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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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

Calm Live Peace Shake
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Art Himself Nature Transcendence
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Love Myself Suffering
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
SRI AUROBINDO

Average Discover Genius Talent
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
SRI AUROBINDO

Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Humor Smile Universe
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 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

Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
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
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
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDO

Embrace Forever Religion

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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