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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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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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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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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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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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