophy" title="Template talk:Hindu philosophy"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Hindu_philosophy" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Hindu philosophy"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Integral yoga</b>, sometimes also called <b>supramental yoga</b>, is the <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">yoga</a>-based philosophy and practice of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a> and <i>The Mother</i> (<a href="/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa" title="Mirra Alfassa">Mirra Alfassa</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEO'Connor2005634_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEO'Connor2005634-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Central to <i>Integral yoga</i> is the idea that <a href="/wiki/Spirit_(animating_force)" title="Spirit (animating force)">Spirit</a> manifests itself in a process of <a href="/wiki/Involution_(esoterism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Involution (esoterism)">involution</a>, meanwhile forgetting its origins. The reverse process of <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_evolution" title="Spiritual evolution">evolution</a> is driven toward a complete manifestation of spirit. </p><p>According to Sri Aurobindo, the current status of human evolution is an intermediate stage in the evolution of being, which is on its way to the unfolding of the spirit, and the self-revelation of divinity in all things.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19391107_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19391107-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yoga is a rapid and concentrated evolution of being, which can take effect in one life-time, while unassisted natural evolution would take many centuries or many births.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996282_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996282-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aurobindo suggests a grand program called sapta chatushtaya (seven quadrates) to aid this evolution. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Worldview">Worldview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Worldview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Kosha" title="Kosha">Kosha</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spirit_-_Satchitananda">Spirit - Satchitananda</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Spirit - Satchitananda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Absolute_(philosophy)" title="Absolute (philosophy)">Absolute (philosophy)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Satcitananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Satcitananda">Satcitananda</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Brahman" title="Brahman">Brahman</a></div> <p>Spirit or satchitananda is the Absolute, the source of all that exists.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the One, having three aspects: <a href="/wiki/Satya" title="Satya">Sat</a> (truth), <a href="/wiki/Citta" class="mw-redirect" title="Citta">Citta</a> (consciousness, awareness), and <a href="/wiki/Ananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Ananda">ananda</a> (bliss, happiness). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Involution">Involution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Involution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Involution_(esoterism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Involution (esoterism)">Involution (esoterism)</a></div> <p>Involution is the extension of Spirit, the <a href="/wiki/Absolute_(philosophy)" title="Absolute (philosophy)">Absolute</a>, to create a universe of separate forms. Being manifests itself as a multiplicity of forms, meanwhile becoming lost in the inconscience of matter.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first manifestation of Spirit in the process of involution is as <i><a href="/wiki/Satchitananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Satchitananda">Satchitananda</a></i>, and then as Supermind, the intermediate link between the higher (Spirit) and lower (matter, life, and mind) nature.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Aurobindo the world is a differentiated unity. It is a manifold oneness, that generates an infinite variety of lifeforms and substances. The lifeforms and substances are stretched out on a wide range, from physical matter to a pure form of spiritual being, akin to the <a href="/wiki/Kosha" title="Kosha">five koshas</a> or sheaths, where the subject becomes fully aware of itself as spirit:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939254-255_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939254-255-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matter" title="Matter">Material</a>: a submerged consciousness concealed in its action and losing itself in the form.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitalism" title="Vitalism">Vital</a>: an emerging consciousness, a consciousness half delivered out of its original imprisonment which has become of vital craving and satisfaction or repulsion.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">Mental</a>: an emerged consciousness reflecting fact of life in a mental sense, perceptive and ideative. It modifies the internal and attempts to modify conformably the external existence of the being.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939221_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939221-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Above Mind proper lie various higher levels of Mind, which ascend toward Spirit. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evolution">Evolution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Evolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Through evolution Spirit rediscovered itself as Spirit. Evolution follows a developmental trajectory from the original inconscience of matter into life, to mind, and then to spiritualized mind, culminating in <a href="/wiki/Supermind_(Integral_yoga)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supermind (Integral yoga)">The Supermind</a> or Truth Consciousness.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939254-255_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939254-255-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Evolution is <a href="/wiki/Teleology" title="Teleology">teleological</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGiri201459_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGiri201459-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> since the developing entity contains within itself already the totality toward which it develops.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not a mechanistic or deterministic teleology,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGiri201459_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGiri201459-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but a "manifestation of all the possibilities inherent in the total movement."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGiri201459_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGiri201459-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_goal_of_integral_yoga">The goal of integral yoga</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The goal of integral yoga"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The goal of Integral yoga is to become aware of the Divine, to integrate the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of ourselves, and to manifest the Divine at earth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVrinte1996140_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVrinte1996140-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Sri Aurobindo, all life is Yoga, while Yoga as a <a href="/wiki/Sadhana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadhana">sadhana</a> is a methodised effort towards self-perfection, which brings to expression the latent, hidden potentialities of being. Success in this effort unifies the human individual with the universal and transcendental Existence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19966_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19966-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Integral yoga reunites "the infinite in the finite, the timeless in the temporal and the transcendent with the immanent. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Three_types_of_being">Three types of being</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Three types of being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sri Aurobindo discerns three types of being: the Outer being, the Inner being, and the Psychic Being. