The ACTUAL and REAL course of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga
'... all you need to do is to observe the ACTUAL and REAL course Sri Aurobindo’s yoga and work have taken.... You see, if you ignore this, then the stagnation in the Ashram and the chaos in Auroville and the split between those two bodies of their work would not make sense at all. But when you do see those ‘disasters’ on the background of this larger vision and fuller knowledge, then it is perfectly clear and ‘all is as it should be'. - Thea (1989)
'The Infinite and the Detail' as reproduced [on Circumsolatious] is one of many 'Letters from Skambha' written by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) to various students of her work which are chronicled in The Vishaal Newsletter. In this particular letter (published in TVN Volume 4, Issue 1, April 1989) Thea addressed a student whose description and understanding of the Integral Yoga seemed to 'take a very linear direction. And that is summed up as an ascent up and out and beyond.' She wrote:
'I do not perceive any roundness, which is the key to an INTEGRAL work on oneself. Pursuing the direction you describe does not guarantee an integration and harmonisation of the consciousness-being. This can only come about when in your consciousness you create that cosmos, when you establish that Point which is the new base of life that Sri Aurobindo described. For that an entirely new dimension of the psychic realisation has to come into being. And that is the focus of my work.'
This letter is a continuation and a 'deepening of the plot' of the Being and Becoming discussion. Perhaps more accurately it is a deepening of the EVOLUTIONARY plot, because any fruitful or non-theoretical discussion of the Supramental Yoga in the end needs to come down to the question of HOW exactly human consciousness and human civilization is to make the evolutionary shift from a mental, linear, egoic poise and perspective, to a supramental, spherical-circular, soul-full poise and perspective. Thea has answered this question with impressive yogic force; however the evolutionary story she writes/speaks of - the real and phenomenal shifts taking place under all of our collective noses - has been a bit too grand or vast for many to be able to wrap their linear minds around, and more than a few do not want to wrap their minds around it at all because it feels like something foreign, external or threatening to what they are or what they know. Maybe this is the decade that the linear mind will bend or curve enough to actually contemplate the Gnosis Thea has presented concerning our individual and collective evolutionary process/progress, and concerning the Eternal Way of Being and Becoming.
Click HERE to go read 'The Infinite and the Detail' (On Circumsolatious it is below the Introduction as seen above).
