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TOWARDS THE SIDDHI

The fundamental principle
... First, about your yoga. You want to give me the charge of
your yoga, and I am willing to accept it. But this means giving it to
Him who, openly or secretly, is moving me and you by His divine
power. And you should know that the inevitable result of this will
be that you will have to follow the path of yoga which He has given
me, the path I call the Integral Yoga. This is not exactly what we
did in Alipur jail, or what you did during your imprisonment in the
Andamans. What I started with, what Lele gave me, what I did in
jail — all that was a searching for the path, a circling around looking
here and there, touching, taking up, handling, testing this and that
of all the old partial yogas, getting a more or less complete experi-
ence of one and then going off in pursuit of another. Afterwards,
when I came to Pondicherry, this unsteady condition ceased. The
indwelling Guru of the world indicated my path to me completely,
its full theory, the ten limbs of the body of the yoga. These ten
years he has been making me develop it in experience; it is not yet
finished. It may take another two years. ...
Later I will write to you what my path of yoga is. Or, if you
come here, I will tell you. In these matters the spoken word is bet-
ter than the written. For the present I can only say that its funda-
mental principle is to make a synthesis and unity of integral knowl-
edge, integral works and integral devotion, and, raising this above
the mental level to the supramental level of the Vijnana, to give it a
complete perfection. The defect of the old yoga was that, knowing
the mind and reason and knowing the Spirit, it remained satisfied
with spiritual experience in the mind. But the mind can grasp only
the fragmentary; it cannot completely seize the infinite, the undi-
vided. The mind's way to seize it is through the trance of samadhi,
the liberation of moksha, the extinction of nirvana, and so forth. It
has no other way. Someone here or there may indeed obtain this
featureless liberation, but what is the gain? The Spirit, the Self, the

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