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Outer_Being">The Outer Being</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Outer Being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Outer Being includes the physical, vital and mental levels of Being, which characterises our everyday consciousness and experience. This includes several levels of the subconscient: a mental subconscient, a vital subconscient, and a physical subconscient, down to the material Inconscient.<sup id="cite_ref-Satprem_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Satprem-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Integral Yoga involves going beyond this surface consciousness to the larger life of the Inner Being, which is more open to spiritual realisation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Inner_or_Subliminal_Being">The Inner or Subliminal Being</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Inner or Subliminal Being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Inner Being, or Subliminal,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199163-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002235_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002235-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> includes the inner realms or aspects of the physical, vital and mental being. They have a larger, subtler, freer consciousness than that of the everyday consciousness. Its realisation is essential for any higher spiritual realisation. </p><p>The Inner Being is also transitional between the surface or Outer Being and the Psychic or Inmost Being. By doing yoga practice (<a href="/wiki/Sadhana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadhana">sadhana</a>), the inner consciousness is being opened, and life turns away from the outward to the inward. The inner consciousness becomes more real than the outer consciousness, and becomes a peace, happiness and closeness to the Divine.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Psychic_Being">The Psychic Being</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The Psychic Being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Psychic Being is Sri Aurobindo's term for the Personal <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_evolution" title="Spiritual evolution">Evolving</a> <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a> (the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and Overmind), the principle of <a href="/wiki/The_Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="The Divine">Divine</a> spirit in every individual.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Psychic is the "Innermost Being",<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the permanent being in us that stands behind and supports the physical, vital and mental principles. It "uses mind, life and body as its instruments," undergoing their fate yet also transcending them.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Integral_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Integral Yoga">Integral Yoga</a> the goal is to move inward and discover the Psychic Being, which then can bring about a transformation of the outer nature. This transformation of the outer being or ego by the Psychic is called Psychicisation; it is one of the three necessary stages in the realisation of the Supramental consciousness. This Psychic transformation is the decisive movement that enables a never-ending progress in life, through the power of connecting to one's inner spirit or Divine Essence. The Psychic begins its evolution completely veiled and hidden, but grows through successive lifetimes, and gradually exerts a greater influence, taking on the role of spiritual Guide.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Central_Being">Central Being</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Central Being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Central Being</b> refers to the <a href="/wiki/Transcendence_(philosophy)" title="Transcendence (philosophy)">transcendent</a> and eternal <a href="/wiki/Spirit_(animating_force)" title="Spirit (animating force)">spirit</a>, as opposed to the incarnate and <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_evolution" title="Spiritual evolution">evolving</a> <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a>, which he calls the <a href="/wiki/Psychic_Being" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychic Being">Psychic Being</a>. Sometimes it refers to both of them together as the essential spiritual core of the being.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Central Being "presides over the different births one after the other but is itself unborn" (ibid p. 269). This transcendent Central Being or Spirit is also designated as the <a href="/wiki/Jiva" title="Jiva">Jiva</a> or <a href="/wiki/Paramatman#Advaita" title="Paramatman">Jivatman</a>, although the meaning of these terms in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy differs greatly from that of much of conventional <a href="/wiki/Vedanta" title="Vedanta">Vedanta</a> (especially <a href="/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta" title="Advaita Vedanta">Advaita Vedanta</a>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Levels_of_being">Levels of being</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Levels of being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="6">Aurobindo's model of Being and Evolution<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilber1992263_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilber1992263-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma1991_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma1991-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" style="text-align:center;"><b>Levels of Being</b> </td> <td rowspan="2"><b>Development</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;"><b>Overall</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"><b>Outer Being</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b>Inner Being</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b>Psychic Being</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Supermind </td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Supermind_(Integral_yoga)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supermind (Integral yoga)">Supermind</a> </td> <td>Gnostic Man </td></tr> <tr> <td>Supra-mentalisation </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;">Mind </td> <td rowspan="4"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;">Overmind </td> <td rowspan="4">Psychisation<br />and<br />Spiritualisation </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;">Intuition </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;">Illuminated Mind </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;">Higher Mind </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;">Subconscient<br />mind </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Mind proper </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Subliminal<br />(inner)<br />mind </td> <td rowspan="3"> </td> <td rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;">Evolution </td></tr> <tr> <td>Vital </td> <td>Subconsc.<br />Vital </td> <td>Vital </td> <td>Subl.<br />(inner)<br />Vital </td></tr> <tr> <td>Physical </td> <td>Subconsc.<br />Physical </td> <td>Physical </td> <td>Subl. (inner)<br />Physical </td></tr> <tr> <td>Inconscient </td> <td colspan="5" style="text-align:center;">Inconscient </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The levels of being ascend from the inconscient to the Supermind. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inconscient">Inconscient</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Inconscient"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Inconscient Matter is the lowest level of involution.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007132_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007132-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother1961199_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother1961199-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spirit is still present in the inconscient:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007211_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007211-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "The Inconscient is the Superconscient's sleep."<sup id="cite_ref-Satprem_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Satprem-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Inconscient is also the instrument of the Superconsciousness which has created the Universe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007297_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007297-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Satprem, the Inconscient lies at the bottom of the physical subconscient,<sup id="cite_ref-Satprem_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Satprem-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "life emerged ... at the border between the material inconscient and the physical consciousness ... in our body.