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Yoga Partial and Complete
Yoga means union and the whole object of Yoga is the union
of the human soul with the supreme Being and of the present
nature of humanity with the eternal, supreme or divine Nature.
The greater the union, the greater the Yoga, the more com- whose combination in the food sheath and the vital vehicle con-
plete the union, the more complete the Yoga. ...
The complete Yoga will be one which accepts God in the world
and oneness with all beings and solidarity with the human kind,
fi lls life and existence with the God-consciousness and not only
raises man the individual but leads man the race towards a total
perfection. to drive the physical engine during the normal span of human life
CWSA 12: 334-35 Sri Aurobindo

world-environment by which it is conditioned. Hathayoga there-
fore seeks to rectify Nature and establish another equilibrium by
which the physical frame will be able to sustain the inrush of an

The ideal
The ideal Yogin is no withdrawn and pent-up force, but
ever engaged in doing good to all creatures, either by the
fl ood of the divine energy that he pours on the world or by
himself standing in the front of humanity, its leader in the
march and the battle, but unbound by his works and supe- the body. Its processes are physical, strenuous, colossal, complex,
rior to his personality.
CWSA 13:10 Sri Aurobindo the body. The number of Asanas in the modern or mixed Hatha-
yoga is limited, but even then they are numerous and painful; in
the ancient or pure Hathayoga, they were innumerable and the

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