Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 8665

Traditional Paths of Yoga [3]

In the Sutra bhuvanajñānaṃ sūrye saṃyamāt [Yoga Sutra 3.27], where does the knowledge of the worlds by Samyama come from, and what has Surya to do with it?

Surya is the symbol of the Divine Light, the Divine Truth, ultimately of the Supermind. Samyama is a process of pressure on the consciousness by which the secret Truth, the involved intuition is released – so by a constant pressure on the consciousness by which the Divine Truth is liberated the Knowledge of the worlds can come.

4 June 1933