Integral yoga

Integral Yoga (or Purna Yoga) is the spiritual philosophy and practice developed by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa). Central to this philosophy is the concept of involution, a process in which the Spirit plunges into the "Inconscience" of Matter, followed by evolution, where the Spirit progressively manifests itself back through the material world.

According to Sri Aurobindo, the current status of humanity is not final; rather, man is a "transitional being" in an intermediate stage of evolution, destined to unfold the Spirit and manifest the Supramental consciousness to transform earthly life. While unassisted natural evolution is a slow process taking centuries or many births, Integral Yoga is defined as a "rapid and concentrated conscious evolution" capable of accelerating this change in a single lifetime. To achieve this, the practice utilizes a "triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender," leading to a "triple transformation": the psychic change (changing the nature into a soul-instrumentation), the spiritual change (descending of higher Light and Power), and the supramental transmutation (ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness).