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Sri Aurobindo on His Ashram

Call for the Yoga
You have apparently a call and may be fit for Yoga; but there
are different paths and each has a different aim and end before
it. It is common to all the paths to conquer the desires, to put
aside the ordinary relations of life, and to try to pass from un-
certainty to everlasting certitude. One may also try to conquer
dream and sleep, thirst and hunger etc. But it is no part of Sri
Aurobindo's Yoga to have nothing to do with the world or with
life or to kill the senses or entirely inhibit their action. It is the
object of his Yoga to transform life by bringing down into it the
Light, Power and Bliss of the divine Truth and its dynamic cer-
titudes. This Yoga is not a Yoga of world-shunning asceticism,
but of divine Life. Your object on the other hand can only be
gained by entering into Samadhi and ceasing in it from all con-
nection with world existence. You cannot get help in this path
from Sri Aurobindo; you must go to someone else in order to
find a Guru.
CWSA 35: 541-42

No one is initiated in this Yoga in any formal way. Those are
accepted by the Mother who are found to be called or chosen
from within for this path or for Sri Aurobindo's work. That ac-
ceptance is sufficient. Those are considered as called or chosen
who can open and be receptive to the Power that goes from her
here and can feel its working. If by doing what he is doing now,
he can in time thus open and receive and feel the Power that
will be a sign that he is meant for this way of Yoga. Nothing else
is needed; prayer and aspiration are sufficient, if there is sincer-
ity and a true call within.

CWSA 35: 542

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