<sup id="cite_ref-Satprem_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Satprem-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subconscient_and_subtle_or_subliminal_conscient">Subconscient and subtle or subliminal conscient</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Subconscient and subtle or subliminal conscient"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The physical, vital and mental levels of being contain both a subconscient and a subtle or subliminal part.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161-63_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199161-63-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_subconscient">The subconscient</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: The subconscient"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The subconscient parts are the submerged parts. It contains "obstinate <a href="/wiki/Samskara_(Indian_philosophy)" title="Samskara (Indian philosophy)">samskaras</a>, impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by the past."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199161-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Satprem, there are several levels of the subconscient, corresponding with the different levels of our being: a mental subconscient, a vital subconscient, and a physical subconscient, down to the material Inconscient.<sup id="cite_ref-Satprem_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Satprem-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Aurobindo, the body is partly a creation of the inconscient or subconscient.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007297_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007297-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to The Mother, the ordinary, false consciousness, which is common to material body-consciousness, is derived from the subconscient and the inconscient.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother196150_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother196150-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Aurobindo, the outer being depends on the subconscient, which hinders the spiritual progress.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESri_Aurobindo1988_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESri_Aurobindo1988-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only by living in the inner being can this obstacle be overcome.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESri_Aurobindo1988_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESri_Aurobindo1988-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Sharma, the subconscient is "the inconscient in the process of becoming conscient."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199163-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a submerged part of the personality without waking consciousness, but which does receive impressions, and influences the conscious mind.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199161-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Sharma, it includes the <a href="/wiki/Unconscious_mind" title="Unconscious mind">unconscious mind</a> which is described by psychologists like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199161-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though it includes much more than the unconscious of (<a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Freudian</a>) psychology.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_subtle_or_subliminal_conscient">The subtle or subliminal conscient</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: The subtle or subliminal conscient"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The subtle or subliminal is the subtle, higher counterpart of the subconscient. According to Sharma, "it has an inner mind, an inner vital being, and an inner subtle physical being, wider than man's consciousness."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199163-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It can directly experience the Universal, and "it is the source of inspirations, intuitions, ideas, will ... as well as ... telepathy [and] clearvoyance."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199163-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gross_body">Gross body</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Gross body"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The gross body commonly referred to in yoga constitutes mainly of two parts the material physical body (anna<a href="/wiki/Kosha" title="Kosha">kosha</a>) and the nervous system normally refer to as vital vehicle (Prana kosha) in Integral yoga.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo199610-11_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo199610-11-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Physical">Physical</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Physical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Physical level refers to both the <a href="/wiki/Physical_body" class="mw-redirect" title="Physical body">physical body</a> and the body's <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>. The body is just as conscious as the vital and mental parts of the being, only it is a different type of consciousness. The Physical not only shades upwards to higher ontological levels, but also downwards into the Subconscient.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Subtle physical is <a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a>'s term for a subtler aspect of the physical nature. This has many qualities not found in the gross physical nature. In <i><a href="/wiki/Mother%27s_Agenda" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother's Agenda">The Agenda</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa" title="Mirra Alfassa">The Mother</a> often refers to it. It might be compared to the <a href="/wiki/Etheric_body" title="Etheric body">etheric body</a> and <a href="/wiki/Etheric_plane" title="Etheric plane">plane</a>, or even the <a href="/wiki/Astral_body" title="Astral body">astral body</a> and <a href="/wiki/Astral_plane" title="Astral plane">plane</a>. The term "subtle physical" is used to distinguish it from gross (<i>sthula</i>) or outer material physical.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Vital">Vital</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Vital"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Vital level of the being refers to the <a href="/wiki/Vitalism" title="Vitalism">life force</a>, but also to the various passions, desires, feelings, emotions, affects, compulsions, and likes and dislikes. These strongly determine human motivation and action through desire and enthusiasm. </p><p>Unlike Western <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a>, in which mind, emotions, instincts, and consciousness are all lumped together, Sri Aurobindo strongly distinguishes between the "Vital" and the "Mental" faculties. </p><p>In addition to the individual Vital faculty, Sri Aurobindo refers to a Vital Plane or Vital world, which would seem to be partly equivalent to the <a href="/wiki/Astral_plane" title="Astral plane">astral plane</a> of popular <a href="/wiki/Occultism" class="mw-redirect" title="Occultism">occultism</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> thought. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mind_or_Mental_being">Mind or Mental being</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Mind or Mental being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mind proper is the conceptual and <a href="/wiki/Cognition" title="Cognition">cognitive</a> <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>, the manakosha. Mind is a subordinate process of the Supermind.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199142_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199142-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the intermediary stage between the Divine and the mundane life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199140-41_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199140-41-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It works by measuring and dividing reality, and has lost sight of the Divine.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199141_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199141-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the seat of ignorance, yet it is still capable of an upward ascent toward the Divine.