PART TWO
THE PATH OF YOGA
The Path
The mountain path leads
always in two directions, upward and downward ― all
depends on what we put behind us.
Life is a perpetual
choice between truth and falsehood, light and darkness, progress and regression,
the ascent towards the heights or a fall into the abyss. It is for each one to
choose freely.
29 February
1952
In each one’s life a
moment comes when he has to choose between the Path and the muddle. You cannot
put one foot here and one foot there. If you try to, you will be torn to
pieces.
A heart that does not
choose is a heart that will die.
You take up the
spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.
27 October
1952
When the path is known
it is easy to tread upon it.
19 August
1954
To follow the path to
the end, one must be armed with a very patient endurance.
4 September
1954
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On the spiritual path
each step forward is a conquest and the result of a fight.
5 September
1954
The road to the Divine:
always long, often dry in appearance, but always abundant in its results.
Ascension: stage by
stage one climbs towards the Consciousness.
Spiritual ascension:
fearless, regular, uninterrupted.
One will pass through as
many stages as it is necessary to take, but one will arrive.
The intellectual
attitude comes first and practice follows little by little. What is very
important is to maintain very alert the will to live and to be what one knows
to be the truth. Then it is impossible to stop and even more to fall back.
All human beings have a
spiritual destiny which is near or far depending on each one’s determination.
One must will in all
sincerity.
11 April
1965
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All depends upon the
choice of the force that you allow to make use of you as its instrument. And
the choice has to be made at every moment of your life.
It is the conflict in
you between what is attached to ordinary life and what aspires for the divine
life. It is up to you to choose which is the strongest in you and to act
accordingly.
19
September 1967
You can follow the
meanderings of innumerable reincarnations or choose the steep and rapid path of
intensive “sadhana”.
He who follows the steep
path that climbs the heights can easily slip down into the abyss.
For those whose destiny
it is to scale the summits, the least false step risks being a mortal danger.
The perfect path: for
each one the path which leads fastest to the Divine.
All was gold and gold
and gold, a torrent of golden light pouring down in an uninterrupted flow and
bringing with it the consciousness that the path of the gods is a sunlit path
in which difficulties lose all reality.
Such is the path open
before us if we choose to take it.
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Yoga
Sadhak = one who follows a yogic discipline.
Sadhana = yogic discipline.
Yoga
= union with the Divine (by extension: the path which leads to this union).
Would you please explain to me how doing Yoga brings you near to
the Divine? And what is the real meaning of Yoga? Is it only contortive body- excerises or is
there a yoga of the mind also?
This has nothing to do with a spiritual
life, not even with religion. X will explain to you in detail, but I can tell
you that Yoga is not only an aspiration of the mind towards the Divine but also
and chiefly a yearning of the heart.
6 November
1963
The whole world is in a
process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yoga,
you speed up in yourself the process.
Yoga is commensurate
with all life.
True spirituality
transforms life.
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