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Sri Aurobindo's Formulations Of The Integral Yoga, Debashish Banerji
Sri Aurobindo's Formulations Of The Integral Yoga, Debashish Banerji
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950) developed, practiced and taught a form of yoga, which he named integral yoga. If one peruses the texts he has written pertaining to his teaching, one finds a variety of models, goals, and practices which may be termed formulations or versions of the integral yoga. This article compares three such formulations, aiming to determine whether these are the same, but in different words, as meant for different audiences, or whether they represent different understandings of the yoga based on changing perceptions. The article also tries to compare the versions in terms of differences in emphases and/or …
Long-Term Spiritual Growth And Its Influence On Professional Endeavor, Larry Seidlitz
Long-Term Spiritual Growth And Its Influence On Professional Endeavor, Larry Seidlitz
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
This paper presents a qualitative study of how long-term practitioners of Integral Yoga working in four fields of professional endeavour—business management, education, health care, and the arts—have applied Integral Yoga in their work and how they perceived its influences. The paper gives a brief overview of the nature of Integral Yoga, especially its aspect of karmayoga, and an explanation of the study’s method which involved semi-structured interviews with 12 residents or regular visitors to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram or Auroville. Ten common themes were identified which emerged in at least three of the interviews and in at least two fields …