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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.

Sri Aurobindo

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
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.
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Identity Play True Universe
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.

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