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike Western psychology, in which mind and consciousness are considered the same, Sri Aurobindo strongly distinguishes between the "Mental" and the "Vital" (emotional) faculties, as well as between Mind and pure Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo in part bases his concept of the Mental on his reading of the <a href="/wiki/Taittiriya_Upanishad" title="Taittiriya Upanishad">Taittiriya Upanishad</a>, the mental being (or perhaps just the Mental Purusha) is the <i>mano-maya-atma</i> – the self made of mind (<i>manas</i>). </p><p>For Sri Aurobindo, Mind or the Mental being is not simple and uniform, but consists itself of various strata and subdivisions, which act at different levels of being. These various faculties are described or variously referred to, usually in obliquely or in passing, in some of his books, including <i><a href="/wiki/Savitri_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Savitri (book)">Savitri</a></i>, which has poetic references to many types of Mind.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his letters answering questions from disciples, Sri Aurobindo summarises the characteristics of the various levels of Mind.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spiritual_Being">Spiritual Being</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Spiritual Being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Above mind proper lie various higher individual levels of mind, namely the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind, which ascend toward the Spirit, and provide a higher and more inclusive vision of reality: </p> <ul><li><b>Higher Mind</b> is the realm of Truth-thought. It can hold a wide range of knowledge in one vision and an integral whole.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It receives <a href="/wiki/Illuminationism" title="Illuminationism">illumination</a> from the Illumined Mind,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199145_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199145-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is not dependent on the limited knowledge of the senses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also capable of transforming the lower realms of body and mind, effectuating changes of habit and life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, it is still a state of thought, in contrast to Illumined Mind, which is a state of vision and spiritual insight.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199145_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199145-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Illumined</b> Mind is the mind of sight and vision. It transforms the Higher Mind by providing it a direct vision.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Intuition</b> provides the illumination of thought and vision to the Higher Mind and the Illumined Mind.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mundane mind may experience intuition too, but in the higher realms of mind it becomes more frequent and stable.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Overmind</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_Consciousness" title="Cosmic Consciousness">Cosmic Consciousness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199149_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199149-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the plane of <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">Gods</a>. Overmental plane is the highest consciousness one can achieve without transcending the mental system. Beyond overmind are the planes of <a href="/wiki/Supermind_(Integral_thought)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supermind (Integral thought)">Supermind</a> or unity-consciousness.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Supermind">Supermind</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Supermind"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Supermind_(Integral_yoga)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supermind (Integral yoga)">Supermind (Integral yoga)</a></div> <p>Supermind is the infinite unitary Truth Consciousness or Truth-Idea beyond the three lower <a href="/wiki/Plane_(cosmology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Plane (cosmology)">planes</a> of <a href="/wiki/Matter" title="Matter">Matter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">Mind</a>. Supermind is the dynamic form of <a href="/wiki/Satchitananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Satchitananda">Sachchidananda</a> (Being-Consciousness-Bliss), and the necessary mediator or link between the transcendent Sacchidananda and the creation.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Limitations_of_the_present_being">Limitations of the present being</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Limitations of the present being"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humans are stuck between matter and Spirit,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996210_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996210-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> due to the habits of personality and partial awareness, which arise from Ignorance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personality">Personality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Personality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humans are accustomed to respond to certain vibrations more than other. These customs develop into one's desire, pain, feelings, which are all a set of habits. This crystallised set of habits becomes one's personality. This is normally believed to be "self". The appearance of stable personality is given by constant repetition and recurrence of the same vibrations and formations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996210_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996210-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Three_basic_difficulties_for_mankind">Three basic difficulties for mankind</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Three basic difficulties for mankind"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Aurobindo, humans face three basic problems: </p> <ol><li><b>Partial <a href="/wiki/Self-awareness" title="Self-awareness">Self-awareness</a></b>: humans are only aware of a small part about themselves. They are aware of the surface of mentality, physical being, and life, and not of the larger and more potent <a href="/wiki/Subconscious_mind" class="mw-redirect" title="Subconscious mind">subconscious mind</a> and hidden life impulses.</li> <li><b>Partial <a href="/wiki/Awareness" title="Awareness">awareness</a> of other <a href="/wiki/Beings" class="mw-redirect" title="Beings">beings</a></b>: humans create a rough mental construction of their fellow beings. Their understanding is created by a mental knowledge, which is imperfect, and subjected to denial and frustration. This partial awareness can be overcome by a conscious unity. This unity can only be achieved from Supermind.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939227_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939227-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>A division between Force and consciousness in evolution</b>: matter, life and mind are often warring with each other. Materialists try to resolve this war by submitting oneself to the mortality of our being, while ascetics have tried to reject earthly life. A true solution may lie in finding the principle beyond mind, thereby overcoming the mortality of our existence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939228_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939228-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ignorance">Ignorance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Ignorance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The fundamental cause of falsehood, error and evil is Ignorance. Ignorance is a self-limiting knowledge, which arises with exclusive concentration in a single field. According to Aurobindo, human notion of good, bad & evil are uncertain and relative.