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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
Yoga is what the Divine is performing and maintaining at all times and levels unceasingly, it is the individual’s recognition and renewal on his part of the connection with the Divine in a complementary effort to that of the Divine. The connection of the soul with God is Yoga and it is seen that this can be done only with the help of the Centre or God Himself or His original power. God of course is not thought of as even the primal one for He is beyond manas or thought. But it is undoubted that without His will this connection cannot be made by the individual soul in a conscious way and unless this connection is established between the soul and God as complementary to that between God and the soul, there is no possibility of full Yoga. Integral Yoga, in a new sense, would mean not the integration or combination of the three yogas or more of the kind we know, based on individual efforts alone according to the three modes of man’s affective, cognitive and conative functions but the integration of the twofold processes of the Divine link with the soul and the soul’s link with the Divine.
The process of linking or yoga is however again a point of great interest. Undoubtedly all of us have to link up with the help of our thought, which has its basis in the affective, cognitive and volitive functions. This thought has unfortunately become so particularised to the needs of bodily survival and adjustment and adaptation to the environment that its power to link it with the original thought has become
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