Ascetic Practices Compared to Life Affirming Practices in Integral Yoga with Sraddhalu

Ascetic Practices Compared to Life Affirming Practices in Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga comes from "Evenings with Sraddhalu Part 90: Questions from Viewers on Spiritual Life" and was published on October 30, 2021 by the Integral Studies.TV. This is a slightly edited version of the original, with some background supplementation.

[@jasonscorsese]

thanks sraddhalu, knocked it out of the park again

[@RashmiVaniawala]

That was beautifully explained.

[@poorvasharma8807]

13:00 nirvana is usually interpreted as extinction, but that's not right. It literally means cooling down. Nibanna means cooling down.
Besides, with 17,500 discourses and thousands of unique ways of meditation given, and a life of 45 years dedicated to traveling the whole of length and breadth of Indian subcontinent, to say Buddha "withdrew" is to give in to the old propaganda.
Whatever is attributed to SA has been described as the nature of reality by the Buddha but in negative terms because he realised that the Truth is truly inconceivable, and even SatChidAnanda doesn't do justice to it. Buddha was a teacher par excellence and no greater teacher has come since him, no more perfect consciousness