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939622_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939622-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Practices">Practices</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Practices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike other <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">Yoga</a> practices <i>Integral yoga</i> does not propose any kind of physical asanas, breathing techniques or external movements. It is more <a href="/wiki/Psychological" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological">psychological</a> in nature, with internal reflection and self analysis & correction as main tools of development. </p><p>The main practices or approaches are divided into<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19962–30_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19962–30-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The yoga of divine work (yoga through one's work)</li> <li>The yoga of Integral Knowledge (Yoga through analysis, observation and knowledge)</li> <li>The Yoga of Divine love (Commonly referred to as <a href="/wiki/Bhakti_yoga" title="Bhakti yoga">Bhakti yoga</a> or <a href="/wiki/Love_of_God" title="Love of God">love of god</a>)</li> <li>The Yoga of Self-Perfection (referred to as a Synthetic yoga or the triple way)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996611_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996611-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Yoga_of_Self-Perfection">The Yoga of Self-Perfection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: The Yoga of Self-Perfection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Triple_Transformation">The Triple Transformation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: The Triple Transformation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The limitations of the present being can be overcome by the Triple transformation, the process in which the lower nature is transformed into the divine nature. It consists of the inward psychicisation by which the <a href="/wiki/Sadhaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadhaka">sadhak</a> gets in contact with the inner divine principle or Psychic Being; the spiritual transformation or spiritualisation; and the Supramentalisation of the entire being.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Psychicisation">Psychicisation</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Psychicisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Psychicisation is a turn <a href="/wiki/Inner_being" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner being">inward</a>, so that one realises the <a href="/wiki/Psychic_being" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychic being">psychic being</a>, the psychic personality or Divine <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a>, in the core of one's being. The Divine Soul serves as a spiritual Guide in the yoga, and enables one to transform the <a href="/wiki/Outer_being" class="mw-redirect" title="Outer being">outer being</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It may also help avoid the dangers of the spiritual path. There is an <a href="/wiki/Intermediate_zone" title="Intermediate zone">intermediate zone</a>, a dangerous and misleading transitional <a href="/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">spiritual</a> and pseudospiritual region between the ordinary consciousness and true spiritual realisation.<sup id="cite_ref-intyoga.online.fr_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intyoga.online.fr-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Psychisiation consists of three methods. In "consecration" one opens oneself to the Force before engaging in an activity. "Moving to the Depths" (or "concentration") is a movement away from the surface existence to a deeper existence within. "Surrender" means offering all one's work, one's life to the Divine Force and Intent.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Guided by the evolving divine soul within, the sadhak moves away from ego, ignorance, finiteness, and the limitations of the <a href="/wiki/Outer_being" class="mw-redirect" title="Outer being">outer being</a>. It is thanks to this guidance by the Divine Soul that the <a href="/wiki/Sadhaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadhaka">sadhak</a> can avoid the pitfalls of the spiritual path. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Spiritualisation">Spiritualisation</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Spiritualisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a result of the Psychicisation, light, peace, and power descend into the body, transforming all of its parts, physical, vital, and mental. This is the Spiritual transformation, or Spiritualisation, the concretisation of the larger spiritual consciousness.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Intermediate_zone">Intermediate zone</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Intermediate zone"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Intermediate_zone" title="Intermediate zone">Intermediate zone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_bypass" title="Spiritual bypass">Spiritual bypass</a></div> <p>Aurobindo asserted that spiritual aspirants may pass through an intermediate zone where experiences of force, inspiration, illumination, light, joy, expansion, power, and freedom from normal limits are possible. These can become associated with personal aspirations, ambitions, notions of spiritual fulfilment and yogic siddhi, and even be falsely interpreted as full spiritual realisation. One can pass through this zone, and the associated spiritual dangers, without harm by perceiving its real nature, and seeing through the misleading experiences. Those who go astray in it may end in a spiritual disaster, or may remain stuck there and adopt some half-truth as the whole truth, or become an instrument of lesser powers of these transitional planes. According to Aurobindo, this happens to many sadhaks and yogis.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Supramentalisation">Supramentalisation</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Supramentalisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Supramentalisation is the realisation of the <a href="/wiki/Supermind_(Integral_thought)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supermind (Integral thought)">Supermind</a>, or Supramental consciousness, and the resulting transformation of the entire being. Psychicisation and spiritualisation serve as necessary prerequisites for the Supramentalisation of the entire being.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The supramental transformation is the final stage in the integral yoga, enabling the birth of a new individual, fully formed by the supramental power. Such individuals would be the forerunners of a new supra-humanity, grounded in truth-consciousness. All aspects of division and ignorance of consciousness, at the vital and mental levels, would be overcome, and replaced with a unity of consciousness at every plane. And even the physical body transformed and divinised. A new supramental species would then emerge, living a supramental, <a href="/wiki/Gnostic_being" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnostic being">gnostic, divine life</a> on earth.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aurobindo describes several results and different stages depicting the stages of development in integral yoga, called together the <i>sapta chatushtaya</i>, "seven quadrates."<sup id="cite_ref-SC_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SC-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It consists of:.<sup id="cite_ref-SC_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SC-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Shanti (peace, calm), which consists of <a href="/wiki/Samatha" class="mw-redirect" title="Samatha">samatha</a> (calming of the mind), <a href="/wiki/Inner_peace" title="Inner peace">shanti</a> (peace), <a href="/wiki/Sukha" title="Sukha">sukha</a> (happiness), and hasya (Atmaprasada, contentment of the Atman);</li> <li>Shakti (power), which consists of <a href="/wiki/Shakti" title="Shakti">shakti</a> (the power of the primordial energy), <a href="/wiki/Virya" class="mw-redirect" title="Virya">virya</a> (energy, effort), <a href="/wiki/Devi" title="Devi">daivi</a> <a href="/wiki/Prakriti" class="mw-redirect" title="Prakriti">prakriti</a> (Divine Nature, primal force), and <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Araddh%C4%81" class="mw-redirect" title="Śraddhā">sraddha</a> (faith);</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijnana" class="mw-redirect" title="Vijnana">vijnana</a> (knowledge), which consists of <a href="/wiki/Jnanam" class="mw-redirect" title="Jnanam">jnanam</a> (knowledge), trikaladrsti (knowledge of past, present and future), <a href="/wiki/Ashtasiddhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashtasiddhi">ashtasiddhi</a> (eight powers), and <a href="/wiki/Samadhi" title="Samadhi">samadhi</a> (absorption);</li> <li>Sharira (body), which consists of arogyam (health), <a href="/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation" title="Transcendental Meditation">utthapana</a> (levitation, being free from gravity and physical powers), saundaryam (beauty), <a href="/wiki/%C4%80nanda_(Hindu_philosophy)" title="Ānanda (Hindu philosophy)">vividhananda</a> (bliss);</li> <li>Karma (divine work), which consists of <a href="/wiki/Krishna" title="Krishna">Krishna</a> (avatar of Vishnu), <a href="/wiki/Kali" title="Kali">Kali</a> (the Goddess), <a href="/wiki/Kama" title="Kama">kama</a> (divine delight), and <a href="/wiki/Karma_yoga" title="Karma yoga">Karma</a> (divine action;</li> <li>Brahma, the realization of <a href="/wiki/Brahman" title="Brahman">Brahman</a>;</li> <li>Siddhi (realization), which consists of <a href="/wiki/Shuddhi_(Hinduism)" title="Shuddhi (Hinduism)">shuddhi</a> (purification), <a href="/wiki/Moksha" title="Moksha">mukti</a> (liberation), bhukti (enjoyment), and <a href="/wiki/Siddhi" title="Siddhi">siddhi</a> (realisation of yogic powers).