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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Art Himself Nature Transcendence
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDO

Principle Teaching True
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.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
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

Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
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

Commitment Fierce Offense Right
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Chance Mindset Purity Silence
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
SRI AUROBINDO

Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Manifestation Material World
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
SRI AUROBINDO

Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
India 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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Age Creativity Herself Human People
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
SRI AUROBINDO

Greatness Impossible Journey Possible

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

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