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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Mindset Progress Seek
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
SRI AUROBINDO

Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
SRI AUROBINDO

Advantage Difference Life Man
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beyond Knowledge Known
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Manifestation Oneself
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
SRI AUROBINDO

Identity Play True Universe
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
SRI AUROBINDO

Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
All existence is a manifestation of God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Existence God Manifestation
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
SRI AUROBINDO

Calm Live Peace Shake
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Chance Mindset Purity Silence
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
SRI AUROBINDO

Body Human Love Soul State
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
SRI AUROBINDO

Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine God Human Man
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Love Myself Suffering

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

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