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Yoga takes place in two modes, consciously or unconsciously.
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
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"What is needed is the dual action of certain powers below and above."
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Coming back to the three main elements or consenting parties as Sri Aurobindo puts it.
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In the Srimad Bhagavad Gita Sri Krishna explains to Arjuna that he gave the ancient Yoga first to Vivaswan, the Sun-God.
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Over a hundred years back at the turn of the previous century, Sri Aurobindo wrote in a prophetic vein about the important place that yoga was going to take.
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... we look at it as part of a grand Divine plan whose original purpose is not reward and punishment but to objectify Himself through the Creation.
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... the human mind is unable to rise to the vastness of the Divine and hence is quick to reduce the Lord into small and narrow formulas.
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One question which often arises in the mind of those exposed to traditional yogic practices, is that since the first step is finding the Divine why not find Him by any means and later return to the integral yoga.