Cosmic Harmony and Yoga

For any sadhak to progress on the path of Integral Yoga it is advisable not to allow outward events to disturb or allow them to be the cause of unpleasantness. Any external chaotic intrusion unnecessarily disrupts the vital, the mental and the consciousness.

"Live in the inner consciousness which can remain in its own calm and light whatever happens outside."1

According to Sri Aurobindo just as there is musical harmony which arises out of discordant notes, so is this Universe (the physical material world) full of disharmony in its separate elements, individual parts. Sri Aurobindo explains:

"…the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent,—it is only owing to a sustaining divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who look at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution, in progress—that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not yet reached, and the object of our Yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal."2 

Logically therefore the first word of the supramental Yoga is surrender; its last word also is surrender.3

Continuing with the music metaphor Sri Aurobindo says: 

"There is a rhythm in everything unheard by the physical ear and by that rhythm things exist."4 

Clearly the aim of human evolution, symbolized by the sustained advanced practice of Integral Yoga, is a complex multi-layered Harmony powered by a Divine Will.

The flow of poetic metaphors make it eloquently clear that 

"It is the darkest nights that prepare the greatest dawns — and it is so because it is into the deep inconscience of material life that we have to bring, not an intermediate glimmer, but the full glory of the divine Light.”5

- Mira Ramchand Daryanani (India)

1 Sri Aurobindo, CWSA 30
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid. CWSA 12
4 Ibid. CWSA 30
5 Ibid. CWSA 28

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