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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.

Sri Aurobindo

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
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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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
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.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
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 spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
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
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary

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