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The Integral Realisation ENDLESS are the ways to the Divine. Each one followed with sincerity and earnestness and persistence to the end leads to the same goal. Now, if the end were solely to reach the highest summit, the point beyond, the transcendent God and settle there, anyone line would be quite sufficient for the purpose. And even if several or all were tried, as Ramakrishna did, that would be only to prove the fact and to encourage each and everyone to pursue his own path and not get discouraged if others did not subscribe to it or even denied it. At the most it would be a richer experience in the sense that the same truth is tasted and enjoyed in various ways. But such is not the character of the supramental or Integral Yoga. This Yoga does not aim at kicking the ladder of existence down once you are up beyond. It seeks to integrate the Beyond and the Here-Below, make of the mundane an expression and embodiment of the Spirit. In this view the approaches to the Divine are not mere interim truths but facets of one organic total reality incarnating the divine consciousness in a divine life. In
other ways that lead to an escape, you reach a state where you are happy and
satisfied, you feel you have attained the highest, the utmost worth attaining
and you need not move further or look for anything else. The integral yogi is
not so bound by one experience. He will find himself always getting away from
the already attained status, however high it may be, and ranging beyond. Even
if he tries to repeat an experience which he cherishes and considers worth
repeating and so goes through the usual steps to recover it, he may find that
instead of the experience wanted he is given quite a new experience.
Page – 247 The problem for him is not
to reject or minimise any experience or stick to some only as valuable but
embrace all and to put them together, make a synthesis out of them. This
synthesis is the very character of the Integral Yoga. And it can be reached
only by rising beyond the experiences given for synthesis. A higher poise of
consciousness only can find the point of union among different elements and the
function and role of each one in a composite harmony. The supramental status is
the highest synthetic centre; here all experiences and realisations rise into their original
and true reality and find their perfect expression.
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