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ignorant nature. In this Yoga a complete transformation of the
nature is aimed at because that is necessary for the complete
union and the complete liberation not only of the soul and the
spirit but of the nature itself. It is also a Yoga of works and of
the integral divine life; for that the integral transformation of
nature is evidently necessary; the union with the Divine has to
carry with it a full entrance into the divine consciousness and
the divine nature; there must be not only s1yujya or s1lokya but
s1d40ya or, as it is called in the Gita, s1dharmya. The full Yoga,
Purna Yoga, means a fourfold path, a Yoga of knowledge for the
mind, a Yoga of bhakti for the heart, a Yoga of works for the will
and a Yoga of perfection for the whole nature. But, ordinarily,
if one can follow wholeheartedly any one of these lines, one ar-
rives at the result of all the four. For instance, by bhakti one be-
comes close to the Divine, becomes intensely aware of Him and
arrives at knowledge, for the Divine is the Truth and the Reality;
by knowing Him, says the Upanishads, one comes to know all.
By bhakti also the will is led into the road of the works of love
and the service of the Divine and the government of the nature
and its acts by the Divine, and that is Karmayoga. By bhakti also
comes spiritual change of the consciousness and the action of
the nature which is the first step towards its transformation. So
it is with all the other lines of the fourfold path.

The Divine working
But it may be that there are many obstacles in the being to
the domination of the mind and heart and will by bhakti and
the consequent contact with the Divine. The too great activity
of the intellectual mind and its attachment to its own pride of
ideas, its prejudices, its fixed notions and its ignorant reason
may shut the doors to the inner light and prevent the full tide of
bhakti from flooding everything; it may also cling to a surface

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