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What are the stages of spiritual progress in Integral Yoga?

Integral Yoga unfolds as a progressive journey through three major transformations, each like a new level in an immersive video game of consciousness.

  1. Psychic Transformation
    – Awakening the soul’s presence (the “psychic being”) deep within.
    – Cultivating aspiration, rejection of the ego’s false pulls, and surrender to the soul’s guidance.
    – This stage often feels like finding a hidden compass: inner values become clearer, and life choices begin aligning with a deeper purpose.

  2. Spiritual Transformation
    – Gradual ascent through successive inner planes.
    • Vital plane: taming restless desires.
    • Mental plane: clarifying thought and intellect.
    • Subtler layers (sattwic, luminous, super-mental): moving beyond dualities of “me” and “other.”
    – Daily meditation and self-observation serve as tools, peeling back layers of ignorance.
    – Recent gatherings at Auroville’s International Yoga Day (June 21, 2025) showcased communal practices aimed at this very inner ascent.

  3. Supramental Transformation
    – The supermind descends, dissolving the split between spirit and matter.
    – Consciousness becomes a living reality in the body—intuition, harmony, and creative power flow spontaneously.
    – This stage resembles upgrading an operating system: old glitches vanish, and a new integrality governs thoughts, emotions, and actions.

Underlying every phase is a constant “triple movement”: aspiration toward the Divine, rejection of lower tendencies, and surrender to a higher Will. Recent climate-action movements hint at an outer parallel—youthful energy channeling into collective consciousness for planetary healing, much like Integral Yoga channels individual transformation into a shared evolution.

This roadmap isn’t a rigid ladder but a dynamic spiral: sometimes advancing by leaps of faith, at other times pausing to integrate a deeper truth. The secret lies in staying open, persistent, and ready for the next inner horizon.