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<p class="paracenter">THE INTEGRAL REALISATION
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<p class="para">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, any one 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.
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<p class="para"> 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.
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<p class="para"> 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.
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<p class="para"> 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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