Jan. 29, 2003
The weak man's obedience out of weakness is submission to the strong man. It is defeat. When increasing strength seeks to give up its strength in pursuit of totality through love, it becomes humility of simplicity. It is surrender.
Raja
Yoga is the consummation of Jnana Yoga. Jnana Yoga is done by thought that is
one of the several faculties of the Mind. The whole mind seeking yoga is Raja
Yoga. The yoga of the Gita excels Raja Yoga. It seeks moksha. Its instrument is
surrender. The Gita's surrender is to give up the dharmas the mind has
accepted.
Tantra
yoga has reached the pinnacle of yogas. It is a synthesis of all yogas. In the
grades of yogas, Tantra precedes Integral yoga. Manomaya Purusha, Pranamaya
Purusha, Annamaya Purusha are the parts of Jivatma appropriate to mind, vital
and body. All these are unevolving souls. The Psychic Being is the evolving
soul. It is there in all parts of our being. The Psychic emerges only after Mind
evolves. He grows in two directions. Upwards he grows to be Ishwara. Downwards
he grows to be the physical psychic.
Tantra
takes man to be a soul in the body. It is Annamaya Purusha. Asanas are of the
body, pranayama is of the vital, japa is of the mind. It opens the Kundalini
and reaches moksha via sahasradala. As mind is now available, the mental
psychic can emerge. We need not start the yoga in the body. We can start at
Mind. As our ideal is not moksha, we can seek the mental psychic. He grows in both
the directions. Growing upwards, he opens sahasradala which is the end point of
Tantra. Through that, the Supramental Force reaches down to kundalini and
transforms the being. This is integral yoga. Its instrument is surrender. The
Jiva reaches its greatest strength to attain moksha. It surrenders that
strength in favour of Supramental transformation.
As
mind, vital, body, and spirit are parts, Sat, Chit, Ananda are also parts. Only
Brahman is the whole. It is moveless and immutable. Movement will rob it of its
wholeness or destroy it. The moveless Brahman which lost its wholeness in
movement regaining it in movement is the richer, higher, truer fullness of the
Brahman. The calm in the absence of problem is lost in problem. To regain
it while in the problem enriches the calm and makes it fuller.
v To know the whole of Brahman
is Brahma Jnanam.
v To consecrate it is the
consecration to the Brahman.
v Brahma Jnanam gives Brahma Jananam
through consecration to Brahman.
v The moveless wholeness of
Brahman securing its richer fullness in movement through surrender in creation
yields the Delight Brahman seeks.
The pride and arrogance of
Mind changing into Divine compassion through the Psychic being is
transformation. The conditions for it are Truth, Satyam; the instrument is
surrender. Mother says it is mean to ask others to do what we cannot. To give
others by our own efforts what is beyond their capacity is generosity.
Surrender changes meanness into generosity.
God disregarding his strength, following the weak man's attention is strength at its peak changing into God's compassionate love. Yoga calls it surrender.
The moveless Brahman immersed
in Ignorance desiring to remind itself of what it has forgotten and emerging
out of Ignorance, disregards its strength. It becomes humble. Through humility
it tries to restore the knowledge hidden in Ignorance. It seeks the tool of
surrender. Thus, the knowledge hidden in Ignorance seeks the Brahman who is
lost in Matter. Integral yoga fulfills itself through surrender.