Transforming lives

Larry is a practitioner and scholar of integral yoga, who conducts online courses for the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research in Pondicherry, and is a former editor of Auroville Today.

This book is not a compilation of the writings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, but contains well-written and insightful chapters on various aspects of the yoga.

After a brief introduction to the life and work of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the first chapter provides an overview of some of Sri Aurobindo’s teachings: the central tenets of his philosophy; his views on the psychology of social development; his exposition of the components of Indian culture and art; his concept of the poetry of the future and his views on integral education.

Chapter 2 deals with Sri Aurobindo’s contributions to Indian spirituality: his views of existence; his ideal of psychic, spiritual and supramental transformation; and the spiritual discipline he and The Mother elaborated. In the next chapter titled The Secret Knowledge, Larry goes in some detail into Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol. The chapter titled The Ideal of Integral Perfection is an introduction to the chapters that follow: Practices in Integral Yoga, Seven attitudes for Spiritual Living, The Divine Grace, Emotion and its Transformation, and Spiritual Activism and Integral Yoga.

The book ends with a chapter titled Glimpses of the Mother’s Supramental Transformation, where Larry discusses the later stages of the Mother’s sadhana as recorded in Mother’s Agenda.

A glossary of yogic and Sanskrit terms is found at the end.

Transforming Lives, an introduction to Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. Published by the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research, email [email protected]. Price in India Rs 250.