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence">Influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Aurobindo had a strong influence on <a href="/wiki/Ken_Wilber" title="Ken Wilber">Ken Wilber</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Integral_theory_(Ken_Wilber)" class="mw-redirect" title="Integral theory (Ken Wilber)">integral theory</a> of <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_evolution" title="Spiritual evolution">spiritual development</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilber's Causal and Ultimate stages closely resemble Aurobindo's higher mental stages, but Wilber lumps together levels of Being, types of Being and developmental stages. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Vedanta" title="Neo-Vedanta">Neo-Vedanta</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to <a href="/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa" title="Mirra Alfassa">The Mother</a>, the term "Psychic" or Psychic Being is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Occultism" class="mw-redirect" title="Occultism">occult</a> <a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">kabbalistic</a> teachings of <a href="/wiki/Max_Theon" class="mw-redirect" title="Max Theon">Max Théon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Life_Divine'_p._227_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Life_Divine'_p._227-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sri Aurobindo distinguishes between the Psychic Being as being defined in his Integral Yoga, and the ordinary meaning of "psychic," which refers more to <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychological</a> phenomena, or to <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">paranormal</a> phenomena, which are connected with the subtle physical layers.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Life_Divine'_p._227_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Life_Divine'_p._227-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Amal_Kiran" class="mw-redirect" title="Amal Kiran">Amal Kiran</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Pani, the inconscient is the same as the western psycho-analytic unconscious mind, while the subconsciousness is another layer of consciousness.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007207_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007207-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Physical can be subdivided into finer sub-grades: <ul><li>the <i>Physical Proper</i> or pure body consciousness, which represents the consciousness of the external physical body itself.</li> <li>the <i>Vital Physical</i> or <i>Nervous Being</i> (which seems to be equivalent to the <a href="/wiki/Etheric_body" title="Etheric body">Etheric body</a> of western <a href="/wiki/Western_esotericism" title="Western esotericism">esotericism</a>, and hence pertains to one of the <a href="/wiki/Subtle_body" title="Subtle body">subtle bodies</a>)</li> <li>the <i>Mental Physical</i> (similar to the Physical Mind - see "<a href="/wiki/Mental_(Sri_Aurobindo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mental (Sri Aurobindo)">Mental</a>")</li> <li>the <i>True physical being</i> - is the <a href="/wiki/Purusha" title="Purusha">Purusha</a> of the physical level, which is like the Inner Physical larger than the surface body consciousness and in touch with the a larger spiritual consciousness.</li> <li>the <i>Inner physical</i> - the physical component of the <a href="/wiki/Inner_being" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner being">inner being</a>, which is wider and more plastic than the outer physical body. This is also called the <a href="/wiki/Subtle_physical" class="mw-redirect" title="Subtle physical">subtle physical</a></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aurobindo: "By the gross physical is meant the earthly and bodily physical - as experienced by the outward sense-mind and senses. But that is not the whole of Matter. There is a subtle physical also with a subtler consciousness in it which can, for instance, go to a distance from the body and yet feel and be aware of things in a not merely mental or vital way.<br />...the subtle physical has a freedom, plasticity, intensity, power, colour, wide and manifold play (there are thousands of things there that are not here) of which, as yet, we have no possibility on earth."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A small but popular book by Jyoti and Prem Sobel, <i>The Hierarchy of Minds</i>, comes closest to a systematic coverage of an Aurobindonian noetology by gathering all of Sri Aurobindo's references and quotes on the subject of "Mind" and arranging these according to the type of Mind. These various Minds and Mental principles of being include:<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> <i><b>Physical Mind</b></i> <ul><li><i>The Mechanical Mind</i> is a much lower action of the mental physical which when left to itself can only repeat the same ideas and record the reflexes of the physical consciousness in its contact with outward life and things.</li> <li><i>Mind in the physical or mental physical</i> mentalises the experiences of outward life and things, sometimes very cleverly, but it does not go beyond that, unlike the externalising mind which deals with these things from the perspective of reason and its own higher intelligence.</li> <li><i>Physical Mind</i> - refers to either or both the Externalising Mind and the Mental in the Physical; it is limited to a physical or <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">materialistic</a> perspective, and cannot go beyond that, unless enlightened from above.</li> <li><i>Mind of Light</i> - according to <a href="/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa" title="Mirra Alfassa">The Mother</a> this is the Physical Mind receiving the <a href="/wiki/Supermind_(Integral_yoga)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supermind (Integral yoga)">supramental light</a> and thus being able to act directly in the <a href="/wiki/Physical_(Sri_Aurobindo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Physical (Sri Aurobindo)">Physical</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <i><b>Vital Mind</b></i> <ul><li><i>Vital Mind</i> - a mediator between the vital emotions, desires, and so on the mental proper. It is limited by the vital view and feeling of things, and expresses the desires, feelings, ambitions, and other active tendencies of the vital in mental forms, such as daydreams and imaginations of greatness, happiness, and so on. As with the Externalising Mind, Sri Aurobindo associates it with the Vishuddha or Throat Chakra</li></ul> <i><b>Mind proper</b></i> <ul><li><i>Mind Proper</i> - is free-fold, consisting of Thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind. It constitutes the sum of one's thoughts, opinions, ideas, and values, which guide conscious thinking, conceptualizing and decision-making processes, and is transformed, widened, and spiritualised through the practice of <a href="/wiki/Integral_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Integral Yoga">Integral Yoga</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><i>Thinking Mind</i> - the highest aspect of the mind proper, concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right. It is equated with the <a href="/wiki/Ajna" title="Ajna">Ajna Chakra</a></li> <li><i>Dynamic Mind</i> - that aspect of the ordinary mind that puts out of mental forces for realisation, acting by the idea and by reason. It is also equated with the Ajna or Brow center.</li> <li><i>Externalising Mind</i> - the most "external" part of the mind proper, concerned with the expression of ideas in speech, in life, or in any form it can give. It is equated with the <a href="/wiki/Vishuddha" title="Vishuddha">Vishuddha or Throat Chakra</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <i><b>Higher Mind</b></i> <ul><li><i>Higher Mind</i> - the first and lowest of the spiritual mental grades, lying above the normal mental level.</li> <li><i>Spiritual Mind</i> - either the spiritualised mind, or a general term for levels of mind above the normal mental level (the "Mind Proper").</li> <li><i>Inner mind</i> - the mental component of the Inner Being, which lies behind the surface mind or ordinary consciousness and can only be directly experienced by <a href="/wiki/Sadhana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadhana">sadhana</a></li> <li><i>True mental being</i> - is the <a href="/wiki/Purusha" title="Purusha">Purusha</a> of the mental level freed from the error and ignorance of the lower <a href="/wiki/Prakriti" class="mw-redirect" title="Prakriti">Prakriti</a> and open to the knowledge and guidance above.