In the vision of Integral Yoga, spiritual progress unfolds as a progressive transformation of the whole being rather than a rigidly segmented ladder. The journey begins with an inner conversion and consecration, a turning away from a purely ordinary consciousness and a deliberate dedication of one’s life, energies, and actions to the Divine and to spiritual transformation. This initial movement prepares the nature through purification and establishes a central aspiration, faith, and will for the Divine, allowing the psychic being—the soul’s evolving essence—to come forward. As the psychic being emerges, it brings a growing sense of inner guidance, devotion, sincerity, and harmony, and begins to influence thought, feeling, and action so that they are more aligned with a deeper truth.

On this basis, the mental and inner spiritual stages can unfold. The mind learns discrimination between higher and lower movements, develops silence and wideness, and gradually opens to higher planes of consciousness such as Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, and Overmind. In this process, there is an increasing experience of peace, light, and knowledge, and of the Self as something vast and free, not confined to the body or ego. The vital and emotional nature is progressively purified and reordered under the influence of the psychic and the higher consciousness, so that desires, impulses, and emotions are no longer driven by personal satisfaction but are turned toward the Divine Will. This brings a deeper, purer love, strength, equanimity, and a more complete surrender.

The work then extends into the physical and even the subconscious layers of the being. Here the task is to bring consciousness, peace, and light into the body and its ingrained habits, automatisms, fears, and resistances, making the physical nature more receptive and obedient to the higher influence. Throughout, the transformation of mind, life, and body proceeds together, not as separate paths but as interwoven aspects of a single integral process. The culmination of this long evolution is the supramental transformation, in which the supramental or Truth-Consciousness descends and begins to act as the governing principle. This does not stop at inner liberation; it aims at a radical change of the very basis of consciousness, a progressive divinization of mind, life, and body, and the emergence of a gnostic being in whom unity, truth, and harmony can manifest as a divine life on earth.