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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Sri Aurobindo

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
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
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
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom

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