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may have continuous flow of divine energy which remains Divine even in matter. The necessity therefore to conceive of the Divine as remaining divine even when it has descended into matter becomes more and more clear and this means that we have to conceive of a second or third or fourth force different from that which has descended to form the levels and is seeking experience in each of them. God then has to be brought down to the lowest level if there is to be divine evolution.
Ancients knew that the Divine is indeed the Guru or Teacher who constantly undertakes this task of linking up the outermost with the innermost - and not only does he himself do it but also provides for the constant working of this process through those whom he had trained in it. The Avatars also are considered to perform this divine function of linking up the Divine with the manifestation from the centre which is Himself to the fringes of matter or the inconscient gross being, all of which are the extensions of His thought-force or Manas or prana.
Ordinarily Yoga or linking is the attempt at union by the individual with the Divine Centre. But really it is the conscious assistance that one gives to the Divine in linking up itself with the Divine. In other words whilst 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.