The Process of the Integral Yoga

Book reviewBy Carel

Keywords: New publications, Books, Compilations, Integral Yoga, Words of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and 50th Anniversary Grant

It took Paulette Hadnagy twelve years to compile the material for this book from The Mother’s writings, she writes in her book announcement. Paulette, who has already published three books on Auroville during The Mother’s years, seven compilations on selected aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s and The Mother’s teachings, and an eighth on Advaita Vedanta and the Integral Supramental Yoga, felt the need ‘to return to the centre’ by publishing this book. It features the complete path of Integral Yoga, in all its details and complexities, presented as a comprehensive, all-embracing view of a journey that brings about the three major transformations: the psychic, the spiritual and the supramental which crowns the entire process.

All The Mother’s texts have been taken from the Collected Works, Edition 2003. As an Appendix, and the crux of the book, Paulette has added a chapter on Integral Yoga and the Triple Transformation, a compendium to highlight the transition from spiritualization to supramentalisation as expounded by Sri Aurobindo.

The book, which has been published with a donation from the 50th Anniversary Grant of the Government of India, is dedicated to the sadhaks of Integral Yoga, to those who, in The Mother’s words, “feel that their heart extends further than the limits of their own person and family, that their thought embraces more than small personal interests and local conventions, all those, in short, who realise that they belong not to themselves, or to their family, or even to their country, but to God who manifests Himself in all countries, through mankind, these, indeed, know that they must rise and set to work for the sake of humanity, for the advent of Dawn.”


The Process of Integral Yoga, 500 pages, price in India Rs 450. 

Available from Auroville bookshops, Auroville.com, SABDA and Vak.