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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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In our defeated hearts God's strength survives ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The first step on this long path is to consecrate all our works as a sacrifice to the Divine in us and in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda - Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga - upon the earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom, ~ Bhagavad Gita
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Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?" ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity . ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Santana Dharma ... ~ Sri Aurobindo
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An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Few are those from whom the Grace withdraws, but many are those who withdraw from the Grace.

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Letters on Yoga, p.613 ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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If Mind is all, renounce the hope for bliss;
If Mind is all, renounce the hope for Truth.
[Savitri] ~ Sri Aurobindo
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For me the path of Yoga has always been a battle as well as a journey, a thing of ups and downs, of light followed by darkness followed by a greater light.

Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.372 ~ Sri Aurobindo
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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But though hast come and all will surely change. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point , but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of nature's process. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Remain faithful to the Light of your soul even when it is hidden by clouds. My help and the Mother's will be there working behind even in the moments when you cannot feel it.

Letters on Yoga, vol.24, p.1425 ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart ~ Sri Aurobindo
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What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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There is no logical necessity for the conclusion that the change cannot begin at all because its perfection is not immediately possible. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The complete use of pure reason brings us finally from physical to metaphysical knowledge. But the concepts of metaphysical knowledge do not in themselves fully satisfy the demand of our integral being. They are indeed entirely satisfactory to the pure reason itself, because they are the very stuff of its own existence. But our nature sees things through two eyes always, for it views them doubly as idea and as fact and therefore every concept is incomplete for us and to a part of our nature almost unreal until it becomes an experience. ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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If thou desirest Truth, then still thy mind.
[Savitri] ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The Person is a bubble on Time's sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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A thinking puppet is the mind of life:
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause
And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe
To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment's scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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God within is leading us always aright even when we are in the bonds of the ignorance; but then, though the goal is sure, it is attained by circlings and deviations.

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MCW, vol 10, On Thoughts and Aphorisms, p.258 ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existant and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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To feed death with her works is here life's doom. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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An incense floated in the quivering air, A mystic happiness trembled in the breast As if the invisible Beloved had come Assuming the sudden loveliness of a face And close glad hands could seize his fugitive feet And the world change with the beauty of a smile. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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A fugitive paradise smiles at him from her eyes: He dreams of her beauty made for ever his, He dreams of his mastery her limbs shall bear, He dreams of the magic of her breasts of bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Silence is round me, wideness ineffable;
White birds on the ocean diving and wandering;
A soundless sea on a voiceless heaven,
Azure on azure, is mutely gazing.

Identified with silence and boundlessness
My spirit widens clasping the universe
Till all that seemed becomes the Real,
One in a mighty and single vastness.

Someone broods there nameless and bodiless,
Conscious and lonely, deathless and infinite,
And, sole in a still eternal rapture,
Gathers all things to his heart for ever. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence? ~ Sri Aurobindo
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All true love and all sacrifice are
in their essence Nature's contradiction of the primary egoism and
its separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary first
fragmentation towards a recovered oneness. All unity between
creatures is in its essence a self-finding, a fusion with that from
which we have separated, a discovery of one's self in others.
But it is only a divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for in
the darkness. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Remain fixed in the sunlight of the true consciousness - for only there is happiness and peace. They do not depend upon outside happenings, but on this alone.

Letters on Yoga, vol 2, p.1709 ~ Sri Aurobindo
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New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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