The Synthesis of Yoga - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Ascent of the Sacrifice – 2 185
incapacity of the will of the Inconscient to receive it. These
things, to the Mind an imagination or a mystery, become evident
and capable of experience as the consciousness rises out of
limited embodied Matter-mind to the freedom and fullness of
the higher and higher ranges of the super-intelligence; but they
can become entirely true and normal only when the supramental
becomes the law of the nature.
It is therefore on the accomplishment of this ascent and
on the possibility of a full dynamism from these highest levels
descending into earth-consciousness that is dependent the justification
of Life, its salvation, its transformation into a Divine
Life in a transfigured terrestrial Nature.
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The nature of the integral Yoga so conceived, so conditioned,
progressing by these spiritual means, turning upon this integral
transformation of the nature, determines of itself its answer to
the question of the ordinary activities of life and their place in
the Yoga.
There is not and cannot be here any ascetic or contemplative
or mystic abandonment of works and life altogether, any gospel
of an absorbed meditation and inactivity, any cutting away or
condemnation of the Life-Force and its activities, any rejection
of the manifestation in the earth-nature. It may be necessary for
the seeker at any period to withdraw into himself, to remain
plunged in his inner being, to shut out from him the noise and
turmoil of the life of the Ignorance until a certain inner change
has been accomplished or something achieved without which a
further effective action on life has become difficult or impossible.
But this can only be a period or an episode, a temporary necessity
or a preparatory spiritual manoeuvre; it cannot be the rule of
his Yoga or its principle.
A splitting up of the activities of human existence on a
religious or an ethical basis or both together, a restriction to
the works of worship only or to the works of philanthropy and
beneficence only would be contrary to the spirit of the integral