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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Sri Aurobindo

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive

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