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This book is meant to bear out Sri Aurobindo's oft-quoted statement, "Yoga is nothing but practical psychology". Generally, yoga is viewed as made up of certain set practices and certain rules and norms pertaining to one's outer life. In contrast to this view, Our Many Selves, compiled from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, presents Yoga as consisting essentially in inner psychological work aimed at the transformation of consciousness.
In the minds of many seekers, spirituality (or yoga in its general sense) is often confused with morality, idealism and religion. It is the aim of this book to clarify the meaning of spirtuality by distinguishing it from the other three high pursuits of life just mentioned.
As religion is particularly apt to be confused with spirituality, the third section of the book highlights the difference between the exoteric aspect of religion - that is, religion as it is ...
From the viewpoint of the yogic psychology of dreams presented in this book, one chief limitation of our present-day understanding of the nature of dreams lies in its lack of the distinction which yogic psychology makes between dreams and dream-experiences. Dreams, which constitute most of what we ordinarily bring back form sleep to our waking recollection, are products of what Sri Aurobindo calls the subconscient - that part of our constitution which lies ...