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

Sri Aurobindo

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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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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 Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit

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

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