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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

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
SRI AUROBINDO

Audience Joy Love Music Performance
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
SRI AUROBINDO

Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Body Determination Live Nature
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
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
SRI AUROBINDO

Average Discover Genius Talent

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.

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