Integral Yoga - Sri Aurobindo

Integral yoga
Religious origins: Hinduism, Vedanta
Regional origins: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, India
Founding Guru: Sri Aurobindo, The Mother
Mainstream popularity: millions, both in India and abroad
Practice emphases: Integral transformation of the whole being, physical immortality.
Derivative forms: none
Related schools
incorporates Karma, Jnana, Raja and Bhakti yoga
Other topics
Integral thought - The Synthesis of Yoga - Triple transformation - Psychicisation

In the teachings of the Twentieth century Bengali philosopher-sage Sri Aurobindo, Integral yoga (or purna yoga, Sanskrit for full or complete yoga, sometimes also called supramental yoga) refers to the process of the union of all the parts of one's being with the Divine, and the transmutation of all of their jarring elements into a harmonious state of higher divine consciousness and existence.

Integral Yoga must not be confused with a trademark the "Integral Yoga"recently registered by Swami Satchidananda.
Sri Aurobindo initiated and defined integral yoga in the early 1900s as "a path of integral seeking of the Divine by which all that we are is in the end liberated out of the Ignorance and its undivine formations into a truth beyond the Mind, a truth not only of highest spiritual status but of a dynamic spiritual self-manifestation in the universe."[citation needed]
He describes the nature and practice of integral yoga in his opus The Synthesis of Yoga. As the title of that work indicates, his integral yoga is a yoga of synthesis, intended to harmonize the paths of karma, jnana, and bhakti yoga as described in the Bhagavad Gita. It can also be considered a synthesis between Vedanta and Tantra, and even between Eastern and Western approaches to spirituality.