The Yoga of Self-Perfection: Based on Sri Aurobindo’s Synthesis of Yoga

The Yoga of Self-Perfection represents a unique contribution of Sri Aurobindo to the science of yoga, which has generally in the past set its goal as the dissolution of the powers of life and personality into the Transcendent. Whereas the traditional paths of works, knowledge and love all rely on a predominant part of the personality to lead the seeker to the realization of the Divine Consciousness, the Yoga of Self-Perfection takes up each aspect of the human personality and brings each to its fulfillment, while integrating their action into an harmonious whole. The book deals with the principle of the integral Yoga, the integral perfection, psychology of self-perfection, the perfection of the mental being, the instruments of the spirit, purification of the lower mentality, purification of intelligence and will, liberation of the spirit, liberation of nature, elements of perfection, perfection of equality, way of equality, action of equality, power of the instruments, soul-force and fourfold personality, the divine Shakti, action of the divine Shakti, faith and Shakti, nature of the supermind, and intuitive mind, gradation of the supermind, supramental thought and knowledge etc. Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga therefore represents an integration of the "Other Wordly" aims of the Indian yogas with the stress on perfection in the material world as taught in the West.