</li> <li><i>Psychic Mind</i> - a movement of the mind in which the <a href="/wiki/Psychic_Being" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychic Being">Psychic Being</a> predominates; the mind turned towards the Divine</li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Compare Ken Wilber's Centaur or vision-logic; see <a href="/wiki/Integral_theory_(Ken_Wilber)#Levels_or_stages" class="mw-redirect" title="Integral theory (Ken Wilber)">Integral theory (Ken Wilber)#Levels or stages</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A detailed description of the Overmind is provided in Book I ch.28, and Book II ch.26, of Sri Aurobindo's philosophical opus <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="The Life Divine">The Life Divine</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This is described in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="The Life Divine">The Life Divine</a></i> part 2, ch.25, and <i><a href="/wiki/Letters_on_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Letters on Yoga">Letters on Yoga</a></i> part 4, section 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aurobindo received these instructions as a series of mantras while he was imprisoned in Alipore prison. They were copied by Arun to use for study.<sup id="cite_ref-SC-origins_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SC-origins-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEO'Connor2005634-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEO'Connor2005634_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFO'Connor2005">O'Connor 2005</a>, p. 634.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19391107-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19391107_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1939">Aurobindo (1939)</a>, p. 1107.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996282-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996282_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1996">Aurobindo (1996)</a>, p. 282</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i> Bk I, Ch.11-12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939254-255-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939254-255_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939254-255_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1939">Aurobindo (1939)</a>, p. 254-255</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939221-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939221_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1939">Aurobindo (1939)</a>, p. 221</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i> bk II, ch.27-28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGiri201459-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGiri201459_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGiri201459_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGiri201459_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGiri2014">Giri 2014</a>, p. 59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiśra1998414_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMiśra1998">Miśra 1998</a>, p. 414.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVrinte1996140-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVrinte1996140_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVrinte1996">Vrinte 1996</a>, p. 140.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19966-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19966_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1996">Aurobindo (1996)</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199163-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199163_15-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSharma1991">Sharma 1991</a>, p. 63.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002235-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002235_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVrinte2002">Vrinte 2002</a>, p. 235.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo, <i>Letters on Yoga</i>, 3rd ed. 1971, p.307</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Life_Divine'_p._227-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-The_Life_Divine'_p._227_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Life_Divine'_p._227_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i> p. 227 note</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Craig Hamilton <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.auroville.com/vijnana/spiritual/soulpower.htm">The Miraculous Power of the Soul - A meeting with Amal Kiran, Pondicherry</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120611012237/http://www.auroville.com/Vijnana/spiritual/soulpower.htm">Archived</a> 2012-06-11 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i> p. 891</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i> pp. 891–4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Letters_on_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Letters on Yoga">Letters on Yoga</a></i> vol. I under "Planes and Parts of Being" (pp. 265ff in the 3rd ed.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilber1992263-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilber1992263_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilber1992">Wilber 1992</a>, p. 263.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma1991-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma1991_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSharma1991">Sharma 1991</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007132-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007132_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPani2007">Pani 2007</a>, p. 132.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother1961199-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother1961199_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Mother1961">The Mother 1961</a>, p. 199.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007211-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007211_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPani2007">Pani 2007</a>, p. 211.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007297-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007297_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007297_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPani2007">Pani 2007</a>, p. 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199161-63-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161-63_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSharma1991">Sharma 1991</a>, p. 61-63.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESharma199161-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharma199161_32-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSharma1991">Sharma 1991</a>, p. 61.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother196150-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Mother196150_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Mother1961">The Mother 1961</a>, p. 50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESri_Aurobindo1988-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESri_Aurobindo1988_34-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESri_Aurobindo1988_34-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSri_Aurobindo1988">Sri Aurobindo 1988</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPani2007207-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPani2007207_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPani2007">Pani 2007</a>, p. 207.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo199610-11-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo199610-11_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1996">Aurobindo (1996)</a>, p. 10-11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga part 1, section v</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199142-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199142_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChakravorty1991">Chakravorty 1991</a>, p. 42.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199140-41-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199140-41_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChakravorty1991">Chakravorty 1991</a>, p. 40-41.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199141-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199141_43-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChakravorty1991">Chakravorty 1991</a>, p. 41.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199143_44-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChakravorty1991">Chakravorty 1991</a>, p. 43.