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The study guide is a point by point summary of Sri Aurobindo's The
Synthesis of Yoga. After each chapter title there is a one-paragraph
summary of the entire chapter. There is an introduction,
an essay on the entire book, as well as one-paragraph
summaries. You may also download the entire
document in Word format (360 kb) or in a self-extracting
(.exe) zipped format. (128 kb).
Introduction, and Part
1, Chapter 1 The Conditions of the Synthesis
Part 1, The Yoga of Divine Works
Chapter 2 Self-Consecration
Chapter 3 Self-Surrender in Works
Chapter 4 The Sacrifice, The Triune Path,
and the Lord of the Sacrifice
Chapter 5 The Ascent of the Sacrifice --
the Works of Knowledge -- the Psychic Being
Chapter 6 The Ascent of the Sacrifice 2 --
The Works of Love -- the Works of Life
Chapter 7 Standards of Conduct and Spiritual
Freedom
Chapter 8 The Supreme Will
Chapter 9 Equality and the Annihilation of
Ego
Chapter 10 The Three Modes of Nature
Chapter 11 The Master of the Work
Chapter 12 The Divine Work
Chapter 13 The Supermind and the Yoga of
Works
Part 2, The Yoga of Divine Knowledge
Chapter 1 The Object of Knowledge
Chapter 2 The Status of Knowledge
Chapter 3 The Purified Understanding
Chapter 4 Concentration
Chapter 5 Renunciation
Chapter 6 The Synthesis of the Disciplines
of Knowledge
Chapter 7 The Release from Subjection to
the Body
Chapter 8 The Release from the Heart and
Mind
Chapter 9 The Release from the Ego
Chapter 10 The Realisation of the Cosmic
Self
Chapter 11 The Modes of the Self
Chapter 12 The Realisation of Sachchidananda
Chapter 13 The Difficulties of the Mental
Being
Chapter 14 The Passive and the Active
Brahman
Chapter 15 The Cosmic Consciousness
Chapter 16 Oneness
Chapter 17 The Soul and Nature
Chapter 18 The Soul and Its Liberation
Chapter 19 The Planes of Our Existence
Chapter 20 The Lower Triple Purusha
Chapter 21 The Ladder of Self-Transcendence
Chapter 22 Vijnana or Gnosis
Chapter 23 The Conditions of Attainment
to the Gnosis
Chapter 24 Gnosis and Ananda
Chapter 25 The Higher and the Lower Knowledge
Chapter 26 Samadhi
Chapter 27 Hathayoga
Chapter 28 Rajayoga
Part 3, The Yoga of Divine Love
Chapter 1 Love and the Triple Path
Chapter 2 The Motives of Devotion
Chapter 3 The Godward Emotions
Chapter 4 The Way of Devotion
Chapter 5 The Divine Personality
Chapter 6 The Delight of the Divine
Chapter 7 The Ananda Brahman
Chapter 8 The Mystery of Love
Part 4, The Yoga of Self-Perfection
Chapters 1-3 The Principle of the Integral
Yoga; The Integral Perfection; The Psychology of Self-Perfection
Chapter 4 The Perfection of the Mental
Being
Chapter 5 The Instruments of the Spirit
Chapter 6 Purification -- The Lower Mentality
Chapter 7 Purification -- Intelligence
and Will
Chapter 8, 9 The Liberation of the Spirit;
The Liberation of the Nature
Chapter 10 The Elements of Perfection
Chapter 11, 12 The Perfection of Equality;
The Way of Equality
Chapter 13 The Action of Equality
Chapter 14 The Power of the Instruments
Chapter 15 Soul-Force and the Four-Fold
Personality
Chapter 16 The Divine Shakti
Chapter 17 The Action of the Divine Shakti
Chapter 18 Faith and Shakti
Chapter 19 The Nature of the Supermind
Chapter 20 The Intuitive Mind
Chapter 21 The Gradations of the Supermind
Chapter 22 The Supramental Thought and
Knowledge
Chapter 23 The Supramental Instruments
-- Thought-Process
Chapter 24 The Supramental Sense
Chapter 25 Towards the Supramental Time
Vision
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