The first word of the Integral Yoga is surrender; the last word is also surrender,—says Sri Aurobindo. In between these two happy surrenders, it is its power that grows when is kindled the Yajna to make our will transcendentally genuine. While we still live under the sway of the lower Nature, personal effort is indispensable. But as we become conscious in our surrender to the divine Shakti, it is she who herself leads us to freedom and perfection of the higher Nature. In the degree it becomes wholesome and integral, our progress also gains to that extent an assuring speed of the power who then governs all our activities. Not what we think and see for ourselves, but what is thought and seen for us is all that matters. When there is no difference between our will and the Will of the Divine Shakti, then it is she who takes full charge of our life. Then we acquire our genuine free will. That indeed is the object of the Integral Yoga of the Future. This siddhi is the entire purport of its yogic occupation. “The supramental change is a thing decreed and inevitable in the evolution of the earth-consciousness,” wrote Sri Aurobindo in 1928. The supramental change was decreed by him, and he and the Mother had set themselves to work out its inevitability. But to realize it in us there is needed the call, and we have to be ready to receive what is being constantly showered on us. Effort and Grace, Tapahprabhava and Devaprasada as the ancient Upanishadic scripture says, together can bring fulfilment to our longings, to our soul’s aspiration. To be engaged in that spiritual growth, to live and work and enjoy divinely in the Divine is the Integral Yoga of the Future...   more »