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jyoti and Prem Sobel 1984 pp. 152–62</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aurobindo, <i><a href="/wiki/Letters_on_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Letters on Yoga">Letters on Yoga</a></i> vol. I pp. 324–5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jyoti and Prem Sobel, <i>The Hierarchy of Minds</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Mother, 1980, pp. 63–64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199145-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199145_51-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199145_51-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChakravorty1991">Chakravorty 1991</a>, p. 45.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147_52-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147_52-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199147_52-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChakravorty1991">Chakravorty 1991</a>, p. 47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199149-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChakravorty199149_53-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChakravorty1991">Chakravorty 1991</a>, p. 49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>Life Divine</i> Book I, ch.14-16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996210-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996210_56-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996210_56-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1996">Aurobindo (1996)</a>, p. 210</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939227-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939227_57-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1939">Aurobindo (1939)</a>, p. 227</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939228-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939228_58-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1939">Aurobindo (1939)</a>, p. 228</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939622-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1939622_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1939">Aurobindo (1939)</a>, p. 622</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19962–30-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo19962–30_60-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1996">Aurobindo (1996)</a>, pp. 2–30.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996611-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAurobindo1996611_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAurobindo1996">Aurobindo (1996)</a>, p. 611.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aurobindo (1977), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="The Life Divine">The Life Divine</a></i> (book II - chapter 25</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-intyoga.online.fr-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-intyoga.online.fr_64-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://intyoga.online.fr/intzone.htm">Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Yoga - The Intermediate Zone</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Synthesis of Yoga</i> Part I ch. II-III</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Letters on Yoga</i> vol. II pp.585ff (3rd ed.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://intyoga.online.fr/intzone.htm">Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Yoga - The Intermediate Zone</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-unfit"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071012141007/http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_009/intermediate.htm">"Grey Lodge Occult Review :: Issue #9 :: The Intermediate Zone"</a>. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-10-06</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Grey+Lodge+Occult+Review+%3A%3A+Issue+%239+%3A%3A+The+Intermediate+Zone&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greylodge.org%2Foccultreview%2Fglor_009%2Fintermediate.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Synthesis of Yoga</i>, pp.281-2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i> book II ch.27-28</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVrinte2002_75-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVrinte2002">Vrinte 2002</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Printed_sources">Printed sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Integral_yoga&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Printed sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Sri Aurobindo</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAurobindo1939" class="citation cs2">Sri Aurobindo (1939), <i>The Life Divine</i>, Sri Aurobindo Ashram press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-7058-844-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-81-7058-844-3"><bdi>978-81-7058-844-3</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Life+Divine&rft.pub=Sri+Aurobindo+Ashram+press&rft.date=1939&rft.isbn=978-81-7058-844-3&rft.au=Sri+Aurobindo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAurobindo1977" class="citation cs2">Sri Aurobindo (1977), <i>The Life Divine</i> (10th ed.), Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Life+Divine&rft.edition=10th&rft.pub=Sri+Aurobindo+Ashram+Trust&rft.date=1977&rft.au=Sri+Aurobindo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAurobindo1996" class="citation cs2">Sri Aurobindo (1996), <i>The Synthesis of Yoga</i>, Lotus light publication, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-941524-65-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-941524-65-5"><bdi>0-941524-65-5</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Synthesis+of+Yoga&rft.pub=Lotus+light+publication&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0-941524-65-5&rft.au=Sri+Aurobindo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSri_Aurobindo1988" class="citation cs2">Sri Aurobindo (1988), "Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient", <i>Letters on yoga. Volume 3, Part Four</i>, Lotus press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8170580099" title="Special:BookSources/8170580099"><bdi>8170580099</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Transformation+of+the+Subconscient+and+the+Inconscient&rft.btitle=Letters+on+yoga.+Volume+3%2C+Part+Four&rft.pub=Lotus+press&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=8170580099&rft.au=Sri+Aurobindo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>The Mother</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThe_Mother1961" class="citation cs2">The Mother (1961), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mother-agenda.narod.ru/Mother.Agenda.Vol-02.doc.zip"><i>Mother's Agenda 1951-1973. Volume II: 1961</i></a>, Paris: Inst for Evolutionary Research, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2902776047" title="Special:BookSources/2902776047"><bdi>2902776047</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mother%27s+Agenda+1951-1973.+Volume+II%3A+1961&rft.place=Paris&rft.pub=Inst+for+Evolutionary+Research&rft.date=1961&rft.isbn=2902776047&rft.au=The+Mother&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmother-agenda.narod.ru%2FMother.Agenda.Vol-02.doc.zip&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThe_Mother1998" class="citation cs2">The Mother (1998), Satprem (ed.), <i>Mothers Agenda 1969</i>, vol. 10, Institut de Recherches Evolutives, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8185137366" title="Special:BookSources/8185137366"><bdi>8185137366</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mothers+Agenda+1969&rft.pub=Institut+de+Recherches+Evolutives&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=8185137366&rft.au=The+Mother&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>The Mother (1980), Words of the Mother, Collected Works of the Mother, Centenary Edition vol.13, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry</li></ul> <dl><dt>Other sources</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChakravorty1991" class="citation cs2">Chakravorty, Satya Jyoti (1991), <i>The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo</i>, Sterling Publishers</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Philosophy+of+Sri+Aurobindo&rft.pub=Sterling+Publishers&rft.date=1991&rft.aulast=Chakravorty&rft.aufirst=Satya+Jyoti&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGiri2014" class="citation cs2">Giri, Ananta Kumar (2014), <i>Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations</i>, Anthem Press</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Knowledge+and+Human+Liberation%3A+Towards+Planetary+Realizations&rft.pub=Anthem+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.aulast=Giri&rft.aufirst=Ananta+Kumar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIntegral+yoga" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcDermott2001" class="citation cs2">McDermott, Robert A. 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