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    All Life Is Yoga: Life and Yoga: The Great Secret
    All Life Is Yoga: Life and Yoga: The Great Secret
    All Life Is Yoga: Life and Yoga: The Great Secret
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    All Life Is Yoga: Life and Yoga: The Great Secret

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

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    Yoga, says the Gita, is skill in works and by this phrase the ancient Scripture meant that the transformation of mind and being to which it gave the name of Yoga brought with it a perfect inner state and faculty out of which the right principle of action and the right spiritual and divine result of works emerged naturally like a tree out of its seed. – Sri Aurobindo
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSri Aurobindo Digital Edition
    Release dateJun 25, 2022
    ISBN9783963870996
    All Life Is Yoga: Life and Yoga: The Great Secret

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      All Life Is Yoga - Sri Aurobindo

      I.

      THE GREAT SECRET

      THE MOTHER

      Introduction

      Six Monologues and a Conclusion by The Mother

      In collaboration with Nolini (The Writer), Pavitra (The Scientist), André (The Industrialist), Pranab (The Athlete)

      Six of the world’s most famous men have been brought together, apparently by chance, in a life-boat in which they have taken refuge when the ship that was carrying them to a world conference on human progress sank in mid-ocean.

      There is also a seventh man in the boat. He looks young or, rather, ageless. He is dressed in a style belonging to no period or country. He sits at the helm, immobile and silent, but listens attentively to what the others are saying. They treat him as a nobody and take no notice of him.

      The persons are:

      The Statesman

      The Writer

      The Scientist

      The Artist

      The Industrialist

      The Athlete

      The Unknown Man

      Water is running out, provisions have come to an end. Their physical suffering is becoming intolerable. No hope on the horizon: death is approaching. To take their minds off their present miseries, each one of them in turn tells the story of his life.

      The curtain rises.

      * * *

      Chapter 1

      The Statesman

      Since you ask me, I will be the first to tell you what my life has been.

      Son of a politician, I was familiar from childhood with government affairs and political issues. All that was freely discussed at the dinners which my parents gave for their friends and which I used to attend from the age of twelve onwards. The opinions of the various political parties were no mystery to me and my enthusiastic young mind would find a simple solution to every difficulty.

      Naturally, my studies ran along these lines and I became a brilliant student of Political Science.

      Later, when the time came to pass from theory to practice, I had to face the first serious difficulties and I began to understand how virtually impossible it is to put one’s ideas into practice. I had to resort to compromises and my great ideal gradually crumbled away.

      I also noticed that success does not really correspond to a person’s worth, but rather to his capacity to adapt himself to circumstances and to make himself agreeable. For that, one must flatter people’s weaknesses rather than attempt to correct their imperfections.

      No doubt, all of you know about my brilliant career, so I shall not dwell upon it. But I should like to tell you that as soon as I became Prime Minister and my position gave me some real power, I remembered the humanitarian ambitions of my youth and tried to be guided by them. I tried not to be a party man. I wanted to find a solution to the great conflict between the various political and social trends that are tearing the world apart and all of which, nevertheless, in my opinion, have their advantages and disadvantages. None of them is perfectly good or wholly bad, and a way should be found to adopt what is good in each one in order to form a harmonious and practicable whole. But I was not able to discover the formula of the synthesis that would reconcile these contraries, not to speak of being able to translate it into action.

      Thus, I wished for peace, concord, understanding between nations, collaboration for the good of all, and I was compelled by a force greater than mine to wage war and to triumph by unscrupulous means and uncharitable decisions.

      And yet I am considered a great statesman, I am overwhelmed with honours and praise and people call me a friend of humanity.

      But I feel my own weakness and I know that I have lacked the true knowledge and power which would have enabled me to fulfil the beautiful hopes of my childhood.

      And now that the end is near, I feel that I have done very little and perhaps even very badly, and I shall cross the threshold of death sad and disillusioned.

      * * *

      Chapter 2

      The Writer

      With winged words I sought to capture the beauty and the truth that throb in our mortality. This panorama of creation that lies extended before our eyes – men and creatures, beings and things, scenes and happenings – and the other one equally extended in our feelings and perceptions, in our consciousness, they make a mysterious web, a Daedalus’ complex. They cast their spell upon me and I heard their voice calling me to know, understand and seize, a voice sweeter and more compelling than any Aegean siren could command. The ring of that voice I sought to give to

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