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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.

Sri Aurobindo

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

Calm Live Peace Shake
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
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
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
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
SRI AUROBINDO

Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beyond Knowledge Known
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
SRI AUROBINDO

Commitment Fierce Offense Right
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
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
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
SRI AUROBINDO

Body Human Love Soul State
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDO

Principle Teaching True
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDO

Face Knowledge Wisdom

The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.

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