The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
SRI AUROBINDOIndia of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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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.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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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.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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