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The Synthesis of Yoga

- Sri Aurobindo

" All Life is Yoga."

 

 

The Synthesis of Yoga first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya between August 1914 and January 1921.

It should be noted that The Synthesis of Yoga as a whole was never completed and that only the first part , The Yoga of Divine Works , was issued during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime in a thoroughly revised form. Therefore We are giving here all the chapters of The yoga of Divine Works from edition 1971.

The synthesis of Yoga

Part I

A Note

The Synthesis of Yoga first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya between August 1914 and January 1921. Each instalment was written immediately before its publication. The work was left incomplete when the Arya was discontinued. Sri Aurobindo never attempted to complete the Synthesis; he did, however, lightly revise the Introduction, thoroughly revise all of Part I, “The Yoga of Divine Works”, and significantly revise several chapters of Part II, “The Yoga of Integral Knowledge”. More than thirty years elapsed between the first appearance of the Synthesis in the Arya and the final stages of its incomplete revision. As a result, there are some differences of terminology between the revised and unrevised portions of the book.

In 1948 the chapters making up “The Yoga of Divine Works” were published as a book by the Sri Aurobindo Library, Madras. No other part of The Synthesis of Yoga appeared in book-form during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime. In 1955 an edition comprising the Introduction and four Parts was brought out by the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre.