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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Sri Aurobindo

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
SRI AUROBINDO

Calm Live Peace Shake
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Change Death Forever Gate
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
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
SRI AUROBINDO

Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
SRI AUROBINDO

Perfection World Yourself
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Dreams God Life Man World
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
SRI AUROBINDO

Person Sea Time
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDO

Condition Peace Stability
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 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 AUROBINDO

Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True

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