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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

Sri Aurobindo

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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fall God Path Spiritual
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
SRI AUROBINDO

Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
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
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
SRI AUROBINDO

Change Hope Nature True
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
SRI AUROBINDO

Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Manifestation Oneself
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDO

Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDO

Embrace Forever Religion
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
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
SRI AUROBINDO

Attachment Away Desire Thinking
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDO

Principle Teaching True
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
SRI AUROBINDO

Death One Liner Reason Wisdom

The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

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