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    All Life Is Yoga: Sri Krishna
    All Life Is Yoga: Sri Krishna
    All Life Is Yoga: Sri Krishna
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    All Life Is Yoga: Sri Krishna

    By Sri Aurobindo and The (d.i. Mira Alfassa) Mother

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    Krishna is the immanent Divine, the Divine Presence in everyone and in all things. He is also, sovereignly, the aspect of Delight and Love of the Supreme; he is the smiling tenderness and the playful gaiety; he is at once the player, the play and all his playmates. And as both the game and its results are wholly known, conceived, willed, organised and played consciously in their entirety, there can be room for nothing but the delight of the play. Thus to see Krishna means to find the inner Godhead, to play with Krishna means to be identified with the inner Godhead and to share in his consciousness. – The Mother
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSri Aurobindo Digital Edition
    Release dateJun 7, 2019
    ISBN9783963870330
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      All Life Is Yoga - Sri Aurobindo

      Part One

      Krishna – the Eternal Godhead

      Krishna represents both the universal Godhead and the immanent Godhead, he whom one can meet within one’s being and in all that constitutes the manifested world. – The Mother

      Chapter I

      The Crowning Realisation of this Yoga

      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      ...the crowning realisation of this yoga is when you become aware of the whole world as the expression, play or Lila of an infinite divine personality, when you see in all, not the impersonal Sad Atman which is the basis of manifest existence, – although you do not lose that knowledge, – but Sri Krishna who at once is, bases and transcends all manifest and unmanifest existence, avyakto ’vyaktat parah. For behind the Sad Atman is the silence of the Asat which the Buddhist Nihilists realised as the sunyam and beyond that silence is the Paratpara Purusha (puruso varenya adityavarnas tamasah parastat). It is he who has made this world out of his being and is immanent in and sustains it as the infinite-finite Ishwara, ananta and santa, Shiva and Narayana, Sri Krishna the Lilamaya who draws all of us to him by his love, compels all of us by his masteries and plays his eternal play of joy and strength and beauty in the manifold world.

      The world is only a play of his being, knowledge and delight, sat, cit and ananda. Matter itself, you will one day realise, is not material, it is not substance but form of consciousness, guna, the result of quality of being perceived by sense-knowledge. Solidity itself is only a combination of the gunas, samhati and dhrti, cohesion and permanence, a state of conscious being, nothing else. Matter, life, mind and what is beyond mind, it is all Sri Krishna the Ananta-guna Brahman playing in the world as the Sachchidananda. When we have this realisation, when we dwell in it securely and permanently, all possibilities of grief and sin, fear, delusion, internal strife and pain are driven puissantly from our being.

      * * *

      Chapter II

      The Divine Child Krishna

      Words of the Mother

      Krishna represents both the universal Godhead and the immanent Godhead, he whom one can meet within one’s being and in all that constitutes the manifested world.

      And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression. To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected – what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding to it and enjoying it with the Divine.

      * * *

      Chapter III

      Sri Krishna Dwells in All

      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      It is not only in things animate but in things inanimate also that we must see Narayana, experience Shiva, throw our arms around Shakti. When our eyes, that are now blinded by the idea of Matter, open to the supreme Light, we shall find that nothing is inanimate, but all contains, expressed or unexpressed, involved or evolved, secret or manifest or in course of manifestation, not only that state of involved consciousness which we call annam or Matter, but also life, mind, knowledge, bliss, divine force and being, – prana, manas, vijnana, ananda, cit, sat. In all things the self-conscious personality of God broods and takes the delight of his gunas. Flowers, fruits, earth, trees, metals, all things have a joy in them of which you will become aware, because in all Sri Krishna dwells, pravisya, having entered into them, not materially or physically, – because there is no such thing, Space and Time being only conventions and arrangements of perception, the perspective in God’s creative Art, – but by cit, the divine awareness in his transcendent being. All this world and every object in this world of Prakriti has been created as a habitation for the Lord.

      * * *

      Chapter IV

      Sri Krishna’s World-Lila

      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      God is one but he is not bounded by his unity. We see him here as one who is always manifesting as many, not because he cannot help it, but because he so wills, and outside manifestation he is anirdesyam, indefinable, and cannot be described as either one or many. That is what the Upanishads and other sacred books consistently teach; he is ekamevadvitiyam, One and there is no other, but also and consequently he is this man, yonder woman, that blue-winged bird, this scarlet-eyed. He is santa, he is ananta; the Jiva is he. "I am the asvattha tree, says Sri Krishna in the Gita, I am death, I am Agni Vaishwanara, I am the heat that digests food, I am Vyasa, I am Vasudeva, I am Arjuna." All that is the play of his caitanya in his infinite being, his manifestations, and therefore all are real. Maya means nothing more than the freedom of Brahman from the circumstances through which he expresses himself. He is in no way limited by that which we see or think about him. That is the Maya from which we must escape, the Maya of ignorance which takes things as separately existent and not God, not caitanya, the illimitable for the really limited, the free for the

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